Head full of good thoughts, belly full of grub…

So I’ve got a few more detail in the lifepoint worship blog, but before I begin… does anyone recognize the title of this post? (Family not allowed to compete!) The first person who can tell me where it’s from will get… bragging rights to all their friends about how much a geek you are.

So we did a “country” by which I mean “Bluegrass” song this week. If you’ve seen the movie “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” then you’d probably remember Man of constant sorrows.

Despite the fact that I wasn’t able to put together a full bluegrass band, our worship team rocked the song. And I got to play washboard, (a first for me)… and why is it every time I’ve got some weird I-need-my-percussionist-for-some-special-odd-type-instrument-thing, she’s on vacation!

I’m not kidding, I’m planning to make sure to schedule our next acoustic worship set for after she get’s back.

Anyway I’ve got more details about this last week’s worship set including the performance song on the Lifepoint worship blog.

Set List 06/29/08

We kicked off our new series “Outlaw” this Sunday.

And looking at are worship set this week I could have called it “Todd Fields” Sunday.
Who is Todd Fields? He’s one of the worship leaders (and song writers) from North Point Church, they’ve got such an amazing worship team down there, I highly recommend both of their albums (North Point Live, via itunes, and louder than creation, via the Northpoint music website).

You Are (By Todd Fields)We’ve been doing this one for a fair piece of time now and it’s still one of our favorites, especially as a high-energy opening song tot he worship set.

Salvation’s Chorus (By Todd Fields) I love this song! Sing for joy all people of God indeed!

Let me Sing (By, you guessed it Todd Fields) From the first time we’ve heard this song I think everyone on staff/volunteer staff has loved this worship song. And it’s such a true song, you know? I don’t want the rocks who don’t have saving grace to be singing praises louder than myself.

Performance Song: Man of constant sorrow, (From the motion picture O Brother, Where Art Thou?, and by various other artists) I must admit that prior to practice on Thursday I was very nervous about this song, but after practice I was couldn’t wait. I got to play washboard (Of course our percussionist is on vacation this week!) and I got to sing! (long ramble removed to time constraints). It was so much fun to do, about the only thing missing was the bales of hay and the bib overalls.

Band: Ronnie (Playing both electric and rhythm acoustic for PS) Justin (electric and lead acoustic for PS) Bill (Bass and vocals) Tammie and Leigh (Vocals) Jeremy (Worship lead and acoustic) Dave (Keys and PS vocals) Me (Drums and PS vocals).

oops?

you ever forget something and can’t remember what until after it was needed…

yeah, exactly.

Set List 06/22/05

Well hopefully by the end of the week someone who WAS at the service on Sunday will post here, but for now he’s the set list from this past week.

Glorious One – Steve Fee
Everlasting God – Tomlin/Fields
Famous one – Tomlin
Performance Song – My Hero – Foo Fighters, (which from what I’ve heard went over really well).

Did you miss me?

I’m back from my trip, had an amazing time, missed Lifepoint on Sunday though… heard it was amazing.

Forgot to mention… actually come to think of it, this is the first time I’ve put a post up from my laptop since I got rid of vista… that’s right David Gregory gave me a hand (More like he did most of the work while I sat and watched) but we rid my very nice machine from d4 3v1l that is vista and replaced it with XP. Yes I know a lot of you will be saying how I should get a mac instead of a pc, but for the price?

Normally I’m geeky enough to do this kind of operation by myself, but on those same lines, normally I already all the hardware in the machine because I built it myself. Not wanting to take a chance on the new machine that I do nearly all my work on I went to the expert.

Now I’ve got my machine with quite a few extras, mind you it’s very stable (unlike Vista) very fast (unlike Vista) almost no bloatware (unlike vista) and takes full advantage of the dual core 64 (well as close as you can get without TRUE 64… and only the geeks will understand that) (oh, and again unlike vista).

So here’s some of the 3rd part apps that make my machine run the way I want it to.

Launchy For someone who does a lot of typing, or knows a ton of keyboard shortcuts (IE my hand’s not always on my mouse) this is a great little program. It’s a program launcher you bring up the menu (via keyboard shortcuts) and then type the name of what you want to launch, it seems to be intuitive after a while.
Dexpot I never used this program on my old machine, it’s a virtual desktop program and while it’s not perfect… (honestly though, what is?) it does work extremely well. I have mine set to 4, and often will have illustrator open in one window, itune in another, reference images in a third, and firefox in the fourth, transition smoothly, rarely (if ever) hangs, and it allows me to have have different settings on the different desktops, thus I have 4 different backgrounds to help me keep them straight.
xneat really helps me set up my windows environment the way I want it to be, allowing for things like window transparency, minimize and show items on the taskbar it’s not flashy, but very functional.
dexpose reloaded now there are some mixed reviews on this but I personally haven’t had any problems with it. See there’s this program on the mac’s call expose which is a really nifty task switcher, (way cooler looking than alt_tab, and way more efficient then the stupid 3d thingy they tried in vista) this is a windows version of said program.
About the only thing I don’t have that one would expect (well from me) is a dock bar, and while I’ve used them in the past, I have found Launchy to be mush more efficient, at least for me.

and… oh bugger, right, expect me to post something tomorrow.

Quick ReCaps…

Okay, Like Pick, I’m loving twitter… even when I don’t have time to write a long post… or access to a computer (when I’m on the road… errr not literally!) I can send a tweet to my twitter account via a text message. Like last night I found myself at a Borders in Gaithersburg (sp?) Md. I found the OLD style of the plug by Koss, repackaged so it must be a new release.

To date I have not found a better set of headphones/in ears for the price. And it’s cheaper now than it was 3 years ago when I last saw them.

The good: Great bass response, good high range, decent mid range. 15 bucks!!!! VERY comfortable (memory foam, instead of those little plastic thingies) in the ear portion.

The Bad: Let’s face it these are consumer grade headphones, and they’re only 15 bucks, you get what you pay for, or in other words, they’re much less sturdy than say my old shure e2c’s or my current Westone UM2s, so handle with care! Darn near impossible to find!

Overall: With sound quality that I feel rivals shure’s entry level e2’s or most other base level in-ears, I can’t recommend this set of in ears fast or loud enough. Especially for 15 bucks, they might not replace my UM2’s anytime soon (or the livewires as soon as I get some), but for the price I’m far more comfortable traveling with them or loaning them out. If you can find them I say grab a set, if you don’t like them bring them to me and I’ll buy them for you, but make sure you grab the right ones… (pics to follow eventually)

Oh, and if you’re wondering what this last post was all about, all I’m gonna say is that it involved this, a fancy name brand of water, and a humorous fake note that may have contained a forged signature.

Oh and I just finished posting both last weeks and this past weeks worship notes on the (shameless plug)Lifepoint Worship Blog (/shameless plug)

Set list 06/15/08

Today was both fun and amazing worship… though it was kind of odd.

Now this week Dave our TD fixed the mix going to my in-ears and I had a very good mix, and worship sounded amazing, more so made by my amazing group this week.

Our performance song was All Star by Smashmouth, a fun song that took me back to my high-school days (dating myself now), but it was fun and it connected well. Justin (one of our awesome guitarists) filled in the vinyl scratch sound by scratching on his guitar strings, and Elizabeth (Our Percussionist) added flair to the instrumental with bells, that timed perfectly to Ronnie’s (Another one of our amazing guitarists) guitar solo.

So in programming we were debating over the whole do you stand people up for a fun bopping head song, or do you reserve that for worship? Anyone have some thoughts on the matter?

Worship set this week was Not to Us/Here is our King, By Tomlin/Crowder, however we did the North Point Arrangement from the North Point Live album. (Do you have this album yet? you should!)

We then did Let me Sing by Todd Fields (North Point again, surprise! this time it’s off the Louder than Creation cd, [think North Point Live Volume 2] which is not [at least last time I checked] available via itunes yet, but if you don’t ) This is an amazing worship song… (would someone buy me a thesaurus, I need new words!) And at one point when the band get’s quiet I could hear people singing, Our production director Kristen, and Tech Director David said it was incredible.

We finished up our worship set with Famous One (see last weeks post) I’m not sure if it was inspired from let me sing, but it was just powerful worship especially with Famous One.

Well I’m out next week, but i’ll post the notes I can gather plus what I can tell from the mixdown.

See Pick, it’t not butterfly kisses, but we could have followed suit…

Worship team this week was
Jeremy, Bill, Ronnie, Justin, Anne, Elizabeth, Me

*So what inspires you to worship this week?

For Pick

I found this online, for Jeremy Our Worship Leader.

Twitch

Ever have this happen? You get a brain flash, you didn’t keep that handy pad that goes with you ALMOST everywhere you go and you scramble to get it, you reach the pad and just when your pen or pencil touches the paper you forgot what you wanted to write down?

Well this is one of those posts. I had four or five things I wanted to mention and I can’t come up with anything… wait I remember one thing I wanted to cover.

Rules of the Road, fudi version. (To be updated as I see needed): If you’ve got a red light and you’re on a right hand turn lane it is okay to turn if no traffic is approaching, (and if there is No sign that indicates no turn on red).
HOWEVER, if traffic is approaching and you decide to go anyway it is NOT acceptable to pull out in front of an Alero traveling at 45.5 mph in a 45 zone. Furthermore it is even less acceptable to slowly accelerate somewhere in the neighborhood of 4mph a minute until top speed is reached. If that top speed is 10-15 miles UNDER the speed limit for the next 5 miles you should turn in the keys to your car/truck and go and buy a Vespa.

Right then.

Hopefully whatever interesting insight that I had wanted to share will come back to me soon.

umm wow?

Okay, the inner drummer in me drools at pulling something like THIS off at Lifepoint. This was apparently the opener at Willow Creek’s Arts conference.

Also found this one that I had to share, (the last one has no streaming media, it’s a couple of pictures on that post, but don’t look at it while sipping coffee, you’ve been warned!)