...the green house...

on hgtv.com you can register to win a "dream home" every year. this year, i thought i was for sure going to be the winner of a $2.2 million home down in the florida keys.
alas, the winner was announced last week...and it wasn't me.



but i think there's a reason.
the reason is that i am destined to win their latest offering...a "green" house in hilton head, SC. you can view all the pics on hgtv.com.
just don't register to win.
you'll mess up my chances.


song o' the day: MARCHING BANDS OF MANHATTAN...death cab for cutie

...men vs women...

so at work we're putting together a movie montage highlighting the differences between men and women. you know, like the couples on the couch scene in When Harry Met Sally. like that. fairly standard. but i'd like to get away from some of the standard movies [Sleepless in Seattle, Pretty Woman] and i need some ideas. if you think of some great movie moments send them my way.


and while i was doing some "differences between men and women" googling i came across some CLASSIC comedies. anyone remember the movie Splash? Mannequin? The Money Pit?

man, i loved the 80s.

song o' the day: TWO OF HEARTS...stacy q

...flying upside down...

thanks to seth williams for the new music today.
after a great creative meeting of the minds with seth, jung and myself, i walked out two cds richer.
love that.
if you haven't, check out griffin house [i don't know how to put the link here, sorry erik].

kel, i think this guy is for you especially.

song o' the day: you tell me.

...streams...

"forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. see, i am doing a new thing! now it springs up; do you not perceive it? i am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland."

isaiah 43:18&19

...karma police...

i have a pastor who uses radiohead songs as the basis of his sermon. his sermon started after he had the founder of "to write love on her arms" speak for a few minutes. anyways, he's been taking us through the book of galatians...a book of grace and freedom in christ...tonight's message out of galatians 4:21-31 was focused on legalism.

and to begin he quoted this song:

Karma police, arrest this man, he talks in maths
He buzzes like a fridge, he's like a detuned radio
Karma police, arrest this girl, her hitler hairdo, is making me feel ill
And we have crashed her party
This is what you get, this is what you get
This is what you get, when you mess with us

pastor mark foreman encouraged us to not be members of the karma police...do not shake fingers at those whose ministry is NOT done by checking off some to-do list of religion. do not be those who live by the old law trying to earn their approval in god's eyes, but those who live by the new covenant...free in christ. to paraphrase st. augustine: love god, then do what you want. when you are loving him, you will want to do what he wants you to do...and the old covenant is no more.

song o' the day: FROM THE INSIDE OUT...hillsong

...this is what it means to be a human...

we had a great night at hotel cafe...from alice texting tiff that she was "at a show with white people standing still" [unknowingly in the same place as Tiff and me] to some young love arm wrestling to the discovery of our new favorite "it band"

check them out - www.myspace.com/ladydanville

song o' the day: DAVID...lady danville

...happy birthday...

today my dad turns the big 5-0.

where do you see yourself when you are 50?

song o' the day: forever young...ROD STEWART

...life in progress...

tiff challenged us to create our life mix.
this is what i call my "life in progress" mix.


01. manic monday...THE BANGLES
02. omaha...COUNTING CROWS
03. closer...BETTER THAN EZRA
04. ten minutes...THE GET UP KIDS
05. hurricane...SOMETHING CORPORATE
06. this years love...DAVID GRAY
07. human behaviour...BJORK
08. penelope...PINBACK
09. polaris...JIMMY EAT WORLD
10. candy...LOVEDRUG
11. soul meets body...DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE
12. lady day...RICHARD SWIFT
13. astral weeks...VAN MORRISON
14. divine romance...PHIL WICKHAM
15. innocence...THIS HOLIDAY LIFE

...i haven't been a very good friend lately...

"true friendship is a sacred important thing, and it happens when we drop down into that deeper level of who we are, when we cross over into the broken, fragile parts of ourselves. We have to give something up in order to get friendship like that. We have to give up our need to be perceived as perfect. We have to give up our ability to control what people think of us. We have to overcome the fear that when they see the depths of who we are, they'll leave. But what we give up is nothing in comparison to what this kind of friendship gives to us. Friendship is about risk. Love is about risk. If we can control it and manage it and manufacture it, then it's something else, but if it's really love, really friendship, it's a little scary around the edges"
-shauna niequist, COLD TANGERINES

song o' the day: SKIPPING STONE...amos lee

...where the deer and the antelope roam...

i've been feeling pretty tired lately. it seems i can only muster up THOUGHTS of productivity...not actual PRODUCTIVITY in itself.

we had dinner with new friends tonight. they live in an eensy little studio-1 bedroom-274 sq foot place that was "handcrafted" by the owner of the main house. words don't do it justice, but it has open cupboards and a dutch door and a multi-colored ladder leading to the "bedroom" and a garden out back. abby and i talked about our love of "little house on the prairie" books and being born in the wrong era. when i was in fourth grade i wrote essays about living in the 1800s and what a joy it would be to churn my own butter. in her spare time, abby sews and makes jam...it's not just a passing "that would be hip" thought for her, it's her reality. she even has her own sewing shack out back. and i'm jealous...she seems to be VERY productive in her hobbies.

i often go to these places in my mind - daydreams of not having to have a job at all. i think of all the random projects and journals and picture essays i would create in all my spare time. but will i every really get around to them? would not having a job and having all the disposable income i wanted be the things that would make it all happen? would living the simple life on the prairie be the key to my contentment? probably not. i would have to milk cows and sew my own dresses and pickle my own pigs feet - and that would go from being my glorious dream to the mundane work of my everyday life. boooooor-ring.

and geez, i get tired just thinking about having to take the dog out at 7 AM. imagine how tired i would be if i had to think about milking the cow at 5 AM.

song o' the day: STRANGE MAGIC...elo