Currently Listening Peregrine By The Appleseed Cast sunlit and ascending see related

2007

Is it too late to recap 2007?

…who cares? My absence from the whole “blog community” ensures this will be read by few if any. I guess I just miss writing. Sometimes life is too much to handle for words. ..all the good, bad and ugly.

1.) So around this time last year, there I was…nearing the age of 25…about to move to Centerville with 3 guys in similar life situations. A change of scenery for the first time in 18 years...yes, I intended to spend many years as a happy bachelor, free to roam…to come and go as I please.

So how’s that going? Short answer----Saturday I’m going to marry a girl who I haven’t even known for a year. Way to stick to the plan there, chad o. when someone gives their life to Christ, their life is no longer their own (as scripture says it was “bought at a price”). I’m finding that my life will become even less my own upon marriage (children may likely be the 3^rd degree of this). “Free Bird” is no longer an eligible anthem for me (sorry skynard).

Mourning my soon to be lost singleness? Heck yes I am!!! No more coming home at 2am from just goofing off with friends, no more buying random musical instrument just because I could, no more risking injury by climbing stuff without proper harnesses, no more tossing and turning in bed without disturbing the person next to me. Is this natural? Does it matter?

Ok…now to ease the minds of those thinking, “oh, he’s got cold feet.” Paridoxally (not a word)…I actually can’t wait to get married. Yes, there are sacrifices and the certainty of hardships never imagined, but I have a hard time believing that people would be getting married for thousands of years if it were only torture. Yeah, sometimes Hunter drives me to the point of wanting to repeatedly hit a metal pipe with a wrench (search Jim Bruer standup comedy)…irregardless (again, not a word)….i’m crazy about her…and can’t imagine life without her. I trust that if we submit to God, all the time of conflict will never darken the moments we will shine together.

Am I ready to grow up and accept adulthood and domestic responsibility?...not sure that any guy ever is (if you are, I kinda feel sorry for you…because you’re most likely a nerd). But hey…we’re not running short on positives either. I get to live with my best friend (no more going home at night), I get to be around someone who never fails to remind me of how ridiculously good looking I am, i’ll be in an environment that encourages spiritual growth (by painfully exposing my own selfishness), have someone to enjoy vacations, holidays and sunsets with, to see jesus in someone and to be jesus to someone. I love you.

2.) dear mother, you are amazing. Chemotherapy has never had the reputation of being fun or easy, but whenever I see you…you’re just Mom. Same as you always are. You share the burden of our wedding preparations when you would be justified in thinking of your own life’s concerns. You love your grandson with time and energy as you loved me. In spite of natural initial fears, you continue to conquer this thing with grace and dignity.

Ok…now for more shallow business….Best Ofs.

Best movie I saw in a theater in 2007……………………. Into the Wild

Best movie I rented in 2007…………………………………..Stardust

Best album I bought in 2007………………………………..The Four Trees by Caspian

*Honorable mention……………………………………………All of the sudden I miss everyone by Explosions in the Sky

Best vegetable of 2007…………………………………..Sweet potato

Best tattoo of 2007…………………………………………jon wasson’s ship/ocean shoulder cap

Best UFC fighter of 2007……………………………………..Roger Huerta

Best list of 2007…………………………………………………………this one

…..bye

Currently Listening O By Damien Rice Delicate see related

Movie Idea

so i've come up with a pretty good movie idea...

so i'm really into epic battle movies...like Braveheart

....even better are those movies where the good guys are heavily out numbered...like Braveheart.

...and whenever people make movies from biblical text the result is usually terrible.

...But my idea is to take the text from the book of Judges chapters 6-7 and bring it to the big screen......the story of Gideon...you know..the guy who took and army of 30,000 that was later condensed to a much smaller number (to be discussed later) against the much larger army of Midianites, Amelakites and other Eastern groups who "covered the ground like locusts" and whose "camels numbered like the sands of the seashore"

...the specifics are as follows:

* film the whole thing in front of a blue screen...and the everything (especially the sky) should have a goldish tint to it and lots of dark colors.

* the Midianite leaders Oreb and Zeeb will be over 8 feet tall and effeminate.

*Gideon and his army will wear red capes and be insanely muscular

*the Midianites will have a big ogre fighting for them...and a big weird thing with lobster claws doing executions.

*lots of slow motion

*and because of the final number of Gideon's army before the battle...this movie shall be called.......

.....................300.............

.....yeah...i know you're blown away at the originality of this future film.

i'm gonna advertise it to death on myspace.

...wait..does this sound familiar?......nah....nevermind.

Currently Listening You Are the Conductor By Caspian last rites see related

...i drove home that night unable to shake the thought of the ghost with a scarlett ribbon for a sleeve...

...hoping to be haunted again...and having no idea what my own ideas were...

..."hello stranger....have i a hope to touch you and find you flesh and blood? if i touch you will you feel it?"...

...can you see me?...

...and now... i can't remember doing anything to put myself right here....

....with my toes at the edge of the high dive...my back to the pool...

.........waiting to hear and know that there is water and not emptiness below....

.....i think i just heard a splash...

...5...4...3...2......................................................................................................................................................

Currently Listening Comfort of Strangers By Beth Orton pieces of sky see related

newness....

i turned 25 (it's the new 30)

i moved to centerville...

and got plastic surgery

...one of these is not true...

....end...

Currently Listening In the Reins By Iron & Wine, Calexico he lays in the reins see related

2006 recap...

...said goodbye to an emotionally difficult 2005 hoping for a better year...not sure that '06 was any better...but fortunately i can now see how much my own perspective and attitude dictates some of that and i look with hope of sort of a rebirth in 2007.

...last january i auditioned and received a spot on the Apex worship team...this has given me the opportunity to a.)worship God with my abilities, b.) develop as a musician and c.) serve and share life with an amazing group of people.

....went to mexico for a 3rd time realizing it's never the same old adventure...

....made new friends...

...lost friends...

....cooked more.....

.............went to maine and had one of the best weeks of my life; enjoyed good food, soul stirring music, colorful autumn scenery, thoughtful conversation...and friends.

....told God He is an indifferent bully who doesn't listen to the cries of His children

...fell facedown realizing i was wrong and that i have no idea what's going on.

.........favorite show in '06 =the office, favorite movie i saw in '06 = Lucky Number Sleven (viewer discresion advised) , favorite album discovered in '06= Young Mountain by This Will Destroy You, favorite new entertainment =the UFC,

...2006 was a year when things didn't go the way i had hoped...i was often frustrated, hurt and at times disobedient....but i look back and realize through all the junk...i'm a lucky guy

.............oh yeah ....i became an uncle (of a tank)