I am staring an online book club!  I am super pumped!

so here is how we are gonna do it if you want to 

Over the next few days use this blog to tell me what book you wanna start with and then i will pick a couple and we can vote on them!

I figure we will pick two books cause everyone wont agree on one and i will read them both and we can have two separate blogs to talk about em!

So start telling me your book ideas if you wanna be a part of it!

love yall

carter

Hey everyone!  here are some answers to some of your questions!  i will do another one of these soon so if your didnt get answered just repost it next time

love you all

carter

-If you had a pet fish, what would you name it?

I did have a pet fish, his name was Leviticus...he is dead now : (

-If you were a jelly bean what flavor would you be?

Anything but cherry.  Its the only flavor i like and i would never 

want to be tempted to eat myself in a time of desperation

-First CD / tape you bought?

Michael Jackson's "Heal the World".  My momma and I listened to it 

every day on the way to elementary school.

-What do you think is the most important trait a person can have? 

Courage

-Whats your favorite color? 

Blue

-Put ur ipod on shuffle. what are the first 3 songs that come up?

California Dreamin'- The Mamas and the Papas

Bod Dylan- Don't think Twice its Alright

Garth Brooks- Aint Going Down till the Sun Comes Up

-Are you drug free?

yeah no drugs for me : )

-How old were you when you had your first kiss?

18.   that seems old nowadays huh?

-Whats your fav book ever?!

"Blue Like Jazz" Donald Miller

-What would you do for a klondike bar?

I dont like Klondike bars....so its more like "what would a klondike bar do for me?"

-Favorite poem?

There are strange things done 'neath the midnight sun

By the men who moil for gold.

The arctic trails have their secret tales

That would make your blood run cold.

The northern lights have seen queer sights

But the queerest they ever did see,

Was that night on the marge of Lake LeBarge

When I cremated Sam McGee.

  I heard it on "Boy Meets World" one time : )

-Whats your middle name?

Carter...Warren is my first name....shhhhhhhh

-Are you coming out a new ep or album anytime soon?

Yes!!!  I start recording in December!

-Why do you play music...what drives you?

This is a tough one to answer.  All i can say is that i 

feel like music is inside me.  it hast to come out.

I think most artists would say the same thing.  I have 

been so discouraged about music before and have told

myself i have given up on it more times than i can count,

but then i write another song, or another poem, or have an

idea for a picture i want to take.  its inside of me, i think in

some ways its inside us all.  Sometimes i write silly songs 

about girls and stuff and then others are more meaningful.

There is something spiritual about songwriting for me.  I am 

a Christian, and writing songs is one of the ways i feel i 

connect with God.  Its hard to describe but it just happens.

-Have you ever done anything illegal? if so what?

From time to time my friends and i like to "explore" some of 

the old fire escapes in down town joplin.  Im not sure how illegal 

it is though...its not "breaking and entering" because we never 

break anything and we just go on the roofs...

wait... its trespassing...haha nevermind... : )

so the answer is yes...i have done illegal things

ok  thats prob enough for now

love you guys : )

a whole whole lot

Carter

It has been years since i have fasted this long

What i realized though is that i know exactly where i will break my fast tonight, the place i will go eat and the friends that will join me.  As i have tried to use these last three days as a chance to put my self in different shoes i realize that i can not come close to imagining what others are going through, just a glimpse.  There are people who have no idea where their next meal comes from, who wake up every morning hungry.

Tonight i will eat until im full, my hunger satisfied.  But to those less fortunate, they do not have that luxury, i imagine they rarely eat their fill.  Food is a mocker to them...always gone when they need it most...laughing at them, they hear it in echos, barely above their crying baby  

 

Food, Water, Shelter are their basic needs...what are mine...or worse, what do i "think" mine are...

new clothes

watching "that" movie

eating at "that" restaurant

buying "that" guitar

these things are things others in true pain would never think about

i want to not feel ok about having so much food at my appt, when there are those that are starving, i want to feel stupid that i have a closet full of clothes when others wear the same thing everyday

i pray the Lord will "break my heart for what breaks his, open up my eyes to the things unseen, Show me hot to love like You...have loved my"

more to follow

wch

Tonight i watched "Inglorious Bastards"

The movie and everything about it broke my heart...

I am disconnected from the world

I sat for two hours watching a movie where a group of American men wandered around Nazi occupied France during the second world war killing German soldiers.  Now i understand that when people think about Germany in regards to the war their minds are flooded with thoughts of concentration camps, the ss, starving children, a devastating tenacity that cost millions their lives and so much more....and i agree that these things are awful, nightmares of humanity's past...things that i think should disturb us, chill us to the bone and infuriate...but it broke my heart to sit in a theater and hear people laugh and cheer when "our" soldiers killed and tortured "their" soldiers.  War... war is "us" at our darkest.  There should be no joy in war, no cheering as men die and definitely no applause at the end, instead, as the credits roll we should sit with our head in our hands wondering how we got here, where everything went wrong.  No one wins a war...we all loose.

I feel disconnected because i live in a country where i can pay nine dollars to watch a movie... in an air conditioned theater... being entertained by "redemptive violence" when there are people all around the world who are homeless, hungry, helpless... people who live with war everyday, and those people would give their lives to never see a gun again, and yet i paid to watch it.

we are disconnected from the world, from the sufferings of our brothers and sisters

its like we have wondered far away from home, the beginning of things, and forgot the way back

Tonight i am joining Art Feeds and others in the three day fast for Darfur to raise awareness in myself and hopefully others about things going on in this world

join me if you'd like : )

with love

warren c hulsey