ARHYTHMATIK

So the season is over. The Broncos got embarrassed in their last game against the Patriots. They didn’t make it to the super bowl. They didn’t make it into the history books. BUT…. something happened during their season. A young, inexperienced, and allegedly untalented quarterback named Tim Tebow came in and utterly changed, not only their season around, but the entire sports industry.  How?  This wasn’t supposed to happen. Just ask every sports commentator in America.  Pretty much every sports mind, except for Skip Bayles, was convinced Tebow was going to flop.  So how did this happen? Miracles.

If you follow sports at all, what occurred during the Denver Broncos season once Tim Tebow became the starting quarterback was simply put, miraculous. After watching the highlights of this past season, any casual sports fan would see that what occurred just doesn’t happen.  It just doesn’t.  Not only did it happen once or twice, it happened over. And over. And over. And over.  It captured the attention of the entire world.  But why?  How? I contend that God had something to do with it.  No, I don’t believe God likes Tebow more than any other sports player, but God works upon natural law.

Tim Tebow has structured his life in a way that he relies on God for everything. He integrates his faith in God into every aspect of his life, including his conversations with other players and his play on the field.  How many of us actually do this to the level that Tim Tebow does?  Sure, some of us may pray in our hearts throughout the day, but we don’t have the guts to kneel and say a vocal prayer in front of thousands of people watching us.  Tim does.  Sure, some of us may say “God bless” when we’re finishing a conversation with someone, but Tim brings up God with others regularly in conversations.  So when most of us would be thinking about the goings on around us, Tim’s mind is thinking about God and what God wants to occur in that situation.  This makes his mind more keen on very specific little insights that may come to him as thoughts because he is focussed on God at those times.  Those little insights are what help him throw a pass here, run there, move that way– all the things that, at the end of a game, helped him and his team win …. just barely.  And he shares those thoughts and feelings with others around him, so they become more aware of it.  And that develops hope for an entire team. Hope that amazing can happen.  That miracles do occur and that they, as a team, can achieve great success… again, and again, and again. So here is the message I think we’re supposed to take away from it all.

GOD IS TRYING TO TELL US SOMETHING.  IF WE LIVE OUR LIFE IN A WAY WHERE WE SEEK TO GOD’S HIS WILL IN ALL THINGS, ON A CONSTANT BASIS, MIRACLES WILL HAPPEN.   THE WORLD WILL BE CHANGED. CRITICS AND ALL LOGIC WILL BE DEFIED.  OUR ACTIONS WILL INSPIRE OTHERS, AND THE WORLD WILL BECOME A GREATER PLACE.  Now… excuse me while I Tebow cuz that’s how we roll!   

What’s up y’all! The past few weeks have been madness! Lots of attention from my latest song Tebow Time, which now has 56,700 views and counting. Thanks to all the supporters! And Timmy is still making miracles happen! There have also been quite a few requests to see the lyrics to the song, so here they are after the break!

*UPDATE: The video now has over 112,00 views!*

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My “TEBOW TIME” song and video are featured on TebowZone.com now! Check it out here http://www.tebowzone.com/2011/12/tebowing-song-video/

This video which details Congressional insider trading is SHOCKING. It is unbelievable how bad it is!! The thing that pisses me off the most is that all this does is give socialists and Occupy Wall Street protestors more ammo for their anti-capitalist movement. John Adams said “We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” Acts like this by our American Congress are destroying our nation, and will continue to lead to the downfall of this nation.

Here is a really interesting article about electronic artist Kaskade in the NY Times. It’s interesting to me because he’s LDS like me, and he went to BYU, like me. It’s also very interesting he felt very out of place at BYU, like me. And he left BYU in part for that reason, like me (I moved to Arizona and went to ASU). Now that I’m back in Utah, I think BYU has changed a bit. There’s quite a few electronic and hip hop heads at BYU now.  But because we’re both old cats and attended BYU back in the day, urban music was pretty wacky stuff for the folks here in the mountains of Utah back then. It’s very interesting because he has survived in a drug-filled industry while still maintaining his morals.  Now that to me is AWESOME.  Myself and other LDS artists like Shawn Phillips have always tried to walk that line of maintaining our values, while at the same time thriving in an urban music culture that promotes behaviors that conflict with our values.  That is just amazing and I give mad props to Kaskade for maintaining his moral standards, regardless of the nay-sayers on both sides of the fence. That’s mad inspiring.

Perhaps the most fascinating part is that he attributes his success to the general rise of electronic music, which is in part because of “hip hop fatigue”. I have lamented here on my blog before about how “Hip Hop is Boring Me” and “Has the Demise of Hip Hop Actually Arrived” but this is fascinating because it seems to be a nation-wide epidemic. Hip hop is played out. I have talked to several friends in the past month who used to produce or MC and all of them have fallen out of love with hip hop. I dunno what it is– there’s just nothing new that really gets you excited anymore with hip hop.  And it’s true with me too. I listen to more electronic music now than hip hop!  What is it?? What’s wrong with hip hop??? Anyone?? Anyone?? Bueller?? Bueller??

America has some serious problems that have affected, and will continue to affect the entire world. We all are going to have to make a choice. We largely agree on the problems. But we are being presented 2 different choices to solve these problems. Do we want to completely alter our entire system of government to solve these problems? Or do we want to return to the principles that founded our current system of government to solve these problems? History has shown us the results of each choice, yet that choice still remains before us to make. In the upcoming months and years, you will be forced to make a decision as to what side you’re on. I’ve already made my decision.

This track talks about how music, and especially the genre of hip hop, has become such a cesspool of filth through degenerative behavior and language that it becomes barely tolerant. Especially because the filth and negativity is so widely consumed by children and young people. It has a detrimental effect on our society, and the societies of other countries as well, for generations. Somebody has to take a stand and go against the current, and try to re-direct the ship from going over the waterfall. That somebody has to be me and you. Listen and download below. Please share.

Well, after a short-lived website re-design, I’ve resurrected my blog. I just have too much to say to be silent. Plus frequent blog posts make me look like I’m an active artist doing tons of things (which I’m…. kind of…. not…. sometimes… maybe). So anyways- hope to hear your comments on some of the upcoming posts I have planned! Warning: there will be a lot of political content on here!

I’m pretty excited about my next track I’ll be releasing here in a few weeks because it was produced by one of my favorite artists— Life Rexall (of Shapeshifters and $martyrs).  One of my favorite tracks he produced was on his solo album “Frequency Response.”  The track is called “Sacrifice.” I told him to craft a track similar to that and my new single “Balances” is the result.  Below is the album cover for the single.  Hope you like it! The song will be out in a few weeks.

Peep the photos from last month’s Life Elevated hip hop jam!  Mad props to Josie Marine for taking all the pics!