October 6th, 2011 | filed under:Personal | tags:music |
It has been an exciting thing watching my brother Christian go from learning his first chords on the guitar to picking up every instrument he can lay his hands on to producing music. While he has always had somewhat of a knack for music, it’s been over the past couple years that it has turned into a real pursuit. This is a funny thing to me, but it wasn’t until after Christian started learning guitar that I realized that he has an awesome voice. He’s a talented guy.
Full disclosure: I’m a big fan of this guy and he’s my brother. So anything I say could be biased. ;) But still–I think he makes great music.
Christian’s first hit EP, The Awkward Introduction (still free for download) – Christian’s first band name was Anonymous, but he more recently opted to real name. I guess the other one wasn’t a distinguishable name.
If you love it, buy it. You can even download it first and buy it later. :-)
April 8th, 2010 | filed under:Personal, photo | tags:music, ptp |
About a week ago PTP voted in four new beaux. About this time last year I was all giddy with excitement and anxious for what the future would bring. This time around was still really exciting, but instead of having a mob attack me, I was the mob, although I played the role of grandma and tagged along towards the back trying to get some video. It’s just a lot of fun running around campus with 100 people.
Some frames from the videos I took. Might make a video one day.
Now, some stuff about my year as a beau. It’s been a good time. There’s been the ups and downs, but all in all it’s been a blessing. :)
It’s sometimes a lot of work to be a beau, especially if you can edit/film videos and take pictures. ;) Editing and organizing the making of videos can also be a lot of work. I learned to freak out less about it now, but I’ve spent up to 10 hours messing around on a single beau video. The cost of being a perfectionist.
There are many different ideas about what your role as a beau is, but it’s definitely takes a lot of commitment.
I had pretty high aspirations about integrating Christ into more conversations, but for the most part this has been unsuccessful. This has to do with everyone in general, but also ptp.
March 3rd, 2010 | filed under:Personal | tags:favorites, music |
I’ve been scavenging for songs to download, and then got sidetracked all over the place–
Before I get into that, here is a quote that I found / like, that happens to do with nothing else in this post.
found via: Bethany Kay
Edit: Once upon a time (yesterday), there was this deal where you could get 60 free songs from napster. This deal became known to the likes of slickdeals.net (a deal site), and the hoards and masses began to sign up and download like crazy. The napster staff soon caught on and ended the deal. Sadly I didn’t move very fast, and only got 3 songs. Oh well.
Here are some of my favorite bands / current favorite songs: (click to listen)
Flame (christian rap) - See More Him. I also made a picture centered around this song about two years ago here. I forgot that I had this blog for almost two years…hmm.
Lecrae (christian rap–has been pretty influential to me, this song especially) – Praying for You. This song is super powerful.
Fernando Ortega (christian adult contemporary) - Give Me Jesus. There are many other great songs that he does, but I like this one especially.
Sufjan Stevens (adult contemporary) has a sad song that I like - Sister - also Chicago is a classic, along with Lord God Bird (mentions Arkansas…whee) and Concerning the UFO Landing… (which I know I’ve probably listened to like 50 times in a row before, still like it too).
Those are the songs that are on the top of my head now. I listen to a lot of music, and some of my other favorites are Tree 63, Leeland, Seven Places, LaRue, Glassbyrd, Switchfoot, Chris Rice, Chris Tomlin, Copeland, Owl City, Jars of Clay, Justin Unger(!), Newsboys, dc Talk, Nickel Creek, oh and Christian Yoder ;), all in no particular order, plus many many others.
These are some of my favorites, what are some of yours?
March 2nd, 2010 | filed under:muzing, Personal, photo | tags:hike, light painting, music |
It’s Tuesday. It’s been a pretty chill day for me. I’m still a tad sick (mainly congested), but it isn’t too miserable. I had the last class of racquetball before tennis starts up after spring break (it’s just a 2-hour a week activity class). I like racquetball a lot, and hopefully I’ll get around to playing it some more. It’s fun.
I could go to the nurse and get excused for my other class, but I kinda don’t feel like it. ;-) I don’t have anything too specific to write about this time, but here are a few random things that are on my mind:
One Day, by Matisyahu, great song.
I’m kinda thinking of making a video to this song. I have a few ideas. I also never really make videos, so we’ll see where that goes.
Here’s another video that I discovered today. It’s from the superbowl, and I think it’s pretty great. It was also done in one take, which is amazing (take 57 on day 3). The bathroom was a built container that was raised with a crane, the boat was also a set (it was actually just half a boat), then the ex-NFL player actor sad onto some sliding/roller type thing which slid him onto the horse. Very few digital elements. It’s pretty mind-boggling to me. :)
