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im going through withdrawls. instead of The Office tonight….i am forced to watch the vice-presidential debates. i am not a happy camper.
boooooooo VP debates…
…yay for a new paramore video
this is quite possibly the best thing ever.
more about "ska is not dead!", posted with vodpod
thank you Los for posting this. it has made my heart smile.
yesterday i was sitting at a stop light that was extremely long i opened up my cd case and in the front sleeve was a cd called “in the wake of determination” by these guys…
Story of the Year. not many people like them…but yesterday i rediscovered my love for their music. they are so good.
good rock ‘n roll.
bye.
for some reason i was singing always be my baby by mariah carey today. i have no clue why. then i thought of david cook singing his version of the song on american idol. it was very nice.
everytime i hear this song i am taken back to 7th/8th grade dances in the school cafeteria. all the tables folded up. chairs around the room against the wall. all the rumors of who had made out with who down one of the hallways. all of us awkward “ladies men” scoping out the room for the next girl we would ask to dance when the slow songs came on. all of us wearing our penny loafers with khaki’s and a sweater vest thinking that we looked oh so fly. thank goodness those days are over.
now i have an amazing wife who will love me even if i were to wear sweater vests.
what songs remind you of your jr high/high school dances?
dear everyone,
my friend david is still in the running for playing the austin city limits festival. he has named today the day of 1000. if you could, please go here and vote for him!. He was in 3rd but has dropped to 7th, which is still good but we can totally take him higher.
if you want to hear some of his stuff you can click here and listen. I promise you that your ears will thank you.
thanks for your time, and please remember to vote!
your friend,
joel
OMG!
grace and peace.
my friend david ramirez is quickly moving up the charts on the dell lounge top 100 leaderboard. please, to this link once a day and vote for david so we can get him on the dell stage at the Austin City Limits Festival. tell all of your friends. lets get david to the top. voting ends august 22nd. VOTE EVERY DAY!!!!!
but for now i will leave you with david performing his new song “wind up toy” at a house show in humble, tx.
now, GO VOTE!!!
grace and peace.
at the beginning of june my ibook bit the dust. so i got a macbook and at the time when i bought my new macbook they had a promotion going on where if you are a student and you buy a macbook you get a free ipod (via rebate). so kimb and i got a 160gb ipod classic. when we went to do the rebate it said that we were not eligible for the rebate. so i talked with the apple rebate people and they proceeded to tell me that the ipod classic was not included with the promo.
so i went back to the apple store, returned our 160gb ipod classic and got this instead…
grace and peace.
i got this link in an email.
you will love it.
turn up your speakers and click here.
you are welcome.
my wife and i went last friday to a ksbj brown bag at the chick-fil-a on westheimer and fondren. needtobreathe was playing. needless to say, these guys are good. very good. you can check out their myspace here. listen to “more time” and “washed by the water”. amazing. here are some shots from the night.
grace and peace.
im so happy right now.
sorry for the lack of fotos lately. here is one i took at a paramore show probably a year ago with my little point and shoot digital. we were on the front row, or should i say rail. it was great. yay for meet and greets.
im so excited!
a priest, a rabbi and a minister were just on jay leno telling jokes. they were really long jokes. they go to a commercial and when they come back on from commercial jay introduces his first guest who just so happens to be jimmy kimmel.
he walks to his chair and says…
“jay can i tell a joke? a priest, a rabbi and a minister come on a talk show and tell the longest jokes i’ve ever heard.”
it was really funny.
and these guys are playing tonight on jay leno.
im excited
here are some pics from whole foods market today. david ramirez played today. it was great to see him, home again from nashville.
when i go see david i am always encouraged to write songs. songs with lyrical content. then i sit down and try to write something and i realize why i never write songs, but nonetheless i will start trying more to write songs. please go check david out with the link up above. give him a listen. i promise you will not be disappointed.
so i went and saw paramore in concert a couple weeks ago at verizon wireless theater in houston. i was lucky enough to get drawn to meet them. this was my second time to get to meet the awesome individuals that make up paramore. while talking with haley i mentioned to her that they should put RIOT! out on vinyl. in responce she said “yea! that would be totally rad”. so tonight i get on myspace and they had posted a bulletin that caught my eye.
so lookie what i ordered tonight for $12.
yup. thats right. a blue marble vinyl. now it needs to just hurry and get here.
this was the year that First Baptist Church Rosenberg was formed. Our church seems to take great pride in the fact that it is crazy old. working in a church that is this old has many advantages as well as many disadvantages.
one of the advantages that is also a disadvantage is the fact that we have an abundance of random junk just laying around the church in random closets. one of the things that i stumbled upon that has take up residence in my office is a record player.
so i am currently basking in the glory that is bob dylan on vinyl.
so to whoever “donated” this record player to the youth room many years ago…
…thank you.
i appreciate it.
so it is awesome to see how god is working.
i was talking with a girl in the youth group.
she spilled her guts to me.
she told me how God was starting to change her.
then we prayed.
it was awesome.
i could see how God was using me.
nice. very nice.
oh yea. and go here
myspace.com/abovetheblue
listen and then spread the word.
it was sept. 19th, 2007 that rich mullins went to be with the savior that he so longed to be with. here is what someone wrote about him. it is so good. so true.
1) Rich hated the limelight. His typical concert uniform was jeans (with holes in the knees) and a t-shirt. No shoes. No socks. In fact, he was known for sneaking onto the stage before being introduced, because the glowing introductions always made him uncomfortable. It was not uncommon for the audience to think the guy walking out onto the dark stage and sitting at the piano was some sort of pre-concert piano tuner. Then he’d start playing, and the lights would come on, and everyone would go “Oh, that’s him!” and the concert would start.
2) Rich was a genius musician. I had never heard of the hammered dulcimer until I bought the cassette tape of The World As Best As I Remember It (Vol. 1) when it came out in 1991. There was this brilliant sound on some of the songs — a droning, dancing, rhythmic theme that sounded like a cross between an acoustic guitar and a piano — and it mesmerized me. I figured out that this must be the “hammered dulcimer” mentioned in the liner notes. Within a few years, I had my own hammered dulcimer and had learned to play it. Never anywhere as good as Rich, but still entranced by the beauty of it. Rich introduced a lot of Christians like me to the depth and simplicity of Appalachian music…and the Irish folk music that inspired it.
3) Rich was a 36-year-old college student when his career really began to take off. From 1991 to 1995, one of the bestselling Christian musicians was enrolled at Friends University in Wichita, Kansas, pursuing a B.A. in Music Education. He played French Horn in the band, for Pete’s sake. And he remained there until he graduated and received his teaching degree. Now, imagine Chris Tomlin deciding suddenly to enroll at your local community college so he can study physical therapy — because he truly wanted to help people by becoming a licensed, practicing physical therapist — and then actually graduating with a degree…while still writing and recording music. It was kind of like that.
4) Rich was a “new monastic” before we knew what that meant. Before guys like Shane Claiborne came along, Rich was pursuing an uncloistered, semi-Protestant monastic existence. Upon graduating from college, he moved to a Native American reservation in New Mexico, near the Arizona border, where he taught music to kids in the local school. He made hundreds of thousands of dollars through album sales and royalties, but Rich only ever saw a fraction of that money. Early in his career, he set up a team of advisers to handle his finances. They paid him a yearly salary — as I remember it, it was something in the mid $20,000 range, equivalent to that of a common laborer — and the rest went to various charities. He didn’t know what his music and career were worth, and didn’t want to know.
5) Rich was theologically curious, and religiously ecumenical. True story: I grew up in a pretty tight bubble of very conservative Southern Baptist theology and practice. I owe a lot of who I am to that upbringing, but I also recognize that much of who I am comes from the steps I’ve made outside of that bubble. And I was given the freedom to take those first steps by Rich Mullins. The stuff he wrote and sang about from 1991 to 1995 — the end of my high school years and beginning of my college years — set me on a path toward re-understanding a lot of theology. It wasn’t until he started talking about this book by a guy named Brennan Manning, a Catholic writer none of my friends had ever heard of, that a little book called The Ragamuffin Gospel became the Blue Like Jazz of the mid 90s. I devoured The Ragamuffin Gospel. I started reading all of Manning’s other books. Then I started reading all the authors — Henri Nouwen and Frederick Buechner and Thomas Merton and Flannery O’Connor and G.K. Chesterton and Bonhoeffer and Moltmann — that Manning listed in his footnotes. And when a sheltered Southern Baptist boy starts reading Catholics and Anglicans and other suspicious thinkers, the Gospel gets a whole lot bigger. When Rich Mullins described listening to a cassette of Brennan Manning speaking about grace, he told of having to stop his pickup truck, pull to the side of the road, and weep. That hooked me, and it set my feet on a path I’m still on today. (Always rebellious and controversial, Rich ended up converting to Catholicism before his death, by the way.)
6) Rich was messy. It was generally suppressed (for our safety, I suppose) while he was alive, but after Rich’s death we began to learn that he had a fondness for cigarettes, light beer, and the occasional dirty word. This sort of behavior is, perhaps, more readily accepted among CCM artists in 2007, but back in the mid-90s, we needed to be protected from the less wholesome activities of the guy who wrote “Awesome God.” So no one ever talked about it. But there were always rumors, and Rich Mullins was as human as people get. That’s always good to know.
Rich Mullins asked hard questions and didn’t always offer answers. He rebelled against the establishment. He was a quiet, humble prophet in a culture of screaming TV preachers and Christian musicians wearing glittery jumpsuits. He refused to clean up his act — or his wardrobe — for record labels. He wrote songs about the color green, preferring to record offbeat music with densely metaphorical lyrics played by a Ragamuffin Band of unkempt, scruffy, outcast musicians rather than release a polished, radio-friendly pop song. He made lots of money but never saw it. He loved Saint Francis of Assisi and “Adagio for Strings” by Samuel Barber. He grew up Quaker. He drove an old pickup truck and taught himself to play the cello. He talked of grace as often as possible. We were strangers, but I feel like we were companions during a very formative time in my life. I never met him, but he influenced me more than just about any other non-relative I can think of.
Thank you, Rich. You left us too soon. We’ve missed you. You suck, by the way, for not wearing a seatbelt.
Say “hi” to Francis for us.
so the day came yesterday. shane and shane released their first album in like 2 years i think. it is entitled “Pages”. i have been waiting on this ever since they lead worship at YEC. this cd is a must buy. do yourself a favor and go buy it and listen to it over and over again. its been going non-stop since yesterday pretty much.
on another note, andrew peterson is bringing his “behold the lamb of god tour” to sugarland on november 30th. i went to see this show last year. it is soooo good. some of the best music telling the christmas story EVER! they tell the entire story in an approximate 45 minute concert. non-stop music. its like you are sitting around a campfire with a sanctuary full of people hearing the old, old story of christs birth. it is simply amazing.
as far as my new segment, i am going to start doing a “why in the world?” segment. this is basically going to come from stuff i see on the news that i think is simply silly, or something i read online that is silly. after this entry im sure you will understand the point of the segment. so here is this entry’s “why in the world?”
real estate billionaire leona helmsley just died and in her will left her dog $12 million in a trust fund! she has 4 grandchildren, and 2 of them were included in the will, but the other 2 were completely left out of the will. and her dog gets $12 million? why in the world…
my dearest blog readers, let me intoduce you to blindside. they have been around for awhile (i thought i would mention that because MTV is just now discovering mutemath. c’mon MTV, i thought you were supposed to know about music). they have released 6 cd’s i believe. and earlier today i rediscovered my love for these guys. i got to meet them a couple years ago while they were on tour with POD. so genuine.
the below is a section of lyrics from their song “about a burning fire”. i suggest buying their cd’s, but only if you like rock and freakin’ roll.
“Love is destructive
For the ego
And Your voice is the only thing
That speaks rebelliously in this world of claiming your own
There is no peace outside if there’’s nothing within
Love is addictive
For the spirit
And Your voice whispers with a roar
That fire rises up, refills
Place the right king on the throne”
i love the fact that these guys write honestly great lyrics and amazing music. plus they are from sweden. long live the swedes!!!
