eagle vs. shark

so i got this movie night, this saturday night in my dorm. i'm showing eagle vs. shark on a projector screen dealie. it looks pretty good. here's the trailer.

long talks and whiskey rock

the moon is setting on 2 am.
i'm still up.
being back on campus is invigorating. but i need to remember to sleep. my stuff is all moved into my room, i still have to arrange it... but at least i've got my music stuff squared away.

i'm excited for residents moving in within the next few days. there are a few people from my hall that i can't wait to hang out with, and the rest, i'm just glad we're all going to be under the same roof again.

my two frat boys on the hall are finally done with pledging, and can hopefully enjoy a more academically profitable semester, now that they're not required to be out all hours of the night. toward the last few weeks of last semester i was really praying for one of them, both really, but one in particular was having a much harder time of it. but i knew he wanted to stick it out. and he was going to. and as much as i'm not a huge supporter of frats, all i could do was encourage him, and let him know i had his back trying to finish up. as long as he didn't do anything against dorm policy in our building of course.

i'm excited for the return of our building musicians. there are a lot of people here who are musically gifted. we're definitely going to have an all-building open mic sometime this semester. i'm sure of it. i was hoping for one last semester, but now that we're all acquainted and generally comfortable with each other, i see this as being a great environment to foster artistic creativity. please pray for this to be a success. i'd love for musicians to see it as an opportunity to showcase their gifts, and maybe show up to origins to play a set every now and again and maybe get a taste of why living for Jesus is the best way to live.

i'm really excited for this semester. i think God's really at work. i think he's strengthening friendships, and repairing broken ties with people. i feel alive.

thanks for finishing. i know it was long. long talks. and whiskey rock.

the time has come

and so i'm back to school.
it's not all that bad though.
i got to jam on guitar with a friend of mine who plays saxophone, and that was a lot of fun... we basically comped on some dave matthews band riffs... it was pretty sweet. he's a great sax player. we may end up doing an open mic together sometime in the future... if we host one here in my dorm. it'll be fun.

anyways, being back in the dorm is good, but i'm lacking the motivation to set stuff up in here. i've got all my stuff moved in, but at this point, i'm content with everything being in shambles behind me, while i sit on my laptop and pad out stories. or spend my time in the RA office playing guitar for upwards of 3 hours. it's a lot of fun. acoustic guitar has its benefits, as does electric guitar. the more i get into electric, the more i like acoustic, and vice versa. i've noticed that i still can't get open chords to sound at all decent on the electric. maybe i'm doing something wrong, or maybe it's just not meant to be. i've been playing less open chords on the acoustic recently as well.

as if you all know what open chords are.

haha.

i think i'm going to start setting up my real computer now...

staff meeting for semester scheduling at 7
muse at 9

out.

love wins

this job that i took on again is so draining... sometimes i don't know why i commit to things that i know won't be fun. i didn't even go in on the first day when i was supposed to. and i didn't even call saying i wasn't going in. i hate confrontation sometimes.

i woke up that morning and fell back asleep cuz i didn't feel well, upon waking up at noon, i realized my stepdad was out shoveling. meaning he was home from work. meaning he was home because he was sick. since he was sick for the majority of the weekend. meaning that i needed to shovel. well, i didn't need to, he could do it. but i needed to. so i told him to come inside, get some tea, i'd grab a quick breakfast and get to shoveling. my car was plowed into our driveway. it took me 2 hours to shovel it. then i took a shower.

at first i put off calling out of work. then i just forgot about it. i hate confrontation sometimes. i also hate parties sometimes. i like parties with really loud personalities. that way i can bounce off of them. tonight there weren't many loud personalities... last night there were. while tonight was a lot of fun, i think last night's was more fun... more loudness, more loud music... less uncomfortable. less silence. though, i love these people. i love both groups, i tend to have more fun with the group from last night. maybe i'll get better at this whole people thing.

i dunno, i think i'm in a kind of dreary mood right now. i have no reason to be. other than being tired. but i'm only up so i can call adrienne and make sure she got home okay. i wish i could drive her home every night. i wish she lived close enough for me to be able to do that.

now it's bed time. but i have comfort in the fact that God is here. and tomorrow i'm leaving work early to go hang out with adrienne in a cute little coffee shop somewhere. and maybe swing dance.

love wins. i'm sure of it.

rhud dieland

newpawt toyoter.

yummy



i love this commercial. it's hilarious.

guitar. and job.

so i bought the guitar a few days ago. it's awesome. it sings like a ... guitar? it's crazy though, it feels like it's got its own voice. so exciting. i love it. creamy beige. maple neck. delicious. my first guitar lesson is at 2:30 pm today. i'm excited. it'll be fun. :)

yay.

also. i worked at a sail loft this past summer. not the most thrilling job, but it's only a week, and it'll be some moneys. it's not so bad. :) yay.

that's a large part about what's been going down in the past few days. had worship team practice tonight, it was a blast. i love those people, they're so much fun.

sunday's gonna be interesting though, waking up at 7 in the morning to be at the church for 7:30's gonna be no cakewalk. we'll do it. cash has us doing some blues. he's such a hoot. loves it.

anyways, all you need is love. that's what i think. sometimes.

it's 2. time for bed. i keep saying, "this is the last episode of fresh prince i'm gonna watch tonight" and it ends up being one more. and another. and another.

more covers should be coming sometime during the semester. i wanna learn how to play this guitar a little better before i'm doing new stuff with it. :) we'll see improvement. i hope.

anyways, gnite.

i'll try to blog with a higher frequency than i have been. it seems like the whole blog circle has been slacking recently, the olsons think the same thing. maybe we'll get going again. mook has been pretty frequent.

i like this picture

i've been learning guitar

i've been learning guitar.
i'm still playing drums.
i find so much enjoyment in music, i can't really express it. i'm somewhat of a music snob in a lot of ways, but not, compared so some people. the things i write and play are extremely simple, but i still enjoy doing it nonetheless. i will get better. one day i'll be able to pick up a guitar or sit down at the drums and really be able to play. :) it's exciting to think about.

i got some money for christmas... and tomorrow i think i'm gonna go buy an electric guitar and an amp. a cable. a stand. a strap. a case. ugh. i hate all the added expenses with this. i wish my acoustic was able to do everything i want to do on guitar. blech.

maybe i'll put off getting it for a little while more... learn some more basics on the acoustic and save up more moneys.

who knows?

sadness

i'm still watching tv. kid rock looks sad. like he's about to cry. it's... weird. anyways, bed.

yummy posts

so i haven't posted in awhile. it's not that i've been unmotivated to write, or anything of that nature. it's just that my interests have been so focused in other directions. i've been spending a lot of time with people that i haven't seen in awhile recently and it feels really good. right now i'm watching conan obrien... kid rock os on there promo-ing his new album. his voice is dying. maybe it was always done. his new track is more... "kinda christian" it's... different.

i find that a lot of musicians are tapping into the reality of how things are. maybe they've always done this, and i haven't realized it. but i doubt it... the 90's were pretty... unreal. maybe jagged little pill was the only "real" album. but i'm just kidding, there was some standout music, but... i missed it. i was into nsync, backstreet boys, dmx, aliah, 3 doors down... you know... pop music. but yea, anywhos.

i'm finding that i really don't have anything to write about right now. i've been journaling a lot outside of the blog.... and i've seen a ton of movies lately. a lot of movies. i was across the universe. finally. it was really good, although some scenes weren't done right in my view, but a lot of the music was extraordinarily well done. some of it, especially bono's part was meh. i always expect more from bono since u2 is so amazing, but every time i hear him when he does anything that's not u2... i'm disappointed. he looked especially like robin williams in the movie.

anyways, i think i'm going to bed. i feel tired.d.d.

thief

i was listening to this song the other day, and meditating on the perspective it posed. the lyrics are sweet. the version that third day does is really powerful, and while i can't pretend to come close to the sheer magnitude of their performance, i felt the need to do something different with it. this also took me about 4 hours total to finish, but i did it in separate sessions. it's the first one that i actually played drums for, and i realized that my playing style on drums doesn't mesh well with how i want to play guitar, so i had to sorta piecemeal some stuff... it came out okay i think. let me know how you feel.

I am a thief, I am a murderer
Walking up this lonely hill
What have I done? I don't remember
No one knows just how I feel
and I know that my time is coming soon.
It's been so long. Oh, such a long time
Since I've lived with peace and rest
Now I am here, my destination
guess things work for the best
and I know that my time is coming soon
Who is this man? This man beside me

They call the King of the Jews
They don't believe that He's the Messiah
But, somehow I know it's true.
And they laugh at Him in mockery,
and beat Him till he bleeds
They nail Him to the rugged cross,
and raise Him, they raise Him up next to me
My time has come, I'm slowly fading
I deserve what I receive

Jesus when You are in Your kingdom
Could You please remember me
and He looks at me still holding on
the tears fall from His eyes
He says I tell the truth
Today, you will live with Me in paradise
and I know that my time is coming soon
and I know paradise is coming soon.

must get out

so it's been forever since my last post. and it feels like forever since i finished this. i did it right after i finished ironic. this one only took me about 3 hours to lay down all the tracks and finish it. most of the percussion done is actually a plastic cup.

i apologize ahead of time, some stuff in this is off, but overall it's decent. i'm a big fan of the ryan adam's style... one time through and it's done, regardless of whether or not it's perfect. although, he gets it all pretty perfect, cuz he's amazing. anyways, maybe with practice i'll be... an eighth as good... on drums.

oh yea, happy new year. and merry christmas. here's the song.