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Wingsuit BASE Jumping
If you’re an adrenaline junkie, I guarantee you’re going to love this clip. And even if you’re not, it’s pretty darn sick. Take a look:
Alphabet Meme
Tagged from John:
- A - ADVOCATE FOR: Kids from low-income families who have similar talents and abilities as their more affluent peers.
- B - BEST FEATURE: Ummm…hands? My wife would know better than I do.
- C - COULD DO WITHOUT: The status quo.
- D - DREAMS & DESIRES: Normalcy, whatever that looks like.
- E - ESSENTIAL ITEMS: Laptop, an open wi-fi signal, iPod, Oakleys.
- F - FAVORITE PASTIME: Blogging, worship team, spending time with my family.
- G - GOOD AT: Career, music.
- H - HAVE NEVER TRIED: Any kind of illegal drug. Not that I don’t have my vices; none of them just don’t involve narcotics.
- I - IF I HAD A MILLION DOLLARS: College for all of the kids
- J - JUNKIE FOR: Caffeine, whatever form it may come in.
- K - KINDRED SPIRIT: I won’t insult anybody who may have similar abilities/interests as me.
- L - LITTLE KNOWN FACT: I lettered in four different sports in high school.
- M - MEMORABLE MOMENT: Being on Coffee Hour show on KUMA
- N - NEVER AGAIN WILL I: Run/jog for fitness.
- O - OCCASIONAL INDULGENCE: Big oatmeal-raisin cookies.
- Q - QUOTE: “In times of change learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.“–Eric Hoffer
- R - REASON TO SMILE: My wife of 3 months, 4 days, and 4 hours.
- S - SORRY ABOUT: Tons.
- T - TAG SOME FRIENDS: Ben, Crystal, Doug, Joshua, Matt, Kat, Nicki
- U - UNINTERESTED IN: Hip-hop or country music of any kind.
- V - VERY SCARED OF: Being alone.
- W - WORST HABIT: My picky eating.
- X - X MARKS MY IDEAL VACATION SPOT: Oregon Coast, every time.
- Y - YUMMIEST DESSERT: Peanut butter/Chocolate pie
- Z - ZODIAC SIGN: Umm…Taurus? I know it more as a car than a sign, though.
Happy Mother’s Day, Mom
I’ll be calling a little bit later. Got a basket of flowers for you in the back of the pick-up. Have a great day!
Love,
Rick
Creative Chaos: Week 10
Creative Chaos this week is actually in the form of a question:
As a musician on your worship team, what kind of input do you give to the worship leader and/or rest of the worship team on a regular basis?
Or, if you’re a worship leader:
What kind of input do you need/request from the musicians on your worship team?
We have three different leaders at our church, and I’ve found that each leader wants or needs different levels of input at different times for different reasons. For example, tonight at rehearsal we were having a tough time getting through the introductions of a couple of songs, so the bass player and I threw out some ideas. We played around with it a bit on both songs, and came up with something that worked. That approach wouldn’t work with one of our other leaders, depending on the song. However, this other leader might need some input at different times that the other two wouldn’t need.
My goal as a worship musician is to fill in when and where I can, utilize my strengths, and know how to help the team for the overall worship experience.
How does your worship team handle input from individual members?
Worship Confessional: 5/4/2008
Growing pains! Some new songs for some of us today. Here’s the list:
- Father (Original chart by guitarist Dave Floria)
- You Do All Things Well (Chris Tomlin)
- Grace Like Rain (Todd Agnew/Chris Collins, reggae style on the verses, straight up on the chorus. Can you say regatta de blanc?)
- Desire (Jessica Ketola)
- Glory in the Highest (Tomlin, Carson, Redman, Reeves & Cash)
- Change Me on the Inside (Brian Doerkson)
- You Draw Me Closer (Somebody help me out on this one…)
It’s fun getting to know this team on both a musical and personal basis, but man, sometimes something just comes out of left field. Stylistically, we were having a tough time with the intro on the Doerkson tune, but we faked it well enough to get into the first verse ok. The rest of the set went pretty nicely, though. I love the crescendo on Glory In the Highest. I referred to Grace Like Rain as reggae style, but if we would have added a couple of horns, it would have been just this side of ska. Different, but it worked great. I laid out on the piano on the verses, but came in with some phat Bruce Hornsby-like chords on the choruses. Father is a great rocker that was written by one of our guitarists. If I can get permission, I’ll try to throw the lead sheet up some time. We finished up the set with You Draw Me Closer with just me and an acoustic guitar playing along at the end of communion.
Google Maps + Picasa Web Albums = Fun fun fun
I don’t know how long this feature has been available, but those nutty folks at Google have gone and done it again. I just found out tonight that you can upload your photos, pinpoint exactly where they were taken in Google Maps, and then view them together. Here are some photos I’ve tagged:
- Pictures at Hat Rock, Oregon last July
- Track meet on my son’s 16th birthday
- My youngest son winning the county spelling contest last year, and then
- Where he competed at the state level
- Father’s day, 2006
- Where my dad caught a coho salmon on the Columbia River, December of 2006
For the full effect, select on the “Satellite” view, and then scroll in as far as possible to see the precise location they were taken.
I had a lot of fun just finding these. This really adds a twist to the old photo album concept, doesn’t it?
