We love it!

[Meghan Narser]

Sean got out a new entry :) Just when I was wondering why they had abandoned us (Although I did actually know. I'm not an idiot lol). I won't ruin it, just check it out ^^

[chickzilla]

well if that does not answer some people's questions about their faith (Sean's at least) nothing will.
and i am so glad he has been enjoying life as well, surfing and hanging out with friends and things... i like hearing the tiny details too. :)
i respect him immensely and every time i need confirmation of why, he writes a song, or an entry, or says something in an interview, or something at a show that makes me feel that awe-struck respect all over again.
he is amazing. its insane.

[Meghan Narser]

How can you not have a fun time recording when you have muppets and creatures from labrinth hanging around.

'nuff said ;)

[e-rock2]

I'm so glad that Sean has mastered the solo CD. i wish he would have given us a possible release date. I'll have to ask when I see him on the tour. I agree with him on the Christian music observation and most of it is just so homogenized that I can't get into it. Muppets rule!!!!

[flutegrl71]

they hang out with/like Switchfoot?! YAY!! That is one of the few Christian bands that I do like (few because, like Sean said, a lot of it starts to sounds the same - it's too processed).

Yay for Muppets!!!

So, new solo CD from Sean soon!? Yay! I can't wait to hear more about it.

[JeffLester]

I just watched Labyrinth (via Netflix) last week. Interesting seeing a teenage Jennifer Connelly. Then watched Once Upon a Time in America this past weekend with an even younger Jennifer Connelly, didn't even realize she was in it.

[buttermuffin4]

On that subject...I'm so sick of sugar-coated songs from the christian perspective. One of the most comforting and inspiring lines to me is from the last chorus of Come THou Fount where it says prone to wander, Lord i feel it, prone to leave the God i love. Not many unwatered down songs make it through the filter of the Christian music industry mafia these days.
Props to him! He's rapidly becoming my favorite member:D .

[somewherenorth]

Originally posted by chickzilla
well if that does not answer some people's questions about their faith (Sean's at least) nothing will.
and i am so glad he has been enjoying life as well, surfing and hanging out with friends and things... i like hearing the tiny details too. :)
i respect him immensely and every time i need confirmation of why, he writes a song, or an entry, or says something in an interview, or something at a show that makes me feel that awe-struck respect all over again.
he is amazing. its insane.

ditto everything you said.... :)

the one time i met him and had the awesome privilege of hearing him ramble for a little while, that is the exact feeling i had - that awestruck respect, he is amazing. its insane...

well said chickzilla... :)

yay for random journal entries and non-shallow people....

forgot to say that i was pleased to see him quote fount as it's easily one of my all time favorite songs, and he quoted my favorite line in the song!!!

*clicks heels happily*

[chickzilla]

by the way, did anyone mention the jounral thing to him and that is why he took the time? cause i know we all mentioned telling them as a band how much we enjoyed it as fans. i just wondered if someone did since he REALLY took the time this time.

[PrincessNic]

Yea! A new journal entry! And a long one! Even though he may not write as much it is nice to get a good long entry when he does write. It makes me feel like I am reading a story about his life or something. Just really getting to see what his life is really like. I feel like I know him better now.

It makes me so happy to hear him talking about good coffee shops and surfing. I love this line: So good to get out there and feel small again. For someone who loves the ocean as much as I do, I know how he feels.

And we have a track from the new album! Runaway Girl...which is an awesome song and Jon from Switchfoot is singing on it! Great news!

And I definitely liked what he said about Christian music. It is very watered down. Especially all of that praise and worship stuff. It is nice to listen to but the words mean nothing.

And I agree with what everyone is saying. Even though he may not talk that much, when he does I am amazed. He has such a way with words. I love go back and just read the lyrics for 26 Miles. The albums lyrics, like this journal entry, makes me remember why he is my favorite member of the band!

[fiddlincklcrker]

I didn't even notice that there was a new entry until I came on here. That is so cool that Sean's new cd should be coming out in the near future. And I think it was mentioned on here before about the pictures that he posted and one looked like him with the lead singer of Switchfoot and I guess it was him. That is so cool. It is surprising to see a nice long journal entry from him, he usually has just a few lines not much detail, but this one seems different. And I like it! :)

[honortheking]

hey Princess...

i was just wondering, and don't think that you offended me cause you didn't so it's cool, but what did you mean about the praise and worship stuff?

are you referring to a band or certain songs, or what?

cuz i TOTALLY agree with sean and everyone. i am one of the first people you'll hear say that most Christian music sucks. just like most things on the radio. Christian radio is so... crappy. there are so many stations that won't play songs like If We Are The Body by Casting Crowns because they're not positive enough. they don't play the freaking song because it actually CHALLENGES people's faith and deeds for Christ. how rediculous(sp) is that?

but anyway, back on the subject of the praise and worship. i'm not real sure how you can say that the words mean nothing. from my experience (i'm a worship leader in our college group), most praise and worship comes straight from Scripture.

so like i said, i'd love if you'd elaborate a little. and again, you didn't offend me, it just caught me a little strange.

thanks again!! =-]

nathan

[PrincessNic]

There are many different types of songs in Praise and Worship and some songs I love and they really get to me....Above All, Shout to the Lord (even if it is way overdone, I still like love it), Amazing Love, etc. I always cry when I hear these songs.

The Praise and Worship songs that I don't particularly like are the ones that just repeat the same lines over and over again. I know that they are very biblical, and theh actual words do mean something, but some of those types of songs seem to be more for your feet than your heart. They sound really good, but I am not sure how much I feel God when I sing them.

I hope that clears things up. I didn't mean to make anyone mad. I just kind of agree with Sean. Though there are so many Christian songs that I love, there are those they seem to only be written to sound good. And with Christian music (well what you sing in Church anyways), it should be more about what the song says than what it sounds like.

[ecarmikel]

Side-stepping the Christian music debate for a bit...(though I do agree with what Sean has said and many things pointed out by others. I just don't really have anything else to add.)

Yay for journal entries! This may sound kind of weird, but I find his writing style very like him. Well, it kinda resembles mine too. There are long, insightful sentences into his life and everyday experiences, which are GREAT for us fans to read; then there are little short and sweet sentences that sound very playful. Not sure that made much sense, but I tend to do that a lot when I write. I do it when I talk, too, most of the time.

Anyway. Yay for my quickly-becoming-fave member of the band!


ps - and that whole Switchfoot deal is awesome. How long has he known them/Jon anyway????

[honortheking]

and right back into it (not that it is a debate by any means)

i gotcha!! but one thing i want all of us to be careful of is that we aren't supposed to feel God in songs.

i don't believe that God is ever in a song. and another thing that i think is wrong with praise and worship (or people's attitudes these days) is that so many times people come at church and worship times as things they want to be blessed by. they want to gain a warm-fuzzy-feeling. and that's just not what God is about.

PLUS our worship is about HIM in the first place. if by offering your all, your spirit, your mind, your body, your voice, you feel blessed then good for you. but He is the One to be blessed. so there is nothing wrong with walking away from a worship service drained and empty. but walking away knowing that you gave your all to lift His name is the purpose.

now that i sit back and realize what i just typed, i need to go re-evaluate my heart. =-]

but good stuff. it's good to talk about this stuff. i love it. and i love you all. keep it up.

[chickzilla]

its good to talk about, i just wish we had a different place to do it... this seems so arbitrary to just run away from the jounral entry but now i actually have something to say specifically regarding the songs you all are talking about.
one song that bothers me because it seems (hypocritical is not the word but it seems cyclicly ironic i guess) like such a pointless thing to say is 'Heart of Worship'. now before you get all down my throat for uttering that, just listen to the idea.
the song is about how worship has gone awry, how we have made it into something less to do with God and more to do with the feelings we want FROM God... which is true. however, the song is such an emotional song, meant for us to use to let go of all of those selfish feelings and as the song says I'm sorry Lord for the thing I've made it that well... it perpetuates the things that it says are wrong with worship in the first place. because that song is NOT more than a song and despite whatever attitude we are to have while singing/playing/listening to it... it does not itself transcend the failings of the rest of our worship. it is just a song, and we get just as caught up in trying to do what THIS song says, as we do with any other. only it seems worse, cause the song is about not doing that in the first place. and there's no real way to get around it with that song, ever. its a massive cycle. or at least from my point of view.
that song is one of the only songs that really bothers me that i have ever sung in a church in my entire life. but even from the first time i realised it was a bit strange to me.
back to the subject of Sean's journals... i think the reason why i enjoy his writing style so much is that it is almsot opposite from mine. i use mostly compound sentences, but very few complex ones. and i suppose it is part of my training to dumb down the things i say so that anyone could understand them (i am kind of molding myself to be a teacher), but its just nice to see someone who does not have to write to bring the masses with him. :)

[Meghan Narser]

My writting style is horrible lol. I tend to run on sentences (That make sense) because that's what I've been taught to do in french, and I've always been taught things in french way before english, so it leaks through (Which may be why I misspell so many things by adding extra 'e's and 's's everywhere). I also have a love for brackets... in case you hadn't noticed. I suppose it's because I write the way I talk, literally, thinking How would I say that? then type it exactly the same. Brackets happen to sound a certain way to me in my voice, just that kind of side note that people may or may not hear, it doesn't really matter.

...

And I tend to go off on a tangent. Anyway I love Sean's writting. And I love it when he writes us :D

[chickzilla]

oh i am very parenthetical as well... i envy people who can make their meaning entirely come through without using a set of parentheses ever. especially if they can also keep from using appositives. that is very hard.

[honortheking]

i see your point. but , like you said, i think thay may be from your point of view.

if you've ever read or heard of why Matt Redman wrote that song, it's pretty incredible. i'd post a link to it, if i knew it.

anyway, i wish i could write as sean does. i can be enthralled by what people write. i can sit and listen or read for hours. just because i love what a specific person has to say... i just find it hard to do that with my own writing. not that i want to sit and read my own stuff, but would like to write things that other people would be interested in.

sean rules. period.

[ecarmikel]

hear hear.

I sometimes find my writing interesting, even on a blog, but most people don't think so, actually.

I think my writing style is more like Sara than Sean or even Chris. But the essential rambling and runaway thought-trains are pretty much like all 3.

ah well. I digress.

so we've all agreed that sean rules. And there was much rejoicing.

[Meghan Narser]

Rejoicing in the We just ate the annoying minstrels way?

[honortheking]

and they ate robin's minstrels.........and there was much rejoicing!

[PrincessNic]

My writing style is very much like Sara's. She likes to write about enjoying the simple pleasures in life (getting a new pad of paper, waking up to the sun shining in the window). Everytime I read one of Sara's entries It always inspires me to write.

On another note, Proust once said that he is very criticial of his writing. He could write something and hate it and then read something very similar to what he wrote and love it.

Reading Sara's entries always make me realize that what I am writing about may not be so trivial after all. Sara once wrote an entire entry about how she couldn't figure out what the bepping sound was that she was hearing. It was one of the best entries she has ever written! And it wasn't about anything. Just little moments in your life...

[Meghan Narser]

That entry was the first thing I'd ever seen/read/heard that wasn't a song from Nickel Creek, and I remembering thinking Not only is their music awesome, but they're interesting people as well! and yes I find a story about a beeping noise more interesting/entertaining/funny then a lot of things.