A good day.

Things that happened today that were awesome:

-Met an awesome person on public transit (How often does that happen?)
-This guy on the street asked me for money to make a phone call. Lent him my phone instead. He didn't steal it. Cool.
-Met a guy at the music store to play some music with. He likes Thrice and City & Color. Sweet.
-A 3SN listener is sending me an awesome shirt for my birthday, YEAH FREE STUFF
-Signed up to Volunteer for a local garbage pickup tomorrow with some longboarders from Barrie.
-Ran into an old friend.
-Ran into friends from work
-Met a woman who goes to emmanuel church in Barrie. Random.
-Met someone at a place who I forget the name of, but she was nice.-Smiled at some old people. They looked at me like I had two heads or something.

Rad. A good day.

There were a bunch of other things that I'm forgetting right now. But something I realized earlier shook me a bit. A good number of these things wouldn't have happened without a positive effort on my part. It's so easy to just throw our headphones on in public places but lately I've been going out of my way to talk to people. To help somebody out. Feels good. Overall, I'm pretty happy with the results. Sure, you get the odd person who's going to flip you the burn when you try to do something nice for them, but that's cool. Such is life.

***I just realized I'm going to start blogging more. I like talking (typing) to myself.***

I like people lately. A lot more than I used to. There are a lot of decent people that I meet and a lot of people who some might call indecent, but who I would call "misunderstood". We could all use a little more understanding.

Do something nice for somebody within 24 hours of reading this. Bring a homeless dude a burger. Pay for someones bus ticket. Smile at someone. Ask someone who looks upset if they want to talk. Offer somebody a ride. Pick up some trash while you're standing around waiting somewhere.

Be Christ in the places where the world believes he doesn't exist.

Band break-ups.. Band break-ups everywhere

Thrice. A plea for purging. UNDEROATH? A bunch of others that I can't quite pull to mind at the moment, but they're there, slipping away...

It makes me sad. Especially about Underoath. I just hope that those guys all move on to other projects and keep bringing us good music, good Christian music. Yeah, that's the other thing. It seems like when Christian bands disband half the dudes fall off the boat in the proverbial sense and we never see them on the Christian music scene again. It sucks.

I miss Underoath in the Aaron gillespie days. It's just not the same. Though, props to him for answering Gods call to him to start doing worship music, start The almost, etc. Some things have to end for others to begin.

If Underoath doesn't come to Toronto for the last tour... I will stop buying Underoath's CD's and never go to a show of theirs again... Oh.. right. :(

Look for UO's final releases and those two new tracks when they come. I'll keep you posted. And I'll try not to be so sad about it in the meantime.

The guys from Plea and UO that still want to play music should just get together.