Lundilicious Part 3

Before launching into the inevitable awesome post about the most recent installment of the "Linton Promoting Easter" videos, let me just say that it's great to finally be making a post in Firefox. For some reason, I had been using Safari, which led to the lack of links in the last few posts. Enjoy links in their entirety today, because they will be abundant.

Today I put the third and final Easter promotion video on youtube. It's going to be embedded in this blog, so don't bother going to youtube. In this video, we get to take a look inside the work day of Valley Church staff and ex-staff. The video aired last Sunday without PJ, who was cut because of time. PJ has been cut more times than most emo kids, and they usually aren't self inflicted, making them more difficult to bear. Poor guy.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that this video is a Director's cut. It wasn't shown in auditoriums, but it will be shown throughout the world wide web. Enjoy:



In case you were wondering, I didn't link off of emo because it's too easy. If you feel cheated, click here and start reading (there's some swears in there, so be careful. I didn't read that far in, because Easter is putting me in a great enough mood).

Lundilicious Dos

After the first "Lundilicious" video, our office decided to take things to the next level. We added in Jon Kalvig, the interim youth pastor, to spice things up. Enjoy:




This video is only funny if you watch the first one or know some of the people at the churh.  If you don't fit into either of those elite categories, sorry.  

What's more exciting about this video than the thousands of hits it's going to bring to my youtube account, is the fact that we're doing two more videos in this 'series.'  Next week is going to be backdrop free, and show the more internal side of the church.

Then on Easter Sunday we'll have one more video.  I'm not sure what it's going to be like at all, we haven't had a full brain storming session, but tomorrow we'll start to really hash it out.  Think "Christmas List, Yo" but for Easter.  

On a side note, I might have the flu.  It sucks.  This morning I felt awful, and  I'm pretty sure it wasn't because I woke up in a pool of my own vomit on the floor of a motel in San Diego.  In fact, I woke up in my own bed after over 8 hours of sleep.   I'm beginning to think that I'm sort of like Desmond from Lost, and daylight savings has affected my brain.  That was a spoiler if you aren't watching this season.

peace out

New Facebook note

You can read it here.

The Start of Something Beautiful...

This is an old love note I wrote a good friend's fiance, Jennifer Johnson. It was the start of a long list of notes sent between the two of us.

Enjoy:


Hello. My name is Matt. I saw your profile picture and wondered how I could be that guy? Flowers? Candy? Candied Flowers? Whatever it takes, I'll do it.

We haven't even met yet, and I still feel a connection. Like two states, bound together by a bridge. The states were Nebraska and Iowa, and the mighty Missouri river couldn't stop the connection we have. I don't think we'd survive the Mississippi yet, but that doesn't matter. We'll build that bridge in time. Until then we can ford the river.

If you feel the same way, please tie (buy) a Dunce Hat gift and post it on my wall. I'll await your answer with fluttering footsteps and a heart out of sync, hoping you can set it right.

We also have the same last name, so you wouldn't have to change check information. Seriously, I'm a good catch.

Weekend Art Dreams

have always dreamed of being a Sunday morning cartoonist. Once a week the world would stare at something I drew and try to decide whether it was lame or funny. I think I could come up with some pretty sweet stuff.
In fact, I have come up with the demo strips for what will someday replace Rex Morgan, M.D.

It's called, "It's funny because..."
The character development of the strips is a little hard to follow so early on in the series, but it's based off the third season of Lost, so as long as you understand the plot of Lost, it shouldn't be too hard to figure it out.
Enjoy:

Lundilicious

Last week we started our Easter Promotions with a video of our Pastor of Care and Counseling letting everyone know what was up.

Along with having incredible fashion sense (I sort of half told him what I wanted him to wear, and that is what he came up with, and everyone keeps saying "good choice on the shirt", and I feel like he wore it as a joke, but I'm not positive.  So far I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt) Linton did a great job of bouncing around and was good enough that we'll be using his services again this week.

On a side note, in the next two weeks our website will go live.  Our current website, is probably the best thing ever, so it's hard to imagine something better, but we're giving it a try.

It's a stressful time, mainly because we should have had it up a long time ago, but complications and lack of content have pushed us backwards repeatedly.  Every little problem now feels like a wart on a baby's bottom.  I'm working on a number of "webisodes" for it though, and I'm very excited to see where things go.  

We're launching as valleygoesgreen.com, and all the videos I'm making will be themed as "how to" go green videos.  Those will launch with the website, and we'll show some of them at church to get people going to the new and improved website.  

On a back note, I'm working on a video for the song "Have a Little Faith in Me."  Here's a teaser:

(no links in this post because I accidently did it in Safari and it's lunch time.  Bummer for anyone who really wanted multi-colored text)

Can You Feel It [the love]

When the Lion King came out, I remember Elton John telling James Dobson during an interview that he "Hoped Christians would find a way to use his songs during church services to exclaim the glories of marriage between a man and a woman." Today I can safely say that on Sunday I will be able to safely say "Today we have realized Sir Elton John's dream. Finally a song from The Lion King will bring Christian couples closer together."

The song, 'Can You Feel the Love Tonight (hey-bum-ba-we)' was originally released with The Lion King on a cassette tape. The version of the song we are using is the Elton John sang version, but there is also the classic, with an introduction by Timon and Pumba.

On top of using this song to enhance our service, the new Indiana Jones trailer can be found at this link. While I'm still not sold on the movie, the preview got me to chuckle. Harrison Ford can probably pull it off. Maybe. It's going to depend on how heavily they rely on CG. I hope it works, because it comes out my birthday week, and that means that everyone will be like "for your birthday I'm taking you to a movie" and the last three times people have actually said that, the movies have sucked.

Two years ago I saw X-men 3. The movie was so awful that after watching it I broke
up with my girlfriend. I'm sure had I not seen that movie I would still be in a happy relationship.

In ninth grade I saw The Phantom Menace with a group of friends on my birthday. I say 'friends' loosely, because had any of them taken the time to find out how awful that movie would turn out, they would have saved all of us time.

Probably the only movie that could be worse than that came out when I was in sixth grade, and it was another "let's go see it on Matt's birthday!" I believe that this movie is half the reason that I got a D in Spanish 2 my freshman year. Godzilla. Yuck. What a horrible movie. For anyone who didn't know, Godzilla was the worst movie ever. I'd start tearing it apart, but if you haven't seen it, it might spark curiosity into you, and that's the one thing I don't want to do. It's that awful. Don't watch it.

Anyways, work calls. I can feel it.