don't hate

props to this truck driver in baltimore. (click the picture and read the deflector) whether she meant to or not, she's totally preaching the gospel of love... if only by discouraging the opposite.

on the theme of music again.... go get this record. now.

no picture for this one

last night I ripped about a 6 inch hole in the crotch of my pants while trying to climb from my lighting tower to the stage. I often refer to this as "gigging" my pants. I spent the rest of the night telling everyone I met about the giant hole in my pants, just to get the weirdness out of the way..... thanks to raleigh for being so cool

oh the choices

today we're at the cricket arena in charlotte NC. on my way to catering, i stumbled upon a concessions stand and wondered what they had at this one..... not much.





oh, and if you like counting crows, you need to get their new album, saturday nights and sunday mornings.

1,333

for those of you who don't talk to me, ever, i am currently on tour as the utility tech instead of my normal gig as something to do with sound. my responsibility during the show is to run mediashout (seen above). for this show, mediashout is responsible for the lyrics on the screen. during prayer time last night i pulled out my calculator/cell phone and added up how many times i press space bar - which advances to the next lyric slide. the numbers just kept adding up until.... 1,333! and that's just the space bar touches. sometimes i get fancy and press some other buttons to make it fade to black. but if we only count the necessities - 1,333. we normally do 3 shows a week. that adds up to 5,000 space bars every week. we will have done 48 shows by the time this tour is over, which makes -- 63,984 - only during show time. if we count rehearsals and sound checks this tour will have strengthened my space bar pushing finger over SEVENTY THOUSAND TIMES.

notice that there are no words run together at all in this blog... i am good at space bar

h to the izzo

yesterday in baltimore i walked in and saw this. the orange tape was left over directions from the night before. normally the tape is already cleaned up from the last show before we get there. who was it?

need another hint?


that's right. the american gangter himself, jay z, was in the venue the night before. who says Christian bands don't play real venues?

dude, where's the edison

sometime during load in, kenny finds some sort of fan motor. because kenny is kenny, he finds some 9 volt batteries and, together with carter, checks to see if it works. it does - the fan spins with just one battery. it spins faster with 2 batteries. then we hear kenny say "dude, where's the edison". for those of you who don't work with electricity very often, it basically means the type of plug and wattage that you have in your house. we all know that it's probably a bad idea for kenny to plug it this little motor in to that much power. but instead of stopping him - we all fumbled for our phones so we could take video of what was about to happen....

tastes of the road with Culmer

Jeff Culmer, blogger extraordinaire, is always blogging about the lives of other people and it seems that no one ever blogs on him... until now. he will help us explore what it's like to eat on the road.

this face followed the statement, "i just ate a vegetable i've never had before and it tasted like oatmeal." forgive the poor picture quality... it was taken with the cell phone.

later, to make up for the lack of dinner, Culmer had some mott's strawberry applesauce. thanks to Christy for helping with this picture by holding a flashlight.

after a long night of work, culmer enjoys a snack. who knew that dipping spicy nacho doritos in dean's french onion dip could be so good?!? try it - it's worth it.

according to culmer links increase traffic... we'll see