BAND PRACTICE...... FINALLY!!!

our first official recro band practice is in 2 weeks and I am PUMPED!

I honestly cannot wait to get the whole crew together and jam it up.

jam as in play music. Not the actual grape flavored food substance usually associated with toast...

We are going to be covering a lot of ground also. We might be the only band in the world that will be covering from a calm piano rock style to a hard grungy rock style... we are all into different things but with one thing in common: The desire to praise Jesus Christ through a modern musical experience. It's gonna be all good :)

twas the morning before church
and all through clarke
every creature was sleeping
while dogs outside barked
the showers are crowded
the pancakes are many
consuming old orange juice
and eggs aplenty...

NEW PHONE!!!!

I broke my cell phone last night at clarke house.

*Moment of silence please*

So after about 8 hrs of complete terror without it, i went to the verizon store 2day and bought a new one... and I LOVE IT. Finally! A phone i can connect to my computer! It costed about a hundred bucks but will be pretty much free after i send in the rebate.

So here is the story: I was working on some homework at clarke when we decided that watching the movie "Sherlock Holmes" would be more fun. So I sat down in the easy chair and propped up the leg rest. Little did I know that my phone had fallen into the leg rest gears and when I got up from the chair... well... you know. After I pulled out the mangled remains of a six year old phone, I came to the realization that I needed an upgrade :P duh

Soooooo....

I miss Gulf Shores.

Sure, the weather here is pretty much the same now as it was down there two weeks ago, but there are other things besides just the weather that I miss sincerely. Let me compile a lise:
1. fishing
2. mini-golf
3. no work
4. no school
5. all the free time in the world needed to write music
6. an excuse to be lazy

Plus, the environment is just so much better than peoria. It's a smaller but cleaner city I believe :P
I listened to David Sceggel and Coldplay all the way to school and back today looking for some inspiration. None came yet. Or maybe some came and I just ignored it. Either way, I got no new material to work on :P
For anyone reading this I have some prayer requests. First, I'd like you to pray for Matt Hammitt's little boy. I don't know all the details but I believe that the baby has a serious heart defect they just found out about so please pray for a healing miracle. Second, I realized that I have been growing away from God and treating christianity more like a religion than an actual lifestyle so I need prayers that I could grown in God and in his righteousness. That's all for now I guess.

lately...

lately I've been working on some more hip hop styled songs and they are extremely hard to come up with lyrics for! Hip hop music is very beat oriented lyrics wise and so it's hard to get the lyrics to fit the song right while still having the song make sense. For instance, a song about Jesus can't be like...

Life is like a sock monkey
Cannot feed a gray donkey

Not only would that song not make sense, but if I sang it in public I would probably be arrested and taken to a crazy house. I'm considering making a considerable amount of trips to west lafayette to practice some songs with Luke Wahl. I'm figuring any time I'm out there we can practice and anytime he comes to p town we can practice. Then we can go to mister Jeff Huber's pad to record and mix and all the good stuff like that. Can't wait to get a demo out. I have a feeling it is going to be incredible :)

what a sunday......

Well, unfortunately I slept in and was late for church this morning. Thats the second time that has happened in three weeks (I think). Oh well. Had to leave early anyways to help set up for my grandparents 50th anniversary. Us three older grandkids performed the Tenth Avenue North song "By your side" for everybody and I think we all had some fun. Then we came home and played some very entertaining volleyball with the cousins. Jake just wouldn't stop. He seriously made us all wet ourselves laughing during the game. Life for him is just too much fun. Play volleyball with him and you will see what I'm talking about!

WARNING: THIS POST IS RATED "M" FOR MORON

My night listening to James Macdonald

So the James Macdonald thing was epic. I was extremely critical at first because I had never been to anything like that before but when he started talking about his topic I was in awe. He drove home several very good points that I had never considered when thinking about the trials that christains endure. This has been something I have been struggling with lately in my faith. It was extremely encouraging when James told us that God gives us no more than what he knows we can handle.

A day in the office... ha, I wish

More like a day in the trenches. Spent the entire day in the sheet metal shop doing stuff. And you all know how much I hate to do stuff.

Pretty much the only good parts of the day was when Jones came over to hang on a lonely night (this is the part where you all have pity on me)... Also today, I went to lunch at the chinese restaraunt in bartonville. I got a fortune that said "there is an interesting musical opportunity for you in the near future." How sweet is that? But when did fortunes start getting so specific?? Phil told me that one time he got a fortune that said, "you have a secret admirer..... he is watching you." :)

Trying to read the whole bible from cover to cover. I've gotten pretty far. I made to chapter 11 of Genesis I think... I must try harder haha

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand it's bedtime

hello

today....

I suppose I should enter a better...entry than that. I'm gonna talk about my day now. I hope ur all ready for it.... here goes!

Today I get to go hear James Mcdonald speak in peoria. I've never heard him before but I've read a little of what he has written. I'm pretty excited and I'm curious to what he is going to talk about.

My mother woke me up this morning with Saber quite rudely, and to make matters worse, I had to vaults in the fridge and mi padre used both of them for my brothers lunches. Don't say I never gave anything to you Logan or Luke! I'm living in the loft of the garage now and one of the animals (who I refer to sometimes as roommates because they sleep right outside my door) had a little, well actually a HUGE accident on my staircase. The smell alone is enough to kill an adult elephent. WHY DO I STILL LIVE IN THAT SLAUGHTER HOUSE???


aight, thats all i got for now, peace everybody

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