O hai July!
You may have noticed that my website, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube all have a common phrase plastered across them: anything spontaneous. The place from which this phrase originates, I think, is rather spectacular.
You first need to understand something about Gary and Zach. Gary is my drum teacher and Zach is my lifelong friend, whom I grew up with (since the time of diapers and pooping everywhere, yes!). Zach and I both take drum lessons from Gary together. Gary is a Christian pastor and musical performer. Zach, on the other hand, is an extremely smart student, who often talks to himself, in addition to contemplating deep spiritual, psychological, and theological matters regularly. One of his more profound comments is: “Oww, I have a forehead in my brow” (that’s deep talk for “I have a headache”). Zach really doesn’t say things like that frequently, but I couldn’t resist sharing one of Zach’s happy moments.
On top of all of that madness, you have all three of us combined at drum lessons, which Zach’s mother appropriately collectively titled us the assorted nuts. We all have artistic temperaments, enjoy playing perfervid music (in fact, we would all agree that if the music were not perfervid, it’s not really music at all), and discussing endless discussions on topics of discussion that are really controversial to discuss!
So, as you could imagine, our qwerkiness causes, or gives birth to, rather insane times of playing perfervid music and learning about drums. It is not uncommon for us, as a threesome, to discover weird musical and rhythmic patterns or haunting chord progressions that appropriately express our holy discontent with planet earth. Making up songs on the fly is our specialty.
One day at lessons, as we were discussing our personal insanity (or perhaps, in this case, it is more sane to be insane — that’s the artistic temperament I’m talking about), Gary had a little story to tell. It went something like this.
One day, I was on Blogger. I wanted to sign up. It asked me about what I liked (to populate my profile page). To keep it short and simple, I put “anything spontaneous.” I couldn’t think of anything else to put down!
At that exact disposition in time, I felt that I had more understanding of how the universe works in general. I understood more about myself as a person (actually, I didn’t — I just really liked the way the phrase summarized one facet of my personality). It reminded me that I rather enjoy adventures and things that are unexpected but at the same time view inefficiency and unplanned persons as a hassle. Nonetheless, I still enjoy getting lost and doing new things.
So, I adopted the phrase from my drum teacher, Gary; I really like anything spontaneous. And that’s why I, as a Christian worship leader who enjoys anything spontaneous, listened to Cascada – Everytime We Touch last night.
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