Macarena Shoes and Your Teenager’s STD
Macrena Shoes is really starting to come together. It’s to the point now where I’m listening to it over and over just because I like listening to it not because I’m trying to figure out what’s wrong with it. The dramatic flow of the song is severely crippled by the fact that I’m using a drum machine and not Dino but I’ll get him in here as soon as I can.
This is a rough mix but I still think it sounds pretty convincing. I don’t imagine there will be any huge changes to the mix even after we get the real drums added in.
One interesting thing to listen for: I am a big fan of placing the microphone extremely close to the strings when miking an acoustic guitar. On this song I had the mic sitting less than two inches from the strings and right near the neck and body joint. In the intro of this song you can actually hear the sleeve of my sweatshirt rubbing sixteenth notes on the body of the guitar. This was simply a bi-product of the mic placement and was certainly not intentional – although it is kind of cool.
That will conclude the music portion of our presentation.
My Sunday School teacher when I was in high school said one thing I will never forget. In all honesty she only said one thing that I remember at all. I don’t even remember her exact words but the gist of it was this – kids who are raised in church will eventually come to a place in their lives where they must choose for themselves whether or not they will follow Christ. What she was basically saying was that we don’t inherit God.
Some people think that this choice comes when a person first asks Jesus to come into their heart. Often times this is when they’re still a child. I fully believe that God honors these prayers, however, deciding to follow Christ when you’re nine years old and deciding to continue following Christ when you’re twenty requires an entirely different level of commitment.
The reason my Sunday School teacher was talking about this subject was because we were all getting close to that age where we would soon be moving out of or parents’ houses, going away to college, getting married, etc. There was an urgency in her message that I’d never heard before. All of a sudden I felt like she was talking to us like adults. Like this was really important. Of course that’s not to say that Moses in the bulrushes isn’t important but this was a life or death matter – we just didn’t realize it yet.
I’ve heard the statistic that approximately eighty to ninety percent of kids raised in church will lose their faith by the time they’re in college. That’s astonishing. This has brought me to one very important conclusion: No college for Riley. Problem solved. It saves me money and it saves his soul.
I listen to Christian talk radio quite a lot and I hear some rather bizarre approaches to steering teenagers away from sin. For instance, according to some, the reasons teenagers shouldn’t engage in pre-marital sex is because they could either contract an STD or (even worse – apparently) the girl might become pregnant and, as we all know, this totally ruins her entire existence and dooms her to a life of hitchhiking from one battered women’s shelter to the next. Right?
Wrong! The STD routine is the “Ewww, that is so totally disgusting” approach. This approach has seen almost as much success as the United States’ drug policy. Just check My Space to see how quickly STDs are driving teenagers away from sex.
The other part about how pregnancy ruins your life is just plain wrong. I will certainly concede that some girls may have found life a lot harder after trying to raise an infant while in high school but ruin her life it did not.
So what do you suggest Mr. Smarter Than Everybody Johnson? Glad you asked.
I have no idea.
I’ll try to come up with something by tomorrow.
Picture of the day.
Drew Johnson, I want to personally thank your for all of your recent picture posts. It has opened my eyes to the fact that even the hugest of dorks can score a hot chick as long as he knows how to play guitar and sing.
I’m going to go practice now.
I prefer to look at the flip side of that equation. Even a girl who is a horrible guitar player can score a great guy. All she needs to do is be super hot.