im sitting at rocket town they are paying me to help run sound, but since all the bands brought all thier own sound guys, i am pretty much just doing a little menial stuff. and i caught the tail end of a calypso cafe catered dinner. this pretty much rules. and i will see grits in like an hour.

by the way...go buy the new air cd. i wasnt too huge on them before this record...but its defintily worth it. and if you find the right ones, they come with a dvd for the same price as the regular ones.

peace everyone.

i miss anna.

bryce

You are Schroeder!


Which Peanuts Character are You?
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Name Four Bad Habits You Have:
1. ripping my fingernails off
2. biting the skin on my lips off until it bleeds
3. eating peanut butter at like 3 am all the time
4. giving up on things without trying harder

Name Four Things That You Wish You Had:
1. GML 2020 preamp
2. westlake audio monitors
3. a complete protools HD system
4. a neumann U67 microphone

Name Four Scents You Love:
1. gap heaven
2. thanksgiving day
3. just before a storm
4. campfires

Name Four People Who Know You the Best:
1. maria
2. joeff
3. farkle
4. anna

Name Four Things You Are Thinking About Now:
1. possibility of a new job
2. first day of another job tomorrow (its confusing, dont ask)
3. anna getting off in 25 minutes
4. could i be doing something more productive with my time

Name Four Things That You Have Done Today:
1. dropped off a resume or tapeonline.com
2. got an email for a new job opportuinity
3. went to the anchor membership class
4. ate a late lunch with anna

Name the Last Four Things You Have Bought:
1. gas
2. ameilee soundtrack
3. the metamorphisis (sp?)
4. a book on george martin


Name Four Drinks You Regularly Drink:
1. water
2. oj
3. sprite
4. milk

Kindergarden Teacher's Name? mrs ratcliff

Last Words You Said: i can screw around on the internet for 30 minutes

Last Song You Sang? the scientist by coldplay

Last Person You Hugged? anna

Last Thing You Laughed At? something to do with ryan raedo. take your pick.

Last Time You Cried? hmm...really really cried was like 3 weeks ago at the anchor

What's In Your CD Player? lots of things including kent, otr, ameilee, etc etc etc

What Color Socks Are You Wearing? whiter

What's Under Your Bed? boxes, a keyboard, shoes, art supplies

Current Hair? natural kind of messed up

Current Clothes? plaid button down shirt (big surprise, green khakis, chucks, and a black jacket

Current Annoyance? none really

Current Longing? stability in my work situation

Current Desktop Picture? robert longo men in the city prints

Current Worry? work, although i really just need to let God handle this

Current Hate? not so much

Current Favorite Physical Feature Of The Opposite Sex? voice

Last CD You Bought? ameilee soundtrack

Favorite Place To Be? with anna

Least Favorite Place? waiting in line for something

Time You Wake Up In The Morning? around 8 or 8 30

If You Could Play An Instrument? cello

Favorite Color? the green on the inside of annas shoes

Do You Believe In An Afterlife? yup

How Tall Are You? 5'11"

Current Favorite Word/Saying? locust

Favorite Season? autumn, although im looking forward to spring. if we could just somehow cut summer out...

Where Would You Like To Go? ireland, nyc

What Is Your Career Going To Be Like? well, God only knows (literally)

How Many Kids Do You Want? 1 or 2

Favorite Car? practical: honda civic hatchback
impractical: porsche 928

Identify Some Of The Things Surrounding Your Computer: well, this is a belmont university computer, so i guess belmont university is surrounding it.

i am employed by richard dodd for the week. he has either recorded, mixed, or mastered all of the following:
bob dylan, tom petty, johnny cash, roy orbison, wilco, fleming and john, george harrison, ringo star, derek webb, jars of clay, third day, the artists on the U2 cover cd for africa, and countless others.
needless to say, i am a bit nervous and very honored to even be in the same room with him.
he has been mixing a record all week, with various problems and delays (as always), and we have been working about 12 hours a day. at first i just sat and watched him work, but he would ask questions that i didnt know the answers to, so i would have to go look them up. once the system got up and running though, he didnt realy need any assistance (see above credits...), so i helped organize the studio a little and run some errands for him. it is incredible how fast he is though, even in software that he is not entirely familiar with.
hes also british, so now im hearing everything with an accent...even in my thoughts.
okay, so im going to peace out...thats just whats going on in my life.
bryce

this weekend was great.
about 20 of my friends threw anna and i a surprise birfday party.
joe creep, brandon, and bill burgess spent several hours trying to pop a baloon they had let up the chimney.
the parents are doing great.
im a little tired and its time for bed cause my first day working with richard dodd is tomorrow. pray for that if youve a mind to.
im officially 23.

i finally went to the doctor's yesterday. when i got there i had a 102.1 temperature. wasnt feeling so great. but everyone there was nice. they said i have a sinus infection, and that my billyrubin count is up. billyrubin is a chemical that is secreted by the liver, but apparently it is not a big deal. they did have to draw blood, however, which i have never had done to me. so, as i thought about how i have a tattoo, i was scared to death of a needle sucking my life stream out of me. it actually went pretty well and didnt even bruise.
anyhow, anna and lori have been champs and let me come over to get some peace and quiet and anna has prayed for me etc etc etc. i hope i dont cause her gpa to drop seeing as how im over there all the time.
it is finally snowing though, and i know its not a "real" snow, and that my mom shoveled 6" off the driveway yesterday, but its all weve got, so ill enjoy it.
aight, peace everyone.
bryce

so i am sick. at least sort of. i dont know how to describe it. its like the flu without the head cold part. just achey and sometimes nautious. but the deal is that ill be hanging out for a while, or out and about etc, and ill start to feel terrible, and then lay down and a few hours later wake up and not have the slightest symptom. today i hung out after a long night of tossing and turning and i felt horrible after a few hours, so i came home and took some nyquil, and only got a few hours sleep tossing and turning, and now i am awake and feel great. i really dont get it.

however, hanging out with anna today was good.

so i am sick. at least sort of. i dont know how to describe it. its like the flu without the head cold part. just achey and sometimes nautious. but the deal is that ill be hanging out for a while, or out and about etc, and ill start to feel terrible, and then lay down and a few hours later wake up and not have the slightest symptom. today i hung out after a long night of tossing and turning and i felt horrible after a few hours, so i came home and took some nyquil, and only got a few hours sleep tossing and turning, and now i am awake and feel great. i really dont get it.

however, hanging out with anna today was good.

its weird being on the other end of the rules at a show. i help the production team at the stretch armstrong/beloved show tonight. there was the basic stuff i figured i would do, but then they told me to stand on the side of the stage and tell people they couldnt get up because stretch didnt want anyone up there. anyone who knows me knows that i am possibly the least confrontational person youll ever meet, and i felt really awkward the whole time i was up there. so i had to tell these girls to get off the stage. thankfully noone really tried to get on while i was standing there. adam and i decided later that it was because i was so intimidatin with my indie rock head bob. then i helped clean the place up. all in all it was a nice night...getting paid to see a pretty good show (i havent been to a hxc show in i cant remember how long), and the bands were all nice to talk to a little. oh, and the singer of stretch has vans with a pink stripe down the side. i just thought that was funny.

so i know i dont updat this ever, but i had to because of what happened last night. first of all aireline rules. their new stuff is great, and "when pianos fall" is the stinkin jam. then the violet burning played, and, as matt mosely said, "there was something in the air". i felt God's presence so real. and with tvb, theres always the chance that they will play their newer, more rocknroll stuff, which i dont care for so much. but they played mostly drawn out worshippy stuff. and then they said "anne marie wanted to hear this one, so we are going to deviate from our normal set". so they played "undone", and then asked if anyone else had any requests. so people started yelling stuff out (all stuff i would have liked to hear), and i said "song of the harlot". michael said "well, i would love to play all 8 of those 10 minute long songs, but well see what we can do". then they played song of the harlot, which is my all time favorite song, and which i have never gotten to see them perform. then they closed with gorgeous. i think i have made a new fan out of anna.

so, for everyone who has read the lord of the rings books, remember the time that frodo and sam are walking in the mountain by mordor and they walk by shelob's lair and frodo says "this is it sam, all the stench is coming from in here", or something to that effect? well, im pretty sure that shelobs lair must be in my refrigerator.

ive been somewhat down lately. just feeling rather useless in a way. like the whole world keeps going and im stuck in some sort of whirlwind with no actual input to what is going on. and i guess besides that i have just been down anyhow. i get like this sometimes, i suppose. anyone who has known me for quite some time probably knows (maria, megs, that would be you). i guess theres no particular reason except a lot of small reasons. if that makes any sense.

we went and saw luther last night. the most important scene to me was when luther was in prison and was arguing with the devil and seemingly in quite a bit of torment and then he lied down on the floor and prostrated himself and simply said "i am yours, save me", which was something his mentor had taught him years before. i most certainly belive that there is a real devil, but i also think that i bring quite a bit of these constant "reasons" on myself to get me down. my mind races to different aspects of my life that i am unhappy with because of this or that, and i eventually get so caught up in it that it causes stress and fatigue. i believe that i will take it to christ and say "i am yours, save me".

im in the midst of recording new chl stuff with my friend ryan. and im quite tired. hopefully ill be able to post some pictures of the band recording, as well as other stuff around the church office-turned-studio. everyone is in for goodness when they hear the new songs. better and better. okay, im off to a cello lesson.
bryce

i challenge anyone anywhere at any time to a game of nes othello.

i just got back from huntsville, alabama where i went to/ran sound for my friends' melissa and bills wedding. it was a very beautiful wedding. oustside on this mountain under a gazeebo with a scenic overlook behind them. the gazeebo was decorated very fallish with hanging Christmas lights around the top. actually, the whole of the colors was mostly fall. that alone was enough to make me really happy. we werent sure about the weather, in that it was forecast to rain and when we got there to set up, the sky was dark. but we prayed about it and not a drop fell the whole time and it was like 65 degrees. afterwards i saw probably the most stunning sunset i have ever seen.

it was an interesting weekend. i went to the rehearsal and didnt really do anything, but then went to copelands and ate the mess out of a steak and some red bean soup. afterwards we took bill out to his bachelor party which consisted of us going bowling and then over to our friend chris' house and shooting bottle rockets at each other till 2 in the morning.

i think i have started to relearn what grace is all about. i think a lot lately the Lord has been speaking to me about the fact that my holiness is worthless in His eyes. i am so sick of trying to get it right. i went to loris Bible study the other night and her pastor talked a lot about self righteousness, and the message has really been sticking with me. especially because a few nights ago sam and i got into an argument about bands (again) and i pretty much went off. afterward (and still) i felt horrible, and i really had to pray about it. is music my god? am i better in my eyes because of the music i listen to and how important i feel it is? am i that self righteous over such petty garbage? and i began to think about holiness and about how much better i feel than others because i dont do this or that. and i dont in any way want to knock my youth pastor, because he taught me a great many things and spoke truth into my life, but i just remember how it was sometimes so much about not doing this or that, and how that has been engrained in me.

ugghh...jesus. i dont know what im doing so often. your words were difficult to your listeners, and sometimes they still are to us. please take away any self righteousness left in me.

the thing that loris pastor said that struck me most was that even those who overcome self righteousness are self righteous because they know they can overcome it when others cant. i have no solution for this. my only plea is jesus. that that would only sink in.

okay thanks for reading. im just thinking a lot. i want to learn how to die everyday without looking down on those who do not.

bryce

um, i am not sure if i am going unless someone else decides to go with me, but grandaddy is playing louisville on the 30th of this month, and it is 15 dollars. i always seem to find out that some band i am just getting into is touring semi around me in like 5 days. so anyhow, if someone is interested, it would be fun. i may even see if my parents want to come down and hang out with me and whoever goes. that means probably a free dinner to al who go if they are able to make it. hint hint hint. okay thats it. just an idea.
bryce

so last night i stayed up until 3 am mixing some songs. we recorded a violinist from about 6 to 10 pm. i had never recorded strings before, but i think it came out pretty well. sam is a really good musician and had her overdub herself a lot (up to 16 tracks at one point) so she really sounded like an orchestra, and sam wrote al these different parts on the spot, and it totally amazed me. so anyways, at like 10 30 we went to sunset grill, which i had never been to but was thouroughly impressed by, and then came back and i mixed for a few hours.

the ants that were in murfreesboro i think followed me up here and have now officially taken over my computer desk.

tonight i have a cello lesson, and then i have to come back and work more. we have to get like 11 songs done in around 2 days. eish. so ill probably be up real late again tonight putting final touches on things. or atleast putting touches on things so i can put the final ones on tomorrow.

then on friday i am going with andy to bill and melissas wedding in huntsville alabama. ive never been to huntsville. but i wish it was florence so i could go to tourway. those who know are the only ones who need to.

okay im off. i think i am going to go to the Y and maybe swim some. peace out.

braumph (my new new new nickname from sam)

i went with joe, jennifer, and andy (although we met isaac (ive no idea how to spell that name) and his wife there) to see damien rice tonight. entirely not what i expected, but it was fantastic and probably one of the more fun shows ive been to in quite a while. he was actually very funny, and sort of mocked radiohead and that made me laugh out loud. but he would also do these real intense and serious parts in songs. and they had a cello player and i pretty much watched her the whole time to see if i could figure out what she was doing. then she sang purple haze and played it on the cello. it was really like no other show ive ever been to.

we topped the night off with coffee at fido and then drove home with the windows down. tomorrow is technically the first day of fall, so happy first day of fall to everyone.

life here is going good. weve been recording a guy named dan myers all week. hes a great guy. yesterday we had studio problems that about made my head explode, but after 4 or so hours of re-routing, patching, blah blah blah...we finally got it to work well enough to use until we can really take the time to fix it. i had to go outside and sit on the porch and just get away for a second. i really wish that i didnt get frustrated so easily. especially since part of my job description is troubleshooting. it is most definitly something i need to pray about.

i have trouble discerning whether the things i really enjoy are somewhat of idols in my life or if God smiles because He sees me enjoying the things He gave me. thats one of the big thing i am dealing with right now.

okay i am off to bed. i love you.

bryce

"if moths are attracted to light, they must be pretty confused during the day"
-sam mizell, my roommate

i am not the most computer savvy person in the world. it just took me like 45 minutes to upload a stinking picture (a beautiful one might i add) to this thing. the best part is that i had done it before, i just had to retrace my steps to figure out what i did. anyhow...

it was a good day. kevin minchey straight preached the word. tore that junk up. then kelley, maria2, biz, mark, and i went to bellacinos and then i came home. actually i went to the mall to find some shoes but ended up not getting any because i am the worlds most indecisive person. and then i came home. lori had called to see if i would want to go to joes church and the thought was good to me, so i went there tonight and got the same message that i have been getting a lot lately. not to waste my life away. not to sit and worry about the absolutely insignifigant things that i care about so much but to take a risk and go for it. so i am praying about that. because i dont want to get to the end of my life and realize that i havent lived, and that in the truest, Christ centered sense of the word.

but anyhow, i am off to bed. i needed to be a long time ago, but i was bound and determined to get this picture of me uploaded. okay peace out everyone.

oh, and i figured out today that my favorite word is orchid. so for those of you who know my fetish with words that i cant stand, theres one i like.

bryce