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Niagra Falls 2007-05-25 21:48:00 Today I visited Niagra falls on the Canadian side. It was the first time I've ever been out of the United States. Heh. It was funny, cause everything over there is in metric. Like kilometers p/hr and such. People in other countries are so much smarter... anyways, Wile looking at the falls, I wrote some observations down in a notebook. It sounds kind of cool, so here's me standing over the falls writing.The water here has a cool color. It's like real aqua. I can hear the thunder of the water going over the falls. Throughout the river are whitecaps of water rushing towards the brink. Seaguls are flying around too. A thick mist of water bellows forth from the bottom, thinning as it goes up and travels from the falls. I can also see big rocks at the bottom. Now I'm on a bridge over a little stream thing maybe 100 ft. from the falls.Now I'm standing ten ft. from the brink watching the water pour down into the river. The water looks like liquid glass that's clear. It also smells really Read more:Falls
To do or not to do... 2007-05-27 19:27:00 So. Is secular music bad? Which movies are bad? should I hit my brother? Should I yell at my mom? Is this choclate bar gonna kill me? These questions are all asking whether something is bad or not. In the modern Christian society, we focus everything on whether something is bad or not. If it's not bad, it's OK. Well, I was talking with my dad, and he had a revolutionary idea (at least for me). We focus on what NOT to do. Instead, we should be focusing on what we SHOULD be doing. What we do, is we look at things and label them according to how bad they are. Then we judge whether we can get by doing the things we like, without those things being too bad. We try to get by with doing as many 'bad' things as we can. Instead of focusing on the bad, we should be focusing on the good we should and could be doing. Lately, I've also been thinking about giving and not taking. I think we need to stop concentrating on ourselves, and concentrate on other people and God. We have so much capacity
Another Song 2007-06-08 10:37:00 Here is another song. I actually recorded it a while ago, right after the Dark Illusions one. I'm working on another which is almost finished, and I will post it when I finish. I find it quite fun writing music, and the singing adds a lot to it, even if I *do* have a terrible singing voice. If you can't see the video I embeded on this page, then you can watch it on youtube. Here are the links.Dark IllusionsLost
Subscription 2007-06-11 07:18:00 I just found this cool thing/program. If you want to subscribe to my posts via email, the just click the little thing at the bottom of this post. All you have to do is give it your email address, and it will email you my posts every time I post them. Nifty little thing. Don't ask why you'd want to get my posts by email. I don't know why. But I thought I'd give people the option. Read more:Subscription
Another Day 2007-06-09 11:58:00 And here's another song. I think it turned out OK, even if it is a bit repetetive. I like the piano for the verse. That part was fun to make. Here's the link to youtube if you can't see the video below:Another Day
On Writing, Practice, and Talent 2007-06-12 20:49:00 Well. I haven't done a good old post for quite some time. I am sitting here at the computer (which I hope you would have already guessed) trying to think of something to write about. Words fail me. I'll start off with writing. People always give you sets of rules to follow (I'm talking specifically about fiction here). Do this, do that, make sure you don't do this, and make sure you do that... you get the idea. I was reading a book about writing a couple days ago, and one thing it said struck me like a sledgehammer striking a watermellon. The book, which by the way has been in print since 1965, said that you shouldn't listen to anyone elses rules. What's right for them might not apply to you or your specific scenario. Rules begin by taking away options and limiting you, something you definately don't want to do in writing. You must develop your own rules, and the way you do that is by writing. Practicing. Speaking of practicing...Everyone always says practice is the key. Practic Read more:Practice
, Talent
Nothing Important 2007-07-01 22:31:00 Well well well, I haven't posted in quite a while. You might think it's because I'm lazy, but actually I was in California on vacation (Okay, fine, I'm lazy anyways, but still...). For the first week and a half we visited family (we also went to Disney Land). The next week I went to a Christian retreat called Mount Hermon for a week. When we (me and my family) lived in California about 8 years ago, we would go up to this retreat every year. But this time around, I attended the senior high camp, which included grades 10-12. I was by myself for an entire week in a place I'd never been, and not a familiar soul within miles. It was great. I wasn't expecting it, but it was actually a really spiritually building experience. One of the speakers was amazing. Pastor by the name of Dave Jung. He did all his messages on the armor of God (mentioned in the last chapter of Ephesians). I will have to talk a bit about that sometime, but I'm to tired at this point. We arrived at our house in Con Read more:Nothing
The Modern Art Culture 2007-07-02 21:02:00 Well. I said I'd post on something interesting. At the moment I'm at a loss for interesting things, so I'll just post on a verse. The verse is this, James 4:4, and my NASB reads:You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.Boy. That hits you hard doesn't it. By trying to be a friend to the world, you are making yourself an enemy to God. Powerful. I don't think I can really 'preach' on this, but I think you can probably see for yourself where that verse applies to you. The book of James is sure packed with powerful stuff for such a short book. You should read through it sometime. I'm reading this book called "It Was Good Making Art to the Glory of God". It's a bunch of collected essays on making art from a christian worldview. One of the big questions is what should our art be about, or what should it depict, etc. Basically, it should depict all things Read more:Modern
Christian music 2007-07-06 20:48:00 So what exactly makes Christian
music Christian? Or, what should make Christian music Christian?Well, generally, I believe people think of Christian music as music that sings about God (or something relating to God). Okay, Okay, hold up here..... botheration.I was originally going to write this post--or at least I started with the intention of writing it--about how Christian music doesn't necessarily have to be about God, i.e. praising him, singing about how he did something, etc. But now that I think about it... everything written by a Christian should have a premise that God exists. Obviously, because that is the truth, and like I said in my last post, all art should correspond to truth. So... can we sing about anything besides God? The first question that probably comes to mind (I guess it shouldn't be the first one we think of but I'll explain that later) is, 'Is it sinful or bad to write about this?'. Take trees for example. Say you wanted to write a song about trees. Or Chee
Sacrifice 2007-07-16 17:17:00 My newest song... and as usual, please excuse my bad singing voice. At least I think my range is improving a little tiny bit, which is good. This song, at least in my opinion, has the best lyrics out of the bunch. But unfortuneatly, I can't say the same for the music. Rain is still probably my favorite in terms of music.Here are the lyrics for this one. It took me so long to write this song. I struggled and struggled but I couldn't come up with any music or lyrics. But finally, I got mad at a certain circumstance. In a sudden spur of the moment, tried to do what I thought God would want me to do... which actually made me feel pretty good (I wonder why...). But then I suddenly wrote pretty much the entire song in one short sitting. Amazing what inspiration (or emotion) can do to one. Anyways. The lyrics. Verse 1:And here we are,Stumbling in the lions denReveling in our pits of sinWill we ever get out againThe Dark is closeClosing in around us nowBlotting out the light and goodWe'd fi
Monks and Hermits 2007-07-20 06:00:00 I don't really know what to write about... as usual. But I'm going to write a post and see what comes up. Let's see. Ah. I've been thinking a lot about monks and hermits lately. I was talking to a friend of mine a couple days ago. I was telling him how I think I'd really love to be a hermit or monk (he said that he could see me doing that) but that I think God is calling me to something else. He burst out laughing, and I couldn't figure why. He said I was the only kid who dreams of becoming a hermit. So I've been wondering... did God take delight in the middle ages monks? I mean these guys were some serious Christians. They were always reciting psalms... praying... they basically did everything for God and tried their best to be perfect. Now I got to thinking, the monks are kind of taking themselves completely out of the world. I mean they're basically saying the world is evil (which it is, but there's also hope) and then removing themselves. Now I thought we were supposed to Read more:Hermits
Alone 2007-07-21 18:23:00 My newest song. It's kind of sad... but I have a half-excuse. Actually, most of the lyrics are from a poem a friend of mine wrote. The first verse and the chorus. It was weird, cause immediately after I read the poem... actually even while I was reading it for the first time, this tune popped into my head that fit the poem perfectly, so, I wrote this song. I actually like the music on this one. I think its up there with rain music wise. Here are the lyrics.Verse 1:I looked in her eyesAnd saw fearsI looked in her heartAnd saw tearsI heard her wordsAnd felt the painI heard her criesAnd saw the stainChorus:There she stood aloneNo one on her sideNo one was her friendSo alone she diedNo one held her upNo one found her nameWhen she cried for helpNo one cameVerse 2:Alone in the worldShe stood on sandAmong waves of griefSearching for landShe struggled every day of lifeFought the urge to end it with a knifeChorusVerse 3:On she stood through theStormy wavesBonded to destiny Like a slaveAnd Fina
Green Tea 2007-08-02 12:09:00 So. I just made a website about green tea. Go check it out. I took the pictures and wrote the articles too. Hopefully I'll be able to rank in the search engines soon and get some traffic flowing... then I can put some Adsense and maybe some affiliate links up there. The site is about green tea. Duh. I wrote two very short articles; one on health benefits, and another on weight loss. Then I took some pictures because everybody likes pictures. At least I do. The URL is...www.greenteaearth.comand a direct link:Green
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VBS and Predestination 2007-07-30 18:55:00 Ahem. My greatest apologies for not posting during the past week or so. Actually more like ten days or something. But last week, I was extraordinarily busy with VBS (I hope you know that that stands for vacation bible school, but if you don't... well, I just told you). So in '04 and '05, I was in the skit. Last year I was at summer school so I couldn't help out, but I sure made up for it this year. This year, the theme for our VBS was what they called sonforce. Basically a secret agent thing. Now don't ask me why they did that, cause secret agents and espionage and God don't really seem to mix... at least to me they don't. But the kids ate it up. So every day during the opening session thingy, I would dress up in a trench coat and sunglasses (I felt pretty cool) and then did a little talk about the days lesson, and stuff of that sort. Then I had to rush up to the media balcony and start playing sound affects and media for the skit that came right after me. And when they were doi
New Website 2007-08-04 06:44:00 Well. Time has progressed, and I think that I like blogging. So much so, that I bought a domain, and set up a Wordpress blog. I am currently in the process of transfering the articles on this site to my new site... which may take a couple of days. In the meantime, you're welcome to check out the new site at....www.hostilelegacy.com (pretty cool URL huh?)Hostile LegacyWhen I'm done with the site and transfer, I'll put up a post here redirecting to the new one.
Finally 2007-08-10 16:27:00 Alright. It was quite a pain, but I moved all of the posts from this blog to my new blog... and will now conduct business from that site (www.hostilelegacy.com). So, change your bookmarks and enjoy. SITE HAS BEEN MOVED... PLEASE FOLLOW THIS LINK TO:Hostile Legacy Read more:Finally
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