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Suzanne just took a new job for a French cafe that is opening in East Lansing near MSU. She is going to pretty much be running the store. It is going to be a coffee shop that specializes in crapes. So, since we just sold our Nissan, we needed to get a new car. We decided on something a tad bigger than our Nissan, but still with good gas mileage. We decided to go with the Honda CR-V. It’s pretty cool. It goes into 4X4 if the tires start to slip at all. The lady that sold it to us came down on the price and after we agreed to buy it, she said “I forgot to tell you about a chip on the windshield, we are going to get it fixed before you pick it up.” So they did and then we got there to pick it up and they had just done an oil change (synthetic) and filled ‘er up with a full tank of gas. Very cool people.

On a different note, I’d appreciate prayers for my dad. He is getting a biopsy today. Thanks.

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Jaden on Dad’s shoulder, originally uploaded by groovingdan.

Thanks to Travis for this pic.

Just got back from Thanksgiving at my parents in Akron. It was a good time. I wish they lived here, yeah, I know, we are the ones who left. Anyway, Jaden was sick with a fever and runny nose, so he didn’t really sleep. Which means that we (especially the ever self-sacrificing Suzanne) didn’t sleep much either. Well I’m going to try to get a nap in before church tonight.

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Well Sunday we finished recording. It’s actually pretty hard to sing perfectly the whole way through the song, with no tiny bit of glitch in your voice. We got it down, to where the engineer should be able to work with it. Hopefully it will turn out well. Recording shows how much you suck.

This saturday we are going to have Jeremy S. play keyboards with us and we are going to cover “Superstition” which is a cool song. Hopefully I’ll have enough soul.

Suzanne is probably going to talk a job as store manager of of French Cafe in East Lansing. She will only have to work mornings and should be back at the house by 12:30 everyday. So I’ll be watching Jaden on Monday and Wednesday mornings and Tricia will watch him on Tuesday and Thursdays. Hope this works out well for us. This means, of course that we will have to buy another car. Probably a Honda CR-V.

Off to Akron to see the family tomorrow. We are having a huge family gathering on Thursday, fasten your seatbelts…

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Here is an interview with Jeff Tweedy of Wilco in Wired Magazine talking about intellectual property rights.

“Tweedy: A piece of art is not a loaf of bread. When someone steals a loaf of bread from the store, that’s it. The loaf of bread is gone. When someone downloads a piece of music, it’s just data until the listener puts that music back together with their own ears, their mind, their subjective experience. How they perceive your work changes your work.Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator. People who look at music as commerce don’t understand that. They are talking about pieces of plastic they want to sell, packages of intellectual property.
I’m not interested in selling pieces of plastic. ”

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Reading about community in Mark Driscoll’s book.

“…This new community of transformed people, called the church, should be patterned after the one true God, who eternally exists as a Trinitarian community of Father, Son and Spirit. God made men and women in his image and likeness, which means, in part, that we too were made for friendships and community. It explains why God told our father Adam that it was not good for him to be alone, though both he and his environment were perfect…we have all been born into a world in which we long for gracious, joyous, and endless friendship and community but find this longing unsatisfied because of the sin that separates us from friendship wiht God and one another…

…In his book Bowling Alone, Harvard professor Robert Putnam explains this phenonmenon by showing that our world is arranged by various sorts of capital… Social Capital includes the friends, acquaintances, coworkers, family members and other relationships that form a web of trust and reciprocity…basically this means that I do something nice to help you because we ahve some type of relationship, with the understanding that, later on, you will help me when I need it, because I’ve made a deposit into our invisible social-capital account…”

He then goes on to say how this Social Capital based community is declining.

“The decline in our nation’s social capital inevitably reduces all of life to a transaction-based culture in which the only way you can get anyone to help you is to pay them. So if you are lonely and want someone to speak to, you may have to pay a counselor. If you can’t pick up your dry cleaning, you may have to hire a personal assistant. If you want to work out with someone, you may have to hire a personal trainer. And if you car breaks down, you may have to call a cab–rather than a neighbor–to pick you up.

Many people are lonely and lack the community gathering points in which they can make meaningful human contacts. the following statistics demonstrate this altering of our relational landscape in the past twenty-five years.
* Playing cards as a social activity is down 25%.
*Frequenting bars, nightclubs, and taverns is down 40%
*The number of full-service restaurants has decreased 25%, and the number of bars (including coffee bars) and luncheonettes has decreased 50%, but the number of fast-food outlets has increased 100%, as more people eat alone and eat more meals in their cars.
*Having a social evening with someone from one’s neighborhood is down 33%
*Attending social clubs and meetings is down 58%
*Family dinners are down 33%
*Having friends over to one’s home is down 45%
*From 1980 to 1993, participation in America’s number one participant sport, bowling, was up 10 percent, but the nujmber of bowling leagues decreased 40 percent, as more people bowled alone.
*From 1985 to 1999, the rediness of the average American to make new friends declined by nearly 33%”

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Here is an interesting post and subsuquent discussion on Tony Jones’s blog. I heard Tony speak at Soularize a few years ago (not the best workshop i’ve been in, basically encouraging us to light candles and read liturgical prayers in church services). Anyway i think the discussion is relevant to the “Late Night Radio” post.

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This is in contrast to Dr. Brown and his bloggery. The former president, Dr. Dixon allowed a bronze statue of himself to be placed near an enterance in the aptly named Dixon Ministry Center at Cedarville. No there isn’t usually a rack on his head.

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Here is the blog of the new President of Cedarville University where we attended. He’s on the opposite cultural end of the spectrum than President Dixon was. He doesn’t even mind calling out Falwell etc… It’s a decent read.

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Mike W. just pointed out that on the new U2 song “Vertigo” Bono counts 1, 2, 3, 14 in Spanish. We should be looking for quattro.

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Misunderstood

When you’re back in your old neighborhood
The cigarettes taste so good
But you’re so misunderstood
You’re so misunderstood

There’s something there that you can’t find
You look honest when you’re telling a lie
You hurt her but you don’t know why
You love her but you don’t know why

Short on long term goals
There’s a party there that we ought to go to
If you still love rock and roll
You still love rock and roll?

It’s only a quarter to three
Reflecting off of your CD
You’re looking at a picture of me
You’re staring at a picture of me

Take the guitar player for a ride
‘Cause he ain’t never been satisfied
He thinks he owes some kind of debt
It’ll be years before he gets over it

There’s a fortune inside your head
When all you touch turns to lead
You think you might just crawl back in bed
With the fortune inside your head

I know you’re just a mama’s boy
You’re positively unemployed
So misunderstood
So misunderstood

I know you’ve got a god-shaped hole
You’re bleeding out your heart full of soul
You’re so misunderstood
You’re so misunderstood
You’re so misunderstood
You’re so misunderstood

I’d like to thank you all for nothing
I’d like to thank you all for nothing at all
I’d like to thank you all for nothing
Nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing at all
Nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing at all

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