hi

new entry, so Laura can stop bugging me every time she talks to me.

 

two or three things:

1. I am a horrible, horrible blogger.

 

this is largely due to the fact that my life is so completely uninteresting to me, that i hardly think it fair to inflict the mind-numbing details of it on the two of you that read this. (hi mom, thanks for checking this every day!)

 

i work at subway... when i am not at work i am probably at church or hanging out with my girlfriend. thats pretty much it.

 

i did just discover that i have nearly 200 DVDs, another confirmation that i am a gigantic loser.

 

2. I am a horrible, horrible friend.

 

this is largely due to the fact that i have a new girlfriend, and i therefore spend most of my time with her, rather than hanging out with derek and cody (a clear violation of the "bros before hos" policy), or returning calls or emails from friends i made over the summer(sorry kristin).

 

3. Doug: i will be coming up to denver next fall... it turns out working at subway doesnt quite give me enough money to pay for CCU quite yet. I think i will be coming up on the 13th though, and staying in dever all day the 14th before i go to MxPx Relient K and Rufio... we should get together, cause i love you (in a completely nonsexual kind of way).

Hey everyone... (both of you)

 

I just got this groovy thing called Picasa, its a software that lets you do all kinds of fun things with any digital pictures you have.

 

It finds, organizes and displays all your pictures, and then it lets you do some really cool things with them.

the best part is its free, and it synchs up with Blogger and GMail automatically.

 

I am adding a photo album of some pictures that i have messed with in Picasa... Enjoy!

 

Dave

First post in so freakin long... oh well

 

Went with the Kids from Trinity Lutheran up to the Denver Rescue Mission last night. We helped out at a place called The Crossing, which i gather is a sort of recovery/transitional facility for homeless people. It is in an old hotel in a rather industrial neighborhood in Denver. The kids did an awesome job deep-cleaning the kitchen for an upcoming inspection.

 

The Kitchen at the Crossing is run by about 3 guys that prepare 3 meals a day for about 100-115 residents. The head chef said he puts in about 80-90 hours a week. All their food is donated from local stores and restaurants, and they have regular volunteers that come help with serving and cleanup.

 

The kids also served the meal and bused tables for about an hour.

 

After that we decided to bust downtown and go the Scum of the Earth Church, and catch a service there.

Scum is a church for "the left out and the right brained" (to quote their founding pastor) that caters to young adults and teenagers that are not welcome or not comfortable at other, more traditional churches.

1Co 4:11-13  To the present hour we hunger and thirst, we are poorly dressed and buffeted and homeless, and we labor, working with our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure; when slandered, we entreat. We have become, and are still, like the scum of the earth, the refuse of all things.

 

The attendees run the gamut from homeless to upper class, and from goth to business. There were kids with mohawks, piercings, chains, and tatoos. We need to strive to be the kind of people that will welcome those that are "Left out" in "proper society." Jesus even says that how we treat the socially outcast is how we treat Him!

 THREE NAMES YOU GO BY:
1. Dave
2. David
3. John

THREE PHYSICAL THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. height...
2. my bum knee... it gets me out of stuff
3. the cool catch in my wrist that freaks people out

THREE PHYSCIAL THINGS YOU HATE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. Hmm... height kinda sux
2. my bum knee, it hurts a lot
3. the catch in my wrist that makes it hard to strum right

THREE THINGS THAT SCARE YOU:
1. heights
2. guns
3. the road to cabin 5

THREE OF YOUR EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS:
1. Bible
2. guitar
3. black

THREE THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW:
1. my One Campaign wristband
2. a G-String (from a bass guitar)
3. some shirt I got in Hong Kong

 

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE BANDS (or artists(at the moment)):
1. Five Iron Frenzy
2. Anberlin
3. Michael Buble (dont laugh at me... standards rock)

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE SONGS AT PRESENT:
1. Every New Day -- Five Iron Frenzy
2. Paperthin Hymn -- Anberlin
3. Psalm 13 -- Shane & Shane

THREE NEW THINGS YOU WANT TO TRY IN THE NEXT 12 MONTHS
1. Learn the Mandolin
2. the zip line at camp (still gotta work on that fear of heights thing)
3. playing shows... or something

THREE PHYSICAL THINGS ABOUT THE OPPOSITE SEX THAT APPEAL TO YOU:
1. Eyes...
2. Smile...
3. Is personality physical?

 

THREE THINGS YOU JUST CAN'T DO:
1. play flute
2. eat things that still have eyes in them
3. walk on water

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE HOBBIES:
1. Guitar
2. Singing
3. Your Mom

 

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO REALLY BADLY RIGHT NOW:
1. Get a neck massage... (why do we really need those muscles?)
2. sleep...
3. yeah... sleep.

THREE CAREERS YOU'RE CONSIDERING:
1. Rock Star
2. High School History Teacher/washed up rock star
3. Youth/Music Ministry (for seriously)

THREE PLACES YOU WANT TO GO ON VACATION:
1. Hong Kong
2. London
3. Alaska

THREE KID'S NAMES
1. Aaron Vaughn
2. Katherine Elizabeth
3. John Patrick

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE:
1. buy every possible combination of lottery numbers
2. end world hunger (hey, shoot high, that way if you miss... it comes back down and kills you)
3. citizen's arrest a cop

If I were a month I would be March
If I were a day of the week I would be Sunday
If I were a time of day I would be 2:42am
If I were a planet I would be Jupiter... Big and Gassy... j/k
If I were a sea creature I would be a Sea Horse, cause they are cool
If I were a direction I would be UP
If I were a piece of furniture I would be
If I were a sin I would be Sloth
If I were an historical figure I would be some guy that was important to the people who knew him, but thats about it
If I were a liquid I would be Nyquil
If I were a stone, I would be quartz...
If I were a tree, I would be a butterscotch pine tree, cause they are the coolest (BFCCC REPRESENT!)
If I were a bird, I would be something flightless and extict
If I were a flower/plant, I would be a dandelion(!!!!)
If I were a kind of weather, I would be rainy, cool, and not windy
If I were a musical instrument, I would be a theremin... cause yeah
If I were an animal, I would be a Liger (please shoot me for saying that)
If I were a color, I would Be
If I were an emotion, I would be confusion
If I were a vegetable, I would be brussels sprouts
If I were an element, I would be ununoctium
If I were a song, I would be Canteloupe Island, by Herbie Hancock... mostly made up as it goes along
If I were a food, I would be Dim Sum (!)
If I were a place, I would be White Rocks...
If I were a material, I would be t-shirt fabric
If I were a taste, I would be watery?
If I were a scent, I would be buttescotch pine tree
If I were a word, I would be inconceivable
If I were a subject in school I would be history
If I were a shape I would be a dodecahedron
If I were a number I would be 42!!

ok seriously... how do rock stars write lyrics all the time? im killin myself to come up with words for three songs, and most pros write like 10-12 at a time... crazy

 

anyhoo this is gonna be a short one, gotta do laundry and write more words... just needed to gripe a little

I am reading John Piper's A Godward Life right now... and I picked up some cool quotes I wanted to put up here.

 

"We are halfhearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like and ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot understand what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased." -- C. S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

 

"I am a creature of a day. I am a spirit come from God, and returning to God. I want to know one thing: the way to heaven. God himself has condescended to teach me the way. He has written it down in a book. Oh, give me that book!" --John Wesley 

 

"God is most glorified in me when I am most satisfied in Him." --John Piper

 

so... a week of hiking around, getting 3-4 hours of sleep, and yelling at middle schoolers really takes it out of you...

 

Three quarters of Darkness Fails got to spend a week leading worship at a Jr High Music, Art and Drama camp June 26th - July 2nd, it was a good time. Except I shredded  my voice from singing high and loud for about 2 hours a day in really dry air. Oh well.

 

July 16th we are playing a short show at Praise in the Park, at Pioneer Park in Sterling, CO... we are probably going to debut a couple of new songs there...