One of my favorite things about music is the ability it has to trigger certain memories, places and people in time where you first heard it. Im gunna list a few of my favorite bands and songs and the memories associated with them.


Yellowcard is one of my foundation bands for the genre of music I listen too. It all began on a bus ride to a soccer game my freshman year. I borrowed Ocean Avenue from a friend and didn't give it back to him for 6 months. That CD will always be one of my favorites, and remind me of my friend Brad.

ACDC-Back in Black was also a soccer song, being the first track on our varsity warmup CD when I was a freshman. I miss those days.

BoA is an artist very few Americans would recognize. Her actual name is Boa Kwon and she is a Korean pop star that I discovered while in a record shop in Seoul, Korea in 2007. Once I bought her CD I listened to her the rest of the trip and it always brings back fun memories from that trip.

Brad Paisley, sorry I have to throw him in here. Since I grew up in MT whenever I listen to him it reminds me of my hometown and the many adventures I had living there.

Mariah Carey sadly is on this list too with Touch My Body. Isaac and Joe made it happen with their late night dances in boxers interchanging each other's names in the song. I think I got subbed in a few times as well...

Elvis Costello with Burt Bacharach always brings back memories of getting up when its still dark out to go skiing with my sister and dad while we were growing up in MT.

Songs definitely don't always remind you of good things either. Daughty-Over You is one of my most hated songs now cause of a girl..After a long friendship for years, she stabbed me in the back and never talked to me again. Awesome!

Aqueous Transmission by Incubus brings back urban camping memories last summer with Isaac. Camping on roofs in Boulder and Springs, and also random parks in town waking up to a yoga workout class on the basketball court.

A side of me most of you don't know is I used to be a huge gamer. I mean playing online every night for 3-4 hours. It was my escape for not having any "real" friends in Canon. So I made friends online, but in turn found some great music along with it. My favorite being Jason Reeves-You in a Song.

Linkin Park will always remind me of Boston. Each CD I heard first there. I picked up Meteora and listened to it while riding through Boston tunnels at night.

Justin Timberlake-What Goes Around Comes Around. (believe it) Is one of my favorite songs because of the amazing memories of my first summer at Horn Creek. Climbing 4-5 times a week with one of my best friends Johnny O. and he got me into it and it became our theme song that we listened to every night we climbed.

Run Kid Run reminds me of camping in New Mexico with some amazing friends, and seeing things we shouldn't have..

The girl that I have fallen the hardest for in the past, will always remind me of Paul Simon- Father and Daughter. We worked together up at Horn Creek. I had never found someone that shared more things in common with me before, especially taste in music, it was amazing, i'll never forget her and how she grew in God that summer.

Motion City Soundtrack, Something Corporate, Taking Back Sunday, Brand New, Rise Against, The Flaming Lips, A New Found Glory, Nirvana, Silverstein, Spoon, Sublime. These were alot of my starter bands when I first moved to CO, and my friend Brad introduced me to so much like this. It was a rough time in my life once he moved on to partying and I was left in the dust.

But now my life is back on track due to some amazing people i've met this semester, I seriously couldn't have done it without you guys.
Some bands to go with that now would be- Hillsong United, Number One Gun, Barcelona, Chasen, Dashboard, The Spill Canvas, Fun, and Amsterdarn.

Letting God lead your life. -Conclusion

In conclusion to my previous post about me battling Asia vs. Africa. I have talked to a few people about it and interestingly enough got very similar answers which leads me to believe they have a point.

I need to stop worrying so much about what I think God wants for me and start doing what I know he wants for me regardless of the country and timeframe. I realize how selfish I was thinking I couldn't support another country other then China. I need to keep my view open to everywhere in the world and not focus completely on one place.

Although it is Africa, it's still a country that's in so much desperation and need, and me being involved with that and the community that goes along with it will be good for me. I need to be content with where I am right now and the oppertunities at my doorstep. God can teach me so much right now and it will help with my future endeavors in China.

Time to stop being so selfish.
2 Corinthians 12:7-10 "To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong."

And start enjoying life worry free with the amazing friends I have.
Ecc 8:15 "So I commend the enjoyment of life, because nothing is better for a man under the sun than to eat and drink and be merry. Then joy will accompany him in his work all the days of his life which God has given him under the sun".

So recently a friend of mine turned me onto an artist named Chasen. Him and his band lead worship at a church in South Carolina and a few years ago released their first CD and have just released their second. I'm really diggin their music and they have amazing lyrics so you should check them out.

One of my favorite songs by them right now is "Nothing Like You".
A song simply saying that there is nothing like God, and He is all and ALL is good, it's so true and I love it.

Nothing Like You
(Chasen Callahan)

Take a storm and watch sing
Take the thunder create a scene
Take a light and throw it across the sky
For the whole world to see
Take the ocean take the tide
Sweep it in here on beaches white
Wipe my eyes and let me see
The beauty of Your sunrise

There is nothing like You
There is nothing underneath the son
Without You, You are all and all is good
There is nothing like You

Take a branch and watch it break
Take the snow and watch it fall
As the green begins to grow
Lord Your growing my soul

There is nothing like You
There is nothing underneath the son
Without You, You are all and all is good
There is nothing like You