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If you have never heard of Family Force 5, or their Really Real Show, don’t watch this. You don’t deserve to.

Family Force 5 is a fun band. They do crazy stuff all the time and are pretty funny, it’s kind of hard to explain everything if you don’t know the band already, just watch.

I love the idea behind the AppleTV. I love iTunes. I love my podcasts. I love the idea of having a box running a better version of FrontRow hooked up to my TV. $300 for this, is, well… humm. I will get it for sure, once I get my Wii, but I would like a little more.

That’s why I hope and pray Apple does not “fix” some things in the AppleTV. You see, when all great products are released, the hackers attack it like crazy. I am currently enjoying my Nintendo DS SO MUCH MORE than I was before I had my Media Max which allows me to run howbrew applications, so I can play videos and mp3s on my DS! That funcionality is all due to the hacking community. Same for AppleTV. It’s been hacked, and Joost has been installed. That’s a huge secess. Now, you can even use USB on the AppleTV. EVEN BETTER!

Apple has a chance to sell way more of these if 3rd party developers make an alternate frontend, and provide players for Joost, YouTube, Google Video, etc. The possibility is there, they just need to let people have fun with it. A good lesson can be learned from the way Sony reacted when the PSP was modded. They keep trying to shut it down when they should embrace it, or at least look the other way. I would have bought a PSP if Sony would not have reacted the way they did.

So, I guess what I am saying is that Apple needs to just let the modders mod the AppleTV and make some sweet stuff so more people will buy them. Remember, when the Intel Macs first came out, people wanted to duel boot. Apple didn’t have a solution. A contest was made and whoever was about to supply what was needed to duel boot Windows XP and MacOS X would get the pot of gold. It happened and shortly after, Apple released Boot Camp. It’s not like they aren’t listening, let’s just hope they don’t screw this one up.

We all know our president is far from the best speaker. He tends to mis-pronounce words, stutter, and say “ummm uhhh..”
To assist Bush, the new strategy is to have a celebrity to sit next to him during a speech to put into normal words what he is saying.

Just minutes ago I got the mail and saw that This is Solid State Vol. 6 came in. I ran in the house, popped it in the PC, and listened to track four- the whole reason for my buying the CD. What was track four? Nothing other than Epoch of War from Becoming the Archetype! It’s good. Not just good, but good. This song has me anticipating Becoming the Archetype’s May 8th release of Physics of Fire even more than before. I love the fusion going on in BTA. Metalcore, death metal, and in Epoch of War, even a hint of thrash. Thrash metal in anything is something that sells a song for me, but Becoming the Archetype not only sold me on the new album, they blew me away.
Listen to Becoming the Archetype – Epoch of War:
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Oh… and welcome ChristianRock.net forum members.

Matt and I had a discussion on things about some life topics. The topic was my thoughts on “getting a life”. After turning 18, I realized on my birthday that being “an adult” wasn’t as good as I thought it was going to be. I have realized that I have really missed out on being a teenager. Sure, I was a teenager, but I didn’t fully experience everything I should have, I didn’t do all the stupid stuff when there was a time for it, and lately I have been trying to make up for it by cramming a bunch of that stupid stuff into this “adult” life. Being 18 has been pretty lame because you are an adult, so people tell you to act like it, but then when you try to act like an adult, people still do not think of you as an adult.

That’s not a big deal, it’s just frustrating. I’ve also realized that a lot of things that made me somewhat popular, which was cool, didn’t glorify God. I know that God has given me amazing gifts in my knowledge of technology and spiritual matters, and being able to be an example to other people in my church, it’s a blessing. But I haven’t realized what I have, I mean, God gave me these gifts to glorify His name, and I’ve been using them to glorify myself. I have also been a pretty bad example to the rest of the youth group. I guess that has to do with the whole me trying to be a teenager thing.

All this “important” stuff is really quite the opposite. In retrospect, all the hilarious pranks and stunts I did that got me expelled my freshman year don’t even matter to anyone I went to school with. They don’t remember me, it was all for nothing. I want to be what God wants me to be and actually be important and change the world. To do that, I have to let go of all of these things I have in my life that are un-Godly.

So, now that I am actually growing up, let’s see about getting a life. Friends have been something I’ve been lacking since I moved to Louisiana in 2000. Well, you know, come to think of it, I have never had many friends. True friends. I had it pretty rough here in Louisiana until I moved to Crowley in 2005. Finding negative influences in friends has been way easier than positive. I am glad that when I came to FBC Crowley I met most my true friends I have now, the ones who I know I can talk to and be real with. Since going to Gumpoint Christian School, I have a few there. Oh, and the best one from the oddest place to find a fellow Christian, a hacking forum. You see, these friends, they are the core of what true friendship is. Phileo and agape love. This is what I want in friendship, legitimacy. Knowing these people are truly my friends. How do I test this out? By throwing away the stuff in my life that is not pleasing to God- if they are my true friends, they will embrace the change and help me grow stronger. That’s my realization on friendship.

For the girlfriend side, I am not too sure as of now. My requirements for a girl is that she must be a Christian, and share the same mindset I do about relationships. I have seen one of my friends lose her virginity to a non-believer and since then she has been backsliding more and more away from God. You can never save that person by dating them. It’s a lie Satan wants you to believe. I honestly know that if I have a girlfriend who is not a Christian, that I will mostly do something I regret with all of my heart. Girls are icky. Lots of drama, but lots of “wowee”. The plan: Letting God be the focus of any relationship I have.

So… I’ve got friends, and girls covered. What else is to getting a life? Oh yeah.. living a life. Living a pleasing life to God is something that I just now am grasping. I heard all of this at YEC this year but I guess it took awhile to sink in. 1 Cor. 10:31 says, “So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.“ So living a life pleasing to God needs to be my goal. If you think about it, keeping that my number one goal, all the other things will follow.

So, I guess I am getting a life now. Growing up and realizing things in a adult-like and Godly manner is something I am still trying to figure out. That’s why I am glad I have people around me who can guide me and encourage me to do what God has planned for my life. Thanks to you all who have helped me, you’lll never know how much it means to me.