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| Finally, I got my new guitar. It's awesome; vintage finish, aqua green, rosewood/maple neck, gold lacer sense pick-ups. My life basically is music these days. My interest in playing sports(I love watching basketball and baseball though) declined so harshly that athletics are totally absent in my future, and instead of sports, I dream of performing professionally, singing my own songs and actually making a living off of what I love to do. AND THAT IS MY DREAM. Playing music isn't my goal, but to make a living off of what I love to do. It may turn out to be other things than music such as begging, free loading, modeling for..., becoming the President of the United States, and it goes on and on. But as you may have prdicted, I LOVE MUSIC. Im not trying to become a "John Mayer", or a "SRV" or any famous person, but to live off what I love to do. So many people ask me questions related to this, and they interpret my life goals totally wrong. ANd yes! I dont know what the hell im ganna do with my life right now, except the idea of studying music. But here are the things that I know that I want to do in the future; get a wife and live happily, become a better, mature man, and play music... | | |
| How DA HELL did we lose to Walnut!Im super sad... I have a game against Brea High School today, and those Purple Jerseys look so siiiick, damn! | | |
| I've been reading the bible... and yes im doing fairly good. I've read through Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Ruth, Genesis, and currently on the 7th chapter on Exodus. I'm trying to read the bible from the beginning to the end like any other book you read, and you know what, its doing something in my life. The Holy Spirit is really guiding me through my life and also giving me a passion to read God's word. As I was reading Matthew-John and also Genesis and parts of Exodus, I seriously felt the Holy Spirit come right in me; like you know when you hear great music or see a really sad movie you get that exotic feeling inside... yeah, that is what I felt, and I wish everyone can experience that same feeling, because it literally changed my life! The Holy Spirit came into my life in result of God's word, and here is what I learned: - God's word changes lives
- The Holy Spirit is what fuels our passion for God
- God opens "doors" that no human possibly can
- Your faith will grow stronger through God's Word
Im so happy right now with my relationship with God, and I try to glorify Him everyday with my mouth, actions, and thoughts. God is really doing something in my life, and I feeel it. Romans 15:4 "For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope." 2 Peter 1:21 For prophecy never had its origin in the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit." Luke 11:28 "Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it." Proverbs 2:1-6 "My son, if you accept My words and store up My commands within you, turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding, and if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding, and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God. For the Lord gives wisdom, and from His mouth come knowledge and understanding." John 16:13-14 "But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on His own; He will speak only what He hears, and He will tell you what is yet to come. He will bring glory to Me by taking from what is Mine and make it known to you." | | |
| "I dont understand why some people will only accept a guitar if it has an instantly recognizable guitar sound," "Finding ways to use the same guitar people have been using for 50 years to make sounds that no one has heard before is truly what gets me off. I love it when people hear my music but cant figure out what instrument Im playing. What a cool compliment." - Jeff Beck His goal, in fact, is to make you forget he plays guitar... What a super cool guitar player. | | |
| Music Music has a totally different meaning to me right now as I grow more mature musicly. Other than praise, I never got the experience of playing music for entertainment, and I always dream about it everyday. I sereously fell in love with music. It's amazing how in love I am with it. Everyday, I pick up my guitar and get pissed off at myself for not being as good as Eric Clapton, or John Mayer, but isn't that sooo stupid. Of course im not good as Eric Clapton or John Mayer; Eric Clapton is an icon to music players all around the world, and John Mayer is a grammy award winning artist. Of Course MICHAEL! But unfortunately I still get mad at myself. I learned something in these years I've played(It works). You have to have "100%" to be a good guitar player. 30% of that is learning, 50% of that is practice, and the other 20% is passion. Without learning, you won't get anywhere, without practice, learning is useless, and without passion, it's saying like, "Why did you even start playing guitar?" The guitar is just an instrument of music. Yes, learning guitar is important, but you also have to learn music; NOT JUST GUITAR! I see so many guitar players playing their "stuff" and when I say, " What key is that in?" they go, "Ummmmmmm.... I dont know." When someone plays a cool chord I say, "What triad makes that chord? I want to check it out." they go, "Ummmmmmm.... I dont know; but it's coool" Don't get me wrong; I'm still considered a noobie in the field of music, and I have a long journey ahead of me. In my 3 years of playing guitar I learned all this; and No, God is not absent in my love in music. When my cousins, uncles, aunts, and grandparents ask me, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" in my mind I say, " I want to be a musician, playing for God and people." but I say out of fear, "I want to be an engineer." because they might reject my dream. And Yes! Even though it sounds impossible, and I know and say to myself, "Michael, being a good musician is impossible!" The dream still has a FIRM stand in my soul. | | |
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