THE GRADUATE

A couple months ago, my sister Cheryl and I attended a small concert where one of my favorite indie bands played (Nightmare of You)- of which I HIGHLY recommend to everyone...I LOVE those guys! Touring with them were a few other indie bands from across the country and one band in particular from Chicago I fell in LOVE with! Their name..THE GRADUATE! After they were done playing I was so blown away that I immediately made my way over to the bands' merchandise table and bought myself their CD. Once I got home I listened to it and since I have been listening nonstop (with a few exceptions...;)..and I'm not even sick of it yet! AMAZING! One of their songs caught my attention immediately because I can entirely relate to the lyrics and they describe the EXACT way I've been feeling for quite a long time. SOOO I thought I might share the song with you all and I strongly encourage everyone who is interested to look these guys up and get into their stuff. They're amazingly talented.





The Graduate - I Survived lyrics

This is goodbye
After months of situating
I can finally leave this sorry town behind
And I'm alright
When they ask for me
My friends can smile and tell the world
That I survived
As I'm about to leave
I fill a million empty pages
Pass my word and do my best to sing
So what do I need?
To show what could become of those
Who think and talk and live like me

I don't want to die today!
I want to live and love and write it down
I can live a life of dreams
And be grateful I'm around

This is goodbye
After months of careful planning
I can finally leave this dried up town behind
And I'm alright
This used to be our city!
This used to be our only light!

I just want to walk away
I want to write, but there's a consequence
That all my friends read everything I do and I say
I don't need to reign supreme
All I need are sounds of ecstasy

And I won't die today!
I'll be living and loving and writing down
And I'll live a life of dreams
And be grateful I'm around.

Bear Lake camping excursion!

Ok folks, so last month a couple good friends of mine (Sarah & Lana) and I drove up to Bear Lake to camp. Though we only stayed for one night...BOY did we have a lot of fun! We arrived late afternoon, which gave us plenty of time to get our campsite set up and ready before the sun got too low that we couldn't see what we were doing. Once the sun did eventually go down we got a SUPER SWEET fire blazing...I was quite proud of ourselves!...and we roasted hotdogs and munched on yummy smores-a MUST for camping! Once the fire eventually simmered down we retreated into our tent to play a few games of cards and soon after conked out from our long drive (not too long, but still!) and our rapidly decreasing sugar high. The following morning, Sarah decided to get up at 5 am... :O!... to see if she could snag some good pictures of the sunrise...and OH MAN she got some really amazing shots! There are FAR too many to show you them all, but here are a few of my faves!
After sleeping in a bit more we all got up and packed up all of our stuff and drove over the beach arena. We had so much fun in the water! We swam all the way to the booies (SP?) and back. I guess thats not TOO much of an accomplishment, but its still a pretty good work out! The water was sooo freezing though I had to go back to Lana's car to get my blankie...No doubt I looked PRETTY SILLY wearing a big blanket on the beach while everyone else was running around in their bathing suits! lol
The rest of the time we played more card games on the beach and munched on our left over food we had brought up before we packed everything up and headed home. As short as it was, it was definitely a fun trip! The only bad thing about it, when we were at the beach, all three of us completely forgot about putting on sunscreen and YES, we SEVERELY paid for that! Major sunburns on all of us. :( Next time, I will be SLATHERING the stuff on!

Until next time....ASH

Very first blog!

HELLO HELLO everyone! I've decided to create a blog since this will be my last year in Utah. As many of you already know, I've been accepted into The University of the Arts London, Camberwell School of Arts in London, UK. Originally I was suppose to start attending classes this fall but unfortunately I was unable to go due to lack of funding so I had to defer my placement in the program til next year. So since I have a little more extra time here I am going to try to make the most of it and with this blog I will be able to document it and keep everyone informed. I've already had a few exciting things happen this summer...of which I'll blog about soon enough and post some pics. SO there you have it! Stay tuned folks! More is DEF on the way and no doubt it will get interesting. :D