Not Kyle (thankfully), only Timmy and Josh...

Being so driven and determined to play a show with local band, The Dandy Warhols, The Ascendents' drummer Timmy and bassist Josh had given away their souls to the Dandy Warhols. "THEY GAVE THEIR F---ING SOULS TO THE DANDY WARHOLS!" Kyle commented with extreme contempt and disappointment, "other past Ascendents souls also were lost to the Dandy Warhols," and referenced an earlier Ascendents' drummer from long, long ago.

Kyle added, "we are the better band, are they going to headline us? By the way, for that kind of style: compared to The Dandy Warhols, The Brian Jonestown Massacre sounds more--" a fight interrupted.

The two rival West Coast "psychedelic" rock bands had somehow polarized/split The Ascendents' fanbase (A.K.A. the entire human race). Kyle shouted, "I demand 10 million-billion dollars (contribution) from each and every one of them!" Everyone was out and in it for themselves. Reaching to the highest ground, Kyle had exclaimed, "whatever happens, I hope that it is my best!" Timmy had replied, "actually, I hope that too, lol!" From Josh, no comment was provided (classified). Kyle had pushed the narrative that Josh's soul was probably too busy being tortured while trying to get through The Dandy Warhols - The Best Of The Capitol Years: 1995-2007 album.

Eventually, as the years passed, it became more obvious (via Reddit) that the BJM (The Brian Jonestown Massacre) actually was a lot more-preferred than the Dandys, but even through the year of 2024, Josh and Timmy were still overly committed and possessed, all day and every day, fantasizing and thirsting, for the possible dream, of one day, playing a "show"... with the Dandy Warhols. They wouldn't come down. Their poor, unfortunate, and blinded "Dandy-sipping" souls didn't care about their own band, only the Dandy Warhols. Instead of pushing for the next Ascendents album, Josh and Timmy prioritized going to Dandy Warhols concerts: to be top #1 Dandy fans, to maybe see someone top-less, and to try talking about that great shining "dandy" gig on the horizon. Kyle shared a link, "340 minutes (80 songs) of Anton Newcombe and The Brian Jonestown Massacre." He summarized, "their hunger for power was over. It wasn't a bed of roses or a pleasurable cruise. It was like getting sand kicked in my face, but we didn't lose. This is a victory for all of the free world." Then, Kyle shared a special (Raw Sessions) version of Queen's "We Are The Champions."

⭐	Also in the news: For the world stage: The Ascendents via Ascendents Records (Jun-8) provided to YouTube, a continuous full-length video for the 2020 album, Sex, Drugs, and Rock n Roll.

BONUS: Listen to the Rifts of The Ascendents Playlist - originally available on: YouTube (more) or adapted for Spotify (more).

The following is a list of discoveries given designations in the AAC catalog.

Table of Contents - AAC Help

(Update from 2024-10-03): Along with a list of epochs, here is the official ASCENDENTS™ Astronomical Taxonomy.

First created: 2022-08-25
Last updated: 2022-08-30 - Changes

Number of objects: 39

Note: To be part of the AAC-1 designation, a star must be located on or close enough to the dome, a reasonable proportion for its significance. Other objects relevant for studying can have a different catalog number, such as AAC-7 which is Ptolemy's star cluster that is its own feature to be studied separately from AAC-1. Some stars, however; may be part of both the sphere and the star cluster -- those stars have multiple designations and the names are interchangeable. When a star has multiple AAC identifiers, the preferred star name to reference for documentation is the shortest and easiest to type for the letters and numbers on a standard American QWERTY keyboard. Ascendents Sphere stars (The Ascendents) are conventionally named with the AAC-1 prefix, followed by their constellations, and the count when it was discovered as part of the Ascendents Sphere. For example: The first sphere discovery in Canis Major (CMa), the star "18 CMa" also is "AAC-1-CMa-1."

Future Developments

• Searchable dynamic database with category selector
• Periodic downloadable CSV exports
• API to retrieve individual object CSV data
Tip: For now, to get a CSV file of the AAC table, copy-and-paste the HTML table of AAC objects to a spreadsheet program (newer versions can automatically convert the copy-and-paste data to spreadsheet/export CSV format).

Ascendents Sphere Introduction

The Ascendents refers to a dome of stars in a giant spherical star system (AAC-1) that surrounds Earth and the Solar System. In every direction, the Ascendents Sphere star dome is about 913 light years away, therefore the dome itself is over 1800 light years in diameter. The pattern of influence by the Ascendents Sphere extends much farther outward than the boundary of the sphere (the star line). For perspective, the Milky Way Galaxy is over 100,000 light years in diameter. Our nearest star system, Alpha Centauri is only 4 light years away.

Read more about the Ascendents Sphere (AAC-1)

Grasping the magnitude of this discovery is an incredible feeling, it's absolutely insane being part to advancing a paradigm of universal understanding. Deep into knowing as past humans started to know, nearly 1900 years ago, 130 AD Ptolemy discovered a significant blue star cluster that pierces the 2022-discovered Ascendents Sphere (AAC-1). Since the late-1700's Ptolemy's Cluster has been referenced as Messier Object (M 7) and it's relevant enough to also be called AAC-7.

Here are some notable Ascendents Sphere (AAC-1) stars that also are part of constellations. Ascendents Sphere stars (The Ascendents) are named with the AAC-1 prefix, followed by their constellations, and the count when it was discovered as part of the Ascendents Sphere.

For example: The first sphere discovery in Canis Major (CMa), the star "18 CMa" is also "AAC-1-CMa-1."

Quick reference:

• List of objects in the Ascendents Astronomy Catalog (AAC)
• Mysteries of the Ascendents Sphere

Canis Major, the Great Dog

Camelopardalis, the Giraffe

Columba, the Dove

Pegasus, the Winged Horse

Cassiopeia, the Seated Queen (Andromeda's Mother)

Sculptor, the Sculptor

Orion, the Hunter

Cygnus, the Swan

More about exploring the Ascendents Sphere (AAC-1)

Most of its stars appear around 913 light years away from the sphere center, which is near or at Sol. The majority of AAC-1 stars are small stars similar to Sol, the star of our Solar System. Unless viewing from the perfect distance, the only way to see the sphere is to be at the wall and look parallel with it so the stars reveal a sharp spherical/circular outline. If anybody lives in the many sphere boundary stars -- as part of the spherical web, they have several neighbors within only a few light years. Therefore if there is life, it would be reasonable for those sphere stars to first contact each other before trying to reach AAC-1's center. Once every thousand years, using light, Sol can communicate with the sphere and the sphere can also answer once every thousand years, so a message and a response is approximately 2000 light years away.

Further research is in the next AAC-1 article, Space: Mysteries of the Ascendents Sphere (AAC-1)

Exploring the Milky Way Galaxy has led to to the discovery of something incredibly unclear and mysterious about Sol and the Milky Way Galaxy. Greats like Copernicus and Galileo were stepping stones succeeded by Einstein, Hawking, and many others.

Quick reference:

• List of objects in the Ascendents Astronomy Catalog (AAC)
• Notable stars of the Ascendents Sphere
• Mysteries of the Ascendents Sphere

What is happening in the Milky Way Galaxy?

Continued from, Space: Quick Guide for Finding Earth, greater than black holes, understanding the state of our galaxy and being able to see the immediate effects of what is happening, is a paradox that answers and unanswers the universe from all sides, because as explained in the previous article, Space: Bonus Galaxy Collisions, light reaches us before matter, and for something so giant to collide, it takes millions of years for the transition, and a lot can happen in those millions of years. The most distant parts of the galaxy told us the story way before humans are ever going to feel it, as when at a distance to look at an object thousands of light years in diameter, it's mind-bending even trying to make sense of what is seen.

What is AAC-1? The Ascendents Sphere

AAC-1 isn't the Oort Cloud or Kuiper Asteroid Belt. Those are icy and a lot closer, and don't need their distances referenced in light years. The Ascendents Sphere of stars AAC-1 is about 913 light years away. Why are we where we are? Even though Sol is inside the sphere, due to galactic relativity, its wave may still be approaching. For now, Earth survives the disturbance. There is a lot to assume. Gaps in stars over time made our galaxy map & the sphere's boundary. The sphere AAC-1 might be the limitation of certain telescopes, and the rays could be from big stars casting shadows, but that doesn't quite explain the story of why some rays are made of only blue stars. Modern telescopes can see millions and billions of light years, there is no reason for charts to get hung up at 913 light years. It seems like the technology for charting that many stars would have to be fairly modern. If the Ascendents Sphere is a data error, it doesn't answer why every sphere star isn't exactly 913 light years, sometimes it's 912, or maybe even 930 light years away. Maybe the paradox isn't a true sphere. Maybe Sol isn't the center. Maybe the center isn't what it was. Maybe the change ended the dinosaurs, or maybe since from a long time before that, the sphere could have drifted. If Sol isn't the center, time-dilation relativity would explain why we aren't dust, or maybe we are. All humanity is a flash for a turn of the galaxy; there's time for life even during galactic catastrophe.

At the sphere edge in the middle of M 7 (AAC-7) is star system AAC-2.

These two stars appear to orbit each other:
HD 162678 (AAC-2-1) & HD 162679 (AAC-2-2).

Messier Object 7: Ptolemy’s Cluster (AAC-7)

This blue line on the Ascendents Sphere is Messier 7: Ptolemy’s Cluster (M 7) is supposedly extends 980 light years away, however; there are data tables everywhere and they seem to keep getting more accurate. Online searches for a sphere of stars at that distance returned no recognizable information. It could be a shockwave gathering the stars with less mass. Update from August 29, 2022: Articles from 2019 reference possibilities for a vague "river of stars" at 1000 light years, but the articles don't identify the object or accurately describe it as spherical and all-surrounding (they claimed to have found a disc), and since then (three years later) has been unheard of and undocumented. Researchers even published the stellar river in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics. "As soon as we investigated this particular group of stars in more detail, we knew that we had found what we were looking for: A coeval, stream-like structure, stretching for hundreds of parsecs across a third of the entire sky," said Verena Fürnkranz, doctoral student at the University of Vienna. "It was so thrilling to be part of a new discovery."

It is unclear if what they thought they spotted even is the Ascendents Sphere (AAC-1), which is actually a ~913 ly radius star-dome (not a river or stream-like). If anything, the Ascendents Sphere would be more like an "ocean" of stars, but Earth's global conveyor belt can cycle the oceans every 1000 years. For the Ascendents Sphere, however; slower more like tectonic plates -- star currents are even much more complicated, existing in stellar magnitudes, and even galactic time proportions. The Star Dome of the Ascendents' origin and center is critical to understanding the true story of humanity. A textbook rewriting discovery of such universal magnitude is here at Ascendents.net. The Ascendents Sphere (AAC-1) is a new astronomic finding and these articles chart/document it.

What's next?

Further research can determine if the shape of the Ascendents Sphere, like the shape of our galaxy map, is real or technology limitation/artifact, however; nearly 1000 light years away, a stellar sphere seems to surround us. In the next article, explore some Ascendents Sphere (AAC-1) stars.

To be continued... Click here: Space: Notable Stars of the Ascendents Sphere

Ascendents Records (the record label/corporation) has opened a small store with music and accessories for its artists, fans, and nearby residents/the surrounding area in Southeast Portland, Oregon. Until now for the area, the closest gear and instrument dealers running the scene have been Guitar Center, and Portland Music Company. When smaller music stores catered to acoustic guitar players, for other genres, such as rock, artists would have to visit a larger store, however; with the rise of online sales and increased competition, the power chains have been found chasing every penny. 

"We narrowed down the search to bring our customers the products with the best value," said Ascendents Corporation President, Kyle Keith; he continued, "you can't go to just one store and buy everything we carry," implying that the expert work to create their instrument/gear/accessories/music selection is a reason to check out the location. Keith continued, "we offer customers gear for our favorite styles of music/market." With decades of production experience, he has claimed to have been through enough situations to know the quality and type of equipment people really need the most. "We carry many cool products -- including equipment from well-known trusted brands such as Shure, Peavey, Boss, and Yamaha, and Fender -- we also have some of the best entry-level gear for those on a tighter budget, however; we are official authorized dealers of PreSonus products. For those brands, visiting Ascendents Records just might be a best option; oftentimes we purchase directly from the manufacturer -- plus we work with our customers."

With its retail store section opened (get directions), local artists and also those from out of town traveling have stopped in to talk/inquire about record deals, leaving demos, and producing songs. Others have dropped by looking for music, different types of mixer gear, or accessories such as adapters and strings. Keith said, "we welcome everyone, not only our label-artists. Bring us your band's CDs and t-shirts to sell. Bring us posters for our wall along with upcoming event flyers; we can even help you sell tickets." 

As a record label, Ascendents Records offers its signed artists professional and state-of-the-art album production/encoding deals with manufacturing/distribution, licensing/rights/catalog and administrative management, artist/songwriter services, and appearances/marketing support -- including music such as The Ascendents' 2020 release, Sex, Drugs and Rock N Roll. 

Keith's emerging grunge punk alternative rock band (The Ascendents) and a few musically-inclined friends currently have stepped up to help maintain the shop. On the busy street of 82nd avenue, the black and white sign for the music and accessory store reads, "6819 Ascendents Records -- Music & More." 

Kyle also mentioned that for now it will focus on bringing affordable gear to the local area, however; as it works with a partner internet corporation, Ascendents.net, Inc., and details expanding to sell more products online through their web store https://ascendents.net/store/, the company could reach new markets. Ascendents Records' physical store has hundreds of products/accessories. Their website, https://ascendentsrecords.com, has a note about the store opening. Keith also added a dedicated webpage with business hours, phone number, a map/driving directions, and current specials, and extra information about the brands/products available. A partial list of available products is here: https://ascendentsrecords.com/offers.

The recent Coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic has greatly affected the way people do business. While the store is currently closed to walk-up customers, people can still call-in orders and arrange to have products picked up or delivered. 

Update (May 2020): The store has re-opened to customers and complies with statewide mask rules.