The real reason that worship leaders seem to repeat the chorus 100 times.

So, here I am... over a month since I started this blog and just now posting my third blog that I actually started on October 9th. Yea, its kind of sad that I am just now deciding to get back into this but here I go. This path month has been a journey of trying to figure out where I am going with this life. I finish and submitted my seminary application to my first choice of school and was accepted completely solidifying my next step in life but also has brought back my deep anxiety of the change that this will bring in my life. I am literally about to pack up and move over half the country away from my security blanket known as North East TN. The more I think about it the more I realize how much I have relied on my ability to half ass my way through anything because I know that my parents wont let me fail at life or that I have the smarts to at least make it in some dead end job here in Appalachia. I have actually been accepted to a graduate level program and not just any program, but the one that I REALLY wanted to go to. I am actually getting to study in the field that my passion is in... Theology. It quite frankly scares me that I actually enjoy sitting down, studying and writing about theology. I am the kid that only wrote when I had to in high school. If I could do more of a diorama or video project, I was all over it. Don't get me wrong, kids camp and VBS were fun, but this summer's best week was the week that I got to live in the UT library doing research. I absolutely loved it. The annoying part is that I am in no way a type A personality...I really have zero organization skills. I am not your typical scholar. I don't think linearly or follow a pattern. Unless you count changing my plan 50X as a pattern. I am indecisive and more of a "lets push this button and see what happens" type. I like trial and error. I guess that most of my anxiety comes from the fact that I am afraid that my unorthodox methods and question could be frowned upon or to be taken as an idiot... I guess we'll find out.

Next topic...music. I have recently gotten back into writing music and if you haven't checked it out already, go to myspace.com/jormallory and listen to Comfortable that I recently wrote. It was nice to write something new for a change, because I've been having some terrible writers block recently. Part of my next step in life is going to be trying to "find my ministry" and that has been complicated for me. Part of me screams, "LEAD WORSHIP" and the other part of me says,"YOU SUCK AT WRITING MUSIC AND LEADING IT, GIVE UP ALREADY AND TEACH." For a guy who hates his own voice it seems strange that I have chosen speaking and singing as my primary career paths... From acting, my mom being a speech pathologist and my father being Extremely Southern I have a very weird accent that I cant always control. My survival instincts basically make me speak more proper and almost British when I talk to strangers but when I'm around rednecks my southern drawl just comes out without me meaning for it to happen. 

In other news... If you didnt watch The Rally the Restore Sanity and/or Fear please watch:

Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear
Jon Stewart - Moment of Sincerity
www.comedycentral.com
Rally to Restore Sainty and/or Fear The Daily Show The Colbert Report

It is quite possibly the best thing said from the national mall in a LONG time.

Round 2... ding ding ding

This past week has been mostly consumed by Netflix and my new PS3. I am pretty sure that I have clocked more hours playing my PS3 in the past couple weeks than I have in my entire 3 years of having an Xbox 360. Metal Gear Solid 4 was better than I could have ever expected it to be but not every game that I have played has been enjoyable. For example, Dante's Inferno has been an upset beyond comparison. It is basically God of War and Devil May Cry set in hell... minus the awesome story, creative bosses, and plus increasingly annoying fights. Speaking of the Devil May Cry series, I am not completely sure how I feel about the new game that is in the works. They completely redid Dante's appearance, all the way down to his hair color and I don't know how I feel about that. I'm sure it will be typically hard to beat and have a decent story but they are messing with a character that has been around for quite a while. I guess I'll just have to wait and see.

Oh how I love the New Years of TV seasons and so far, none of my shows have disappointed me (How I Met Your Mother, Chuck, 30 Rock, SNL, Community, Bones and vast others.) More importantly than that I actually just finished the final season of Lost and it completely blew my mind. I have no other response other than kudos to giving me 6 straight seasons of mind destroying fun.

I have finally finished my second comic and hopefully the characters look similar enough to be considered the same ones. I have enjoyed drawing these much more than I would have expected but that is how hobbies work. You never know how they are going to be until you actually bite the bullet and try them. If anyone has any suggestions as to making it better, please toss me a comment.

Lets see if I can stay frequent in my updates.

Well, here I go once again. I've been wanting to start a blog that is less topical based and just whatever I feel like talking about but I have never gotten around to it. If I get a good response to this I will probably keep it up but if not, this may become one more project that fades into the static of my life. Soooooo, here I go.

I have recently had too much time to get bored and has led to more hobbies and fidgeting than I have ever had in my life. The comic to the left just so happens to be one of those projects. It was fun to make and I may continue to post more and more of them as I get better at it. (Assuming that they amuse more people than just me) I haven't cartooned since I was in high school and I suck at drawing, shading, coloring, and well everything that has to do with cartooning but hopefully I'll get better as I go. First task is to hopefully try and make comic #2 actually look like the same characters.