New Song Thursday

I heard this song in a video that invisible children did awhile ago. I forgot about it then last night a show I was watching the Philanthropist dont waste your time. Its just ok. Anyway I heard this song again. It sucks you in. Its in french so it could be about buying new shoes but I dont really care at this point. I have only listened to part of the album and I wouldn’t say I’m about to buy the whole thing but that song. Anyway give it a listen.

2/8 Life, New Albums, Tonight

So I was turned on to these guys a couple days ago by the great Steven Bush activist, father, musician, lover fighter…ive now worn it out. There is a particular song that causes me to pause.  Poison and Wine. Maybe one day I’ll figure out why.

I had an interesting conversation this week about blogs. Whether they are diaries or not.  Its a good conversation. It came to mind this week when I started watching 2/8 life. Interesting online show. It starts out with a girl wanting to chronicle her life through a video blog. Now these kids were in middle school while I was in highschool but I dont think we are too different.  We all were raised by parents that believed that a nice home a good job and a beautiful mate is who and what we were meant to have.  I think some of us have disappointed. Some of us are right on track.  So how does the conversation on blogs or this show fit. Well I don’t know if it does. Here is what I think.  There are a few of us that have realized that, that dream isn’t what we had in mind. We sit up at night and contemplate the meaning of life through our blogs or website or whatever you call it. (there is some debate on what a blog is).  Maybe its because we are wired that way or we are trying to channel what our parent’s once dreamed of until their parents snapped them back into reality.  Now with our single families we see that that 50′s family is broken and some of us cling to our faith while other just blow in the wind. Moving from one cause to no cause to nothing. Maybe its a little bit too late.  And this album may be getting a little sad. I may need to put on some Black eyed peas before too long.  Lets have some fun. Tomorrow I’m going to try something.  I’m going to think of just what I will do for the next hour. Baby steps.  Well check out those links. You wont be disappointed.

Oh and sometimes we write here because its better than doing and saying nothing. Too bad we have to be grown ups some times. I’m listening to a new album right now but i’ll let you know about that later.

drew

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Videos that make me smile

These are a few videos that over time have made me smile. So I thought I would share them with you. Haven’t been smiling a lot. I like to go back to them every once in a while. Enjoy.

tick tick tick tick

So. This video is about my day.

I dont have a bunch to say but I’ll give you a little update on the old life. Wednesday I hung out with a friend Hannah. Watched a whole episode of American Idol her. It was good times.  Paula Abdul is crazy.
This morning had a great run. I may have ran past your home. On thursday after work I’ll be by Samford track if anyone wants to come.
Had a meeting. No fun
Had a meeting. Some fun
Had a meeting. hmmmm
Re-edited something…not so much
Had a headache that start this morning. Sucks

You know I’m feeling a lot better. Tomorrow is Thursday it’s going to be a great.  Going to give the staff a surprise tomorrow.

He’s Back

Well Ive been gone for  a week and I know I haven’t been missed. Back to cacophony of bad grammar and spelling bonanza. Enough of that I have to talk about  a new show that for some reason Ive started to watch.  I have a love hate relationship with Mtv. One I hate it when they treat teenagers as a commodity and then I love that they give them air time to just talk. I will go months without it in my life then suddenly it all comes back and I find my self watching hours upon hours.  Right now I’m watching a show called Taking the stage its a show kinda like Fame (some of you will know that)  only its a reality show. How reality is unsure. When they are practicing there is suddenly a smooth dolly shot that rings the dancer. Did he get that on the first try? Hmmm. Anyway you should check it out. So i’m real jealous.

In other news. I went to see Hannah in a play last night. I have to admit I liked it.  (Pause) They are doing Pedro the movie.  My generation knows that is the guy on real world that died of AIDs. Wow I’m getting old.  Any way I went to see Hannah’s play “Over the woods and ___” Old people can be real funny.  It was good to see her do her thing.  Today will be writing idea day. I’m heading to Erin’s church today then a Starbucks to work come look me up at patton creek bucks. (back)  I’d like to shrink my world a bit.  It is a smaller church so I wanted to check it out.

Oh and here is a rough draft of a video that we are working on.  It won’t be played like this. But it’s a little taste. We shot this at Ramsay highschool.  The guy in the video is part of a dance group at his church. Today I’m going to figure out how to put that in a video.  Well here you go.

Road This s an excerpt from This American life episode.  Someting for nothing. Ok now I’m done.

this is the real deal

there is so much that I could say. So much. It is weird to be on the other side. I’m at a world changers event. I dont really know about it but the yellow hats camp out.  Some of you know what I’m talking about.  Schedules are out the window.  Right now the boys in my room are debating basketball.  Yeah I know nothing about that. Absolutely nothing one good thing. Internet who knew that in wiggins alabama we have wifi…that’s something.  Ok I’m going to collect my thoughts. I’ll talk to you later.

drew

Ok I’m back because I want to talk about today a little bit. It has been great being around these guys. I found that Im not the goofy guy. I actually am so curious about their life that I dont want to waste it just goofing off and trying to be the funny guy.  Like take Mark “I’m going to change their names because they can find this by just looking up my name”…I hear that he’s picked on at school or the leader who doesnt alway want to lead but will take the roal. Or the girl that is figuring out how to be a woman in a world that preys on them. Don’t get me started on how pissed I am at men. Or it could be the friends that are realizing that they are on the outside of this group..Any way they are all here.  Its such a short trip its hard to imagine anything can happen here. Funny thing is I think God could do something. Here are the awsome things that I have seen so far. A schedule that has been thrown out the window. We really dont know what is going to happen at the next moment. Worship leader seems like a real nice guy. This is low tech which is good for these kids. For some reason they try to let tech stuff creep in and well it was real bad. Video was real bad but hey they tried.  Note to other org.  tech is not the answer to everything. If you dont have it be real we’ll enjoy that more than you trying. It really is ok. I’ll post some pictures of all the SL stuff that I saw today. JLC tshirts, lanyards on the main dude. We have infiltrated the small church. How did that happened. Must go to bed soon. Chatting with Amber so I got to go.

Peace

post post post

I hate editing photos. I stole this kinda bold the first line from donald miller’s blog. I kinda like it…I haven’t read a word of his work but I hear he’s real good. Anyway. I started to edit a bunch of photos of my self. That’s kinda pretentious right.  Well I’m writing my “about m”e or “not writing.” I’m going about it a little different hence the pictures. It will all come together.  Eric the guy who’s a whole lot better than I am at taking, editing, and everything in between took some photos for me.  I started tonight and realized dang this is a lot of photos to go through. I’ll keep working on it. That’s why the picture is below.  This is a little taste of what I’m working on.

More to come on that project.

Is it really that hard out there? I used that phrase a couple of times the other day when describing dating.  It came about because of a situation that I wont really mention here but, is it really that hard out there.  Dating.  I’m not a dater. I have had friends that were and I envied them.  Not so much about the dating part but how simple it was.  Dont get me wrong I’ve had plenty. You ladies know who you are. Obviously they didn’t turn out exactly how I wanted but it was a learning process.  I dont believe that there is this one person out there. I do believe that the ultimate goal in life is not to be married.  That was a weird way to say that.  Anyway are some people that hard up.

It sucks when you can’t come up with anything. Today a co-worker of mine had us in a brainstorm meeting trying to come up with some videos for a summer thing we do.  I wish stuff came to me fast.  It doesn’t and some times I have to write it out and still I dont think its that good.  The people I work with are always coming up with good ideas. I on the other had come up with three good ideas a year. Sometimes its enough to live on and other times… Well I blow it.  I try to stay real quiet so I dont ruin other people’s thoughts. Ok this is getting long.

New t-shirt design. Let me know how many you want.

need to meet

I’m two days into the new blog. I feel like I didnt do anything today and I didnt start going through emails until I got home. That is not a good day. I had a little freak out moment when a bunch of the guys were in my office. Switching between creative…administrative..managerial…well you get the point. I felt I wasnt doing either of those well.  I just finished writing couple video ideas that I hope my partners will make better and I’m thinking about working on some photos.  I probably won’t ….I’ve been thinking of working out before bed but I think I will leave it for the morning and keep on my routine. As you can tell I’m starting to shut down.  I’m planning on visiting a church this weekend.  More on that later. (That’s what you say when you doing really want to talk about it but you like bringing it up)

So they’ve been saying that people more easily talk about financial problems. I’m not about to start but I was talking to Hannah the other day about a great This American Life that gave us a great break down of how we got to where we are. Dont worry it’s not a partisan thing. I’ll link it here. Giant Pool of Money Then once you listen to that. Here is one on the banking system real cool. I’m actually in the middle of this one. Bad Bank Well I hope this helps. Hey keep you chin up.  I’ll tell you about my dating life in the next post. That’ll cheer you up.

I remember what I was going to write about my friends AAron and BUsh are in Haiti doing something very ultra cause driven for compassion. Well they told us to tell others so here is me telling others.  If you want to follow them

BLOG & TWITTER LINKS:
bush blog: www.stevenbush.org
bush twitter: www.twitter.com/stevenbush
ivey blog: www.aaronivey.com
ivey twitter: www.twitter.com/aaronivey

I just got word that they didnt make it to Haiti today…weather.