in response, noise(trade)

Blog two, here goes:

It’s been a while since we’ve last spoken. A good three weeks, I believe? Lots can happen in three weeks…

…and a lot has.

Of course, as it would be with people like we, the most pertinent matter is the soundtrack, and mine is a new album. Classically composed, solely scriptural and completely instrumental; I hope you know what I’m talking about. I’m talking about feedback.

Now, of course I’m a Derek Webb fan. When I was younger I felt the honesty and faithful obedience of the Spirit in his art, and I was drawn in. If you’ve known me through the past few years, you’ve surely seen the near-obsession I’ve developed to his music. It’s strange, awkward and downright embarrassing to admit something like that, but it needed to be said. Moving on:

Derek’s latest album dropped a few weeks ago, barely giving me time to take in the simple complexity that it is; alas, though, I have been listening. ‘Feedback’ is the title and, ironically enough to be called Derek’s own, the whole of the subject matter. ‘Feedback’ (which is disclosed by Webb in full, here) is a sonic sojourn through the Lord’s Prayer. For those unfamiliar with, the Lord’s Prayer is the prayer of Jesus recorded in the Bible when asked of his His disciples, “How should we pray?”

Derek’s up to something here.

I won’t speak of ‘feedback’ anymore, but leave you with this in hopes of receiving some of my own.

And so, it goes without saying (or apparently, with saying): what do you think of ‘feedback’?

What do you think of art, of life, of Jesus, of my ramblings or anything? Talk to me. That’s why I’m here.

I’ll be posting again soon; give me some response, noise, anything, and I might return more quickly and pointed.

(in the meantime, download some free music from derek’s “business”, Noisetrade )

The Primer

Hi.

I don’t really want to take up much time out here in cyberspace, but it seems that this is how people communicate these days, so I’ll be posting intermittently within the whisper of years in my life.

For now, I’ll just say that things aren’t going near as bad as they were in my life. God told me, in 2007, that he was going to take me through things in my life that I had to go through to become the man that I have [been praying for years] to become. And, let me say; they have certainly come.

The most likely scenario is that most of you either know me from high school or college; either way, you’ve probably noticed that I’m introverted, introspective, pensive and a little off-kilter. I feel that soon some of those latter descriptions will fall to the wayside and the former will take their place in a more healthy way.

For time’s sake, I’ll leave it at that. And, (as I’ll try to do from here on out) here’s what I’m listening to right now: