Hello people's. Today I'm writing about some of my favorite bands and singers. Here it goes.
I buy music by picking out songs I like the best and not buying entire albums unless I like every song so for this blog I'm only mentioning a band if I've boughten more than 1 song by them. The first is a band with electronic, rock, and alternative themes called AWOLNATION. AWOLNATION writes very invigorating songs; all of them I've boughten have very powerful choruses that make their songs stand out. I have 3 of their songs, Sail, Kill Your Heroes, and I Am.
The next band is called Buke and Gase. Buke and Gase is an amazing band. I have more of their songs than any other artist. They have a very unique style you can only describe as experimental rock or indie rock. Their songs are fast with complicated rhythms and undertones and can sometimes sound pretty dark so personally I really like listening to them while reading a scary story. I have 2 of their albums, General Dome and Riposte.
Next is a band called Fallout Boy. Fallout Boy is a rock/alternative band. It has those same qualities I really like as AWOLNATION, in that their songs have powerful choruses and I most enjoy listening to them while I'm doing something physical like running. I have 4 of their songs, Centuries, American psycho/American Beauty, The Kids Aren't Alright, and Uma Thurman.
Another band I've listened to for a long time is The Glitch Mob. The Glitch Mob is an electronic band which is different than most bands I listen to. What makes me really like them is that their songs are not nearly as fast or light as the normal electronic songs and are much more introspective. I have one of their albums, Drink the Sea.
One of my newer favorite singers is Hozier. He is and Irish singer/songwriter. His songs are alternative/soul and to me are very powerful. He has that same quality of extremely powerful choruses and his songs are the most intense emotionally out of all of the other artists I've heard. His songs have a sad but sweet kind of feel to them. I have three of his songs, Take Me to Church, Like Real People Do, and Work Song.
The next band is Imagine Dragons. You've probably heard of Imagine Dragons as they exploded into popularity very recently. They are an Alternative rock band and I love their songs because they are all very inspiring. All of them have a kind of "fight" quality. They are all along the lines of fight for what you believe, or for what you love, or fight for happiness. I have 7 of their songs, Warriors, I bet my life, It's Time, On Top of the World, Demons, Radioactive, and Monster.
The last band is My Chemical Romance. My Chemical Romance is a rock band that continues to be very popular even though they've broken up. They have rock songs that are more powerful than any other rock I have and all of their songs are very helpful to listen to when you're having negative emotions. I have the deluxe version of their album The Black Parade.
So those were my favorite bands and singers. Bye.
- By Ashton
The Grey Jack Frost
Sunday, July 26, 2015
Sunday, July 19, 2015
The Runelords
Hello people's today I'm writing about a book I read recently. Here it goes.
It's the first book in the fantasy series called Runelords titled The Sum of All Men. The plot is centered around the Wolf Lord Raj Ahten invading the northern kingdoms of Rofehaven. There are two different forms of magic in this series. Normal people can use magic with runes. The rune process is taking a forcible made of blood iron and giving an attribute, or endowment to another. The endowments are stamina, metabolism, brawn, wit, grace, voice, hearing, touch, and smell. You cannot be physically forced to give an endowment but you can be blackmailed into willingly giving one such as your family being threatened. When an endowment is given the dedicate loses all they had so for instance if you gave brawn you would be extremely weak, or if you gave grace you would always be extremely cramped and stiff, meanwhile the person they gave it to would have twice as much brawn or grace.
Since blood iron is so rare and expensive most the time only nobles receive endowments and in return for giving an endowment you are protected and cared for by the runelord for the rest of your life in a fortress the Runelord owns called the dedicates keep. As a runelord it is your responsibility to protect your people and your dedicates even if it would mean your death so these endowments are often used on the field of war with a heavily endowed Runelord leading an army with soldiers and horses with endowments called force soldiers and force horses. This is a major difference from real medieval battles because in real battles the ruler would have very little power but in this a heavily endowed Runelord could be the deciding factor in a battle.
The second type of magic is elemental powers. Only wizards can harness one of the four powers, fire, earth, water, and air but normal people can be said to "serve" a power. For instance Raj Ahten serves fire because fire is currently a destructive power and he is an extremely, extremely evil person and has several flame weavers, or fire wizards, in his army. Raj Ahten has hundreds of thousands of endowments and is a force of nature on the battlefield. In legend there is a man named Daylan Hammer that took so many endowments in order to repel an invading force that eventually he no longer needed his dedicated to stay alive in order to keep the endowments and he stopped aging. He became an immortal and after he disappeared he became known as The Sum of All Men. Raj Ahten has taken many endowments of metabolism which makes him several times faster than a normal man but also makes him age much faster. His other endowments will make sure he stays equally as powerful throughout the rest of his life but he will still die of old age in three years so his insane goal is to collect enough endowments to become The Sum of All Men and conquer the world.
The Runelords series is extremely intense, harsh, and action packed. It has all the harsh reality and intensity of medieval realistic fiction with a lot of magic and fantasy elements. Bye.
- By Ashton
It's the first book in the fantasy series called Runelords titled The Sum of All Men. The plot is centered around the Wolf Lord Raj Ahten invading the northern kingdoms of Rofehaven. There are two different forms of magic in this series. Normal people can use magic with runes. The rune process is taking a forcible made of blood iron and giving an attribute, or endowment to another. The endowments are stamina, metabolism, brawn, wit, grace, voice, hearing, touch, and smell. You cannot be physically forced to give an endowment but you can be blackmailed into willingly giving one such as your family being threatened. When an endowment is given the dedicate loses all they had so for instance if you gave brawn you would be extremely weak, or if you gave grace you would always be extremely cramped and stiff, meanwhile the person they gave it to would have twice as much brawn or grace.
Since blood iron is so rare and expensive most the time only nobles receive endowments and in return for giving an endowment you are protected and cared for by the runelord for the rest of your life in a fortress the Runelord owns called the dedicates keep. As a runelord it is your responsibility to protect your people and your dedicates even if it would mean your death so these endowments are often used on the field of war with a heavily endowed Runelord leading an army with soldiers and horses with endowments called force soldiers and force horses. This is a major difference from real medieval battles because in real battles the ruler would have very little power but in this a heavily endowed Runelord could be the deciding factor in a battle.
The second type of magic is elemental powers. Only wizards can harness one of the four powers, fire, earth, water, and air but normal people can be said to "serve" a power. For instance Raj Ahten serves fire because fire is currently a destructive power and he is an extremely, extremely evil person and has several flame weavers, or fire wizards, in his army. Raj Ahten has hundreds of thousands of endowments and is a force of nature on the battlefield. In legend there is a man named Daylan Hammer that took so many endowments in order to repel an invading force that eventually he no longer needed his dedicated to stay alive in order to keep the endowments and he stopped aging. He became an immortal and after he disappeared he became known as The Sum of All Men. Raj Ahten has taken many endowments of metabolism which makes him several times faster than a normal man but also makes him age much faster. His other endowments will make sure he stays equally as powerful throughout the rest of his life but he will still die of old age in three years so his insane goal is to collect enough endowments to become The Sum of All Men and conquer the world.
The Runelords series is extremely intense, harsh, and action packed. It has all the harsh reality and intensity of medieval realistic fiction with a lot of magic and fantasy elements. Bye.
- By Ashton
Sunday, July 12, 2015
Running this summer
Hello people's. Today I'm going to be writing about running again. Here it goes.
So this summer I've taken up running a lot more often than I have in the past in preparation for the cross country season in the fall. There are a few neighborhoods that are best for running surrounding my own, before I would just hit a main road. There are 4 different "sections" I can run on. The first is a fairly large, consolidated neighborhood behind my own, the second is running down to and around my old middle school, the third is two very long streets near where I live, and the fourth is another very long street with two small neighborhoods very near it. So whenever I run the first thing I do is consider how long I want to be running for and put a section or two together for that time I want, if I run everywhere that I can it is over 10 1/2 miles
Part of the way through the summer I ran that 10 1/2 mile course and my feet were very blistered afterwards because I did not have very good running shoes. To get very good running shoes we went to a running store in Sheperdstown called Two River Treads. They had me do different exercises and looked at my running style to determine which shoe would be best for me and that was very cool. I also got a foam roller which I periodically use to stretch and put pressure on tender spots on my legs so that they become less sore. The store also has exercise classes every Thursday night and those are very fun I plan to keep going to them and I recommend them to any athlete not just a runner.
I've taken to a routine for running that is best for me. For two days I'll run early at 5 in the morning and for the next two days I'll run late after dinner, keeping the times this way is best because it is very cool out and it fits a more busy schedule. So if I have a good amount of time before running I'll stretch and do a few exercises first. Then I'll put on my running shoes, set up my music playlist, and grab the house keys if I'm running early. Right before I start I decide my route and I start my GPS which will track where I'm going and will tell me my average speed every five minutes through my earbuds. I've even developed something where if I wrap the earbuds cord 2 1/2 around my fingers holding my phone it's the perfect length. When I'm almost done running and I've gotten onto my home street again I sprint as fast as I can home.
So there is my running schedule for this summer. Bye.
- By Ashton
So this summer I've taken up running a lot more often than I have in the past in preparation for the cross country season in the fall. There are a few neighborhoods that are best for running surrounding my own, before I would just hit a main road. There are 4 different "sections" I can run on. The first is a fairly large, consolidated neighborhood behind my own, the second is running down to and around my old middle school, the third is two very long streets near where I live, and the fourth is another very long street with two small neighborhoods very near it. So whenever I run the first thing I do is consider how long I want to be running for and put a section or two together for that time I want, if I run everywhere that I can it is over 10 1/2 miles
Part of the way through the summer I ran that 10 1/2 mile course and my feet were very blistered afterwards because I did not have very good running shoes. To get very good running shoes we went to a running store in Sheperdstown called Two River Treads. They had me do different exercises and looked at my running style to determine which shoe would be best for me and that was very cool. I also got a foam roller which I periodically use to stretch and put pressure on tender spots on my legs so that they become less sore. The store also has exercise classes every Thursday night and those are very fun I plan to keep going to them and I recommend them to any athlete not just a runner.
I've taken to a routine for running that is best for me. For two days I'll run early at 5 in the morning and for the next two days I'll run late after dinner, keeping the times this way is best because it is very cool out and it fits a more busy schedule. So if I have a good amount of time before running I'll stretch and do a few exercises first. Then I'll put on my running shoes, set up my music playlist, and grab the house keys if I'm running early. Right before I start I decide my route and I start my GPS which will track where I'm going and will tell me my average speed every five minutes through my earbuds. I've even developed something where if I wrap the earbuds cord 2 1/2 around my fingers holding my phone it's the perfect length. When I'm almost done running and I've gotten onto my home street again I sprint as fast as I can home.
So there is my running schedule for this summer. Bye.
- By Ashton
Sunday, July 5, 2015
Sparhawk backstory
Today I'm talking about character backgrounds for my planned series off of David Eddings works. Here it goes.
As far as catching up with character story I've only had time to get around to Garion and Riva. Because Garion and Ce'Nedra will both have extremely long lifespans they plan to stay on The Isle of Winds until their son has learned the duties of being a king and then they would retire to a small earthy cottage near The Vale and the woods of the Dryads. It was revealed to them one very special wedding anniversary by the destiny of the universe they had fought for that it has arranged it so that both of them will die peacefully with each other when they had decided it was time.
One day when they are all out on a picnic far north of the castle Geran notices something. They are in a grove nestled between the huge northernmost mountains of the island and he remembers the story his father had told him of how Riva trekked into supposedly these same mountains to retrieve the two hunks of star metal he made into the sword. He finds a strange trace of ore in the wall and Garion is interested enough to call Belgarath and others over to look at it and it's found that it's some form of QuickSilver. It's extremely light, easy to forge, incredibly durable, and beautiful. Belgarath theorizes that it's some sort of "growth effect" from when those two magical stars struck the mountain and now the entire range of mountains on the island is abundant with it.
This discovery leads to a huge boom in The Isle of the Winds' economy and a sister city to Riva is built between those mountainsides as a mining capital of the entire West. Garion has a great idea to dig a canal between the River of Veils that Riva is built over to the North River so that the QuickSilver can be easily transported to Riva to sell to traders. The entire land between those mountains that was once peat bogs has almost healed itself and the land required very little work before a city could be built atop it. With Riva's rapidly rising economy more people migrate to the island nation and the two cities and areas along the river become more and more urbanized with the sheepherders still herding on the west and east sides of the new canal.
That was Garion's and his families background. Bye.
- By Ashton
As far as catching up with character story I've only had time to get around to Garion and Riva. Because Garion and Ce'Nedra will both have extremely long lifespans they plan to stay on The Isle of Winds until their son has learned the duties of being a king and then they would retire to a small earthy cottage near The Vale and the woods of the Dryads. It was revealed to them one very special wedding anniversary by the destiny of the universe they had fought for that it has arranged it so that both of them will die peacefully with each other when they had decided it was time.
One day when they are all out on a picnic far north of the castle Geran notices something. They are in a grove nestled between the huge northernmost mountains of the island and he remembers the story his father had told him of how Riva trekked into supposedly these same mountains to retrieve the two hunks of star metal he made into the sword. He finds a strange trace of ore in the wall and Garion is interested enough to call Belgarath and others over to look at it and it's found that it's some form of QuickSilver. It's extremely light, easy to forge, incredibly durable, and beautiful. Belgarath theorizes that it's some sort of "growth effect" from when those two magical stars struck the mountain and now the entire range of mountains on the island is abundant with it.
This discovery leads to a huge boom in The Isle of the Winds' economy and a sister city to Riva is built between those mountainsides as a mining capital of the entire West. Garion has a great idea to dig a canal between the River of Veils that Riva is built over to the North River so that the QuickSilver can be easily transported to Riva to sell to traders. The entire land between those mountains that was once peat bogs has almost healed itself and the land required very little work before a city could be built atop it. With Riva's rapidly rising economy more people migrate to the island nation and the two cities and areas along the river become more and more urbanized with the sheepherders still herding on the west and east sides of the new canal.
That was Garion's and his families background. Bye.
- By Ashton
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