October 15, 2007
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The Dailies
I’m sitting in a super fancy board room at a regional
Articulation meeting. No—REALLY
fancy—like the ones you see in movies. I think the House of Representatives
meets in here (when they’re in session). I have my own microphone, my own
speaker (for when others are talking), an Ethernet port directly in front of
me, and a very comfy chair. I think there are about 200 seats (or stations)
like this, and there are leather chairs in the most prominent section—which is
one huge circle around the middle of the room. There are marble walls and a lot
of fanciness. I wish I could take a picture. It’s just cool.We didn’t realize that the Miramar air shows were on Sunday. Traffic was
horrible on the way home. We have been taking the 15 fwy home from San Diego because it
generally has much less traffic than the 5. However, due to the air shows, we
sat in traffic for an hour until we got to Poway,
and had to just get off and have dinner. We got home a little bit later, but it
was no big deal.A special shout out to Heidi for making the trek to SD with
us to play horn. That instrument is an amazing addition to a brass section. I’m
so used to hearing our Trumpet/Sax/Trombone/Tuba brass section that the
addition of the French Horn added a color in the section (and the orchestra
overall) that completely changed it. I can’t hardly explain it—it’s just an
amazing and highly satisfying thing for me.This meeting is running overtime. I can feel it (much time
has passed since I wrote the first paragraph…). We’re NOT having lunch on
time…shoot.
Yesterday The
Dailies visited Midway
Baptist Church.
This is a group made up primarily of APU grads that I knew during my early
years at APU that were pretty close with Christy. I think they all graduated the same year.We were very privileged to have them at Midway. Not only am
I constantly impressed with the impeccable songwriting of front man Chad, and
really fresh sound of the group, but these are some of the smartest people I’ve
ever met. I happen to be quite addicted to the blog managed by The Dailies
keyboardist (and full-time APU music faculty) Mike Lee. Other members of the
band also blog on this site, and I am continually challenged to think deeply
about life and my faith by these super-philosophers.Christy and I got to sing a couple of songs with them
yesterday and it was fun. Chad
and Erica (lead singers) are great vocalists—Chad sang all of the backup vocals
on High School Musical 2 (to give you an idea of how good these people are). I
have great respect for The Dailies, and it was great to see them in action
ministering to our congregation. I have been following their journey for some
time now—and knowing that you really can’t pay any higher compliment—they have
truly made me a
fan. You should check out their album. It’s great—and absolutely worth the
ten bucks.
Comments (9)
We bought the Dailies CD at church yesterday….very good! Erica is looking a lot like her Mom!
^^^HA! I won’t tell her you said that…
Yeah I bought their CD too, but I’m still waitig for Yours and Christys… I would so buy it…..think about it.
What meeting were you at in such a fancy room?
Well now I feel bad about writing my treatise! I always have fun playing in orchestra, so thanks for letting me come along for the weekend!
I have been listening to The Dailies CD all day.
Just for the sake of correct disclosure…
I sang in the ensemble with 8 other people…. You can really hear me in the background of “Work This Out,” because I did the original demo and some of my vocals went through to final mix.
Thanks for the shout out. We had a great time.
^^^^^YEEEAAAAH!
Chad-welcome to my humble blog.
I’ve also been listening to The Dailies all day, and hopefully getting them some scrobbles on lastfm.com…
I didn’t see you & Christy sing with them. That must have been 2nd hour?
Both hours-the first two songs. You must have been LATE!! HAHA!