It's been a while since I've gotten the chance to sit down and write some about what we've been doing, so I hope to get in some good time now. Actually, right now I'm waiting for my beard trimmer to charge up. I started to cut my hair and shave it again, got about half way and the battery died. So it looked like I got in a fight with a weedeater. Of course, I figured it didn't really matter, so I went out and tossed the frisbee around a little with Thew and talked about our plans for tonight. I came back in and almost finished up but haven't quite got it there and it died again. lol. Lesson learned.
Tonight is the first dress rehearsal of the bands. Mangofish goes on at 6:30 to run through their set. I think they said they were expecting between a hundred and 120 people coming. Mangofish is the rock band by the way. They had to be there by 4 to get a sound check and run through some things. Thew and I are going to shoot the concert tonight, (with video-cameras.) I'm kind of excited about that. I think some of the guys are going to dress "scene" tonight. I'm not sure exactly what that is, but I think its some sort of style that people wear and apparently its appropriate for a rock concert.
Speaking of rocking, Jesus rocks. haha. I went to a church called Bridgeway last week where we had had a meeting so a bunch of us went to check out what their service was like, and its 5 min away from the apartments. It was really good but I didn't know if it was just a one time deal, but I went back today and learned, no it wasn't. They had two different preachers in the two weeks, and both of them were passionate, had good gestures (something I"ve noticed now after comm. drills), were biblically based, and made me think a different way than I had before.
Today, he talked about creativity and how God created something out of nothing. "In the beginning God created. . ." the word "created" in Hebrew is Ex-Nihilio which means "out of nothing." He said if we can believe, if we have enough faith to believe that, then the rest of the Bible is easy to believe. He said alot of people question a lot of things about that. One point I wont forget he was talking about when he got to Heaven, questions he'd ask Jesus. He said he'd ask him how old Adam and Eve were when he created them? It's kind of funny, but then he explained why thats relative. Adam and Eve could have been 7 years old, 12, 24, 46, 74 years old.
This is added on since the concert:
Mangofish performed last night and they rocked it. They did an awesome job. I was pretty impressed, plus there was a good turn out and a bit of a mosh-pit at a few points. They are leaving out tomorrow morning by 7am at the latest. So if you would like to pray for their safety, their headed to Montana first, so all day tomorrow is just driving. They did a very good job and are well prepared, I was getting tired filming then after an hour of rocking and all the adrenaline pumping, so I figure they were worn out too. We had to go back in and wake Nolan, the drummer, up this morning before we left. I told him now he's acting like a rock star, rocking all night, then sleeping in late the next day. Of course late was 8:30 so maybe it wasn't too bad. It turns out that they didn't have to be here until 10 so I felt a little dumb.
Anyways, Swerve (pop-rock), and Level 3.16 (the Impact Gospel-Hip-Hop Band) have their dress rehearsals tonight. So that should be good. It's awesome being able to have free live concerts every night, especially when its music you know and people you know too. It's not all fun and games tho, thew and I work pretty hard to get all of the right shots and make them look good. Well, to me though, it's fun. So I enjoy it. I got to walk around the edge of the stage and stand up on boxes and amps and all this different stuff to get shots. And I went up and crawled behind the drummer to get some shots of like the pedal on the base drum. It was pretty cool.
But I have to go now cause I'm off to shoot the next concert.
Love, Peace, and Chicken Greace
(but the greatest is Love)
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