I was checking out Derek Webb dot com one day and saw that he was going to be back in Houston in November (this was like 4 months ago that I realized this...) and I swore with an oath that I would attend his show......
Anyway - Thanksgiving came, and we had Joshnita and Lynn in town. They came in on Tuesday night... on Wed. Erin had us slaving away in the backyard working on the patio while she was at school....after Erin got done with school and we decided to go to Galveston and Kemah since Lynn hadn't been. While everyone was showering etc I decided it was high time I got a haircut.... on my way to great clips I decided.... why not support a local business.... over the next hour I discovered why I don't.... I had the worst haircut experience of my life to date... and I'm too traumatized to say anymore about it.....
So we went to Galveston and walked on the beach and then went to the Aquarium in Kemah.... which seems to be the only restaurant we take people to..... on Thursday we chilled at the house... Lynn made the most amazing stuffing from scratch and we pretty much just cooked and worked in the backyard for most of the day. We had Jason, Julia, Eli, Jason's parents, and Tank & Trolley over for dinner (that's 8 adults, 1 baby, and 3 canines for those of you scoring at home.) We had dinner in between football games... and I consoled myself with Pumpkin Pie while to Broncos decided to suck.....
On Friday Joshnita and I hit Circuit City at 5 AM then went over to the Home Depot... then we came back and took a nap. After I got up I demonstrated true husbandly humility and service by taking Erin to JoAnn's Crafts......After we ate breakfast (biscuits and gravy) we all piled into the Jeep for a trip to Katy Mills..... a gigantic outlet mall (my Mom and I once spent 12 hrs there.... we rule)... we looked at cowboy boots with Lynn..... most of the boots I saw were $300 plus..... it's not easy to be a cowboy
Erin and her Dad, Lynn
Joshnita, Lynn, and Erin at the Aquarium.
I took the Utahns to the airport 'round about 5:45 AM..... then I picked up my friend Hieu (who was in China for an international management course) that evening.... in between the Utes blew it on the football field... I was expecting them to get destroyed.... so the fact that they threw the game with dumb penalties and dumber defense on the last possession doesn't make me too sad.... I really thought we'd get punked by 30.....
D Webb full circle: When Hieu and I got back to my place (Hieu left his truck here while he was gone) he mentioned a concert on Sunday night..... I had to repent in dust and ashes for not remembering the D Webb bonanza......
So Sunday, Hieu and I went with Becca (from Kaleo/small group) and her friend Sally (who is Egyptian and was in a classic rock chick cover band)......
When we arrived at the show I discovered that it was not really D Webb... but a whole host of fine fellows.....part of Andrew Peterson's Behold the Lamb of God Tour...... (speaking of which... definitely buy that CD)
Andrew Peterson came out first and played the title track off his album Far Country (thanks to ginodean.net for getting me into this guy!) and then the following folks walked onto the stage:
D Webb, Sandra McCracken, Andrew Osenga, Randall Goodgame, Jill Phillips, and Andrew Gullahorn (Please check out www.squarepegalliance.com to listen to some of their tunes and www.squarepegalliance.net for bootlegs etc) Everyone took turns playing some of their original things.... I had no idea that Goodgame had written so much of the new Caedmon's Call album (Share the Well), he and Peterson just came out with a children's album called Slugs and Bugs and Lullabies and they played a really funny song about a bear that Randall wrote for his son. The best song by far was written by Andy Gullahorn......He's married to Jill Phillips... which I didn't know until she got up with him and talked about their kids..... but he starts out telling a story of how he used to be a real man living on a farm in Austin, TX and shooting birds with a shotgun - trying to get them to land on a chair.....then he said something like... after being married ten years I've discovered that marriage is about the feminization of man... and that made me depressed so I wrote a song about it.... The song was really funny and actually pointed he was singing about how most of the 'manly' things we do are really expressions of loneliness.... but the last line of the song reallyhit home.
He sang about how when he was a real man he used to watch Jean Claude Van Dam killing guys, and now that he's married he just lays in bed with his wife and watches Gilmore Girls on DVD....
Corey and I used to watch Steven Segall flicks (no matter how bad they sucked artistically)..... my dad and brothers and I would watch Van Dam.... and now..... after almost 3 yrs of marriage.... I am a Gilmore Fan.... and I own all the DVDs....
After an hour or so of hearing some original tunes, they all came back out with a ton of other folks making up the percussion section and played straight through Peterson's Behold the Lamb of God which was just awesome..... if you are some place where you can catch this tour you definitely should.... best $7 I've ever spent on a show ( I think the RBF show that Jonathan, Sarah, Erin and I went to was more than $7).
Oh... one last update for any Brewer's Blues alumns who'd like to e-commiserate: I'm playing on an outdoor soccer league at the local Young Men's Christian Association (7 v 7 - short field). My team (The Free Agents) is composed of players who weren't already on a team..... as you can imagine we rule..... the league is co-ed and we've only had a woman show up once so we usually play a man down... and have only had one sub for the two games we played a man down.... today we got owned 6-1.... I played the first half in the field... and the second half in goal.....it made me think of the good ol' days (before Ethan and Craig tore ligaments in their legs..... so I think this is circa ginodean.net sporting a Utah Rugby t-shirt) when we weren't so organized and would get drubbed...... I miss those days... it's always easier to handle a good butt-kicking when you can discuss the loss at the Bayou over some sweet potato fries.....
All for now
