Kari Jobe – Revelation Song
Great worship song. Absolutely love this one.
Disturbed – Shout 2000
This was oddly stuck in my head at work for a little while yesterday. It’s a great Tears for Fears cover. I haven’t heard it in a while, but it somehow popped in my head.
City on Our Knees – tobyMac
Toby Mac – City On Our Knees from Ryan Wehner on Vimeo.
I hear this song sometimes on the radio on my to work and it’s just a fantastic song.
The Itsy Bitsy Spider
Another odd song got stuck in my head for a few moments today. This time though, there was a reason. I work at a salvage grocery store where I’m mainly outside. One particular customer brought her baby daughter and when she was getting ready to leave, she realized she had left her cellphone inside the store somewhere. Her baby was already buckled into her car seat, so she asked me to watch her while she went inside. While waiting, you could hear children’s music that was left on for the baby to listen to. The song that was playing was “The Itsy Bitsy Spider.” I didn’t really pay much attention to it, but when her mom came back, I sat down to eat some lunch. While eating, I started to sing the song to myself. After a few moments, I realized what I was singing and couldn’t help but laugh a little.
Céline Dion – Power of Love
This song was stuck in my head a lot today. Why? I have absolutely no clue. I haven’t heard the song in such a long time, yet somehow its verses found its way into mind and wouldn’t leave.
Impossible to forget
Ten years ago today, the United States saw one of the worst days in its history. 19 terrorists hijacked four planes and used them as weapons of disastrous proportions. Most of its devastation was concentrated in New York City. At 8:46am, American Airlines Flight 11 was flown into the North Tower of the World Trade Center. Seventeen minutes later, United Airlines Flight 175 crashed into the South Tower. Both buildings would eventually collapse along with building 7 of the World Trade Center. At 9:37am, American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the west side of the Pentagon in Washington D.C. At 10:03am, United Airlines Flight 93, crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennslyvannia due to resistance from passengers. Its original target is believed to be the United States Capitol, based on an interview with alleged masterminds of the attack, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Ramzi bin al-Shibh. In total, 2,977 people died (excluding the hijackers).
It’s hard to forget that day. I was fourteen at the time. I remember flipping to a local news channel, probably to get the latest weather and check the time, and they were reporting that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. I told my mom, who was getting ready to go to the store. One of her immediate thoughts were that she hoped it was not on purpose. As we watched the coverage, we saw the second plane hit and I think at that time we must have realized that the first was indeed no accident. As I continued watching the coverage and eventually found about the other two crashes, I remembering worrying and thinking, “What the heck is going on?” This year more than any other year following the attacks, I’ve tried reliving that day by looking through footage on YouTube. It was a bit harder than I thought, taken back by the enormous scale of the attacks. It’s all very sad. I did find a very interesting video series, called As It Happened. In chronicles what the news was like that day before and after the attacks occurred.
Deciding to relive this day rather than just remember it has made this anniversary more emotional than in previous years, but I’m thankful that I took time to do so. In a way, it’s helped me move forward emotionally. It’s still hard going through all the videos, pictures, and stories of that day. It feels so tragically surreal. You watch it knowing it happened, but you can’t believe that such a large scale attack actually happened. It feels as though someone stole a horrific nightmare from your memory and somehow recreated it.
Today I’ll make sure to keep everyone who was affected by these events in my heart and hope that ten years later, they have somehow created some sense of normalcy.
God Bless.
Freddie Mercury: The Google Doodle
Today when I first opened up my Internet browser, I was greeted to probably my favorite Google Doodle ever. Yesterday would have been Mercury’s 65th birthday, so Google decided to celebrate it by creating this doodle:
I’ve hardly listened to every song of Queen, mainly listening to them through a playlist I created on Grooveshark of their Absolute Greatest compilation album. I do enjoy them very much though. Today’s Google Doodle got me in the mood to listen to them, so I’m listening to the aforementioned playlist right now.
Game Updates: Twilight Princess, Pokémon Black
A few weeks ago I went to Walmart not expecting to get anything, but I decided to check out their video game section just to see what they had and of course to play any of the demos they had on display. The first thing I played was a demo for Asphalt 3D for the Nintendo 3DS. It was pretty cool and only increased my desire to get a 3DS; especially with the upcoming price cut. Next I went to try out the Xbox 360, but nothing interested me there. The funny thing is that the right analog stick was completely off. I then checked out the Playstation 3 and tried out a demo of MotorStorm: Apocalypse. I couldn’t tell if I liked it, but that could have been caused by the fact that its right analog stick was broken too. It was still there, but it would always lean in one direction.
When I was done playing the systems they had on display, My eye caught a copy of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess for the Nintendo Wii for only $20. The reason it was so cheap was because it’s a part of the Nintendo Select line up and all Nintendo Select titles are $20. It was great to finally see that game at such a low price. Whenever I went to GameStop to pick up a game, a used copy was always around $45. I never understood why that never went down at least a little bit before it’s inclusion to the Nintendo Select line up.
I’ve played Twilight Princess before shortly after it’s original release in 2006, but that was the GameCube version a friend lent me and my brother. There were two things I was curious about regarding the two versions. The first was the difference in how they control. The GameCube uses a traditional gamepad, but the Wii uses motion controls. The second thing I was curious about was the orientation of the map. This one is the biggest difference as far as I’m concerned. Twilight Princess was originally going to be a GameCube exclusive. At some point during its development, Nintendo decided to delay its release so they could add could content and port it to the Wii. They went back and forth between using motion controls or just button presses and when they finally decided to use motion controls, it was very late in its development. The problem with that is that the games main character, Link, holds his sword with his left hand, but players would be swinging the Wii controller with their right hand. The only way they could fix this problem so late in its development was to flip everything around, so that the GameCube version and the Wii version are mirror images of each other.
After some time playing it, it’s been very good. I like the controls and because I haven’t played the GameCube version in about four years, the orientation differences haven’t bothered me much. It’s been great replaying this game and will help aid in my anticipation for The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, due out later this year.
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It’s a bit late, but I wanted to also write a little about Pokémon Black Version. I got it at the end of April, just in time before Victini’s Wi-Fi event ended. Some of the new creatures are odd, but I found it a great game overall. I especially love the Dream World service they created for this generation of Pokémon games. If you want to add me to your Pal Pad, my friend code is 5200-2936-3375. I completed my National Pokédex, so I may be able to help you out with things you need.
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
I recently rented The Girl Who Leapt Through Time from the library and finally got to watch it yesterday. It’s a fantastic animated film about a girl who gains the ability to go back in time and in doing so, she decides to change little things about her day so that it goes more smoothly than the first time she experienced it. Ultimately she finds out that even the littlest changes can have negative impacts on those around her. I’d highly recommend this film to anyone who is even slightly interested. You won’t be disappointed.
My pick for Super Bowl XLV
This should be a great game to watch. The Pittsburgh Steelers and the Green Bay Packers are two of the best teams in the NFL and both have great histories. Which one do I think is the better team? I believe the Steelers are. Which one do I want to see win? I guess it doesn’t really matter, but I’ll just say that I’ll be wearing an invisible cheese hat for this one.
