August 26, 2006

  • OK!!!! I’ve been wanting to do this for a long time, ’cause it’s been since last Christmas since I did a post about albums that I found out about in the last year and think are just amazing. Here goes! For starters, we have Chris Thile! This manis the lead songwriter and mandolin player for Nickel Creek. His solo album, Deceiver, is just amazing. Lyrically, the album covers issues such love and confronts issues of faith, not concerning itself with the prospect of making a few people angry. The music is amazing… crazy instrumentation, crazy production. It’s beautiful. Tracks 2, 3, 6, and 8 are key.

    Next we have Joe, Marc’s Brother… Around the Year With is a nice little bit of feel-good pop mixed with great jazz elements. Interspersed are more pensive tunes reminiscent of Colin Hay or Nick Drake. The central theme is love (missing it, finding it, learning from it.) I love this CD! You can listen to “Ready to Change,”and “Hideaway” on their myspace. Check it out!http://www.myspace.com/joemarcsbrother

    Bright Eyes – I’m Wide Awake It’s Morning… This CD interests me for several reason’s. This guy’s ideas are always conflicting. Country influenced, super unique. Beautiful… Track two is key.

August 24, 2006

  • Well it looks like our plane will be leaving in three and a half hours! This is crazy. wonderful. crazy.

    There are some days when I really feel like punching something. generally it involves myspace. Now facebook is in on the game. A big banner on the side says, “Freshman. Get girls in your room. Posters on sale!” I hate this over-sexualizing of society. It’s just crap… I’d say that in terms of giving into lust, I have on many occasions. Ther ridiculous thing about it is… I’ve never looked at a lot of the crap that some guys and girls have. Then again a lot of people haven’t looked at a lot of the crap I have. First off, I’m sorry. Secondly, seeing those ads makes me want to throw my computer across the room – or punch the glass in the shower when I walk into the bathroom.

    I’ve been taking a lot of pictoras! ’tis fun!

August 20, 2006

  • I was just listening to this Chris Thile song and the line was, “It’s half past six, the sun’s not up.” And I looked at my watch and it was a quater to 7 and I stll hadn’t gone to bed. I’m going to try to stay up all through today.

    Here’s a runthrough of last night!

    Allie and Leslie came over and Allie opened her early birthday present. It’s a cotton candy maker! She will make beautiful music with it. Or candy!

    Leslie left for college… well at least she has by now.

    Then Me, Jim, Andy, Danny, and Ryan watched Garden State. I wasn’t super impressed, but it was pretty good. Mister Braff has some cool and interesting ideas.

    Then we smoked.

    Andy then left.

    We watched Serendipity… It was wonderfully entertaining and made me feel good, but I won’t know if i liked it until I’m married. Ask me in ten years. If I meet a girl just like that and have this sort of “stars aligned” moment, I’ll have liked the movie. if not… well I don’t know… we’ll see.

    I think Me and Danny might go get some breakfast.

    Be blessed! Much love!

    Increase the peace, ok?

August 16, 2006

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    “The universe,” Dr. Marcy added, “contains so much beauty and so many mysteries that we astronomers already have our hands full figuring out how it all came about.”


    Why I was reading the New York Times at 5:30 in the morning I have little idea!


    http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/16/us/16pluto.html?th&emc=th


     


    IT IS TIME FOR BED!

  • OH MAN! … sometimes I am foolish… Its 3:33 and I have to wake up at 9:00, but that’s enough of my complaining!


    I came upon the realization today that I need to have some higher quality demos up on my myspace. Only one of them is good, and it’s not even mixed. I should get that done. Also, I lost my copy of The Case for Christ a while back, so I got a new one. But I think I lost the new one, so I need to find it. I bet there is some stuff at Chelsea’s house that I lost. I don’t know why but I lose a lot of things and I would think that chances are I lost something there in high school. DANG. Talk about stream of consciousness!


    Usually I can’t think when I’m tired, but tonight I’ve done a lot of thinking. Wait, I do 90% of my thinking at night. Mostly I’ve been thinking about music. I read a lot Eisley stuff today. They are in pre-production for a new album which will be good, cause their old one had good elements but was a little tedious. I bet this one will be a bit more driving. That would be neat. I wanted to talk to someone from Eisley, but I don’t know them and I cant remember my login name for their website so I couldn’t comment on their journals. I didn’t get to talk to them. They don’t know me, so they don’t know I want to talk to them.


    The people that make myspace want me to look at porn. That is frustrating. Porn sucks. Nobody likes it. At least not the One who lives in me. I sound like a Christian right now. Oh wait. I am one. Why do I shy away from open faith? I often opt for the trendy faith. That’s stupid.


    I need the grace of God every single day.


    cottonfactory.com is cool. I want like 6 shirts from there. That would be neat.


    I go camera shopping with dad tomorrow! I have to get a 35 mm for school! It shall be loads of fun to play with that!


    It makes me sad that we’ve turn the expression “boatload” to “buttload.” It makes young people sound dumb.


    I would like a cherry coke right now. And a glass of water.


    “I drink the coffee down at IHOP. I like the coffee down at IHOP. Quality brew. Quality brew.” – Iggy Pop in Cigarettes and Coffee.


    Oh yeah. Get the new Johnny Cash album. The second song gives me chills. Something about an old man who know’s he needs God makes me want to weep. Oh and so do the strings on the first song. Have a beautiful day.

August 10, 2006

  • Hang on a sec…

    Let me turn off the music real quick.

    Ok.

    I’ve had a cleansing I think… I could be the fact that I’m tired, or maybe I’m more honest when I’m quiet and it’s just me. And God.

    I have this cycle where no matter if I’ve been surrendering everything to the Lord in prayer I just have to take some extra time and solidfy it, this Great Giving Up. This is where most of my songs come from, taking the time to sit down and spend some time speaking to the Lord of my surrender.

    I don’t want to hold on to “my right” to “my life.”

    I want to love without asking anything in return. I want to live in purity,, to do what is right simple because purity is an outward reflection of peace in the soul. I’ve have been made new so now I can and shall act like it. It’s not “How much can I willfully screw up and still get to Heaven” but simply how can I most please our Heavenly Father.”

    This is why I wrote this song. I did what some people call cursing in this song, but it is not. Cursing is to wish someone evil, to say “Go to Hell!, or “You’re stupid.” And Perverse talk is acting as a honosexual as a joke or joking around about infidelity or non-marital sex, or “joking” about killing someone or something. So please give Mucho grace. Thanks!

    Oh! and as with anything you love, listen to every word. Slowly if you don’t mind. Here goes.

    Why do I love my sin
    ‘cause I feel like shit when I give in
    Why do I hate to lose
    ‘cause to love you is to let you loose

    I’ve tried to gain the world
    I’ve tried to win the girl

    Heaven is my home
    But I hold on to my gold
    God is my guide
    But I’m asking for my own advice

    Jesus, stop me now
    I’m turning to my self again
    Heaven show me how
    To love her and not close her in

    I’ve tried to gain the world
    I’ve tried to win the girl

    I release my rights
    (As if they ever were mine)
    I love my guide
    My heart is every after Him. (Beacause in Him we live, and move, and have our being)

    That song is called, “What Heaven Requires.” You can listen to it on my myspace if you want.

August 8, 2006

  • The Truth About Sex

    So… Sometimes I wonder if we love living freely so much that we don’t stop to think if it’s better within the boundaries… Like what if purity was attainable… or at least possible to get close to… Something like running a race in a way to be worthy of the prize. I want that… I read this book called The Truth About Sex and it was good… Is was about letting the Word of God change you and make you a new creation or something crazy like that. Nobody has to live in lust. That was encouraging to me. Fidelity is cool. Fidelity is in, guys.

August 7, 2006

  • New music, old habits, and summer’s almost over

    No super deep thoughts tonight… I used a real big gift card that my aunt and uncle gave me for graduation to barnes and noble and bought some music. I got the new Guster, Feist remixes, and a few others that I’ve listened to for years but never actually bought… It’s all very fun.

    Okay, so I’m going to call me out on something here… The internet is so freaking accesible that I go through stages of affirmation dependency… checking every blog, network, and email again and again to see if someone loves me. That’s dumb… I should work on that fo sho… just have the discipline not to check.

    Summer’s almost over!!! Love you guys!

July 30, 2006

  • Hey guys!!! The time for the little show tomorrow night has changed… we’re playing 7:30-8:15 and 8:30-9:15… tomorrow as in monday, which is probably today by the time you’re readying this!

    Oh… and if you have the spare time… read this http://www.theonion.com/content/node/47977

July 27, 2006

  • Guys! Gals! People-folk! I have something to tell you!!!!


     


     


    I GOT A MANDOLIN TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!