Posting for the sake of

So I realize it has been an incredibly long time since I last posted anything, but I think I prefer microblogging (aka twitter) because I rarely have time to sit down and talk about something for a while. So, more action happening on http://twitter.com/leblancphill than here, I promise.

-Phill

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I've been in Austin, Texas for the past week and I am sitting here in the hotel room writing this blog the day before I leave back for Baton Rouge. It's been a really interesting week, but I feel like I've been wasting some time here. One week is a little long for a conference, especially with all the classes I've been missing and the work I have to do. However, its been a really fun and interesting experience. Not gonna do it again next year though.

-Phill

Obama

So, I think its clear what America wants
They want change
Lets hope that's what they really want

-Phill

KoTOR 3? MMO?

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6194664.html

Thoughts? I personally would have liked to have another single player game. In my opinion, MMOs don't offer the same sense of... storyline that the single player offers. That being said, being able to team up with friends online sounds very cool. If Bioware can pull this off correctly, this will be a must-buy for any KoTOR/Star Wars fan. I personally think the KoTOR series was the most fun I've ever had playing a game. I just hope they don't ruin it.

-Phill

Hurricane Gustav | In the Midst

Hurricane Gustav | In the Midst from Phillip LeBlanc

-Phill

New Surrender

"We will all come to the point in our life where we have to admit that we feel defeated, that something has conquered us. We must change, not because we want to, but because we desperately have to. We can not take life in its current suffocating state, even to admit such desperation shows that we are feeling deserted, wandering the barren desert, a shell of our former selves. It is only up from here, it is impossible to sink any lower into ourselves or our circumstances. But we can be salvaged, a deliverance. No vice can stand, no fix can take. The thorn in the side can be removed, but you have to be willing to admit and surrender. Surrender your habits, your lifestyle, your past, your present, and your future. This is your new surrender. The new surrender."

--Stephen Christian

1. "The Resistance"
2. "Breaking"
3. "Blame Me! Blame Me!"
4. "Retrace"
5. "The Feel Good Drag"
6. "Disappear" - 3:39
7. "Breathe"
8. "Burn Out Brighter (Northern Lights)"
9. "Younglife"
10. "Haight St."
11. "Soft Skeletons"
12. "Misearbile Visu (ex malo bonum)"

September 30, 2008

-Phill

The Blogging World/Mexico Mission Trip

Hmm, seems like forever since I last posted. Probably cause it was forever ago.

So what's been going on with me? Well a lot of stuff actually, which is the reason I haven't posted in a while. I just got back from Acuña, México. The city of Acuña is located right on the US Border by the town of Del Rio. This was my second mission's trip ever. After Peru I didn't really know if I would like Acuña, or consider it "less" of a trip because it was just across the border. But if I had to compare the two trips, this one was probably more impacting on me than Peru was. Peru was fun, but I felt like we didn't really accomplish much. In Mexico, I could physically see the impact we were making. There was even a miracle that God let the medical team see on the second day of clinic. A lady had come in and we came to find out that she had a windowpane fall on her hand about two years ago. Since then she could hardly move that hand, and one finger she couldn't move at all because of the pain. The tendon going to her middle finger was severed. My mom gathered the entire medical team together, stopping what we were doing and prayed for this lady, because there was little we could do for her other than pray. When we finished, my mom went to close this lady's hand, and she did! The lady's eyes lit up because it didn't hurt her. My mom felt for the tendon and it was there! This lady's hand was completely healed. That was such a God moment for the medical team, it lifted all of our faiths. And that was just one small part of what God did. I could tell that the pastor of the church there, Pastor Oscar, was fired up about us being there. There was so much that happened that it is hard to write it all down. I never thought I would get into the whole VBS thing, but I was up there cranking the lawnmower with the rest of them. The kids were so cute and adorable, and well behaved. It was really an awesome experience. Unlike what I expected, Acuña was nothing like the United States even though it is right across the border. As soon as we passed through it was like "Ok, we're in a foreign country now". I didn't expect to go back next year, but afterwards I was all ready to sign up. 

Another neat thing that happened was our bus driver. He was a cool guy and we talked to him a lot (well pastor mike did) on the way up and he said he couldn't go over with us because he didn't have a passport. When he picked us up and was listening to all the stories, and by the time we got home he told us all that the first thing he was gonna do when he got home was to fill out the passport application he had sitting on his desk so he could come with us across the border next year. He also gave us his email address and told us to email him pictures. I thought that was neat.

I would go on talking about the trip. About Buc-ee's, the hotel that didn't lock the doors, the blue bus that almost didn't make it up the hill, the Oxxo's, the receptionists that I made friends with, the Mexican prison we visited and saw patients in, the food and all other kinds of things. But I don't want to have this post be 10 pages long, so ask me about it in person and I'll be more than happy to talk.

Onto other business. I'm officially accepted into LSU. I got the confirmation email about my final acceptance a few days ago. Classes start on August 25th, but the week before there is a neat little computer science orientation deal. The website for what we will be doing is here. I'm really excited about starting, my mom and I are going to LSU on friday to buy my books and talk to the counselors and stuff.

Another bit of interesting news, Froob Entertainment is in the process of filming a new, awesome, this-will-be-the-best-movie-you-have-ever-seen movie. Well maybe not quite that good, but we are really excited. We have a website dedicated to this new project that you can check out here.

Well I think thats all I have to talk about right now. Hopefully I'll be posting more often, and maybe the next time I do, I'll have my iPhone!!! (thats another story...)

-Phill

My Setup

Thats right. Now the Mac haters and those that prefer to not use windows can all co-exist.

Check this wicked setup out.

-Phill

Eowyn: Silent Screams

You may remember an artist I gave a shout out to a while back. Her name is Eowyn (yes her real name) and I think I said something about her being an awesome artist.

Well with her new album, that is for sure.

Check out Silent Screams, her new album. You can get it at Lifeway. Its not on iTunes yet though. Head on over to http://eowynmusic.com for a preview of the music. I have to be real for a second. Not only is the music awesome, heavy, and very christian... but Eowyn is amazingly gorgeous.

-Phill

Halo 3 Tourny and various things

We have a Halo 3 Tournament comin' up soon at the Annex 1 - Auditorium. If you are interested, please have a look at http://teamfev.com/halo3/. Its gonna be on Saturday April 12th from 7pm to midnight. Going to the aforementioned website will also point you to a place where you can register as a team or by yourself.

All that aside, I've been pretty busy. For those that don't know I have been offered a full paid academic scholarship to LSU. So I'm pretty excited about that. I graduate on the 19th of May which is SUPER exciting because it means I am out of grade school and on to bigger and better things. And some not so good things, but thats part of growing up right? I'm going to Acuna Mexico this summer on a mission's trip which is also gonna be super fun, but requires that I get a job to cover the trip cost. Which isn't that bad compared to say Africa, but its not like I have the funds in the bank, considering I have been spending a lot lately (changing oil, inspection sticker, WoW...). So while I am not asking for money for my trip, I am asking for the prayer support.

Other than trying to work on graduating valedictorian and working up stuff for the tournament, and the various other things that tend to occupy my time, I haven't had much time for things like deep blog posts, and I don't like to waste people's time reading about how i don't have time to post, so I just don't. If that made sense lol.

We had a LAN party over the weekend (we being jason, jake, seth and I; however some other people showed up too, my sister, Alex, Angelle, and Susie). It was fun, when we had the internet working (my wireless router was bugging out). Oh and I realized that CoD4 is much funz.

-Phill

Back in... Black?

So if you haven't noticed, the layout has changed to my blog. This is in an effort to keep the layout consistent between my blog, Jason's blog and the TeamFEV website. Speaking of, the TeamFEV website is mostly ready. The TeamChat portion is finished, but we're still working on the Videos tab.. and the links tab. I am aware that the splash page does not work in Internet Explorer. My comment is, "Get Firefox newb". But seriously if you are still using Internet Explorer, the worst possible browser to use, you really need to experience the web like it should. Mac users won't have any problems because Safari is like Firefox in that they both recognize W3C standards where Internet Explorer does its own thing, causing many design challenges for web designers. In short, it was easier to code it for every other browser except Internet Explorer because IE is stupid. Get Firefox. Seriously.

Look forward to more blogging in teh future.

-Phill

I may be abandoning the blog

well thats probably not true, but I don't feel like I have the time to be a proper blogger anymore. So I'm letting everyone know that they shouldn't expect too much more from this blog. I may revisit this sometime in the future, but maybe not. I've been needing to redo this blog (it takes too long to load, i know) and just other stuff. If you really want to contact me, get a facebook, its much easier for me to update that...

-Phill

Merry Christmas!

-Phill

The Truth about Hell?

Discuss.

http://www.thercg.org/books/ttah.html

-Phill

Nuevo vídeo!

This video comes from a school project that I did for World Civ.

Enjoy.




-Phill

You feel the core of your being shift, as the source makes room for a divine presence. 'Phillip' has reached enlightenment.

the truly sad part of my title is that I didn't have to look that up to remember exactly how it was worded...

Yep its my 18th birthday today. My party is tomorrow at 7pm at my house. If you want to come and don't know how to get to my house, call me. If you don't have my number and don't know where I live, I probably don't know you and don't want you to come anyway. :p

-Phill

5 days until... ding

For all three of you who could possibly understand what my title means, you know what I'm talking about.

For the rest of you, it means I have 5 more days until I can legally be put in a jail! (maybe that was a bit extreme, but you get the picture).

November 29th marks my 18th year on this planet, 8 of which will have been spent knowing my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.


18 seemed such a long way off when I was a kid....

Also, I still haven't gotten the new Anberlin cd Lost Songs (*hint hint*).

*Edit* I got the new album, so nobody go buy it for me unless you really want to... i guess

I think thats about it, and this will probably be my last post as a 17 year-old.

-Phill

Happy Turkey Day!

For those that didn't get my mass text message (*cough* Jason *cough*), here I am, wishing everyone a very awesome Thanksgiving.

On a more sad note, Best Buy nor Target nor iTunes (and probably not Walmart) has Anberlin's new b-sides album so I'm still waiting to get it. I'm probably going to have to order it online... oh well, I know it will be worth the wait.

-Phill

Being transparent

I was looking over my blog, wondering why I left the Anberlin post up for so long when I decided to visit Stephen Christian's blog. I looked at his first posts and then I just clicked a link somewhere down the line to take me to his older posts. The first post that came up was so profound, it really spoke to me because I went through some of what he talked about not too long ago (and even still today). The full text is here, but here is a little snippet of what he talks about:

"like anyone with a problem, the first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem, well here's my admission. and though i am going to regret posting this at all maybe it will help someone admit something they are dealing with or help someone realize that they don't have to get attention from the opposite sex to feel validated. its so very pointless and shallow. be who you are."

Another thing I like about that post is that it explains how one of my favorite songs was conceived.

Maybe one day Anberlin will do a concert at HPC... I can always dream right?

Also!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Check this out. Anberlin made a music video for their newest single, An Unwinding Cable Car. Its really powerful, you need to check it out here.

-Phill

New Anberlin Album

If you're like me, your heart probably skipped a beat when you saw the title of my post, but not to worry, its not a full album, but rather a b-sides album.

"The album hits stores on November 20th and features 18 b-sides, covers, acoustic versions, demos, and other rarities. The pre-order should be up soon but until then here is the track listing and the album cover.

1. The Haunting
2. Uncanny
3. Like A Rolling Stone
4. A Day Late (acoustic)
5. Enjoy The Silence
6. Cadence (acoustic)
7. Downtown Song
8. There Is A Light
9. Dismantle Repair (acoustic)
10. The Promise
11. Nieve Orleans (acoustic)
12. Inevitable (AOL sessions)
13. Unwinding (AOL sessions)
14. Creep (AOL sessions)
15. Baby Please Come Back
16. Ready Fuels (demo)
17. Driving (demo)
18. Everywhere In Between (demo)"


Also, you might wanna check out their music video to "Godspeed".



And last but not least, you should also check out stephen christian's blog (stephen christian being the lead singer for anberlin) here.

And for those that didn't know, Anberlin changed record labels from Tooth and Nail to Universal Republic. <cite> In addition to the b-sides album, they are planning their debut album with Universal to be sometime in mid 2008.

So thats all the Anberlin news I have so far, and when my favorite band goes platinum one day, I will be able to say that I was one of their first fans.

-Phill