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Lesli

It's not just a daydream if you decide to make it your life.

About Me


Let's see... I'm a musician. That probably tells you all you need to know. Distracted, overly sensitive, obsessively perfectionistic, dorky and random sense of humor, generally preoccupied with cool shoes or an awesome hat. Live on Starbucks and whatever song happens to be stuck in my head.
I go to this awesome church in Oxford, Al called Word Alive International Outreach which, I can say with utmost certainty, has the coolest people in the world. I'm there whenever I can afford the gas to get there. I pretty much love 'em. Yeah, definitely.
So that's what I'm about. Jesus and Rock and Roll, preferably in the same sentence. And school when I must. You know how it is.<
Just a little plug for Brian Whalen, the guy who actually owns Lucy the American bulldog. Since I'm using a picture of her and all, I feel it's only fair. Check out his site, buy his CD. He's a pretty cool guy.
And Ramey (his other half) finally got her Myspace up and running so check it out and uh.... Yeah. Buy her CD too. (By the way, her pictures from the Call: Nashville? I took those.)
All of my other musician friends (the ones I haven't extorted for pictures of their awesome dog) are all on my top friends. They're all incredible and most of them have CD's.

These are the videos of The Selah Project at The Call Nashville. The top one is Ramey singing "Praises Rise"; the lower one is Brian singing "Be Praised."
This one is John Mark McMillan's "He Loves Us." He tells the story behind the song at the beginning-- don't skip it! This guy is incredible, and the song is, in my professional opinion, one of the most powerful worship songs ever written.

My Interests

Getting as close as I can to Jesus Christ.
Avoiding boredom.
Surviving each day.
(In that order.)

I'd like to meet:

I love meeting these incredible unknown Jesus Freak musicians who pour everything into their music. They don't win GMA awards and they usually don't make enough from a set to break even with the gas money to get there, but they are the coolest people you could ever hang out with. I'd like to meet every one that's out there if I could.

Music:

Right now I'm kind of binging on the new death Cab for Cutie CD. And I've also rediscovered Ben Folds.
And....Train, John Mark McMillan, everyone in The Selah Project, Harry Connick, Jr., Better Than Ezra, John Mayer, dc Talk, U2, Goo Goo Dolls, little bit of Paul McCartney, dash of Elton John, plenty of The Eagles. How's that for starters?

Movies:

There have been like a thousand movies that have come out in a freakin week. I liked The Happening, loved Iron Man and Indiana Jones, thought Wanted sucked and Hancock was okay, a little disappointing.
And then the others. Ocean's 11, The Blues Brothers, The Empire Strikes Back, Tombstone, The Road to El Dorado, The Princess Bride, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Neverending Story

Television:

I seriously never watch TV anymore. I just don't. Sometimes less than an hour a week.But...I love Man vs. Wild and Mythbusters, Seinfeld and MASH, the Food Network, Whose Line, CSI Vegas. Also, here recently I've managed to catch a few episodes of The Office, which I've discovered I love.

Books:

Still on the Harry Potter books. Just finished the Goblet of Fire. Yeah, yeah, John. You never look at Myspace anyway.
Firebird by Kathy Tyers (very obscure, but my favorite book in the world)
Blink by Ted Dekkar
Mere Christianity by C.S.Lewis
Facing the Wall by Don Potter
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
And of course the Bible. Duh.

Heroes:

Jesus
...and Bill Byrd.

And Holly Smith just rocks. See, look.

My Blog

The Stupidly Obvious Principle of Change

Okay, so I have this friend who has lost something in the neighborhood of 120 pounds since like last summer. Richard, our Media Director at WAIO.If he or Holly ever finds this blog, they'll never stop...
Posted by Lesli on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 02:31:00 PST

I hate...

When people call me "kid".I'm a freakin adult. I support myself, I work a job, I'm taking 15 hours, work three days a week at church, and still find time to sleep. The fact that I don't swear, party, ...
Posted by Lesli on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:00:00 PST

Snowboarding Video

Check it out! It's my first try at video editing! It's from some video clips my Aunt Stacy made of me and Ty snowboarding in North Carolina, edited with Mac iMovie. Special thanks to Charlie, my lapto...
Posted by Lesli on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:08:00 PST