Saturday, March 31, 2007

Today's Featured Video on GodTube



Finally, someone who gets it!! Now THIS is what Jesus meant. Amen!

As my roommate pointed out, it's like some gameshow. "Next week on SAVED!, will he be able to save kiss? Or is he one car accident away from the firey pit of hell? Tune in to find out!"

So, may I ask you, my talk show host friend: Have you kept the ten commandments?

Thanks to GodTube for this. GOD TUBE??? GOD FREAKIN TUBE? Are you kidding me??? And I thought iGod was bad...


In Case You Were Wondering has more...

Friday, March 30, 2007

Music Friday: Cloud Cult Edition



Of late I have fallen in love with this band. And by this band I clearly mean Cloud Cult. I can't get enough of them, so it seems. Consequently, deciding on a solitary song was a feat not even worth attempting. Ease trumps mind cramps two to one anyday (except on Fridays...three to one), and this happens to be music Friday. So alas I say, let there be music.

May Your Lives Be Long
Step Forward
Fairy Tale
Take Your Medicine

But if you persist on mind cramps, wallow yourself away in the pirty of this crooked world we find ourselves in. I bid thee well.

Thursday, March 29, 2007

CALLING ALL BLOGGERS!!! HELP!!!

Please watch this video!! Please act!!! This is a terrible situation about a step-son of a former associate dean here at Belmont. He has since stepped down to deal with the situation, and Eric needs our help!!! This story has been featured all over the news, including the front page of the Wall Street Journal.



Now I know that I don't have a lot of visitors to my blog, but I also know that I have a few that do have a lot of readers! Please repost this and spread this story to the world. This is important!

Augustana at Cityhall

A friend graciously gave me two tickets to the Augustana and Vega4 show last night in Nashville at Cityhall, and I was willing to go. To be all that honest, I wasn't overly excited about it with their recent success with the song "Boston." I have been a fan of the band for a couple of years now since I heard their EP before All the Stars and Boulevards was released, but it's been a while. I had the irksome worry that I was about to see a pretty, glossy band that doubled for the album cover of the next Grey's Anatomy soundtrack. Not so. And it was incredible.

Vega4 is a multinational band, featuring a frontman and a bass player from ireland (think bono meets snow patrol to get a picture of the vocals), a drummer from Canada, and a guitar player from New Zealand. They were very good for an opening act, though, and their stage presence, albeit crude, was quite enjoyable. They ended their set with the lead singer taking the mic and walking through the crowd a good 20 feet out from the stage. The hit song is "Life is Beautiful," and if you're a fan of any snow patrol (somewhere in between Final Straw and Eyes Open), then you should fine the tune and listen to it yourself!

Augustana definately was different than I expected. Their frontman honestly reminded me mostly of Kid Rock in his appearance and mannerisms, sporting red boots, tight jeans, a simple white v-neck undershirt, a slight mustache, and a black cowboy hat covering his long, unmanaged curly black hair. He had an extremely low voice and had sometimes awkward interactions between him and the audience. Definately not a diva playing the crowd, he was in his own world of his own music. Which was perfectly fine when you have the voice that he does. Un-frickin-believable! He, along with the band, got lost in their songs, and you wish they'd never find their way to the end. Half the set was probably new songs the audience has never heard before, but it didn't matter. I wish I could see him again getting to the climax of a song letting his raspy voice take off and soar to crazy heights and his body being thrown into every word he sang. It was great. Halfway during the set, he brought up a steel-guitar player that he had apparently met earlier that day. They played a few of the most beautiful folk songs I have heard, and I wouldn't complain (probably the opposite) if they released a folk album next. Unfortunately, I don't think that'll be the case...but it should be! Anyway, if you get a chance to catch the tour before it ends, I would suggest it!

Last picture credited to Not on the Guest List.

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Are You Serious??

Congratulations Bao! We were all routing for you...

Can you imagine how awkward THAT prom dance was??

But are you serious?? This is one of the main stories for today?? Wow, American news for you... Another peice of evidence that convinces me that American news is really not in the news industry, but rather in the entertainment industry.

From CNN.com:

BEIJING, China (AP) -- After searching high and low, the world's tallest man has married a woman two-thirds his height, a Chinese newspaper reported Wednesday.

Bao Xishun, a 7-foot-9-inch (2.36-meter) herdsman from Inner Mongolia, married saleswoman Xia Shujian, who was 5 feet 6 inches (1.68 meters) tall, several days ago, the Beijing New reported.

Bao's 28-year-old bride is half his age and hailed from his hometown of Chifeng, even though marriage advertisements were sent around the world, it said.

"After a long and careful selection, the effort has been finally paid off," the newspaper said.

Bao was confirmed last year by the Guinness World Records as the world's tallest person.

Bao was in the news in December after he used his long arms to save two dolphins by pulling out plastic from their stomachs.

The dolphins got sick after nibbling on plastic from the edge of their pool at an aquarium in Liaoning province.

Attempts to use surgical instruments to remove the plastic failed because the dolphins' stomachs contracted in response to the instruments, Chinese media reported.

Sunday, March 25, 2007

More Words I Wish I Wrote...

They say you cannot walk before you crawl
I wonder why, I wonder why
Because everybody dreams before they fall
A wonder world and then we lose it all

But I will dream of tomorrow
Where the past will not be in my way
Passion lives another day
And I will dream of tomorrow
Where perhaps she'll wait for me

And every single heart that I have held
In my hands, in my clumsy hands
I fumbled them around until they fell
It's much safer ground just keeping to myself

But I still dream of tomorrow
Where the past will not be in my way
Passion lives another day
And I still dream of tomorrow
Where perhaps she'll wait for me
And perhaps she'll wait for me

--Bebo Norman

Saturday, March 24, 2007

Sex God

Anyone who knows anything about me knows that I am obsessed with anything Rob Bell. I was of course then the first to pick up his newest book Sex God when it came out at the beginning of March. It was a quick read, and I easily finished it that week over Spring Break, but it is definately worth the high $20 charged for it. The book's title is interesting enough and certainly had me wondering, and its subtitle, "Exploring the Endless Connections between Sexuality and Sprituality," made me even more curious. Nevertheless, Rob Bell crafts a wonderful commentary on a new (or he would probably say really old) view on sex, love, and lust. Following on the heels of his first release, Velvet Elvis, this book has the same cordial and conversational style and feel but is a little more focused. It has something for everybody: for the single, the dating, the married, the never to be married, the married for 20 years. It's really fantastic and I can't wait to read it again to catch all the things that I missed (it's loaded with new info and insights in every sentance). Perhaps my favorite part was...hm... you know what, it's kind of hard to find a favorite part. It's all good!!!

Here's what Publishers Weekly had to say about it: "Bell raises the bar with this evocative follow-up to last year's bestseller Velvet Elvis. "Is sex a picture of heaven?" he wonders. It's all about God and sex and heaven, he says: "...they're connected. And they can't be separated. Where the one is you will always find the other." Bell's book isn't a sex manual, an exploration of the differences between men and women or a marriage how-to, though all of that is here. Instead, it's the story of God becoming human, of humans mirroring God and love made manifest in the chaos of our humanity. Sex God is about relationships revealed in a way that elevates the human condition and offers hope to those whose relationships are wounded. In Bell's spare, somewhat oblique style, he addresses lust, respect, denial, risk, acceptance and more. His love for God and the Bible is clear, as is his ability to ask probing questions and offer answers that make readers think deeply about their own lives. He does a fine job using the Bible and real life to show that our physical relationships are really about spiritual relationships. This book joyfully ties, and then tightens, the knot between God and humankind. "

So go out and buy it, read it, and pass it on! It'll be worth it.

Friday, March 23, 2007

Music Friday: Episode 3

There's a bonus for you guys today. Not one, but two tracks!

Page France -- Here's a Telephone







Bright Eyes -- Four Winds








Hope you enjoy!

Thursday, March 22, 2007

Belmont in the Wall Street Journal

Belmont University's business school, of which I happen to be a student, has been featured in print and on video in the Wall Street Journal. This time it's for our entreprenuership program. Check it out here!

THIS IS WHY I'M HOT!

I got my copy of Belmont's student newspaper, The Vision, yesterday, and I instantly looked for the article that my friend, Melanie Bingtson, had written. I have fallen in love with her writing of late, and I thought I should share her article. I don't think she'll mind. She deserves the publicity, anyway :o). So please read on, it is worth it! And I promise you will understand my title.

A World Without Spring

Springtime at Belmont is a beautiful thing. The trees around the quad bloom in vivid green, flowers explode into brilliant colors all across campus, and musicians of every sort crowd the lawns and play their songs until the sun sets.

It’s almost spring here and I can’t help but smile as I step outside my door every morning and feel the warm sunshine. For the last week or so, though, there is a sadness that I can’t seem to get out of my head.

We joke about the “Belmont bubble” but it frightens me how transcendent that idea is. I fall into its trap daily, pretending that this is actually the real world and that the middle-school drama that consumes our lives will have an impact six months from now. I’ve been convicted by this false reality recently.

Zimbabwean musician Oliver Mtukudzi penned “Mambasa,” a song that asks wrenching questions:

“Tears run dry/We mourn quietly/Death has now lost its meaning/Funerals no longer have the necessary dignity/ Everyone around us is dying/ Who will sympathize with whom/ Since each of us has death in our homesteads daily?/ Who will mourn whom?/Who will bury whom?”

This is the song that plays on the radio in Zimbabwe – not “This is Why I’m Hot” (Mims) or “Beer in Mexico” (Kenny Chesney). Talk about a reality check.

The inflation rate in Zimbabwe is 1,700 percent. The average life expectancy of a woman is 35. Almost 25 percent of the population has AIDS.

Before you think that this is another spoiled American clamoring for help for Africa, finish this column. In all honesty, you can’t do anything to help the people in Zimbabwe. The government – and the country’s destiny – is controlled by Robert Mugabe, a ruthless and selfish dictator who has his opposition brutally beaten and has sworn off the rest of the world. Governments have tried to oust Mugabe through economic sanctions, which have starved the people of Zimbabwe. Economic sanctions are a traditional method to force rogue leaders to change, but they don’t work.

In the last week or so, Zimbabwe has finally broken into the news cycle. Mugabe has cracked down on his opposition, mercilessly beating leaders who have attempted to speak out against him. According to Mugabe, if Westerners dare to interfere with the situation, they will be removed from the country. (He did not specify whether they would leave alive or dead.)

Zimbabwe makes me sad. But there’s nothing I can do about it but tell you what is happening. I’m not asking you to do anything – Zimbabweans don’t need protests or pity or fundraisers or media blitzes. They need dignity. Hope. Prayer. Remembrance.

Robert Mugabe is 83 years old. He can’t last much longer.

Washington Post journalist Neely Tucker wrote a book called Hope in the Driest Season about his time in Zimbabwe covering all of Africa.Let me close with a passage from that book, which I want you to read.

“More than 1,100 people had flocked into the village’s Catholic church for sanctuary … We stepped on bare spots of the floor that were not strewn with debris. The pews had been ripped out, but the slats that had supported them were still there … I shifted my weight and a foot slipped off one plank, but I continued to write notes, racing to keep up with his account. I rocked my foot back and forth. It began bumping against something. At first, I thought it was a chicken’s rotted bones that had somehow not yet collapsed. Then I leaned down and peered closer. I blinked. It was the splintered remains of what appeared to be an infant’s rib cage. My toe was resting just inside, and I had been twitching my foot against the bowed ribs.”

Enjoy this season at Belmont. Walk outside, feel the sunshine and the breeze. But as you laugh and live and enjoy the blessings that God has given you freely, pray for springtime to come to Zimbabwe.

Barack does Apple



**I'm not trying to make a political statement with this post. I just thought it was clever. Good marketing skills. He understands a new generation. With Edwards announcing his presidency on youtube and now stunts like this internet-only video, I think we're witnessing a new era. The dems have stepped up. Republicans, where are you?

Thanks los.

Monday, March 19, 2007

"The Creation"


Using the same old materials
of earth, air, fire, and water,
every twenty-four hours God
creates something new out of
them. If you think you’re see-
ing the same show all over
again seven times a week,
you’re crazy. Every morning
you wake up to something
that in all eternity never was
before and never will be
again. And the you that
wakes up was never the
same before and will never
be the same either.

--Frederick Buechner


Man, this guy never ceases to blow me away.

Derek Webb at Belmont

Here are some few highlights from a Q&A time with Derek Webb this morning at Belmont. He answered questions about FreeDerekWebb.com and the future of the industry, the church, his role in music, and his upcoming album.

About FreeDerekWebb.com, the future of music, and his role in music: "It's more important than to try to wrench 10 cents for every record. There's a difference between the record business and the music business. The record business tries to get money for a bunch of round peices of plastic."

"People who make art and people who sell art are different. They have different gifts. They need to fight. It's healthy for them to fight. If your marketer tries to make your music for you or if you try to be a marketer, you're in trouble."

On the message of his record Mockingbird: "I have too many friends in the business that are trying to compromise their beliefs so they can build a platform to say something important. If you always make compromises and never use the platform, you don't need the platform and probably don't deserve it."

On the church: "Clearly Christianity has a problem. Clearly we've been co-opted with politics and politicians have learned to use our language to coerse us to do what they want."

On Christian music and the labe "Christian": "It's been a long time since I've thought about or cared about that category. I don't really care about the distinction between Christian things and secular things. I don't believe in a thing called Christian music. There is no music that is more redeemed or glorified than other music. There are Christian people and secular people. And those people make art."

"When I say I'm a Christian, I say "I've got issues." If that's not what I mean, I shouldn't say "I'm a Christian," I should just say, "I'm a pharisee.""

"I have trouble being called a Christian. Not because I'm ashamed of Jesus. I'm ashamed of the tremendous connotations that are associated with Christians in this country. Jesus shocked his closest friends all the time. He was so unpredictable. And Christians today are so predictable. A politician can say one of three words and make us act instantly in a way that we in return make them superstars."

"What if someone from anothier planet comes here and thinks the word Christian means someone that eats babies. When you tell them you're a Christian, does that label do you any good?"

"My music is not a ministry. I don't approach it that way. I'm a singer/songwriter. My brother is a doctor. He's not a "Christian doctor;" I don't know how that would look. His goal is to provide excellent health care, and also to support his life and family. And that isn't any less spiritual than the other. His Christianity certainly plays a role into what he does, but the notion that you have to be full time minister in your job is the same thing in music. I don't have to be a full time vocational minister in my music. "

Saturday, March 17, 2007

Round 2 Matchups

Wow, my brackets took a beating. But my prediction seemed to have held up... No big upsets early on. Looks like we got some big matchups to come...

Second Round Pics

Midwest
Florida (1) over Purdue (8)
Maryland (4) over Butler (5)
Oregon (3) over Winthrop (11)
UNLV (7) over Wisconsin (2)

East
UNC (1) over MSU (9)
Texas (4) over USC (5)
Vanderbilt (6) over Wash St. (3)
Georgetown (2) over Boston College (7) *Big East battle.. should be good

West
Kansas (1) over Kentucky (8) *Old rival, hopefully KU will be come up on top
SIU (4) over Va Tech (5)
Pitt (3) over VCU (11)
UCLA (2) over Indiana (7)

South
Ohio St (1) over Xavier (9)
Tennessee (5) over Virginia (4)
Louisville (6) over Texas A&M (3) *Maybe the best game of the round, also Lousville is playing close to home...
Memphis (2) over Nevada (7)

Friday, March 16, 2007

Music Friday Part 2

This is kind of cheating, but it's music to my ears...



Get ready for a great game tonight!

Thursday, March 15, 2007

It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year...

NCAA Tourney is here, and these are my first round pics:

First Round Pics

Midwest
Florida (1) over Jackson St. (16)
Arizona (8) over Purdue (9)
Butler (5) over Old Dominion (12) *Though, this was a tough one to call...
Davidson (13) over Maryland (4)
Notre Dame (6) over Winthrop (11)
Oregon (3) over Miami of Ohio (14)
Ga Tech (10) over UNLV (7)
Wisconsin (2) over Texas AM (15)

East
UNC (1) over Eastern Kentucky (16)
Mich St. (9) over Marquette (8)
Arkansas (12) over USC (5)
Texas (4) over NM St. (13)
Vanderbilt (6) over GWU (11)
Oral Roberts (14) over Washington St. (3)
Boston College (7) over Texas Tech (10)
Georgetown (2) over Belmont (15) *Sadly

West
Kansas (1) over Niagra (16) *They better not choke again...
Villinova (9) over Kentucky (8) *How did UK even get a number 8 seed????????
Illinois (12) over Va Tech (5)
SIU (4) over Holy Cross (13) *SIU=team to watch
Duke (6) over VCU (11) *They've got a lot of critics, but Coach K will have them ready...
Pitt (3) over Wright St (14)
Gonzaga (10) over Indiana (7)
UCLA (2) over Weber St (15)

South
Ohio St (1) over Cent Conn (16)
Xavier (9) over BYU (8)
Tennessee (5) over Long Beach St. (12)
Virginia (4) over Albany (13)
Louisville (6) over Stanford (11)
Texas AM (3) over Penn (14)
Nevada (7) over Creighton (10)
Memphis (2) over N. Texas (15)

There you have it! My prediction... the HUGE upsets will happen late this year. Opposite of what usually happens. We'll have to see. Let the games begin...

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Tony Campolo Visits Nashville

Today, I was enjoying some nice weather sitting outside the Belmont cafeteria when I looked up and to my wonderful delight saw Tony Campolo walking across campus. I exchanged a few words with him, and told him how excited I was for his sermon that night.

And...WOW...what a sermon it was.

In case you missed it, Tony Campolo spoke at Belmont United Methodist Church in Hillsboro Village in Nashville tonight. He had some interesting and provocative things to say, as always. He was just as relentless, just as energetic, just as passionate, and just as enthralling as I had hoped for. I'll bullet some of his main points for you here. The sermon was on the Kingdom of God in the Lord's Prayer.

"Our Father"

-Revolutionary idea at the time
-Our prayer should lead to an experience and not a theology.
-We need to obtain stillness in our lives when we pray, we need to "center down to Jesus"

"Hallowed Be Your Name"

-Name connotates what you do in that time.
-You are essentially saying, "God what can you do through me?"
-We have too much talk without spiritual dynamism, and too much religion without spiritual reality.

"Thy Kingdom Come Thy Will be Done On Earth"

-It's about here and now, not then and there someday in heaven
-"Wouldn't we all want to be a part of a church that throws birthday parties for whores at 3:30 in the morning?" (referring to a personal story)
-The Kindgom of Heaven is wherever God's will is done on earth.
-Capital Punishment: "How can you support capital punishment when Jesus said blessed are the merciful? How can you support capital punishment when there are two types of justice in America: justice for the rich and justice for the poor."
-Don't sell out to the system. The world is absent of kingdom builders because we have sold out to the American system.

"Give Us Today Our Daily Bread"

-Our Christianity is only concerned about people who don't say four letter words.
-Jesus came to build a Christianity that cares about the things that break the heart of God
-In heaven we might say "But I believed all the right things!" Oh don't you wish it was that easy... The benchmarks we are given are all about the poor and those in need.
-There are over 2,000 verses in the bible about the poor and those in need. How many about the issues we evangelicals always like to talk about?
-Quoting a homosexual friend: "That's the problem with you evangelicals. You think life begins at conception and ends at birth. You don't give a damn about the 35,000 who die every day from extreme poverty."


-Are you a true disciple? Not a believer, Satan is a believer. But are you a true disciple?
-We often ask "Is it safe?" when questions arise about serving in the inner-city. The answer is "Of course not, but how safe is it to grow up in Suburbia in shopping malls and in corporate commercial America your whole life? Don't fear those that can take your life, fear the powers that can take your soul."


I was just most taken back by his joyful spirit and nature. Both times I have seen him thus far he has been smiling and overflowing with joy. He even offered to pray over my friend and I. I am just glad that I get to hear him one more time at Belmont before he leaves.

(RED)iculous?

Craig Borlase has written this blog with the purpose of questioning the (RED) campaign and the concept behind it. He quotes a report that says $100 million has been spent advertising for RED products, but it has only generated $18 million to benefit the Global Fund. To his credit, thankfully he also links to the response to the report by the CEO of RED. Unfortunately, he adds his own interpretation to what the response ACTUALLY said, and one might be led astray if they merely read his summary of the response and not the response itself. You wouldn't realize that the money raised by RED thus far is FIVE TIMES (i repeat...FIVE TIMES) the amount given to the Global Fund by the private sector in the last four years. And you say that the RED campaign is failing?!?!?!

I'm sorry, but I have a problem with people tearing down great, innovative ideas that are working to make the world a better place. Maybe the results aren't THAT impressive (i beg to differ), but the fact is that corporate America is finally being used to do some good. I believe that all things can be restored. All things can be renewed. Thank God that people are becoming aware of social issues. Thank God that big shot business people are realizing that people are becoming aware of social issues. Thank God that there is money in marketing social issues. That means that social issues are becoming a prominant force to motivate people. Sure, the solution is probably not, "Buy more and more...you're saving the world that way," but it's a start. Everybody needs an entry point. And this awareness and the fact that social issues are becoming "cool" and "trendy" is a good thing, not a bad thing. Let's ride the "cool" wave and make a difference. So many of my friends (and I myself) have become passionate about social issues first because it was "cool," and then stuck with it because it literally changed their lives. My friend Jean Michael has spent the last 2 months in Uganda after seeing Invisible Children. Tell him that social issues shouldn't be marketed as the new "cool" and "trendy" thing. And let's face it, big business isn't going away. Why not use it to help solve the AIDS crisis? How crazy would it be 10 years ago for a marketing campaign like this? No one would have gone for it. Let's use it for a good thing.

I appreciate the motives of sites like Buy (less) Crap, but let's not be niave. Let's not assume that everyone is just going to magically be immune to the 3,000 advertisements that are daily presented to Americans. It's a great personal goal and something I strive to do, but EVERYONE isn't magically going to sacrifice their iPods, cell phones, cameras, and stylish clothing. Let's then let corporate America market these products with AIDS tagged on it. And in the process use their money to market products that raise money for a good cause. "A house divided cannot stand." Why tear each other down, we are all trying to accomplish the same thing. Can't we all just be friends? (I realize how ironic that statement is due to the nature of this post...)

As a business major, I hope to use business to turn the world around. To bring heaven to earth. That's why I'm so fascinated with things like the RED campaign and the up and coming micro-lending movement. I hope to turn around business.

Also, I have no bad blood towards Craig. He's an incredible writer and I am a big believer in what he stands for. I have been following him ever since RELEVANT covered him and love what he is doing. I just happen to disagree with him on this point.

That's a lot to digest, but I'd love to hear your thoughts. What do you guys think about it? I know many of you are involved with social issues. Chad, any thoughts or suggestions?

All Good Things Must Come to a Close

You know those moments when you could just step back and, "There's nowhere else I'd rather be than right here experiencing this"?

I've been so fortunate to have several of these this last week. Whether it was with a group of new randomly mixed friends, a group of old friends it seems like I've fought beside, an old best friend, or just by myself, I have thanked God so many times for moments that I wish would never end. It feels so good to live in the moment again.

Myrtle Beach was fun, though it reminded me a lot of Destin. Very commercial and, well, just...beachy. A lot of fun though. Make sure to check out Broadway at the Beach if you ever go. Charleston could be my newest favorite (small) city. It is so historic, having played a major role in both the American Revolution and the Civil War. On a carriage tour we took, we even got to see where Stephen Colbert grew up, so that was an added perk. Make sure to eat at Fleet Landing if you visit. It's right on the bay and is a restaurant that was converted from a Navy outpost. We sat outside in beautiful weather, enjoyed some AMAZING seafood, and watched as dolphins jumped out of the water in front of Fort Sumpter for us. Quite the experience.

Spending some time with old friends was incredible as well. I enjoyed the lakehouse quite a bit, and especially loved hanging out with Jean Michael. JM has been with YWAM for the last 5 months, 2 of which he spent in Uganda. On Wednesday, he is leaving again for a year to be a prophet to several spanish speaking nations.
I am blown away by him and what God is doing in his life, and if you'd like to support him financially, let me know so I can hook you up with the info. He's such a great man of God. I love how even though that friend group is all at different places, we are able to come together and experience God together in powerful, holy, and fresh ways. It's great.

Break has been a time of new things for me. One of which is writing. I don't know where it came from, but for some reason writing of poetry, vinettes, and autobiographical blurbs has abounded, and I love it. I will be using this blog to post some of those little tidbits, and being such a young student of writing, I would love your comments, advice, and criticism. It would mean a lot. I've already posted one poem, and look for some more original work later this week.

Thanks for reading :o)

Sunday, March 11, 2007

I'm An UNCLE!!!!



Say hello to BLAKE!!!
8 pounds, 5 ounces
I can't wait to see him!!!

Friday, March 09, 2007

Blake

I walked out upon you
And you caused me to sink
I wanted to feel you
I wanted the link

I kissed the sweet air
On my lip it was thick
An unconscious presence
Will the remembrance stick?

I looked up to heaven
Your light pierced the night
Weary from traveling
If I had your might

I reached out to touch you
But I came up too short
The sand lay before me
I was one of the sort

I’d construct a sailboat
And be where you are
The spheres could guide me
I wouldn’t be far

The wind would beat me
The waves too rough
Still I’d go the distance
Yet still not enough

I stare at you honey
And whisper my oath
It’s never been truer
I love you both

I’ve made my offer
But still no reply
I’d give up my body
For one simple cry

It cannot be fair
To steal his goodbye
I’d give up my body
For one simple cry

*It's still a work in progress, but it means a lot to me, as all poetry should. Any thoughts? Criticism?

Tuesday, March 06, 2007

More Microsoft Genius


"The WOW starts now"...with an iBook. You'd think being such a big competitor, Microsoft wouldn't put an Apple computer in their new ad campaign. Wonder what Seth would have to say about this. But people are saying that Windows Vista will actually run better on a Mac than a PC. Figures.

Thanks to The Unofficial Apple Weblog for this.

Date Night

So earlier this week I had my first date in a while. It was a pretty special outing, starting with a nice dinner for two and ending with a fun movie. I may be too forward, but I think she's a keeper. That's right, Friday night my mom and I went out together, and it was a whole lot of fun. I'm really fortunate to have such awesome parents. The movie was Wild Hogs, which I wasn't too exctied about to be honest. We were a part of a sold out crowd on opening night, though, so I decided to give it a go. In all actuality, it wasn't all that bad. It really exceeded my expectations and definately gave me some laughs. Now, I'm not saying it is Oscar worthy or is something to immediately going to the theater to see, but I was not disappointed with it. But anyway, I had a great night with my mom, something I don't get to do enough of. LOVE YA MOM!!!

Sunday, March 04, 2007

Uno, Dos, Tres!

1) GO BELMONT!!!! Once again, they have locked in their place in the big dance by winning out their tournament this weekend. Looks like we're starting a trend. Also, I would just like to point out that my team KANSAS has ascended to the number 3 slot in the country and have pretty much guaranteed a number 1 seed in the tourney. Now that's something to get excited about! Can' wait for March Madness...

2) I started my new job today :o). I am officially a Laser Chase Marshall. Oh yes. It's fun. I basically get paid to hang out with kids and play laser tag. I can't really complain. So go to the new location on top of Southern Ice in Cool Springs and hang out with me.

3) I'll be heading out on the first of 2 trips that I will be on for Spring Break tomorrow. I don't know if I will have internet access, so this may be the last post in a while. Monday morning I should be staring at the beautiful Atlantic Ocean at Myrtle Beach. We are also spending at least a day in Charleston, which I have heard is one of the most interesting and fun cities in the U.S. I am incredibly excited. I'm armed with some great music, podcasts, and books, and I intend to do some damage. I just had a conversation with a friend about our Spring Break trip last year, and I can't really believe it's been a year. We seem so much older and alltogether just different people. I'm so glad I'm where I am today, but I'll be happy to see a day where us old friends can come together (hopefully on a similar trip) once again.

Thanks for tuning in!

Saturday, March 03, 2007

Almost Famous



At least almost famous on Lovedrug's myspace.

Time 4:42. Can't miss me. Amazing concert. Thank you Lovedrug for my second of fame.

Friday, March 02, 2007

Music Friday

So I'm gonna try to grace thee reader with some new music finds every Friday. Hopefully it will last more than one week, but honesty, no guarentees here. But this first one is a goodun. Man Man is a very eclectic group, but I think you'll like it. Very experimental, that's for sure. Ye be warned, there might be an expitive wrapped up in this one. Don't say I didn't warn you...

Engwish Bwood -- Man Man.

I hope you enjoy!