sovatone.
The guys just got out of the studio recording their 6-track demo, and it’s great to hear their stuff again. “Dance Revival” has one of my favorite lines ever in a song: “ain’t no fire gonna get me, i was bathed in the water that set me free.” Check them out online @ Sovatone.com and if you’re in the RIC, they’ll be playing at Alley Katz on September 29.
iPod first 15.
from Kurt.
The task: shuffle your iPod and list off the first 15 songs. Completely random and a lot of fun!
1.] The Birthday Song: Paul Colman Trio
2.] She Will Be Loved: Maroon 5
3.] Close My Eyes: Matisyahu
4.] Rock the Boat: Kinnie Starr [what the heck? random iTunes freebies I guess...never heard this one before!]
5.] Susie, Don’t Be Blue: Evan Marshall [MySpace | iTunes]
6.] Student Driver: Stellar Kart
7.] Dancing Queen: A-Teens
8.] Names Sake: Shane & Shane
9.] Empty Me: Jeremy Camp
10.] Feel: Silers Bald
11.] The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg: Iron Maiden [again, who?]
12.] King of New Orleans: Better Than Ezra
13.] My Neighborhood: Verbs
14.] The Remedy: Jason Mraz [random fact: a couple of my students were in the school choir at Jason's former high school and sang on his album in '06]
15.] Creation: WFU Minor Variation [my buddy Mike recorded their album in ’06
oh! gravity!
after a long, rainy drive down the interstate we finally made it to norfolk. it’s become a tradition to eat at max + erma’s before the show, so we grabbed dinner at the mall before we headed across the street. we missed the opening bands, which is a bummer ’cause the Moses Mayfield cd is incredible. but we didn’t miss switchfoot, which was most important.
I want out of this machine
It doesn’t feel like freedom
This is my American dream
I want to live and die for bigger things
I’m tired of fighting for just me
This ain’t my American dream
- from “american dream”
great lyrics in a few of their new songs, especially “american dream.” it was a great show, they played the old, they played the new, they played the brand new [side note: i guess this is how worship really should be. great words have been spoken through music for centuries--in the case of switchfoot, only for years--and none is necessarily better than another. end soapbox].
switchfoot has an uncanny ability to bring people together, reaching out to something beyond ourselves, and they do it in the confines of a public venue. worship is “the feeling or expression of reverence and adoration for a deity” and “adoration or devotion…shown toward a principle.” put those two together, and a switchfoot concert is worship — worship of God for those of us so inclined — but worship nonetheless.
“i want to live and die for bigger things.” this has, should, and will be my motivation in life. if i live on the edge and take a risk to do bigger things, in dying my life will be a reminder of bigger things. i want that.