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Emily Newton

About Me

lookin' to be heard.i hail from ohio land, growing up in 'the heart of it all'. i have a secret love of the midwest. shhh. appreciating the smaller things in life is a way i spend my time. i don't appreciate beauty in enough areas, and i love to hear other peoples ideas about anything. learning is not overrated, even though i could be said to have felt that way in the past. my musical influence comes from all different places, like the nature i grew up in, the grit of relationships, the grime of accidentally spilling paint on new carpet. in music, i've been influenced by my mom's piano playing, and her love of some classical pieces. jazz music has given me a different thought process while singing and writing. one thing that sticks out to me most would be lyrical content, and the brilliance of the way an artist drops those words with an idea into the rhythm and rhyme. if the artist can, on top of those things, play their music with their feeling, their heart, then i suppose, that is something i love to hear.i've been playing music for a good while, guitar and piano, the occasional drum beat on my guitar body, or djembe, or whatever i can really find. i really just enjoy creating things.i love honesty as well because we all are so good at believing lies, myself included.i look to know you, whoever you are. i look to let you know you're not alone in whatever life is trying to squash or suffocate you with. i'm just another mind in this vast group of people, and we forget that people are just people, and they are just like you. we're more similar than you think.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 30/01/2007
Band Members: Emily
Influences: Kitchen sink, apples, textures, surface of objects, the inside of objects, the objection of objects, the perception of perceiving objects, the business of personification, letters, mountain ranges, works of fiction, the catchphrase, the flipped phrase, the turn phrase, the heart of people, my heart, my mind, the dialogue between my heart and mind, paintings, classic literature, contemporary literature, comic books, photographs, lack of photographs, things that seem to go missing, the art of what is missed, coffee, old truck stop diners having the best black coffee, places open all night, being outside in a lack of light, being so overwhelmed with light of day, leaves, pine needles, charcoal, shoes, mixing paints, building clay structures, eating and drinking out of homemade clay pots, natural peanut butter.
Sounds Like: You tell me...©2009 Emily Newton.
Record Label: Unsigned
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Wondering the random things, when I really should be going to sleep.

What I'm wondering is, how do we go about spreading a message of hope?  Is there hope?  I'd certainly like to 'hope' there is.  Yes, that was lame of me, but tonight I'm contemplating these things.  H...
Posted by on Sun, 03 May 2009 21:35:00 GMT

Staircase

You're a shell of yourself. I'm choking on my words. I scribble out the words in my car before they leave me completely. This is no safe task, I assure you, I'm aware, but they are all too accurate...
Posted by on Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:17:00 GMT

iMix- Jams With Toast

..Check out this iMix. Some favorite jams. and be sure to check out the seven songs on iTunes. Emily Newton - Right and Where You Left.
Posted by on Sat, 21 Mar 2009 09:28:00 GMT

iTUNES

So, for the past few weeks I've been working on getting a few songs on iTunes, and today it finally went through. Please go check that out...maybe purchase a song or all of them, I'd greatly apprecia...
Posted by on Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:03:00 GMT

Winter Blanket Jam

I've been writing a bit. Nothing too extravagant yet, I can assure you, but hopefully something will come of all of these inches of snow, trapping up the colors of the area. The white blankets conti...
Posted by on Mon, 19 Jan 2009 06:52:00 GMT

The Specifics

The vein, the vine, the rootThe lightning in hot pursuit.Burning, the flame, the lanternStraining, the light, the pattern.The earth, its quakes, its moansThe ice, its breaks, its groansIn birth pains,...
Posted by on Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:58:00 GMT

Aftertaste

You're embracing these lies,They're holding you up.They're holding you back,They're pushing you down.Beneath a sea of black,Lies all-encompass.Trapped in your own fairy tale,Drowning under miles.They ...
Posted by on Sun, 28 Dec 2008 08:40:00 GMT

Grapefruit Jams

"Everybody knows that you break your neck to keep your chin up." -Copeland, Chin UpIts another beautiful day, even though it is cold. The sky is grey as most things are turning out to be. All of it...
Posted by on Tue, 23 Dec 2008 09:51:00 GMT

Overcharged.

So I'm in the middle of painting this picture, and I'm having a deja vu about it as if I've already painted it, but I've not painted it...and it is as if I've seen it before in a dream, with the same ...
Posted by on Sat, 06 Dec 2008 19:49:00 GMT

Concrete

Most of the time I'd say that there are not words to really describe how I feel.Sometimes, I'd say I'm really good at writing. Sometimes it would probably be best if we'd save my writing for the kinde...
Posted by on Thu, 04 Dec 2008 08:50:00 GMT