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Continuum

29 August 2006

One artist that I continue to appreciate is John Mayer. If you can get past the plethora of rather annoying screaming teenage girls you will find a man blessed with humour, wit, and some darn good guitar playing.

On finishing High School, Mr. Mayer headed off to Berkeley Music School in San Francisco but quickly became disillusioned with the sausage factory vibe and decided to move to Atlanta to play in clubs and bars (the experience is documented in his song No Such Thing). In 2001 he arrived with his debut album Room For Squares. He followed up in 2003 with another album of acoustic teenage-girl-attracting pop called Heavier Things. I caught on in 2004.

Now I enjoyed both of those albums. But it's what came next that really grabbed me - he said he was "closing up shop on acoustic sensitivity" to move on to other interests. These other interests included some hip-hop and blues collaborations, eventually resulting in a live album from the John Mayer Trio which kicked some serious a$$ in my opinion.

His latest album Continuum is due out on September 9 here in Aus.

Add to his music that the man is seriously and intelligently funny, as witnessed by many posts on his blog.

Why do you care? Why am I ranting and raving about this guy and his music?

Becuase John was kind enough to preview his latest album on a U.S. radio station.
And because I just found an mp3 of the preview. Score!!!
*insert Bill and Ted doing air-guitar here*

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All Things New

27 August 2006

You spoke and made the sunrise, to light up the very first day
You breathed across the water, and started the very first wave
It was You
You intoduced Your glory, to every living creature on earth
And they started singing, the first song to ever be heard
They sang for You

You make all things new
You make all things new

Then the world was broken, fallen and battered and scarred
You took the hopeless, the life, wasted, ruined and marred
And made it new

You make all things new
You make all things new
You redeem and You transform
You renew and You restore
You make all things new
You make all things new
And forever we will watch and worship You

You turn winter into spring
You take every living thing
And You breathe Your breath of life into it over and over again

You made the sunrise, day after day after day
But there's a morning coming, when old things will all pass away
And everyone will see

You make all things new
You make all things new
Come redeem and come transform
Come renew and come restore
You make all things new
You make all things new
And forever we will watch and worship You

Now and forever You are making all things new
You're making all things new

Hallelujah...

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Youtube goodness

25 August 2006

Hi there folks,
I thought I'd share with you all some of the joys of the recent months. And what could do it better than some Youtube vids. These were all taken from the NCCF Weekend Away, where I lent my skills as an Iron Kitchen Hand*. Little did I know that such gems of wisdom awaited my time in the kithen. Chris mate, this one's for you!!

What a mouth!!



He's finally lost it...



Until next time,
Stay classy


*I'm not quite adept enough in the realm of food preparation to be an Iron Chef

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