Weekend in Tampa, New Twitter, A Matter Of Time on iTunes and Amazon...

Hey everyone, currently on vacation in Tampa with my good friend, Ethan. So far i'm having a great time. On Friday, me and Michael drove to Tampa after he got out of work and he requested we listen to Abba. So I turn on Abba and it keeps going and going to the point where we are almost there and the album hasn't finished yet. I'm like, what the fuck?! So after being attacked by Abba music for two and half hours straight, we finally made it to Andrew & Tom's house. They are friends of Michael's and whom he is staying with this weekend. They were both very nice and I really look forward to hanging out with them again sometime. Ethan, picked me up from their place and we dropped my stuff off at his place and decided to get some food so we went to Chili's. It was pretty good, I haven't eaten at Chili's since I was in Conneticut visiting Hendric. So afterwards we just relaxed and went to bed. Yesterday, we went to Five Guys Burgers & Fries which I have never had before. They were pretty good and I was really surprised how many fries we got. After that, we went to Parksdale Farms where they sell their world famous Strawberry Shortcakes, as well as Smoothies and other goodies. I tried a Strawberry smoothie, it was good but just not my cup of tea. We went back to his place afterwards, chilled out and watched "Alien 3" to pass the time. Then we decided to go see The Roommate, a new film about a girl who goes to college and gets this roommate who seems a bit off at first but as the film progresses we find that her roommate "Rebecca" is completely psychotic. I really enjoyed the film and found it was better than I assumed it was going to be. The only part I found kinda out of place was Rebecca was suppose to be taking the prescription drug, Zyprexa. Now I kinda laughed at this because she needed something WAY stronger than that. I've taken Zyprexa in accordance with my therapy and I was not as fucked up as she was. She had some serious psychological issues, she needed stronger medication and maybe its possible in larger doses it would have helped her but I just found that kind of silly. Other than that, it was a great film. After the movie, we went to Gameworks for a few minutes to play some games. At one point, Ethan got me on the Dance Dance Revolution machine and I danced my ass off to the point of exhaustion. We left Gameworks and went to Applebees for some late night food and headed back to his place to sleep. Today is Sunday, Ethan is sleep asleep since we were up so late. We will be meeting with Michael, Andrew, and Tom later for some dinner and then I think today will mostly be a day to stay in, watch a few movies and play a few games.

My original Twitter account is attached to my phone that I stopped using almost three years ago. Because of this I couldn't access my account and thus had to create a new one. You can now find me on Twitter at:

http://twitter.com/#!/DustinStudios

A Matter Of Time (Single) is now available not only from CDBaby. But you can also purchase it from iTunes and from Amazon. I will include the link below:

A Matter Of Time (iTunes)

A Matter Of Time (Amazon)

A Matter Of Time is Released & Episode 9 on Facebook...

My first single, A Matter Of Time, has been released and is available now! I am so very excited and glad its finally out there and I hope you check it out and download the track. The link to the single will be located below this post. At the moment, i'm working on getting the finishing touches on Forest Of Memories Vol. 1 and working to get some live shows going. So the future for Void Of Axis looks good and busy.

http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/VoidOfAxis

Me and Michael are getting ready to go to Tampa this weekend. Michael will be staying with his friends, Andrew & Tom. And i'll be staying with my friend Ethan. Because of certain circumstances, Michael will be mainly featured on the next Bears On The Coast episode. But don't be upset, I am sure Michael will do a great job with filming and i'll be back for the next one. I'm glad i'll be able to rest my fingers for the this weekend. Episode 9 is currently available on Facebook, i'll be working on getting it up on Youtube today as well.

Bittersweet, A Matter Of Time Official Music Video Released, Bears On The Coast Episode 8...

Time goes by so far and before we have time to recognize all the time that as past it seems to be too late. I feel I've had that revelation recently, yesterday I was uploading and finalizing my information for my single "A Matter Of Time" which i'll be releasing hopefully next week. After finishing it, I got a message from my sister on Facebook, it told me my Grandfather had passed away. I feel sad about his passing but at the same time, I feel happy that he is at least not in anymore pain and with my Grandmother again. I called my Mother to see how she was holding up, after this i'm sure we both feel sad. So my release was a bitter sweet achievement, but I just need time to process this. As most of my friends know, i've written a song titled "Rain" for my Grandmother when she passed, I might do the same for him as well. Then again, I could dedicated the song to both of them. I need time to figure out things and see how I feel.

So as life must go on, the official music video for "A Matter Of Time" has been released on Youtube. The music video was filmed over two days and was very fun to do. The song itself is quite different from the video but still discusses a bad situation from which the person singing doesn't leave until its too late. In this case, I am kidnapped, tortured, and implied to be killed at the end of the video by a dark twin of mine. It was very fun to do and I just hope people enjoy it as much as I did and purchase the song once its released.

So as well as a new music video being released, their is new episodes of Bears On The Coast. We are now up to Episode 8 which has showcased our past week basically. Our next video is not far off and will probably feature me making jokes about Valentine's Day and my personal distaste for the "Hallmark" holiday in which I recieve nothing from guys I like (just my luck). So expect it sometime soon. I will also try my best to keep up with this blog more, I've just been lazy and I apologize for it again.

Past, Present, Future...

I wonder if I pushing myself to nothing. Am I working on something other people don't care about as much as I do, should I continue and should I quit now? I ask myself these questions a lot when it comes to my music. Considering I haven't put out an album yet I try to push these questions aside, but when I look at my Void Of Axis page on Facebook and see how small my fan base is and how little interaction I have with them I wonder how do I reach out to new people and whether or not they will even care about my music. I will admit, I am not what the radio plays today. But i'd rather be true to myself and what I feel is right, I choose to create the type of music I do because I generally like it and it sounds like something i'd like to listen to. I am hoping I am not the only person out there. I don't have an agent, I don't have a record label to fund me, and I really am trying my best to do everything. From working on music, to creating artwork, to finding live shows to play, to creating the best experience I can, but i'm not sure I can do it alone. I am just really confused as to what I should do next, I am working on trying to promote Forest Of Memories Vol. 1 which as i've been told is NOT an album I would get signed for. And I knew that when I created it, the album is not a commercial record, its a series of albums that just reflect the past. So far, the past has been a reoccurring theme in my life and I was to just release this and everything else that is in the "past" so I can move forward in to present and future.

I will reflect more later, have to get ready for Euchre today with the girls.

Forest Of Memories Vol. 1 New Cover, Void Of Axis Information, Bears On The Coast Episode 5...

Forest Of Memories Vol. 1 now have a new cover, I felt the original cover was too cluttered and not up to the best it could be. I've been working really hard on trying to get the promotion of the album ready. I am pretty sure that I will be selling my music officially on CDBaby, and also will be exploring the other possibilities given to me once that is set up such as being able to purchase albums and singles on Amazon, iTunes, Physical CD's, etc. I'm also hard at work on getting a music video done for "A Matter Of Time" and even setting up some live shows to help promote the record.

Bears On The Coast Episode 5 has been uploaded to Youtube. It is too long to upload to Facebook so its only available on Youtube for now. I will be working on Episode 6 soon which will consist of the remaining footage from our weekend to Orlando.

First Single is A Matter Of Time, Forest Of Memories Info, Bears On The Coast Episode 4 & 4.5

I am happy to announce that A Matter Of Time will be the first single from my forth coming album "Forest Of Memories Vol. 1". The single will contain the album mix of the track as well as the demo version of the track. The release date for the single is February 8th and Forest Of Memories will be released on March 21st. I'll soon announce where you can purchase both the album and the single. Also the artwork for both A Matter Of Time & Forest Of Memories have been finished and are featured above, I hope you like. I am in talks with a friend of mine who will be helping me create a music video for A Matter Of Time. The ideas so far are very good and I think it will show some how serious I am about my music. I am currently in the process of doing the inside art work for Forest Of Memories. Most of the theme to the booklet will be the theme of my past since the album is a somewhat biographical look on pieces of my life...

Bears On The Coast Episode 4 and 4.5 are now out both on Youtube and Facebook. I recently did a facelift on the Youtube page to reflect the new show so I hope everyone likes it.

The Year Of Change, The Void Opens Soon, Bears On The Coast Episodes 2-3...

2010 was an interesting year, it was the year that many changes occurred in within my life. May relationships destroyed through greed and hatred, but with those bridges burned by others many new ones were created. Many new friends have been made and more importantly, family members I look forward to making new memories with. This will definitely be the Year Of Change for me, from New York, to Michigan, to Florida. It really has been very interesting and now I am ready for a new chapter in my life and to see what happens here and now. In the past couple of days, I've been considering starting to write a sort of biography of my life up until this point. The problem is finding a place to start the story of course, it could start during high school, but I think it would be good to start the moment I was out on my own. I want to be brutally honest with this story and tell everything I can tell no matter how much it matter hurt. This is just to show how far I've come and now where I can go from here. I am very optimistic of my future here, and things are slowly coming together. I have an appointment to get my state id soon and then I can start looking for work, in the meantime I will be doing my best to get whatever I can together. As well as writing my biography probably in my spare time, I won't share the biography with anyone till I feel it is done which will be a long time from now. I honestly just say let me write what I can and someday when I feel its write it will appear.

This will be the year my music finally starts, I am in the final stages of my first full length LP since Purgatory this past October. I will be finalizing vocal work this month and copyrighting the material. The single for the record has been chosen and I will be working with someone on creating a music video for it as well as artwork for it. I will also be working on the rest of the artwork and getting the album released. I've had to pull the March release date as I don't believe it might make it to that date, but once the songs are legalized and finished I can say when I release date is. I am glad this is finally coming along and I look forward to having people listen to it.

Bears On The Coast Episodes 2 & 3 have been uploaded and are availble to watch now on my Youtube page. We also have a new page for Bears On The Coast on Facebook which I will link below:

http://www.youtube.com/user/CorneliusRose25#grid/user/35A1994D8F7FBAFB

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bears-On-The-Coast/127375343991678