Ivoryline put out their new "Vessels" album in the middle of last year and I was finally able to pick up a couple of weeks ago. Just like their previous album, "There Came a Lion" (the cover art of which I adore), I simply love this new one.

Here are lyrics from the second cut ...

With The Daylight
Ivoryline

For now you will deal with heartache,
And for now you will face some pain.
But now release all of your ...

I love SuperChick's new music video alot and thought I would make something to go with it. If you haven't already seen it, def check it out!

I decided for the next few days/weeks to try my hand at portrait drawings … Since, I frequently find myself really disliking any sketches or illustrations I try to create of actual people, I figured it might be helpful to actually try and get better at it.Here is the first of the series … thanks in part to Heather quoting Bob Marley lyrics in her status the other day.If you want, you can see the ...

Thanks to a silly cold I got from someone at work (still not sure who) and taking night-time medicine, I was late arriving to prep with the rest of the Southside worship team and kinda had to rush my pedal setup.I am guessing that is why during the service, both my tuner pedal and BOSS Blues driver kept dying on me … it eventually worked out, but was still kinda non-confidence instilling.I did however manage ...

Thanks to Jen’s kindness, I again have an electric/acoustic I can use to play with the worship team’s band … though now I have to work on building those callouses again. Ouchie!After practice (which was totally packed out … kinda excited to see all of these people up front on Sunday), Jodie and I made a quick Wally World run and then got to watch new episodes of Psych and Big Bang Theory. Well, at ...

Though I didn’t do much actual sleeping yesterday, this is definitely how I felt. Working to finish some last minute changes and additions to our DFP course and lecture materials, I filled my head with thoughts of Flash deployments and Pre-Production Process deliverables, instead of comfy cozy Zzzs.Along with weary eyes and a dizzy head, the late hours also gave me a chance to enjoy some really great older music I had been missing, specifically ...

So after some sweet Saturday thrifting that resulted in a few new shirts, The Oaks first album and a Paul Westerberg cd I am kinda excited about, the night moved into watching a fresh disc of X-Files Season 2 episodes.Most were pretty good, though all were of the “monster” variety, to which I much prefer the “alien” or “conspiracy” episodes more … however, one episode, “F Emasculata”, stood out from among the rest.And by stood ...

Like every other Apple-loving kid out there, I have been absolutely adoring the fantastic playlists created by the iTunes 8 “Genius” feature. Try as I may to out-smart it with my own custom playlists, the iTunes magic music algorithms continue to put out some amazing mixes.And with all this musical goodness at my fingertips, I feel it is unfair to not share it with others … hence, I have been sending my favorite mixes to ...

This week, I bought the latest Death Cab for Cutie album, Narrow Stairs and it is just so gorgeous. The sound is immersive and the lyrics are spell-binding.As I was reading a devotion this morning from Psalms, I fell into some thoughts about the song “I Will Possess Your Heart” that gave it some real meaning. In Psalms 16:9-11, David says:No wonder my heart is glad, and I rejoice.My body rests in safety.For you will ...

Vinyls (uploaded by DRA Studio)So I have really been enjoying the thrift store shopping I have been doing lately. Some new shirts, an electric pencil sharpener, and more wonderful goodies. Besides two MXPX albums that I didn’t already have, the two books I picked up this weekend at the local Christian thrift store are probably what I am most excited about. A Wrinkle in Time and Loser by Jerry Spinelli (my favorite childhood author). Yay!(These LPs, ...

I can’t wait to pick up the new Foo Fighters album … here is my favorite track so far … I really like the video for it.

IF – The Blues (uploaded by DRA Studio)My entry for this week’s Illustration Friday theme, “the blues”. Pencil and Sakura Pigma ink on medium tooth paper. Photoshop CS3 for the final color touches. I tried to model the guitar after a BB King classic.While working on this piece, I was listening to the Bottles and Bottles playlist from my iPod “Love”. It isn’t really blues … but that is the same feeling I get while listening ...

I bought my newest set of Apple iPod Earphones last night … I feel a bit more comfortable with life now. It’s a bit like Jerry Fletcher, needing my next copy of Catcher in the Rye, but really I do love my Apple earphones.And sadly, the only reason I had to purchase a new set is because last week the night I brought home my new pair that Apple replaced free for me, my ...

I hope you all are really enjoying the new site design and the loads of new content. I will work hard to keep it rolling along on a daily basis. This week though, I am at lovely Lake Aurora with the band, enjoy the sights and smells of about 150 middle school kids (Haha!). So far it has been lots of fun in the sun and great worship times.So here is hoping for no broken ...

I keep hearing this words from Anberlin's song in my head, so you should probably hear them too:
Come and go now as you please
Your actions write the melodies
To the songs that we sing
And you just sing

And I finally found that life goes on without you
And my world still turns when you're not around

Is this the way you want it?
Is this the way it has to be?
Sitting here beside you
With my heart's lost in New Orleans
Dreams ...

Jodie is apparently the new bass player for the Sloshing Puddles, so I thought I would make a logo for them. :)

Oh, and I was sick last week, so blame that for the lack of posting. I know I do.

IMPACT this weekend was pretty amazing. Not only was I really pleased with my bass playing for our sets, but I have heard so many great things already about how we did. Yes, that was me on stage ... the kid in the Karate Kid bandana, killin' it rockstar style. :D

And even more than being pleased with how the band did, I was totally psyched about how much the kids/teens enjoyed us and how much ...

Yes! Finally! Now I am old enough to ... to ... um ... er ... drink? Nope. Smoke? Nah. Go clubbin'? Ehh. Oh wait, I got it. The best and only way to celebrate your 24th Birthday is to lose your Canadian Citizenship! How could I forget. :)

Thanks for all the "Happy Birthday" goodness ... among some of the best was the pizza party, the house party that I missed most of (band practice ...

So the other day, we were watching Monster House (quite the enjoyable flick, too) and it dawned on me that, not only would "Thou Art Dead" be a great game to play, but I am sure someone had already made it into one. Sure enough. And I even found a blog by one of the artist/animators. Fun!

Oh and in case I didn't already tell you about Anberlin's soon coming album, Cities, consider yourself told. Why ...

Note: This is the second version of this post. Why, you might ask? Let's just say that staying up late, typing in a comfy cozy bed and feeling drowsy while waiting to talk to a friend on iChat aren't the best combination for blogging. At some point while typing in my sleep, I managed to lose the first version. Oh well.

So Christmas morning was most wonderful this year. Not only did we get to enjoy ...

Work just dragged on and on, but chinese for lunch with friends was pretty fun. The lady at Great Wall just seems to get funnier everytime we go. We got Missy's sweater finished and it is probably the most wonderfully tacky thing ever ... and I discovered how incredibly difficult it is to not laugh out loud when someone compliments something you know is a total joke. Ah well, what can you do?

Friday night was ...

An apt name for a post that should really be about all the things I didn't do at work today. What with it being "Take Your Daughter-esque Friend to Work Day", how could I not have been distracted and less productive ... ;).

Truthfully, I got quite a bit done at work today ... it is absolutely amazing how well your mind can work on zero hours of sleep and just one cup of coffee. "Why ...

How well do you know your iTunes Library? I think I know mine pretty well, but I am still finding tracks that either don't have names or I have never even heard. Like last month, I totally discovered some great songs by Coldplay that I didn't even know were in there. Just today, I found/re-discovered songs by The All-American Rejects, Bayside, and Bright Eyes. So much fun.

Today was a pretty laid-back Saturday, full of not ...

Maybe it's all this emotional junk that seems to be going on right now or maybe it's just that Jack's Mannequin has been dominating my playlist lately ... I don't know ... but I am falling in love with the piano.

Andrew McMahon is a bit of a hero of mine right now and tonight's Night of Noel at FCC only further re-enforced my growing love in that sound. Uplifting to my current state of mind ...

Today is the first in many that I feel like I actually might want to talk about my day and not slip into a mire of lyrical prose or drown myself in fountain of memories.

What started out as a lazy, but promising Wednesday (what with no work and nothing to do in the morning except wake up and eat breakfast), it progressed into a bit of a disappointing afternoon. Apparently both the Orlando Museum of ...