So far this tour has been awesome. Today is the first day we have really had any kind of break. We are sitting right outside of Philly waiting to go to the next facility. Me and Greg wondered around the local mall for a while. It was just as lame as any other mall ive been to.
I’m surprised how big an impact we seem to be having on these kids lives. It’s awesome that we get to show them a better way and that God has bigger plans for them. It’s pretty clear, since they are locked up, that their plans aren’t working so well.
More to come later. Were heading to New York tomorrow. I’ll try to upload some pictures soon.
I am ready to leave for tour already! Sitting at home is lame, especially when a lot of your friends are out playing rock n roll for Jesus without you. I am glad that I decided to go with Crosswalk this summer though. Last year, i made one of the worst decisions ever and chose not to go because I thought I had other plans. Now, i know that might sound ridiculous to say it was one of the “worst decisions ever,” but since I had an opportunity to travel the entire United States, play music every day, and share the Good News with kids all across America, and i declined such an incredible opportunity for what turned out to be nothing at all, it was bad choice. LESSON LEARNED!!!!!!!! Lucky for me, (and i do seem to get screwed over a lot when it comes to this sort of stuff) Crosswalk hasn’t fallen through yet, and i dont think its going to. Hopefully this is something I can be more involved in.
Anyways, this is just a rant that was on my mind while I was sitting here working on summer school. Summer school isnt very fun incase you were wondering, but its not like I’m doing much else the next couple of weeks anyways, so I might as well get ahead.
Other than that, i’ve just been watching the Braves (who are having a mediocre season. Hoping they step it up soon!) and listening to the new Emery CD, “In Shallow Seas We Sail.” This is a must have. Aaron Sprinkle did an INCREDIBLE job producing this record. I wish bands like this could be more famous, because they certainly deserve it more than most the garbage on the radio these days. But I wont get started on that….
Are there any other good records that have come out lately? Leave a comment if theres anything else I should check out!
i havent been updating this near as much as i was supposed to be. i bought my own domain name and everything, and im still slacking. i have been way too busy with summer school.
i am super pumped to leave for tour in a couple weeks. i will definitely try to blog more during that and post pictures and what not, incase any of you are interested.
So me and some friends went fishing the other day in Jekyll Island. Its a fun place to go except for the giant death flies that try to kill you every five seconds. This fish right here was making a weird growling noise…
We ended up cutting its head off, because thats what you do to fish before you eat them. Actually, I’m about to go over to Michael and Rob Rob’s house right now to eat everything we caught! Should be good!
So my band was supposed to play this big festival next week on the 16th of May. Turns out, the entire festival was a fraud. Switchfoot was even originally on the bill, so it was supposed to be a pretty big deal. The owners of the property where it was supposed to take place were never even contacted. Check out THIS LINK for more info.
Its pretty crazy stuff. I’m bummed. I was looking forward to playing it. We dont have a lot of stuff set up this summer as of now, so hopefully that will pick up soon!
Other than that, I finished up this semester of school today. The bad news is, I’m starting summer class on Monday and I will be busy with that until I leave with CROSSWALK. I’m hoping nothing goes wrong with that!
You know that guy who always makes up stuff? Every time he says something is going to happen, it doesnt. I feel like that guy right now. This always happens to me. I told so many people my band was playing with Switchfoot, then they dropped off, then the whole festival turned out to be a scam. I feel like a loser but ITS NOT MY FAULT!!! A lot of people were scammed by this. Luckily, crosswalk happens every year so I know its legit. But since I’ve told so many people about this tour, it would be my luck for something to fall through with it. I’m just praying it everything goes smoothly! I cant wait to go with them!
so heres a video of our last show. it isnt the best quality, because the sound at this place wasnt all that great. i also look really lame, maybe partly because there wasnt a lot of room to move, and there was junk all over the floor where i was, but anyways, ill quit making excuses. just check it out!
We’re more than carbon and chemicals
We are the image of the invisible
Free will is ours and we can’t let go
We are the image of the invisible
We can’t allow this, the quiet cull
We are the image of the invisible
So we sing out this, our canticle
We are the image of the invisible
We all were lost now we are found
No one can stop us or slow us down
We are the named and we are known
We know that we’ll never walk alone
We’re more than static and dial tone
We are the image of the invisible
We’re emblematic of the unknown
We are the image of the invisible
So raise the banner, bend back your bows
We are the image of the invisible
Remove the cancer, take back your souls
We are the image of the invisible
Raise up the banner, bend back your bows
Remove the cancer, take back your souls
So last night, LYP played a show in Athens. It was a lot of fun. However, this bar was pretty crappy. It was definitely one of the smaller places I have ever played, but it didnt matter. We still rocked it out!
Before the show, we went and took some new pictures. In a few days, the pictures should be up on the band myspace. Now I wont feel like a tool when people look at our page, and wonder why I’m not on there.
I guess there wasnt much of a point in updating this right now, because I’m going to update it again with pictures and video from the show. This is my 2nd show with these guys, but its the first one where we have pictures and video. So I will be sure to share as soon as i get them.
Every time I read this, it blows my mind. This is C.S. Lewis’ response to this question:
Materialists and some astronomers suggest that the solar planetary system, and life as we know it was brought about by an accidental stellar collision. What is the Christian view of this theory?
‘If the solar system was brought about by an accidental collision, then the appearance of organic life on this planet was also an accident, and the whole evolution of Man was an accident too. If so, then all our present thoughts are mere accidents—the accidental by-product of the movement of atoms. And this holds for the thoughts of the materialists and astronomers as well as for anyone else’s. But if their thoughts—i.e. of materialism and astronomy—are merely accidental by-products, why should we believe them to be true? I see no reason for believing that one accident should be able to give me a correct account of all the other accidents. It’s like expecting that the accidental shape taken by the splash when you upset a milkjug should give you a correct account of how the jug was made and why it was upset.’
This came out of a book I have called, “God in the Dock.” It’s full of short articles that he’s written and I found this in there a while back, so I thought I would share.
So me and Ike (the world famous drummer/champion frappuchino maker) decided that we were going to go see August Burns Red last night in Augusta. Thats a pretty long haul from where I live in Atlanta, so I drove to his place in Milledgeville to meet up with him. Now, Milledgeville is a pretty long haul as well, but we had band practice the next day, (today now) so the plan was to just crash as his place, then we could head straight from there to practice. So I make the two hour drive to Milly, and met him at starbucks, where I am greeted with the most disgusting frappuchino I have ever had in my life. (There should be a picture of it to the right…) This thing had about every flavor possible in it, as well as a whole bag of whole bean coffee. The whole bean coffee was still in the bag when they put it in the blender, so this particular frappuchino was full of blended up pieces of plastic. I think i still have plastic in my mouth.
After all of that, we finally hit the road to the show. I get on my phone to look up directions and I notice something strange. On the venue’s web site, it said that the show was on April 25th, not on April 24th…. and all of this happened on April 24th…. Some how we both thought the show was on the 24th and we were both wrong. Ha!
Then we just hung out around Milledgeville which was fun, but not as fun as it should have been because we were so bummed about not getting our faces mutilated by one of the few heavy bands worth going to see. I dont like many metal bands anymore, but this band blows my mind. Check them out HERE!! In the end, we both felt really stupid.
What are some bands/singers that blow your mind? And if you read this, answer it. Dont make me look stupid by asking a question then getting zero replies. Haha!
I play guitar with Linkin Park and Jay-Z..... I'm just kidding. I play in a rock and roll band called Last Year Portrait, and I lead worship with a fella named Chris Coleman. I go to Atlanta Christian College, majoring in Music with a minor in Biblical Studies. I like the Atlanta Braves a lot. That is all.
