What I Did During My Break

School started this week. I don't know if I will enjoy it too much. the classes are a lot harder than I anticipated, but it was only the first day, so we'll see how we do. Here is a funny happening: I compared prices of the books at the school store, and then went online and found the same books used. If I bought them at the store, I would spend $88 more. I want to stab somebody in the throat.

Some of you may be wondering (all two of you), "what has brownie been up too these days?" Let me give you a run down:

I wrote a few songs -
I wrote a few new songs about people. That's all I'm going to say. I'm going to be recording soon with Chris Cochran, and deciding how this CD thing will work or if it even will work.

I read a few books -
David Crowders "Praise Habit" - If you like the style of Don Miller (Blue like Jazz, Searching for God knows what) then this book is a very simple read about developing a praise habit of your own, and a look at david crowders everyday life.

AW Tozer's "What ever happened to worship?" - I've said it before and I'll say it again, though Tozer is quite heady at times and speaks like he is speaking in and often quotes the King James Bible, he speaks with the tongue of a prophet that could speak into anybody's life today, and will speak into their life 20 years from now, and further down the road for many generations to come.

THe Message Remix - Went through the psalms. Since David Crowder quoted out of this text, I thought that I should read them for myself.

Body for Life - yes, cynthia and I jumped on the wagon, but we did it before the new year after we engorged ourselves stupid on christmas day.

CS Lewis' "Mere Christianity" - Very heady. I don't really remember anything that I read. I'll read it again someday. Maybe if somebody reminded me of one of the points, I would be able to dialogue, but right now I don't know.

I listened to few CD's, records, and tapes.
My listenings included the following:
Fall Out Boy, Lyfe Jennings "Lyfe 268-192", Paul Simon's "Graceland" (One of the best albums I listened to during the break), Sting "The Dream of Blue Turtles (Vinyl)...seriously, What Sting did on this album, Dave Matthews is doing 20 years later..., the Cars (Vinyl), Waylon Jennings (Vinyl), Matisyahu "Shake off the dust...Arise", Israel Kamakawiwo'ole "Facing Future", Lots of Prince Tapes including "sign o the times" "Alphabet Street" "Prince (1979)" "Controversy" amongst them all, Prince's "Purple Rain" (back to CD), THe Beatles "rubber soul", Neil Diamond "the essential Neil Diamond", Kanye West "the college dropout" and "Late registration", "Billy Joel's Greatest hits volumes I and II", Lauryn Hill "the miseducation of Lauryn Hill", Assorted Johnny Cash, and different Worship CD's including, Hillsong, Israel Houghton, Darlene Zschech, Wow Compilations, David Crowder. Believe me, there are a lot more that I can't think of right now.

I decided things that I want to do to grow musically:
While reading Praise Habit I've come to the conclusion that I want to learn about Country music. I'm talking about the old stuff starting with Hank Jr. and Willie Nelson and going from there. I don't know a lot about this genre, but if I figure if you like Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings then you will probably like the other stuff that comes from this genre. And besides, didn't Hank Jr. write the theme to the Dukes of Hazzard? It can't be that bad then!

Also, in the new year, I want to have a theme album for each day that I set out upon. This is music that I am going to study and like or learn to like. This is my new years goal: to listen to about 150-300 albums and learn about them.

That's what I did during my break

ron

Currently my theme album is "rubber Soul" by the Beatles