it is not about the music

About Me

Right now, i'm recovering from the financial blow given me by Lindenwood, where I was pursuing a degree in Christian Ministry Studies. Eventually, I will be full-time somewheres. I don't know what I'll end up majoring in or what I want to do. I don't have pets, but my sister has a dog. I play guitar, and I try to play djembe, mandolin, and appalachian dulcimer. I hope to play cello and/or violin. Right now, I lead worship for Upper Room Community, my church home in st. charles. We meet at Jon's house, who also works at the wonderful Picasso's coffee house. Um, I check my email obsessively. I LOVE music. I really can't get enough of it which becomes a problem after a while. I used to write, but now I just read because writing is hard. I write some songs occasionally. I am bad at getting homework done but i like lectures. I miss all my friends and they do not live close, which sucks a lot. I work in a deli, which includes frying chicken, sweeping and mopping, slicing meats and cheeses, and dealing with impatient and picky people. but my workmates are fun and we get to listen to our own music, which is good and bad, depending on who's doing the picking. I like handmade things. I'm very interested in all kinds of folk music. I can only sing sometimes and every time i'm crazy nervous about it. My beard is cool and people tell me that all the time, so that makes me happy. music makes me happy. God makes me happy. Friends make me happy. Cookies, icecream, brownies, and chocolate milk make me happy. Playing fun games makes me happy. Concerts make me happy. I like semi-plain clothes that are what i like, not what i'm told to like (for the most part). although right now I'm wearing jeans I don't care for, but they are incredibly comfortable so they're hard to resist. I'm indecisive and infamous for that. ask any friend i have. I used to read comic books, and when I got a job, I started buying them again, but that's died out. I am a dork. I say that all the time and I'm comfortable with it, mostly because most of the people I'm around are also dorks. I have two cool sisters who I talk with quite often and that makes me happy. I like camping and hiking, but don't do either much. I like to fish when i catch stuff. I like weather and trees. PEACE

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My Interests

acoustic instruments, music in general, other cultures, trees, reading, teas, theology stuff, brownies, pottery (not making it, though), hearing stories.
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I'd like to meet:

Willie Nelson; ben pasley; don miller; nice people

Music:

madison greene, iron and wine, nick drake, counting crows, mewithoutYou, Psalters, Josh Garrels, aerosmith, creedence clearwater revival, pink floyd, kings of leon, THE REFRESHMENTS, damien rice, nina simone, blindside, bob marley, TripStar, the postal service, brand new, straylight run, ben harper, the decemberists, TOM PETTY!!!!, johnny frickin cash, david gray, jim croce, tilly and the wall, bush, the wailin' jennys, the get up kids, mineral, waterdeep, gypsy kings, lullaby for the working class, dispatch, bright eyes, three dog night, park ave., the rentals, weezer when they were cool, the anniversary, mates of state, rich mullins, the lemonheads, blind melon, and much more.

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Movies:

I watch a lot of movies. Perhaps too many. I've seen too many recently to decide how much I like them. These are some of my favorites. Braveheart; Lawn Dogs; Empire Records; The Breakfast Club; Interview with the Vampire; The Princess Bride; the Woodstock movie; Mel Brooks' stuff; Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory; old-school Planet of the Apes (i even read the book); Hitchcock's stuff; The Adventures of Milo and Otis; nooma

Television:

I don't watch tv anymore (practically) but this is what I did watch: Law & Order (the original); Star Trek the next generation; X-Files; Myth Busters; random stuff on PBS, Discovery Channel, and TLC; Thundercats; the old-school X-Men cartoon (best cartoon ever made); Family Guy; Highlander; Cowboy Bebop; Whose Line is it Anyway?; Bobby's World; Invader Zim; 12oz. Mouse; King of Queens

Books:

any and everything by Don Miller, C. S. Lewis, and Rob Bell; tuesdays with morrie; used to like Anne Rice (interview with the vampire is still one of my favorite books); "Enter the Worship Circle" by Ben Pasley (freakin awesome); poet Saul Williams (his first book only "she"); Astonishing X-Men is pretty good, too. Right now I'm reading "The Trumpet of Conscience" by Martin Luther King, Jr.

Heroes:

Beast, my friend Bill, talented and disciplined musicians, people who go places, people with good stories and good story-telling skills

My Blog

music, friends, and gardens

hey there friends. I have recently joined in a musical project with some friends of mine. We're called Holy!Holy!Holy! It's a mixture of folk, bluegrass, tribal, gypsy, and spoken poetry. It's als...
Posted by it is not about the music on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:49:00 PST

brothers and sisters

Jesus said: I tell you the truth, no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this p...
Posted by it is not about the music on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 09:15:00 PST

adama

The other night, my church watched a video called "Breathe", put out by a company called Nooma. They make short videos of biblical teaching, and they're done very artistically. So far, the...
Posted by it is not about the music on Sat, 22 Sep 2007 10:04:00 PST

called

So at church we talked about the Kingdom of Heaven, which I have a feeling we will be exploring for a long time. It is not a simple concept, and yet its manifestation can be almost invisibly sim...
Posted by it is not about the music on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:44:00 PST

talents

I never understood the following parable until last night at church. I always felt that it showed greediness, or a love for money, or a goodness in getting more money. It doesn't. Bu...
Posted by it is not about the music on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 12:29:00 PST

a sunday

This story has an exciting ending, so if you get bored, skip to that. This past Sunday I had planned to help my friend Nathan lead worship at his church in Illinois. I've known Nathan for a few ...
Posted by it is not about the music on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 07:34:00 PST

homeless

"To this very hour we go hungry and thirsty, we are in rags, we are brutally treated, we are homeless...We have become the scum of the earth, the refuse of the world" I dislike the phrase, "God wants ...
Posted by it is not about the music on Fri, 31 Aug 2007 08:18:00 PST

coffee shop visit

The following blog was written yesterday in more or less the present tense: So I am at a coffee shop I do not frequent for several reasons: 1) It is early afternoon and I feel my energy waining; 2) I ...
Posted by it is not about the music on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:33:00 PST

home again

I went to Chicago again. On monday and tuesday (23 and 24 of july). I was originally supposed to go on a float trip with my friend Liz and a youth group. That go cancelled, so Liz de...
Posted by it is not about the music on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 08:46:00 PST

A note about my new name, "it is not about the music". I came to realize this recently, mostly through talks with my friend and ex-bandmate Nathan. The idea is as follows: Anytime I've bee...
Posted by it is not about the music on Thu, 05 Jul 2007 08:23:00 PST