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The moment I found out that my favorite author, Dave Eggers, was one of the screenwriters for Away We Go I knew I had to see it. Director Sam Mendes (American Beauty) takes us on a beautiful journey with a young couple. Burt (John Krasinski) and Verona (Maya Rudolph) are in their early thirties and are expecting a child. With no need to stay where they are currently living, they travel the country, searching for a place that is perfect for them to start their family.

The story is told with quirky humor but does not lose its heaviness. This is a couple that wants the best for their child, but is not sure how to provide that. They meet up with old friends, sisters, cousins, who provide funny, honest, and awkward portals into what makes up a family. Burt and Verona are on a journey, a journey to make their child’s life the best that it can be, but also a journey to find who they are. To find what makes them the happiest. They don’t know what they are doing but they are trying their best to do it.

Is this a hipster movie? Yes. Am I a sucker for hipster movies? Yes. But Away We Go is funny, moving, and honest. A must see.

It's crazy hot here in KC. The humidity is miserable. I follow KCWeather on Twitter and this is one of his tweets from today. 

"Ed's dew point scale: 65=humid, 70=muggy, 75=oppressive, 80=air you can drink. Dew point approaching 80 right now. Temp feels like 106!"

That might be the best discription of what a dew point is ever!

If you would like up to date, accurate weather information you should check out Ed Roberts at the KCWeather Podcast. Or follow him on Twitter, I check it out everyday.

I thought this was hilarious, Shatner is so weird.

 This is my beautiful boxer Ava. She doesn't freak out during storms and I love her for that.

 This is my neighbors ugly boxer Maggie. I am watching her this week. She goes insane during thunderstorms. I hate her for this. I have gotten no sleep for the past few nights.

Tonight, for the first time in about 5 years I am playing music for the public outside of a church setting.  I love playing, and I love leading people in worship, but something has been missing. I haven't had the chance to be as creative as I can be with music. Sure I can change the way a worship song sounds. Sure I can write worship tunes. But, I haven't given myself the chance to create new music purely for myself.

So on New Year's Day I resolved to write some new music and play at least one show this year, outside of church, for the public. And now 6 months later I am finally doing it. Some of the songs I have written are deeply personal, some are fun, others are just songs that I like. But they are all mine, music that I have created, and tonight I am playing them in front of other people. And that scares me. It really scares me.

I usually don't let other people into my private life. I keep myself fairly closed off. So to play songs about lost love, my past, my hopes, my innermost being is freaking me out a little bit. Sure those people probably will never know what those words really mean, but I let them in, even if for a minute, they still got to see me in my rawest state. And that is scary.

So tonight is the night in which I put myself out there. Knowing that I will be fine afterwards, but still scared out of my mind.

I'll let you know how it goes.