album review by... Ken?

hey y'all. check out this killer review of my record on ken's blog. flattery will get you everywhere, my friend.

4 gigs :: 5 days

saturday :: 02.11.06 - we had a blast at GJs for our second visit in a year. also of significant entertainment value: white folks clapping and trying to dance to the amazing hip hop that is vocab malone (see previous post).

sunday :: 02.12.06 - the Rock Church invited us back to lead a little worship. josh and I did the acoustic thing and he brought his cajon drum (no relation to the cajones). this thing is sick - it's a box josh sits on with a sound hole on the side. when he hits or kicks it in different areas, it makes different tones. it even has a snare inside for a high end "twap" sound. and josh plays it like a pro. gotta get this thing on record somehow.

tuesday :: 02.14.06 - Chi Alpha asked us to play/worship for their "cafe" at the Quo Vadis bookstore. more acoustic adventures - and the sound system worked this time - woo hoo! of note is the fact that wahba completely forgot the second half of our worship set. we were supposed to do 4 songs and I asked everyone to sit down after only doing two. what's that all about? though confused, everyone covered for me quite gracefully. a decent V-day was had by all.

wednesday :: 02.15.06 - tonight we jet back to grace chapel (the mothership of foursquare churches in these parts) to do a little worship at YFT, their youth group. maybe we'll see the guy who put an apple sticker on his PC laptop to make it look like an iMac....

02.11.06 @ GJs in tucson

last night we got to play GJs coffeehouse in tucson again. we co-headlined the show with phoenix's finest hip-hop artist, vocab malone and his collaborator, quest.


vocab sat in with us on "tug on my heart" and "ancient of days". it was totally un-rehearsed and loose - and vocab nailed it! he also threw down some tight spoken word (gotta get that on a recording, bro!). here are some more pictures....

the ladies.

kurt.

carl.

me.

toby from TCC.

more vocab and quest....

jodi wigs out

this weekend, jodi dragged me and some of our friends out to the phoenix art detour with the specific purpose of getting a wig. i guess they're not as expensive as she thought they'd be (and way less expensive than a color/cut with "jessica" - which is fine with me). here are some photos from devious wigs....

the Farrah Fawcett/Jessica Simpson....

and finally, here's the one she settled on. it's sorta like vivian's wig from pretty woman....

we win!

yes, I said "we"! birth and 22 years living in a town is enough to justify some ownership. especially when the town is Pittsburgh, and your home team just won the Super Bowl!

many other things to blog about, but tonight, we thank the good Lord for liking our team more....

bobby's emergent adventure

hey y'all. my friend bobby brewer has a great blog. he's another smart one involved in the emergent conversation. the only smart thing he has left to do is invite a certain Egyptian worship leader onto his radio show with him....

the dryness

as of today, phoenix has not seen any trace of rain for 105 days. it's the longest drought in recorded history for our county. yet there has been no warning/ban on washing vehicles, watering our lawn, or conserving water in any way. would you excuse me, I'm getting a little thirsty....

article & CD reviews...

hey y'all. here's a decent article on me and the music ministry. not bad, considering the cover story of this issue features an all male parody of "swan lake."

overall, the new CD has gotten some decent reviews (thanks to the Big Guy). you can read some of them here.

guilty pleasures (I've been tagged)

so I guess I've been tagged by ken. who is, in fact, one of the people I would have tagged myself I only he hadn't been tagged first. but here is my list of guilty pleasures, INPO.

1. the Darkness.
2. myspace. be my friend... pleeeeease?
3. compressors are audio "effects" - I own about 5 and have made several friends into true disciples.
4. daydreaming about lightsabers. go ahead and say it, phallic.
5. my ipod... but I can quit any time I want.

I guess I have to tag somebody. let's tag jodi (she'll post on my blog), and... andrew (though I suspect he feels he is above these sophomoric lists).

exorcism of emily rose

we watched the exorcism of emily rose at 1826 this week. great acting. kinda spooky. good conversation-starter re: spirits and demons.

the real emily rose was apparently named Annalise Michele, a german 19-year old college freshman who supposedly suffered from demon possession from 1968 thru 1974. read the whole creepy story here.