My 15 year old son Christian, has uploaded two of his songs on his band site:fair weather friendit is the first time that he has made public his singing talents. He did all the vocals, guitar, drums, mixing etc...all him.
I dig this video. I don't know it's just fun. It reminds me of "ye-ole-youth-pastoring days". One of the blessings of working with teens, especially teen girls, was the laughter. So many memories of laughing. This video captures the "spunk" of teen girls that I loved. Attitude, playfulness and oh so hip. I'm not a big rap fan but Lil' mama can rap, I've always liked Avril, so the remix of "girlfriend" with these two is jammin. 
If you dig to far into my family past, you might not like what you find. You see, my family has got stories...really sick, perverted stories. Some of them can make your skin crawl...but that’s my family. Depraved, possibly cursed but family still. See, way back my old grandma’s slept with their father. In fact, ended up getting pregnant by him...and wanted it to happen. Yep, we have issues in my family. Getting knocked up by dad...doesn’t sit well with most religious folks. Imagine being raised with that over your head...your granddad is your dad...that can mess with your mind. 
How terrible it will be for those who make unfair laws, and those who write laws that make life hard for people. They are not fair to the poor, and they rob my people of their rights. They allow people to steal from widows and to take from orphans what really belongs to them. (Is 10:1-2 NCV)
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." -Martin Luther King, Jr
Pray for the people of Burma and the brave monks that are leading the protests. Pray that the blood of the people will awaken international action. That the sacrifice of the sons and daughters of Burma will not be in vain. And remember our Lord said: "No one has greater love than this, that one should lay down his life for his friends.- John 15:13
This buddist monk lifts a upside down rice bowl in definace of the Burmese dictatorship. He is standing in the face of a military tiger that eats its own...with no remorse.
KID NATION: I didn't think I would like this, but I did. At first it seemed a bit cruel but then I realized that my reaction was a byproduct of our soft culture sensitivity forced-education seeping through. Buck up you sniveling knee-biters and get out there and see that you can survive without mommies cookies and tv. I dig it.
SURVIVORMAN: More tame than Man VS Wild but a little more realistic too. I watched a recent behind the scenes show and they showed some clips of a cobra in a nest that they almost got bitten by...it was intense. Real stuff, real dude, real good. 
HEROES: Eh....well, I loved the first season, but the first show this season was...ok. Come on flying boy hovering outside teen girls window...every boys fantasy but not good tv. I hope it picks up.
PRISON BREAK: This show is getting tired but I liked the last season...but how much can you do with a show called Prison Break...before breaking out is boring. We will see.
Battlestar Galactica: This is the show I cant wait to see this season.
My one request before I die...well, I have a few others, but for the sake of the post...would some really fantastic studio/director please put Edgar Rice Burroughs Martian Chronicles into a butt kicking film. If you want to read a great SCI-FI fantasy book, read the first book in the series: "A Princess of Mars".
I should of listened to the Ranger when he said : "You know the berries are all gone and the bear are hungry"...or when the camp host who was still at the closed campsite, waiting for his grandson to come from "Missoreeeee" to hunt bear said he was talking to an hunter he called "the bear man" and he said there was a grizzly up on trapper Creek that enters upper Priest. Or how he had to chase 5 black bears out of camp that summer and how a grizzly was seen in Nordman, an area not to far from Beavercreek where I was talking to him. But none of that really sunk in until I was miles from civilization at a deserted little camp area on upper Priest lake. I didn't really think much about bears, cougars or the absence of people until it started growing dark and my outpost "camp gunna die" started getting darker.
of course about this time the noises start getting louder...and now looking back, I was camped by a creek that poured into the lake...not sure if it was called Trapper's creek. The fire was comforting but my little buck knife just didn't seem that menacing in the face of a 500 bear or Bigfoot. I was frustrated. I had painstakingly hauled all my gear via canoe up t this lake via a 2.5 mile beautiful river to this pristine mountain lake to play Grizzly Adams and forgot about safety. But as I sat there, looking at the 'bear proof" metal containers for storing your food in, that every camp site has...I realized, I didn't have what it took to stay the night out there...alone.
In an effort to document my travels, journeys, adventures and expeditions in the great North West..I will be posting photos and video in the coming days. I will link to the galleries of these most glorious treks here in the side bar and at the WILDMAN site.
"One who has just come from reading perhaps one of the best English books will find how many with whom he can converse about it...our reading, our conversation and thinking, are all on a very low level, worthy only of pygmies and manikins." -Thoreau
This movie could have been so much better...2 stars for me. I think it has THE WORST dialogue in a movie I have ever seen...oh, it was horrible! Cliche, choppy, painfully acted...but the story was not bad and the action was ok. I love vikings and this movie has some bad dudes in it but it was just way over the top...the violence was trying to be brutal and the costumes for the vikings were almost comical. It's too bad, I wanted to like this movie.
