tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-339431522011-04-21T13:18:12.339-07:00enjoying the shades of grayTim Bowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12431664041679453034noreply@blogger.comBlogger811100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33943152.post-62565045018746129702008-06-06T12:53:00.000-07:002008-06-06T12:56:26.579-07:00

mycreativeapathy.blogspot.com will be no longer (not that it gets updated that often anyway) I will now be rarely posting to mycreativeapathy.tumblr.comI guess since this blogger site is free I will leave it here for posterity but tumblr just seems so much simpler and easier.

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Ok so I am one of the old school folks that still has my AOL email account from high school back when AOL was really the only game in town. Anyway I read this on the main page at aol.com today and the first thing that I thought of was this blog post that I wrote way back when combining two names into a single hybrid name was still fresh. It's a little creepy that I predicted, to the month, when

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Andruw Jones is a steaming pile! I am a Dodger fan and have grown very accustomed to mediocrity but I shouldn't be giving up on the season only 9 games in. The team did nothing to address the fact that their offense is absolutely pathetic during the offseason except for bringing in a guy who couldn't hit water if he fell out of a boat into an already crowded outfield. Juan Pierre was doing

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April 20, 2014In the nearly two years it has been since the last reality or contest television show aired on TV, executives at Fox have been trying to debunk the theory that every American had appeared on a reality TV show already. It turns out Fox was right, which means the network will be airing Last Call this summer, a reality TV show for the 12 Americans who have yet to be on TV.So who are

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I highly recommend the documentary called The King of Kong: A Fist Full of Quarters. It is the story of Steve Wiebe, a 35 year-old family man from Washington who gets laid off from Boeing and takes solace in a Donkey Kong arcade machine he has placed in his garage. Steve attempts to break the 20 year old high score record on the game, owned by Billy Mitchell a Floridian hot sauce mogul who is

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I am sick of hearing/reading about school shootings. This is unacceptable. The worst part is, as the article points out, that this is the fourth shooting at a US school in the last week. FOUR! Four times in the last week someone opened fire at a school in this country. Just let that sink in for a second. I don't say this to make light of the situation, but remember the good old days when an

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Let me start by saying I am a huge Wyclef Jean fan. I would put his album the Carnival in my top 10 favorite of all time and when it came out back when I was in high school it changed my musical world. I was perusing Youtube today and came across an interview/performance that Wyclef did on the Google campus to bring awareness to the issues in his native Haiti as well as perform music and

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go away and don't ever come back.(it's called speed blogging. write a few words and move on)

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First let me put an end to some nasty rumors...I am not dead. I just took a break from blogging because I didn't have anything interesting to share. Until now...Go to www.thechurchyouknow.com and watch all of the videos. If you are a church goer you will laugh a lot and then feel sad because everything they are saying is right.See you again in another 5 months or so.Tim

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I have to disagree with Kermit the Frog on this one.In about 45 seconds I was able to remove my name from the credit reporting indutry lists (Equifaz, Experian, Innovis and Transunion). These are the people who are ultimately responsible for you getting credit card offers in the mail every other day. Whenever I get them I just rip them in half without opening them and toss them in the trash and

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My bride got me a Wii for our 2 year anniversary, which was at the beginning of this month, but thanks to the incompetency of Game Stop and UPS it just arrived on Friday. It was worth the wait (and the incessant checking of the tracking process that I had been doing every 30 minutes or so for the last few weeks). The Wii has been out for awhile now but they are still very hard to get a hold of.

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I have been so stinkin' busy with school and with trying to find a new job that I have not posted on here in quite some time. Well since I have a post that is school related I thought I could make the time.I started a project for a class I am in at Fuller called Theology and Hip-Hop Culture and I want to ask you to participate. The project is called "Hip-Hop is..." and I am inviting people to

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Bible Map is a website that I stumbled upon the other day that has all of the geographic locations mentioned in the Bible hyperlinked to the google earth satellite technology so that if you click on "Ephesus" or "Jerusalem" you will get a satellite image of what that area looked like during Biblical times. Okay so the images are from modern times but it is still a cool idea.

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I know it is kind of trendy, or maybe too easy is the right phrase, to pick on the president, but I was reminded while listening to the radio that today is the four year anniversary of the President's speech aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, a speech which started off with the words, "My fellow Americans: Major combat operations in Iraq have ended."Since major combat operations have "ended" there

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This blog post could very well be the saddest thing I have ever seen and yet it is one of the most beautiful musical expressions I have ever seen as well. Read the story and then watch the video.

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FavoriteThe guy who plays the old man is hilarious. Plus I grew up on a street named after Millard Fillmore so in a weird way it brings me home.Least FavoriteThe stupid chevy commercials with the John Cougar Mellencamp song "This is our Country" that plays over and over. It won't go away. Yesterday in church we were talking about subversion and asking "What is subverting our country?" We

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No not Christmas time; to me that is the second most wonderful time of year. For a sports fan, this has to be the most wonderful time of year. The Final Four took place this weekend, with the champion of college basketball being crowned tomorrow night. The NBA playoffs are just around the corner, which in my opinion is the only worth while part of the NBA season. The Masters is also coming up

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When I first started this Beatles thing I was planning on doing it weekly. Well my regular readers, both of them, know that I have failed in that endeavor which has left me wondering what to name these Beatles posts now, because they are not weekly. Beatles Song of the Moment was the best I could come up with.Anyway the Beatles song for this moment is I Feel Fine.Sing it if you know it...Baby's

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As far as I can tell, this blog post is about leaving church and it links to Letters From Leavers. Is it Norwegian? Can someone translate for me?

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Today (and every March 22nd) is World Water Day. Four of every ten people in the world do not have access to even a simple pit latrine and nearly two in ten have no source of safe drinking-water. So far today I have already drank one bottle of water, used a toilet with running water a few times (I know...too much information), washed my hands, taken a shower, and gone to a fast food place for

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So I bought 24 season 1 at Target about a week ago because they had it on sale for 17.99. Not bad! This show came on the air during a time in which I wasn't watching much TV at all so I had only seen 2 or 3 episodes but I had heard a lot of great things about it, and Mariah and I have been watching some more TV as of late so I figured, why not give it a whirl? I bought LOST season 1 for Mariah

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Do I see God in all of this? maybe all alongIt's just that we're so small, and simply not as strongStrong like wings of silver, and feathers made of goldTo carry heavy hearts, to cover all our helpless soulsTo cover all of usUnder wings of Gold and Silver sometimes we have to hideFor shelter from this bitter winter at least tonightThese are part of the lyrics to a song called Gold and Silver

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Is it just me or is the Anna Nicole Smith paternity situation just begging to be an episode of Maury Povich? No high priced lawyers or overhyped media coverage needed, just bring the circus on the set of Maury and he will straighten the whole thing out. "You ARE the father!"

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A voice of one calling

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One of my favorite bands of all time is about to be buried .As silly as this may sound, I am very very saddened by this news, even though I saw it coming.I think I will do a tribute post to one of the greatest bands you never heard of after the gloomy cloud lifts as a way to send Stavesacre off.More to come...

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that it's not ok to hit people?This is twice this season that Kobe has been suspended for doing the same thing. No, you are not bigger than the rules of the game Kobe. No, you can't get away with smacking people in the face to try and draw a foul just because your shot isn't going to go in. Just stop.

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FavoriteAbsolutely hilarious! I could watch this over and over.Least FavoriteWasn't President's day like two weeks ago? Then why the crap do I still see this commercial 50 times a day? And there are certain songs that you don't try to make "hip-hop", and Hail to the Chief is certainly one of them. I would also put The Star Spangled Banner and America the Beautiful in that category. And while

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So here are my three favorite films from last year.Stranger Than Fiction, Children of Men, and Thank You for Smoking.And the award goes to...(drumroll)...Children of Men.Seeing how none of my 3 favorite movies were nominated for best picture, I decided not to watch the Academy Awards last night. In fact ever since Titanic won best picture in '97 over Good Will Hunting, L.A. Confidential, As Good

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In honor of the Beatles famous first appearance on the Ed Sullivan show which happened on February 9th, 1964 the Beatles song of the weekend will be I Want to Hold Your Hand, one of the five songs that they played that night.I Want to Hold Your Hand is also one of two Beatles songs that I know of that the Beatles recorded in German (Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand). The other song the Beatles recorded

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Stuart Murray's book Church After Christendom, which I have been reading for my Theology and Culture course at Fuller has been a very insightful read. The idea of the Church operating from the margins in a subversive, prophetic manner intrigues me. Murray on acknowledging that the Church is now marginalized in the West:Acknowledging this is a matter of honesty, not defeatism. Responding to the

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I was planning on shaving my head tonight but I thought twice about it because apparently it is earth shattering news if someone shaves their head these days. So I changed my mind because I don't need the hassle of seeing myself on The Insider, Access Hollywood, Entertainment Tonight, Extra and all of the other amazing TV shows and media outlets that will inevitably pick up the story if I shave

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Favorite-Not sure what the commercial is for but it uses this video of a kid, who doesn't even look old enough to talk, recognizing and naming the US presidents.Great video!Least Favorite-I will keep this post positive so no least favorite for now.

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A classmate of mine and I have started a website for a project for our Theology and Culture course called Letters from Leavers. It is place for people who have left the Church to write a letter to the Church about why they left. The site has been up for less than 48 hours and we already are receiving letters, and they are so fascinating to read.I am also pretty excited because I know that the

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So if you haven't checked out this site where you can become an M & M, you gotta do it. It is very well done and the results are kind of creepy yet very fun. As you can see, I decided to put my candy-coated self in the middle of a parade just like Ferris Bueller. Everyone would be yelling from the parade route "Holy cow, it is a walking M & M! And he's wearing glasses!" Now that is what I

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Here it isNext time I am in Chicago I am finding the nearest parade float and I am jumping up on it and singing this song to see if I get a similar reaction as Ferris did. Chicago is my kind of town if they can collectively rock out to the Beatles like this.Random fact regarding Twist and Shout: The Beatles recorded the album Please Please Me in one day (at least 10 of the 14 tracks were

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Beliefnet.com has a quiz that supposedly determines which character from LOST that you are most like. Considering tonight marks the return of the best show on TV I thought I would link to the quiz which can be taken here.The excitement starts tonight with a special about the show with the producers at 9pm and the first of 16 brand new episodes in a row at 10pm on ABC.My score was 20 which makes

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I found this video and it reminded me how much I love David Sedaris. If you haven't done so yet, pick up a copy of one of his books like Me Talk Pretty One Day, or Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim and enjoy this great storyteller and humorist.

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Favorite Simply brilliant. Dave is hilarious.Honorable mentionLeast Favorite Anything affiliated with Budweiser. Their commercials were awful this year and their beer still tastes like urine.

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It's been awhile but this week definitely needs a Beatles song to go with it.So I nominate and therefore declare the winner of Beatles Song of the Week (since I am the only one who votes for this thing) the song Hey Bulldog which is on the album Yellow Submarine. I remember weird things about people. For example I know that Bob Saget's favorite Beatles song is Fixing a Hole. There was a TV

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I get the chills just thinking about it. No not the Super Bowl, or the Super Bowl commercials (which will undoubtedly be better than the game as they are every year).I am excited about the return of LOST. The best show on TV is back on February 7th and I can't wait!!!What will Juliet do in response to Jack's bold move in the surgery room? Will Ben Linus aka Henry Gale die? Will Kate and

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So whenever I watch Back to the Future 2 I am always struck by the movies portrayal of the future. I just watched it like a week or two ago and realized that when Marty goes to the future he visits 2015 which is only 8 years away now. I'm sure in 1989 when the movie came out 2015 seemed like a long way into the future but now it's not too far off. The portrayal of the future in the movie has

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There is a lot to like about this band. They are going to have a big year in 07. First of all their band name is awesome. I can't get the song "Hang Me Up To Dry" out of my head. The music video is brilliant. They are somehow connected to my friend Dave Beeman who I worked with at New Life a few summers back and who also used to be the drummer for this band called John Wilkes Kissing Booth (

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If you have about 10 minutes, watch this video. You may want to pause it and let it load all the way before playing.Two thoughts.#1 This is better than anything on American TV.#2 I think we found a way to get young people interested in going to the library.Thanks to my buddy Ryan for the recommendation on the video. Hilarious.

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One of my most frequented web stops is espn.com. I am a huge sports fan and their website gives me everything I need to stay up to speed on all my favorite teams. On their main page they have poll questions that change every couple days. Currently the question is "Should Super Bowl Sunday be a national holiday?" If you vote, then a color-coded map of the nation pops up showing you the

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Well I got my grades back from my first quarter of Seminary and I got a B+ in both classes (Hebrew Prophets and Christian Ethics). I was most surprised by my grade in Prophets because the last few weeks of that class were a blur and I absolutely tanked the final, even writing a somewhat pathetic apology/explanation for my poor effort in the blue book before turning it in. So I guess I must have

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The Bride and I are looking into possibly serving God in Glasgow Scotland next year with an organization called NieuCommunities. Check out the link if you are curious about what we are looking into but if you are a person who prays at all please be praying for us as we seek to figure out the next few years of our lives and how to best bring glory to God with what he has given us.

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Since the Beatles Song of the week has kind of fizzled out perhaps we can replace it with another semi regular contribution...Favorite/Least Favorite commercials of the moment.FavoriteLeast FavoriteAnd my least favorite I am having trouble finding online (probably because it is so bad) but it is another cell phone commercial (for verizon I think) where two guys download "Rock the Casbah" to their

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Happy 2007! What do you mean 2007 is already almost 3 weeks old? You mean I missed the ball dropping? I missed Ryan Seacrest and Carson Daly vying for the title of "Most Irrelevant Person Ever"? Man I need to blog more often...or not.Anyway I think I should dedicate my first blog entry of 07 to the return of a great radio personality to the air waves of southern california. That's right,

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I just had to post this here. I read Bill Simmons who writes here for ESPN.com. For a good primer on Simmons read his article on the Rocky movies. Recently he has started letting his wife, "the Sports Gal" write a few words that he puts on the side of his column. Here is what she wrote that just caused me to crack up.I used to really like Angelina Jolie. Ever since she starred in "Gia," I

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I have signed up for this screenwriting lab from the Brehm Center at Fuller which I am pretty excited about. I mailed the form yesterday and then last night before I went to sleep I was thinking about my screenplay which will involve a young novelist who writes a bestseller that Hollywood wants to make into a movie. He reluctantly agrees but once he gets into the process he struggles with the

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Cough Cough. Man it is dusty in here. Is the maid on vacation?Anyway it has been a long time. Of course I told you from the beginning that if you haven't heard from me in awhile then I was probably felling a little apathetic. Well school is out for me until February and so I have been in vacation mode for about a week and a half which translates into no motivation to blog (or do much of

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I'm going to switch it up a little this week with the release of LOVE, the soundtrack to the Cirque Du Soleil show of the same name. It is a brilliant mash up of sorts, as George Martin, the Beatles producer, went back to the original master tapes and recreated every song from the ground up. Take the drum intro from this song, the vocal harmony from that song, add a hint of a guitar riff from

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The Bachelor is an awful awful show. It pains me to admit this but I actually spent a good amount of time watching this run of the Bachelor (I have not spent more than 2 minutes watching the show before this season). Who thought this show was a good idea? It is brutal. What good comes out of taking a sinlge guy and 25 single girls and then making a game show out of the whole thing in which

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Just a short post so I can be on record with my prediction. I think that Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes will be divorced by April 2008.

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I'm not sure how far I am behind in this category and I am too lazy to go through and figure it out but I think I am at least two weeks behind and probably three so here you go.For this week I pick Run For Your Life. This is a song of pure jealousy and rage because a guy suspects his "girl" of cheating on him and of course in early Beatles fashion it is singable and poppy which kind of masks the

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Where do I even start? I mean this is just absolutely...(searching for the right word)... awkward?! hideous?! painful?! awkpaineous?! There it is! This video is awkpaineous!3 questions come to mind.#1 How long do you think they practiced this before their performance? My guess is there was at least 4 to 5 power lunches spent writing lyrics and maybe another 2 or 3 late night office jam

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You know that Carly Simon song You're so vain?You're so vainYou probably think this song is about youYou're so vain You probably think this song is about youDon't you? Don't You? Don't You?If the song isn't about him who is it about? If you are singing a song about a person's vanity, it is about them. Jokes on you Carly Simon, he wins in the end because the song is about him.

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I was listening to this Joseph Arthur song today in the car and it reminded me so much of the message of the Hebrew Prophets, especially the first part of the song. However I do think he is missing one of the important ingredients that the prophets had...hope. Joseph Arthur is not Jewish or Christian (as far as I know) but I do think that the children of God would do well to pay attention to

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Are any other CA residents bothered by the fact that Thanksgiving is a few weeks away and it feels like we are living on the surface of the sun? As a lifelong resident of southern california, I don't like the rain, but to be honest I wouldn't mind some right about now. This is just ridiculous.

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I let the bride pick this week's selection and she chose Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band as the song of the week. This is the first song on the album by the same name, which by the way, was the album for me that started my Beatles love affair. I still remember in high school hanging out at my friend Mike's house playing basketball in his driveway listening to music. It sounds funny, but

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First let me say that I really loved "Love", the Cirque show that the bride and I went to see last weekend. It was brilliant and my opinion on the whole bizarre european acrobats, while eerily spot on, was nonetheless broadened by their beautiful performance. Some of the performers walked about in the audience pre-show and let's just say I was made a little uneasy by their presence. Not only

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So today you get a two for one, or really last week's song and this week's song together. This is a special edition of BSOTW, because this weekend my bride and I will be seeing the Cirque Du Soleil performance of Love in Sin City! I have to say that the only way I would ever go to a Cirque show would be if it was themed around Beatles music because, quite frankly, European acrobats scare me.

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It has been too long since I last posted. I still owe you, the faithful reader, a Beatles song for last week and it is coming time to declare one for this week as well. My lack of attention to this blog is not due to apathy but rather just plain ol' busyness. I have a lot of reading for school, which even though it is now 11:43 pm, I should be doing instead of blogging. Man it feels good to

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Monday night my bride and I and two of our friends went to the Wiltern in Los Angeles to see Sufjan Stevens in conert. I literally haven't been the same since. Music really does have the power to change people, and Sufjan's music is very powerful. I'm still deciding if it was the best concert I have ever been to or not, but the fact that I can't decide doesn't mean I think it wasn't as good as

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Two of Us which is on the album Let It Be.It's a great driving song with the repeated line "We're on our way home, we're going home."That's all I have to say about that.

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This is the most beautiful commercial I have seen in a long while. It just gives me the chills when I watch it. The song, which is called Half Acre and is by a band called Hem, is so beautiful and haunting. I love that Liberty Mutual chose to send this beautiful message with their advertising money rather than try to sell me something I don't need in the first place. Watch the video and then

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No seminarian isn't one of the signs of the Zodiac (I'm a leo). I started seminary this week at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena and I love it so far. It seems like it will be fairly manageable as far as scheduling and stress and all those time constraint things. I don't have too many assignments in my two courses (Hebrew Prophets and Christian Ethics) but I do have a ton of reading,

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I'm gonna go with If I Fell which is on the soundtrack for A Hard Days Night. I picked it because I like the scene in the movie in which the song is played. Ringo is "sulking" about a tv crewman touching his drums and John sings the song to him, while making faces, in order to cheer him up. If you haven't seen A Hard Days Night, you should go rent it and watch it. It's great.

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This week I am gonna go with You Never Give Me Your Money as Beatles Song of the Week. It comes from the album Abbey Road which is such a unique Beatles album. It is hard to get into the album because it such an album of contrasts. For example listen to Something and Maxwell's Silver Hammer back to back. If you didn't know any better you would think it was two very different bands recording

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Conclusive Video EvidenceMan I hate bad officiating. And in this day and age where every little detail of a sporting event is covered in every possible angle, there is no way soemthing like this should happen. I am a huge USC fan and most of the time I will root for PAC-10 teams in interconference play, as was the case on Saturday in the Oklahoma Oregon game. But PAC-10 officials missing a

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A new feature here at Creative Apathy... Beatles song of the week! I pick a Beatles song every week and then let you know which one I picked. How cool is that?By the way, for those of you who didn't already know, the Beatles are my favorite band.So for the first ever Beatles song of the week selection I choose (drum roll)...Happiness is a Warm Gun. (and the crowd goes wild!)Happiness is a Warm

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So many people in New York TownEyes wide shut just walkin' aroundThey woke to life when they heard the soundOf two rockets bringin' them buildings downIt left them staring at the skyPieces of their heart falling from highForever changedForever changedSummer's laughterWinter's sorrowFind forever in tomorrow's changeBottle Rocket-Mike Barnet5 years is a long time. I can't help but ask the question,

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I made a big step in my life today. I cancelled my Yahoo account which was connected to both of my fantasy sports leagues (MLB and NFL). I just got sick of fake sports.I am a huge sports fan and specifically I love baseball and college football. In both of those sports I have favorite teams, the Dodgers and USC Trojans respectively. Of course on my fantasy baseball team I had 5 or 6 Dodgers

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I am a huge Lost fan. It is easily my favorite show on TV, which isn't saying much because for the most part I despise TV. When a show like Arrested Development gets cancelled but Tyra Banks has two of her own shows, you know something is out of balance in the universe somewhere. I may go into a rant about how much I hate "reality" TV at some point later on, but I just don't have the energy

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Thanks to Bobby for giving me my very first guitar lesson today. My fingers hurt so bad I can barely type write now. I am a Christian male in my late twenties so for me to not know how to play guitar already is like a 6' 10" person never having played basketball. Sure it happens, but rarely.I will keep you updated on my progress. Perhaps one day in the distant future you will be able to find

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Some ruminations I jotted down on the Kingdom of Heaven. Enjoy!Heaven on Earth?!"This, then, is how you should pray: 'Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.’”Matthew 6:9-10Would Jesus want us to pray for something that is impossible? Is it even within the realm of possibility that God’s kingdom and God’s

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The real reason I even started this blog is because, for one reason or another, I feel like the internet actually has some sort of real communal potential. The MySpace phenomenon can't be denied. In an act of prideful rebellion I deleted my account a few months back and haven't missed it a bit. It just felt like the whole place was one big lie. However, I do miss the opportunity to express

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I'm not very clever or creative when it comes to saying romantic things but I do recognize romance when I see it, and I feel like I can claim it for my own. "She's just the girl for me and I want all the world to see we've met." I've Just Seen a Face - The Beatles"If you weren't real, I would make you up." Honey and the Moon - Joseph ArthurThese are just two of the lines I wish I had written

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This is a picture of my favorite tattoo of mine. I originally got the idea from the liner notes of the album by The Mars Volta called "Deloused in the Comatorium". Seeing the picture reminded me of rescue and salvation and specifically it reminded me of the story of Peter's failed attempt to walk on water. He has to call out to Jesus while he is drowning and Jesus saves him.I have 3 other

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Well here it is...my blog. It's like a web log without the we and the space between the two words. Man think of all the time and energy we have saved ourselves as a society by taking we out. Now there is so much more time to write meaningless blog post's for no one or anyone to read.You will never get the last two minutes of your life back. But it could have been worse...I could have

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