Patrick My Man...

How are you all doing? Well I hope the answer is "good". Not a whole lot has happened until recently. Friday night was Awesome! I got to see one of my absolute favorite bands perform live! NEEDTOBREATHE they put on one of THE best shows I've been too. I didn't get to meet them because it was a Six Flags festival thing. It was still totally rad! I wasn't able to bring a super great camera (ipod camera) but I got a few photos. Here are my favorite:












I got Joe smiling. :)



My natural "lense flare" of the night.

I also had some of The David Crowder Band but they were too blurry. They were great too. Oh after everything was over we saw Patrick (Need's crew member) over by the merch booth. So Sara and Sara thought it would be funny if I went over and asked him for a shirt... so I did. :) I walk up, pat him on the back and say "Patrick my man got any shirts for me?" he said "what kind of shirts do you need?" I said need shirts (confused) "NEED... Shirts?" then I said Needtobreathe shirts and he said "all I got are girls sizes left" I was bummed but said "Congratulations on the sales" and then told him thanks and walked off with a huge grin. It was fun and I hope he doesn't think I'm weird or something.
That night Sara got lost trying to meet mom and we drove a couple miles past the meeting spot. It was a fun night. I din't get home till about 1 or 2 that night.
I also thank Sara's friend Venus I believe for the ticket she was kind to give me for free. So there was my Good Friday fun.

Easter went good. We had some friends from out of town come, and we went to our great grandmother's house for Easter lunch/dinner. Today was my next to youngest brother's (Colton) birthday. He's having some friends over and such, a great time.

Tomorrow is my last test and last class of catechism so that will be a release of stress. It was fun I think we're throwing a party or something.

Thanks for reading guys. Have a good evening or day or whatever it is when you read this.
-Robbie

I'm horribly late

April Fools day, Happy birthday! Yeah It's been to long into the year.
So I didn't really have an April Fools day prank, apart from waking all my siblings by popping a balloon in the hall. It was also my moms b-day that day. We went out to eat with our grandparents and that was nice.

On Friday the 8th we went over to our awesome friend's the Collinsss house for a birthday party. Their youngest child/brother Jim had his 12th birthday. We had some friends from out of town come and we had a really fun time.

So our band stuff has slowed down a bit, we're trying to figure out what we're going to do in the summer. Things like who's house, for how long, what are we going to do, etc. We're trying to get some equipment for recording, and some software, and some know-how, on the whole thing we're still short some lyrics and some instruments. We also just lost our 2nd bass player and our keyboardist, so we have one bass player now and we'll come up with some piano stuff. Oh and incase y'all haven't heard me and my friend Joel might be singers for the band, which I'm terrified cause I have no idea how we'll sound let alone me. We're still looking for a singer, but if we can't find one before summer we'll be doing it.

So speaking of losing band members, Remedy Drive one of the best bands ever has lost three members, only the lead singer Dave has stayed. They have a new guitarist, bassist, and drummer I believe, and are still a band just not the same guys... It's very disappointing but they had good reason to leave, to be with family. I will continue to be a HUGE fan of a still awesome band.

There's my post into the middle of April, guess I was still getting used to it. :)
Thanks for reading.

-Robbie

P.S. My family is considering adopting, so please pray for God's wisdom in this process.

The heat, feel it?

Yes for you NEEDTOBREATHE fans out there that IS a reference. :)

So it's nearing the end of spring break I enjoyed it. I got to go to a friend's house for almost the whole week, our drummer's house. That was fun we got alot of practice in, much needed practice I must say. Oh and our bassist came over and we played all together. Everything is coming together slowly.
I went to speedzone (go-cart track)Wednesday night so I feel like a pagan for missing church over that. All in all it was a fun time.
So the blog needs one more thing and we'll let you guys see it. Thanks for being patient.
We're practicing a ton of covers together and want to play at a church after the message. Just kind of play covers and get used to playing on-stage. That's more in the summer though.
That's pretty much it, besides our church progress. We changed it completely! Check out my friend Hannah's blog for pictures of it here

Thanks for reading, I'll try to post more often.

-Robbie

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