the big mates of state concert is tonight, which is exciting. but this brings up a few points.
A. you would think that by now, taylor people would know that we bring in national acts to play. pretty much every band that plays at taylor is not only not a taylor band, but they are not from indiana. but no one seems to get the pattern. take mates of state, for instance. i dont expect people to know they are from san francisco, but for goodness sakes, just because they are playing at taylor doesnt mean they are a taylor band! today at lunch, someone asks me, and he's not the only person, "so, are mates of state a taylor band?" NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! get with it people..we are working to bring in valid bands that are on national tours that get recognition from major publications (people seem to miss the flyers that have quotes from NY Times and SPIN), but you complain because we're not bringing in dave matthews.
i dont mean to be as harsh as i sound.
i suppose "where are mates of state from?" is a better question. because it's already assuming they are not a taylor band. which is the first step. i guess. thats getting technical. but it makes sense.
B. i am slowly beginning to realize and accept that some people are just artistically challenged, as neville graciously phrased it and shared with me. this fact must eventually be faced by those who are a little more artistically inclined. if people werent artistically challenged, movies like triple-x and bands like creed wouldnt be as insanely popular as they are. plain and simple. so...i am realizing i just need to be a little more understanding in these areas and let people like what they like because thats just how they are. this sounds pretentious, but in reality, it's me realizing the reason for non-pretentiousness. so its not pretentious.
enough blabber.
Monday, September 29, 2003
jimmy eat world's "clarity" never ever ever gets old. it sits on the cd rack for a few months, you finally put it in, and say "why the heck havent i been listening to this nonstop for all of my life?"
found out today that the church in haiti we worked with over spring break has built the second half of the balcony and are now working on the rest of the walls. that is really exciting news! so they may not have any work for us this spring break...we'll see. exciting to know how are money is being used though. i guess the pastor from down there is coming here in the next few weeks, which will be exciting.
im watching citizen kane tonight for my art class. kinda looking forward to it.
found out today that the church in haiti we worked with over spring break has built the second half of the balcony and are now working on the rest of the walls. that is really exciting news! so they may not have any work for us this spring break...we'll see. exciting to know how are money is being used though. i guess the pastor from down there is coming here in the next few weeks, which will be exciting.
im watching citizen kane tonight for my art class. kinda looking forward to it.
what a morning.
i awoke to a voice saying "shorb...i don't know where you're at...but if you're there...we just finished the test and you're not here....wake up...."
it was 8:30...i know my alarm was set, but must have turned it off without waking up...i was so sound asleep that i didnt even hear the phone ringing, just good ol' scott talking on the answering machine.
i was a little worried because this is the strict teacher trying to turn us into professionals - as mentioned in the keep your flip flops on in class post. i thought i was gonna have to deal with a zero...but she was very merciful and let me take it this afternoon.
so i was very dissheveled the rest of the day..wearing clothes that didnt match and werent comfortable, unshowered and greasy, tired, bad breath, stressed out, etc. i almost skipped psychology, which i should have, but waited til my 1:00 break and finally took a shower and put on some real clothes, went for a quick lunch, and made it to math class, but struggled to stay awake.
on the bright side, i got a 91 on my art as experience test, a 100 on my math test (oh my goodness gracious!!), and an A something or other on my child psych test. so things are off to a good start, i guess.
i awoke to a voice saying "shorb...i don't know where you're at...but if you're there...we just finished the test and you're not here....wake up...."
it was 8:30...i know my alarm was set, but must have turned it off without waking up...i was so sound asleep that i didnt even hear the phone ringing, just good ol' scott talking on the answering machine.
i was a little worried because this is the strict teacher trying to turn us into professionals - as mentioned in the keep your flip flops on in class post. i thought i was gonna have to deal with a zero...but she was very merciful and let me take it this afternoon.
so i was very dissheveled the rest of the day..wearing clothes that didnt match and werent comfortable, unshowered and greasy, tired, bad breath, stressed out, etc. i almost skipped psychology, which i should have, but waited til my 1:00 break and finally took a shower and put on some real clothes, went for a quick lunch, and made it to math class, but struggled to stay awake.
on the bright side, i got a 91 on my art as experience test, a 100 on my math test (oh my goodness gracious!!), and an A something or other on my child psych test. so things are off to a good start, i guess.
Saturday, September 27, 2003
Then Job replied to the LORD :
"I know that you can do all things;
no plan of yours can be thwarted.
You asked, 'Who is this that obscures my counsel without knowledge?'
Surely I spoke of things I did not understand,
things too wonderful for me to know.
"You said, 'Listen now, and I will speak;
I will question you,
and you shall answer me.'
My ears had heard of you
but now my eyes have seen you.
Therefore I despise myself
and repent in dust and ashes."
job 42:1-6
"I know that you can do all things;
no plan of yours can be thwarted.
You asked, 'Who is this that obscures my counsel without knowledge?'
Surely I spoke of things I did not understand,
things too wonderful for me to know.
"You said, 'Listen now, and I will speak;
I will question you,
and you shall answer me.'
My ears had heard of you
but now my eyes have seen you.
Therefore I despise myself
and repent in dust and ashes."
job 42:1-6
i just watched a really cool documentary called dark days about a group of homeless people that live in new york's subway. it was really enjoyable. i really enjoy documentarys and find myself drawn to them more and more. but it was really really good. what makes it even better is knowing how they made it...here, the director had no previous filming experience whatsoever. he just moved to new york, and felt like learning more about homeless people, and found out about these people in the tunnel, and decided to just hang out with them a lot. he lived with/hung out with them for about 3 months when someone finally said "we should make a movie about this." the director said, why not?, and set out on the mission. went to a camera store and basically had the employees choose a camera for him, had about 2 guys helping him and all the homeless guys were the filming crew. they filmed for a couple years and it took a while to finally get it made, and then they used all the money to get the guys off the streets and get their lives straightened out and into homes and stuff.
so, i loved it, you should check it out.
so, i loved it, you should check it out.
an interesting article can be read here. while he is not the expert he probably thinks he is, and while he is at times painfully brutal and sarcastic, he is an entertaining writer, and gives us christians a look at what we unfortunately look like to the rest of the world, particularly when it comes to the arts...an area where we should be leading the world, because of our desire to worship our god with our god-given creativity, but for whatever reason, it's the exact opposite. i think i unfortunately agree with a lot of the article, which, i guess is what makes it so sad!...or at least embarassing. at any rate, its an interesting read.
"What makes the stuff so half-assed, so thin, so weak and cumulatively so demoralizing (even to me, a sympathetic journalist who'd secretly love to play the brash contrarian and rate the Left Behind books above Tom Clancy) has nothing to do with faith. The problem is lack of faith. Ark culture is a bad Xerox of the mainstream, not a truly distinctive or separate achievement. Without the courage to lead, it numbly follows, picking up the major media's scraps and gluing them back together with a cross on top." -Mr. Kern
"What makes the stuff so half-assed, so thin, so weak and cumulatively so demoralizing (even to me, a sympathetic journalist who'd secretly love to play the brash contrarian and rate the Left Behind books above Tom Clancy) has nothing to do with faith. The problem is lack of faith. Ark culture is a bad Xerox of the mainstream, not a truly distinctive or separate achievement. Without the courage to lead, it numbly follows, picking up the major media's scraps and gluing them back together with a cross on top." -Mr. Kern
Friday, September 26, 2003
what a day.
for some odd reason i seemed well rested...or maybe my coffee was stronger than usual.
i was in good spirits which is always nice.
it was a beautiful day.
i think my math test went well.
chapel was really great. a students father from india spoke...an amazing man with 3 phd's who does some amazing work in india. he spoke from acts 17 i think on seeing the world as god sees it. he was incredibly passionate and the service was incredibly convicting. when you hear a moving sermon like that on the needs of the world, it is something that makes everything else look so trivial. like...this summer...my boss would get stressed out about fixing ball marks on the greens - little indentations left by golf balls. his life - and consequently my life, for that summer - depended on fixing ball marks for people with too much money who like to chase a little white ball everywhere for fun while in india 24,000 babies are aborted each day and thousands and thousands are dying of hunger the majority of whom do not know christ. yikes! and yet the message so often falls on deaf ears! everyone hates the hunger commercials on tv - and the one commercial criticised people for changing the channel...and while such guilt trips arent always the best reason for people to get involved, it's a perfect example. people dont want to be bothered by these things, we are too distracted and too comfortable.
i dont know...i could go on but i wouldnt get much place. but its a huge burden to bear! the world is so big and the needs are so many, it's hard to know what to do...but i suppose thats where prayer comes in. and a chapel service like that can be so overwhelming and convicting, but once we step out of the doors into our comfortable world again, satan likes to distract us pretty quickly. so thats where prayer for compassion and godliness comes in too, i suppose.
anyway, enough yakking. if you'd like to listen to the service, which i recommend you do, click here, although im not sure if it is working yet.
have good weekends.
and by the way, i suppose i made a pretty big statement on wednesday the 24th, saying that when you have a clear picture fo the fullness of god's grace there is no way you can be apathetic...ive been thinking about this and things havent been as clear as they were in that eureka-revelation moment that i had...im not sure if it's a true statement or not...but the rest of the stuff i said is true, i think. but, just wanted to say, im not sure if i agree with my own statement.
ok goodbye.
for some odd reason i seemed well rested...or maybe my coffee was stronger than usual.
i was in good spirits which is always nice.
it was a beautiful day.
i think my math test went well.
chapel was really great. a students father from india spoke...an amazing man with 3 phd's who does some amazing work in india. he spoke from acts 17 i think on seeing the world as god sees it. he was incredibly passionate and the service was incredibly convicting. when you hear a moving sermon like that on the needs of the world, it is something that makes everything else look so trivial. like...this summer...my boss would get stressed out about fixing ball marks on the greens - little indentations left by golf balls. his life - and consequently my life, for that summer - depended on fixing ball marks for people with too much money who like to chase a little white ball everywhere for fun while in india 24,000 babies are aborted each day and thousands and thousands are dying of hunger the majority of whom do not know christ. yikes! and yet the message so often falls on deaf ears! everyone hates the hunger commercials on tv - and the one commercial criticised people for changing the channel...and while such guilt trips arent always the best reason for people to get involved, it's a perfect example. people dont want to be bothered by these things, we are too distracted and too comfortable.
i dont know...i could go on but i wouldnt get much place. but its a huge burden to bear! the world is so big and the needs are so many, it's hard to know what to do...but i suppose thats where prayer comes in. and a chapel service like that can be so overwhelming and convicting, but once we step out of the doors into our comfortable world again, satan likes to distract us pretty quickly. so thats where prayer for compassion and godliness comes in too, i suppose.
anyway, enough yakking. if you'd like to listen to the service, which i recommend you do, click here, although im not sure if it is working yet.
have good weekends.
and by the way, i suppose i made a pretty big statement on wednesday the 24th, saying that when you have a clear picture fo the fullness of god's grace there is no way you can be apathetic...ive been thinking about this and things havent been as clear as they were in that eureka-revelation moment that i had...im not sure if it's a true statement or not...but the rest of the stuff i said is true, i think. but, just wanted to say, im not sure if i agree with my own statement.
ok goodbye.
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