Guitars.

Good quality information for everyone regarding selling things:

"A lot of people email me with guitars for sale and say, "make me an offer". I would really rather not make offers in this situation. It's not because I'm trying to get your guitar "cheap". It just leaves me open, and allows my offer to get used against me. For example, say someone states they have guitar X for sale, and request an offer. Say I offer $100. Then this person goes to some other buyer (usually local to them) and says, "this internet guitar collector offer me $100 for my guitar". Naturally the other prospective buyer will have to offer more. This puts me in a position where my offer is actually getting used against me. But if the same person emails me and says they have guitar X for sale for $100, I can either accept or refuse. If I accept, they have made an offer and I have accepted the offer. The only piece missing is compensation (me giving them the money), to make a legally bidding sale. To me this is much cleaner and legit. And besides, it puts some pressure on you to be educated as to the value of your instrument."

That quote is from Analog man's site (A guitar effect guru). Eventually I would like to get my blues driver modded and perhaps invest in a cheap ds1 to mod. Also, pertaining to guitars: I just landed a great deal. A new g&l for almost exactly 60% of its market price. Praise God.

Back home

...and writing in my blog. Sold my muff. sold my kramer guitar. I plan on putting the danelectro on ebay. All my gear increased in value. Or perhaps it's inflation. Anways, I want to buy a G&L ASAT, which is basically G&L's telecaster. Mr. Fender foudned G&L with some guy named Geroge (thus the "G" and "L"), and they make wigged out fenders. So while I still believe Fenders are the greatest guitars on the planet earth, I'm willing to save a few bucks for the the G&L headstock.

Besides guitars stuff, Andrew was taking care of my dog Sam over the weekend. He told me that after flood on Saturday he went to feed my dog, but as he opened the gate, Sam woofed and howled so ferociously that Andrew ran away.

Other than that, I again have seen how God is so faithful. Sometimes God for no apparent reason will work things out for me so I don't have to worry about it. Thank you God.

sold

Sovtek Big Muff Pedal sold for $45. Guitar... almost sold? Somebody is interested.

Faithful God

What can I say... God is too amazing. He just slapped me in the face in the most loving way I could ever imagine. God is so faithful. God is so good.

I learned today that that I need to really, really learn to evangelize without tracts. After ball with Jon I was talking to this Chinese guy. Lord forgive me, I talked a bit with him about Christianity but didn't share the gospel. God teach me.

Not much else to say except that I have two auditions coming up and a LOT of practicing to do. I think it's time to kick things into high gear and practice all day. That's all folks. Peace over easy my farsheezney.

Tract-ing

Some of us were handing out tracts at a milpitas arts and wine festival and some old white people in uniform t-shirts were telling us it was illegal. And some whiney lady said they would call the police. I was at first scared, but in the end I thought it was actually pretty funny. A bunch of people crapping in their pants because we were handing out big dollar bills. Seriouslly, some of those old t shirt people were going insane. A great experiance nonetheless.

Worship Training

We had our first worship training meeting. It went like twice as good as I hoped! Although the Chinese took our room we reserved... putting it in their bullitens on Sunday that they had a prayer meeting there. I called James and he must have passed on the information of the mix up to the Chinese. So the day of the meeting, the Chinese put up a huge "Prayer Meeting" sign they made, pointing to El Shaddai. It was like a slap to the face. Seemed like they wanted to claim their territory.

But the messages were good, the workshops seemed to go well. Keep us in your prayers!

Fishin'

Went Fishing today at the Jazz festival. Saw some fruit. Got rejected quite a bit. Talked with some "Christians" too. Gave out many big-fake dollar bills with the gospel on it. Twas good. I'm honored God can use scum such as myself.

Also I wrote a new song called "For You are the Lord." That's a long title. Maybe I should shorten it to "You are the Lord."

Funny.

It doesnt matter what the people say
Im gonna live like the main character of a movie
Im gonna live as whatever my heart feels like
Even if they say bad things about me, I dont care!
Everyone is the same
They eat, sleep and wake up
Its just the same ole life that is repeated over and over..
Im a cowboy who ignores the frustrating lifestyle


HAha. Anyways, been cooking a lot, and had a lesson yesterday. I really like my violin teacher. He is great (but too expensive). Anywho. more later

Basketoops

I learned today that you are suppose to flick your wrist when you shoot a basketball. Now I need to relearn my shot (for the better). Feeling much happier lately. At least feeling sad helps you write very good songs! I made fried rice today but it was only ok. How do you make good fried rice? Somehow I feel that it would be fun to have a more "crisp" fried rice. like hash brown like. Anyhow. On my "cook list."

Liang Mein (cold noodles
Pad Thai
Good Chow Fun
Yummy ways to make chicken in a frying pan.

Any input is gladly welcome.

thoughts on crying

I realized that I almost never cry anymore. Maybe that's why I often feel irratable and unhappy. Emotional tears in fact help facilitate hormonal and chemical balance in the body. So instead of crying, I resort to thinking and praying. I've given my life to the Lord, so I'll just have faith that God can accomplish whatever he wants through this.

Although God, I sure wouldn't mind being happier. But what have I not to be happy about? It's summer and I have time to spend with friends and play music. Yet I'm still searching for God... Where are you? I have faith in His promise that He is always with me, but there must be more to a life controlled by Christ. Is not Christ living through my very being? Then why do I feel like I'm searching for Him?

My future significant other sure is going to have to be patient. And have had chickenpox.

Ow.

Symptoms:

* Ear pain
* Sore jaw muscles
* Temple/cheek pain
* Jaw popping/clicking
* Locking of the jaw
* Difficulty in opening the mouth fully
* Frequent head/neck aches

TMJ Dysfunction. I got that shite. Ouch.

Makes me grumpy. I got the all american rejects CD today. Good, straight up no frills, toe tapping, rock. a little emo, so be forwarned.

Awesome blog

I just found the greatest xanga in the world. It's by a mom from Grace Church who has a 2 year old and a newborn. Here's two excerpts. They made me pretty happy.

"we made banana muffins tonight before dinner. phoebe ate two after dinner, which is plenty for a two year old. they were still on the cooling rack, and as i was sitting on the couch feeding jesse, i could hear this chair scooting around in the kitchen. i knew what was going on, so i said, "phoebe, put the muffin back, please." i looked up to see this little hand put a muffin (with a bite taken out of it) back up on the counter. a few minutes later, i hear the chair again. "put it back, phoebe." i looked up and saw the hand again, and the muffin looked a little smaller. she went back to her room. a few minutes later, it was just too quiet. i called out, "phoebe? what are you doing?" and i looked into the kitchen and there was the little hand, putting that now half-eaten muffin back onto the counter! at least i know they were good."


"The other day I wrote this down... We are trying to train her to ask for what she wants politely. She has a long way to go:

"Please... please... ha- have... May I please... I want this! Please I do it!"

Interesting.

"But to suffer in faith is far, far better to bask in the comfort of doubt."
-my friend.


That's a pretty good statement.

For those of you who care, I JUST found out that Relient K is under the Capitol Record label. That is a secular label (they distribute for Coldplay). In fact, Relient K is on tour now with the Warped Tour guys (the Offspring, Fall out Boy, The Starting Line). Which is interesting in a way... because Relient K is so much different than a lot of the other punk pop emo Warped tour fare... for example Blink 182, Simple Plan, and Sum 41. On a random note, the lead singer plays piano pretty well and doesn't use a pick when he plays guitar. I think it's because he needs to switch from keys to guitar playing. He has two mikes set up. That way keeps the guitar strapped and just take a step over to sing in the "non-keys" vocal mike.

I remember I used to think they sucked, but now I think they're pretty good.

I stumbled upon a "Beautiful Women" xanga blogring. Mostly full of the types who go clubbing and the model wanabees. No offence to all you beautiful women, but it obviously was established by the pretentious and mentally retarded.

All you ladies with inner beauty, props. You get an A in my book.