two songs from destin

david, my boss at my youth group, is always way ahead of the students in his music knowledge. he played these two songs a lot on the destin trip:

The National - "Fake Empire"
Cloud Cult - "When Water Comes To Life"

sorry about the fan vids, just listen to the songs.

things that make me laugh forever

"Mother Grandma's Commercial" by Liam Kyle Sullivan

"Give a Damn" documentary trailer

My friends Dan Parris and Rob Lehr (and David Peterka) are doing a documentary on poverty in Africa. Watch the trailer.

"Give a Damn" Documentary Site

How to Make a Krew Movie by Dan Parris

This is by my friend Dan Parris on how to make a Krew (my youth group) video. I'm in it. It's pretty funny.

KrewTube: Survivor Ninja

This video (according to some) should have won KrewTube this year. KrewTube is the annual video contest at my youth group back home (Krew). I will start my internship with them this summer. I love them.




...and my all-time favorite Krew video. It's so simple and so beautiful.

Carla Bruni

Gosh, I love the high schoolers that I work with at my church so much that it hurts sometimes. Augh. Well soon enough, I'll be back here for good. I'm just waiting for my allure to wear off, when they stop listening to what I have to say because I'm not a novelty anymore, and I'm not just visiting.

The Krew room got flooded (again) this morning so we couldn't have sunday school and a couple of us met at starbucks instead. A bunch of old New York Timeses were scattered on the tables and I picked up the first one that wasn't about sports or politics. "The French President's Lover" the headline read, with a shot of Sarkozy being very cozy with a woman too beautiful for him. Carla Bruni, is that you? As in Carla Bruni, the one with the voice? Check out her album - especially the songs "Quelqu'un m'a dit," "Raphaël," and "Le toi du moi"...they'll take your breath away.

My favorite line from the article was: "Can Indian officials invent protocol to accommodate a First Sleepover Pal?"

word to look up: polyandry - a marriage or relationship with one woman and multiple males.

Carrie and getting carried away with ridiculous travel plans

My friend Carrie is delightful and always eggs on the flights of fancy I have when thinking about trips or adventures I want to take. On the Myers-Briggs, we're both ENFPs and are totally more into the idea of things over the practical. Here's a list of trips that I want to take in the next year, along with the varying possibilities of me actually doing them:

- January: Mizzou has a ridiculous 5 weeks off for winter break. Awesome. There's a website my old co-worker showed me called lastminute.com Also, I want to check out cheapoair.com (I heard about it from a girl in one of my classes - I don't know how good it is). I want to go somewhere for a four days really bad. Maybe Montreal will finally work.
- May: My friend Dan is graduating from film school in Los Angeles a week after I graduate from Mizzou. I haven't seen the Grand Canyon since I was 15 months old. Carrie and I will take my car cross-country. Maybe.
June: various family trips and youth group trips (Illinois, Florida, North Carolina)
July: New York City for the first time ever. Sweet.
August: Beijing for the Olympics? If I go to Covenant Seminary, classes start the last Thursday of August, so that'll be cutting it tight. Three weeks in China. Is it enough?

...and after that is prolonging the wonderful student schedule where I get months off for travel. It's a good life.

Fin 'n' Feather 07

I love Krew, the youth group I work with in St. Louis. They had their fall retreat this past weekend and I went over to New Haven (about 1.5 hrs south east of CoMo) to Camp Trinity, where we always have it. The weather could not have been more perfect. We played football, canoes were tipped over, dead mice were put in girls' cabins. It was perfect. On the ride back the day was clear and my heart was rejoicing. Peter, Bjorn and John was playing. Life is Beautiful once again. Missouri is finally showing her colors:

Just in the Mail

I just got this in the mail today from half.com I heard one of their songs on the radio on a high school youth group road trip back from Destin, FL. I like them a ton. I recommend 'Ballad of the Dumb Angel' and 'Death Club', neither of which are on their MySpace page. Oh well, here's the link anyway: The Loose Salute

Oh, wait, on Lastfm.com you can download 'Death Club' for free and listen to a good part of 'Ballad of the Dumb Angel'. Here ya go.

Can He Jump it?