I want to ride the "Unwinding Cable Car"

Hey poeple of the blogging nation!

I finally have the video made for my cover of Anberlin's "Unwinding Cable Car". I meant to put it up earlier but I couldn't find somewhere that allowed really long videos like this one. :)

Until now, so without further or do... Here it is.

Anberlin - Unwinding Cable Car (Cover) from Robbie Lusk on Vimeo.

I hoped you enjoy it and sorry for the wait (if anyone was waiting).

Well I have some news for you guys. I had a crazy, awesome, and totally WILD surprise birthday on Saturday! My friend David got to come down, who knew about it the whole time.

My Super amazing friends The Collins' hosted my party at their house. It was thought up by 2 of my best friends, Hannah and Joel. You guys are the best! I was totally surprised and didn't expect a thing! We had all kinds of people come it was great. I just wish ALL my friends could have been there, I know they would have wanted to be there. It was still awesome no less

So we played Soccer, Underground church, and dodgeball until 9 or 10. I had a super fun time.

I thank all who came and made it happen it was the best party I've ever had!

So that's how my awesome weekend was. I'll see you guys later.

-Robbie

Happy Valentine's day!

Happy Valentine's day!
What is up everyone? If you said the sky... your right. :)

We're going to a new church now... Don't worry we didn't leave Rock Creek. Our building got flooded by a busted water pipe. We wen't to help last weekend,
it was drenched! We had to take up pews and nearly all the carpet in the classroom wing. It was pretty hectic, but we're hoping the insurance people will help us out.
Please pray for us in this situation.

Well I don't really have any other news. I'm hopefully going to get my truck to a mechanic, you know that really old thing. :) So we might do that.

Well I have to now, I'm painting stuff tomorrow.

-Robbie

P.S. Y'all need to comment more, I don't know if anyone is even reading this!

Snow Day!

Good day all! Well today I had an amazing day. I'm officially 16 now (finally!) as I'm writing this.

This isn't the first time it's snowed on my birthday. I remember when I was little me and Emily went to go out and play in it when we lived at our old house in Ennis.
Good times indeed.

So in case your wondering I'll tell you what I did today.

- I woke up and had Waffles (6/12 that I got from the freezer!)... Sorry bad joke.

- Got some phone calls from friends and family.

- Then played guitar awhile.

- I got "Despicable Me" this morning and being trapped in we all watched it.

- Then me and my sibling went out to the forest behind our house, and I took some snow day pictures.


This is the park that if you've been to our house you've prally seen it.


This is a pond type thing behind our house. Almost all the water is frozen!


And this is a mysterious rock formation that I found covered in snow.

So it was fun. If you asked me if I had a good day I would say "yes, it was".
It stinks I didn't get to spend it at church tonight that would have made it 10 times better!

Oh I learned "Blood" By The Middle East on guitar. Totally awesome band, you should check them out if you get the chance.
Also keep a look out for a cover video I want to make of "Unwinding Cable Car" by Anberlin. I learned the guitar parts and I'm going to try to play along to it and record the whole thing. So if your intrested check it out, when I upload it. :)

Other news... Peter Helms was at church on Sunday (incase you haven't heard). It was really cool to see him there. It was exciting. Me and my friend Nathan and Joel went to talk to him after Sunday School. He looked really good. He was wearing his new basketball shoes that he got from Nathan Brantley. I also heard that Mrs. Helms said Pete was really responsive during the service as if he wanted to sing with us during worship. Really encouraging to see him. Andrew has been a good brother to him caring for him in place of his parents so they can rest. Continue to pray for pete and his family.

Well thats my update, atleast till my next post.

I want to thank anyone who told me Happy Birthday to me one way or another, call text, shoutout, etc. See y'all on the road when I get my license (Can't wait!!!).
See ya. :)

-Robbie

Super late New Year post

Happy 2011!
Kill me go ahead, do it.

Sorry again for posting what, three weeks late? Anywho alot of crazy stuff has been happening. As you may know My Dad won the chili cook off at our church which was really cool. So when we got home from that we stayed up till the new year, I went outside to comfort Bo because our crazy neighbors were shooting fireworks like a couple yards away from our house. So that was fun.

So im going to let you in on something you probably already know... no secret anymore *cough David cough*. Just kidding, we're waiting on a piano/keyboardist, and two possible bassists. The guys who are our possible bass players have never picked up a bass EVER so me and Joel might help them out. The guy who is our possible keyboard/piano, has had a few years lessons, etc.
I ALSO figured out how to make our album art look professional using Photoshop. It's still in progress but from what I can tell it looks pretty good.
So our blog is still getting worked on, we're trying to get all the design and widgets and stuff on there. Thanks for being patient.

So I had planned to go to this Philmont concert in like December. I had heard it was only for a lock-in therefore I couldn't go. Well My friend Hannah and Sara were able to get in and said they could get me in. Well Sara sent me an email the day before and I didn't think to check my email the day of the concert later that night, so I wasn't able to go 'cause it was a short notice for dad and he didn't really feel like driving up there. I was bummed of course until about 30 minutes before the show.
Josh (from Philmont) gave me a phone call!! I was soo excited I didn't know what to say. I got to talk to Josh, Justin, and Josiah and while talking to Josiah he asked what song I would've wanted to hear. I told him "The Difference" and he said "your wish is my command, first on the setlist" Totally crazy! So that made up for my not going to the show. I hope to catch their next one though.

Thanks for reading, if I get any threats I'll understand :)

-Robbie

The Holidays

So I can't believe the year is almost over. It's been a great one alot has happened.
I know it's been awhile but y'all are used to it (I try not to make it a habit).

So I'm not sure where to start... if you don't know already our church had a christmas program and lot's of people performed, including me and my friend Nathan. He's been taking lessons and I suggested we perform. So we learned enough songs for a "medley" if you want to call it that. We were really nervous which showed in our playing. We had to start 2 of 5 of our songs over again. But all in all it was fun and we'll do it again... in a million years! Not really maybe another time.

Our band stuff has kind of slowed down because of the stuff going on. My dad recently bought photoshop elements (basic version) and the video editing software by the same people, so were hoping to use that to give a "Professional" look to our album art. We have that I need to show you guys a concept drawing to give an idea. But who knows when that will happen.
I have actually come up with some lyrics if I haven't already stated. For a song I wrote for our EP. All I can say is its a work in progress remember, I don't write music often... at all really. So it's still new to me.
A bass player is becoming more a concern for us right now as well as a lead singer, were hoping I wont have to on the account of my terrible voice. So maybe Joel will do it, who knows maybe we'll find someone. anywho.

Wow I really need to fix our band blog. I get to that soon I hope.

Okay on to how my christmas went. On christmas eve we went to our grandparents house to open some presents from them, and dad read Luke to us. After we ate and all, our aunt and uncle called from California to say merry christmas. They're always really funny. So we got to hear my aunt's reaction to a gift from my uncle which was really hilarious, and also the same with my uncle. It's like they were there. We all miss them and it was great to talk to them from phone.
So from there we went to our church christmas eve service, which was good as always.
We didn't get to do our tradition of riding around looking at christmas lights drinking hot chocolate or coffe. Because they closed to early. But we went home and watched the nativity story and went to bed. Next morning (this sounds like a story, sorry). Okay we got up ate, and opened presents. We went to our other uncle's house to celebrate with my mom's side of the family. So get this...
We got there and my grandad needed to go back to his house to get some chips. So mom suggested I drive (jokingly) So I did. Grandad was nervous and gave me tips for the road. It was fun he has a nice ford fusion. Which is now wrecked...
just kidding. Making sure y'all are awake from my boring story thing.

So it was a good time. But remember the main reason we celebrate, because of the birth of Jesus Christ. Note CHRISTmas.

So hope you guys have a good rest of the year.

-Robbie

B-ball anyone?

I got lots of basketball Last night. Well some other things have happened but they weren't "worthy" so to speak for a blog post.

Enough rambling, we (me and my friend Nathan) went to like 3 basketball games in one night crazy right? So we picked him up at his house and headed to meet my other friend Joel's (not the one in the band, incase your confused) Mom and sister at a gas station. So first off we weren't sure where the school where the game was to be held was at. So Mrs. Collins called home for some backup (A.K.A. Mr. Collins) . :) So after pulling into some people's house we turned around and made a left and a right and we were there.
So it was my first basketball game to see live, so it was pretty cool. Joel did good although I think having me and Nate there was making him a bit nervous. But they killed, it was 24 to 13 I think so it was all good.
Then Mr. Collins took us to Braums to meet Nathan's mom. So after playing car chase with Mrs. Collins, listening to some great guitar music and riding in the smallest place to fit a human body (obese one). We made it to Braums.
While we were eating, there were these guys I guess taking a break and were like non-stop texting and I think one fell asleep, pretty funny. So Mrs. Hughes got us and we went to see Nathan Brantley play. We had to watch the girls basket ball game first which me and Nathan found pretty boring, back and forth, so boring. (No offence taken for those who do so). The Warriors won that game. Then finally The guys got to play, they all played good, and this kid even got his head busted up and was bleeding all over the floor. Pretty crazy stuff, so after that they took me home and there's that.
Oh another thing I forgot, I got a Boss ds-1 distortion pedal (yes exactly what it says on the box thing). It has a cool sound which I'm pretty happy with. Got some new cords/chords whatever. Also I'm working on something for a blog header and we'll be getting that up and running soon hopefully, and I'll post about that later.
So I'm finally working on some lyrics for another song it's not going to be used in our first album but maybe later ones. Oh and if you guys didn't already know we have 6 songs for our EP so hope to have those by summer 2011 if we're lucky and we'll probablly give those out free to whoever wants them. Maybe get them on iTunes or something. So i'll keep ya'll up to date on that aswell.

I almsot forgot our family went to the Musem last Friday, it was fun we saw a documentary on the nile, and I made a really cool picture with a giant lite brite thing. Which might be that new blog header I was talking about, but I want to edit it a bit (say that 5 times fast) before I post it.

One more thing I heard today that Peter is moving his head and toes a little bit now, it's really encouraging especially to the Helms. Please continue to pray for him and his family. Also our friend's the Shamburgers have a family member in the hospital, Mr. Shamburger I believe had a stroke so please pray for his health too.

Thanks for reading the longest post of the December month ever.

-Robbie

Jam Sessions, Birthdays and Thanksgiving.

Hello all hope your doing good today I am, though a little covered in paint.

I just got done helping my uncle paint a fence, so other than that I'm good.
Okay so here's wats up.
I went to our drummer/friend's house to play around and "record" some songs. We used some mics he had and some free software and messed around on our instrumets




It was crazy and fun. I also got to see his new dog who is very jumpy (and annoying).
SO we had a good time. So our name you probably are like "Where has he been and what about his name and how come he didn't post earlier" Well it's because I never got around to it and had to get some "okay's" form some people (Joel) and so whithout further or do our new band name is Soundscape.
Joel came up with it while on e-mail and I likes the way it sounded. It also has a meaning get this it means: soundscape is a sound or combination of sounds that forms or arises from an immersive environment. Got it from wiki (no plagerism intended). So we're setting up the site which is a blogger site but it's free right?

Okay so for Thanksgiving we're supposed to go to our great grandmothers house and have fun and fellowship, and EAT. So that's what I'm doing for Thanksgiving.
I'm very thankful for all of God's blessings to me and for everything good in my life. That pretty much sums it up there's a TON of stuff I'm thankful for, but that would take to long.

ALSO today is my really good friend Hannah's birthday, so here's my shoutout: Happy Birthday Hannah! Who is turning 16. Lucky :)

Okay bye everyone have a good Thanksgiving.

-Robbie