Not A Saint

Yesterday I was playing around on a song I written like two years ago in college. It is entitled "Am I A Saint?" Now if anybody remembers, I wrote that song based off a passage in the Bible. Now, for the life me, I can't find that passage. It is in the New Testament. I am just paraphrasing, but it is basically says that you are a saint for believing.

I got to thinking that I am not a saint. I have always felt this way about it. When you think of saints you think of one of the newest saints and that is Mother Teresa. What did I do to deserve being called a saint? Again just believing is apparently what I did to deserved being called a saint.

When you look at saints, you see they have something to deserve the honour of being called a saint. For instance Mother Theresa went all over the world to help the lowliest of the low and tried to make life better for people who didn't have that much. I haven't do half as much as other people.

If you look throughout history, there are people who are more worthy of the title of saint. Take William Wilberforce for instance. Sure he is not a true ordained saint, but he did stuff that makes him look like a saint. For instance, he got slavery abolish in England (some of you might that isn't anything special, but it is), was a politician that fought for the rights of all, and was an Evangelical Anglican. You might think that Wilberforce didn't do anything amazing, but there are probably a lot of stuff he did that a good portion of people don't know about. I recommend you watching the movie "Amazing Grace." It it based on true stories and real events and one of the characters in the movie is William Wilberforce. I am proud to call myself Anglican because of Wilberforce, but that's another blog post for another time. But the point is that in the movie "Amazing Grace" you see Wilberforce work to abolish slavery which is no small task. He was an amazing man that is deserving of being called a saint more so than myself.

Another reason I don't think I'm a saint is because is because when you think of the word saint, you think of this perfect person. I am the furthest thing from perfect. Maybe I am generalizing the term saints. But they give off this allure of perfection which in some way I can't comprehend or measure up.

I am just trying to wrap my head about the fact that simply believing makes all the difference in terms of being a saint, yet there are a lot of more people in this world who have done more things, and deserve the title of saint.

I just need some direction about where to go with this. I guess its good revisit this and just see where I am on this. But it seems I am exactly where I am on this where I was two years ago.

Pomplamoose, Jack Conte, And Nataly Dawn

Okay, so one day I was on YouTube and watching a Julia Nunes video and she had some music playing in the background. The artist was a duo called Poomplamoose. So I decided to check them out right after and I liked them. But today I decided to check out their other stuff and each of the two members solo stuff and it is great.

Beat The Horse by Pomplamoose is one of their many great songs. But this one is catchy beyond belief.



Flavors by Jack Conte is a good song by one half of Pomplamoose. He is ridiculously talented as plays a lot of different instruments. He even uses things that are not even instruments.



Waking Up by Nataly Dawn is a great song by the other half of Pomplamoose. She is also very talented.



For not being huge into indie music, I will say Pomplamoose, Jack Conte, and Nataly Dawn are indie music acts that I do like. So check out these three videos and all there other videos for very good music.

I Am A Collective Soul

My friend Greg did Rush and my friend Mark did Dream Theater. I wanted to do DragonForce because I am going to the concert tonight, but Collective Soul is what I picked out. Post this on Facebook and tag your friends.

Pick Your Band: Collective Soul
Are you male or female: Smashing Young Man
Describe yourself: Heavy
How do you feel about yourself: Heavy
Describe where you currently live: Where The River Flows
If you could go anywhere you wanted to go, where would it be: Over Tokyo
Your favorite form of transportation: Satellite
Your best friend is: Him, Pretty Donna, Georgia Girl
What's the weather like: Perfect Day
Favorite time of day: An Evening With
If your life were a TV show, it would be called: The World I Know
What is life to you: The World I Know
What is the best advice you have to give: There's A Way
If you could change your name, what would it be: Gel
Thought for the day: Heaven's Already Here or Tremble For My Beloved
I would like to die: Why
My soul's present condition: Wasting Time
My motto: Lighten Up
My favorite color is: Skin

DOUCHE BAGS SHOULDN'T HAVE A LICENSE!

You might be wondering what this is all about. Well, I was driving home after work and I was stopped at the lights at the first set of the lights on Circle Dr. and Idylwyld Dr. going east. I was pulled ahead of this one red car at the lights when I stopped. The lights turned green, than I changed lanes to avoid being stuck behind a semi. Than I changed lanes to get ahead of the semi. Than I changed lanes again to not get stuck behind some traffic. I changed lanes to get to the furthest left, than that red car could have almost rear ended me, but he didn't thankfully. So this dude in the red car decided to start speeding up and passing car. On top of that he would slow down to be an ass clown, than I would have to change lanes to pass him. So I sped up a bit to get away from him, but he wouldn't stop. He would speed up to pass me, than I passed him. There was this person moving something big on Circle Dr. and has flashers on top of the item being moved, so the dude in the red car crowed me, not necessarily going into my lane, but not into my lane per se, but enough to make me go on the shoulder. So I pass the truck moving this thing (I don't know what it was) and passed the car. So everything was fine for a few moments, than this douche tried to run me off the road, so I could have ended up in the ditch. That went down the 14th St. exit and went out of site.

That dude is lucky I didn't get his license plate number or I would have reported him to the police. I was pissed at that ass clown when I got home. I am calm now though.

DragonForce Concert

DragonForce RULES! Hopefully the concert is not sold out because that is what I get for looking after my nieces and nephews. My sister is going to the Keith Urban concert on Wendesday, so I took that day off to watch them. But if that concert is sold out, I will go to Collective Soul instead. Collective Soul is great in concert as I saw them on New Years Eve at Prairieland Park. DragonForce is at the Odeon this Friday, September 25th.

Tone Matrix

Someone on my friends list on Facebook posted a link to this. It is pretty neat. You click on the squares and it makes a tone. You click on various squares and makes different sequence of tones. Its fun to see what you can come up with. You could use the tones in ambient style of music. Anyways, check it out.

Tone Matrix by Andre Michelle

Family Reunions

I was meaning to post this a week or so ago, but I didn't. So yeah, deal with it.

On the August long weekend my dad held the 2009 Burton Family Reunion for the second time in 17 years. I didn't get to spend the entire time at the reunion as I had to work on the Sunday even though I didn't want to. Nevertheless, it was a great a time when I was there.

As I look back and reflected on the reunion, I thought to myself that family reunions are a good way to meet people within your family that you have never met before. They are good to get reacquainted with family you haven't seen in years. Really, who knows how long you have left to met and reacquaint yourself with family?

People have changed over the 17 years since I have last seen some of them. For instance they have aged, gotten married, had kids, etc.. Reunions bring together family from all over Saskatchewan, Alberta, Manitoba, and British Columbia. Or at least this one did.

I will give props to my dad and his three sisters (my aunts) for getting this together. When my family puts on an event or family gathering, you won't leave feeling hungry at all. We had food all weekend. I must say that supper on Saturday was especially interesting in terms of the way they cooked it. They put food in cream cans and cooked it over an open fire. Sunday breakfast was great too. Pancakes, hash browns, and sausages was AWESOME! My family can put out a spread that is second to none.

The events that took place was a silent auction which ended at 1:30PM Sunday. I didn't win what I bid on. There was another item I was bidding on, but my cousin kept bidding just to bid me up. Sunday evening there was a live auction and my dad's auctioneer friend did the auctioning. There was bingo and I got a bingo on the one of the games. When I called out bingo, I scared the shit out of my sister. There was a planned kaiser tournament, but it ended up being four teams. Kaiser is a great card game. There was a planned horseshoe tournament, but I don't know if it happened.

Overall, it was fun. The 2011 Burton Reunion will be in Bethany, Manitoba. Next year another reunion for another side of my family...