Cries Of The Heart

Anna and I are working hard on cleaning out our basement. I’ve come across a few boxes of keepsakes and memorabilia from high school, college, and band days.
I’m not sure I’ll EVER post a high school picture here…not unless there was money involved. But I did come across a whole bunch of Broken Heart junk. […]

Isaac Hayes…born 1942, died today at 65 years old.

And if you think Isaac Hayes was a bad mutha…
Shut yo mouth.
Thanks for the funk, Isaac.

(This post is part of Watercooler Wednesday, hosted by Ethos)
The Music section of Christianity Today online noted today that “modern worship music” could be considered 10 years old this year. In 1998, there were seminal releases from Delirious?, Sonicflood, Hillsong, Michael W. Smith and others that really kicked things off to where we are […]

On the 268 Blog today, Louie Giglio shares some details about the church they’re going to plant in Atlanta. He says that in addition to him and Shelley, he will be joined by Chris Tomlin and band, and the Nockels (as in Nathan &  Christy, formerly Watermark), and the Redmans (I can only assume he […]

From an artistic and aesthetic viewpoint, I’ve always loved guitars. I would love to have an art gallery of nothing but cool guitars.
I was browsing the Sweetwater website, and came across this bad boy. The Flying V has always been one of Gibson’s coolest designs…so they took it and flipped it over! Sweet! They’re only […]

Thirty years.
THIRTY. YEARS.
I remember. Senior year of high school. I was student body president, and we (myself and the H.B. Plant High School Student Council) were working on The Prom. The big dance.
(Time for a chuckle. The school mascot was a panther. The big dance was called “Pantherilla”. Probably because in Tampa, the big to-do […]

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We’ve taken a few trips down memory lane about “keytars” lately…including this post with Herbie Hancock and Howard Jones rocking theirs, and this post showing me and Eddie DeGarmo back in the big-hair days of CCM.
I came across a […]

Behold.
After almost fifteen years of searching, it has arrived.
Tomorrow, the packaging will be removed. The case will be opened.
And soon…
all will be revealed…