Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Tell ’em I said Hi (doh!), sweaty, NEW WEBSITE, FREE CD’s, yelling at cats


"Tell Everybody I said hi!"

I just said that to someone who(m) (I just use the parenthesis[ese] because I don't know when to use who or whom, or parenthesis or parenthesese...if you have any advice, let me know) I used to work with when I saw her in the Arcade here in Nashville (cool place). Anyway, though we used to work together, I know absolutely know one who(m?) she knows outside of the said place of employment. I don't know one person she knows outside of the office.

So why did I just say, "Tell everybody I said Hi"? Who is she going to tell that? A bunch of people I don't know? IDIOT!!!

Do you ever do that? Just say some moronic cliché that doesn't make any sense in an awkward moment when you really don't have anything to say to someone because you know certain things about that person's life that you probably shouldn't and so you avoid asking any questions for fear it all comes out and that person gets uncomfortable? And so you say something stupid and you end up looking like the moron and everyone involved is uncomfortable.

Yeah...I just did that.

O.K. It's been about a month since I've written and it's high time I got on the ball...or the horse...or the stick....or get my head in the game (for all you High School Musical fans out there). But first, we need to establish the "name that tune" portion of the blog:

"The camera pans the cocktail glass,
Behind a blind of plastic plants;
I found the lady with the fat diamond ring.
Then you know I cant remember a darn (but he didn't say darn) thing."

I saw one of the funniest headlines I've ever seen (although it is also very sad) the other day. It's right up there with the man who greased his entire naked body to make it difficult for the police to grab him while he wailed on them with nun-chucks (see previous blog). Now, just so you don't think I'm some sicko, I take no pleasure in others' suffering, but the wording just hit me as...odd. I didn't read the article, so lets pretend the guy is still alive. But the headline read:

Sweaty Chinese Man Electrocuted by Computer

You have to admit.....
That was the actual headline in a reputable newspaper!!! There has to be a better way to put that.

"I think its one of those de ja vu things,
Or a dream thats tryin to tell me something.
Or will I ever stop thinkin about it.
I dont know, I doubt it."

As you may have seen, "Eyes of the Exception" is up and running on i-tunes and several other download spots, so knock yourselves out there.

CLICK HERE TO SEE MY COOL NEW WEBSITE!!! Jeremy Mitchell does it again! It's so cool! You can turn the pages by clicking and dragging them around. How cool is that?!?!?!

Those of you who have been listening to the new album, have any of you found the part where we left in me drinking out of a water bottle? It's in there and it's pretty loud. I thought it would be funny to leave it in there. First person to tell me where it is on the comments gets a button!

"Subterranean by design,
I wonder what I would find if I met you,
Let my eyes caress you,
Until I meet the thought of missess princess who? "

3 ringtones from "Prologue" are also available HERE.

Since the last blog, I don't remember where I've been. I know I was in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where I had possibly the best vacation I've ever had in my life for that weekend. Great show, great people, great rest....just great all around.

I just got back from Indianapolis, where we had another fantastic show....and then I started my journey home. Let's just say it took me 26 hours to get from Indianapolis to Nashville....3 hours on a tarmak before the flight gets cancelled in Chicago...next morning to Atlanta and finally home after standing in lines and getting the run around for like 20 hours. I did make a friend and it became kind of like "The Amazing Race" after American Airlines just left us on our own to somehow make it home. I'm claiming that we were first and thus far, no one has disputed me. They claim it was due to weather, but I don't think it was even raining in either place. Anyway...no bitterness. That's the way it goes sometimes.

"Often wonder what makes her work.
I guess Ill leave that question to the experts,
Assuming that there are some out there.
Theyre probably alone, solitaire."

I have a neighbor who is a little over 50 and a little overweight and a little different than your average bear. I often am awakened at around 2am by this:...... "You git in therrrr! Git in the house!!! GIT!!!" This would be my neighbor yelling at a cat to return to his apartment, where he's not allowed to be in the first place. This is kind of interesting in itself, because cats don't really respond to yelling in the first place. But when I look out my window, things take a turn for the worse when I feast my eyes on the sight of this man in the parking lot wearing nothing but what most would call "tightie whities," but what do not match that description at all....in either category. 'nuf said. You get the picture. It can be a pretty colorful place sometimes.

I had a record label take the new CD to one of the big radio stations (one of the big giants who owns all the other stations) to see if they would play it. I think they played them "Expression" and "What if I Would Say?" and the guy said that they love the music, but that my "lyrics are too advanced for their listeners." So...if you like this music, then you are some kind of genius prodigy according to radio people!!!

So, if we want the music on the radio, we're going to have to do it ourselves. Here's the plan. If you have an independent radio station in your town or near that you think would be a good fit for the music I do (can be Christian or Secular), then if you message me with your address, I'll send you a FREE CD to give to them. They can't play it if they don't have it, and without a label, they won't have it. If enough people tell them to play it and they have it there, then we've got a chance to get the message that I believe the Lord has given me out there on the airwaves. So just write me and tell me how many stations you've got to give it to and I'll send them to you. You're on the honor code, so no funny stuff!!! Let's see what can happen? Why not?

"I can remember when I caught up
With a pastime intimate friend.
She said, bet youre probably gonna say I look lovely,
But you probably dont think nothin of me.
She was right, though, I cant lie.
Shes just one of those corners in my mind,
And I just put her right back with the rest.
Thats the way it goes, I guess."

Do you ever wander if your life is significant at all? Do you feel like you need to do something great that is recognized by tons of people before it really "counts" in the kingdom? Do you feel like if you're not in Africa on the mission field, than you're wasting your life on selfish pursuits? I think so many of us fall into that trap and it ends up being this kind of self-fulfilling prophecy and we end up giving up on the everyday things because we have already somehow lost the race. We might as well just go for comfort if we've turned our back on the really important things. Can you identify with that? I think that is so common, especially among those who have had the "radical" times in life, and compared to that epoch of life, what is happening now appears mundane and luke-warm.

Others have no grid at all for a more radical lifestyle...have never met someone who is completely sold out and in love with Jesus. I know from experience that this world is full of people who have never been around a "pursuer" of the Lord.....even Christians!

It doesn't always take the big deeds to be fervent. It doesn't always take the great sacrifices to be the real deal. Sometimes it does, but not always. Most of the time it's just loving Him in the moment we have right now. I can get so caught up in what I'm not doing that I forget that right now, in eternity, I'm seated on a throne...I'm amongst a cloud of witnesses, worshipping and loving Him with all my heart, soul, mind and strength. By faith, I can enter into that reality right now, even as I type...as I work...as I talk to a friend...as I read....as I pray....as I listen to a man in his underwear yell at a cat. That's on my heart right now....to live in the reality of eternity even in the mundane times down here. Just because the outside of my life may look normal doesn't mean the life on the inside has to be anything less than 100% sold out, in love, radical worshipper....and I can do that RIGHT NOW.

Let me hear from you. You know that blog comments are my love language!