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May 28

Playing Dallas on June 9th. Better see you there! (Taken with instagram)

Playing Dallas on June 9th. Better see you there! (Taken with instagram)

May 25

Awesome fan lyric art  (Taken with instagram)

Awesome fan lyric art (Taken with instagram)

May 24

I’m taking new requests and tips via the “donate” button on my blog. Have a song you want to hear? Donate something ($10-$50) and help me make ends meet. I’ve been learning lots of cover songs for y’all and you’ve had great suggestions. I’m also spending a lot of late nights writing songs for the next AK project. Our best songs have yet to be written my friends!

Gotta clean up my face for this wedding  (Taken with instagram)

Gotta clean up my face for this wedding (Taken with instagram)

May 21

Abandon Kansas: my lil girl -

abandonkansas:

Tonight I went to my future brother-in-law’s surprise birthday party and I ended up being surprised. Of course my “brother to be” wasn’t surprised at all but what always catches my attention is my four year old niece. In a room full of adults she shies behind my brother as I try to get her to…

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May 20

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“We got thrown up to the position very quickly that we’re in now —the test is to retain it,” says Flowers. “I want us to be a positive force. People think that we’re overconfident and cocky, but it comes from excitement. It’s not ‘I’m better than you,’ it’s that I can’t wait till you hear this song because I know what it does to me physically. I’m able to listen to our songs and not think ‘this is us playing,’ I’m able to allow the music to affect me and I know if it’s good or not. Sometimes people think I’m running my mouth, when I’m truly excited.” - Brandon Flowers (frontman of The Killers)

Look at the lineup! I am going, somehow, some way, I will be there. July 20-22 in Dover, Delaware.  (Taken with instagram)

Look at the lineup! I am going, somehow, some way, I will be there. July 20-22 in Dover, Delaware. (Taken with instagram)

May 12

Photo by Jessie Hill

Photo by Jessie Hill

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May 10

Disc golfing today with my hometown dawgs  (Taken with instagram)

Disc golfing today with my hometown dawgs (Taken with instagram)

May 09

“When you develop an appetite for things that are ungodly, things that are godly will irritate you” - Charles Stanley

I feel like a little kid standing out back behind the house, watching God snap my faulty theories gently over his knee one at a time, like twigs used to build a fort out in the cold, despite the warm bed made for me inside. 


May 07

Back home to the normal view on the recliner in my room  (Taken with instagram)

Back home to the normal view on the recliner in my room (Taken with instagram)

May 03

Talented team of student producer and engineers helped us make a killer demo for “The Chase” today  (Taken with instagram)

Talented team of student producer and engineers helped us make a killer demo for “The Chase” today (Taken with instagram)

May 01