Right! I forgot to mention I managed to get a job here in Nashville! It's not music related, but I'm totally okay with that. I'm doing marketing and sales for a company called Brilliant Solutions. I'm in training currently, and I'm looking forward to my future with the company! 

Quick video explaining why the regular upload schedule stopped and what's going to happen from here. Enjoy!

Um... whoops. I haven't posted anything this week. Sorry about that! It's been finals week here and... well tomorrow I walk the stage at my college graduation. It may been a few weeks before we're back on the normally scheduled content. I've been trying to finalize something for my move to Nashville, TN, at the end of next week. For those that don't know, I will be interning there this summer with The Record Shop Recording Studios! I'm excited, and really I do plan to get back to a regular upload schedule. Until then, check out the song I put out last week!

And... here is the new music I've been promising for about a month now! This track is very different from things I've done in the past, and I'm pretty satisfied with how it turned out.

I discovered the band Mogwai through the game "Life is Strange", and I fell in love with them. I wanted to write something in the style of Mogwai, focusing on texture and instrumentation to keep things interesting, rather than chord changes. I think it turned out pretty well, in all honesty! Let me know what you think!

Big thanks to Serra Shuford for the album art!

As you can see, there's been no post this week. I've been incredibly busy all week getting ready for final exams and with some graduation stuff, but don't worry! I'm filming a vlog for next week and there should definitely be new music up later this week! I'm just finalizing a few things with it and we'll be good to go!

Àrach:

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"When a mortal man breaks a people, it is always blamed on the gods." - S.M. White

"Summit" - Coming July, 2017

April 19, 2017

Log Entry - 2:22 AM

Begin entry: Day 742 without sleep. I'm slowly losing my sanity, and I can comfortably say I know exactly what the color purple tastes like (and yes... it tastes like grape soda). The shadows laugh at me, the lights are whispering behind my back. My first-mate has been acting strangely lately, and I'm expecting mutiny.

Except... I'm not on a ship and I haven't been awake for more than two years. That's absurd, who told you that?

It DOES feel like it, though. I dunno how to sleep anymore so I'm just gonna do the unhealthy thing and stay up through the night, then crash tomorrow night. I think I'm just stressed. I'm taking a seventeen hour semester, working, trying desperately to find an internship, build my portfolios, and somehow not starve along the way. It's getting pretty intense. 

Ya know what else is intense? This Overwatch: Uprising event. I've gotten nearly all of the achievements but just can't get a team coordinated enough to win on Legendary... which makes sense, because it's hard as shit. It's helping keep me awake tonight, though (along with the coffee and pop-punk... ya know, like We The Kings... hence the blog title...). 

I find it funny that two years ago I was so used to pulling these all-nighters that I went forty-four hours with no sleep, then just continued on my normal schedule, and now I can barely make it twelve hours without needing a nap. 

Welp... time to get back to keeping myself busy so I can stay awake.

Signing off.