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I pray that the Lord will bestow strength and understanding upon Eli’s life. That he may be strong, show love, learn compassion and find God in this loss of his Pa Wiser. He has been though a bunch over his 12 years on this earth, and is being as stoic as any boy of twice that age could muster. Although he does not admit it, he is a good boy. I try to teach Eli that we all need to be able to see the bright side, especially since there is always some kind of bright side to see. The dark side naturally, is the easiest  to see, proof is trying to look at the sun is far harder than looking into a dark cave.

I think simply looking through these physical eyes shows us mostly dark, no matter how illuminated by the sun. We see the death of the body, not the resurrection of the soul. We see the brackish water and fail to see the storm clouds above come to give new sustenance. We see what others want us to see, because we do not have to ponder it ourselves, empowering them as well to have someone else looking at the darkness beside them. It is the dwelling place of the most evil, full of doubt, lies and any number of deception. Anything to confuse us from knowing that our God in Heaven constantly and perfectly emanates life perpetual for us, all we see and live in. All comes from and all returns to Him if it be His will.

We catch ourselves daily, nitpicking a red light. Mentally glossing over an hour or so in front of the pc or the tv, not aware of this fountain of life that is being poured over us in perpetuality and the many mysteries therein. Only when death comes so close, do new ideas and thoughts about life have the proper time given for their consideration.

I pray that we all love God, receive His ever giving and plentiful blessings, strengthen ourselves in patience and tenderness toward our brothers and sisters ; for we only have a but short while to be with each other here, then on to the arms of The Lord God (in the name of Jesus).

Yea…I aught to force feed new music upon my accidental blog visitors. Sometimes, sitting down with a plan to compose send a thrill through my heart. Sometimes, it feels like a chore. Actually the past few months have leaned more toward the chore side, so how on earth can I make semi-listenable music when I feel like it is forced? I cant. I know the pros can, that is what they get paid for, but you know I have never claimed to be that. I am just a hobbyist.

Maybe me working all the time has had something to do with it. Yea, probably… A feeling of abusing my duties often ensues when I crank up my DAW, then after piddling for a few minutes, I shut ‘er down and start up my IDE and start coding… Ahhh, that’s better. Neither make me more financially stable, but one is a guilty pleasure and the other helps remove the guilt of not working?

Gimme a while, I will have another creative spurt like the last one where 4 pieces (onomatopoeia, Honey Comb, White Noise, Johnny) came to be in as many days..

Have not been writing lately, although I probably am missing some of the best emotional windows that I have ever had. I guess after such a huge change in life’s patterns, I will need to regroup first. I don’t plan the type music I am going to write, but much of it has been kinda dark over the past couple years. I am hoping that, although my future music will probably be dark like my previous attempts, that it will be the dark right before dawn. Hopefully glowing in the end, with a bright hope of good days. Thanks for listening! -eric

Partyline
Put a bunch of random chord in the sequencer, then arrange them in an order that works, then orchestrate, and Wa-La!

Found My Mind
I don’t know where this came from, but once it started, it just kept a comin’. Kinda pulls from Dream Theater and Deep Purple.

Woke Up Alone
Same theory as Partyline, i like’em laid back

Powder Room
This was a fun song to put together, the feel, and me, just get along..

Nails / Golgotha
My friend John says he wants to do some Hip Hip… Ok, I don’t know how to do hip hop. Shoot, everytime I aim for something musically, it comes out totally different, but I just have to keep at it until I totally weird it out. My guess is that these two would be considered “Industrial?”

Slick
It keeps getting stuck in my head for some reason. Yesterday, I cleaned up on it some then mowed the yard. When you get a song stuck in your head, you dont need an ipod. This is one thing I have come to appreciate about music in church.

Big Tow (big toe)
This one has a guitar solo! Yay!

Thump
Who knows where this one came from. In an attempt to add interest to the song, I injected a sound clip of some people clapping, in a sarcastic joke aimed at my music

Love Shine
This is probably as close to hard rock as I can get. Every time I start for a rock song, it ends up being  theme music for 007.

Presence
Ahhhhhh…….