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Thursday, May 22, 2008

Thu, 22 May 2008 23:05:58 GMT

Authenticity and Deservation

So, I just read marevia's newest writing. I would recommend reading it and its bits of wisdom. (here)

I want authenticity. I want to combine my leanings for describing the bold, the intricate, the tint of color, the stretch of landscape with

something

real.

I've been learning about the Romantics-- Byron and Shelley and all those blokes.
Kubla Kahn: I envision the ice walls, the honeydew, etc. but there is nothing else substantial. It's like white bread trying to tell customers it's got's the whole grains (it doesn't. I like Flax n' Fiber)

I always find myself split (when I write) b/w the romantic and the realistic.
I have all these thoughts but no words, then words but no songs.

Aestheticism + authenti city get blame tangled.
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The second word in the title may have been made up, but I mean "what I deserve." I don't deserve much at all. I'm not scared, I guess. I'm just dumbfounded. I'm amazed, that I have been rescued from all that I could have been or could be. The Almighty is very, very mighty, and it's that feeling of turning my neck, over my jutted shoulder like a square wooden socket. I creak, I wear. But then I finally realize that this God, this savior I have chosen to let rescue me is the one I love, with a love diced up by very human fits of mine.

O My God, you are ____________.

So then, this music we create.
Is it even close? What will we make it to be?
Dreams increase and increase and pile up. It's a giant pile, and I need to shuffle through and find the one designed for me.

There's so much more on my mind=
music is translation.

peace
levi

Monday, April 14, 2008

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 01:41:20 GMT

mmm, turkey delight....

Here is a list of things I have been listening to:

1: Boxer, The National
2: Discount Fireworks, Over the Rhine
3: Into the Woods, The Call
4: In the Falling Dark, Bruce Cockburn

I stayed up till 3 in the morning mixing Into My Dreams.

And that's my story. Many thoughts, I don't have time to write!

Oprah is odd....
and telling of the times...

o, dear.

bye friends.
levi

Life is Slow-Moving These Days

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:25:49 GMT

I've had lots of dreams recently.

One, I went back to Towle for my senior year, and Andrew Elder applied too.

Two, I went to Towle's junior senior banquet the day of my dream. Apparently, I was clearly unprepared for the date change from May 30th to March 2nd. I was disappointed to find that I was not wearing a tie and had not gotten a trim. Also, there was live music from a 'rock' band with a shorts-wearing guy playing trombone. Cassie and the rest of the chums looked disappointed and as confounded as I did.

Three, U2 was playing a concert in Delaware. My band-friends and I all went. I was very excited and incredibly surprised. Nathan was happy for me and my dream within a dream. Aaron chuckled a little at the thought of me gleefully listening to a band that is the average age of our parents. Landon thought it was cool. Andrew openly declared that U2 were not very good, and impatiently made it clear that 'older music' was not very good or important to learn from.

I woke up right before the concert began. :(

My friend Max and Tim made this film:

This is school artwork. I was not scheduled into my first, second, and fourth choice elective, which were all art focused, so this is now what I do....

This is one day in my backyard, and I thought it was awesome.

Young Guns Shot Me Up With Wisdom

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:42:41 GMT

Young Guns Shot Me Up With Wisdom

This competition has been so odd.

We enter for a humble ten dollars, we don't expect much, and then we end up achieving a 9.13/10! Amazing.

so.
since then, I've learned some things. Unjust gain, pride, etc...
We determined early on that we were going to treat this competition decently by not purposefully voting badly for people who are "competition." That's not good at all.

Unfortunately, I have a HUMAN heart, and I have done many human things. It would be true to admit that once or twice early on I voted badly for a couple bands. I also managed to use proxies for two days to artificially raise our scores by voting about thirty times for us.
I took a walk with my father at the end of the second day and told him about, what I thought, my pure resourcefulness. A different, wise perspective was what it took for me to realize my mistake--I was a bit of a cheat.

What is success worth if it is achieved through these means?
Everything needs to be in its proper place, and I had slipped in some silver into a gold-crucible.
Why do I deserve to even play music? God is awfully humble to lend an ear...

Now, I watch our score dip to a 7.88/10.
But to know that I cast my single vote and humbly take this as it comes makes me less human little by little, and I know what feelings of greed Levi has the capacity for.

Humility is the balance between arrogance and neglecting a gift. It is more like a purpose and service.

I did not study for Science Olympiad, and that is embarrassing. I underestimated the power of the slacking-off on my contentment. :(

The Boastful Axe/A Show/Radio Buttons/A Response

Sat, 02 Feb 2008 22:50:20 GMT

This is staged to be the longest post in forever. !!. !

Links to the rescue!

As some of most of everyone should know, we entered a battle of the bands, hosted by Lara's school.
:)
Lots of news can be seen on our blog
Read up and educate your mind!

If you already have been part of this and voted for us, thank you very much!
If you like, click this banner to vote...

....and clone this banner! Here's the hair strand.

I just read up on the portfolio/expectations for UD's visual communications program.
It will be tough to get in, I think.
I might have to get creative with the year after high school. I am a year ahead, so maybe.....
a tour? Something?

I read today that this earth is like the Holy Place. Face to face will be really amazing.

I am the parent of this camera! I need to learn some tricks with it though...

snap snap snap! Oh snap!

Focus, f/stop, depth of field ?????

note: I did not take this photo with my Canon, Digital,
Rebel, XT, Camera, .

And a response to my own question....
click this one to read up.

This is 'this' 'one'

1

peace, bye, levi

Warm

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:19:13 GMT

Snow has come! !!!!
I think I was meant for somewhere a little chillier. I've always been endeared with Canada.

As part of my Canajiun training, I have begun trying to acclimate myself to hot drinks. It started on Christmas Day at Longwood Gardens. I was at the ice show with the family-- which was (who knew?) not pillars of ice exploding with ambient music and rhythmic lights=MAJOR disappointment-- and it was very, very, ,,,,,,

very
cold. SO I drank some hot cocoa. And I did not gag. Hot drinks and I are cozying up!
Next project: Green tea.
:)

My older song (I think lyrics are somewhere on here), "the sailing ship" has been done up by the band. !!!
le' Between Bleu song count:
1)the Animals
2)Current
3)the Discovery
4)Into my Dreams
5)Everything to do With You (tentative)
6)Memories
7)When in Disgrace
8)the Sailing Ship

EP has three and one half songs finished. two and one-half to go.
Any ideas for a name?

This song is what I have been thinking about for such a long time. Jars of Clay wrote it, and you should really listen to it.

Animal rights activists, homosexual groups, etc., protest against offenses all the time. I heard that in a film, a fly was slated to be smacked flat, or something. They had to use a fake fly, out of activist complaints.
Why don't Christians act like this?
Because

Goodbye,
and I you and !

peace,
forgiveness is a burning stone touching my lips.

Sunday, December 23, 2007

Sun, 23 Dec 2007 15:58:45 GMT

Whew. My house is exhausted, so is everyone in it. Amy came home on Thursday, :)
No more time to talk!

Embarassing....

Sun, 09 Dec 2007 21:24:12 GMT

U23D comes out Jan. 25!
I am going to put some charming sketches on here...soon.
1) Love all
2) Fear nothing
3) Love yourself as others

SO.

What should le' Betwee-Bleu call our EP?

!!! Bono hyperbole! A new album!! omgoodness!
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I like this yellow. And this green as a mix.

Hi everybody, and goodbye!
levi

Sunday, November 25, 2007

Sun, 25 Nov 2007 18:36:08 GMT

I am going to be someone who does not wish they were someone else!
:)
eran;iguisgushpije
Say anything!

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 21:26:21 GMT

This is a modest update, not much.
Between Blue has been invited to play at the Towle show with all the other fine musicians. Anyone reading this will know when it is, so I won't bother telling you. :)
I think this cover of U2's I Will Follow is this [----------------------------------]
much better than the original.

This is a modest goodbye.
Goodbye,
levi