You Really Got Me

So I discovered a band last night! I thought…sweet a new band, I wonder how many people know about them. I was listening to The Darjeeling Express movie soundtrack and since I have always thought Wes Anderson picked great songs for his movies I take his recommendations to heart. The album is 3/4th all composed music. But there were 3 tracks by this band and I thought the songs were awesome!
So then I went over and searched for them in the CD’s…turns out they have tons of albums…I didn’t know which album to start off with. If I had endless amounts of disposable income I would have bought all of them, but since I don’t I could only get one and I had no clue which CD to start off with. So as smart as I am, I went back…grabbed the soundtrack…and looked for those 3 songs on the backs of the individual CD’s.

They were all on 1 CD!!! Holy Guacamole Batman!

Who is this band you may be asking?


…The Kinks!
I came home and researched them…they started their career in the 1963!?!?!!?!?!
The Kinks are even categorized as a British Invasion band, along with The Beatles (which I love), the Rolling Stones (I don’t care too much for), and The Who (great band).

So apparently I am not best music lover that I even considered myself if I had not heard of the Kinks while I knew of the other big 4 British invasion bands.
I do know their You Really Got Me song though…but I never knew who actually sang it.
(so that song title is very much appropriate as the title of this blog post)

So I retract the excitement I had on the ride home and replaced that feeling for complete stubbornness when I read on Wikipedia about The Kinks. I’m such a bum…I’m going to go discover The Ramones now.

Take Me Out to the Ball Game

So tonight has started the World Series. So I am here in the back bedroom watching it because when I got home from having dinner with a good friends Amy was watching Private Practice...blah

And since the series is being broad casted by Fox, fortunately that is the only channel that comes in on this TV that operates on the rabbit ears. Well Nashville Public Television is also visible with the rabbit ears...and they do have good shows on there but I always forget about that channel.

Well as I am up watching this game 1, realizing that it is already 10:25, and I should be in bed. The 7th inning stretch comes around...finally(the BoSox are already up 13 to 1), the singer/actress Ashanti gets out on the field to sing God Bless America as is tradition at baseball games. Well it got me thinking...when are they going to protest that song being sung at baseball games? have they already protested it? As much of a baseball fan, I don't know if that has been protested. But I love that they still do it b/c it is a tradition of baseball that needs to remain to keep the sport truly "American"

OK well i am going to bed without watching the end of the game. If i wake up and see tht the Rockies made a rally to beat the Red Sox, I will do something completely irrational tomorrow...like not go to work.

hmmmm...should I root for the Rockies now?

Hope everyone had a good hump day!

Mexican Wine

I was in the breakroom this morning getting my 2nd cup 'o' joe when another older gentleman comes in to brew from decaf coffee. (He can't hanlde to real stuff apparently)

First thing he says..."has anyone ever told you that you look like the Dog Whiserer?"
Me: Really?
Him: Yea, who know who I am talking about, right?
Me: yea! I am a huge fan of Ceaser Millan.
Him: Yea, the first day i saw you from a distance, i thought the dog whisperer was in the office.

So then we had a small talk about dogs and Ceaser's methods. Needless to say i am a really big fan of Ceaser and if people think i look like him, that's cool

Maybe i should work on my accent and go around trying to get paid for some advice i learned from the 'real' Ceaser.

new name: Isaac 'Ceaser' Llanes

it's has a nice ring to it...haha

Chase This Light

Jimmy Eat World's new album dropped today.
And guess who already has a copy...?



the guy sitting next to me.


and myself! oh yes.
*btw the guy next to me doesn't have a copy. also there is no guy next to me.



So you know when you are driving down the road and you come to a traffic light you have the urge to look around at the drivers around you. Then you see the one guy in a nice shirt or business suit scarfing down a sandwich or a burger while they are waiting at the light. Then you think..."good gosh, eat when you are not driving", "get a life", and/or "that guys is disgusting."
Yea...that guy.

I have turned into said 'guy'

I realized it as I made my sandwich in the breakroom today grabbed my diet coke and bag of chips and headed to my car. As I was shoving my sandwich into my mouth at a traffic light I thought...'really?' And yes really...
But I now have a copy of the new JEW album because i made time to go to Borders on my lunch hour!

HA!

I'm So Tired

Its Tuesday and I wish it were Friday. Hope i'm not the only one that feels this way.

Quick updates! THIS JUST IN!
-Isaac is really enjoying his new job! His boss is awesome, co-workers are cool (the ones he has met, so far), and new hours. *Where the tiredness comes in* Used to have to be at work at 9 and now at 7:30 Yikes! Big change and for some reason I still can't seem to get to bed early.

-Rupert dog got fixed on Friday morning. Yes he was broken, his tail would not wag. But no worries! ...oh and he also cannot go make illegitimate pups with some floozy female dog. Also good news. He was pretty sore until Sunday evening when he threw up some mysterious fluids and pepped up right away. Well at least he's back to normal...but that also came at the expense of some living room carpet.

-Friday night Amy's mom came for a visit and we all had a swell time. We really didn't do too much but it was a great relaxing weekend. And we went out Sat. night and she bought us dinner in celebration on my new job. Oh yes...it was a smörgåsbord and we actually just ate the leftovers last night for dinner.

-Speaking of last night...the Cowboys game! I had about 5 heart attacks. Yes, for each one of Romo's interceptions. Dang that kid, what in the world got into his head? Anyway...even though he had a bad game they still came out with a W. and that's what matters in the end.

-And the Red Sox swept the Angels. Almost unfair since the Angels were banged up going into the ALDS. Oh well...and since the Indians beat the Yankees last night *YES* now it's on to the ALCS vs. Cleveland. I saw Manny's home run on Friday night and it was a.m.a.z.i.n.g. Here's an awesome picture.-Also on the sidebar over there...Amy is done reading that book. She just hasn't started a new one so I haven't been able to change what she is reading but it is the last book she read. And on the other hand..I am still reading th Godfather ...and Made to Stick, and Every Man's Battle, and Praise Habit. I start to many books without finishing. I also just got another 2 books that I want to read...but I'm trying to finish 2 others first.

- So "I'm Reed Fish" wasn't the last movie we saw but it is the last one we saw that we both liked...hence why it is still up. But I do want to go rent "Reign Over Me" which was released today on DVD. Oh and "Across the Universe" I heard it is really good too...but that's only showing in 1 theater in the area and it's in the city. Date night on Friday? I think so!
...Is it Friday yet...this blog is getting long.

i'm tired

New Beginnings

Not many of you readers know...
but I, Isaac, am working my last few days at Interlinc.

Interlinc is the reason that we moved out to TN. We thought that by taking this job that it was THE reason God brought us out to TN. But we soon knew that it was just a means by which He would use us here in TN. We are very grateful for the job that brought us out here to where we now consider home.

It is actually going to be weird for me to get up and go to work and it not be Interlinc. I have been working there for 2.9 years now and it has always been a constant in my life here in TN. So yea...it'll be quiet weird.

I am moving on to a health care company called Passport Health Communications. And I am really excited to work in a place that is not considered a "Christian" workplace. It feels like i have been in this bubble for sooooooo long now. First with being at school at HPU then working for interlinc...it's like they are their own little worlds. Does that make sense? I don't want Christianity to be the popular thing all around me, all the time. Maybe some people out there in the middle of non-Christians are saying "I would love to be working in a Christian workplace!" But I am past that at this point in time of my life. I need to get out there where my actions are going to be evident. Where my words are not just hot air, wasted, with nothing to back them up.
I guess that is the whole reason I now have a skewed view of Christian music and Christian artist. Not that it is completely negative...just skewed. Main thing is that when artists say that their music is a ministry, it is, but to a certain point. The music industry, Christian or not, is a flat out business. You can call it a ministry all you want but it is still essentially a business at the end of the day. So, it is all dependent on sales...and so was the case at Interlinc. Not that the products were not good, it's just that the vision was blurred.

So I am ready to go somewhere to work where the words ministry, kingdom, and missional goals aren't used in the same context or at all. I hope to be a great employee and be a great asset to the new company and be a little salt and light to everyone around me. So I can only hope to be that salt and light to people. I look forward to not working in the Christian bubble that i have been in for so long and stretch my wings.

wish me luck!

Atmosphere

This past weekend we packed our car and headed Southeast to the great city of Atlanta. Or as some refer to it "Hotlanta" or the "ATL" Well it wasn't really hot so 'Hotlanta' was not used this weekend. (and actually we packed our friend Mandy's car...since she let us borrow her jeep SUV to bring back some purchases)

We were going to meet our Amy's Dad and our step-mom in ATL for the weekend and hangout. But we also decided to leave extra early Saturday morning to go to one of our favorite stores (and the reason we borrowed Mandy's jeep)...

Mention that store and ATL
...we are on board!

So we made a few purchases and it worked out b/c as we were checking out...the 'rents had gotten to their hotel and were waiting on us. So we packed the car and went to find the hotel. Which was tough since we aren't too familiar with downtown Atlanta and had minimal directions to follow. But we found it and it was quite a spectacular hotel

We didn;t really see the outside of it but when we walked into the lobby from a walkway that lead us from the parking garage...we saw this...
That blue sail looking piece is the top of a bar area called Pulse, I think. And so the inside of the hotel was hollow and all the floors were visible from the first floor and then you could see sky lights (which you cannot see in that picture) all the way at the top of the building. So it was really a cool view.

So we all went out to dinner and then decided to go to the hotel sports bar and grill to watch the Texas football game. You know...it was the 2nd college football week of the year/season...and I spent the morning driving in a car 4 hours. Spent another 1 and 1/2 hours shopping and so on...and not once remembered that I was missing College Game Day and football games on ESPN. So when our dad said we needed to catch the Texas game...it hit me. FOOTBALL!
So we got lucky that it was a big place...and it was really nice...
This was the entrance to is and we were all the way in the back where they had 5 projection screens with 5 different games on. It made up for not watching anything before that that day. And lucky for us there were a few other people from TX there (they weren't all Texas fans...TAMU and TCU) but it was good to have natives present.

Texas won after a slow 1st half so we were all happy!

Well our trip to ATL was great and it was really good to hang out with the 'rents!
We had to head back to TN by noon to be back that evening. So it was a short trip...but a great trip. A good little getaway from our normal hustle and bustle is always nice, verrry nice!