It’s been awhile since my last entry, but that doesn’t mean there haven’t been several new adventures for us. First, Amy and I finally got away for a weekend this month to Orlando. I mixed business with vacation, but it worked well to get us some time to just “us” […]
Month: September 2011
We Recommend: Listener, “Wooden Heart”
Dan Smith, formerly known as Listener as a part of the Deepspace 5 collective, got together with guitarist Chris Nelson, and then applied the name “Listener” to the duo’s band name. Listener’s latest offering Wooden Heart is a treasure amongst indie rock albums. The music doesn’t really follow any rules of music, unless it […]
“Pop Rally Tour Blog 1” by The Great Transparency
Good morning, and greetings from the ever-trusty, never-rusty IBM ThinkPad! We’re here in beautiful Canton, MI. Technically this could be considered a “Day 2” blog, but we’ll make up for it tonight. Last night kicked off the much anticipated “Pop Rally Tour”. We played a solo show here in Canton, […]
“Forgiving Your Friends” by Charles F. Stanley
Friendships bring us great joy, but they can also cause immense pain when people we love and trust fall short. If you haven’t experienced rejection or betrayal yet, you will someday. Having a relationship with God doesn’t make us immune to the hurts of this life, but it does help […]
We Recommend: Blindside, “About A Burning Fire”
Ah, Blindside. These Swedish hard rockers arrested my attention in 2002 with the release of Silence. That album was an intriguing mix of hardcore elements with a melodic rock sound. While it may still be one of my favorites by the band, their follow-up About A Burning Fire further developed the sound they […]
10 Years Later: Relient K, “The Anatomy of the Tongue in Cheek”
I still remember walking around the electronics section of Wal-Mart at the age of 17 with the money from my part time minimum wage job burning a hole in my pocket. At that time in my life, I was really just starting to build my massive collection of albums (which […]