Best SuperBowl Commercial

General thoughts on the SuperBowl ad spots from tonight’s game in no particular order:

We get it NBC: Chuck is in 3-D

Budweiser, the Clydesdales are a good staple.  For one commercial per year.  Not 17.

Miller High Life, you did the 1 second ad and I’m proud of you.

Transformers 2.  I’m in

Land of the Lost.  I’m not in.

Year One.  Probably won’t be as funny as I want it to be, but I’m still in.

Sobe, those lizards are lame…3-D doesn’t make it any better.

Coke, Wil.I.Am does NOT equal Bob Dylan, nor should you ever try to make him.

Disney, you’re going to make a whole movie about an old guy floating in his house?

A little more guided now: this commercial was, in my opinion the best commercial during the broadcast.  Because it just didn’t let it go.

But hands down, this was my favorite…did you know there were 3?

Amazing.

Conclave ‘09

Kevin and I have been in Atlanta the last 2 days at the Southeast Conclave.  We came here as Exhibitors to promote something I’ve been working on for the past (almost) year.

Finally, after a year of thinking, talking, and developing: Liquid Resource Group

The concept is simple:

When a youth pastor plans an event, he has to book talent (like Isaac) from different agencies.  Then they have to coordinate with all the different groups about travel, the theme of the camp, and payment.  We offer everything in one spot.  Also, since all of us involved know each other, we’re able to create different patterns for the worship services.  We’ve actually based a lot of it on the principles of improvisation, where we can feed off of each other and let the audience participate in different ways.

We’re really excited about it, and to promote it we set up a pretty awesome booth where we challenged people to Wii games.  To reward them we sent them away with some stellar 1992 style water bottles.  We dressed the part both days as well…because at an event with 200 vendors, you’ve gotta be memorable somehow.

We also took some time today to visit the Georgia Aquarium…where we saw…WHALE SHARKS!!:

Those are some large fish.  Very large.

Totally unrelated side note…..I’m stoked for this.

Let’s Make a List

It’s the end of the year and people tend to take this time to announce to the world their opinion on the best and worst things of the past year.  So I figured, in an effort to regain my consistency in blogging, why the heck shouldn’t I?

But to make this easier on me to write (and you to read), I’m simply making lists of things I liked this past year.  We’ll start with forms of Media (file under Watching Listening Reading) in no particular order:

Crazy Love by Francis Chan

I’m finishing this book right now and it is great.  I haven’t read a newer “Christian Living” type of book in a while that actually impacted me (maybe Blue Like Jazz 4 years ago).  I remember Francis Chan speaking at TMC Chapels back when I cared more about figuring out ways to avoid going to chapel.  I regret that now of course, but at least he wrote an awesome book that I can learn from.

 

Wall-E

Seriously–did you see this?  You need to.  If you wrote this off as another Disney kid’s movie, you should give it a shot.  It really is some of the absolute best storytelling I’ve seen.  I’m going to be disappointed if it doesn’t get nominated for Best Picture.

 

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

I just wrote about this last time I posted.  And it wasn’t actually released this year…but I didn’t see it until this fall.  So I don’t care.

 

Viva la Vida by Coldplay 

And I also wrote about this–but upon further listening, I really do find it to be an incredible album.  The Prospekt’s March EP is also a very worthwhile companion to it.

 

Follow the Roar by Bob Smiley

Mike Forrest told me about this book when I was in San Diego a couple weeks ago.  I read the first three chapters in what seemed like no time.  I bought it for my dad for Christmas and he really likes it.  Neither of us are golf fans if that helps you understand the type of writing it is.

 

All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

Did you read The Road?  Read that first.  I read this while traveling through Europe this Spring.  Forrest is on me to finish The Border Trilogy, I’m a busy guy though.  

 

Iron Man

Call me a nerd, but I really liked it.  I never read the comics when I was a kid.  I went to a matinee one afternoon to kill time and I came away totally surprised.  

 

The Dark Knight

I already wrote about this.  And you probably already saw it.  But if you didn’t see it IMAX, you should…and you’ll have the opportunity to when it comes out in theaters again in January.

 

Evil Urges by My Morning Jacket

 

Attack and Release by The Black Keys

If you like rock and roll, check either of these albums out.  They’re a little different from each other, so give them both a preview to see which you like better.  Their previous couple of albums are different from these–and also some of my favorites.

 

LP3 by Ratatat

I like Ratatat because of Jaro.  They’re awesome if you’re working/reading/studying/jamming out.  

 

That’s all I’ve got for now.  Up next is  a list of events/happenings I like this past year.  But I’ve got to be in California from the 26th-31st.  So look for that list next year.

2 Months. Call+Response

With the realization that it has indeed been 2 months since anything was posted, I felt compelled to write something.

How about a brief update?

Very well then:

-I still live in Nashville.

-I shot an Uzi last weekend.

-Natalie and I made the best dinner we’ve had in recent months last night.

-I’ve seen 2 amazing films in the last 2 weeks.

Here’s some expansion on 2 of the topics:

This is what I look like when I’m holding an Uzi:

(Oh yeah…I officially live in the South when I can rent fully automatic weapons to fire at my whim)

2 movies for you to watch for totally different reasons:

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Amazing.  One of the 5 most brilliant stories I’ve ever seen.  The execution of the storytelling and the story itself is unbelievable.  You can’t help but feel alive after watching it.  You need to see this.

Call+Response

On Sunday afternoon, my Church hosted a screening of this movie.  It’s a very revealing look at the modern slave trade.  Thanks to my friend Mallory, I’ve been made much more aware about just how bad sex trafficking is, but this project definitely sheds a lot more light on the situation of slavery in general.  Did you know that Atlanta is currently ranked #13 in terms of active slavery/slave trading IN THE WORLD?

A very good movie that you should see if it’s playing anywhere near you.  It deserves your time and thought.  Not to mention that Dr. Cornel West is in it–and he just seems to make anything cooler.

Space Trilogy Update

 

Finished Perelandra last week and I must say that Yes, absolutely Yes–Natalie was right.

I read it in about 24 hours while traveling and was incredibly satisfied.  What a magnificent picture of the fall and redemption of man.  It is absolutely worth reading the first book to get to this second one.  C.S. Lewis himself says that it’s not necessary to read the first one, however I felt a little more grounded in this story because of the first one.  

 

You know, like you don’t have to see TMNT 1 to appreciate TMNT 2….but it helps.

(I highly recommend clicking on the links)