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So, it’s been a while since my last entry. I caught the blog bug for a couple of weeks and wrote like 97 blogs in 3 days. SInce then, It’s been hard to make or find the time to make it happen. But for the 3 of you who actually read this thing I had to write a quick hello today because of something really profound and exciting…after all these years I discovered my true pimp name:

Your Pimp Name Is…

White Chocolate Glider

So along with a 320 ft zip-line that I almost died on last week, my friends Brock and Auny also decided to built a 120 ft redneck slip-n-slide in their backyard. We like to call it our own little Gypsy Disney Land Here is a video of me taking a soapy trip down the side-winder! (I just named the ride
The day of fun included some of the best chocolate/cherry/brownie/cake explosion of goodness that I have ever eaten! Thanks Auny!

All of the festivities were in leu of celebrating my good friend and roommate, Lucas the Gypsy Trucker’s 25th Birthday. Here is a picture of us at Rusan’s, a trendy sushi place Downtown Nashville that I will never go back to again if I can help it. Slow, rude service, and mediocre food. Never been a fan so I jumped on the table and ripped down one of the hanging light fixtures. Luckily it wasn’t caught on tape!

This is a sad sad day. Many of you who don’t know me well never actually knew that I have a son that lives outside of Memphis on the farm with myparents. Oh, and don’t worry, he is a dog and his name is Ice-Man! The most handsome dog in the history of dog-kind by the way. Ice-Man used to live with me in the hood in Memphis and then for a year with me when I lived in Miami. My second year in Miami, when I moved to the heart of South Beach, I knew I just couldn’t keep him cooped up in a studio apartment all day, so I sent him to live with my Mom and Dad so romp and play with 14 horses 4 dogs and 1 car on 34 acres of Tennessee country-side. It was honestly one of the hardest things I’ve had to do. I love that dog and miss him tons. I write all of this because today is the day that the coolest dog in the world will lose his manhood. Yes he is getting neutered. For Barbara or anyone who might not know what that means…he’s getting his testicles chopped off so he won’t be such a freakin’ spaz all the time. He will be a much happier dog…I guess the moral of the story is, sometimes when you love someone you have to let them go…and then chop their testicles off. Wait! Maybe there’s not a moral. Anyway morn with me on this sad sad day and pour some liquor out for tha big homie Ice-Man!

Less is more I’ll take innovative ideas and thorough planning and execution over lots of bells and whistles, and lots of money any day! When I find a new band that I love I get stuck on them and listen to albums constantly for extended periods of time. Then I eventually move on and rarely re-visit the music until months and often years later. This was the case with MUTE MATH about 2 years ago. I will still listen to their stuff occasionally today, but 2 years ago I was wearing that album out! For some reason I have never seen the music video for “Typical”. Well I saw it today and it blew my mind! I love it and I think it is one of my favorite videos of all time; simple idea, simple set-up, great planning and innovative execution! There is so much going on in this video. Check out the progression of sticky notes that “attach” themselves to the band members throughout the video. Enjoy:

MUTE MATH “TYPICAL

Ok…My boy Brock brought my bad-boy, 125 Yamaha Vino moped back from Ft. Walton, FL in the back of his truck last weekend. I haven’t driven my car since. I’ve probably saved $50 in gas since Friday night and put 300 miles on that sucker! It’s been great, but I’m already itching for something bigger. Me and my beautiful girlfriend went to the Harely dealership this weekend and that was a BAD idea. She loves Harleys, my family has had an obsession with Harleys since I can remember, and now, after looking at them and sitting on one for the first time, I am officially hooked. I have Harley fever! Here is a picture of the one I want. Who wants to buy it for me? Let me know, thanks!

HARLEY FXDF FATBOB

I don’t like taking home left-overs from restaurants, and for some reason, my sub-conscious does everything it can to make my attempts at take home a complete failure. Here is a funny video of me and some friends leaving a swanky restaurant in Ft. Walton, FL.

There are so many things in the Bible…Truths, that are “concepts” in our mind that we grasp on to via the presence of the Holy Spirit in our spirits. Why are they so easily forgotten, and pushed to the back of our minds, and so often NOT applied when it comes time in our own lives? Good question. It’s somewhat of a mystery to me…I think part of our hypocrisy and forgetfulness has to do with not being plugged into the living Tree of Life like we should be, in turn, not being sensitive enough to the Spirit when He tries to cue up the applications of Truth in our hearts as we experience attack or even just the fallen world. We know what the living Word says about our situation, but our flesh yanks us violently in the opposite direction. Do we really, truly believe these Truths to be true…FAITH is strengthened and sustained through sacrifice and intentional time dedicated to being in the presence of The King of all Kings…

I feel so much like Paul iwhen he says this in Romans 7:

14We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. 15I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature.^[c] For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. 20Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

21So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; 23but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members. 24What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? 25Thanks be to God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!
So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in the sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.

To me this reiterates and echos our and my desperation for Christ being active in our lives every second of every breathing moment. One are of Ephesians that is encouraging and challenging to me this morning is one that I’ve heard, and read, and understood, many times over. It paints a clear picture of the fierce, invisible battle that is taking place around us, and that we are participants in, whether we are fighting, or are unaware that we are even in a battle at all: Romans 6:10-18

10Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. 11Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. 12For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. 13Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. 14Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, 15and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. 16In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. 17Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. 18And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the saints.

Father, help us be prepared…help us to experience the joy and triumph found in victory that translates in to our worship to You.

I had the privilege of spending another week in Ft. Walton, FL with great friends Brock and Auny Gill, the best road manager in the world, Emily Kilbourn, the famous Lindsey the fire-eating woman, and my amazingly beautiful girlfriend Stephanie. Thanks Brock and Auny!

So many great memories were made, a small child almost got his foot chopped off, I got the coolest scooter known in the history of scooters, I walked on the beach at night with my dream-girl for the first time, we met the coolest tattoo artist ever, and ate enough cake in Seaside to send a horse into a diabetic coma…just to name a few.

Here is a video Stephanie took of me and my partner in crime B-Rock, jumping off the Destin bridge. No jelly-fish, BAD jelly-fish!

One of my favorite paintings ever by Japanese painter and color-print artist of the ukiyo-e school, Hiroshige. Click here to see more of his paintings.

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