Posted 4:59 PM by Luke
My love is LOUD!

That's been the theme this week. LOUD LOVE! If you can't stand it, get out of the heat, or something like that. Cause it's loud! Yeah......YEAH!!!

I really don't have much to say actually. I just finished my second monster mag editing test, and I am quite thankful that it's done. Bleh. One page into it, I just started to get annoyed with every error I had to correct. Very silly, but annoying nonetheless. Otherwise, classes are classes. The end is nigh.

Just to let everybody know, I have already raised $1,400 for my summer project trip. I am absolutely blown away by how faithfully and quickly God is bringing the money together. I knew he would, but 2 weeks after sending out my letters?!! I am already more than halfway to the goal of $2,400. Amazing. Caleb is moving even more quickly. We are both floored by it.

This weekend I shall take a sojourn to St. Louis for two things: Saturday, we shall celebrate my dad's 60th b-day (whew!) and my brother Jason's 31st. They be some old fogies! Oops, they'll probably read this. Nah, but it'll be fun of course. Sunday will be my first big event concert of the year (it's April and I haven't had a big concert, unbelievable). Guster. You may not have heard of them, but they are great. Fun, catchy melodies, amazing harmonies, clean, beautiful guitars and strings. I look forward to it intensely. I saw them last summer when they opened for John Mayer, but that is a faded memory because the arena where I saw them was not a good rock show arena, and I only had one of their albums at that point. Now I am a full and avid Guster fan, and the show is in a proper nightclub environment. Soundin good already! Don't worry, I will have company on the ride there, so no falling asleep. My friend Ann, a fellow music snob (or shall I say someone who knows what good music is ;) ), will be with me on the drive to hit me or turn the music up if I begin to fade. Caleb and Josh Berg will join up with us Sunday for the show.

Happy April B-days too:
Ann (belated, April 2, sorry it slipped my mind :( ), keep true to the good music.
Erica, my other London-ite friend (April 15), who gets to go see Paul McCartney in London on April 18!!!!!!!!!!! Nothing beats that. I can't wait to hear about that and everything else next month when you are back in the good old US of A as an adult.
Jill, friend of many years now (April 16). You put up with way more than you deserve with my goofball phrases. But you have always handled it well ;)
Dad and bro - you be old. But still cool. Sorta.
And anyone else I may have forgotten, I am truly sorry. My memory isn't the same now that I am an aging adult.

Music of the afternoon: All That You Can't Leave Behind, U2. They're latest album, from 2000. Great stuff, perfect for this sunny, wonderful day. I had been waiting for the weather to improve just so I could listen to this one. U2 is a perfect example of what a good band does. They get wierd and experimental for awhile, but come back to earth with simple great songs just when you think they are going to go overboard. It's a model set by the Beatles, a band you may have heard of :) Just started the always good Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. I have said plenty about that one ;) We watched the new Wilco DVD this weekend. Oh man, was it good. Just seeing how the album was made and how the songs changed over time, amazing. Just so you know, I am currently compiling my top-50 list of albums, for those who may care. I shall have it posted here when it's done.

Tonight we get to cook dinner for that amazing house of 5 girls down the street from us, plus Jill, of course. I'm sorry that Sarah, Erica and Megan R. can't be in the country for us to cook for them also. We started a little thing with just doing occasional things for all of them last semester, and it's great to just have some chances to show some awesome sisters how much we care. :)

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