Micah Redding: Adventurer

You may have realized that the Redding Brothers are a little eccentric. What you may not have realized is how deep this really goes. For example, while other families were wasting their time this past weekend on food and football, my family decided to do something a little different for Thanksgiving.

We decided to create an Anti-Gravity Device.

This Device would be built from:
an old TV
a soda bottle
some wire
and some aluminum foil.

I’m not even making this up. My dad and brothers spent hours laboring in the garage, creating huge arcs of electricity, generating interesting noises, and causing the TV to spontaneously come on.

This was our Thanksgiving.

What’s even more amazing is that this really should have worked. Unfortunately, my family chose to use an old TV, when it really should have been an old computer monitor. Silly family.

The power supply in a TV is OBVIOUSLY not as high-quality as it needs to be to create Anti-gravity.

-micah
http://www.reddingbrothers.com/

PS. Here are some people actually getting it to work:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-ym2aQjvqI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzjEwXEB27o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZsrrJDlrDM

Who could pass up the chance to create their own warning label? I certainly couldn’t, so I went and made one. If you’ve ever thought that some people need to come with a warning label, make them one.

http://www.warninglabelgenerator.com/

A guy named Sig talks about why we don’t need hierarchies in companies, and a friend of his challenged him with a few objections…

* Hierarchies are the natural, programmed organizational model hard-wired into our brains. Other models are not intuitive the way a hierarchy is to an average person.

Explain colors with a hierarchy. Explain the crop cycle, the water cycle, the weather, with a hierarchy. “Intuitive” is not where hierarchies live.

* Without hierarchies, how can you escalate issues?

Involve more and more people. Exactly the system Jesus suggested for resolving disputes. Bring the issue to the other party; if they won’t resolve it with you, bring a friend, then more friends, finally, everyone related. Jesus didn’t allow a hierarchy in his system for resolving disputes.

-micah

This weekend was Thanksgiving. Everybody was eating huge meals, watching parades and football … and expressing gratitude. It’s funny how we feel the need to have holidays for those things we should be doing all the time.

With that in mind, I wanted to express my gratitude to everyone who’s ever…

* Listened to our album

* Shared our album with your friends

* Come to our concerts

* Spent time on our website

* Read this blog

* Encouraged me to keep going

* Sent me some honest feedback – good or bad

You are what make my dreams possible. If you’ve ever taken the time to pay attention to this adventure I’m on, you are what I am unbelievably thankful for, and even though I don’t express it enough, know that I am really, truly, grateful, from the bottom of my heart.

-micah

Folks, we are busy gearing up for the March 9th, 2007 concert at the Charleston Civic Center. Yes, we are working on it already! What I’d like to tell you are some of the things that are going into this show. So first of all, a few fun facts.

This will be THE Release Party for our (as yet untitled) brand new CD. Nashville will get a release party, but it won’t be like this one.

We (The Redding Brothers) will be coming back to WV for the first time in a while. Since we moved to Nashville, we’ve been performing around the country, and haven’t had the chance to play a big show in WV for quite some time.

This will be in the Charleston Civic Center…did I mention that that’s huge? We had been throwing our own concerts in the local movie theaters, but we needed more space, and we needed to focus more on the music, and less on building stages and other equipment to turn a cinema into a concert hall.

More to come…

-micah

Folks, we are busy gearing up for the March 9th, 2007 concert at the Charleston Civic Center. Yes, we are working on it already! What I’d like to tell you are some of the things that are going into this show. So first of all, a few fun facts.

This will be THE Release Party for our (as yet untitled) brand new CD. Nashville will get a release party, but it won’t be like this one.

We (The Redding Brothers) will be coming back to WV for the first time in a while. Since we moved to Nashville, we’ve been performing around the country, and haven’t had the chance to play a big show in WV for quite some time.

This will be in the Charleston Civic Center…did I mention that that’s huge? We had been throwing our own concerts in the local movie theaters, but we needed more space, and we needed to focus more on the music, and less on building stages and other equipment to turn a cinema into a concert hall.

More to come…

-micah

This is the Shirt you’ve been waiting for. It says “I Heart Polar Bears”, with a big red heart, and it looks like those “I Heart NY” tshirts, only cooler. I dreamed up the “Polar Bear Song” WAAAY too late at night, but it’s become a big hit, and now a big tshirt.

Show the world that you love those cute, cuddly-wuddly, polar bears.

Let us know what size you’d like.

-micah redding

Well, this is it. The phenomenon that is starting to take on a life of its own now has a Blog. It already has

a myspace page: myspace.com/iheartpolarbearsmusic
an email address: iheartpolarbears@gmail.com
and a web domain: www.iHeartPolarBears.com

The next thing is photos. I’ve simply got to have photos of you people modeling the I Heart Polar Bears tshirts! So send them in!

-micah

It’s coming, I know it is. The time when Christians will wake up and realize that:

“Any government powerful enough to give you whatever you want is also powerful enough to take away everything you have.”

Christians will need to learn to distance themselves from the politics of power that are so often part of the “christian vocabulary” today. Correspondingly, libertarians will have to wake up to the essential “christian-ness” of their belief system.

After all, if we were to decide to create a truly, deeply, Christian political party, what principle could be better to enact than “do no harm”? The libertarian position is that we take this principle, and apply it VERY consistently to government.

So I have been on a web-search for other Christian Libertarians out there like me. Here’s what I’ve got so far.

Vox Day, a Christian libertarian commentator from WorldNetDaily
Interesting, very “citeful”. I think I just invented that word.

Steven Yates: How I Became A Christian Libertarian
A rather involved, but reasoned history of the progression of his beliefs.

The Christian Resources page at self-gov.org
Favorite Quote:

“Jesus Christ fasted for 40 days and 40 nights in the wilderness. At the end of the 40 days, Satan took him to the mountaintop and offered Jesus Christ dominion over the world… if Jesus would kneel down and worship him. Satan offered Jesus political power and Jesus responded, ‘My kingdom is not of this world.’

“Jesus turned down political power.

“Was Jesus wrong?”

– Michael Cloud

I must be really tired right now, as my eyes are starting to be sore around the edges, and my eyelids are wanting to droop. I suppose that’s what happens when you stay up until 1am, and get up at 6am two days in a row.

This reminds me of focusing. (Why? Because I’m having such a hard time focusing right now.) I’ve recently become convinced that if there are things you really want in life, maintaining focus on those things is one of the surest ways to get them.

My persistent dream, the one that has been haunting me for years, the one that I’ve sacrificed most of the stability in my life for, is to be able to be a musician full-time. It sounds bland when I put it that way, but there it is.

What you don’t see in the blandness are the things that come to MY mind when I write that. I imagine sitting up late at night, looking out over the lights of Seattle, knowing full well that I will be looking out over the lights of New York in just a few short days. I imagine waking up at home, knowing that I can spend my day living out my purpose – not another person’s purpose for me. I imagine writing a world of new beautiful songs; having the time and energy to spend all the time writing like I do some of the time…many songs at a time for days on end.

These are the things I imagine. And I believe that since this is my purpose, it is my duty to focus on this, to clarify it in my mind, to know this dream inside and out, until I can taste it. And when I taste it, then I’ll open my eyes and it will be there.

So, focus.

-micah