February 2012
9 posts
Congratulations, go home now.
Can we last through the winter? The water’s starting to freeze. The only one who remembers Taking the wrong step, falling in front of me. This body’s already aging. These nights are all ready long. And if I last through the winter, I swear to you now, I won’t call. Congratulations, go home now. Will we last through the winter? Will we make it to see? I never wanted a partner...
abandonkansas:
PRESS RELEASE - NASHVILLE, TN… In follow-up to their critically acclaimed March 2011 release Ad Astra Per Aspera (latin for “to the stars through difficulties”), which debuted at #15 on Billboard’s Heatseeker’s Chart and a free 3-song remix EP, Gotee Records’ Abandon Kansas (AK) debuts a brand new single today, “Chariot.”
Produced by David Garcia (tobyMac, Jamie Grace) “Chariot”...
“And there is something profoundly humbling about knowing God. I’m not talking about the trinket God or the genie-in-a-lamp God. I mean the God who invented the tree in my front yard, the beauty of my sweetheart, the taste of a blueberry, the violence of a river at flood. I know there are a lot of religious trends that would have us controlling God, telling us that if we do this that and the...
...On The Other Side.: I (Tim Skipper) am doing a... →
Hey Texas friends, make sure check out Tim from House of Heroe’s solo acoustic tour so you can attend, and maybe even host!
thehouseofheroes:
Hey guys! We just wrapped up mixing the new record last night, and it is absolutely ridiculous!!! Unfortunately, now is the time where we get all of our ducks in a row before releasing it, so we’re a little ways off from actually getting it in your...
izaacozwald asked: Hey man! I just watched your tvu acoustic set from your stop during the house shows tour. I just wanted to let you know how encouraging it was to hear you talk about your walk with Christ so openly during the set, both the triumphs and failures. You just don't here enough candid testimony from the members of Christian bands these days, it so often gets breezed over in the name of production...
Abandon Kansas: Work Clothes →
abandonkansas:
“You don’t look anything like you do in your music videos or onstage,” the kids said to me during class. As a substitute teacher by day, it doesn’t take long for the word to get around among the students that I’m in a rock and roll band. “Of course not,” I said. “If I was a plumber I would wear a…
January 2012
48 posts
“Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print.” - Charlotte’s Web
There are those who hate Christianity and then call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
Goals
“In the long run men hit only what they aim at.” - Henry David Thoreau
I have not set many goals in the past, for a lot of reasons. One being that I have never believed I have the resources to accomplish anything too big. Another being I don’t think I could handle setting goals too high and then letting my bandmates and family down. I have padded my heart to embrace any outcome...
“Condemnation without investigation is the greatest enemy of truth.” - Albert Einstein
“‘Safe?’ said Mr. Beaver…’Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you.’”
Radically humble open letter written by my friend Josh of Showbread to Wayne of The Flaming Lips http://joshdies.com/
I would love to see the walls come down between Christians and non-christians that are pouring all of their passion into creative art. I hate that being labeled “christian” somehow limits creative and progressive potential. If I hear someone is Mormon, a faith that butts heads with mine in nearly every regard, that doesn’t make me not want to check out what they have to express...
“The people who are the most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.” -G. K. Chesterton
Thanks for saying that Gilbert. Liberal or conservative, people get picked on the most when they have a strong opinion about…. anything. It bothers me that a wishy washy man who works to please everyone with his perspective gets more credit than a convicted, passionate man. I...
“What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
I’m not interested in writing something no one will ever read. I’m afraid someone may read what I have written.
“We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.” -Decca Recording Company, on rejecting the Beatles in 1962
“Girls are like slugs - they probably serve some purpose, but it’s hard to imagine what.” - Calvin & Hobbes
“For all our offerings, whether of music or martyrdom, are like the intrinsically worthless present of a child, which a father values indeed, but values only for the intention.” - C. S. Lewis, “On Church Music”
