When you send an album away to be reviewed, it is scary! This one paid off...
You can read the review of "Hope Will Rise" right here.
Sunday, July 26, 2009
The Blog is Back...
Hi everyone...
It has been a while since I've updated the blog. They say that one of the unforgiveable sins of blog-dom is not updating it regulary. Anyway... the blog is back. I'm pretty sure.
It has been a crazy spring and early summer. When life hits, it hits hard. First of all, my father passed away after a long fight with cancer. The whole process of watching him suffer and then go Home was a hard thing to process. Didn't feel like blogging.
Michelle and I were also blessed to add a third child to the Bursey clan. Max and Samara now have a little sister named Charlotte. I am now up to my elbows in poopy diapers. But I'm getting good at changing them...I can do it with one hand...blindfolded...that sort of thing. Unfortunately, I'm enduring many nights of broken sleep.
I still work a busy job as a youth pastor. But, I must say that it is a job that I love.
And I'm heading back into the studio on Wednesday to begin recording an EP. The tentative title is "here and gone". But that might change. "Love is Hard" may make it's way on there. You never know.
And, we have a nest of birds in our hanging basket in front of our house. Each time we enter or leave our front door, they swoop at us and verbally harass us. It's like we have to cross some sort of picket line every time we go outdoors.
I now run. 6.5 km 2-3 times a week. Although that gets harder to do now that I am sleep-deprived.
Now you're caught up. Keep checking back.
It has been a while since I've updated the blog. They say that one of the unforgiveable sins of blog-dom is not updating it regulary. Anyway... the blog is back. I'm pretty sure.
It has been a crazy spring and early summer. When life hits, it hits hard. First of all, my father passed away after a long fight with cancer. The whole process of watching him suffer and then go Home was a hard thing to process. Didn't feel like blogging.
Michelle and I were also blessed to add a third child to the Bursey clan. Max and Samara now have a little sister named Charlotte. I am now up to my elbows in poopy diapers. But I'm getting good at changing them...I can do it with one hand...blindfolded...that sort of thing. Unfortunately, I'm enduring many nights of broken sleep.
I still work a busy job as a youth pastor. But, I must say that it is a job that I love.
And I'm heading back into the studio on Wednesday to begin recording an EP. The tentative title is "here and gone". But that might change. "Love is Hard" may make it's way on there. You never know.
And, we have a nest of birds in our hanging basket in front of our house. Each time we enter or leave our front door, they swoop at us and verbally harass us. It's like we have to cross some sort of picket line every time we go outdoors.
I now run. 6.5 km 2-3 times a week. Although that gets harder to do now that I am sleep-deprived.
Now you're caught up. Keep checking back.
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Monday, April 20, 2009
Great Video...
Sorry I haven't blogged in a while. Here is a great video that I thought you might enjoy...
Thursday, March 19, 2009
My ECMA Mistake...
I had a very disheartening thing happen to me at the ECMA's a few weekends ago, and I thought that I would share it with all of you...Hopefully you will be able to learn from my mistakes, and avoid the same sort of blunder.
On the Saturday afternoon, I went to a great seminar at the Glynmill Inn in Corner Brook. Before I went, I picked up a Tim Horton's coffee - large with one milk and one sugar. There were smart people at this seminar, and they were talking about some very interesting things...but the room was very quiet, and I didn't want to roll up my rim and disturb the proceedings. So I laid my unrolled coffee cup under my chair.
After the seminar, I got up from my chair, left the hotel, and got into my car. As I was driving away, it hit me that I had left my unrolled coffee cup on the floor. Knowing that this would play on my mind for the rest of the weekend, I drove back to the hotel, and went upstairs to the conference room. Despite my obviously obsessive behavior, the seminar organizers had already cleaned the room and thrown my coffee cup away. I searched the garbage cans, but to no avail.
Now, I don't believe in Karma and all that stuff... but isn't it odd that since then, I haven't won a thing, despite my at-least-one-coffee-a-day habit. Is God teaching me a lesson? Did that coffee cup have a winning tab? Might I have won a car, or a laptop? Am I just searching for some meaning as to why I haven't won a stinking thing during this whole Roll Up The Rim To Win campaign? I'll never know...
Please...learn from my mistakes. Roll your rims.
Anyway...here's my life in a nutshell:
I also have a post called 10 Things That Tim Horon's Taught Me, that I may post in the near future, along with some video from the Corner Brook Concerts.
On the Saturday afternoon, I went to a great seminar at the Glynmill Inn in Corner Brook. Before I went, I picked up a Tim Horton's coffee - large with one milk and one sugar. There were smart people at this seminar, and they were talking about some very interesting things...but the room was very quiet, and I didn't want to roll up my rim and disturb the proceedings. So I laid my unrolled coffee cup under my chair.
After the seminar, I got up from my chair, left the hotel, and got into my car. As I was driving away, it hit me that I had left my unrolled coffee cup on the floor. Knowing that this would play on my mind for the rest of the weekend, I drove back to the hotel, and went upstairs to the conference room. Despite my obviously obsessive behavior, the seminar organizers had already cleaned the room and thrown my coffee cup away. I searched the garbage cans, but to no avail.
Now, I don't believe in Karma and all that stuff... but isn't it odd that since then, I haven't won a thing, despite my at-least-one-coffee-a-day habit. Is God teaching me a lesson? Did that coffee cup have a winning tab? Might I have won a car, or a laptop? Am I just searching for some meaning as to why I haven't won a stinking thing during this whole Roll Up The Rim To Win campaign? I'll never know...
Please...learn from my mistakes. Roll your rims.
Anyway...here's my life in a nutshell:
I also have a post called 10 Things That Tim Horon's Taught Me, that I may post in the near future, along with some video from the Corner Brook Concerts.
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Updates and Broken Cameras
Two weekends ago I was in St. John's for a bit of a mini tour. Here are the pictures form the weekend. (I guess I should mention that our digital camera broke recently, so this is as good as it gets in terms of pics from the different concerts.)
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Sunday AM, February 22, 2009
The handsome dude playing the upright bass is Phil Tulk
Sunday PM, February 22, 2009
Monday, February 23, 2009
This event was snowed out...
Well there you have it! An incredibly life-like play-by-play of my time in St. john's. (I say "life-like" because I'm really that thin in real life. Really)
I'll update soon with some video from the Corner Brook Concert as well as my impressions of the ECMA's.
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Sunday AM, February 22, 2009
The handsome dude playing the upright bass is Phil Tulk
Sunday PM, February 22, 2009
Monday, February 23, 2009
This event was snowed out...
Well there you have it! An incredibly life-like play-by-play of my time in St. john's. (I say "life-like" because I'm really that thin in real life. Really)
I'll update soon with some video from the Corner Brook Concert as well as my impressions of the ECMA's.
Monday, February 16, 2009
Upcoming Shows
It going to be a busy couple of weeks...
Here's where I'm going to be playing over the next little while.
February 18, 6:00 PM - Acoustic Performance at the Old Mill Ruins Bistro in Campbellton
February 21, 2:00 PM - In-store Performance at RBBH in St. John's
February 22, 10:30 AM - Morning Service at The Worship Centre, St. John's
February 22, 6:30 PM - Spruce Hills Community Church Coffee House, Paradise
February 23 - MOSAIC University Chapel, MUN
February 28, 7:00 PM - Concert with Irene Bridger and Amanda Squires, Westside Tabernacle, Corner Brook
March 1, 11:00 AM - Morning Service at Westside Tabernacle, Corner Brook
If you are in the area, I'd love to see you at one of these events.
Here's where I'm going to be playing over the next little while.
February 18, 6:00 PM - Acoustic Performance at the Old Mill Ruins Bistro in Campbellton
February 21, 2:00 PM - In-store Performance at RBBH in St. John's
February 22, 10:30 AM - Morning Service at The Worship Centre, St. John's
February 22, 6:30 PM - Spruce Hills Community Church Coffee House, Paradise
February 23 - MOSAIC University Chapel, MUN
February 28, 7:00 PM - Concert with Irene Bridger and Amanda Squires, Westside Tabernacle, Corner Brook
March 1, 11:00 AM - Morning Service at Westside Tabernacle, Corner Brook
If you are in the area, I'd love to see you at one of these events.
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