The Country

and proof once again of the over production of pop music...and how simple acoustic guitar makes a song fifteen million times better



that's "See You Again" by Miley Cyrus

M. Night Shyamalan's new movie

Could be a crackhead....

Possibly my favorite video of all time....







I want the gold! Give me gold!

2-D Magic

I don't know why, but I seriously love videos that look like they were made by Atari. Here's another example from the amazing band, Of Montreal...

Isabella the Nano loves the Spring EP and Solder On

Jon Foreman, the lead singer of Switchfoot, has been releasing one six song EP for each of the seasons. Thus far Fall and Winter have been released and just recently Spring was. Let me tell you what, each EP captures the season well. I've been listening to Fall and Winter consistently everyday for two months and now I can't stop listening to Spring. I always knew he was a master lyric and song writer, now he has just proven that fact all over again.

A note to christopher, my lone blog reader: I love Andrew Bird too. And Solder On is one amazing EP. I just got that off of iTunes yesterday and the above mentioned EP and this one are in constant rotation on Isabella the Nano.

p.s. Sufjan and Andrew both hail from Chicago. Looks like the Windy City is producing a lot of good music lately.

Romans 8

18I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. 19The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed. 20For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope 21that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.

22We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. 23Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. 24For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he already has? 25But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.

26In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. 27And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God's will.

I think about this passage a lot now days. The more I work with troubled teens I realize how true this passage is. I'm surrounded by fallen nature of man in my work. I am reminded constantly of my own fallen nature and I see more clearly then ever that Jesus alone can change someone's behavior. Romans 8 has always been my favorite chapter in the bible and now more then ever I keep returning to it. I'm not perfect but I know that all of creation along with me is groaning for the redemption that is close at hand. And that sunsets that cause my heart to stop are just figments of their true majestic selves. Just something that I'm chewing on right now. Shalom