temporarily not a nomad: Archive

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-4) →

She & Him (20) Sleeping At Last (20) Glee Cast (8) Future Of Forestry (7) Jimmy Eat World (3) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Dec 7th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-27) →

Taylor Swift (24) My Morning Jacket (16) Trans-Siberian Orchestra (13) Urban Method (2) North Shore (2) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Dec 2nd

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-20) →

Relient K (32) She & Him (25) Coldplay (23) London Philharmonic Orchestra and Andrew Skeet (22) MUTEMATH (13) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Nov 21st

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-16) →

Underoath (58) Coldplay (50) Cartel (32) Radiohead (28) Passion (26) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Oct 17th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-9) →

The Devil Wears Prada (64) Muse (34) Pearl Jam (26) Death Cab for Cutie (22) Bon Jovi (22) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Oct 14th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-9-4) →

blink-182 (32) The Lonely Island (16) Beastie Boys (1) Bruce Hornsby (1) Starship (1) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Sep 7th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-8-28) →

The Joy Formidable (27) Foster the People (9) Bon Iver (6) 30 Seconds To Mars (4) Eminem (2) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Sep 3rd

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-8-14) →

Linkin Park (37) Pearl Jam (37) Rage Against the Machine (23) My Morning Jacket (12) Eddie Vedder (11) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Aug 16th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-7-24) →

Rage Against the Machine (38) Matt Redman (37) Trombone Shorty (35) Foo Fighters (21) Owl City (17) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Jul 27th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-7-10) →

Dashboard Confessional (3) The Roots (2) Wilco (2) MxPx (2) Interpol (2) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Jul 13th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-7-3) →

Coldplay (25) NPR (4) JoJo (1) Andrew W.K. (1) Tom Cochrane (1) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Jul 5th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-5-1) →

Underoath (15) Thursday (12) Jimmy Eat World (11) Blue Skies At War (9) Flight of the Conchords (7) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

May 5th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-4-24) →

Thursday (12) Cartel (7) Scala & Kolacny Brothers (3) Fang Island (2) Toby Keith (1) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Apr 26th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-4-17) →

Thursday (25) Mumford & Sons (13) Future of Forestry (13) Sleeping at Last (11) Explosions in the Sky (6) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Apr 21st

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-4-10) →

Future of Forestry (26) Further Seems Forever (14) Nigel Godrich (9) Jimmy Eat World (4) David Crowder Band (2) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Apr 12th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-2-20) →

Jimmy Eat World (60) Arcade Fire (16) Mumford & Sons (12) NPR (3) Aretha Franklin (1) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Feb 21st

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-30) →

Pearl Jam (19) Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings (4) The Budos Band (2) Bob & Gene (1) Naomi Davis & Sugarman Three (1) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Feb 2nd

a brief, confusing thought

I have no idea if this makes any sense whatsoever, but it’s rattling in my brain and I need to do a little stream-of-consciousness to try to put it into concrete terms. Here’s a thought regarding the “real-life superhero” craze that’s happening in several places in the US recently. It’s all self-fulfilling and self-perpetuating. Think of it like this: someone creates a superhero character in...

Jan 14th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-12-19) →

Future of Forestry (33) Jimmy Eat World (29) Rockabye Baby! (13) Relient K (10) The Civil Wars (4) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Dec 21st

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-12-5) →

Future of Forestry (21) Linkin Park (15) Coldplay (13) Metric (10) Heavy (10) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Dec 7th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-11-21) →

Metric (18) Underoath (17) The Civil Wars (8) Amy Grant (1) Ithica (1) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Nov 29th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-10-10) →

Mumford & Sons (17) The Lonely Island (17) Linkin Park (15) Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros (4) NPR (3) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Oct 13th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-10-3) →

Jimmy Eat World (54) John Mayer (14) Relient K (7) Robert Plant (6) Joe Henry (2) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Oct 8th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-8-1) →

portugal the man (20) Paramore (16) Portugal. The Man (5) The Roots (2) Derek Webb (2) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Aug 2nd

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-25) →

Mumford & Sons (13) National Public Radio (3) The Boxer Rebellion (2) Carpark North (2) Owl City (2) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Jul 27th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-5-30) →

Paramore (10) U2 (2) Men at Work (1) Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers (1) Easy Star All-Stars (1) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

May 31st

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-5-23) →

Philip Glass (17) The Lonely Island (16) U2 (12) Kings of Leon (8) Dashboard Confessional (8) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

May 26th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-5-16) →

Mumford & Sons (22) Paramore (13) Owl City (12) Golden Triangle / The Fresh & Onlys (2) Unnatural Helpers (2) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

May 17th

May 8th

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-4-25) →

Weezer (12) Interpol (10) Heavy (9) Kings of Leon (6) The Boxer Rebellion (4) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Apr 28th

one forty plus.: Twitter Isn't "Over", I'm Over... →

Last week in Los Angeles I participated in a live Q&A as part of an ASCAP expo on songwriting. When the topic of Twitter came up, I explained my waning interest in it being part of my daily life. By no means do I think it’s over as a medium altogether, but I do think that the days of “Twitter: The… Brilliant. Glad you went tumblr, too - great format, much better than a regular blog.

Apr 28th

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-4-18) →

U2 (9) Kings of Leon (7) Dashboard Confessional (4) Pearl Jam (4) Underoath (4) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Apr 20th

My Impressions of Taco Bueno

After so many western friends have told me to try Taco Bueno, that it kicks Taco Bell’s butt, and that for cheap Mexican-ish food there is none better, I finally got to try it out in Louisville today. Here are my bulleted impressions: Cleanliness = meh. I wasn’t too impressed. In fact, the bathroom was downright disgusting. Friendliness = top honors. Every person I saw was courteous,...

Feb 21st

Feb 2nd

Thanks, Food Inc.

After watching the movie Food, Inc., my wife and I have changed several of our eating/buying habits. For instance, now we pay attention to where our meat comes from, we try to buy local fruit/vegetables, and we’ve switched to organic when possible. Yes, it takes a little more work, and is sometimes a little more expensive, but it’s already started paying dividends. For example, though...

Jan 14th

I am really only beginning to just realize that though I came to seminary for a professional, non-theology degree, my theology really has become radically transformed. Neat.

Dec 10th

thanks for the css help, Kaleb! everyone go check... →

Oct 15th

Oct 9th

you know what ticks me off about the average local...

I just saw a ministerial job posting day advertised for a church in my home district of NC East. The job description explained needing someone who could be a youth pastor, play lots of instruments, and lead the congregation in singing. This isn’t an unusual request from most churches. Usually I see job descriptions expecting much more than this. And it’s not just a recent (or recently...

Sep 25th

commercial

For those of you in Wilmore/Nicholasville/Lexington, I (at least currently) recommend getting your GM product serviced at Courtesy Pontiac/Buick/GMC. I’m not big on taking my car to a dealer to get fixed because usually they’re much more expensive. I’ve noticed a little bit of a price hike, but I’ve also noticed advantages in other areas that I’ve come to appreciate...

Sep 23rd

Things I'm looking forward to this weekend:

1. Seeing @brettcheek and hence Taco Bell. 2. Hopefully seeing The Informant! 3. Getting some homework done. 4. Some peaceful time with the wife.

Sep 16th

Today,

I had a pretty great day at the counseling center. I was only there for a couple of hours, but had a neat intake, and a weekly client make some real progress. There is nothing more fulfilling as a counselor than feeling completely lost through most of a 50-minute session only to come to the end with some clearly defined goals and homework and a sense of real progress having been made.

Sep 15th

the convo w/Google went like this:

Google: Hi! Answer these ridiculous questions to prove you're you.
Me: I'm pretty sure most normal people couldn't answer these questions even if their lives depended on it.
Google: Oops! Wrong answer.

Sep 11th

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thanks, Google.

A little while ago I decided I would try Tumblr, since I haven’t been blogging much as of late, thanks to the advent of Facebook and Twitter. And now, do I ever have a story for you. It began a few days ago when I was awaiting payment from an eBay customer who had just purchased my old cell phone. I popped into PayPal and noticed there were a couple of unauthorized charges on my account....

Sep 11th

alright...

As far as following techie bandwagons go, I’m the king. When Blogger first got hot, I joined and have participated. Took me a while, but Facebook crept into my repertoire. Then Flickr, Wordpress, and then Twitter. Of these services, I still use almost all of them, but I’ve realized that they’ve all slowly creeped into each other. Of all of them, however, my two favorite are...

Jun 16th