The Hidden Expanse

The reason I changed the URL is because the other one was meant to be temporary, plus it was pretty cheesy
Why the hidden expanse?
Because throughout my whole life I distinctively remember wanting to have this secret compartment, in the dense space of my closet, that would open up a little crawlspace type thing, that would eventually lead to a room where nobody knew of it's existence except for me. When I was a little kid it was mostly meant for just being able to play video games and goof off and do whatever I wanted to without being bothered or needed.
Now I wish I had it just so I could COMPLETELY cut off my influence with the rest of the world, but then again my whole entity is based off of society and education and I know my family would soon find out I was gone and that would bring worry. So there are a few flaws with the physical representation of that, but the important thing is now I realize this places acts like that, but in a mental form. I can't literally escape from my life for example right now I can hear my brothers and sisters arguing and screaming and that's not ideal.
Anywho the important thing is that even though there are other people reading this blog, it's still my place of escape, because I feel almost no pressure putting whatever I feel on here. I can escape the bondage of certain people's influence. Although this isn't exactly what I want, it's very useful.
Honestly if I could have a place to go it would either be the room, or an area where I can climb up some tall lanky but sturdy trees, maybe up 200 feet off the ground. In my mind, I imagine myself sitting there in a hammock tied between the two trunks with branches that extend only upward, and the hammock itself being about twice the size of a normal hammock, and it's one that sinks in so that the outer "walls" of the hammock engulf you and there is this thick mist/fog about 20 feet below that acts as a veil and silences everything below it so all you are seeing is the tops of trees that extend seemingly forever into the sky, they even start to get a little bit of a curvature with the world making them seem surreal. You realize how awesome (literally) this place is and you want to share it with people. Then you realize that there are other hammocks connected to the tree in front of your feet, surrounding it and making a circle and we are all up their reading our books, and sharing what we learn from them and it's not exactly silent, but there is a sound emanating from the expanse, something almost inaudible, but it's one of those sounds that just adds so much comfort, better than silence and not distracting in any way. Probably the closest I can guess is something just close to nature sounds occurring. You can read on your own or just talk together, and the whole time you are just suspended and wrapped around in your own hammock and honestly, I hope that one day this can lead to that. I don't know what that place is in my life, but I seek it out in somebody else, I search for the person who can grant it to me. A person who can let me be myself in the purest form.
That's why I changed it.

Vocals hooray

Keeping you updated with my music, and I used Window Live Movie Maker this time to make it easier.
But yeah here is a sample tune with backup vocals and guitar
I don't really have anything I want to say for lead vocal so that's why there aren't any.
If you could leave a response or some feedback or something that would be cool
and if you could also do it in the future for my songs that would be great as well
Thanks for listening to me
not just musically

Flow

Hey
This is for Bonesss
I don't think I've ever mentioned it
but I've always really really really loved your work
everything you say just rolls off the tongue and it just
sounds sweet and makes me think of people who do that for
a living. I mean whenever I start to write something, I will sometimes take
a look at your work just to give me some ideas, and basically you have the kind of humor
and writing style that I have always strived for. So thank you for doing that and keep it up :P

Also Em
You have a different style from Bonness
and I love it just as much
really it's probably just the analogy's and the phrases that I think
"well even though it doesn't make sense to me right now, it sounds as cool as heck"
like for example your blog title
first time I saw that I was just blown away
but yeah
I could write a lot more about you guysszz but I'm still pretty tired/frustrated after working to get my music up on this bloggg.

Once again though. Thanks for bringing some temporary happiness in my life and please continue to write

-Ashton

LDC

Finally got my large diaphragm condenser and can record with a lot higher quality
been mostly experimenting with it and haven't produced anything official or completed with it yet
but if you are wanting to keep up with what I've been recording lately here you go:

Also by the way none of it is on SoundCloud because you only have 2 hours of material to put on there and so I want to put the best of the best on there only.

Since I'm such a noob at iMovie I could barely figure out how to make the music into a simple movie, like I had no interest in the visuals at all and so it gave me what you are about to see. The reason I did this is cause you can upload videos to blogger, but not straight up audio for some reason....

Oh yeah and also I know some parts in the first one don't sound quite right, but the lead was 100% improv, so give me a breather if ya would.

EDIT: ALRIGHT THIS IS VERY FRUSTRATING WHEN I MADE THEM INTO MOVIES IT TOOK AWAY ALL THE AUDIO QUALITY THAT MADE IT SOUND SO GOOD DANGIT I SPENT ABOUT AN HOUR TRYING TO FIGURE THIS OUT OH MAN. FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS.

Alrighty then

So today I found out some interesting news:
1. I no longer have a job
2. My boss was doing a $4M Ponzi Scheme
3. HE OWES ME $104 FOR MY WORK AND I PROBABLY WONT GET IT D':

But yeah anyways if you would like to read about him here

That little Bastard who took my earnings and ran

He was also my families insurance agent
and so this took me by surprise.
Lots o unwanted surprise
yup

Phaith

Been thinking about a lot of what I believe in lately
Maybe take the time to make a distinguished line between faith and fear
I know that I constantly replace one with the other frequently
Compare
How much of a difference is there....

Fear of death                         Faith in everlasting life
Fear of hell                             Faith in heaven
Fear of shame                        Faith in doing "the right thing"
Fear of shun                           Faith that God loves everybody
Fear of being alone                 Faith that families are forever

Fear that you won't see loved ones again

That one applies to me
It's something I've feared my whole life
Maybe it's time I move on
Maybe it's time I confront my fear, and get rid of it

Sometimes the things I rely on
end up being a joke
something made up
and it all leads to disappointment and the thought that
"why did I even bother to hope for it..."

I truly am sorry for any offense taken by this
but these kinds of things
are important to me
and I'm going to put them in the one place I can share them freely
on1y

Mass graves for the pump and the price is set

I don't know what started my random obsession with Rage Against the Machine, I don't believe in all of their ideas such as socialism/communism, but man do they have some good songs, and some good meaning. I just try to dissect each song with the lyrics and figure out what they are talking about, luckily "Testify" is pretty straightforward. The combination of Zach's conviction, Tom Morello's guitar playing / DJing, and the overall feel of the song is something pretty irresistible to me. Sure I'm not some guy to start protesting, but I really do love what they are doing, and it sounds very hypocritical but in my head it's really not.

If you are interested at all, I have some links for you. If not don't worry about it, but one thing I thought was interesting was I had the thought a while back that really we don't know what's happening on the other side of the world, our news programs could just be a bunch of propaganda used to spark our hatred. Not to mention without it, none of us would ever begin to know or care about the specific events, since we have no way of knowing it. Normally I just open up the song on grooveshark/youtube and then the lyrics page and read along, but this one has a good music video for it as well, so I recommend opening the lyrics page up first and reading through them, and then watching the video and listening to the song.

And in case you are wondering, there is nothing explicit in the song

Lyrics

Music Video / Song

And if you want a little more insight on some of the harder to understand lyrics, try googling it or just
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