Joe and I went roller skating, ate sno-cones and sonic on our date last night. We felt like we were in middle school. It was amazing. Here's some shots for you.
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Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Date night from Middle School.
Joe and I went roller skating, ate sno-cones and sonic on our date last night. We felt like we were in middle school. It was amazing. Here's some shots for you.
Monday, April 25, 2011
a few things.
a list of favorites i felt like taking note of. anyone else enjoy these as well?
ceramics. hmm. shadows.
these. irony.
fire in water. a great plate of sushi.
Saturday, April 23, 2011
so long my dear.
I gave up today.
I gave up my past, and i opened up the gates of possibilities for the future.
Three years ago I lost almost everything in a tornado, because of that, people from around my community and church lavished furniture, household items and whatever i needed during that time. I went empty handed, into a new apartment, and it quickly became stuffed with things. It was an overwhelming experience. I could never thank those people who helped me enough, it was humbling.
(years later) A few months ago i moved into the room of my childhood. and 95% of those things went into storage.
A couple weeks ago a local house burned down. A house with a family of 5. No one in the family was injured, except they lost their sweet cat and dog. However, they lost absolutely everything. They are currently living in a hotel, all five of them.
About a week ago i got an email from a man that has been letting me use space in his warehouse for storage, rent free, the email read, "good news, bad news... bad news, you need to have your stuff out by the end of the month..." I freaked. I'm not ready to move, get a lease, settle down, but i have a house worth of furniture and stuff to do... something with. But is it really wise to throw money away to a storage building when people could use these things?
I fought it for a while. But then i realized, i was blessed with these things when i needed them, how can i hold it back? It will be a release for me, i will be free of.... stuff.
Today, neighbors of the family (from the fire) went to the warehouse with me and my family and loaded up two trucks and a trailer. I gave it all to them. My only request to them, was if they don't need it someday, that they give it away. Pay it forward.
And now i realized, after i go through some of these boxes of books and dishes etc, I will be able to fit, in my car, everything i own.
I'm not sure if that's incredibly freeing, or totally scary.
What are we holding on to, because we might need it? I want to go, and do and live and experience, and i couldn't when i literally had a house worth of furniture on my shoulders (okay, not literally). And that family, couldn't move into a new place and live on the floor. Unacceptable.
What am i still holding on to? What are you holding on to?
Snap to it people. Give it away. Go live.
.nnn.
Friday, February 25, 2011
a beatable year.
I've decided to start something new this year. At the beginning of every near year I am going to create a playlist from the past year. One song to depict the feelings from each month of the previous year. Now, i know there are so many feelings, emotions and processes that we go through, throughout each month, however, there typically seems to be an over-arcing feeling. I'm going to hit on that main emotion in song.
I feel as though music locks memories into our minds like not many things can. I can hear a piece that i haven't heard in 10+ years and there is an overwhelming feeling that rushes over me, good, bad, happy, depressing, whatever the memory may be, it rushes back with the rhythm, the beat and the lyric, even if i don't want it to.
Even my mother, who is 55 (act like i didn't say that) says that about music she listened to in grade school and hasn't heard since. She hears it and all of a sudden goes back to moments of childhood, and even at times the lyrics flow back to memory.
Music is a language all on it's own. I love it.
Last year, was needless to say, a roller-coaster. I was emotionally thrown around, luckily ending on (an attempting) recoverable high note. I learned a lot of lessons last year that i would prefer not to forget (basically i'm trying to help myself not to be forced to relearn them).
In a sense, i'm choosing to "journalize" my year in 12 songs. Of course, not every song is going to lyrically fit completely, however, the feeling and emotions that sweeps over me reminds me of what to do, or what not to do again. Clear as mud, right? Good.
So. here goes. Year 1 of Musically Documenting my memories, lessons and the way God speaks to me.
2010 (in beats.)
January - Fiona Apple - "Parting Gift"
February - Justin Timberlake & Matt Morris - "Hallelujah"
March - Beyonce - "Single Ladies" (yes i went there)
April - Delirious - "What Would I Have Done"
May - Sara Groves - "It's Going To Be Alright"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9yNZ17j8Fg (just ignore the lame "paintings")
June - St. Vincent & Bon Iver - "Roslyn"
July - John Mayer - "Stop This Train"
August - Clear - "Chasing After The Wind"
(unfortunately for the life of me i couldn't find a good video/clip of Clear performing,
they broke up years ago, so sadly this is the only one i could find. seriously. sorry)
September - Fifth Avenue North - "You Are More"
October - Rayland Baxter - "Hoot Owl"
November - The Avett Brothers - "All My Mistakes"
December - Waterdeep & 100 Portraits - "You Are So Good To Me"
I'm going to burn myself a mix of this for my car and continue this on for next year.
Alright folks.
I'm interested to know what this year is going to sound like.
Snap to it.
-n
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
a little learning.
Isn't this how you're supposed to do it?
Get excited about a new blog, post a few times, forget about it and then a few months later apologize to yournon-existant followers about not blogging? Well. here it is.
Sorry i haven't posted in a few months.
My last post was about being a "twixter", and although i am still amidst the battle of figuring out how to un-label myself, "things" have become a little less.... "twix"ed.
I'm doing what i love, that's a start.
It really is true, choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. Thanks Confucius.
Nothing has really progressed with the filmwork. However, i am officially on IMDB (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4084947/ ) granted, it's the saddest little link ever. But it'll grow with time. You have to start somewhere. My name is out there, that's a good start.
I've learned some things since i last posted, some wonderful trades for my resume, and life in general. Here are some images to prove it (click on the images to see them bigger).
Not everybody gets to fly at work. / I got bored one day and taught myself a butterflyclimbing knot. / Taking apart snow machines to fix them
This is just straight funny. /If you like ropes, then this is a beautiful site. / I know it's gross. But it's a regular occurrence.
I have learned how to solder different types of cables, such as instrument, dmx, and xlr. I really enjoy it to. I've taught myself a few types and then my boss taught me the rest.
Out on a video shoot / One of the consoles i mix on pretty regularly.
Found out what the broken insides of a sub is. / Primitive much?
Repairing an NL-8 Speaker Cable. / Customizing a Pelican Case
The more i learn, the more i see i have so much to learn.
Let's get to work. Snap to it.
n3
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