i'm finding out, that the easy answers won't suffice anymore

this weekend was very positive.
ojk played a show on friday. we played with okra and the blend. the blend was basically a hip hop band. they were pretty neat and caused a lot of white people to dance like white people dance. i felt that ojk was well recieved and i walked away from this show feeling very good about the band.

yesterday i went to warped tour and i could probably blog about it for a long time but i will only hit the highlights.
family force 5. killer. that band requires attention. their sound was not that great and was kindof covered up by escape the fate. i was very mad at escape the fate and wanted to show them my middle finger but then remembered that pretty soon they will realize their music is bad and that will be punishment enough for them. family force 5!
paramore put on a very fun very positve set.
mxpx. heck yes. i finally got to see these men play their music in front of people. we were very close for their set and i had so much fun. they took requests at the end which made their set even neater. once they concluded their set i went and watched the graduate play and i noticed that mike of mxpx was talking to some people. i conveniatelly timed my departure from watching the graduate and just so happened to see mike and shake his hand and thank him for making good music. it was gnarly.
another high light was seeing new found glory. you can laugh at me if you would like but they reminded me of a time when i could not grow a beard. i felt like i was 14 again watching them play with such vigor. they only played one song of their new album which was a good idea.
bummer of the day: i was watching bayside and noticed that big d and the kids table was playing near by. i wanted to see a small portion of their set and walked up and stood on the outskirts. i was standing next to an attractive female who turned out to be meg from meg and dia. i didn't realize it till some awkward kid came up and took a picture with her. she disappeared shortly after that. i then went back to watch bayside slightly bummed, but bayside's music quickly lifted my spirits.
a good day. a very very good day.

i have been reading the irresistable revolution and feel crappy because of all the stuff i have.

i am not looking forward to moving out of the house i am in now. not at all.

(this is where i would have put my warped tour pictures but i gave my camera to my sister and forgot to take my parents old one. oops)

who let you let this feeling die.

i just returned from my pigrimage home.
i would rate this as one of my favorite trips home ever.
thursday i pretty much hung out and got lemonade from my cousins lemonade stand. he gave me a good deal.
saturday ojk and tba came down and we had many many laughs. i forget about all the small little things that are strange about my home town that i never noticed. for instance stinky's bar and grille. totally normal. i have consumed food there many times but to an outsider that is a pretty funny name for a resteraunt.
ojk and tba and the freshmen hung out for a while and then it was show time. we had a good sized crowd considering the short amount of time this all came together. the freshmen took the stage and got the crowd sufficiently pumped. they are already a good band. the benedict affair absolutely owned the crowd that they had never played for before. everyone was into their music. ojk too the stage and put on a solid set as well. it was so much fun performing for a crowd of people who already knew me and were excited about the music. piper came from her home town, that was gnarly. i got to play celebrate life in front of grandma rosie.
post show we went back to my house and made a fire. all the bands hung out and then erin brought some friends over. i felt like the high school kids were observing us college kids on our natural enviornment, but it was fun.
i went to church on sunday morning and made my way home.
i came home early thinking ojk would be played on the radion round 6 or 7. i was lied to. the radio program did not begin until 10. all the kids at the niessink home were excited about hearing our band play and they couldn't. i was very mad.
now i am back in my boring routine.
i just made coffee and am going to go zone out in the living room.

sweet Jesus i swear that i love you

i'm exhausted.
ojk played a show last night and it was a great success. we played in hull iowa with some new bands and i think we made some new fans. the only down fall was walhof approaching the mic and dropping an f bomb in front of people who have never heard us before. we had a good talk as a band about it and hopefully it won't happen again. i got a good chance to mingle with our new crowd trying to get our cd sold without being a jerkhole. i sold a cd for an empty bottle of pop. great success.

on tuesday i went with kenny and walhof and saw maylene and the sons of disaster in omaha. aslkdjav;bnajeoiva. that is the only way i could think to express how i felt. it was so so good. while he is legend was playing me and kenny noticed that walhof had not come in from his smoke break and we decided to pursue him because more than likely he was doing something awesome. sure enough there stands walhof standing next to dallas taylor the lead singer of maylene. apparently walhof walked right up to him and asked him why he was a Christian. he told us everything. it was incredible. his perspective on being in a band really made me want to change my attitude towards being in a band myself, and i have. he talked to us about how he could be at home with his wife and his kid but he is so convinced that God will work through their music eventhough the lyrics aren't explicitly Christian. i want to feel that convicted.

ojk is playing a show in aplington next week saturday. i have been contacting tj out the waz to try to get the stuco center booked but he has not returned phone calls. basically i don't know where we will be playing but it wil happen.

i recently made the purchase of a cd by a band called manchester orchestra. they were not billed to me as a Christian band but some of their lyrics are so spiritually challenging that it is eery.

i just finished reading the book simply Christian by nt wright. i borrowed if from roomate kris walhof and i would recomend it to anyone who has a soul.

i have had heartburn a lot lately. i don't know why but i am guessing work related stres may be the culprit.

that is pretty much all i can think of at the moment.