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New Blog!


still moving the last remnants out, but i'm sleeping/eating/commuting from the new one.


bye summer.

whispering

yup, it's me, cj on the speakerphone.

my boss is whispering to his girlfriend. awkward.


oh hi carrie underwood. has it gotten old to name drop yet? no, not really.

got to the chiropractor. got some x-rays done, didn't see anything. we'll do a few sessions of rehab, and then if it doesn't respond, we'll do the MRI. and my right leg was longer than my left, so he popped it back in.

i just realized that today is the last entry on this blog. we sign today, so i'll make a different one for the new house. i'll link from to there from here. so there will be one more, but nothing of sustenance.

it's U time

who wants to get lifted? your momma does! chyeah!

spent a lot of time in the studio the past 2 days. about 34 hours in a 48 hour period. but luckily i get paid for all but 7 of them. it's been some good times. the hill brothers were the 7 hours that i didn't get paid for. but that's okay cause they super cool.

i am really tired, and not been able to catch up on sleep. twas killer this morning. i almost fell asleep at work, but i brought my piano music, so i got really frustrated at it, which kept me from falling asleep.

my schedule it the weirdest schedule i've ever had in college. mon-thur, class at 6:30 to 7, or 9, depending on if it is mon/wed or tue/thur. i'm going to try to change it so that i can get some staff hours on campus. also, i was offered to teach the labs at RCA B if i had the time slots open, but i have super gay piano ensemble and seminar at 3 on mon, 2 on wed. I HATE PIANO!!! also, on tue/thur, i have a 9:30am class. no class on Friday. which is cool. and i have class at 10:30 to 3 on saturday at oceanway, so i will be able to use those studios, which will be nice cause C is almost always open.

my knee is getting worse. i need to get to a doctor pretty soon. it buckles on me when i'm walking and i can barely straighten it out. running is probably the farthest thing from my mind. yah...

i read this thing about lyme disease, and it kinda freaked me out. i got a tick bite (the head stayed in) a couple of months ago, just as school got out, and i'm wondering if i got infected.

i work at oceanway tomorrow.

we sign the lease on friday. carrie underwood at RCA B.

i go do the ministry to the poor on saturday. move.

sunday, hopefully get to church and move.

monday???


top 5 prayers:

i pray that my life encourages conversation

i pray for my wife

i pray for my neighbour

i pray for wisdom

i pray no glory for me

peeling

big decision. do i want to keep my bike as close to the original, keep the characteristics that were designed by those who probably have retired or passed on. do i want to put in the effort to look for the parts, get them, install them and troubleshoot them when they don't work? or do i want to revamp the bike. do i want to try to overhaul the components so that it will be fast, sleek, and up to date?

the other day i got a check to do this 'secret shopper' thing. i found it it's a scam. the answering machine is 'full'. google can't find it. the addresses are PO Boxes. and there is a large amount of money that has to be wired. um, no.

piano starts soon. super not excited. super super.

hope you have enjoyed my night of not a lot happening.

oh, and i'll probably meet carrie underwood. should i ask her out?

Okoboji

Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening

Whose woods these are I think I know
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.


My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.


He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.


The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
And miles to go before I sleep.

Tomorrow

There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;

And frogs in the pools singing at night,
And wild plum trees in tremulous white;

Robins will wear their feathery fire,
Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;

And not one will know of the war, not one
Will care at last when it is done.

Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree,
If mankind perished utterly;

And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn
Would scarcely know that we were gone.

   -- Sara Teasdale

Video

still ready?

i finished my ironing. it took about 2 hours. but i am better at it than i was before. and now i look super fly-.

this weekend i had a recording session with a guy names Tico. it was set up through Mark Word. it was a rap session. they beats were all ready to go. they weren't mixed very well, but all i had to do was vocals. it was probably the easiest session i've ever done. it was vocal overdubs for 2 days straight. not bad. i did work myself to the point of exhaustion each day though. each day i came back with a throbbing headache, my body's way of telling me, a) i'm hungry b) i need to wear my glasses c) i'm thirsty, or d) i'm exhausted. or e) something isn't right in your environment.

um, things i have not encountered in the studio before.
Tico just got out of jail about a year ago on drug charges and still is on probation. he isn't supposed to leave North Carolina or Kentucky.
Tico has partied with T.I. and D4L

Mark Word owns a record label. He also carried heat into the studio and asked if there were metal detectors.

It was interesting to see how and old white lady reacted as we passed by on our way back from Subway. she grabbed her grand-daughters hand and only made eye contact with me. it really pissed Tico off. he just wanted to shout Boo! to scare the crap out the the old lady. it was hard to see it from both ways. i easily saw Tico's side, but at the same time i think he might have overreacted. i know that people grab their young offspring's hand when i walk by. it was one hell of a situation to be in. i think though, that i would side with Tico. we weren't aggressive or loud. just some young guys walking through campus. i need to remember this experience.

December 4th

I'm going to add to this post. I'll try to answer some questions, and my own questions will be replied too.

well, I'll do my fav 5 things. cause i haven't done that in a while.

today's topic: Childhood songs

Psalty the Singing Songbook

I am a 'C'

Jesus Loves Me

Father Abraham

The Bugs Bunny Theme Song

I didn't grow up with commercial music. I had church music. My moms played the piano and organ. Some of my earliest memories is me in the church, with my mom at the organ. We rarely listened to the radio. It was mostly oldies, cause my mom would censor the radio. My dad had some records. Jimmey Dean, Beach Boys, and a hits during the 70s. Those were the 3 records that i listened to. And the single, Little Willy.

But outside of that, it was mostly the Hymnal. and the good RCA (Reformed Church of America) Hymnal. Not the CRC Hymnal. or the Dutch Reformed. but i really didn't have a lot of outside influences in my impressionalbe childhood in the ways of commercial music.

I can remember we would have these 'bring in your favorite music to class' day in music in elementary school. i think it was either my 4th grade year or 3rd grade year, but The Sign by Ace of Base was brought in by about half of the class. I brought in some Amy Grant.

They year was 1999, and i was in 7th or 8th grade. My parents had just got our first computer. We were late adopters, including the internet. Anyway, my parents got me WOW 1999 for my birthday. The WOW series was like the popular NOW series, except it came before it. Take that secular music. It was my first CD. I had some cassettes of Newsboys, Audio Adrenaline, and Supertones, but this was my first CD. Then I got some money and bought the WOW 1998. Each subsequent year, i would buy that years CD. I have them all the way from 96 and 97 in tape form, then 98 to 02 in CD. In 02, or the year previous, I discovered Tobymac. I think the single that was on the WOW was the J Train song. So I bought that CD. After that CD, my collection exploded. I was buying CD almost every CD that I had heard good review of. I spent hours in the christian bookstore, listening to that sample station of different CDs. My mom would go shopping, and I would stand there and listen to my favorite song on several CD. Remember the W's? I almost had that CD.

In the summer of 03, my musical eyes were opened. First, my youth pastor convinced me to go this weekend retreat. I sent my application on that Monday, and it started that Friday. TEC. There is a whole chapter of my life. I think I've warmed up to it, but I used to quite bitter. Anyway, I was given 2 things. One was a chart of music and all the categories that they lined up in. It was a purple sheet of unknown gold. Really good ones were bolded. I copied that sheet to my own Word document, and then I added my own tastes.
The other gift that I was given was a KJ52 cd. Collaborations. I can honestly say that this was the day that I was introduced into my current taste of music. It had the strongest influence to date of my music library. From that pirated CD, I bought hundreds more in CDs, attended almost as many concerts.

If I had to point to something and say: 'That is what put me in Nashville", those two things would be it.

Music Industry, if there was one event that pulled me away from a science career, (probably ecology) it would be that weekend.

Belmont, that's why.

to an end

so i put a deposit on a house today. that means that this chapter is slowly closing. charlie, matt and i move in to our new house either sunday or monday.


so my apprehensions for this new house:

i'm a little worried that i won't be able to get out from under matt's aggressive deepness. yes, it's aggressive. i need time to myself, and i feel that there are going to be times that i explode. hopefully, i can do it in his face so it can be worked out. i have a lot of aprehension going into this. i'm not very excited about what's to come, to be honest. i think that i might be doing a lot of venting upon the upcoming blog. with pictures!

i got gnarls barkley's new album. it is delicious! right up there with his last album. i'll give it 4.3 stars. out of 5.

work was kinda a hard today. i messed up a bunch before lunch. i was quite tired from getting my siblings to the airport at 5 this morning. my boss wasn't too happy with my performance. i went to lunch, and when i got back, i was muched more focused. i still made a couple of errors, but it went a lot better. ummm, sleep.

as i have matured, i have found my likeness towards 'christian' music wanning. i find much of it to be quite cheesy. expecially the rock balads. and KJ52. i enjoy the bands that don't have that 'polished' sound to them. or are quite creative. and the pay in the christian music world isn't awesome like the secular world. and it should be. not because i'm in love with money, but because it shows that the talents you have are qualified to be in the position you are at, be that christian or secular. it isn't like the christian bands are selling their cd's or mp3s for less. in fact, it is usually more expensive to buy them cause the re-sell market isn't as broad. i also find that worship music is annoying. not only to listen to or sing, but to play. they are quite predictable. and there are always 4 key signitures in each song. there is no 'groove' or such. O, dc Talk, will you please come out to play with me today?

it's a party

don't stop now. it's almost over. you've done so well. it looks really good. way to go. that was a nice job. good effort. you nailed that one. keep going. almost there. keep pushing. yea! you've gone so far. that is quite impressive.

i think i'm in love again.

i want to work overtime for the rest of my life. it is really really nice!

school could go die. i would not attend that funeral.

Oye!