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Name: Matthew
Birthday: 10/18/1981
Gender: Male
Interests: People. Music. Africa. Good Movies. Reading. Learning about God. Spending time with Dana and my family. Concerts. Drums.
Expertise: Being someone I don't want to be. Trying to become the person I want to be.
Occupation: Artist
Industry: Other
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Member Since:
9/22/2004
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| Ok Go is a band that I am becoming familiar with recently. Really not that great of a band at first listen. But seriously this band has grown on me. I find that certain music has this effect on me. I don't really like it at first but if I give it a couple of good listens then I'm hooked. You've probably all heard Ok Go. They are the band that you hear and see in every JCPenny commercial. Ok well, Ok Go has an extremely creative video right now. All I can say is you have to see it with your own two. The song is called Here It Goes Again. Tredmills, who knew they could be so creative. Seriously if you just want a good laugh, and we all know that you do, go check it out. Please.
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| If you guys have some time you should go over to my friend Brian's website. He is a great friend and someone I respect. He is a great writer of religion and life issues. He is also pretty funny at times. Anyways check him out. He has a great article posted on the Dayton Daily News website about the ministry of X3 church who minister to people struggling with addictions to pornography. Plus Brian is my old youth pastor. Check him out. | | |
| Ok so check this out. I was reading Searching for God Knows What last night and Miller talked of Adam and Eve and it was just a beautiful thought. He was talking about how God knew Adam was lonely but instead of just making Eve for Adam right that second He was going to wait. Instead He had Adam go name the animals. I think we look over this part a little and I agree with Miller. When I would think about this I imagined Adam just sitting on a log outside his little cabin and waited for animals to pass by as he mindlessly stated, "bear, monkey, buffalo, deer, rhinocerous, deer, oh wait I mean antelope." No, this was not the case. This task alone could have taken Adam decades to complete. He probably had to travel out to the ocean to name those animals. The land that was the Garden of Eden was immense. Think about it. Then after that Adam must have been so lonely. He was probably trying to communicate with all these animals, maybe even trying to live like them, and this is where he realizes that he doesn't have a sutible helpmate. He can't communicate with anyone, except for God of course, which is great, but still God is a totally different level. This is when God put Adam to sleep. And when he awoke there was this beautiful new creature that he was able to communicate with. I'm sure Adam and Eve feel for each other right away. Then Miller states that there is no way that Adam could have taken Eve for granted. This is how the woman was intended to be viewed. As beautiful and special and never ever taken for granted. I think the world has lost this point. People can just turn on their TV's and betray the beauty and specialness of the woman. I know I am not innocent. But the beauty of Adam and Eve is that they were made for each other and I still believe that God does this today. I know this may not be encouraging for everyone, but think about Adam, he had to wait until he named all the animals to find his helpmate. And when he did he was all the more thankful. | | |
| You know I'll be honest, I wish it would rain a lot more often. Then I wouldn't feel like a complete bum hanging around inside the house. I would go outside, well I mean I do go outside, but I can't go for a walk or a bike ride or drive with my windows down. I just wish 4 weeks would pass quickly. I know you probably didn't all get on here to read about how I'm not happy today but really it's these amazingly awesome days that make this situation a lot harder to swallow.
I think what I'll do today is take a book outside and read it on the porch swing. That should be a change of pace. At least I have Rockstar Supernova to look forward to tonite, and it's only a couple days until I get to see Dana again. I'm really excited. We're gonna have a great year. She's excited about possibly traveling again. I say possibly cause you never really know what Jim Cato is up to. I think she has a great chance. She also might have the opportunity to travel out west. I really hope she gets put on that team. I would feel so confident having Tyler as her leader. Also, it would be a good growing experience for her and for that matter, me too!
Well, I just wanted to update a little. This weekend was a good time. On Friday night I went out with my friend Chad. We went to see a senator from North Dakota talk about outsourcing at a local bookstore. He had to do it for class, I just went cause I was kind of interested. This one lady who was also there was angry because she didn't understand why people would vote outside of their economic demographic. Basically she didn't understand why people who make less than 100 G's would vote for a Republican. I just thought to myself, maybe it's because there is more to voting and pollitics and life than money. Maybe people care about the moral side of politics. Now I'm definately not saying that all Republicans are moral cause they are definatley not, and the Church should not assume that Republican=Christian. That bugs me more than anything. However, on certain issues the stance of most elephants sides with small town ideals. Anyway, money is not everything lady. Then on Sunday Joel and Todd came up and we all went to Chipotle and talked. It was a great time to catch up and just laugh. Then I watched the Bengals do some hurtin to the Redskins. I think the team will be great this year. Who Dey!
On a final thought. Everyone should check out the book "Hope in the Dark". It's mostly a picture book with great pictures of Africa. Great book. Makes me want to adopt one day.
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| Well today marks one of the finest days of the year for my hometown of Englewood OH. It's our annual fine arts festival. And by fine arts I mean various kinds of trinkets. Not so much fine paintings or sculptures of poetry, but more like nice handy nick nacks like wooden iron boards/sitting stools that are used for nothing more than decorations. All I have to say is thank goodness for the funnel cakes. They have once again saved the fine arts festival of Englewood. The funnel cakes and the face painting have shown up every year, and honestly it brings me back to my childhood. In high school I would march in the parade. Yes, this rocker was in the marching band. Weren't we all?
My thought for today is one that I've been thinking about for a while now. I don't know how many of you have read Donald Miller's "Searching for God Knows What" but in this book in the first chapter he talks of formulas. Formulas for the Christian walk. We've all heard the sermons. If you take these 3 steps you will transform yourself from miserable to happy. Well, a cool thought is that there is no formula. We are all in the process of a formula. After all is said and done we may be able to look back and say, "Yea, these three steps is what I went though to go from miserable to happy. But it wasn't just those 3 steps...it more than likely also involved months of not knowing what is going on, or patience. I don't know if this makes sense. We just need to remember that God is creative and He has made us different so why do we think we have all the answers to everyone's problems? Community is not so much about solving everyone's problems so much as it is about listening and praying and supporting. Advice is good, but be quicker to listen. I know it's something that I'm trying to work on. Ask my freinds and especially Dana, my girlfriend. I'm a horrible listener. I'm a really good advice giver. In my opinion of course.
Also in other news, all you myspacers out there here is your chance to get on TV. Go to myspace/mynameisearl and you can possibly get your face at the end of a show. I don't watch the show so I have no idea what I just endorsed.
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