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Hey everybody.

I want to begin by saying sorry for never updating, when really there's a lot to share.

I do think that more of an update on my goings about will be available through my new blog/bandwebsite: mouvementmusic.com. So be sure to subscribe to that.

I am planning on sharing about my dream and vision for Mouvement soon on this blog though.

But, until then...

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Ok so, this past week starts the recording process for my upcoming EP. So far we have the acoustic guitar and full drum kit tracks layed down. Today Paul and I are making our way to Hillcrest Baptist to make use of their grand piano, percussion instruments and anything else we can get our hands on. Tracking is moving pretty quickly and is sounding great. I am more than excited to share it with everyone.

So if your reading this and your reaction is something along the lines of: "Man, I'm really excited to hear what Filipe has been blabbling about all this time. I wonder how I could help him out in his endevour." Wonder no longer!

If theres anything I have learned about this whole music business its that there is very little that stands next to the power of the actuall people who listen to and spread the music.

So at this point you may help by giving your opinion on what this music project should be called. The options at this point are:

Joyeux - French word for merry
Mouvement - French word for movement
Filipe - French way of saying my name, Filipe

Main reason for using French being that I really like the way French words are spelled.

Joyeux looks and sounds bettter than the other, but doesn't quite fit the sound of the overall project.
Mouvement fits better with what I write about and the overall feel of the band, but doesn't look or sound as cool as Joyeux.
Filipe is just my name and the reason I am trying to vere away from using that is because I want this whole thing to ecompess something much larger than me. It's not about me.

Mouvement is growing on me though... Your opinions would be much appreciated!

More news will come. Hope all is well.

I first heard and saw Anathallo a couple years ago at Cornerstone FL. There have been only a couple of shows that I've gone to where I leave feeling different than I did going in, and Anathallo was one of those shows. Since I have got most of their music and I just recieved their newest album "Canopy Glow" in the mail. It's a really great album and their a really great band. You should check them out if your so inclined.

My first show is going to be next Friday, the 21st. I'm excited/nervous about it. The band isn't really that ready, at least not as ready as I'd like us to be. I'm sure it will go fine.

Here's the flier

Yep, has been over a month since a blog post. I look up to you steady bloggers. Ryan, Jimmy, to you I tip my hat.

So, to get back into the swing of things.

I was first introduced to Fredrick Buechner by my 11th and 12th grade english teacher. She lent me his book Telling the Truth and since then he has become one of my favorite authors. I picked up his daily meditations book Listening to Your Life and have found myself more often times amazed than not after reading the little tid bits he throws out at us the reader.

Often times when reading books having to do with spirituality one misses the whole art aspect of writing because the authors are usually pastors who write, not writers who pastor, as is the case with Buechner. When such authors as C.S. Lewis and Madeleine L'Engle write, the experience of the reader becomes something much greater than just reading a book. It's something I find hard to express sometimes, and so I can only urge you to pick something up by one of these authors and experience it yourself.


Here's one of the shorter tid bits I was talking about from Listening to Your Life

Theology - November 5

Theology is the study of God and his ways. For all we know, dung beetles may study man and his ways and call it humanology. If so, we would probably be more touched and amused then irritated. One hopes that God feels likewise.

here are some sketches

Tonight I met up with some gents about the little music project I've been working on for what seems like forever. I pretty much pitched the idea and vision I have for the project and their response was really good. I'm really excited about it, their really good musicians and really cool guys. Movement!

First show is November 3rd with Sleeping at Last and The Gills. Check both of them out if you haven't yet.

So I've been growing a mustache for almost a month now. It's pretty crazy. Gross, but pretty dang funny.

Here's a little taste haha

the guys in the apartment are going to grow the mustaches out.
and so i have dirty facial hair right now.
it itches.

I'm thinking about going down to Orlando next weekend with some friends to see My Morning Jacket. And so those of you who read this and are in Orlando, I might be seeing you soon.



Things are going pretty well here in Pensacola. Going to be starting school this Monday. I don't know what I'm getting myself into. 5 courses and around 30 hours a week of work ! Should be somethin.

I have an opportunity to go to China in December. I really want to go because it's going to be an awesome trip but it's from the 15th-28th. Jimmy's wedding is the 21st. Fil will be at Jimmy's wedding because, well, Fil and Jimmy have been friends for a very long time and he loves that kid a very lot.

It's really hard living out the gospel sometimes...

a lot of the time.

upstate new york story time

Joel and I decided to go down to the creek across from our property.

And we thought it would be a good idea to take the hardest and most dangerous way down.




Joel's croc (yeah I know... I tell him everytime I see him with them on) fell off and all the way down to the creek. It was pretty dang funny.


We made it down. Awesome.




We walked up the creek for a while


Until we came up to the cows. We had heard bad stories about these cows. They were pissed about us being there. Looked up, started coming towards us.


So we walked around them on the other side of the creek.

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Done.


Chilled, hung around.


Until the freaking cows followed us.


So we left and went back to the house for dinner.

It was a good trip. Made some good memories.


Hope you enjoyed these! I'll be posting some thoughts soon.

I am now in upstate NY. Here is a little picture rundown of my last two days of traveling.



After waking up around 11 Sunday I packed my things..


And hit the road towards Jacksonville. I was flying out of Jacksonville the next day because it was cheaper and my aunt lives there. So I stayed the night with her and she took me to the airport the next day.


5 hour drive.. drive drive drive


Made it to Jacksonville! Realized I forgot my phone charger! My aunt had an iPod charger! Hooray!


Alright so my plane was scheduled to leave at 6:10am, so I was up at 4:20 because they live about 45 min away from the airport. Arrive at the airport to find that the flight is delayed until 11:05... 5 hours away. Didn't sleep much the night before because I'm an irresponsible college student who stays up entirely too late every night for no apparent reason, so going to bed at 9:30 is futile. Yada yada complain complain, finally got on the plane and left for JFK.


Arrived at JFK, at some free food (jetBlue gave us food vouchers), and got on the plane for Syracuse.


Arrived in Syracuse New York! Stoked. Started the drive to the country home.


Got there. House just messy enough to make one feel at home.


Better view from the kitchen than yours.





Family walk on the property. Good stuff.

I'm praying for peace, enlightenment, clarity, wisdom and knowledge during my stay. That's a lot haha. I just want to enjoy the beauty, and for time not to pass very quickly.

Last week I made the wonderful trip back home to South Florida to see my good friends. I was able to hang out with most of them, there were only a few I didn't see. The week was pretty awesome. Summery/Highlights were:

-Ryan and Sean bro time
-Cruz asian food and encouragement
-Starbucks talk with Brad (thought there could have been a touch more) and seeing the FBC crew
-Kim Agarth
-Kim Agarth post wisdom teeth surgery video (probably the hardest I laughed the whole trip)
-Nick O'hare and my haircut obsession haha
-Chill time with Kate
-Jimmy and Ryan bro time
-Fourth of July at the lovely Basye home. (Side Note: I love the Basye's, I always feel very at home whenever I hang out with them and their family, it's nice.)
-Sean and Nic Daire fight
-Fight night at Bru's room with everyone
-Crazy outrageous insane huge party at Jesse's with Kim
-Quotes of the night
-Pizza with Sean, Nic, and Amanda
-Drive to Orlando with Sean and Amanda
-Ryan's pad in O-town, always chill
-People watch and lunch with Ryan and Sean
-6 hour drive to Pensacola.. yes I made it from Orlando to Pensacola in 6 hours

It was a good trip. Miss everyone already. Good to back I suppose, going to try and jump start a couple things. Start putting stuff in motion if you will.

a very small sample is coming

So either Sunday night or Monday morning I will begin my journey to South Florida once again for my summer visit. I have $306 in my bank account for the trip ($200 was just spent on two new tires for my car). $200 of that will easily be spent on gas. Probably more. I will be down until the 6th most likely.

Roughing it for sure.



Friends, I will most likely be over your houses for free meals.

Love you all

Today I saw Get Smart, and I will say it was pretty darn funny at moments. Fun movie to see. Go Steve Carell.

Also I went to my first BBQ place since I have moved to Pensacola. It was the most home town place I have ever been to. The girl taking our drink orders was the owner/cooks little daughter. She couldn't have been older than 9-10. It was pretty awesome. It reminded me of Brad Jones because of where he's from and all that jazz. The places name was Beulah Barbecue and the a in Beulah was the Alabama University A. Another reason the place reminded me of Brad haha. Altogether the food was dang good, but I will say that Scruby's ribs are better.

Planning on going home somewhere around the 30th-6th. Very excite.

a couple of nights ago I went and saw colour revolt play and it was awesome.



also if you donate to the boodwater foundation through Donald Millers website you get the first chapter of his new book. I did and it was excellent, I'm very excited about it. So go help out and feed your soul some.

So today (now a couple of days ago) I worked from 7am until 9pm in Drive-thru at Starbucks. 14 hours. I'm quite tired.

I met a pretty lady from Russia.

A group of guys from Saudi Arabia who were here in the Navy. They said they liked Saudi Arabia more than here. They said gas was 60 cents a gallon. Hot and Rich was how they described the place.

A deaf lady came through and ordered a venti vanilla bean frappuccino. I like her a lot... She's awesome.

Another lady came through who sounded pretty distraught as she ordered. Scattered and mixing up her drinks. She said she was having a rough day, so we gave one of her drinks to her for free. I like giving free stuff away when I work, I probably do it to much. Anyway, she came up to the window and when I told her we gave her one of them for free she became a bit emotional and was very thankful. She said "let me tell you about my day.." and so I told Allan to get the next person in line and just listened.

The truck she used to drive had a problem that was going to cost her about $750 to fix so she was driving a friends car. The truck was her husbands I think.

Last night her children watched their father drive away with another woman and not come back that night. She had apparently just chased him around with bat right before she came to Starbucks. She said she was not so much upset about the woman as she was about her children seeing their father do such a thing. "Never marry someone for their money" she told, "It doesn't matter how much it is, it's not worth things like this." She said that the best thing that has happened to her today was this.

She got kind of worked up, I choked up a little.

It's hard hearing true, unfeigned reality sometimes. There's very little that helps when your going through such things. Everything is shitty.

Louie Giglio spoke about when the bottom falls out in life during the Youth Specialties conference last November. About when everything comes into question... God, life, people, everything. No sort of theology or well spoken word helps. He spoke on how the only thing we can do is hang onto the cross. We don't feel like it and it doesn't help right then, but it's the only thing we can do.

I don't know, it was just a very raw and genuine way of showing the answer. The answer being there is no answer. No right way. We can only keep walking through these things.

I feel really really sappy writing all of this. Anyway.

I told her I would be praying for her. She said she was a Christian; I don't know how true that is to her heart but I pray it will become truer, through this situation especially.

I've been racking my brain trying to remember her name. I think it's Becca... or Becky. It's probably neither, but if your into praying for people I think it would be cool to pray for Becca.

Sorry for not posting in a while.

**Edit. She came by again today. Her name is Brandy. She's going to be moving out soon and is looking for a job. I think she's going to take her kids with her, but I'm not sure.

Trip

Trip to Atlanta was a lot of fun. Thank you Radiohead for being awesome. Making a little video of it for everyone so wait in expectation. Was able to stop at American Apparel and Urban Outfitters while there, quite good.

Watched Bell's "Everything is Spiritual" tour DVD. There were some very enlightening points he made. The three dimensional object interacting with a two dimensional world was one of my favorite points made. It was an amazing way of showing what it is like for God to interact with us, and our response to that interaction. If you haven't seen it I would recommend checking it out.

Going through Claiborne's new book. I really like the medium used. As far as content goes so far it's just pretty good, I'm still in the beginning though so I imagine it will get better.

Billy Collins is quite possibly my favorite poet. Please go read something of his, do it for yourself.

That's all for now

Tomorrow I will drive with my friends Matt and Jenny to Atlanta to see these guys
I am more than excited about it.