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Christmas iTunes Bucks, vol. I

Posted by bulldawgy on January 19, 2008 1 comments

Thank you to all who have given me advice on how to spend my Christmas iTunes bucks. I received some very diverse suggestions and I intend to follow up on some, but probably not all, of the leads.

In an example of a full loss of self-control, I have gone wild and purchased one song with my Christmas iTunes bucks. Yep, that’s $0.99 to you and me. Last year, I took the younglings to see Meet the Robinsons in the theater. Normally during these movies, I will have the youngest (in this case Ellie) sit in my lap and let the others sit around me while I doze through what is an awful move (Robots and Brother Bear come to mind). But, Meet the Robinsons was nice. Different. I enjoyed it. I also enjoyed a song that I heard from the movie, but couldn’t find it anywhere. I was looking for a song called Small Hours, but kept getting linked to Metal Head sites. Ultimately, google search sent me in the right direction – and I was led to Little Wonders by Rob Thomas of Matchbox 20 fame.

I give the song two thumbs up. Ah, isn’t the snow beautiful.

let it go,
let it roll right off your shoulder
don’t you know
the hardest part is over
let it in,
let your clarity define you
in the end
we will only just remember how it feels

our lives are made
in these small hours
these little wonders,
these twists & turns of fate
time falls away,
in these small hours,
these small hours still remain

1 for 2. But considering that I had 365 days….

Posted by bulldawgy on December 31, 2007 1 comments

Back at the beginning of 2007, I set two goals for myself for the year as follows:

(1) Land somewhere on eschatology. Post-trib, pre-trib, mid-trib, a-mill, partial praetorist, full pop-tart – anything! Study the word. Read some writings of great minds. Make up my mind.

Well – I whiffed this one. Swing and a miss. The sad thing is, I never really got to the point of starting on this one. There was always something that seemed more important.**

(2) Write and record more music. Well, I am going to call this one a bloop single to right field. I found time (and emotional inspiration) to write and complete three full songs – that I actually like. The bloop part is that they haven’t been recorded. :-( The Chilly Dog Studio has been temporarily shut down – as my keyboard was destroyed by jelly (thanks, Ellie) and I have moved the Mac to the bedroom in anticipation of tax season. There will be time… there will be time.

So, there you have it, if you were interested. 1 for 2. Hopefully, I can put some new requirements together for 2008… and soon.

************UPDATE****************

** Uh, for further clarification – it seemed more important than defining my eschatalogical viewpoint – not more important than reading/studying the Scriptures. I’m not that whack, folks. ;-)

If You Were Me and Had 25 Bucks

Posted by bulldawgy on December 27, 2007 3 comments

Hi-ho gang! It’s that time of year and I’m sitting on 25 iTunes bucks. Your music purchase suggestions are hereby solicited.

Make ‘em count.