HOUSE PARTY: 2009

My dog is not white (compared to snow)

Here is my basset hound / terrier mix, FDR. I usually say she is white with black spots, but when we are outside in the snow, you can tell her fur is definitely NOT white.

It is always a good reminder of who I compare myself to. I think, "I might do some things wrong, but I'm still a good person! I'm not a murderer or anything." But that's not who we are supposed to compare ourselves to.

According to 2 Corinthians 5:21:

"For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that
we could be made right with God through Christ. "

So, Jesus didn't sin, but came to save YOU from your sin. And, he wants to make you RIGHT with God. If this has been a tough year, and nothing has gone right for you, making a decision to get RIGHT with God can change your life!

To find out more about getting right with God, go to http://needhim.org/

Today can be your day!

You never know when a seemingly normal day can end up like this:

You may not be on a game show today, but how many times do I give up on a day being "good" before it even starts? It's all in the attitude, my friends! :)

Are you a Single (song) person or an Album person?

This revelation came to me a few days ago... That there are two kinds of music listeners in the world. "Single" listeners and "Album" listeners

I have to say that I am an "Album" guy. I like listening to a CD in its entirety because I know that is the way the artist intends it. They have placed each song in a particular order for a reason, and I enjoy being along for the ride as the album progresses. Consider it like a movie almost. You would rarely just watch one scene.... you've gotta take it all in.

My wife, however, is the opposite. She loves a hodge-podge of songs from all kinds of artists and just puts her zune on shuffle and has no problem. Me on the other hand, when I try to use "shuffle", I end up skipping past every song because I don't feel in the mood for it. It's a surprise I can handle listening to the radio, you may wonder, but once again radio is like an experience, adeptly programmed (hopefully!) to ebb and flow and you never really know what song may be next.

Do you enjoy a full album like a good movie, or do you let your iPod shuffle when you listen?

Interview with Yancy!

We talked to Yancy tonight about her Christmas CD, the life of an independent artist, and if children or adults are easier to lead worship for!

Here's how to find out more about Yancy:
Webiste: Yancynotnancy.com
Twitter: YancyNotNancy
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/yancynotnancy

And here is our interview with Yancy:

If you can't see the player, click here to download the interview.

Joy to the World - OC Supertones - TNS!

Keeping it Ska with the Thursday Night Song, with some Supertones to get you in the Christmas Spirit!

OC Supertones - Joy to the World - Punk Rock Christmas

Have I mentioned about how Ska needs to make a comeback!?! Maybe it can singlehandedly start with me! :)

Can Auto-tune make a horrible singer (Andy) into a good one?

We have a caller that rings in with a request every tuesday night, and mysteriously will not give us his name! So we call him "Tuesday Night." I was playing with the Auto-tune app on our iPod touch and decided to make a song for him on the spot:

(if you can't see the player above, click here to listen)

J-izzle wanted to try it out too, considering she is a great singer, it should sound awesome with her, right? Right??!?? Here's the Christmas classic, O Holy Night, autotuned:

(if you can't see the player above, click here to listen)

Compare that to my even-more-awful-than-usual singing on the same song:

(if you can't see the player above, click here to listen)

There will be an apology tonight for J-izzle about this. It may be in auto-tuned song form.

Free Music From Vota!

It's a free "sampler" of Vota before they were Vota. Here are some songs from when the band was called "Casting Pearls." But don't worry, it's still the great sound you love! Happy thanksgiving!

Download the free Album Here

$2 Christian Albums @ Amazon.com !

How about this for an easy deal, you can choose one of 50 different christian CD's for 2 bucks and download it instantly from amazonmp3.com!

Three Easy Steps:

Click This Link to get a $3 credit for any MP3 downloads from Amazon

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Click on an Album and click "download"

That's the easiest Thanksgiving week deal I've ever had! No waiting in lines!

Don't Buy Stuff You Cannot Afford!

A good reminder this Christmas season:

Be a Martian!

Hooray for Educational video games! Never since Bible Adventures for the NES have I been so excited for a game that will teach me things, too.

According to BBC News,

Players at Be A Martian can earn points in one game by helping Nasa examine and organize the images into a more complete map of the planet.

Another game gets users to count impact craters to help scientists understand better the relative age of rocks on Mars' surface.

Well, now you can say you've been to Mars!

Be a Martian

Five Iron Frenzy - Thursday Night Song

I LOVE LOVE SKA! And no band (christian or non-christian) did it better than Five Iron Frenzy. Here is something from their final CD, "The End Is Here" -

Before they were Family Force 5....

...They were "The Brothers" - here is a music video of a Christmas song they did. They are much younger, but you can still tell that it's the brothers from Family Force 5!

The "Dislike" button for Facebook is here (sorta)

You've probably seen the facebook groups petitioning for this, and may have wanted to "dislike" a status or two, and here is your chance to do it! It isn't official, and only people that have the "dislike button" add on for Firefox will see it, but maybe it is better that way :)

Here's how to get this:

Download Firefox (a great web browser)
Download Facebook Dislike (it should automatically install into Firefox)
Dislike everything in site! Watch out Farmville!

Interview with Chad from Switchfoot!

We Talked to Chad all about their new cd, Hello Hurricane, what their day of release routine is, why they went independent, and how they handle the fame that comes from being awesome!

If you can't see the player above, click here to listen to the interview

Interview with Jeremy Camp!

Janelle and I talked to Jeremy about how he stays in shape physically and spiritually, and about his current tour and how they are helping the community in each stop.

If you can't see the player above, click here

The House Party Awards!

The Results are in, and the show was a wild sucess!

Best Car or Road Themed Band - Relient K
Goofiest Song - Veggietales - His Cheeseburger
Worst McCoy Song Ever - What's under my hat
Song that makes you want to buy a lowrider - Lecrae - Jesus Muzik
Best Blow out your eardrum song - Skillet - Monster
New Band/Artist of the year - Troma
Band of the year - Skillet
Song of the year - Skillet - Hero

Andy and J-izzle dressed up too:

And here is the 271st annual All Request House Party awards in its entirety!

If you can't see the link, click here to listen (Right click and select "save as" if you want to keep it forever)

Thursday Night, 8pm, House Party AWARDS!

Here is your official invitation:

Be sure to dress classy, and then submit your red carpet photos at facebook.com/thehousefm or e-mail them to mail@thehousefm.com !

We'll see you tomorrow night at 8!

The 271st Annual House Party Awards!

Vote this week and we will have a full awards ceremony at 8 PM on 10/29. Hopefully get the artists that win to give an acceptance speech! Vote now and tell all your friends to vote as well!

Plumb - In My Arms (remix)

It is another awesome thursday night song! Off of Plumb's new CD, Beautiful History, which is more like a "greatest hits" collection. On the second CD they have a bunch of dance remixes of her songs! Here is one of them that we played on the House Party:

Thursday Night Song - Michael Fugitt - American Dream

It's really more of a poem, but don't try to box the Thursday Night Song in! It's unstoppable!

I met Michael a few years ago when he just stopped by the station I worked at. He told me about his life a little and handed me his CD. The rest is history :) Check out his music for free! And tell him Andy sent you!

Find your lost cellphone easier!

This happens to me all the time, I will ask my wife to call my cell phone because I can't find mine. But sometimes her phone is missing too... Then what do you do? Enter the greatest invention of all time! WheresMyCellphone.com !
You type in your number, and they call your cell phone. And it's FREEEEEEE!

They still need to invent a way to make a cell phone whose battery is dead somehow beep loudly to help find it. After WheresMyCellPhone.com, I'm sure that is an invention that is already in the works!

Lolcat Bible?

This is something I never thought I'd see, but the popularity of the lolcats cannot be denied. Go here for a little background of how lolcats started.

Here is original one that started it all:

Now it has become an internet language, which has been used to make the newest translation of the bible. For example, here is John 3:16 in lolcat:

So liek teh Ceiling Kitteh lieks teh ppl lots and he sez 'Oh hai I givez u me only kitteh and ifs u beleeves him u wont evr diez no moar, kthxbai!'

What do you think? Is it a funny way to reach people that might not otherwise care about the bible? Or is it offensive that someone would do this?

See More at The LOLCat Bible Translation Project, and you can preorder the print version at amazon.com right now.

KJ-52 | Gimme Dat (Mountain Dew)

Requested by Kaitlyn from Ark City, and J-Izzle freaked out when she heard it requested, so we made it the thursday night song! It is definitely... odd:

Get a free Photo Book of your Facebook pics!

This looks legit, and I just ordered one, so I'll let you know when it comes in, but you can get a photobook printed for free and shipped free every month from hotprints.com.

It connects with Facebook and other social networking sites and lets you choose your pictures or pictures from friends' pages as well! It was really easy to do!

Here is a preview of one of the pages from my book:

It can even automatically import your captions for pictures too, as you can see on my page.

Here's the direct link for the Facebook page: http://apps.facebook.com/hotprints/entry.htm

How I spent my Minnesota vacation...

I almost feel like I was on an awesome field trip and need to do a report about what happened. So, here goes:

We got up early on saturday, and hopped on an extremely small plane.

Got into Minnesota and went to one of the most famous landmarks, The Mall of America:

There we played a game of "find the human"

And took a ride on a rollercoaster:

We hung out with friends and family... Then on Monday we went to the Vikings game!

Once we got inside, we had to sit down and take a breather, we were almost to the top of the stadium. Check out our view:

I put my camera up to the binoculars to get a shot of Brett Favre warming up:

Scott Stapp of Creed sang the national anthem:

And I don't really have any pictures of the game because I was too busy screaming my lungs out as the Vikings marched to victory! I do want to emphasize how high up we are, check out these two pictures:

You can see that our row ends at the scoreboard. See this shot of Brett Favre being interviewed after the game and you can see where we were sitting:

But it was well worth it, as you can see by how happy we are here:

And here are the highlights from the game:

It was a once in a lifetime experience, and my ears are still ringing from how loud the game was! Go Vikings!

Don’t Bonk!

If you have a few minutes, I have three videos for you to watch and a thought that ties them all together about my relationship with Jesus Christ.

First, watch this video about a High School Football game where the last play of the game went horribly wrong. (start at 1:30 to see one of the craziest plays I have ever seen in football.)

Now, watch this classic commercial:

These got me thinking about a song we are playing on The House- Barlowgirl “Beautiful Ending”

Barlowgirl explains the meaning of the song:

You see great people in history that have followed God passionately and have dedicated their entire life to Him. When you get to the end of their lives and you see the end of their story and somehow it’s like they lost their first love,” says Lauren. “They lost the passion with God and it was so sad to see that they just fall away from loving Him. We said ‘God, we never want to lose you. We never want to lose our first love. We would rather not have this ministry. Could we lose seeing you in the midst of serving you all the time?’ We never want that to happen. That’s what that song came out of.

I hope this encourages and challenges you wherever you are in your walk with Christ. Don’t get to the last play of the football game and throw the ball down when the game is not over yet, don’t bonk at the finish line, don’t lose your first love!

May we all have a beautiful beginning, middle, and ending!

-Andy

Family Force 5 NEW CD and TOUR!

How did I not know about this?!?!? As a crazy fan of Family Force 5, I had to share great news with you about the band... First they have a new CD that is a Target exclusive with a new song called "Keep The Party Alive". You can hear a clip of it at the end of this video:

And FF5 is coming to Oklahoma City for their Christmas Pageant Tour with Remedy Drive and House of Heroes on December 10th! Get the details here.

A New Version of Star Wars?

StarWarsUncut.com is giving you a chance to re-create a 15 second clip from the original Star Wars movie! When all the clips are uploaded, the movie will be spliced together. If you are afraid of not having movie quality equipment or ideas, take one look at the video below and know that you can do a better job than these guys!

Star Wars Uncut - Scene 353 from Jenn Zuko Boughn on Vimeo.

Free Anti-virus software!

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Free Music From B. Reith!

I hope you are loving B. Reith's new song "Antidote" on The House FM! If you've wanted to hear more, then check out the deal at amazonmp3.com. They are giving away a 4 song EP for freeeeeee! Check it out here.

And be sure to vote for B. Reith on the House Music Crew if you love the song!

Thanks to The Free Christian Music Blog for the hookup!

Kierra Kiki Sheard - You Don't Know (Thursday Night Song)

J-izzle got to choose the Thursday Night Song this week, and went back a few years to an artist I have never heard of. Which is sad because this song is awesome! But that is why the thursday night song exists, to highlight the unusual, the odd, the awesome, and the unknown!

Interview with Hawk Nelson!

Their new CD, Live Out Loud, is in stores today! You can pick it up at amazonmp3.com.

Check out our interview with Jason:

If you can't see the player, click here.

Other cool goodies celebrating their CD release:
Check out the 30 days of Hawk Nelson.
Make a Facebook/Myspace/Twitter profile pic (like mine to the right)
Or even stream the CD for free!
Here is the music video to Live Life Loud:

Hawk Nelson "Live Life Loud" Music Video

What the 2010 Census is doing wrong

So I see this billboard when I'm driving around town:

and it gets me thinking:

Why are my tax dollars paying to remind myself that the census is coming?
I don't have a family farm, maybe I should start one. Riding horses is fun.
Why are they using ALL CAPS in parts of the billboard?

Apparently the ad people don't know this but using CAPS IS CONSIDERED SHOUTING! So I put together a radio ad of what it would sound like:

If you can't see the media player, click here.

Need Some Good News?

There is bad news wherever you go. On TV, the newspaper, internet, even on some radio stations. The thing that I don’t think gets enough attention is that God is ALWAYS doing great things, sometimes we just don’t take time to recognize that!

I found a website that illustrates the sometimes very simple things in life that give us hope.

http://www.givesmehope.com/

One cool story from the site:

About a year before my dog died, he started to go blind. When my cat realized this, she began helping him find his way by rubbing against his legs, running ahead of him, and meowing loudly so he could follow the sound of her voice. The love pets have not just for people but for each other GMH.

Where does your hope come from? Mine comes from this:

Hope will not lead to disappointment. For we know how dearly God loves us, because he has given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with his love. (Romans 5:5)

Thursday Night Song!

To be honest, we started this segment to blatantly rip off Brent McCoy's Friday Morning Song... which is always the muppet's Mahna Mahna. We found an alternate version of it and rocked it tonight! Check it out!

Kanye West's Other Outbursts

Come on, MTV, you should have known better than to let Kanye in the awards show at all! Here is exclusive audio of Kanye interrupting other famous people to get the word out about his favorite music video:

If you can't see the audio player, click here.

Artist Videos from Lifelight Music Festival

This is what I got to do all Labor Day Weekend, see lots of awesome bands for free! Find out more about this awesome festival HERE.

TFK:

Sanctus Real:

Downhere:

VOTA:

Me and John Reuben part 2

I say part two because years ago I met him and said the one thing you should never say to an artist (unless you are a relative or work for them)

"Hey, John, Remember me?"

that was followed by his best attempt to guess, which he failed at. Then there was an awkward pause, and I practically ran away.

I see him at his merch table this weekend at Lifelight and I think, "hey I can get a picture with him, and finish this saga!"

so I get my brother to grab my phone and I go up to john reuben. I shake his hand and thank him for being awesome. Then I ask for a picture. I can't describe how awkward it felt, like he remembered that years ago I asked if he remembered me.

Let me know if you feel the awkwardness in the picture below.

Let this go to show you that even though I get to interview artists all the time, I still get freaked out when I actually have to talk to them!

Minigolf happens to be a passion of mine...

And whenever I find a course that looks like it wasn't just put together in 10 minutes, I get really excited. Found this one in Wichita at All Star Sports East:

I hope you find time labor day weekend to support your local Mini-Golf course, and if the one above happens to be your local one, lucky!!!

view the full photo album here

Great Moments in TV News History...

As a Radio DJ, I contemplated doing TV for a while, then realised that would be way too much work. See, for example, this news story:

I'll stick to radio, thanks! :)

Thursday Night Song - Tim Hawkins

J-izzle threw some Tim Hawkins at us tonight. This is not the song we played, but is one of his more popular songs, about Chick Fil A:

Find more at http://www.timhawkins.net/

Hurricanes are dangerous...

So if there is one coming by you, you probably should leave the area. Here is a really good link to track hurricanes:
stormpulse.com
And below is a special message from Hurricane Bill:

If you can't see the player, click here.

Eleventyseven!

We talked with Matt, lead singer from Eleventyseven about how to describe their music, what is in his DVD player right now, and about who they are touring with this fall!

Can't see the audio player above? CLICK HERE to check out the interview!

Connect with Eleventyseven!

myspace.com/eleventyseven
eleventyseven.com

and follow matt on twitter to help him beat the bandmates in a follow contest:
twitter.com/eleventymatt

Thursday Night Song

Tonight we played a remix of Michael W Smith's "Let It Rain" - one of my favorites! Check it out below:

Or if you super love it, Download it here!

and if you want more information about cool remixes and other christian electronic music check out these two awesome sites:

The Dance Chapel
Tastyfresh

Britt Nicole!

We talked to Britt Nicole tonight on the house party, about her concert coming up this weekend, her new CD, and how to sleep on a plane!

If you can't see the player above, Click Here!

Connect with Britt Nicole:

http://brittnicole.sparrowrecords.com/
http://twitter.com/Itsbrittnicole
http://www.facebook.com/brittnicolemusic
http://www.myspace.com/brittnicolemusic