John Travolta is so Cool

Bonjour,

Did me using that French greeting evoke feelings of murderous hate in you? I recently heard an opinion of a man in my town, a man I respect no less, that truly believes if it came to civil war in Canada, Anglo-Saxons vs. the frenchy’s, he believes that a murderous army could be rallied from the town of Vermilion alone. I disagreed with him. I know people don’t like Quebec, but a murderous army? I don’t know about that? I certainly hope not.

Anyway

Hi, I am currently listening to Green Day. I feel good about that. I feel ok in general, although, ever since I played soccer and football the other day, my legs have been slightly sore. Mostly my ankles and knees, cause of all the cutting and moving in ways that I don’t move unless I am playing soccer and or football. It’s a good kind of soreness though; it means I have been active, which is good. I’ve also watched a lot of movies in the last 29 hours. Like yesterday, I watched 80% of “The Patriot” starring Mel Gibson. None of that Steven Segal crap! If you haven’t seen it, and you can stomach some American historical patriotism and propaganda then you should watch this film. Then today I watched the Academy Award nominated film “Sideways”. I really liked it, and it certainly wasn’t as bad as the scathing reviewer employed by James Dobson made it out to be. He had me thinking that I had rented a porno, Satan worshipping flick, which it really isn’t. Then later on tonight, I watched this new Ryan Philippe movie called “The I Inside”. The last Ryan Phillippe movie I saw was “Anti Trust” and so his presence didn’t excite me that much, but the movie was likened to “Memento” in the advertisements, so I decided to watch it with Kyle. It reminded me more of “The Butterfly Effect”, but all in all, it was not the worst movie I have ever watched.

Other then my mass movie watching, I preached this morn. It went better then I thought it would, though my ending was abrupt and crappy. Oh well, these things happen, and people said that they appreciated my message (God’s message) regarding the Sabbath, so that was nice to hear. It’s always good to hear that God does not abandon us when we are at our weakest. It is especially good to hear since I feel like I am at my weakest right now. Thanks to those of you who prayed for me and my sermon, prayers were answered and God worked. Thanks to those of you who are praying for my dad and my family, I am trying to trust God will work just as miraculously in this situation. Actually, more miraculously, but you know what I mean.

I don’t have much else to say at this point. I am focused beyond belief, but look forward to actually practicing my beliefs regarding the Sabbath tomorrow. Our Youth Centre “The Edge” opens on Saturday, so there is much detail work to finish up before then, my work consists mostly of Public Relations (shaking hands, kissing babies, cutting cakes, kissing other guys girlfriends…hehe) and Music Ministry (which means fixing all the last bits of music on our cool touch screen juke box and hopefully kissing other guys girlfriends) I’m sorry, I don’t know what’s come over me, I don’t think I actually want to kiss other guys girlfriends, I should just get one of my own, but I am in an emotional state, thinking about relationships is the 2nd worst thing I could do at this juncture. So instead I will talk about the song of the day.

Not too long ago I visited Jon and Kim Kramer in Westlock. Matt Kinniburgh also showed up. Anyway, on the drive up there I was sampling music to put on the aforementioned touch screen juke box. One of the CD’s I was sampling was “American Idiot” by a band of my pre-pubescence called Green Day. Anyway, I was really enjoying it, and I remember driving on the highway up to Westlock, I don’t remember the number, though I believe it is 44, anyway, a song came on that really caught my attention. It was a song called “Are we the Waiting?”. To be honest, I am not sure exactly what the song is about. Maybe if it wasn’t so late, and maybe if I was smarter. But the song itself, the sound, it’s beautiful. I never thought I could say that about a Green Day song, but here I am being proven wrong by Billie, Mike and Tre, still rockin’ after all these years. Well, that’s it for me; I think I am going to watch one more movie before I go to bed, so I can do it in peace. It’s the new John Travolta, Scarlett Johansson film called “A Love Song for Bobby Long”. Who knows, John Travolta has grey hair in it, he is so cool, if I was an actor, I would be John Travolta, minus “Battlestar Galactica” or whatever that alien/scientology movie was that he did. Anyway, if you have the means and or the desire, and I know you do, check out “Are we the waiting” by Green Day. Peace.