Into the New Year

Well, it has been a long time since I last entered in this blog. Much has happened since the last post, and in fact that is in large the reason for the delay. Over the last few months I have met a few really good friends that quickly turned into band-mates. We've been writing a lot of music together and preformed our first show a few weeks ago. We are in the process of recording an album and setting up many more shows. The name of the band is The Pancake Riot, which follows suit to my opinion that all the best band names either contain opposites (Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, etc.) or Food items (String Cheese Incident, Red Hot Chili Peppers, etc.). I've also started working harder on recording my own music. I'm currently working on two separate solo projects. The first called "Ghosts of Winter" that includes dark folk, ambient, experimental, spoken word and dark metal, to try and encapsulate what winter means to me. The other is called "A Hermit's Melodies" and that is a bare acoustic album filled with instrumentals. Both works are a work in progress, but what has been recorded so far can be found here. http://isaacevenson.bandcamp.com

Aside from music, I have started attending The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, in their International studies program. I was unexpectedly resigned to this school when through an advising hiccup I was declined admission to The University of Wisconsin-Madison. I was heartbroken at first, but after spending a little time on campus, and taking a few interesting classes my disappointment is lessening, very much. My original plan was to stay for a semester, take the classes I needed to get into Madison this semester and over the summer, and attend Madison in the fall. However, this cannot be the case because the course I needed was not offered this semester, so I'm going to be here a lot longer than expected. I am considering just getting my Bachelor's from here, as quickly as possible and then applying for a Masters Program at Madison.

Aside from both music and school, I have changed my workout routine, I am now doing the P90X workout program and I love it. I've already seen results that I didn't get from months and months of The Insanity Program. I wish it had not taken me so long to realize that Insanity was geared towards loosing weight, rather than gaining muscle mass. I am applying at a couple places for work, and hopefully will be hired in at a licensed organic produce farm this spring, which would be a perfect job for me. I've met some new people, met some girls, went to some concerts, the best of which by far was The Wisconsin Folk Festival in Madison which for the most part was astounding. I've reconnected with a very old friend that I've missed dearly and her and I are beginning to write music together again, like we did years ago. I'm currently reading a handful of different books, as always seems to be the case, though that may become limited with the massive amount of reading I have for my classes this semester. I started a new photography project as well. It is a still life project that spans a year, and by the end of the year the goal is to have 365 still life photos, that  sort of encapsulate your year as a whole. I haven't been able to do one a day yet, but when I have a little bit more free time I will make up for it by doing multiple shots in a day. The link to that project is here.  https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.500762050034472.1073741841.278790102231669&type=3

This winter has been long, cold, and filled with unexpected twists and turns for me and though I've been able to stay on top, I'm very much looking forward to springtime. This entry has been aimed to fill in any readers (You know who you are) that have been waiting patiently, and now I will start blogging more often, and more specifically on ideas and musings rather than just current personal events. Take care.