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Head in the Louds
Hung out today with the band Head in the Louds as they were doing some new recordings.. had fun.. thanks guys for letting me listen in..
Emergency Landing in Denver
Thursday I was traveling back home from Colorado Springs and when I took off from Denver Airport we lost an engine on take off.. we flew around for about an hour getting rid of fuel. During that time we had to practice twice emergency landing procedures as the pilot didn’t know if we would have to abandon the plane once we landed. So, I filmed the last 5 minutes of the flight.. all ended well but you can feel the tension on the plane as we all really didn’t know what to expect would happen once we landed..
Check out the video here..
Windows Phone 7.8 upgrade is coming today…
My 2012 top 11 new albums
2012 was a great year for music. So many good new albums to enjoy. So for the first time I compiled my favorites. Hope you enjoy and I would love to hear any comments on albums you thought were great this year.
Here is my Spotify playlist of my top 11. Top 11 Albums for 2012
11. Holy Weather – Civil Twilight
10. No Direction – The Wedding
9. True Defiance – Demon Hunter
8. World We View – Nine Lashes
7. The End is Where We Begin – Thousand Foot Krutch
6. O God Save Us ALL – Disciple
5. Amaryllis – Shinedown
4. Beneath the Scars – 12 Stones
3. Living Things – Linkin Park
2. Vital – Anberlin
1. Phoenix – The Classic Crime
Best song of the year – The Precipice – The Classic Crime The Classic Crime – The Precipice
Newly Discovered Group – A Perfect Circle – A Perfect Circle
I must comment on my #1 choice for album of the year. I have always liked The Classic Crime although they never were in my top 10 bands.. they were good but there music was ok.. in certain settings and at certain times. I thought the direction of their albums were headed in a downward direction since Albatross. Something was a bit missing in their music especially Vagabonds.. should have liked the album but something just was to average about it.. so when Phoenix was released I honestly didn’t even notice. I was in Europe at the time. Specifically Warsaw, Poland. It was an amazing trip back in August… and so much was going on in my head.. emotionally.. life changing stuff.. once in a lifetime stuff. Things were happening to me that were making me rethink the course and direction in my life. It was and still is an amazing time to reflect back upon.
One evening before I was to leave back to the United States I was going through my Spotify music and notice the new album from The Classic Crime – Phoenix. I started playing with the first song One Many Army (Intro) and was totally captivated. This was something different … something new. I don’t know if it was because of what was going through my head at that time or what but it totally made me fall to my knees.. and by the time I got to the song The Precipice I was weeping like a baby… This album had gripped my heart.. my soul.. my life.. by the time I got to I Will Wait I was a mess. So much was going through my head.. so many questions.. so many answers.. I was exploding and in many ways I was being reborn. Yes I was being reborn.. a rebirth.. freedom.. passion.. it was all there.. and so overwhelming that I am still .. to this very day trying to understand it.. but I am glad for it.
You see.. there are few times in ones life that something grips you and demands your attention like this. This Album did this for me. The struggles and passions of the artists came through screaming at me.. I related.. I connected.. and it changed me forever! I am so thankful for this album.. and in the years to come it will be the theme for many things in my life. I pity the man or women who can go through a year and not have something break them. We need to be broken at some point and reborn… even if in the slightest way. If we are not.. we are lost in our false sense of security.. our false sense of hope. In 2013 seek out that which will change you. Even if it is in a small way.. we need to be progressing.. or we are truly lost.
Notre Dame to join the ACC
Notre Dame today announced that they have agreed to join the ACC in all sports except football…
The first hour of your day….
I just read this article about what successful people do with the first hour of their day. I found it helpful maybe you will too.
Really!!??
“Gonzalez was getting a cup of coffee at the International Plaza in Tampa when he bent over to say hello to a child in a stroller. That’s when he felt his lower back lock up.”
I usually don’t get on Sports athletes and overall Adrian Gonzalez is a good guy.. but at 15+ million per year.. is this a valid excuse not to play???
Storm…
We had a bad storm come through our neighborhood this evening.. this is a video of the storm taken from the front porch of my house.. The storm was actually worse before I could snap this video.. still. pretty powerful. Winds reached 80 mph..
Red Box
I had to laugh tonight as I was leaving the grocery store. Here in Ohio we had our real first day of winter. The roads were terrible, the wind was blowing.. drifts.. but with the threat of another storm coming in this weekend I wanted to pick up the essentials. You know.. milk, bread, coffee and beer. 🙂 Well a few more things than that but you know.. So I bundle up to head back out into the snow and wind after 30 min of shopping and something catches my eye. To my amazement I see 4-5 people deep in a line in front of the Red Box video vending machine. I know you can rent a movie for a dollar but folks why would you risk your life on the roads and stand out in the freezing cold for a $1 b-movie. It is amazing what folks will do for entertainment.
Happy New Year!!
Happy New Year everyone.. please be safe!!
Avenroot 