separating the men from the boys...

my schedule for tomorrow:

noon - 2: wake up, shower, pack up drum stuff, go to margies and relax.

2 - 3: load stuff in car, drive to ft. collins, set up for what about pluto? rehearsal.

3 - 430: rehearse, tear down, load stuff in cars, drive to venue.

5 - 7: load in at everyday joes, soundcheck, set up merch, chill with the locals.

7 730: playing drums for man the moon [filling in for zack].

730-10: chillax with more locals.

10 - 10:45: playing drums for what about pluto? [filling in for nobody].

11ish - 1230ish - tear down, sell merch, schmooze everyday joes people, load stuff in car, drive home.

1ish: party at my friend jeds house!

what a day, friends... what a day.

For Wednesday night -

Hey, I was thinking about putting this under the comments on the Worship Plan post, but in case people don't look at the comments as often I'm gonna do it here...

For putting together the media stuff, I will need all the materials for it - feel free to bring anything you think might be good to include, but these are the things I know I'll have to have soon:

• The Weather Man movie - Eric
• Greeley Pictures - Ryan, anybody else who has some
• Songs you want incorporated - everybody (I don't know if we have any of these for sure, but now's the time...)
• Worship Lyrics - Some of these are probably on the computer at Atlas, but I guess one way or another we'll need to find them. I know Justin and Ryan's songs might not be on there, so I'll need those.
• Disposable camera pictures - Do we want these to be incorporated? I can scan them in if we do.
• Poems - I don't know if we want any of these displayed, if so, let me know. Also remember the litany and other general written stuff.
• Scriptures - Right now I'm seeing Genesis 1 and 2. I can get these myself in NIV, but if we need anything more specific than that, or a smaller/more specific part of the passage, say the word.

This probably isn't an exhaustive list, but if you guys can just be thinking about what things you've worked on that we will need, just bring it and I'll get it ready to go. You can email it to me, - werepants@gmail.com - bring a cd, usb stick, memory card, hard copy of pictures or text, or whatever format you've got.

I think that's everything... be safe out there

Worship plan

So, Tim is still being a cheater and not making an account, but he sent me the worship plan to post, so here it is:


Restoration
April 27th, 2008

Open- Welcome and Prayer (talk about slides underneath being pictures of Greeley, original works...)
Reading Gen. 2 account of Adam and Eve (Ben playing trumpet piece)
Reading of Litany of Restoration Scripture (with music building)
"All Who are Thirsty"

Restoration of Person to God

"I Need Thee Every Hour" (with Harmonica. Flows right into song from "All Thirsty")
"Ryan's Song"

Karen Badly shares

Restoration of Person to Self
clip from "The Weather Man" (I am fastfood)
Time of Confession (Where in life do you feel like you are not who you're meant to be?)
"Fix You"
"Be Thou My Vision"
"Breathed in Me" (Justin performs acoustically)

Restoration of Person to Creation
Video of "Planet Earth" (Aaron creates)
"All Creatures of Our God and King" (end by reading Gen. 1)

Restoration of Person to People
Eric Long's Hospital poem
"Give Me Your Hand" (by A. Strumpel)
Mosaic Activity (take something that was broken...create something out of it?)
"All Who Are Thirsty" (recap)

End
Read "Restoration Wedding" (Sam Performs)
Video of Kids reading Restoration
Band outro's with "Bitter Sweet Symphony"

***Please walk yourself through the evening in your head. If there's something that doesn't fit, comment on it. Offer things we could change... I feel like each section should have some scripture in it. Any ideas?

FreeCulture deploys in New York

So, this group called Free Culture is offering a prize of 1 iPod shuffle to whoever takes the best pictures in Manhattan on Friday, March 28th.

Here's the original post.

To be included, pictures have to be Creative Commons licensed, which means that they can be legally distributed, printed, copied, and/or used in derivative works, while still allowing credit to be given where it's due. It's a very pro-creative license, encouraging people to share art and make more of it.


I think it is kind of neat that this just happens to fall right around the same time as our proposed photo-expedition in Greeley. Also, I think it is an amazing way to help the community come together and contribute to a common cause.

What if we did something like this in the future - got some sort of prize together, asking businesses to donate or whatever, and then created a massive collection of all the photos - it could be a website, or a flickr group, or whatever.

The things I like about the idea: community building, getting people out and about on the streets of Greeley, showing people beauty in places that they never would've seen before, and getting basically a huge stock photo type collection - I could see this as a potential benefit to all sorts of Greeley-based organizations, just having a huge base of area-relevant images for presentations or marketing materials or just as something to hang on the walls.

What do you all think? Is there enough interest in Greeley? Would it flop? Are there any other benefits/challenges you can think of?

I love Bradley Hathaway

I do. I really do. But you will too. I don't remember if Eric or someone read this once or not... sorry if he did and I'm just being repetitious...

I went to Bradley Hathaway's show on Saturday in Ft. Collins, and it was AMAZING. I've seen him once before, read and heard some of his stuff and always liked it... but this show was really just an awesome, spiritual time. Really... it was a time of worship. it was a time of meditation, of reflection, of crying out to God, of celebrating His love... even just as I sat there in my chair and drank my hazelnut latte and closed my eyes and soaked in the words...

this is from his old cd... but he read it then, and i'd love to share it now.

Celebration Wedding

Bradley Hathaway

This is for the ones whose hope is falling
And you no longer hear your savior's calling.

This is for the ones whose backs are turning
And that passion-filled heart you once had has stopped burning.

This is for the ones abandoned.
Now all alone with no solace
and you think you're stranded.

This is for you empty, by life branded,
That had a vision that took leap, but it never landed.

This is for the ones who are plagued.
By those mysteries of life.
And you feel torn inside
by this mind of spirit and strife.

This is for the ones whose desire to do good is always outweighed
and you don't do as you should.

This is for the ones who mistakes are too many to count
and the guilt on your chest just continues to mount.

This is for the ones who have been done wrong by sins.
At the corrupted hands of perverted men.

Hold on.
HOLD ON!

Because soon will come the Celebration Wedding
and bundles of restoration will be our bedding.

Soon will come the Celebration Wedding
and bundles of restoration will be our bedding.

The trumpeter is taking a breath
The guests are taking their seats.
The Bride is putting on a veil.
The Father is making last-minute preparations.

There's Thousands Times Ten Thousand
angels waiting in holy expectation.

The readied groom is readied.

Soon will come the Celebration Wedding

If you are hurting, your hurt will cease.
If you are restless, you will find peace.
If you are empty, You will be filled.
All of these doubts, they'll be stilled.

If life for you is just to trying, Your tears will be dissipate.
There won't be anymore crying.
If the only thing you know is shame, you will be cleansed
and never again feel the same.

If you can't see straight.

foucus.
persevere.
And wait...

10 Q!!!

Good Friday went SO well :)

Thanks to each of you for putting stations together, showing up to setup/cleanup.

From the person who tried to do it solo last year, getting by with a little help from my friends was definitely better :)

~H

my new blog

i have been quite impressed with the user-friendliness of google. so much so that i have decided to switch my blog from xanga to blogger. so, if anyone is interested in reading my thoughts on life, the url is ohmysweetlord.blogspot.com

this video, i believe, really speaks to the idea of being restored. this womans name is evelyn glennie and she is considered the best percussionist on earth... oh yeah, and she is also over 80% deaf.