Michael Jackson’s “Demerol”
I don’t know anything about this song. I don’t know where it came from, I don’t know where it’s from. Pretty bizarre though huh?
If Twitter Were 100 People
(HT: Gene Pensiero)
Here’s the rest of the stats. Pretty cool way to break it down.
What color are you?
Maintenance.
There are few things I hate more than vehicle maintenance. Maybe that makes me less ‘man’. Maybe it’s irrational to think that I wouldn’t have to deal with vehicle maintenance, but I don’t care. I hate it. I hate dealing with cars. I hate when they break. I hate that it’s ridiculously expensive to fix anything on cars. I hate that every time I go to fix some ridiculously expensive thing, the guy at the car place somehow talks me into spending three times that amount because if I don’t my wife and kids will die in a ball of fire on the side of the road. And then I believe him and hand over my debit card. I hate even getting gas. Everything car maintenance…. I hate.
In the past two weeks we have replaced the battery, had the oil changed and replaced all four tires. Sure, it doesn’t sound like a lot, but who budgets in spending an extra $1000 or so on car crap? No one. That’s who. So, almost $1000 later of unexpected expense on something I hate is how I started my day today. Neat huh?
Now, don’t get me wrong. I’m grateful that my wife and kids aren’t dying on a ball of fire on the side of the road and I’d pay far more than $1000 for that to not happen, but I don’t think there’s something that puts me in a bad mood faster than spending money on broken cars.
Anyone else with me on that? If not, what’s the top thing you hate spending money on?
‘On The Incarnation’
Today’s the day folks. Daniel Renstrom’s ‘On The Incarnation’ is officially available on iTunes and at his store. Now here’s the deal. There is absolutely no reason you wouldn’t buy this record. I’ve never been a huge fan of Christmas music because it all seems to sound the same, but there are two records that have changed that for me. Andrew Peterson’s ‘Behold The Lamb Of God’ and Daniel’s ‘On The Incarnation’.
So here’s what we are going to do. Fist up, you’re going to go buy the record. Then you are going to love it. Then I want to hear your favorite song on here. Then you will love the record so much that you will blog about it, put it on your Facebook and Twitter about it. Sounds like an awesome plan huh?
Here’s my favorite.
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So that’s your project today. So let’s hear it. Favorite song on the record? Go.
The Replacement
Well, it took a while to find a replacement hat and it came in a pretty uncommon way, but check it out. This little gem showed up in the mail the other day from a Mr. Jay Sellers. Kind of random, I know, but Jay sent me a message the other day saying that he had this hat and wanted to send it to me. I’m not totally clear on why he didn’t want it, but it fits me perfect and has officially replaced that other old nasty thing.
So thanks Jay. I’m sure all those standing next to me over the next few months appreciate not having to look at my old hat. What do we think peeps? Scale of 1-5. Go.
“Don’t Worry, It Won’t Hurt At All”
Blue has a wart on the bottom of his foot. I’ve never had one so I don’t really know what to do with them but the other day Kristin got some of that stuff that is supposed to freeze them off with no pain or “discomfort”. I mean they sell this stuff over the counter, how bad can it be right?
So, we sit Blue down and tell him that he won’t feel anything and just to hold still so we didn’t get this weird freezing stuff all over the place. Kristin dips this thing into a cartridge thing and pulls out this smoking, giant, Q-Tip looking thing. It wasn’t instant, but about five seconds in to the forty-second process Blue started squirming around and saying that it was ‘hurting real bad’. Now, normally he’s a pretty tough kid when it comes to playing outside with friends, but he’ll have a heart attack if we try to do anything ‘medical’ on him. I think it’s a control thing, but he swears to me that it hurts. So he makes it through the whole forty-second process and is now completely upset at us for putting him through such a procedure. I mean the box says “painless” so it can’t hurt that bad right?
In an attempt to make things fair, I asked Blue if he’d feel better if I did it to myself too. He agreed that I should try it so Kristin did the same process on me, only on the back of my hand and without the wart. Instantly I felt like that scene on Fight Club where Brad Pitt pours acid all over Edward Norton’s hand and makes him stare at it to cope with some inner pain or something. That thing burned like nothing I have ever felt before. I waited the entire forty-seconds and tried to show Blue how brave I was and how it wasn’t really that bad, but also letting him know that I understood the pain that he was talking about…. then I ran to the bathroom crying. No, not really, but that picture above is the result now three days later. Yesterday the blister popped and today it’s just this open sore thing on the back of my hand.
I’m not sure if there’s a moral to this story or not. All I know is my hand is jacked form some painless thing that I’m sure somewhere on the box says “don’t put on normal skin, dummy”. But Blue felt better about things, so I guess it was worth it.
Ain’t No Party Like A Book Burning Partaaay.
Halloween Book Burning – Burning Perversions of God’s Word
October 31, 2009 – 7:00 PMGreat Preaching and Singing
Come to our Halloween book burning. We are burning Satan’s bibles like the NIV, RSV, NKJV, TLB, NASB, NEV, NRSV, ASV, NWT, Good News for Modern Man, The Evidence Bible, The Message Bible, The Green Bible, ect. These are perversions of God’s Word the King James Bible.
We will also be burning Satan’s music such as country , rap , rock , pop, heavy metal, western, soft and easy, southern gospel , contemporary Christian , jazz, soul, oldies but goldies, etc.
We will also be burning Satan’s popular books written by heretics like Westcott & Hort , Bruce Metzger, Billy Graham , Rick Warren , Bill Hybels , John McArthur, James Dobson, Charles Swindoll , John Piper, Chuck Colson, Tony Evans, Oral Roberts, Jimmy Swagart, Mark Driskol, Franklin Graham , Bill Bright, Tim Lahaye, Paula White, T.D. Jakes, Benny Hinn , Joyce Myers, Brian McLaren, Robert Schuller, Mother Teresa , The Pope , Rob Bell, Erwin McManus, Donald Miller, Shane Claiborne, Brennan Manning, William Young, etc.
We are not burning Bibles written in other languages that are based on the TR. We are not burning the Wycliffe, Tyndale, Geneva or other translations that are based on the TR.
We will be serving Bar-b-Que Chicken, fried chicken, and all the sides.
Yep. It’s real. RSVP NOW!! With two different types of chicken who can pass up a party like this? I was planning on wearing this for Halloween, I hope they will be okay with that.
EMI Event – Beauty Will Rise – Steven Curtis Chapman
So, what started out as a sort of ‘top secret’, radio promotion thing turned into a more public, ‘okay if everyone knows’, radio promotion thing. Which now gives me liberty to talk about it on here rather than say that it was some secret thing that you all don’t get to know about. Because I’m not that good at keeping secrets…. especially when it comes to doing things online.
So, anyway. This morning I was up at the EMI/CMG building broadcasting a special event with Steven Curtis Chapman. Basically it was an event that originally only radio folks were “invited” to, even though it was just Steven, some label people and us in a room together. The idea is for Steven to basically give the radio folks some insight into his new songs, the stories behind them and introduce them to the new record. Up until this point labels would just fly out a few select radio guys and the rest of the ‘team’ would have to stay in their offices in some part of the world and wait to hear how their boss’ trip was.
Well, props to EMI/CMG for thinking outside the box and making an effort to reach out to everyone in the radio scene and not just the bosses. Pretty cool plan eh? What’s where we come in. Looks like a ‘new division’ of SkörInc is born. A few cameras, some cables, and a little testing and here we go. We’re instantly reaching the entire world with Steven’s stories about this record…. And obviously some ridiculous stories they are. I guarantee there wasn’t a dry eye online or in the room we were sitting in hearing him talk.
So that’s the ‘secret mission’. Not so secret eh? And guess what? I have a feeling this is going to become a ‘thing’ and if I can help it, maybe it won’t have to be a secret next time either.
Anyone here catch the broadcast this morning?
Six Days
In six days you’re going to buy something. You’re going to buy Daniel Renstrom’s ‘On The Incarnation’ and then you’re going to thank Daniel for making such an amazing Christmas record and then you will thank me for forcing you to buy it.
Seriously though. This is one of those records that you absolutely don’t want to not have. That’s right. Threw a double-negative in there for ya. ’Don’t want to not have’. That means you crazy want to have it. In fact, you might want multiples so you can give them out for Christmas presents.
So here’s the thing. I’d show you a song right now on here, but I think Daniel would kill me. So in time we’ll show you a song, and I’ve heard rumor of even a song giveaway.
For now head over to Daniel’s Blog and check out some of his previews of the songs.
