I am re-doing j-cub.com
I know its already amazing, graphics are incredible, tons of great links, great videos, great pictures. I know it already sure is something special... but as creative and fun and eye candy filled, inviting like a fire place that it is, I am getting bored and not posting much, so I am going to redo it and then post a lot again.
Until then, I will probably not post unless something Epic happens. But I hope to have it done by the end of the week.
Love you, mean it, whoever you are. I figure if you are reading this, then I probably Love you, mean it.
J-Cub
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Sunday, July 5, 2009
The Boy Meets Wonder Era
I got a call late tonight from Andrew Ash... hadn't gotten one of these in a while and it was nice to here from him.. he wanted to tell me a story about a conversation he had with the mayor of Mason, and when the mayor had realized that Andrew played drums in Hyperbole back in the day, he got really excited and told him that the music we made had a lot more impact on people then Andrew was giving himself/us credit for, that his son loved the music and that even he (the mayor) was very impressed that it came from people of our young age. The conversation lead us down a trail of many more memories of touring, selling CDs, making music and having an incredible time doing it... a time that has been continued on even after Andrew and John left the band to go onto other things, but I want to focus on the time right now, when there was five of us.
It takes a lot to take a dream into a destination in your life that you actually reach... it takes not doing things the way that everyone else does. When everyone else around us was graduating from high school and going on to college to build their resumes and start their careers, we were just finding more ways to chase our dreams, live our dreams, and reach the world, or as much of it as we came across.
It may not be a surprise to anybody, but if you listen to the lyrics on the album "1996" that the 3 piece version of Hyperbole released last year, almost every song of that record was about the Boy Meets Wonder era... not because I was living in the past, but because it was a time that we pushed through a whole lot of challenges to see a lot of our dreams come true, and that kind of inspiration has a far carrying effect on peoples lives... its positive, its hopeful, and its true. One line on a song says "no gas, no cash, but at least we get to say: we gave it all our hearts, and lived our dreams along the way." How many people do you know that can honestly say that? Because at the end of the day its not about how many records we sold or how many venues we sold out or all the money we made because we hardly made any at all, its about a dream that we saw unfold day in and day out on tours, its about the fact that we had people in Colorado tell us that we changed their lives, people in California, people in Michigan, etc. we would goto Cornerstone and see Hyperbole shirts from people in other states from the one time we visited there. We weren't famous, we still aren't famous, but there is a lasting effect on peoples lives that was especially strong in the early years, when our local town needed something fresh to bring people together and we helped give it to them.
Of course, I would like for things to get bigger... I believe with all of my heart that they can get bigger if we are faithful to the call, but at the same time, living our dreams does not mean that we have achieved all of our goals, because no matter how many people are reached, I am always going to want to reach more. No matter how many CD's we sell, I am always going to want us to sell more.
But Landon, Tony, John, Andrew and I lived a dream while everyone else was in college or working or whatever, and maybe that was their dream, and if so, there is not a thing wrong with it, and I applaud them for putting action to that which was in their heart, but an awful lot of people have a ton of great things in their hearts that they never even try to achieve them, and the original era of Hyperbole is proof that we not only tried, but succeeded in living out our dreams. We might not have met all of our goals, but we def. met some of them. Some of the guys were on MTV, we toured the nation time and time again, we reached people and told them about Jesus, we sold thousands and thousands of CDs to people who weren't just buying them to support a cause or get behind some kids they felt sorry for, we sold most of them on the road, to strangers we never met, to kids who came to the shows, then came back to the shows, and then brought their friends back to the shows.
Never ever stop dreaming. I refuse to. My goals now are fifty times bigger then they were during the Boy Meets Wonder era, and if on a scale I can achieve the same percent of them this time that we did that time, then an awful lot of peoples lives are going to be forever changed, because its not about the goals you achieve as much as it is the journey that your dreams take you on when you give them all of your heart, and if you are able to live a life where you can pour your whole heart into your dream, well, that sounds like a dream life to me.
J-Cub
It takes a lot to take a dream into a destination in your life that you actually reach... it takes not doing things the way that everyone else does. When everyone else around us was graduating from high school and going on to college to build their resumes and start their careers, we were just finding more ways to chase our dreams, live our dreams, and reach the world, or as much of it as we came across.
It may not be a surprise to anybody, but if you listen to the lyrics on the album "1996" that the 3 piece version of Hyperbole released last year, almost every song of that record was about the Boy Meets Wonder era... not because I was living in the past, but because it was a time that we pushed through a whole lot of challenges to see a lot of our dreams come true, and that kind of inspiration has a far carrying effect on peoples lives... its positive, its hopeful, and its true. One line on a song says "no gas, no cash, but at least we get to say: we gave it all our hearts, and lived our dreams along the way." How many people do you know that can honestly say that? Because at the end of the day its not about how many records we sold or how many venues we sold out or all the money we made because we hardly made any at all, its about a dream that we saw unfold day in and day out on tours, its about the fact that we had people in Colorado tell us that we changed their lives, people in California, people in Michigan, etc. we would goto Cornerstone and see Hyperbole shirts from people in other states from the one time we visited there. We weren't famous, we still aren't famous, but there is a lasting effect on peoples lives that was especially strong in the early years, when our local town needed something fresh to bring people together and we helped give it to them.
Of course, I would like for things to get bigger... I believe with all of my heart that they can get bigger if we are faithful to the call, but at the same time, living our dreams does not mean that we have achieved all of our goals, because no matter how many people are reached, I am always going to want to reach more. No matter how many CD's we sell, I am always going to want us to sell more.
But Landon, Tony, John, Andrew and I lived a dream while everyone else was in college or working or whatever, and maybe that was their dream, and if so, there is not a thing wrong with it, and I applaud them for putting action to that which was in their heart, but an awful lot of people have a ton of great things in their hearts that they never even try to achieve them, and the original era of Hyperbole is proof that we not only tried, but succeeded in living out our dreams. We might not have met all of our goals, but we def. met some of them. Some of the guys were on MTV, we toured the nation time and time again, we reached people and told them about Jesus, we sold thousands and thousands of CDs to people who weren't just buying them to support a cause or get behind some kids they felt sorry for, we sold most of them on the road, to strangers we never met, to kids who came to the shows, then came back to the shows, and then brought their friends back to the shows.
Never ever stop dreaming. I refuse to. My goals now are fifty times bigger then they were during the Boy Meets Wonder era, and if on a scale I can achieve the same percent of them this time that we did that time, then an awful lot of peoples lives are going to be forever changed, because its not about the goals you achieve as much as it is the journey that your dreams take you on when you give them all of your heart, and if you are able to live a life where you can pour your whole heart into your dream, well, that sounds like a dream life to me.
J-Cub
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