Wow. Cynthia and I have been married for 8 years today! Cynthia has been so supportive of me and my ministry with Cornwall and Roosevelt Community Church. She has supported me in school and cheered me on the entire way. She was a very important part of Loa coming to this world. She has laughed at my jokes even when they weren’t funny. With her I’ve shared many laughs, many secrets, many joys, and many kisses. I love her!
If you’ve ever read this blog before, you would know that I am semi consistant with my updates. A lot of people have been taking what nerds are calling a “blogatical”, or a sabatical from blogging. I was one of those people. I took a blogatical because I was uninspired, and didn’t want to write things just to blog. Lame. I just didn’t have anything to say so I took a break. But these days I am thinking a bit more and I think I have a bit to say. So with that, I’m back to blogging on a more regular basis.
Also, a bit has happened over the summer! Here are some of the highlights…
1. I left Starbucks. I am now an employee of a local coffee shop called the Woods Coffee. I appreciate the Woods’ ideals of being in the community and constantly trying to find ways to support the local economy and businesses. It’s been an interesting change to say the least. I work in the ferndale store, which is a beautiful store. Of course there are differences that I love and hate, but in this economy, I’m just glad I have a job! One thing I will say is that the customers tip well at The Woods.
2. It was HOT this summer! We reached 90+ degrees on a couple of days. which is not normal for us here in Bellingham, WA, but The Brown Kid liked it (do you like the use of third person there?). I thought it was funny though how people were constantly complaining. “Think about this past winter”, I would tell him. We had a lot of snow storms. It was ugly. Global warming?
3. I’m a dad still. I officially turned in my “cool card” today actually, because I bought Loa the CD, “Elmo’s Best”. I feel twitches coming on though. It could get ugly around here. I showed her the YouTube video of “Elmo’s Song”, and when we listened to the CD, she was looking around for Elmo. It was cute and sad at the same time.
4. I started a band! Here in the Northwest, there is a big Hawaiian population (including yours truly). One day I thought to myself that there are no Hawaiian bands around here, but I know that I am not the only hawaiian who listens to hawaiian music. So I put an ad in Craigslist, jsut to see what would happen. We call ourselves “Kanakapila”. It is a hawaiian word for a “jam session”. It fits. We have a drummer, bass, guitar, and slide guitar. We do covers of island music and are writing a few originals. Think Traditional Hawaiian Music meets Island Music meets Reggae meets Jack Johnson meets Jawaiian meets Cheesy Hotel Music. This is kind of the span that we cover.
5. Cynthia turned 30. We had a party for her and a bunch of friends came out and celebrated. It was an amazing day. The sunset was beautiful, the breeze off teh water was light, and lots of food, friends, and fun was had.
6. I started a mini blog for RCC’s Creative Arts over at museministries.wordpress.com . This is going to be where I post more ideas on worship and teh worship life at RCC and in the Church as a whole. I’m going to try to keep it up.
See you soon!
the brown kid
My friend Ben Pries is getting married tomorrow. I finished my best man speech today. I give it tomorrow. I was sweating bullets for a bit, but then I found the answer. If you are ever in a pickle to find a speech for a wedding, do what I did and google “wedding speech”. You will read the same speech over and over (because they are all the same) until you realize that it’s really not as hard as you are making it. I did not follow the format though. I came to the realization that I can write something just as good, if not better than the crap on these sites. Mission Accomplished.
Congratulations Ben and Shannon. May God Bless You with health, happiness, and a baby someday that Loa can play with.
Say what you will about his shady past, about how you would never leave your kids with him or whatever. I don’t care about him paying money to a kid to settle out of court. I don’t care what he did. Michael was never charged. The man was an icon. The man started a movement in music that has yet to be touched. When I was a kid, my mom asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, and I kid you not, I looked her dead in the eye and said, “Michael Jackson”. Michael Jackson raised the bar, and everytime he came back, the bar got higher. Michael Jackson set the standard. Michael Jackson is the standard. Michael Jackson will always be the King of Pop. RIP MJ. You continually inspire the brown kid and for that I thank you.
At staff meeting we had an interesting discussion about search engines and the statistic of the #1 searched item in Porn of some kind. Wayne Park and I began to discuss how people find our sites, because due to the beauty of wordpress blogs you can see searches that led people to your site ( it don’t think blogspot has this feature, at least it didn’t when I was on blogspot before I switched). Anyways, wayne said because of a blog entry he did about Song of Songs and marriage, he gets a lot of people looking involving “sex with my wife”. Eugene Cho had discussed this same issue. He gets a lot of people seaching for “Asian women”.
So, me? What are people looking for when the stumble across the brown kid? The most popular one is “Douchebag”.
People warned me about it, but i didn’t believe them. But it happened. It came like a thief in my ice cream. I gained weight. I gained weight in a big way. Some call it daddy fat and others call it baby fat, but i call it fat. I haven’t weighed myself, but my before Loa was born I got down to around 210. Now I am guesstimating i’m hanging at around 230. And so, I introduce the Summer of Change.
Summer of Change is a way for me to reflect on different areas of my life: Physically, Spiritually, Mentally, and Artistically. So with that I introduce you to (and invite you to join) the Summer of Change.
Welcome.
One of my blog friends asked me about the newer hate speech bill passed and how it will affect the church, as the democrats were the ones who passed it (I flew my democrat flag pretty high during the elections). I’ve been thinking about this for some time. In fact, check the date on his blog here and you’ll see how long (and what I am talking about).
I guess the gist of the Hate Speech Bill is that any speech against Gays will be a federal hate crime. If this is true then pastors speaking out against homosexuality are fearful that they could be arrested for their sermons on the abominations of homosexual behaviors.
In a nutshell here are my two cents that took me forever to come up with:
What about all the sermons that are blatantly against other religions? The sermons that speak out against Islam post 9/11? What are we to do with these sermons? Are these not as bad as sermons against homosexuality? These types of sermons are still going on as well. Therefore, I don’t believe that we will see any pastors being arrested in the near future. Unless there is some kind of dramatic reaction from the church (i.e. violence), this bill is being blown out of proportion and will probably just be something that we will recieve as spam from our friends in our emails.
I love sunday on memorial day weekend because we get to see who didn’t wear sunscreen on saturday. Every year this happens. Every year it’s funny. I love the smell of sunscreen too. It reminds me of late spring-summer.
I wear sunscreen almost everyday. I read somewhere that pacific islanders are more prone to melanoma. I don’t know if this is truth or theory but I’m not taking chances.
I read this today and laughed. If you are not familiar with Danger Mouse, he is a wonderful producer who worked with people like the Black Keys, Beck, and is one half of Gnarls Barkley. Perhaps one of his more infamous things is when he produced the Grey Album, a mash up of Jay-Z’s “The Black Album” and the Beatles “The White Album”. Genius work, I must say.
So anyway, Danger Mouse is back in the news after his latest release “Dark Night of the Soul”. He sold it with a blank CD-R inside instead of a CD. Why? Apparantly in fear of what EMI would do. From what I gather, they can sue him after his whole Grey Album ordeal.
So what are fans to do with a blank CD-R? I guess download the album from a site somewhere else and burn a copy. It is times like these that I get excited for where music is headed. I read that Green Day did the same thing a few years back, but the king of this is Trent Reznor. If you have 15 minutes, watch this YouTube Vid below from the guys from techdirt.com . It will blow your mind if you are a music geek like me…
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