but i like the cookie

I want something sweet like, really baaaaddd. But, I think I will supress the urge.

One of my favorite things is new music. I am always searching to find new music, and one of my favorite things is to make mixed CDs for people so that I can share the wealth. :) I just recently bought the CD by Au Revoir Simone called The Bird of Music which I like a lot. They kinda remind me of Stereolab and perhaps Hooverphonic. Kinda folksy cool female voice with an electronic background. My favorite song by Au Revoir Simone is "Sad Song", which has the electronic stuff but also has a trumpet and trombone that play along later.

I guess I would have to say one of my favorite bands of all time is Cake because of the same reasons. All except for the folksy female voice. ;) They do a good mix of electronic sound, cool guitar, funky percussion, and trumpet. The words to their songs are kinda corny or don't make any sense a lot of times...but I'm more in it for the music anyways. I just recently found out that they are really into environmental issues. If anyone reads this, and are interested in Cake, check out the website at www.cakemusic.com. They always have links to all sorts of interesting news.

If you have any cool new music you want to share with me, share away.

New to the blogging...

Well, I guess that's not necessarily true. I have had a LiveJournal before, but I didn't really use it much and have NO IDEA how to log back on that puppy anymore. So here I am, blogging away.

I imagine that no one will really look here at my blog...but I also imagine that I can't really write in this thing like I would a journal unless I'm not making it available to the public...which, I probably am. :)

Anyway, I just graduated from Florida State University, and I am beginning a new stage of my life. It's pretty exciting, because I feel like I can go anywhere and do anything. At least one other person besides myself is excited for me (thanks Karin) and this new stage of life at hand, but I also wish I could be more excited b/c I don't know wtf I'm going to do with my life. But lately I have been trying to prioritize and figure out my identity. The One I really need to seek my identity in is God. I believe that he is the only one who can help me figure out who I am and what my life means in His whole scheme of life. I don't want to be a cookie cutter Christian--acting like and saying things the way people imagine Christians do. I want to be a Christ follower, but I think I have to make sure that I'm not doing so on my own terms.

I've met these new friends, and they are awesome Christians. They care for people in the way that Christ would--and I want that for my life. I think that I need a new vision for how I want to live. I don't want to be "resting on my laurels" and miss out on all the awesome stuff that God wants to do through me. I atleast pray that he wants to do awesome stuff through me.

1 O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water. Psalm 63:1