the blog of Jerry Bolton
Archive for February, 2009
…oh happy day
1Current Tunage: Celldweller – Outland
Instrumental record from Klayton (aka Celldweller), entitled “Soundtrack for the Voices in my Head vol. 1″. Very, very good.
So, who’s going to The Gospel Coalition 2009 National Conference?
Jerry and friends are going to the The Gospel Coalition 2009 National Conference.
What does that mean?
It means:
-Funtime Road Trip with 4 buddies to the Windy City aka Chicago.
-Free ESV Study Bible (woo!).
-Challenges from the likes of Piper, Driscoll, Mahaney, Harris, Keller, Carson, and many others.
-Wonderful way to cap off my joint BA’s from Trent (which will be complete as of the week prior!).
-Time of sharpening and forward vision: examining what God has in store for the weeks, months, and years to come for myself and those I am responsible for (self, wife, children, friends, family, church, people in general).
-Good, good times.
Pray for safety, wisdom, and blessing as we plan, prepare, and traverse this adventure in April… for His Glory.
…a significant milestone
0Current Tunage: Derek Webb – This Too Shall Be Made Right
A sombre note to end a happy day.
People always told me it would happen eventually:
I had a really great Valentines Day today. First time ever.
“Congratulations, n00b.”
RIP Single’s Awareness Day, you won’t be missed.
…the messenger
1Current Tunage: Thrice – The Messenger (Live @ The House of Blues)
Lyrics follow.
Mark me with fear and trembling; send someone else instead.
I know my world is ending; I can’t repay my debt.
How can I carry such a heavy burden?
How can I move when I am paralyzed?
I see a fire behind a heavy curtain.
I lean in closer and I close my eyes.
Kiss the coals; breathe in smoke, and I say,
“HERE I AM, SEND ME.”
It lifts my soul; I’m free and so unafraid.
“HERE I AM, SEND ME.”
Mark me with fire and send me among the living dead.
They cannot comprehend me; I watch the sickness spread.
How can they hear me when their hearts are hardened?
How can they see me when they close their eyes?
Still they can tell that I’m an easy target;
A wooden saw is quite a way to die.
Kiss the coals; breathe in smoke, and I say,
“HERE I AM, SEND ME.”
It lifts my soul; I’m free and so unafraid.
“HERE I AM, SEND ME.”
-Thrice, “The Messenger”
…put music to our troubles, we’ll dance them away
0Current Tunage: mewithoutYou – The Ghost
Love, love love, LOVE, love, and superlove.
On my shortlist of “BANDS SO AWESOME THAT THOSE WHO DO NOT LOVE THEM MUST CERTAINLY HAVE ROTTEN TASTE IN MUSIC” is a little band out of Philly by the name of mewithoutYou. I love them dearly – between the delicious bass-driven melodies, the satisfyingly crunchy electrics, the well-versed poetry, and the sparse and glistening soundscape… I love them a great lot.
…and as I read on Buzzgrinder not but a day or two ago, they have a new record coming out that everyone and their kid brother should buy. It is entitled:
it’s all crazy ! it’s all false ! it’s all a dream ! it’s alright
…and it is due out later this spring. Oh joy. Oh the joys.
Love.
I’m not the boy that I once was, but I’m not the man I’ll be…
…and I’ve been waiting now for six years on, and I’ve only just begun:
for the day You’ll hold her in Your arms,
Oh Risen Lord, my precious one.
-mwy, ‘the ghost’
…my dear machine
0Current Tunage: Sixpence None The Richer – Around
Sixpence has an EP up on Noisetrade that you can acquire for free or whatever you like. It’s quite good. The combination of Matt Slocum’s writing and Leigh Nash’s angelic warble has a tendency to inflict mind-melting style action. In other words, it’s excellent.
It seems, to me at least, that this final semester of university is a conspiracy to utterly destroy me. This week begins many weeks of long days, long sessions at the keyboard, and longing for sleep and sanity. I call it “Paper Season”, and I don’t think it has ever come so soon.
Pray that I stay afloat, cross the river, and live to build a 12-stone altar on the other side.
…the cost of marriage
1Current Tunage: Mutemath – Noticed
Has anyone else noticed the UNCANNY similarity between the start of this song and the start of Starflyer 59′s “No New Kinda Story” (from their record Everybody Makes Mistakes)? Yikes. If it wasn’t twice as fast, it would be far more obvious. I’m hoping it’s just happenstance or imitation, not stealery.
So, I’ve been thinking. Thinking what? Thinking that there’s some things I’ve done following my wedding that I probably would never have done prior (or at very least, would have avoided doing at all costs until there was no other option). I also thought it would be fun to share them, since they’re tongue-in-cheek and light-hearted and so on. Hope you enjoy.
EIGHT THINGS MARRIAGE HAS DONE TO ME (that i am rather pleased with)
1. Get a cell phone, use it daily.
2. Take a men’s multivitamin every day.
3. Do laundry more than once weekly.
4. Listen to less metal. (But still love it with passion!)
5. Listen to more CCM than could be rationally considered healthy. (At least by me!)
6. Go to sleep around 11pm quite regularly. Feel like a mess otherwise.
7. Get up prior to 7am quite regularly. Feel groggy otherwise.
8. Realize that I don’t actually hate Macs, just the elitist snobs who use them. (When they are elitist snobs, which isn’t always the case, but usually is!) My wife uses a Mac but she is not an elitist snob, she is a well-adjusted computer user who understands the intricate balance of benefits and drawbacks to different operating systems and despite this has chosen the greater of two evils.
Those are what come to mind at the moment, I’m sure there’s more. All this is to say that marriage has profound effects upon one’s psyche, general disposition, and well-being (all positive). It can even result in you doing things you should have done just because it was smart. I love my wife. 