Come As You Are

Tonight, as I remembered one of my favorite songs of my youth. I was reminded of the deep depression that I suffered during that time. Most of it brought about because I constantly tried to be accepted by a group of people that wouldn't accept me for who I was no matter how hard I tried, how much I tried to win their acceptance, and no matter how much I changed myself to fit their view of what I was supposed to be.

Come, as you are
as you were, as I want you to be
as a friend,
as an old enemy
take your time, hurry up
the choice is yours
don't be late
take a rest, as a friend
as an old memoria

Come, dowsed in mud
soaked in bleach, as I want you to be
as a trend, as a friend
as an old memoria

and I swear
that I don't have a gun
no I don't have a gun
no I don't have a gun

Once again I am committed to being myself and will not allow myself to be pressured by those who could care less about my life. Come as you are? Not really, because no one wants you as you are, they only want what they can get from you.

Transformers and the Message of Forgiving

OK, so I saw the movie Transformers last night. I was opening the mail and noticed that it had come in from Netflix. After hearing from everyone and I mean everyone, that it was the greatest movie ever, I figured I would watch it. Though I knew after seeing the run time of the movie, 2 hours and 20 minutes (I never watch a movie without first looking at how much time I will have to sit still) that this was going to be difficult. So it took me two nights to get through it, but I did . . . barely. All I have to say is that if it wasn't for this hot chick I don't know if I would have made it through. I found it to be a very boring movie overall.

This gets me to thinking. Am I out of touch with the movie culture? Should I be impressed with a bunch of cartoon like machines changing back and forth? Am I missing out because I saw it on my 32" TV and not at the movies? Is this a sign that I am getting old? Is it gay that I actually like movies with a story, dialogue, and character development?

Thankfully, not all was lost. The ending credits were awesome!!! The song "What I've Done" by Linkin Park actually got my attention during the credits. AFTER WATCHING 143 minutes of movie I then proceeded to listen to the credits 15 times.

Maybe after listening to this song I was starting to understand the message of the whole movie. Maybe it is time to stop blaming others, stop the cycle of violence against each other, and accept the consequences of our actions. It is time for me not only to forgive others but once and for all to forgive myself for the mistakes I have made.



This song is about redemption and about asking forgiveness and forgiving ourselves and others for mistakes that have been made. We all are imperfect and make mistakes and that is how we are suppose to learn, but the world is unforgiving and we cannot erase ourselves from the world. It is only after we show God's love and forgiveness to the world and ask for forgiveness ourselves that we can be saved.

REMIX: Jamming at John's Crawdad Hole

Here we are rocking out at our first nonchurch gig. I am still not sure if there is a market for a "christian" band at the local establishments in the Mississippi Delta. We can only try and see what happens. The folks at the Crawdad Hole were very nice and wanted us to come back as soon as possible. There were even a few couples dancing and having a good time.

Hopefully this will be a great chance to meet young folks and pass out some Remix flyers.

REMIX SAT. NIGHT CONCERT

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Ha ha, I now realize how big a dork I am but there is no changing that at my age. Special thanks to Pastor Cantu for doing the video. Hopefully, we can get enough footage for a commercial for our REMIX youth services.