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
Monday, January 17, 2011
Monday, December 27, 2010
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
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
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
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
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
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
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
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
Monday, October 25, 2010
Riding on Water
Okay I'll tell you about the title later.
It's been awhile (Again) it feels like I don't ever get on anymore, but I do still blog.
So we (Being mom and me)went to our really good friends house. Well I did my mom went with their mom to their Ranch and made all kinds of jelly, while I hung out at Joel's.
So I saw one of my best friends, Joel and we had a great time. I got there and did some school that needed to be done and then there dad drove up and I hung out with his brother Caleb. Then at like 7:00 Joel calls and his dad goes to pick him up.
After supper we watched Fantastic Mr. Fox which is a pretty ammusing movie. (Petey you rock).
The next day we played ALOT of guitar it was awsome, we just finished up the last song for our album/EP. We just need some more lyrics and David needs to get some drum beats for them. We want to record and everything in the summer, and it's looking even closer now.
Sunday we left (I wish I was at church) we had our goodbye's and I got to drive. Yeah it's like a 2 hour drive but I only drove like an hour because... well now about that title...
We were heading towards Waco and it randomly began to rain.
I slowed down to about 50 (Which I think is what I'm supposed to do). I kept thinking I'm going to hydroplane. Sure enough I lost complete control and spun out. It was really scary but at the same time I was at peace and knew it was going to be okay. Everything was in like slow motion and we did like a 270 or something and ended up in the middle of the ditch. Luckily we didn't go into oncoming traffic, or flip.
No damage was done and we were okay but I was shook up and didn't want to drive so mom did. We turned on our 4 wheel drive and got out. Then after about a mile it started to hail extremely hard. We suspected about nickel size hail and it was loud. We thought the winshield was going to cave in.
Eventually we got out of the mess and We saw this.
We were so thankful to God for bringing us through that hectic situation.
This Rainbow reminded us of His promise. Genesis 9:12-15
After that we got stuck in like what seemed like never-moving-traffic, and we listened to Cool Hand Luke and Explosions in the sky while we were waiting for the time to go by. :)
Thanks for reading, and don't die ever okay y'all.
-Robbie
It's been awhile (Again) it feels like I don't ever get on anymore, but I do still blog.
So we (Being mom and me)went to our really good friends house. Well I did my mom went with their mom to their Ranch and made all kinds of jelly, while I hung out at Joel's.
So I saw one of my best friends, Joel and we had a great time. I got there and did some school that needed to be done and then there dad drove up and I hung out with his brother Caleb. Then at like 7:00 Joel calls and his dad goes to pick him up.
After supper we watched Fantastic Mr. Fox which is a pretty ammusing movie. (Petey you rock).
The next day we played ALOT of guitar it was awsome, we just finished up the last song for our album/EP. We just need some more lyrics and David needs to get some drum beats for them. We want to record and everything in the summer, and it's looking even closer now.
Sunday we left (I wish I was at church) we had our goodbye's and I got to drive. Yeah it's like a 2 hour drive but I only drove like an hour because... well now about that title...
We were heading towards Waco and it randomly began to rain.
I slowed down to about 50 (Which I think is what I'm supposed to do). I kept thinking I'm going to hydroplane. Sure enough I lost complete control and spun out. It was really scary but at the same time I was at peace and knew it was going to be okay. Everything was in like slow motion and we did like a 270 or something and ended up in the middle of the ditch. Luckily we didn't go into oncoming traffic, or flip.
No damage was done and we were okay but I was shook up and didn't want to drive so mom did. We turned on our 4 wheel drive and got out. Then after about a mile it started to hail extremely hard. We suspected about nickel size hail and it was loud. We thought the winshield was going to cave in.
Eventually we got out of the mess and We saw this.
We were so thankful to God for bringing us through that hectic situation.
This Rainbow reminded us of His promise. Genesis 9:12-15
After that we got stuck in like what seemed like never-moving-traffic, and we listened to Cool Hand Luke and Explosions in the sky while we were waiting for the time to go by. :)
Thanks for reading, and don't die ever okay y'all.
-Robbie
Friday, October 15, 2010
Late.
Yeah I know it's been like the rest of forever since my last post but I've been REALLY busy and forgetting to get on this thing.
I'm still glad that I have SOME people that read my blog. Ha ha!
Well the peeps who read this probably already know that I went to a Remedy Drive concert. But for those who don't... I went to a REMEDY DRIVE CONCERT!!! It was awsome and I'm like... best friends with the lead guitarist Paul. He showed me and my friend David (I call him Dave sometimes), his foot pedals, he had tons he named a few like the distortion, reverb, tuner, etc. After that he gave some band advice and stuff on recording. Pretty sweet right? So that was awsome.
We're thinking of changing our band name to something else, but I'll keep what it is a secret for now. (suspense). So... I just finished writing 2 more songs for it, and Dave's working on the drums and I'm going to contact Joel for some details, he has a few songs like totally ready and we'll pick from his songs. We're Super close to having ALL our songs done.I made the blog, but that's also secret until our band has what we think is our final name. I'll keep you guys up to date.
So Peter is doing really well he went home a few days ago I think, and we might go see him this weekend which is exciting because it's been 3 or so weeks since the last time we saw him I think.
I also got an iPod touch, yeah the new one! It totally rocks, but It's not like taking me over or anything... :)
So thanks for reading if you did. See ya later.
-Robbie
I'm still glad that I have SOME people that read my blog. Ha ha!
Well the peeps who read this probably already know that I went to a Remedy Drive concert. But for those who don't... I went to a REMEDY DRIVE CONCERT!!! It was awsome and I'm like... best friends with the lead guitarist Paul. He showed me and my friend David (I call him Dave sometimes), his foot pedals, he had tons he named a few like the distortion, reverb, tuner, etc. After that he gave some band advice and stuff on recording. Pretty sweet right? So that was awsome.
We're thinking of changing our band name to something else, but I'll keep what it is a secret for now. (suspense). So... I just finished writing 2 more songs for it, and Dave's working on the drums and I'm going to contact Joel for some details, he has a few songs like totally ready and we'll pick from his songs. We're Super close to having ALL our songs done.I made the blog, but that's also secret until our band has what we think is our final name. I'll keep you guys up to date.
So Peter is doing really well he went home a few days ago I think, and we might go see him this weekend which is exciting because it's been 3 or so weeks since the last time we saw him I think.
I also got an iPod touch, yeah the new one! It totally rocks, but It's not like taking me over or anything... :)
So thanks for reading if you did. See ya later.
-Robbie
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Time and effort
Having a good day? I hope soo.
I was meaning to post this news earlier but I've been busy.
So last Sunday I talked with a man from our church about working for him.
So the next day (Monday) I started my first job. Surveying. I never expected this to be my first job, or at this age. But it is what it is. It's pretty nice, I learn alot of skills, and he's a very Godly man. So it's encouraging in the workplace.
It feels really weird waking up early... getting my lunch for the day, and going to work and comming home tired and such. And the fact that I'm driving (perment anyway). Feels like time is flying by...
Well it's a good job and it's not TOTALLY overwhelming. I'm only working 2-3 times a week, and he let's me drive the truck every once in a while, which is pretty cool.
I'm making pretty good pay to go with it. And might get a raise after 30 or so days.
So enough about me...
I talked with my friend Joel who is the main dude in our band, and he gave me some music writing tips, which seem pretty good. He also has like 2 songs that we might use for the EP. We're practicing every time we get the chance, and I'm really excited about how it's turning out.
Speaking of bands... I have a friend who is in a band! Pretty crazy so with all these bands it's pretty awsome. I'm happey for them and hope they can get really far.
So we'll see where we get, hopefully somewhere. And maybe once our band puts out an album we can get some more fans. But the ones we have right now are awsome.
That's it for me. Thanks for reading what's up.
-Robbie
I was meaning to post this news earlier but I've been busy.
So last Sunday I talked with a man from our church about working for him.
So the next day (Monday) I started my first job. Surveying. I never expected this to be my first job, or at this age. But it is what it is. It's pretty nice, I learn alot of skills, and he's a very Godly man. So it's encouraging in the workplace.
It feels really weird waking up early... getting my lunch for the day, and going to work and comming home tired and such. And the fact that I'm driving (perment anyway). Feels like time is flying by...
Well it's a good job and it's not TOTALLY overwhelming. I'm only working 2-3 times a week, and he let's me drive the truck every once in a while, which is pretty cool.
I'm making pretty good pay to go with it. And might get a raise after 30 or so days.
So enough about me...
I talked with my friend Joel who is the main dude in our band, and he gave me some music writing tips, which seem pretty good. He also has like 2 songs that we might use for the EP. We're practicing every time we get the chance, and I'm really excited about how it's turning out.
Speaking of bands... I have a friend who is in a band! Pretty crazy so with all these bands it's pretty awsome. I'm happey for them and hope they can get really far.
So we'll see where we get, hopefully somewhere. And maybe once our band puts out an album we can get some more fans. But the ones we have right now are awsome.
That's it for me. Thanks for reading what's up.
-Robbie
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