Monday, February 12, 2007
My Birthday
"I'm telling you broseph, if you ever get an ish and have the opportunity to take her out on a gondola ride then you gotta do it. It was way awesome. Plus, rumor has it that every time you cross under a bridge you're supposed to kiss. I mean, if you're not at the point in your relationship than I guess it could be pretty awkward...but you could always find a creative way of getting around that. I didn't. But you certainly could."
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
Wise words from the Rymac
"Whenever I read from the Word and I come across something that rocks my world, I always say to myself, 'touche.'"
Dorm Revival
"It was shaky...you got the point across and God was glorified...but you certainly weren't. "
Sometimes it just has to be told like it is.
Sometimes it just has to be told like it is.
Saturday, February 3, 2007
These are a few of my favorite things.
In order to develop a faithful following in the world of blog it is important to update your blog practically every day and to try and keep it interesting. This is a tough task to accomplish and so occasionally it is necessary to break from the thought-provoking entries and provide a fluff piece of sorts. You need to bring something easy, something entertaining, something to keep the masses continually clicking, clammoring, and crying at the chance to enter your realm of the blogosphere. Now considering I have little to no desire to acquire a faithful following and that I only post about once a month, it might surprise some people that I would write a fluff piece like the one you are about to read. To them I say, "Maybe you overestimated me." Without further ado:
A Few of My Favorite Things:
Basketball
I love basketball. I don't know why, which makes for a lousy topic to write about, but I just do. I am taking two different basketball classes at school, I play in a league on Thursday nights, and whenever anybody calls me to play I get as giddy as a little school girl. Every year on the first two days of the NCAA tournament I take the whole day off of school, work, and every other responsibility so I can watch basketball all day long. I rarely ever care who wins, I just root for overtime. If I watch basketball for too long I start to get really antsy, my stomach turns in knots, and my heart rate goes up. The basketball hoop at my house blew down in a rainstorm and crashed through the window of my mom's van, so we got rid of it. Don't tell anybody but sometimes I take a basketball and shoot where the hoop used to be. I still got it.
Death Cab for Cutie
It's tough and dangerous ground to ever give a group "favorite band" status and these guys are no exception. However, throughout the past 2-3 years of my life they haven't really been rivaled. So I don't know exactly what that means, but its's pretty impressive to say the least. A couple things about this band: 1) Most of their songs don't have choruses. Whenever you buy a DCfC album, you get a poetry book free with your purchase. Each song is riddled with beautiful imagery, metaphor, and sometimes a story that almost always culminates in a single profound thought that gets repeated a few times for emphasis. There's no catch, rarely a hook, just beautiful written lyrics that make each CD a compilation of poems. 2) These guys get humanity. They understand that life is filled with the constant battle between heart and mind, missed opportunities, and the failed promises of modernity. They write songs about life and aren't afraid to say that it is meaningless. Unfortunately, these guys aren't Christian. I've always thought that guys like Ben Gibbard (DCfC's lead man) and Mark Twain (another guy who understood humanity) would make powerful Christians because they brutally understand the human condition and I feel that a lot of people today and throughout history are too concerned about staying positive and living their best life now, and they forget to take off the rose-colored glasses off and say, "Oh yeah, a lot about this world sucks." 3) And I almost forgot, these guys absolutely rock. I saw these guys live in August and I was about 3 inches away from the stage. I didn't stop dancing once the whole time, quite arguably the best live show I've ever seen. Simply put, if you are not listening to DCfC on a regular basis you are probably committing a felony and deserve to be put in a penitentiary, so start listening now.
Gondolas
Not the little row boat. No, this is the pizza place across the street from my church. I kid you not; I eat here 3-4 times a week. It is the simply the best pizza in all of SoCal. And not only is it the best, if some other pizza even tried to rival it then Gondolas would probably just punch them in the throat. No questions asked. If I know you and you've never eaten here, call me, and we'll set a time to get lunch this week. You are not promised tomorrow, don't waste your life; get married, make some babies, share the gospel, listen to Death Cab, and for the love of all that is good please, please eat at Gondolas.
One love, dj out!
A Few of My Favorite Things:
Basketball
I love basketball. I don't know why, which makes for a lousy topic to write about, but I just do. I am taking two different basketball classes at school, I play in a league on Thursday nights, and whenever anybody calls me to play I get as giddy as a little school girl. Every year on the first two days of the NCAA tournament I take the whole day off of school, work, and every other responsibility so I can watch basketball all day long. I rarely ever care who wins, I just root for overtime. If I watch basketball for too long I start to get really antsy, my stomach turns in knots, and my heart rate goes up. The basketball hoop at my house blew down in a rainstorm and crashed through the window of my mom's van, so we got rid of it. Don't tell anybody but sometimes I take a basketball and shoot where the hoop used to be. I still got it.
Death Cab for Cutie
It's tough and dangerous ground to ever give a group "favorite band" status and these guys are no exception. However, throughout the past 2-3 years of my life they haven't really been rivaled. So I don't know exactly what that means, but its's pretty impressive to say the least. A couple things about this band: 1) Most of their songs don't have choruses. Whenever you buy a DCfC album, you get a poetry book free with your purchase. Each song is riddled with beautiful imagery, metaphor, and sometimes a story that almost always culminates in a single profound thought that gets repeated a few times for emphasis. There's no catch, rarely a hook, just beautiful written lyrics that make each CD a compilation of poems. 2) These guys get humanity. They understand that life is filled with the constant battle between heart and mind, missed opportunities, and the failed promises of modernity. They write songs about life and aren't afraid to say that it is meaningless. Unfortunately, these guys aren't Christian. I've always thought that guys like Ben Gibbard (DCfC's lead man) and Mark Twain (another guy who understood humanity) would make powerful Christians because they brutally understand the human condition and I feel that a lot of people today and throughout history are too concerned about staying positive and living their best life now, and they forget to take off the rose-colored glasses off and say, "Oh yeah, a lot about this world sucks." 3) And I almost forgot, these guys absolutely rock. I saw these guys live in August and I was about 3 inches away from the stage. I didn't stop dancing once the whole time, quite arguably the best live show I've ever seen. Simply put, if you are not listening to DCfC on a regular basis you are probably committing a felony and deserve to be put in a penitentiary, so start listening now.
Gondolas
Not the little row boat. No, this is the pizza place across the street from my church. I kid you not; I eat here 3-4 times a week. It is the simply the best pizza in all of SoCal. And not only is it the best, if some other pizza even tried to rival it then Gondolas would probably just punch them in the throat. No questions asked. If I know you and you've never eaten here, call me, and we'll set a time to get lunch this week. You are not promised tomorrow, don't waste your life; get married, make some babies, share the gospel, listen to Death Cab, and for the love of all that is good please, please eat at Gondolas.
One love, dj out!
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