The World According To Chris Brewer

Kevin teaches us all how to impress the ladies with dancing. Watch and be amazed.

I just KNEW I was forgetting something in my never-ending quest for my soulmate.

Simon Owens over at Bloggasm came up with a nifty idea to get a bunch of people to band together and delete their MySpace accounts today, January 30. He came up with a good list of reasons to delete it, of which at least seven apply to me (thankfully, not #3):

1. You rarely log in to Myspace except to delete spam friend requests from nude webcam girls.

2. You spend five minutes writing a wall post only to hit an error message when you try to post it because of all the website glitches.

3. You’re a girl who constantly gets marriage proposals from random men in the middle east.

4. You visit someone’s Myspace profile only to suddenly have music start blasting out of your speakers. Bonus points if it happens to you while you’re at work.

5. You have to make redundant clicks to perform simple tasks because Myspace keeps taking you to advertisement pages where you have to click on “return to myspace profile” in order to continue what you’re doing.

6. You visit someone’s profile only to have your eyes bleed because of terrible page layout with non-matching designs and font colors.

7. Your experience is hindered because of intrusive banner ads that either talk to you or try to reach out and block your view of what you’re trying to look at.

8. You read yet another news account about how some child predator using Myspace has abducted a little girl or that some hoax myspace account has caused a teenager to commit suicide.

9. You’re frustrated with the fact that Myspace doesn’t allow you to post your contact info, meaning to contact someone you can only use Myspace’s glitchy Instant Messenger, message/email system, or wall commenting.

10. You’re tired of seeing Tom stare out at you from millions of friends lists and just wish he would change his profile picture.

So I’m joining the club and nuking my MySpace at 7 tonight. I rarely use it anymore and it’s become a pain when I have recently. Plus it’s just not quite as good compared to Facebook.

I won’t miss it, I know that. Email and my blog is a more effective means of communication.

Anyone else who dares to take the plunge and delete their MySpace?

Just six months into my newfound life here in Springfield, Missouri, and things are already changing drastically for me.

I’ve made two big jumps in the past few days — and they’re both for the better, to help improve me all-around.

First off, I started my new job with AT&T today. I’m officially a Part-Time Retail Account Executive, which means I help third-party resellers hit their sales goals and all that cool stuff. I’m pretty excited about the job — it pays well, and I get good weekend hours. I’ll be working Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Secondly, and actually most importantly, I felt the Lord call me away from Crimson House and to search for a new church body. There are many personal reasons behind the move as well, but I just want to ask for continued prayer for my spiritual development and also for Crimson House that God would give the church the impetus to grow.

Sunday night, as I blogged about in brief on Monday, I visited one of James River Assembly’s Life groups up in Strafford. Quite a drive but it was worth it. I met a bunch of great college-age folks and young professionals. In fact I think I met more people my age that night than I have met over the course of me being here in Springfield. I’ve been running on empty and needing that kind of fellowship and Sunday night was a huge boost for me.

Back to the work topic.

Since I only work Friday through Sunday, I would really like a door to open for me to work in multimedia — whether it be video or still photography, from Monday to Thursday. I am aggressively pursuing an opportunity and I pray that it is indeed an open door for something great to happen.

Things have just started to turn the corner for me and I believe that some good things are going to happen in the future. I’ve been praying for the Lord’s direction in my life and He definitely hasn’t removed His guiding hand. I just pray the final piece to the puzzle is answered in the form of another job that can really provide for me to be able to get a different vehicle and save up.

Then, and only then, can I worry about finding a wonderful woman to complete my life.

Here’s to hoping it snows Thursday!

The 2008 Presidential Election is going to be a tough time for our country. Wait, no, it already is. People are fighting more than ever, within their own parties no less, over who should get top billing in their party for president. Obama or Billary? McCain, Romney or Suckabee? Everyone’s going crazy and paying more attention to presidential primaries than ever.

And why shouldn’t they? Our country is in dire times. We are in the middle of a war that we have absolutely no business throwing money and bodies into, our economy is in the toilet and the only solutions being proposed are to devalue our dollar and inject more funny money into the system, and President Bush’s second administration has been downright horrible — horrible enough that I have forsaken the Republican party.

It’s going to take our nation a loooooooong time to get out of the hole we’ve dug for ourselves. We can’t pull out of Iraq overnight, the economy won’t stabilize in a week and President Bush doesn’t leave office for another year.

Sigh.

Looking over all the presidential candidates, I can’t find one that truly impresses me. I don’t like McCain’s stance on immigration, Romney appears too soft, Suckabee panders too much to the far right-leaning crowd, and unfortunately Paul doesn’t stand a chance.

On the Democratic side of things, Obama talks an awesome game but is relatively unproven, Clinton is a sociopath and Edwards stands no chance.

So who do I support? After looking over all the prominent names who are running for president, I decided to put some huge thought into some less popular candidates who I know support my ideals and can begin to turn things around for our nation.

Check out who it is, after the jump.

Continue reading ‘My Presidential Endorsement’

This sums it up quite well from the KATU Movie Guys:

The one real reason to see this movie is Portland. We love Portland. We love the Broadway Bridge. We love that traffic snarl at the Rose Garden as you merge from I-5 to I-84. We love the old homes in the Hawthorne and Laurelhurst districts. It all looks so good on film. Unlike The Hunted, there are no scenes where the Willamette River later turns into rapids. The city’s geography is portrayed realistically and that’s great.

Untraceable isn’t a totally bad movie, but it isn’t very good and I really can’t recommend it. If you do decide to go, perhaps it’ll encourage more people to shoot their films here and pump money into the economy. That’s a good thing. Let’s just hope that some better movies are shot here. Oh, one more thing. If you ever get an e-mail from a guy telling you he has free Winterhawk tickets for you, don’t meet him in a dark parking lot.

Enough said, and with it having been said, if you go see this movie, try and find me. I spotted myself in three different scenes and I have a total on-screen time of about four seconds, which means you’ve gotta have a trained eye. If you don’t know what I look like then you’re S.O.L.

But hey, if you do see me, you win a chicken dinner. On me. It’ll take some of the sting of seeing the movie away.

Oh, and Fox 12 got scathed in the movie, big time.