“Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer… Who’d have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously?”

Calvin & Hobbes

After seriously OD’ing on turkey and pie several times in the past week, I rediscovered The Afternoon Nap.  It certainly is a thing of beauty.  I also discovered that in can by enjoyed nearly anywhere…in the passenger’s seat on the way home from Grandmas, on the floor in front of the Colts game at the other Grandmas, in a borrowed bed far from home.  I’ve heard that if your coat’s big enough even a park bench will do.

But that’s not why I called you here.  I’m here to mention that we’ll be leading worship twice in the next couple of days.  Here are the details:

Dec 31: Cadence Group New Year’s Eve Party, Otterbein Church, 912 S. Potomac St, Waynesboro, PA.  7pm. otterbeinchurch.org

Jan 1: CrossLink, Market Street UM Church, 131 S. Cameron St, Winchester, VA. 7:55pm. crosslinkva.org.

Caleb

Re: Thank You, Leesburg! We love you!

For those of you without access to the lexicographical resources my esteemed colleague from Winchester, (ie. Seth has a large vocabulary and/or a dictionary; you have neither…) I offer this summary of Friday evening:

We had a party in a parking lot…the toddler in the Darth Vader outfit was quite cute and seemed to really dig our music…worshipping God outside on October 31st is pretty cool…Chipotle makes really good burritos.

Caleb

The rumors are true.

There have been wide reports as to the release of an ever approaching musical project undertaken by the band known as Stereoreel. We are here to tell you that the skuttlebutt is accurate.

COMING - AUGUST 2008 - SAVE ME
The new EP from Stereoreel

A release date will be pin pointed as soon as the Master tracks have been approved, which will be any day. In the meantime, we have been busying ourselves with writing new songs, as well as developing our monthly newsletter. Sign up for it. You won’t be disappointed!

Love,
All of us

Last night at 2100 hours, Stereoreel appeared in Southern Pennsylvania to play a show that was vastly considered to be the most anticipated event in pop culture history for 2008, narrowly beating out the Dark Knight by the slimmest of margins. For those of you at the show, you really didn’t have much of a choice. 

That’s right, we played at Rhodes Grove Camp in Chambersburg, PA to a crowd of 40ish which included teenagers, camp counselors, camp administrators, and at least one lifeguard. The venue was outdoors on one of the most pleasant evenings of the summer, and save for the off-handed mistakes we like to make from time to time, we had a blast! Indeed, the night was filled with worshipping God, the playing of music, drinking of coffees, meeting new people, remembering old faces, and watching in awe as everyone partook in some sort of activity which involved a microwave oven that shrunk tiny pictures to become even smaller. Sort of like something you’d find in Willy Wonka’s factory, except it would not shrink children or turn them into tiny edible confections. It would only set them on fire…

As far as the music went, it was excellent for not playing together for 2 months! Even I was definitely feeling what we musicians fondly call the Vibe. This can also be used in such cases to describe the moving of the Holy Spirit, or getting run over by Dave’s car. Any way you slice it, I was moved by some means. It’s after nights like this when we get together afterward and say things like, “Hey! With a little practice, we could start a band!” Or, “One of these days, we might be able to make records!” Whodathunk? 

So, thank you all for your warm welcome and delightful company last night! It was great getting to see a few of you campers that I knew from years past (Yes, I still have the flag of Rohan waving mightily o’er my kingdom), and it was great getting to meet a lot of you new people! Thanks for the encouragement and enthusiasm, and hopefully we’ll see you soon!

(Psssst!) In order to make that happen sooner, shoot Dave an email at booking at stereoreel dot com

Ta ta!
-Seth