Tag: The Fray

  • Music Meme

    I wasn’t tagged directly… but I felt tagged in spirit by Marko’s music meme. So here goes:

    The 411:

    1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
    2. Put it on shuffle
    3. Press play
    4. For every question, type the song that’s playing
    5. When you go to a new question, press the next button
    6. Don’t lie and try to pretend you’re cool!

    Opening Credits: Over My Head — The Fray

    Waking Up: When I Said I Would — Whitney Duncan

    First Day At School: Make Someone Happy — Jimmy Durante

    Falling In Love:     Homeless –Paul Simon

    Fight Song:     No More — Boaz

    Breaking Up: Listen to the Music — The Doobie Brothers

    Prom: Angel — Sarah McLachlan

    Life: Faithful — Steve Fee

    Mental Breakdown: Every Little Things She Does is Magic — The Police

    Driving: Pick up the Pieces — Brae

    Flashback:
    Hometown Glory — Adele

    Getting Back Together: Sweet Home Alabama — Lynyrd Skynyrd

    Wedding: 42 — Coldplay

    Birth of Child: Who Says You Can’t Go Home — Bon Jovi

    Final Battle: Bye, Bye Love — Ray Charles

    Death Scene: I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For — U2

    Funeral Song:     Mona Lisa — Nat King Cole

    Remembrance Song: You Alone by David Crowder Band

    End Credits:     Open Skies by David Crowder Band

    I’m tagging Billy, Todd, Tim, Jeremy, Sara, and Kim.

  • 5 Songs that Pump Me Up

    Music is a powerful measuring stick for where a person is in their life, isn’t it?

    The songs that I identify with right now reflect a lot of who I am as well as a lot about how I feel about the stuff going on in my life. Here are songs that I listen to on a regular basis and just get me all fired up-n-stuff. A couple of them are obvious while a couple may only make sense to me.

    1. Mama Said Knock You Out by LL Cool J

    2. Waiting on the World to Change by John Mayer

    3. Lose Yourself by Eminem (not sure when I haven’t loved this song!)

    4. Rise by Eddie Vedder

    5. You Found Me by The Fray

    What gets you all fired up-n-stuff?

  • Saturday Tunes

    Saturday TunesAh, the weekend. After a fairly stressful start to my week we hit Thursday and coasted. Lots of good stuff happened this week. Lots of stuff accomplished. But it was a front-loaded week and it felt good to have a couple easy days.

    Last night I went with Chris, a staffer at Harbor, over to Rock Church for a thing on the economy and social justice. I don’t know that I really learned anything new about what has happened and what is happening with our nations finances, but it was very good to see a church educating its people about what it all means for them and what they can do.

    Today is a normal Saturday. Kristen is off to climb Cowles Mountain while I hang with the kids. Later, we’ll take Stoney to the beach. Kristen and Paul already have in a request for Chinese food for lunch… so I guess it’s that and then more fun the rest of the weekend. I’m already looking forward to going to the beach Sunday afternoon.

    Here are the next 10 tunes I’m listening to this morning. As usual, these are completely random and my ratings are included.

    #1 Say When by The Fray *****

    #2 Anyone Else But You by The Moldy Peaches ****

    #3 A King a Kingdom by Derek Webb ****

    #4 O Worship The King by Chris Tomlin ***

    #5 Marvelous Light by Kristian Stanfill **

    #6 Quasimodo by Lifehouse ****

    #7 A Kiss to Build a Dream on by Louis Armstrong ****

    #8 Take My Breath Away by Berlin ****

    #9 Stardust by Nat King Cole ****

    #10 Nine in the Afternoon by Panic at the Disco ****

  • Saturday Tunes

    Saturday TunesIt’s been a good week. OK, better than average. It’s been a really nice week. A friend was nice enough to watch our kids on Monday and Wednesday. (Last week of their 3 week Spring Break) She took them to the pool, had some wicked great activities, and on Wednesday they went to see Disney’s Earth movie. Tuesday, Kristen stayed home with them and took them to the Kroc Center pool. Thursday was my day, I took the kids to Sea World… fulfilling one of my lifelong desires to see Shamu. I suppose the kids had a good time too. Yesterday, the kids tagged along with me in the office for a few hours and then we drove up to Oceanside to hang with dear friends from Romeo, Fran and Andrea.

    On top of that, we got our State and Federal tax returns. That was a major fast-forward towards our financial goals for 2009.

    Now its the weekend. Kristen is already off to her weekly romp up Cowles Mountain. Later this morning I’ll take the dog to the beach so he can play in the water. In the meantime, I’m chilling and listening to some music. Here are the next 10 songs on my playlist. As always, selected at random and my ratings included.

    #1 Only Want to Be With You by Hootie & The Blowfish ***** [classic!]

    #2 Up the Spout by Mateo Messina *****

    #3 O, For a Thousand Tonges to Sing by David Crowder Band ****

    #4 Not To Us/Here is Our King by Todd Fields **

    #5 Afterall by Jason Harwell ****

    #6 Crazy Beautiful by Chasen *****

    #7 Sweet Home Alabama by Lynyrd Skynyrd *****

    #8 Undignified by David Crowder Band ****

    #9 Absolute by The Fray ****

    #10 Earthquake by Family Force 5 *****

  • Saturday Tunes

    Saturday TunesIt was a loco week. Not in a bad way, either. My head is spinning this weekend with all the fun stuff that happened in the previous 7 days. But today is Saturday and I am trying hard to put all of that aside so I can recoup for the week to come. This morning I am off to dog beach to let Stoney run. It’s going to be a fantastic weekend weather-wise, so I am guessing this won’t be our only trip to the beach. (Actually, Kristen and I snuck in an afternoon date yesterday where we went to the beach and walked along the surf.)

    Here are the next 10 tunes I’m jamming to right now. As always, completely random and my ratings are included.

    #1 How Great in Our God by Chris Tomlin ****

    #2 Down to My Last by Alter Bridge ****

    #3 Take My Life (and let it be) by Chris Tomlin ***

    #4 Broken Wing by Thousand Foot Krutch ***

    #5 A Distant Episode by Till Bronner ****

    #6 Rain Down by David Crowder Band ***

    #7 My Hope by David Crowder Band ****

    #8 Tonight by High Five aka Jimmy Savage *****

    #9 Amazing Because it Is by The Almost ****

    #10 Syndicate by The Fray ****