Bummin'

Matt Thiessen from Relient K is one of my song writing heroes.

The guy can write. Like... really, really, really well. He's the Matthew West of Christian Rock.
He'll take a sentence that doesn't seem to have any logical follow up line and put the perfect verse... and make it so fun!

Example - 

We should get jerseys cause we make a good team.

But yours would look better than mine, cause you're outta my league.

It's simple, catchy and just sappy enough to not be cheesy. Love it!

He's also good at serious stuff. Deathbed is a 10 minute masterpiece of song writing!

In recent years, Relient K have been... less than awesome in my books. The songs are still well written, but seemed to be lacking a bit of that youthful cheekiness. The joy wasn't there.

Enter their new song Bummin'. To be honest, I don't know what I think of the song... nor do I know if the joy is back.

What I do know, is I've listened to it about 12 times today and am [finally] enjoying a new upbeat pop-rock song from Relient K!

'Bout time!

New Star Wars Trailer

As anyone who is on the internet knows, a new Star Wars teaser trailer dropped late last week. It seemed that all of social media exploded at once, like a million silent voices cried out in enthusiasm.

It's not hard to see why either, that's how you do a teaser trailer.

And while I could have written a blog praising whoever scripted/ cut that thing together (seriously, that guy deserves a raise), this is about another great editor.

Someone who saw the trailer and knew it could be better... in a different way.

This is a video of Matthew Mcconaughey reacting to the trailer.

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It's actually video taken from the film Interstellar, but knowing that sorta takes the fun out of it. Seriously, the part where he raises his hand after the guy on the trailer does gets me every time.