So, tomorrow is the big concert. But first, I went to "The Magic Castle" with my Dad on Thursday. I had a fantastic time! The highlight of the evening for me would have to the Irma, the resident ghost. She played the piano and even took requests. Dad apparently stumped her, so he rocked her face off. In order to enter The Magic Castle you have to wear a coat and tie, or a cocktail dress for the ladies. In addition, you must also be 21 years or older to enter. Ever since I had heard about the Magic Castle when I was around 16 I've been waiting until I was old enough to get in, so going on Thursday was a treat. The shows were outstanding. We went to a pre-show in a smaller room. The magician who performed had been on "The Jerry Lewis Telethon", but despite that he was awesome. After that we headed to dinner then the main performance. There were two acts in the main performance. The first was a comedic routine, the other was just pure magic. After that I went to the close up show, which was my favorite of all the shows. The magician who performed was from England and has performed for the queen. He did some of the most amazing slight of hand with cards I have ever seen. I practiced the bass yesterday night. I plugged in, turned on Steve's CD practiced my little heart out. I was pretty happy to find that I could do almost every song of the top of my head. I'll be rehearsing this afternoon into the evening with Steve and the band. I'm really excited about the concert. I have a few friends coming, so that'll be encouraging. We may even have a special guest musician come. The past week only Anna and I have been the resident Staff at Action House. Well, Cliff and Craig have been here, but we work down on the 2nd floor with the interns. It's been a tough week for Anna, and I can understand why. I've been burning the candle at both ends but as this week winds down I look forward to next week. I'll be meeting with Clay on Monday so we can start hashing out the next script. As I've said, we start shooting our next film in June. In the mean time, I'm working on about four different websites at the moment. Fun times.

Remember when I mentioned all that equipment that was dropped off? Well, here is about 1/4th of it. These are four of the five beta decks.

I've been meeting with Stephen and the band the past two nights to rehearse for the Sunday night concert. I expect there will be at least a few hundred people there. The process of learning a song on the bass guitar and learning a song on the drums are very different endeavors. On the drums you learn rhythm and sections, on bass (or any other non-rhythm instrument for that matter) you learn notes. So, I have to learn to memorize music now, which I never even did while playing guitar for worship because I had the music in front of me. All in all, I'm really glad I'm learning to play bass. The thing that makes it all easier is that the music really rocks out. It's rockin', fun, purposeful music. Stephen has been really patient with me and even called me on my way back from rehearsal tonight to tell me I did a great job. He even mentioned how impressed he was that I'm learning so fast. Tonight is going to be a long night. I have to get the Plus One show finished so I can dub tomorrow. Thankfully I know what I'm doing and it should be a fairly painless process. I just finished the intro montage, which was going to take a long time. Now I have to add B-roll to the interviews, music then adjust the audio. After that is titles for the music videos, the AHTV logo. Finally, I master the audio then put a filter on the video so the networks can accept it. After all of that is said and done, I'll goto sleep, dub it onto DV in the morning then begin the dubbing process for the networks. Wish me luck!

So cool stuff. Just next to me are four beta decks, valued at $10,000 a piece. This is good for a few reasons. 1. We'll be able to dub the show and take 1/4 of the time to do it. 2. It's just so cool to have $10,000 worth of stuff to play with! Just knowing that I'll be able to dub the shows out in only three runs is SO awesome. We dub for eleven networks at 1/2 hour a dub. That adds up to alot of hours. Now, we can run four copies at a time. My Dad called today and said "okey dokey" to the Magic Castle. I'm stoked! I hear they have great food and it'll be great to spend some time with my Dad. It sounds like we'll be visiting my Grandma before we go, which is awesome. I had a great time when I visited last. Today I worked with Mallory on getting her show out. I let her do most of the work by herself. In other words, I didn't hang over her shoulder and poke around what she was doing. She did really well! We ran into some snags around the finish of the show, which is natural. It happens every time. Tomorrow I have the big rehersal with Stephen and the band. I tried to get some practice time in today, but got pulled away to fix the show and the beta decks. I'll try to pratice tonight.

Tonight I met with Stephen again to rehearse. In case I forgot to mention it, I'm in Stephen's band now and we have a concert on Sunday the 23rd in the evening. If you are reading this, you should come. Moving on. I learned a new song called "Walk The Waves". At first, I wrote down the chords for all the different parts. Eventually I wasn't even looking at the chords, I was learning it as I went. I realized that I enjoyed this way much more than I did the other. I began to feel the music rather than just read the chords. I do have to say that my brain hurt afterwards, though. Tomorrow I go running again. I'll take it kind of easy since I ran pretty far yesterday. I love this trying to be healthy thing. Tonight for lunch I had a grilled chicken breast with brocolli, cottage cheese, fruit and water. It was freakin' tasty! Then, on my way back to the Dream Center from Steve's church, I picked up some "Propel" energy water and a protien bar of some kind. I could have gotten a Coke and Snickers, but then I would have ruined what I'm working towards. Earlier, while having dinner with Sally, I went to reach for a roll that was lefter over from our meals. "No! You don't want to eat that" Sally exclaimed. "What for?" I asked. "You'll ruin all the healthy stuff you just ate." She explained. I hadn't realized that by doing that I would have ruined it. It kind of changed my perspective on things. We'll see how it goes. My Dad is going to take me out somewhere on the 20th of this month. I'm really excited, but I haven't thought of a good place to go yet. Now that I think about it, I haven't been to the Magic Castle yet. On the other hand, I don't have a Divers license 'cause I lost my wallet recently. I'll check the DMV website tonight to see if I can get a new one. One way or another, I know we'll have a good time. I hope he lets me use his camera without being all anal about it. Alright, enough. I'm going to finish this movie and goto bed.

Just a quick post. Dear me: you ran 4.some-odd miles yesterday! More to come.

I go running around Silverlake in about an hour. I have to say this so that my mind is prepare for the journey that lies ahead of me. I'm going to be taking a friend of mine along. Hopefully I'll be able to round up another person so I don't have to wait with Kristina if she falls behind. Kristina is a cool girl, she's from Europe and will be staying at the Dream Center for a year. The whole reason she is here is to check out the various ministries and go start a Dream Center on her own. More work today. I finished the AHTV promo for Cliff. It's due tomorrow, so I'm glad I finished it in time. Now I burn about 10 copies so he can hand them out to various people. If we don't get sponsorship for our show, we'll have to put it on hold. So, I'm not sure what that means for me. I realized again the other day that this is what I'm doing with my life. It's not a bad thing, but at times I forget. I mean, most people my age are in college right now or have some kind of a job that pays a ton better than mine does. But I don't care about the money or anything like that. I get to do what I love to every day. It does get stressful and overwhelming at times, but I do love it. Sally went off a little bit today about how she's really tired from working and other stuff. It was kind of hard to listen to since I'm at Action House every single day of the week. I live here for goodness sakes.

    Oh yeah, I also ran around Silver Lake again yesterday night. I beat Anna and Pastor Manny (only because he was keeping pace with Anna). I ran it in about 20 mins this time. After we got back from running, we went to the gym and worked out for about 30 mins. It felt really good and I'm looking forward to running again tomorrow.

    What a way to start the day! I had rehersal with Stephen and the band last night because we played at a Christian High School this morning. For my first time playing with the band, we had a crowd of about 1,100 students. Every grade from Junior High up to High School. I had a great time, and did pretty well considering I learned the music just the night before. We played six songs back to back. After we finished playing, kids came up and asked me to sign on Stephen's CD, this was a weird thing for me. Such a cool experience. The weird thing was we were "it" for the high school's chapel. Meaning, we played then chapel was over. We thought there was going to be someone coming up to say something, but he just came up and said "Ok guys, thanks for coming let's head off to class. Be sure to say thanks to Stephen and his band." We're also going to play on the 23rd at Stephen's church. It's going to be a full on rock 'n roll show.     Yesterday I went to the Foursquare Media office to finish the Life Pacific College commercial. I did the rest of the VO's and headed on my merry way. I really hope I'll do some more work with them in the future.     Before I take a break to visit home for a few days, I have to get some of the DOVE award shows out, which should be a challenge, but not much of a problem. Apparently, John Ineno is brining over like seven Beta decks for Action House to use. That means we can get the show dubbed off in half the time. No more super long dubbing sessions. Praise God.     I met with one of the interns yesterday. He's pretty much taking over alot of what Billy did. The great thing is that we've asked each other to help keep ourselves accountable. We're going to meet on Sunday evenings and pray, as well as check up during the week. I think God is going to start some really awesome stuff. We've been talking about prophecy and healing, because we feel God has laid it on our hearts. This intern is from South Africa and has had the privelege to be used by God to prophecy and heal people. I can't wait to see what God has for me.     I spent a good two hours on Monday worshipping and praying. I had such a hunger for God after I had met with my accountability partner. It was awesome to take some time out of my day to connect with God and get into his presence. He's making a change in my heart.