Sufjan Stevens

Pretty sure not many songs have been written about Romulus Michigan but I think this one is pretty good. Click on the image for a link to a video for the song. Need to have quicktime to view it (if you don't have quicktime I have no excuse for you, just get it here). Sufjan is from Michigan. Grew up in the UP and went to Hope College. His last album Illinoise was picked by many as the best of 2005. Not your typical stuff but really grows on you.

Here We Go Again

Not sure why I do this to myself but every single year I get excited about a new season of Spartan football. Every single season we win a few games, move up in the polls and I get real excited about some big game, usually Michigan. Then we have to play the big game and the downward spiral begins. After so many years you would think I would learn but I guess there is always that glimmer of hope. So it begins once again. We supposedly have a Heisman candidate for a quarterback. We are supposed to have a good rushing attack. Most importantly we are supposed to have a much improved defense. Here's to hoping....Here's to a new season starting September 2nd.

Communion

We have been attending a new church the last few weeks. A little bit closer to home, a little bit smaller and just seeing what else is out there. This last Sunday we celebrated communion. It was probably one of the best communions I have ever experienced. It went well with the sermon (about when we are weak, He is strong) but it was also just very personal. The pastor mention one thing that I think is a great quote.

"The world says, let us eat and drink, so that we can forget because tomorrow we die, Christ says let us eat and drink and remember for tomorrow we will live forever"

Simply Amazing

Is this guy crazy? Not sure but it is pretty amazing what the human body can do. He has now run 350 miles continuously, makes my 4 mile loop seem pretty sad.

NC Video - First Cut

Sorry about the video quality, second cut coming soon.

RSS Feeds

One web hint that I wanted to pass along. Using RSS feeds is a really easy way to keep up with websites that you like. The only thing you need is a browser that supports them. I would highly recommend firefox if you are not using it already. Once you have firefox or something similar and you go to a website (like mine here) you will notice that up in the address bar there is a symbol all the way to the right (a dot with two half circle lines over it). If you click on this it will open a box, that will have the name of the website and it will say create in: toolbar folder. Hit add and at the top of you browser you will see the name of the website. When you place your mouse over it - it will show you all the recent posts. So now you can quickly check when posts have been added. You can do this for any website that has the symbol in the address bar (like my web albums).

New Music

Zach Braff has a new movie coming out in September The Last Kiss. I have no idea if it will be any good but Zach put together the soundtrack which I am sure will be good. Joshua Radin is on the soundtrack, I had not heard is music but after listening a bit I have to say it is pretty good. You can watch his video single here.