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Well, JR and Tricia and Ethan and Hailey moved in across the street. It will be very convienent for snow forts and snowball fights. We played poker again last night and I’m just waiting for my luck to run out. Last week I won $27.50, this week $5. But I’ve won money each of the last eight weeks, so Suzanne doesn’t make fun of me any more for sucking at poker.

Well, I’m helping mix our cd right now, I should probably pay attention to what we are doing.

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Well, I have some time to blog right now, so here you go.

I woke up this morning, Jaden was awake and wanted out of his crib. Suzanne had left for work and Melissa was leaving for work at Starbucks (oh, and she’s our new sister who is living in our basement). I got the kid ready for the day, did some reading while he played. Then I walked across the street, Tricia and the kids were over there unpacking. They are officially moving in tonight. Exciting. Jaden smiles so much when he’s around those kids. Tricia offered to take him over to her house for the day, so I’m just getting the house ready for poker tonight.

I went out to get some snacks and beer and the lady at the register told me “you don’t look old enough to buy this stuff, but you probably hear that all the time.”

Yup. I’ve been hearing it for six years. But it has been less frequent in the past couple years. Getting older is weird. I was just thinking today that Jaden will be sixteen in the year 2020. 2020, still seems like the space age compared to my childhood of the 80’s. Crazy. I don’t feel very old, I just feel like I have a lot more experience than I did a few years ago. Feels like the last five years have just been one very long drawn out year. So what is it with growing older? What are we afraid of? Dying? I’m not afraid of being dead. I’m not looking forward to the actual dying part of it all, but that’s not what’s really on my mind. I just keep seeing these 21 year old kids around me with all these dreams and I really hope they acomplish them.

I guess what I am afraid of is missing chances.

Chances for what?

It changes all the time. And I guess that’s a good thing as long as it doesn’t make you static. It makes you evaluate your life. What’s your purpose? How are you helping people? How are you living in a more truthful/beautiful/thoughtful way? I just watched Magnolia again last week. I love the line when Claudia says: “I’ll tell you everything, and you tell me everything. And maybe we can get through the piss, shit, and lies that kill other people.” So many people are tied to their past and can’t seem to change. That’s what I like about Jesus. He’s given us a chance here to have new life.

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Thanks to Matt for setting up a website to help resource Great Commission worship leaders. He even set me up as a contributer, so I may post every once in a while there.

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Wow, I’ve been totally out of the loop on things this weekend becuase we’ve been doing tons of recording. We are almost done. Sean has some guitar overdubs and Joel’s band has one song to do, but besides that we are ready to mix and master. I have to tell you, if you are looking for recording in the area, you have to check out Ryan Wert at Elm Street Recording, he knows what he’s doing.

The highlights of this album for me are going to be “At The End Of The Age” and the heavenly, dissonant noise at the end of the cd which was created by me playing keys, synth, kaoss pad, out of tune pump organ, toy piano, and cookie sheets. And Eric Craft played the glass and a little precussion box. I think we will call it “joy.”

Anyway, I really think this is going to be a great album.

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So we are in recording season for the next “ish” cd. A couple weeks ago we laid down guitar and drum tracks for six of the songs. Yesterday I did vocals for five of the songs and recorded another acoustic song and vocals in the afternoon. I think we are going to do some sound-experimentation with the end of the cd. Ryan at Elm Street Recording has a pump organ which has a really cool sound, so between that, the kaoss pad and an ebow, I think it might get crazy.

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Church signs

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This is a great quote from Rob Bell’s book.

“It is possible for music to be labeled Christian and be terrible music. It could lack creativity and inspiration. The lyrics could be recycled cliches. That “Christian” band could actually be giving Jesus a bad name becuase they aren’t a great band. It is possible for a movie to be a “Christian” movie and to be a terrible movie. It may actually desecrate the art form in its quality and storytelling and craft. Just becuase it is a Christian book by a Christian author and it was purchased in a Christian bookstore doesn’t mean it is all true or good or beautiful. A Christian political group puts me in an awkward position: What if I disagree with them? Am I less of a Christian? What if I am convinced the “Christian” thing to do is to vote the exat opposite?

Christian is a great noun and a poor adjective.”

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I had a bad night of sleep last night. I dreamt about my dad three times. The dreams were a backwards progression of time and they actually got better as they went.

The first one was when he was sick in the hospital. It was a nightmare.

The second was at some family holiday or event and he was joking around.

The third one was when I was a kid and we had just come home from an hour long trip to Cleveland. I was tired and barely awake, but pretending to be fully alseep. He picked me up, slung me over his shoulder and tucked me into my bed.

I miss him.

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