Just wanted you to be aware of a cool artistic offering my friend Ryan Huffman has been keeping up with for some time now: so.zo comics (I put a link to it in my 'music, lit. & the arts' list). Our coffeeshop/cereal bar on High Street is called so.zo, and Ryan's created this little strip as an homage to it and the people who are in and out of there a lot. A lot of the jokes are a little inside, but I think anyone can enjoy the humor and the great art (all composed within Microsoft Paint amazingly!).
I'm sitting with my wife at one my favorite Morgantown restaurants/music venues, Black Bear Burritos (notice how the door to the street behind me says 'GOOD LUCK' as you go back out into the world...)! It was a beautiful evening and we decided to walk from our apartment in South Park around downtown. We considered a couple places first, but inevitably came back to Black Bear. I used to always get the 'Double Wide,' which is just a big burrito with steak (or chicken), rice, black beans, onions and all kinds of other good stuff, topped with barbecue sauce. Mmm! But they took it off the menu a while back (though you can still order it if you want, they saved the recipe), and I've since gotten stuck on the Bear Trap, a little wrap with turkey, bacon, lettuce, tomatoes and this really, really good dressing: honey mayo. I'm halfway done with one right now!
Anywho, I thought I'd try and get back in the swing of things (AGAIN) with this blog. I don't mind not blogging everyday (it can be time-consuming, especially for me, the slowest person on earth), but I hate when good thoughts strike me and I let them pass by. I need to get one of those Moleskine notebooks that slide right into your pocket like my friend Billy has (he blogs a lot more frequently than me, check it out).
I just wrote a new song this week! I'm a little concerned about copyright so I won't post it here (though I know I posted another song of mine recently, oh well...), but I thought I'd mention it because it started in a dream. Yeah, isn't that cool? I had this dream about a month ago that I was leading music at a big church (much like mine, but different) and I had a really long cord to my guitar so I walked out into the congregation and looked toward the stage with them. They were all raising their hands to God, and there was no band or anything on stage, it was all dark, but there was some ambient music. And all of a sudden everyone sang out: 'Be-hold! Be-hold!' It was really moving to hear all the voices in unison.
I woke up and was afraid I'd forget the melody so I wrote the notes into a document on my phone and went back to sleep. I didn't do anything with until this week, and all of a sudden the song came to life! I used the 'behold, behold' part in the pre-chorus. And I looked up some Scripture with 'behold' in it and came across a lot of end-times stuff in Revelation ('Behold! I come like a thief...' 'Behold! I am coming soon...). I love Revelation 21 as well, where he says, 'I am making everything new!' and how there will be no more mourning or suffering or pain or death; all our tears will be wiped away. And so I looked at other inspirational and mysterious Scripture about the end, like in 1 Corinthians 15 where it mentions that 'in the twinkling of an eye' we will all be changed, and in 1 Thessalonians 4 where it describes that those of us who are still alive when the Lord comes back will meet him in the air. Awe-inspiring stuff! So the song is basically about the Christian's great joy in looking forward to that.
I'll record it someday...
