Saturday, March 01, 2008

Chatting with an Alumni

I got a call from steve visser, calvin graduate from years back and now owner of New2You Shoppe, an upscale thrift store by calvin dedicated to reducing tuition at Grand Rapids Christian schools through their profits, and he wanted me to help fix a mac computer he was trying to sell. I’d met him before shopping at his store, and he’d given me some incredible deals (it might’ve helped that I’d known his daughter, who lived on my sister floor), so I gladly agreed, figuring that I could finish up some reading as I reinstalled an operating system. Anyway, he picked me up from my house, and on the drive there we chatted about how calvin people seemed to get married very quickly. Apparently, the situation today is very similar to what life was like during his career at calvin.  We joked about how calvin sends out advertisements to upperclasspersons for its premarital programs, which seems to be calvin’s way of nudging us in the side, whispering “are you engaged yet?” into our ears. Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad calvin offers these programs. We were just joking around.

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Posted by Nehe555 on 03/01 at 03:05 PM
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Auditioning for 5th and 6th Graders

My friend jill and I got an email from mars hill saying that they were looking for a rhythm section for their 5th and 6th grade band to finish out the school year. With Jill being a bassist, and with me being a drummer, we thought we’d audition for the spot. After rainchecking due to terrible weather conditions, we finally made it over there to meet with jim keat. After fielding some questions and talking about our musical journeys thus far, we headed over to the shed (that’s the name for the sanctuary) for a quick jam session. I found it a little strange to sit behind the same drumkit that I stare at every sunday. Maybe it’s just me, but I think musicians like to watch the person who plays their instrument during music worship.

We did the audition thing, going through a few songs. The sound system wasn’t setup, so I couldn’t really hear jim on the acoustic, nor jill on the bass. I just kinda watched and guessed at what was going on, which is never a good feeling, but it still happens every so often. I think every performing band has had monitoring issues at some time, and you just have to deal with it. That is, unless you purchase thousands of dollars’ worth of sound equipment and get personal monitoring systems for everyone. An unlikely scenario, but I can still dream.

So now we’re both waiting to hear back from Jim.  If we get gig, we’ll be playing biweekly with biweekly practices.  Not a huge time commitment, but fun nonetheless.

Posted by Nehe555 on 03/01 at 03:00 PM
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