Fish Fest 09

After all of the waiting for months it finally came. FishFest does not have anything to do with actual fish, but it is the name of the local radio station that plays contemporary Christian music like Jeremy Camp, Brandon Heath, and Tenth Avenue North. I found it kind of odd that yearly the FISH does this event but they never really have bands that they play often, if ever. This year the line-up was MercyMe, Jars of Clay, Matthew West, Francesca Battistelli, Phil Wickham, Brandon Muchow, NeedtoBreath, Jana Alayra, RED, This Beautiful Republic, and Hawk Nelson.


These artists were spread out throughout 3 stages (Main, Family, and Edge) and I actually got around to see all of them except for Phil Wickham. The family and edge stages were actually small stages that people can stand up in front of and watch while the main stage was actually the huge stage that featured assigned seating according to the tickets purchased.

All of the bands were good but I thought that This Beautiful Republic and Hawk Nelson did the best job. I also got to meet This Beautiful Republic in passing. During that day the people of FishFest got 2 songs dedicated to us. The first was by
Matthew West who made a song about how we could just sit back, eat some funnel cake, and watch him perform. The second was by pop-rock band Hawk Nelson who did a rap about Diet Mountain Dew and how its still good even though it's diet.It's actually a parody of KJ-52's song called Mountian Dew. I also got a chance to purchase the rare Hawk Nelson Summer EP which is only available at their summer festival shows this year. It was a great birthday event overall and I got many good pictures and video to share.

Singer of the band RED, I think he wears guyliner....


This Beautiful Republic


Hawk Nelson


Jars of Clay

The Plan of the Navigator

In this past week I have been still trying to get myself back together from the devastating news of Chloe returning to Heaven. I found that I cannot just let it take control of me and let it ruin my life, but shouldn't just ignore that it happened either. God obviously had a purpose for this event. Though I cannot see through the storm, I know that the Navigator knows the route. He will always do what is right and will not fail us. Everything has a purpose in life and is individually and specially made by Him. I have found that some messages can be found found from this event. Here are a few that I am uncovering.


There will be challenges in life, people may turn away from you when you most need it, but God will always be there for you. I have been blessed enough though that my immediate family is here for me as well as some other friends that have given their time and prayer to my family.

I am also think we should start leaning on God more often. Most Christians just treat God as water, just taking some when they feel that they are thirsty or else they may become sick. We should take in more "water" and not just drink it when we are thirsty but rather all of the time. Money and other earthly objects cannot support us, only the one thing that will never change is the thing we can put all of our trust on.

There are still many more lessons that I am sure I will learn throughout this experience. I still may never know though, what God's true intentions of Chloe's life was. All that I know right now for the situation could be put into one of my favorite Bible verses.


Proverbs 3:5-"Trust in the Lord with all of your heart, but lean not on your own understanding. In all of your ways acknowledge Him and He will set your paths straight."

wow

Mercy Me, Jeremy Camp, and the Lead singer of the band Tenth Avenue North singing a cover of Bon Jovi's "Wanted Dead or Alive" Mercy Me does these covers pretty often it looks like. They have quite a lot of them, and the second video on here is a hilarious version of "Take On Me" by A-Ha.

The Next Big thing

These two music videos are by two bands that are both on their way to becoming very popular. If you haven't heard of them yet, you probably will soon. The first is by a band called Owl City which I have actually seen live with Relient k. Owl City isn't as good live as they are on CD but they make some pretty good music. Owl City is actually just made up of one guy named Adam Young who gets other people to play with him for concerts.


The same idea goes for the next band named The Rocket Summer. This band is made up of the brilliant Bryce Avary who does every instrument in his band. These bands are both actually Christian in case you are wondering.They are both reaching out into the mainstream world though because of their creativity and getting more attention. Owl City came out with a new album yesterday and I saw today that it was #3 overall in top selling albums on iTunes.

Hawk Nelson- Zero

Getting through another day.......

Hello, I'm back to trying to blog some more. I haven't been around to wanting to blog because of the news of the post below this, but I am up for it now. Today I was still trying to recover from the news, also got pretty hot here in Southern California. I went to the mall today with sister, just to roam and browse to get out of the house for a little bit and get our minds off of it.


I found it pretty disturbing that you can't go anywhere in the mall without that guy from Twilight being on a poster or something in the store. Bookstores I found out are the worst about this. I saw a Twilight book sitting on a shelf in front of me so I looked to my right of which there was a Twilight Movie Guide. Frustrated I look to my left, and not surprisingly I found a disturbing picture of that Edward guy from the movie looking straight at me on the side of an action figure box in front of my face. I can't seem to escape it. Hopefully the whole Vampire thing will end after they stop making the movies.

My clumsiness also found me today. An automatic door at the mall decided to shut directly on me as I was walking through, and I also tripped over a 1-1/2 inch curb later on. I had an alright time at the mall besides that though. One of the stops we went to at the mall was at Best Buy which recently had installed a musical instrument section as I have said before. Annabel liked all of the expensive pianos, and I enjoyed all of the guitars of various shapes and sizes. What I found most amusing however was a small keyboard that was hooked up to a computer program for adding and editing sounds. One of the settings for the system was a great variety of synth sounds, which were very fun to play with. I made something that sounded like it came from Family Force 5 and another that sounded like No Doubt. I almost bought the one Relient k record that I don't own which would be their Christmas album, but didn't because I wasn't sure if I would get that for my birthday or not. I'm not sure why someone would buy a Christmas album in the middle of July, but hey, I was about to do it!


Once I got home I played some guitar, some Monopoly, and also did some left over Biology homework that is almost finished. I also tried teaching myself how to play piano at home today. I trying am getting the hang of it and it's kind of addicting. That was pretty much my day summed up here. I also want to thank anyone who has helped support my family in any form of help, even if it was in prayer.THANK YOU!!!!=) My birthday is also coming up in 11 days, can't believe it's almost here!


(Currently listening to- Reinventing Your Exit by Underoath)

Simple but sad post...

My baby sister Chloe Elizabeth Zandi was born still, on July 11, 2009 at 2:50am, and delivered directly into the arms of Our Lord weighing 9 ounces and 10 inches long

Happy 4th of July!

Transformers 2 Movie Review

I thought the movie came out on the 26nd of June which would be on Friday. I thought that I was going to have to see it after the weekend since I am camping that weekend in the mountians and there are no theaters probably even close. Paramount must have moved the date up or something cause I found out the night before that people were buying tickets for that midnight showing of the film. My dad and I managed to get 2 tickets before the show sold out (I am pretty sure it was by the start of the film, other theaters had sold out by 9:00 PM.)

Let me start out the review by talking about a preview that I remember seeing.

Twilight:New Moon-UGH! I had to laugh though because when this preview began to appear on screen almost everyone in the room was booing at the movie. I thought that pretty much every teen girl was obsessed with Twilight. At least there is a roomfull of hope now.


This review of the movie of the movie may not be as complete as it could be but I will try to summerize what I remember because I saw it about a week ago from now. I understand Hollywood's logic of trying to make a hit movie's sequel into an even bigger hit by taking the first movie's best elements and adding more of it. I think that is exactly what Director Michael Bay was trying to do when he was creating Transformers 2. He took it a little too far though.

Using Megan Fox and many other ways Bay managed to create many more ways of suggestive scenes in the sequel. Michael also added a LOT more explosives and action into this movie which looked pretty cool and real. The orginal humor found in the first film was also here, spreading laughter throught the crowd. The plot from the first is expanded on and many new characters are introduced. A funny cameo by Rainn Wilson (Dwight from The Office) is also made on this movie but its hard to tell its him.
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The graphics and fitting fake robots in with our real world looked much better than the 1st and sucked you right in with the movie. Aside from the inappropriate content in this film I though it was fairly good but could have been better. I saw this movie as another big movie just trying to make more money, well its doing a good job at that. It was quite entertaining for me. I will be posting a star rating on this soon (to be explained) but for not I would suggest it only to viewers over 14 or 15.