In the words of my good friend Wenz: Must Everything Have a Title?

I want to have a band when I’m older. Everybody knows that. I’d say I’m well on my way to having one too, with my skills on the keyboard and my natural attraction to other people who play music. I have everything planned out: what the bus will look like, what cities we’ll go to, the onstage intro, everything. But one thing I don’t have, arguably the most important thing of all, is my band’s name.

I’ve played around with lots of names, but none of them seem to stick. I get tired of one, and move on to another. I think one is not right for the style of music I’m playing at the time, so I change it to something else. I just can’t decide on a permanent name. And it’s not like you can just change the name once you’re band is up and running. The name you pick is the one you’ll have forever. It’s like picking a second name for yourself.

The first long term name I had was “Counterfeit Humans”, but I thought after a while that this name was not cool. It was supposed to be a reference to that verse in Genesis that says we are all made in God’s image, so we’re sort of like counterfeits. I don’t know, I thought it was cool back then I guess.

The second name that I had for a while was “Repeat”. This name came from me panicking one night because I had disqualified “Counterfeit Humans” as an eligible band name, and therefore didn’t even have a temporary name to call my band. (Notice, I’m panicking over a band that doesn’t exist beyond the walls of my house, and consists of only one band member . . . me.) My mom and I were reading off random words we found around the house for my band name like “Toaster” and “August” and so forth. Then I saw the word “Repeat” on my mom’s stereo and I knew that would have to be it.

I recently started writing a lot of music again, and “Repeat” doesn’t do it for me anymore. I like the band name “Mild Narcotic Effect” because it’s awesome for one, and also because it can be abbreviated to MNE. Plus it can be a good band name if I decide to change my sound from electronic, like I’m doing now, to rock, like I eventually want to do. This name came out of a podcast I listen to where the hosts were joking around about how this would be a good band name. And I was like, “Well, why shouldn’t it be, darn it!” and I made it my own band name, for now at least. The meaning behind it doesn’t have to be anything if I don’t want it to be, but for the sake of the press, I better come up with a meaning and soon.

Watch This If You Love Me

Inside the Music (Another Poem)

It’s like you’re in another place
Between reality and somewhere else
Sometimes it’s filled with love and grace
And other times it’s completely heartless

It changes with the instrument
The place you go to
Electric guitars are like a raging firmament
While piano is like a waterfall you go through

Some songs connect
They touch your deepest parts
Other songs reflect
The hurt in millions of hearts

The greatest of songs almost physically hurt
You close your eyes and bear the pain
But it’s no use, it only gets worse
The melodies on your mind will always remain

Blog Reform

My blog desperately needs some help. I love my blog to death, as most of you know, since I talk about it all the time and I get so excited when stats show that I’ve had a visitor in the last week. But I’m starting to think that my blog isn’t all that great. Sure, it’s pretty to look at, and you can really see my personality shining through each one of my blogs. But I want people to not just read my blog one time and never come back again. I want people to read and get something out of what I’m saying. I want people to be so impressed with what I have to say that they’ll come back for more. That’s how a real writer would do it.

So from now on, I promise you, the reader, that each and every blog I write will have thought put into it. (I mean did you see my Zelda blog? That was horrible.) There will be no more of this, “Oh my goodness, I need to blog about that one piece of information I have”. I will no longer wait until I have the “New Blog Post” page open to come up with a topic (you’d be surprised at how often I do that). Nope, now I will write blogs on my non-internet computer in my room, with the lights off and music blasting, so I can really think about the content and meaning of each and every word.

To help out this Blog Reform, I’ve decided to do a little study on the book of Acts. I’ve been studying the bible my whole life, but I just recently began to grasp the full meaning of things in there. I have been inspired to not only read the words, but to dig a little deeper and fully understand what God’s been trying to teach me. This has been a lot easier with my awesome curriculum, which I will use quite often in my blogs. This study is in the works, so please be patient. It should be up soon.

Don’t worry, all you people who come to my blog to laugh at the goofy things I say. Those blogs are not leaving by any means. They will just be longer and hopefully funnier, spread across the not so funny blogs. I’m sure I will not be able to help myself from being funny even in the more serious blogs. It’ll be like candy: you only get a little bit, because too much of a good thing is bad for you. Or something...

In closing, I just want to say thanks for coming. Truly . . . thanks. I’m sorry for not being as good as I can be on here, but trust me, that is all going to change.

Wage es nicht geben diese in Google Übersetzer

Wenn Sie dies lesen können, du bist mein neuer bester Freund. Wenn Sie diese einfach in Google Übersetzer eingegeben, Verbot ich euch jemals kommen zu meinem Blog wieder. Also, wie geht es dir? Oh mein Gott, Skillet in deutscher Sprache ist so cool, nicht wahr? Ich, dass Band so viel Liebe, sie bekommen nur Kühler jeden Tag.