Saw this last night and had to laugh. Gotta love voiceover videos!

I have no idea where Evan got this one from… I’m such a LIAR! For some reason this is one of the lines from Tommy Boy that stuck with me.

Not sure why in the world Michael Jackson’s “P.Y.T.” (Pretty Young Thing) just popped into my head. But got me thinking…. We need current artists who aren’t afraid to use acronyms in their songs like MJ did.  I mean really… What better “filler” lyrical content is there than using an acronym and immediately giving the definition afterward?

I Want To Love You (P.Y.T.)
Pretty Young Thing
You Need Some Lovin’ (T.L.C.)
Tender Lovin’ Care
And I’ll Take You There

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So are there any other songs you can think of that use acronyms like this?

So how many songs can you listen to in two years? Apparently 100,000 according to my Last.fm profile. I joined on August 10th, 2006 and hit the 100K mark on July 22nd. Head over there to see complete stats but to summarize, here are the top 10 artists over the past two years.

1. Switchfoot
2. Hillsong United
3. Delirious? disbanding in 2009
4. Mae
5. David Crowder Band
6. Anberlin
7. U2
8. Relient K
9. Lifehouse
10. PFR

Granted this is a snapshot of two years of ever evolving musical taste so this isn’t entirely accurate to-date.  This list is also partially skewed to the fact that these artists have more albums/tracks than other artists in my iTunes library… But I still do like all of these bands.

If you’re already on Last.fm and haven’t added me as a friend do so now! The rest of you, what are you waiting for?

This is too funny.  After the opening phrase it’s downhill from there.  Love how he scatters in some gratuitous gospel riffs here and there. Classic.

Vince posted this video…  Radiohead’s “All I Need” bringing awareness to child slavery. Just watch.

On Memorial Day I decided to take Evan and climb up West Mtn. to see if there was any snow left. I had always wanted to climb up there myself late in the season so we BOTH had a blast! I love my little guy, here’s to many more hikes!

It’s hard to believe that snow can last that long up there, especially when it was almost 90 degrees the entire preceding week.  It took so long for me to get this posted because I decided I would use it as a reason to learn Final Cut. Not that most of what you see couldn’t have been done in iMovie but I wanted to learn some of the ropes of the software.

Jib Jab’s obligatory campaign video… Pretty funny.

YouTube - Time for Some Campaignin’.

Here’s my contribution for the 25th day of the 40 Day Fast.  Don’t forget Euphrony’s post today, My Turn - The Face of Death.

A “conversation” I had on Twitter that got me thinking. The first two lines went like this…

JaredStill: We saw an accident after Church today. Worst I’ve ever seen. 5 people died, including 3 children. so sick over it
djByron: @jaredstill I’ve personally witnessed two similar scenarios over the past year or so and know the feeling… All one can do is pray.

The two scenarios I mentioned above included a guy dying right outside my front door in a motorcycle accident and a 15 yr old kid who was critically injured by an oncoming vehicle while riding his bicycle. In both instances I witnessed human suffering like I had never before.  This was something new.  Something that had never made it’s way inside of my comfortable “bubble”.  The screams I heard, the feeling of helplessness, the confusion, and an unrest in my soul that I could never translate to you in words. These will be two days that haunt my thoughts forever. Read the rest of this entry »

This morning around 10 AM Apple released version 2.0 firmware for the iPhone.  So far, amazing!  Here’s what I’ve installed so far… Read the rest of this entry »