Many Things

things hard things

The last couple of weeks have been really hard for both of us. I can't really say too much about this because it's just far too personal for the internet. But what I will say is thanks to all who have prayed for Heather's Dad. No matter what's going on with him I know that he is loved by all of you. This is anything but easy for us to deal with. So whatever you do don't stop praying for him he needs all the prayer he can get right now.
On another note I got a pt job at Sam's Club in their cafe area. It's not particular a good job, but it is a job nonetheless and that's what matter most to me about it. It's a little bit like Little Caesar's because pizza is served there, but other than that it's different. The thing I like most about it is making pizzas. I didn't make a lot of pizza's at Little Caesar's. But now I wish I did it would have made that job so much more enjoyable. The best thing about the job is that so far I haven't had to wash a lot of dishes so I am happy about that too. The major dislike about the job is that time just seems to go by so slow there that it almost makes me think that Sam's Club runs on it's own alternate diminsional clock. It goes by incredibly slow there. And it's the busy place I have ever worked at. I mean it's ridiculos how busy that place gets. But it is better than sitting around the apartment.
Please continue to pray for the McNeely family they need all the love they can get right now and thanks again for everybody's help that he has received. God is still working on Phillip McNeely.
I am so glad that so many people want to visit him. He is a man that is loved by many people.

Podcasting

When I was in high school I used to listen to this show on the Oregon University sation. It's was a Hardcore and Metal show. From then on I really wanted to have my radio show where I would play the music I liked. Now I can do that by making a podcast with garage band. This is my podcast. I thought about calling it eclectic electric. When I was in high school I was going to call my show extremities, which might be a better name. But it's doesn't apply to all the music anyway here it is for all of you to download and listen in your car or whatever.

Songlist

Band:Song

1. Advent-eulogy
2. At the drive in-initiation
3. The Dambuilders-Idaho
4. Today Forever-Dating Jill
5. For Today-With a passion Burning
6. The Appleseed Cast-A Dream For us
7. Armor For Sleep-Phantoms now
8. As I lay Dying-Elegy
9. Audio Karate-Jesus is Alive and Well Living in Mexico
10. The Dropkick Murphys-Famous For Nothing
11. A Plea for Purging-Golden Barriers
12. Haste the Day-68
13. Impending Doom-Peace Illusion
14. Maylene and the sons of Disaster-The End is Here
15. Maylene and the Sons of Disaster-Caution:Dangerous Curves Ahead
16. Azmaveth-Stigma From Hell
http://www.mediafire.com/?z4slr1jl3zcvekr <-------podcast download

I'm bored out of my mind for most of today, I have been for most of the week. I just want to go somewhere right now, I don't know where though.

Football!

I am ready for the game we're going to. I know we will win because I've never heard of this college. I was at first surprised to see Arkansas at #17 since we only had an 8-5 record. But the people who put us there know that we would be better this year and I think Arkansas is going to do a lot better this year. I am so ready for football season. I'm doing fantasy football again, last year I went 7-6 and made the playoffs as a wild card team. I lost my first playoff game. Not bad for my first year. I'm in a league now that has 4 teams in the playoffs than 8 like last year. But I think I will do good this time. It's fun I like it more than I thought I would. I wish I was in a league with some people I knew though. I joined a league from Arkansas. The name of my team is Bonesaw's ready. I hope to dominate this year.


Go Hogs!

church

I've been writing my blogs on my facebook page. If you didn't know.

I'm listening the the Church of The Harvest praise and worship team. I used to play some of these songs in church. I really miss the Village church, In my mind I would really like to have one more service there. It's hard to let go sometimes. I'm glad I'm still in touch with most of the people I met there. We've been going to a new church called Midtowne church and I feel really young around everybody there. I like going though, It's good to hear a message that's current in our lives that we can apply to ourselves and not just sit and listen to some one's ideas about Christ. I get Christ's teachings from the messages. I would really like to return to playing music with people from Midtowne Church and I feel like it's going to happen eventually.
At the Village church I was kind thrown into it after I told them I could play and i was alright with that. Then I never got to play at Mosaic. But recently I've been talking back and forth with Kenny Robbinson about playing music at Midtowne.

I hope to play guitar there soon.

I'm trying to write something, hold on. That's probably not it. Sometimes I really don't like what I write.

Outside

It's hot outside but not too hot. I'm glad I love the heat. I also love my wife, she doesn't feel good today, please pray for her to feel better I would like that. Church was good yesterday. It was about preaching the word to people. I need to do that more it's not easy sometimes.

People have found out how to make harmonicas out of old nes games that is cool. I used to have a harmonica I could never play anything on it I suck at it. I have always wanted one of those things that connects a harmonica to a guitar and I don't even own an acoustic guitar. Someday I will be a famous folk singer and sell millions of albums and only eat brown m and m's it will be awesome. My wife will learn to play drums and we will start a band. We will play Saturday Night live and host as well because I have always wanted to do that. And we are funny. Meat Cookies are yummy so are meat popsicles but not hairry lollypops. I want to goto Hawaii.

UFG

I've been watching the new Ultimate Fighter Season and it's pretty good so far. I like some of the fighters and there are some I dislike. Tito Ortiz is not as nearly annoying as he is in the ring he is actually a pretty good coach I think. But he's still annoying in the ring, I don't care what you think about him I don't like him. They announced that Forest Griffin is fighting Antonio Rogerio Nogera I know I spelled that wrong, so that should be a good fight, I've never seen Antonio fight before, but I hear he's really good. He's been out of commision for a while though. I would like to see Forrest win because I like him.

I'm still wondering how Lost will end. Any predictions?

All we need

God must be the center of your life, if he is not then pray that he is. This is very important in our world of false hopes we have truth and that truth is Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is the one person who can fulfill your life the only way for this to happen is to have him as the center of your life. We live in a world where other things rule our lives, these things that we call interest, which aren't bad to have of course) can become idols and this can become deadly for us. So what's the center of your life? Is it Jesus? Or is it something else. We all need help in this life and Jesus provides us with this help, this help that we all need.

So I went and saw Crazy Heart it was but not really what I expected. I never expect country singers to say the f-word so many times however I do expect hear Jeff Bridges to say all the time, because of the Big Lebowski he says f every other word and so does John goodman's charactor in the movie. I also didn't expect Colin Farrell to be a good country singer either. Supposedly Robert Duvall sings a song on the soundtrack, which I have yet to buy. I wonder what he sounds like though.
Jeff bridges kinda reminded me of my dad except he was an alcoholic. But if my dad was a country singer he would be bad Blake (jeff bridges). He just acted like my dad does. And said
things he would say. I could do without all the stuff with Maggie gyllenhall though. I thought bad Blake would end up a big star and that really didn't happen he did get alot of
money off of the songs he wrote for Colin farrel at the end but I thought he would record that song not Colin. It was different movie from what I normally saw in theaters meaning no explosions or gunfights just verbal conflicts this time. That's ok it was a good movie but I thought it would be different that's all.
Wolfman was good we saw that on valentines day and it was pretty good the reviews online were wrong it was
not
slow at all. I hope they make a sequel out of it.
I bought a new cd yesterday from band called azmaveth which was one of the names of Davids many warriors in the bible his name meant strong as death which now officially is my favorite word in the bible because of that. They sound like old old underoath which i still listen to sometimes cries of the past is one of my favorite albums of all time. So check them out if you like that sort of thing.
I think this is all I want write now. I did this whole blog on my iPhone. Thanks apple!

Weekend snow report

I'm glad the weather is not always like this, but I usually like it when it's cold. I don't, however, like it when it is bitterly cold. Who does? I mean seriously. When it's cold as balls outside I don't even want to go outside. I didn't go out that much anyway. We still got some snow and Ice up where I work but most of it is gone by now I am sure.

So stayed inside most of the weekend almost the whole weekend. Heather is sick so I am taking cake of her. On Sunday the Robson's bought us some food, green bean cassorole, key lime pie and this really good soup. Actually all of it was really good and I plan to eat some more green beans when I get home. I wish my wife could taste how good everything was and I wish she was feeling better. I have been praying for her to get better. She has been taking nyquil and that has been helping.

I did not want to go to work today I would have much rather stayed home with my wife and played wii sports resort or something like that.

We did watch a movie it was that Twilight movie and it was boring to me I didn't like anybody in the whole movie except for the werewolf indians because they were nice. Those vampires were lame, and especially the baseball part what the crap? Vampire baseball? The fight scene was good that was really the only part I liked. Heather and Patrick love this movie, but not me. Both of them said I would like the second better, but I don't know. I usually like vampire movies too. I have always like werewolfs and monster movies and stuff like that.

We watched the pro bowl, which everyone on the radio is calling it the worst game ever played. Well it's not the worst game I ever saw, the worst game I ever saw was when Geogia beat us this season that was pretty unbearable to watch, and the cowboys vs the packers this year that was awful also when they played the redskins even though they won it was still terrible. And of course the first televised bears game was pretty terrible I think it was against the broncos I think. Broncos are awful how did they go 6 and O? I don't know.

I'm reading Catcher in the Rye and it's really good, but I have no idea what's it really about it's just some kid running away from home and school. He's finally got back home now where I am in the book he just got home. But I think it's about finding yourself and moving around in life, kind of like Through painted deserts was about moving and finding yourself and growing up and coming of age stuff I guess. Somehow Donald Miller put Christ in the book too. he has this special way of including Christ in his stories it's quite fascinating and secretive and really good. He's really good at it. Just reading all of Miller's books just makes me want to go back to Oregon for a week with Heather and show her where I used to live and goto Church and School and where we used to eat and goto shows and concerts it was some fun times living there for almost three years. The Catcher in the Rye was written by J.D. Salinger who just a couple of days ago died and was 91 that's really old. I didn't even know that he was still alive really. Well he's not now anyway.

So I guess I will end this blog up with some movies that I can always watch no matter what the circumstances are.

Tommy Boy
Joe Dirt
Terminator 1 and 2
The Big Lebowski
Fargo
Rushmore
the first three Star Wars movies
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Forrest Gump
The Wedding Singer
The Waterboy
Billy Madison
and Happy Gilmore

Black Sheep is worst Farley/Spade movie I have ever seen, it's not even funny. And I didn't ever finish Beverly Hills Ninja although I want to someday.

Three Ninjas Kick Back!

ready for Breakfast

I'm tired today. I know I would be cause I went to Vino's to see some bands last night, then I get home and I'm tired. Wake up and I'm still tired. I saw three bands all from Arkansas, Something to Stand For, Thrill of a Dogfight, and Take it Back. They were all really good. And I thought all the good Arkansas bands broke up? well there's still some good bands here apparently.

Had some Orange juice today and man have I ever forgotten how much I like Orange Juice. I haven't had any in months, which is unbelievable for me since I love the stuff so much. It's best thing to drink in the morning. My brand is Florida Natural if you were wondering.

I also like toast and eggs too, I love breakfast I could eat it any time of day. I should have a day where I just breakfast type foods. That would be a day. Or a restuarant that just serves breakfast. I know there's already a restuarant that just serves cereal. how weird is that? I don't ever really care to go there. I can make cereal at home. Actually I can make most breakfast at home, but I still love IHOP, weird eh?

my thoughts on Avatar

Avatar was really great and extremely fun to watch. It's like an amusement park ride but with no puking.
When this movie began I just thought that it was good, and as it went on I began to like it more. The world of Pandora is so emersive that I felt like it was a real place. It wasn't like I watching videogames at all, which is the way I felt when I watched Star Wars Revenge of The Sith. I mean Lucas Arts might as well of have made a Star Fox movie. Cause that's what I felt like when I was watch it. That actually wouldn't have been a bad idea. I would watch it. I love Star Fox, but I digress, Avatar's Cinematography is the best I have ever seen. I can't think of anything that comes close. I can see why James Cameron had to wait so long to make this movie.
The story is great too. It gets better as the movie goes on. It gets more exciting as it goes on. And that's what I wanted in this movie, Excitement and I got it.
This movie reminds of The Abyss more than any other movie. Mainly for the animation in it. In way I could see this movie as a cartoon with every segment of the film made with CG and it would still work. But it probably wouldn't have made the same amount of money. Just because not everybody is a fan of cartoons. But I didn't even feel like it was animation and that's what makes this movie so great It's feels real. Pandora is a place that you want to visit for a vacation.
It also reminded me of history, Mainly Custer's Last Stand, with the General being Custer, but way worse,and Jake Sully being Geronimo. The Navi reminded me of the Navajo Tribe or an African tribe. And they were very easy to root for.
I could also see this movie being turned into a TV Drama. I think it could work, kind of like a Lost type show with a lot of secrets and mysteries.
I could also this as an anime series.
One that I do want to have from Pandora is the faith that they have there. In Pandora the whole tribe believed in God wouldn't it be great if we had faith like that. This is also how Pandora can be viewed as the Garden of Eden.
Avatar left me with a great feeling how great American Cinema can be and how great it should be. Of course in American Cinema it the only direction I see is up.

Saturday

I'm always glad when it's saturday. This is the day when Heather and I can do whatever we want to and today is no exception for we are going to see Avatar today and it better be good and it not make me depressed. Of course it won't do that cause I know of a better place than pandora it's called Heaven. I think patrick is going with us. it really sucks that tickets for a 3-D show are 11 dollars though. Well atleast I get my buddy holly glasses to wear.

So lately I have been creating fake bands on Figment.cc I got four so far, The Lesser Knowns, The Pawns, (which was actually the unofficial name of a band I was in), Old Man Gloom, and Swindlers of Death. People can get on there and create fake bands that make fake albums and go on fake tours and they earn fake money called Lucre, which you can use to buy stuff in the lucre store, real stuff, like itunes cards, a book about a fake rockstar, and Ipods, but you got to earn a lot of lucre to buy anything. But it's kind of fun and it helps pass some time at work. Getting on the ole' MS paint and drawing album covers. I either use that or Photoshop elements here at home.

So Heather and I watch that Baby Mamma movie and it was ok. There really wasn't anything I didn't like about it. It was pretty simple and extremely easy to follow and Tina Fey actually looked pretty in it. So it wasn't bad.

I created and Ilike.com page for my garage band recordings and with that comes along a facebook music page. So it's win/win. Here it is if you want to hear a badly produced version of "out of my hands." http://www.ilike.com/artist/Jared+j+Lowry+

birthday list

Birthday list

My 27th birthday is on march 4th that's hard to believe that I am no longer going to be 26.


Guitar stands
Fearless by max Lucado
A million miles in a thousand years by Donald miller
The Stand graphic novel by Stephen King
Chrono Trigger for Nintendo DS

Where did the time go?

It's the first snow of the year and It hasn't lasted long where I am at work but at least i got to see some snow, even if it isn't that much, and it just getting colder this week. I am finally getting over being sick, but I still have some minor congestion today, but it's nowhere near as bad as it has been. I would like to thank Heather for helping me get well. I hope she feels better too.

I have to say the message at church yesterday was a little bit hard to follow. It was about faith and how we can do all things with faith and so can Jesus, but it just seemed a little back and forth for me. Because of the way Pastor Mark was preaching. He would go off on how a lot people in the bible that had faith didn't really gain a lot in the life because of it, and how other people did gain a lot because of it. So really why should you still have faith and have nothing to gain? I guess that was the point, but today I thought, We don't have faith to gain rewards we have faith because he is real, and he has saved us from a useless existence. For our reward is in heaven of course, but it is not heaven that we believe in, it is Jesus. Sure we know heaven is real too but it's because of Jesus that we have faith and therefore we are saved. So it doesn't matter how much we get in reward it matters how much we want to believe in him, and of course he will believe in us. The goal is to have faith, not to want to be with Jesus, but to have him in your heart. I hope this makes sense, and that I am not just rambling here.

Heather and I watched a movie called Max Payne with netflix, and it was pretty good. It followed the video game somewhat, it was more like Max Payne 2, than Max Payne. I used to love this game when it was out for the playstation 2.

It feels good to write again! Why haven't I done this? I really don't know. I don't really have a reason to why I haven't written anything in a while, but it feels good to do it again.

It was also good to see the hogs actually win a bowl game, and I'm glad Tejada could redeem himself. I had some friends who went to the game I'm glad they got to go. I hope they were too. I honestly thought this game wouldn't have been so close I thought the hogs would win big, but it was really close and a fun game to watch.

I am missing my Christmas and New Years break I don't want it to already be over. But I am already back to work as most people are too.