sicky... turns to pukee

Sniff sniff, cough... sniff... cough.

yup you guessed it, after 3 weeks of staying up late finishing the church's christmas album, after which cramming for the christmas presentation, which was followed by caroling and party preparations, my december work overload is finally over. but with out a souveneir... i am down and out with a fever. i took nyquil last night and practically slept all day.

poor me, all on the eve of our vegas trip... vegas... i better get back to bed... you cant be sick in vegas.

babush!

BEBSTER

on national treasure

i finally watched National treasure today, i was with two of my band mates and they completely hated it. Dave wanted to walk out at the first minute. dennis slept for about 5 minutes and wanted to leave desperately. as for me well i guess i walked in with managed expectations, and really all i can say was that chick was hot!

anyways just checking in, really busy... besides letterman is on with kate Blanchette, plus leno's got my idol John Travolta.

later gater

bebster

Goos Frabah!!!

Hallu!

I've been staring at this screen for about 5 minutes now... For once in my life I really have nothing to say... WOW. Nice. How about you join me for a nice quiet moment of goos frabahs. slowly now. Goooose Frabaahs. Oh, that feels good.

Oh, the bliss of nothingness.

It's amazing how the quiet can sometimes be scary. I guess being a child of the tube has somehow robbed me of the ability to stay still.

In the past couple of years I have been on the search for God. I'm always trying to be keen where God's at, what he's doing in the world and what God could possibly want to say to me.

I must admit... It's tough to find God... Or should I say that, though I claim a desire to seek God in theory, in practice--more often than not--I really don't invest the time in solace that is needed to hear him. I SUCK.

I can't give anyone a formula to find God or his will down to the tee, but I am an expert in how not to find God. And amazingly the best way to not find God is to be busy and distracted.

Try for a week to indulge in every TV show you can take, watch a couple of movies, constantly have the radio on, chat, surf, blog.

I'm almost sure it will be easy to miss God. It's no wonder the Psalmist says Be still and know that he is God.

Switchfoot has this song that says,
If we're adding to the noise turn off this song
if we adding to the noise,turn of the video stereo radio I don't know...

Alrighty, i guess I kinda did have something to say... it was too good to be true.

but seriously Gooos Frabah away, "Be still and know."

the bebster

Red Eye

hallu, i just wanted to check in. i'm actually really busy finishing the christmas album. for the past couple of days i have done nothing but stare at the computer.
when i went to brush my teeth i got shocked by how red my eyes were. kinda creeped me out so i took a break and watched the OC and the Apprentice, its about freaking time that Ivanah got voted off! Annoying!

anyways i'll check ya later Snuffy!

"World's on Fire"

Hi Peeps.

Good evening, its been a gruesome day... my ears are so tired from recording the Christmas album due this week. but none the less i feel good coz we got a lot done.

its time for Letterman, but i'll pass him tonite for the opportunity to express my new found blogger self.

about a month ago, myself and Nikks, we checked out a postmodern church ( i'll let you know what that means when i figure it out)

they were doing the purpose driven life and basically were at the week that they were going to talk about missions. they had a guy from Compassion international ( an org that helps less fortunate children around the world..they feed them as well as try to provide education for better opportunites)

the speaker's story was compelling but what caught me off guard was that after singing a worship song, they showed an MTV. the video had Sara Mclachlan singing with an acoustic guitar in her living room. it was a video for her song "World's on Fire"
the premise of the Video is that they tell you the cost in dollars of a typical music video. they break it down to tasks and equipment rentals, studio rentals, etc. then they compare it to how that money can affect people in the struggling parts of the world.
eg. $4,000 the cost for a studio rental for 2 days of editing = 7 hospitals in Gana which will serve hundreds of thousands of people.
and so on ... you get the picture.

at first i thought the video was produced by the church.. but i realized that it was really sara mac's
the gist of it was instead of spending 150,000 on the video .. they opted to shoot it at her house and keep it simple and they ended up giving the money away to people that needed it the most.


guys.. i was balling big time. because a lot of us live in places where the world doesnt seem on fire. just lately i heard someone say, we should always choose to see what's good with the world than what's wrong with it. and though the intentions were good and though the context might be different. i couldn't disagree more. The World is on fire folks, tonite 5,000 children will die of AIDS in Africa. and the list goes on.

i have so much more to say, but it might be too long to endure so i'll close with this.

the chorus of the song goes like this:

" (the) World's on fire and its more than i can handle
i'll tap into the water try to give my share
try to do more, more than i can handle
bring it to the table bring what i am able

every time i hear that song.. i'm going to regret saying this, but i find tears in my eyes. just writing the lyrics down right now is actually making me emotional ( if this was a real letter ... you'd see teardrops all over the page) :)

but seriuosly "try to do more do more than i can handle bring it to the table bring what i am able" those lines really spoke to me. its allowed me to not focus on me for a change. but maybe there are others out there who need me to move.
who need me to do more than i can handle.

please dont move on into your day without watching the video and please do visit Compassion International.

ciao for now
bebster

Spiro Gyros mmmm.....

Hello World!

today i join the world of the blogger ... a world of ego maniacs puffed up enough to assume that their ramblings are worth someone elses time, to which i said "where the heck do i sign?" my wife being the lovely and supportive mildy deranged ego maniac herself help me set this thing up. to which i say...oooh. Foxy Lady!!!

so for my first post instead of rambling like a Bored booms ( which i later will) i'd like to share something good that happened over the weekend.

Me and my wifey, spent all of friday morning at the freaking thanksgiving sale( which you can read about at her blog)
and pretty much just cleaning the studio when SUDDENLY the phone rings. well what do you know it's Dave (Slight's lead singer)
Dave calls to say "Bebs guess what" i go what? ...he goes get in your car and bring your rigg coz we are opening for Spyro Gyra tonight. sound check is in an hour.

first i thought, why in the world would we, Slight, a modern rock band open for Spyro Gyra - legend of smooth jazz ( well smooth jazz is a little to sissy ... but definitely notches up)
then i thought who cares.. WE ARE OPENING FOR SPYRO GYRA!!!! wooohooo!

basically the night went really well, we played for a crowd of a thousand jazz fans who loved us anyway to which i say

THANK YA JESUS!!!

alrighty...not bad for a first post... i 'll catch ya later ( see how i assume that people read this) its arrogance i tell ya.

Bebster