im not being treated fairly

on strike

Ecclesiastes 1:3

What advantage does man have in all his work Which he does under the sun?

wesley's Notes say this:

What profit - What real and abiding benefit? None at all. All is unprofitable as to the attainment of that happiness which all men are enquiring after. His labour - Heb. his toilsome labour, both of body and mind in the pursuit of riches, or pleasures, or other earthly things. Under the sun - In all worldly matters, which are usually transacted in the day time, or by the light of the sun. By this restriction he implies that the happiness which in vain is sought for in this lower world, is really to be found in heavenly places and things.

well thats it then. im going home.

but then in 2:14 it says:
There is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink and tell himself that his labor is good. This also I have seen that it is from the hand of God.

and in 5:8
Here is what I have seen to be good and fitting: to eat, to drink and enjoy oneself in all one's labor in which he toils under the sun during the few years of his life which God has given him; for this is his reward.

oh dang. i better stay.

(i think about these verses often.)

best quote ive heard in a while:

"Young people spend too much time indoors and spending time indoors leads to them being consumed with thoughts of sex. People need to get out-of-doors, to experience the out-of-doors and to learn in the -out-of-doors. The out-of-doors allows the mind to expand to other thoughts..."

via from the rooftop

peace on earth and stuff

Peace on Earth: A Holiday Album is coming out tomorrow. you can download it for $7. dmr free. it doesnt get much better than that. oh, other than the following are contributing to the album:

Prayers & Tears of Arthur Digby Sellers
American Music Club
Aaron Robinson
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
Sleeptalker
Someone Still Loves you Boris Yeltsin
TW Walsh
Chris Walla of Death Cab for Cutie
The Winston Jazz Routine
The Long Winters
Rosie Thomas
Great Lake Swimmers
David Karsten Daniels
Via Audio
Quiet Company
The Cotton Jones Basket Ride (Michael Nau of Page France)


from its hard to find a friend
oh, and while youre there, be sure you download a live show by david bazan for free here

this looks ridiculously fun

and ridiculously dangerous

project BAM! 7

Boka is a great Djembe player. The Djembe is a great drum.

organs, crosses, and mandalas

oh boy! first-plymouth congregational church is having a big auction in their church. they're selling crosses. as if turning God' s building into a marketplace isnt bad enough. lets sell our icons and ideology.

and may i remind you: first plymouth has one of the most grand organs for hundreds of miles. (photos from here and here) i will admit, when i was in the men's glee choir and sang beneath these pipes, i had chills running down my spine for about 20 minutes. awesome. (make sure you listen to it here)










































though i tend to side with presbyteer concerning the correlation between a church's understanding/clarity of the gospel and the size of their organ. (see his graph below)























the fun part about this story, is that its ties into tradition. tradition and stigma has it that a church needs to have a big gran ol organ. with Fat sound. true.

but these things cost money. a lot of money. like half a mill (ref). funny that a church with a half a mill organ needs to use their place of worship to sell crosses. but anyways...

its time to break out of tradition. i would LOVE to see a church use a Nord C1 Combo Organ with a sweet set of speakers. Nord's are notoriously good at replicating many different organ and keyboard sounds. For a fraction of the cost. my roomate has a nord electro, i have a fender rhodes from the 70's; the other night we got the nord to sound exactly like the rhodes. seriously. if i were cool, i would put sound bits up. but im not.