speechless

we saw the dark knight last night at midnight and it was amazing! i don't know what to say. heath ledger was incredibly scary, insane, demented, and spot on. the script was a beautifully crafted masterpiece that only with seeing it 4-5 more times will i be able to grasp it. the ending was awesome. a lot of people won't like it because it's not a happy ending, but i thought it was incredibly beautiful. can't wait to see it in imax :)

i love skype

so i was working today and got a message from my cousin saying that he was in charge of the tech stuff for fuel, a nazarene youth 3-day conference that travels to different cities. he leads worship at a church in florida and they are having their opening session today. so he jumped on skype and i put my headphones on and listened to the worship. (we tried to get video up but he couldn't figure out why it wouldn't work.)

pretty awesome!

got a long night ahead of us

i just purchased our the dark knight tickets for tonights midnight showing. we're probably going to get there about 8pm to get in line. it'll be a long night but totally worth it.

johnnyswim arrives

i just got the 4 song ep from my buddy and a tshirt.

i also found this awesome article about them from the tennessean (a nashville newspaper).

dancing under the influence

disclaimer: driving under the influence is not a laughing matter. dancing under the influence however...

google comes through again

i ordered a poster for my new office. it's one for "the dark knight." it's really eerie and i love it. so, i ordered it last week and i got an email saying it had mailed and stuff but i hadn't received it yet. i got an email last night from somebody i don't even know saying that they had gotten a poster in the mail for me.

come to find out, i entered the wrong address (i am staying with my in-laws so i am justified) by one number. so i go by to pick up the poster and the lady jumps out the door with a big smile on her face (she didn't want the dog to get out). i asked how she emailed me cause there was nothing on the package that had my email. she said she googled my name, found my myspace. since she didn't have a myspace she couldn't message me there, but she saw that i was pastor at catalyst and she went on the church website and found my email and emailed me.

awesome!

johnnyswim ep

my buddy's ep is available here.

i encourage you to check it out. it's worth it.

this is sparta

one of our friends, sue, is a teacher in dallas. one of her friends went to some national testing thing where students from all over the u.s. were taking this test. she said that there was something really weird going on during the essay portion.

i'm pretty sure she said that there were 175,000 students taking this test (she could have said 100k and then corrected herself and said 75, but either way, that's a lot of people from a lot of places). part of the deal is that you can't get marked off for making things up or saying something stupid.

she didn't give us an excact number, but there were a lot of students from a lot of different places that wrote "this is sparta" in some random place in their essay and then crossed it out.

she said they had to study for the test online and so it could have been some joke running around on the internet. either way, to have that many students write "this is sparta" in their essay...brilliant.

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here's a link to an article out of dallas (thx to levi)

got a little creative...

with some desktop wallpapers. jules asked me if i could make her one so that it would be cooler than just having our catalyst (C) logo by itself. so i designed a few and put them at thebeaker.online.

check them out and download them to show your catalyst support!

house

so we were hoping to close yesterday on our house but it looks like we won't be closing till next friday. it's gonna be pushing it cause my parents fly in that saturday as well so it'll be fun to see how well they do at hauling boxes :)

it's also a crazy week cause we have denominational gatherings this week and i'm helping lead worship at some of them. i'm also preaching next sunday and the sunday after that so it's gonna be crazy.

i sure hope we get in the house next friday cause that would a stress load taken off the ol' shoulders.

peace