Hello. My name is Jeremy Wheeler. I have not been around these parts lately due to… general laziness? So lets get you caught up and get this blog ball rolling again.
1) I passed Old Testament Survey. I wasn’t too worried about it. “And the monogram says ‘I-DOUBLE U-I-N”
2) I started to learn Spanish because I want to. Relearn really. It is going alright, but I need to concentrate on it more. Hopefully I will be conversational by end of summer. “And the monogram says ‘I-DOUBLE U-I-N”
3) On Friday, June 6th we’re leaving for Branson. “And the monogram says ‘I-DOUBLE U-I-N”
4) Blake is a bad word. He got me addicted to Sports based MMORPGs. “FAIL”
5) I’m still addicted to soccer. FC Dallas fired their coach, probably the right thing to do, but horrible timing and situation surrounding it. They gave up a goal in stoppage time last night which resulted in a draw instead of a win. “FAIL”
6) I bought the new Deliriou5? It is so yummy. “And the monogram says ‘I-DOUBLE U-I-N”
7) I’m still fat but until last week I was losing weight and staying off the Dr. Peppers. But last week and a half is horrible. “FAIL”
to end on a positive note… “And the monogram says ‘I-DOUBLE U-I-N”
I know i’ve been fairly quiet these past two months. OT Survey has been a workload, and I added more to it voluntarily. I’ve had some time at work to post, but haven’t really wanted to simply due to the mental strain I was already exerting in class… I know it’s a lame excuse, but just throwing it out there…
I do have some plans for some things to write about (namely, our church searching experience), but i’ve got one more night of class (TONIGHT!) so i’m thinking tomorrow or wednesday i’ll start posting stuff worth while again.
In the mean time, lets see just how attentive you are. Just so you know, I did fail the first time, so don’t feel bad if you do.
I disagree with that as a blanket statement, but sometimes its true… You also hear that those who can’t do, ref.
Not this guy…
I know it’s old (2006), but dang that Ref is in control! Shoot… I think he oughta be fighting… I love his reaction as he lets the guy down… throws his hand up like “Take that punk! I am THA MAN!”
Man… proof that sometimes God allows complete dorks to work in His kingdom. Notice the full beard, full uni-brow, and glasses. And by the way, to those who said shaving my head a few weeks back would be great “because i wouldn’t have to style it” … as you can see, i didn’t really worry about styling it when it was longer… thanks to kiesch for being a good sport.
(and yeah, the rendering quality isn’t quite up to par with what we’re capable of now, but you get the point)
Playing with my new webcam… i bought two of the same kind, one for me and one for Pops since Lnsy and Josh have officially moved to Ukraine. I didn’t like my first few plays with it, but after installing the correct driver and playing with the settings it turned out pretty good… so then me and the girls had a lot of fun screwing around… Here’s my famous tongue trick… you may act like it’s not that impressive, but i’m pretty sure you can’t do it…
worship text-fessional for Sunday, November 25 2007 at Fuel student ministry’s Ignite Senior High service.
Last week (the 18th) was horrid. So I didn’t want to talk about it. Basically the volume in the house was changed from practice and while the stage sounded fine, the mains hummed / distorted the whole time. I was oblivious to it until the last song when it broke down to just acoustic and my vocals. Then i could hear it and i was pissed… so, moving on from that week…
I’ve realized that if I give an inch in volume, things tend to fall apart. Not so much due to any one musician, but due to lack of having someone help control the sound at the board. So until I have someone at the board the set up is as follows:
No electric, no drums. Percussion = two congas, floor tom, stand tom, and cymbal. I personally like the set up alot (we’ve done it before, now it’s just semi-permanent)… it allows for a lot of freedom musically but is not overpowering. It’s much more controllable, which is needed right now. This has been the most challenging eight months I’ve ever had as a worship leader for a wide variety of reasons,largely due to my own faults… the concept is that I will take some experience out of this and become a better person for it, but it seems every time things start looking like they’re on the right track, something comes along and derails it.
I know I know…. pity me. But that’s not really the point. Leading worship has always been a fairly easy process for me. Not that I’ve always (ever?) been good at it but everything that surrounds it has clicked… equipment, band chemistry, “audience” participation, worshipful hearts all around, etc etc etc… We have had moments of some of this working, but for the most part this has been a whole new monster… anyway, perhaps leadership should take me aside and say “jeremy… that’s it…” and i’ll lay it down, but i’d prefer not to give it up.
so, this week with the new set up seemed to go well. I was losing my voice with all the sudden weather changes, but I fought through it. This was the set:
Here Is Our King - Crowder - G: sounds better in A, but wanted it to transition into… O Praise Him - Crowder - G: could’ve done this in A… anyone else notice this is pretty much a Christmas song? I like to spring that nugget on the youth every year. He Knows My Name / How Deep the Father’s Love medley - various people - E: I’ve talked about how much I like this in the past. Search it if you care to know.
Finished by fighting through (voice was really trailing at this point) my favorite contemporary / modern Christmas song “Better Days” by the Goo Goo Dolls. If you watched half-time of the Green Bay / Det game you saw it performed. Song’s been out and one of my favs for over a year, though. On a side note, i’ve noticed that most of the time that a vocalists notices his voice is going, it usually still sounds “okay” to everyone else. I hope that is the case… i hope Better Days wasn’t butchered… but at least I didn’t sound as horrible as Kelly Clarkson did on Thanksgiving (if you can make it to the bridge of this one, you will know the meaning of “bleeding ears”)!
In doing research for my Comp II thesis I came across who has become one of my new favorite poets, Taylor Mali. This particular poem has made its rounds in spam mail, altered and such (he has the story about it on his site), but here is the original poem, by the original artist… (PG-13 rating for “ass-kicking” and giving the finger along with one “G-D”…. but, seriously, in context… its justified)
For the record, he’s easier to look at with short hair… not that I really care what guys look like… you know, i’m not going to dig this hole any deeper.
I have to admit. Slaving over all this work is tough business. I must take a break from time to time…. One of the things we like to do here is take dancing breaks. I know it’s weird, but it’s very theraputic.
Like the time Josh and I went to his church’s 70s flashback dance:
(whatever you do, at LEAST read my second point down below…)
Manchester United (premier futbol club in England) has signed 9 year old Rhain Davis. Don’t worry, this happens all the time… soccer clubs have Academies that sign young players yearly in order to train them in hopes they turn into the next great thing. We do it in America too, so not that big of a deal…
But usually we don’t get to see why these kids get signed. This particular young boy is living in Australia and his dad puts together this DVD and sends it to Man. U. … And, of course, now it’s on YouTube for all of us to enjoy.
Few things first: 1.) Some youtube commenter’s say that this may be the “best of all the rest.” … in other words, perhaps he’s not all that amazing, but his dad has enough footage to get a whopping four minutes of good footage. If so, he still has great potential… but the way he carries himself makes me think his dad kept it to four minutes so not to overdo it.
2.) This is why soccer is so great. In American culture if you are this good, you are coached to take over… to make it all about yourself… to show the world how great you are. Why? because ultimately it makes it easier to win if the one dominating kid does it all on his own…Soccer is the ultimate team sport and teaches you that it takes EVERYONE working together to make things work. This video shows more passes (14) than shots (5). Beckham, for instance, is considered one of the top players certainly of this generation if not all time, and yet he rarely scores… he can put it in the back of the net, but he’s mainly a set up man.
3.) Even if the cynics are right on this kid, its still a nice video and 100% of my readers would fall all over themselves trying to pull most of these moves.
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to end on a positive note… “And the monogram says ‘I-DOUBLE U-I-N”
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