birthday money well spent

The other day, at the doorstep of the big snow storm, I ventured to guitar center to spend my birthday money. I’m very pleased with what I got. I bought two new pedals for my electric guitar, a Boss TU-2 Chromatic Tuner and a Visual Sound Jekyll & Hyde Ultimate Overdrive. I absolutely love the Boss! The best part is, is that it powers all the rest of my pedals. I no longer have a use a big bulky powerstrip on my undersized, home-made suitcase, pedal board.

I was a little leary of the Jekyll & Hyde but I took the salespersons advice and gave it a whirl on a pseudo set-up of my gear. I ended up liking it a lot. I went with the intention to get the Ibanez Tube Screamer. The cool part about the Jekyll & Hyde is that it has an overdrive side and a distortion side. The overdrive side is modeled after the Tube Screamer’s 70′s model (this is the one that everybody tries to get). All in all, I’m very happy with my purchase it has definitely added depth to my electric guitar and I no longer have to use the factory overdrive on my amp.

There hasn’t been a day that has gone by that I haven’t played the Telecaster (which is odd). I’ve really enjoyed it with my new pedals. Who knows maybe I’ll start playing it out a little more!

storm

Storm is a video I made for student gathering at church for our Jonah series. It is video of the ocean while a storm was rolling in over vacation in Myrtle Beach. The text includes Jonah’s prayer from inside the fish and the audio is Lifehouse’s song, “Storm”. I think this song provides an interesting Christocentric lens over the text from the Old Testament.

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You Are God

Ok, so here is a song I’ve been working on. It’s called You Are God. It’s a little pitchy in places and definitely far from perfect but I wanted to get your thoughts and feelings on it. Please leave constructive ideas and encouraging words!

The cool feature about Viddler is that you can point your mouse on the timeline and insert a comment in the video! Try it.

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buca di pictures

Alright, I’ve uploaded some new pictures to the visual sweets page. They are pictures from a restaurant we visited while in Michigan. We had the opportunity to eat in the ever so reverent pope room. It was a fun and…spiritual time?

stagnance is boring

Well, so far my site has been very stagnant.  Obviously, I just changed the whole look of it because it didn’t work anymore with some updates I had to make.  But I added some recent pictures I’ve taken on the “visual sweets” page.  You should check them out.

Over the next month and a half I’ll be traveling to Michigan, Cincinnatti, South Carolina, Washington DC and Maryland.  Hopefully, with all of that traveling I’ll have some new stuff for my website.  Keep checking back for new stuff.  Also, feel free to leave a comment at any time.