Name:K.C. Location: Riverside, California, United States Birthday:1/12/1981 Gender:Male
Interests:music, computers, art, women, and most importantly God. I enjoy listening to: Any Six Step Records artist - David Crowder, CHris TOmlin, Charlie Hall - my band dwell (www.dwellministries.com), Damien Rice, John Mayer, DMB, James Taylor... Blue Man Group... I like you too... I think...
I'm still waiting for that woman... I once thought I'd found her, but she decided she hadn't found me.... Expertise:I'm a professional graphic designer, professional drummer, and incredible friend....
www.kufestudios.com - my design firm! Occupation:Artist Industry:Art
So here's a post I put up on 'the enemy' (myspace) today... but it was requested of me to put it here too, so here ya go.
Holy smokes this was funny...
Here's #1: "My cat was my child, I was pregnant with my cat. I gave birth to it...sooo..." OH man. Seriously. I nearly cried at the last schpiel she gives....
Here's #2: "I have 6 babies and they all spoke 6 languages before they came out of my stomach"
So I'm pretty sure my kids are gunna speak 10 languages before they come out of their mother's womb... that's my goal, at least. Ha ha... ----
So yeah, thought I'd share something amusing. Haven't really written in a long while, but things are going well... for the most part.
Spent a few amazing weekends with friends and loved ones and truly have been inspired, of sorts, to starting LIVING more. Visiting those I love most and going out and experiencing.
Granted, I'm a new man now... what with going from a sendentary, lethargic lifestyle and developing a VERY dangerous disease (Type-2 Diabetes.. for those that weren't aware for whatever reason) to now having lost 30-or-so pounds in the last 2.5 months, getting my blood sugar, blood pressure, and all my 'levels' under TOTAL control, working out 5 days a week (swimming! love it!), working towards participating in a triathalon with my gorgeous and already-in-freaking-great-shape sister....
A LOT of changes have occurred, even within relationships. For those that weren't aware, due to distance issues and just a lack of readiness on my part and on Kerry's part, we chose to disolve the title 'boyfriend'/'girlfriend' and pull the relationship back to a friendship... so... I'm single once again, and have been for nearly 1.5 months, and while it really REALLY stunk to no longer to have someone to look forward to, the Lord has used the time to introduce me to some amazing people (women, especially!) and has opened my heart to opportunities that would be difficult to participate in as a man involved in a relationship.
This is all saying that also this month I have reignited my excitement for being a father. I've had the opportunity to spend some awesome time with my 2 neices Ella Grace & Lilly Grace (not related, 'cept through me... sorta?) and my nephews Garrison and Jeremy and I've just been absolutely amazed at how incredible these kids are! Truly, if I could, I'd spend every afternoon with these kids just loving them and enjoying their company, imagination and intelligence. They're all full of passion for life, a love for the Lord, and a talent to make me fill up with beauty everytime I'm around them.
I've also fallen in love with my old town all over again... granted it's because of the people there that I absolutely love (Marc & Andrea Judd and their family), but I also SO miss the 'green' and weather... oh man. Can't beat 80 degree days and 50 degree nights... and breeze...oh... the beach breeze... OH... and the 10 minute drive to the beach.
Ugh. If only I could transport all of you that have become and already mean so much to me there... we could have some sort of crazy person compound, and you could call me King K.C. and we'd all live happily-ever-after in perfect weather and greenness.
I'm also pretty excited to be FINALLY visiting WWC. I'm not exactly sure why I capitalized "FINALLY" but whatever. I've got 2 cousins graduating this year and am stoked about hanging out with the family... I'm also freakin' excited about spending allday Thursday in downtown Portland. Kris and I will be exploring tea-shops, new restaurants, and taking plenty of pictures of my absolute favorite downtown-metro area in the U.S. (at least so far!). Plenty of new 'Switchfoot hair' and brother/sister pictures to be added to this joint... maybe some new ones of the entire cousin crew too... should definitely be good times!
Oh, for those that likely don't care, the Kev and K.C. show is still going strong, and is back being broadcast to iTunes. If you haven't checked it out, might I encourage you to give it a whirl?
Besides, I just made it INCREDIBLY easy to check out a genius show by Kev and I, and after you subscribe to it via iTunes, you don't do anymore work! The show automatically gets sent to your iTunes podcast area and you just click & listen. COMON, give it a chance. You might just like it.
...and if you don't... well whatever.
So here I am, feeling good, looking better, and ready to get out & about. Anyone interested in being taken out?
So... whatelse...
Speaking on the diabetes thing a little more indepth... today, while checking my blood sugar level post-meal, it was INCREDIBLY low... like almost dangerously low, which isn't a 'good thing' in itself, BUT it means my body's doing more of the work and that I can probably get backed off more meds, which is INCREDIBLE as it's only been 3 months, and again, the Dr. said he's NEVER been able to reduce dosages on someone in any less than a year before, so I'm a rarity!
Hot damn, it doesn't get much better than that... having a Dr. excited your progress! =)
Admittedly, with regards to my training, I'd like to be 'evaluated' by a professional (or a professionally taught) swimmer, to better my form and strengthening the best I can with the type of swimming I'm doing.
Anyways people, I've had my highs and lows, but generally I've really been reminded the last couple weekends how blessed I am to have such an absolutely incredible 'extended' family. I adore my sister, my mother is a gift (I often don't take advantage of), and to be asked to be raised by and with anyone else would be a lie on my part... but to be blessed on TOP of that by an extended family who are some of the most amazing people you'll ever meet... THAT's an incredible place to be.
Finally, I'd like to share a brief story about kind of a down time I was having last weekend, and how a simple story and song really lifted my spirits.
I think most single people go through stages of 'wishing' where their desire to have 'found someone'... I know for me the toughest part of being single is not having someone to share my adventures with. To not have someone to have the stories to share, to not have someone who is there, holding your hand, or sharing the beauty of the world around us. ...or at least this is the thing that I 'wish' for the most.
So anyways, I'm having a rough week last week when I get a call from brother Bob (Baaabs!) about how we have a mutual friend who went into the ER for a relatively basic checkup, and left on Tues. night finding out he had a pretty serious brain tumor.... that's some pretty heavy stuff, and certainly didn't make me feel 'great' about my week! But, I promised Baabs I'd pray for the friend and especially pray on Fri. afternoon as he was scheduled to go into emergency surgery to remove the tumor.
As I was praying, I realized I hadn't really kept up with this particular friend, and thought I'd visit his myspace.
Here I was, sulking about my week because of a lack of 'someone' to spend my days with, DESPITE the fact that I am surrounded by Godly men and women who consider me their brother.... and then I'm struck with someone who seemingly has it a lot worse off than I do.
In talking to Baab's about what was going on with our friend, he shared that our friend's faith was SO secure in the Lord's calling and will in his life that he didn't even flinch when the Dr's shared the news of what they'd found. What an incredible witness!
INFACT, the friend was actually encouraging all the people in the room that it was all part of the Lord's blessing on his life and that even this situation would be an opportunity for life and joy and love in the Lord to be experienced.
HOLY SMOKES... that's not something you hear everyday...
So upon hearing this news, I realized I really ought not to be in such a funk, as if my friend could rejoice even in this time of despair (or seeming despair) certainly I could rejoice all the more with my seeming 'lack' of REAL issues.
I finally got online, to check up on this friend, and found his myspace. On his myspace (as he's a musical artist) was a song called "Lift Up Your Hands" with lyrics that spoke VOLUMES to my soul... the song goes like this:
When the burden is much to heavy When the climb is much to steep When your heart and hopes are broken When the pain is far too deep.
Lift up your hands Lift up your hands Lift up your hands Lift up your hands!
Can you see the Lord seated in glory? Can you set your mind on things above? Cuz He rules in peace, holiness and honor! A perfected power, a perfected Love!
So lift up your hands, Lift up your hands Lift up your hands Lift up your hands!
Commit your way, to the Lord. And He will make your righteousness, like the dawn. Commit your way, to the Lord. And He will make your justice shine, like the noon day sun.
So lift up your hands, Lift up your hands Lift up your hands Lift up your hands!
Be still before Him. Be still… Wait patiently for Him. Be still
Listening to this song, and knowing that my friend was singing it at that exact moment had me bawling. Knowing that despite his trials and tribulations, his heart and mind were still set upon Him who is the creator of all things.
I seriously had to play the song over and over and over again to let it all soak in, and to ask for forgiveness for my selfishness that I'd been feeling the rest of that week.
...I had a chance to meet my buddy's parents, who came into town to support him, along with a bunch of his friend's from his neighborhood and found out where His passion and commitment to the Lord's calling had original been instilled. What incredible people to meet, get to know and have the chance to worship with!
Ontop of that, they were all staying with Baabs and his family, who generously opened his home in service to the family, and to see hearts changed due to simple offerings was incredible.
I spent Sunday morning worshipping with my freind's family & friends and was just blessed beyond belief... I left that morning with a renewed sense of passion and an accentuated calling on my life to live with the faith and trust that my friend, who had literally in 5 days had his life changed forever, had from the moment he heard the 'news'.
Incredible stuff people... really. Those of you that believe in Him... know that you serve a God who is beyond all explination and words. I pray you have the opportunity to experience Him in a fraction of the glory He revealed to me this last weekend.
Oh man. I'm even all revved up from re-writing all the stuff I've been thinking about over the last few days.
THANK YOU Rocky, Green family, Baabs, and all those that were integral to this weekend being such a refreshing time of worship.
Let's see...what else is up... OH... Big Happy Birthday shout-outs to Andi (or Angela)... what an amazing woman... and what a great birthday party on Sat. night!
I actually played instruments that provide 'melody' on Fri. night w/ Ivan Colon! That was pretty rad... I accompanied him at a little mini-concert on melodica and glockenspiel... oh...and shaker & harmony vocals on Gabriel... what a stinking blast!!!! I LOVE making music with phenomenal musicians, and I'm SO blessed to know so many!!!
Oh, and although I'm pretty sure he doesn't read it, here's a big shoutout to Kameron Straine who graduated from Academy this weekend. What a champion kid. Even though he and I didn't really interact much up until a year or so ago, he's become a good friend, and someone I look forward to seeing succeed in whatever ventures he attempts over the next few years of his college career.
Also, a big Happy Birthday to Jan Griffith, who I'm pretty certain will never see this, but whatever, she's been an amazing support to me and I'm proud to call her son my brother, and her one of my 'psuedo' mothers!
Anyways, this next week, spent with probably my absolute favorite woman in the world, my sister, and the rest of my Hohensee clan is going to be a blast... this week can't get going fast enough for me!
I'll end with a video of one of a worship song that was just released last week by Hillsongs United called Hosanna.... TELL me it doesn't give you chills during the choruses!?
OH, one final thing.... If you want to hear "Lift Up Your Hands" you can hear it on my page right now... it's my 'main song' and what a powerful song it is!Love you all... just some more than others. =)-K.C.
Wow... Jan. 10 was my last post...a nd it wasn't even a post, it was a request begging for someone to lend me their personal information so I could get into a website.
... I'm such a douche...
Anyways... I figure nearly no one reads this anymore... so I'll post here... myspace is a bit of a volatile place to post stuff...
But Xanga? Only the faithful few have stuck around on Xanga to read and post... and occasionally skim over my meaningless drivel....
So in my world... I'm having concerns.
Stuff with health is kinda rough at the moment, hopefully showing some signs of improvement at a Dr.'s visit I've got on Tuesday...
Stuff with relationships is tough too... long distance relationships are SO much work... and attempting to develop a relationship long distance? Sigh.
I think I read into things more than chicks do too. Which doesn't help. Ever. WHY am I writing this here? I dunno... my voyeuristic side feels the need to vent.
This is completely random... does anyone remember when I actually used to post about my day or exciting things that used to happen? Yeah, me neither.
I'd like for you people to check out 2 new groups I'm recently into...
1) Mika... a group from the UK... their song "Grace Kelly" has received a lot of airplay on MTV and pop radio... but their whole CD is pretty radtastic.
2) Forever Thursday... I don't know much about the group other than that I heard the song off a JC Penney's ad and looked 'em up and their ONE song is pretty awesome.
Oh, and I'd add MuteMath to the mix, but if you don't know who they are, that's ok, cuz when their concerts come around I want to be able to see the band in small clubs and not be grossly crowded and watching some screen... ugh. Damn Switchfoot for being so popular.
Whatever, that made no sense, and it's ok... why? cuz it's on freaking Xanga... and like I said, likely chances are that no one will read this.
Anyways, it's time for me to attempt to sleep despite sleeping more than my fair share this weekend.
I realize I haven't blogged on here in forever, but I'll have you all know that I read your posts on a daily basis... I'm still a 'xangaite'... =) It's still my 'one true love' prior to myspace's inception... but yeah... here's a little 'ad' tossed out there for ya'lls... I'm looking for someone with a lynda.com membership. Don't know what it is, click the icon, check it out!
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So I realize I've apologized for this a billion & a half times....
but I'mma apologize again... I posted this on myspace, and now am
posting it on here. I apologize cuz I get annoyed when people
repost their posts on all their services, buuuut whatever... I was
asked to write on Xanga by Lovelyn, so here I am... rewriting what I
wrote...
and yeah, I'mma attempt to write a xanga only post... since I know 4 of
you read this... and only one of you doesn't already read my myspace
posts... but whatever...
As a preface to the following... I was feeling like I needed to
poeticly (poetically?) express myself... I realize meter chnages
through out, rhyming scheme changes throughout, but what doesn't change
is the raw honesty.... it was a day of listening to John Mayer and
having a slightly lonely fluttery heart... but not of loss really...
buuut... whatever... here it is... comment... really... I mean, I
realize this was written for 'me'... by 'me'... but getting feedback
makes you feel special... so...
...make me feel special...
and without further ado...
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[ nel movimento. ]
It's an unordinary place
Running towards tears on your face
Dreaming of drops of lace
in this unordinary place.
Wishing you could be there
see there
beware, it's not there,
you'd be... if you tried.
It's the wish to cry
to express and let it out
When you're not sure why
But you yearn to silently shout.
"Stop this train, I want to get off and go home again I can't take the speed it's movin' in I know I can't But honestly won't someone stop this train"
Not my words, but my sentiments exactly
caring about the past, with a future sunlight shining
Not about growing up, but about the past ending blankly
chapters unwritten, chapters closed, a book in writing
I dream, I wish, and I cry...
not knowing exactly when or why
but feeling like I was that guy
that I wished I'd been, at least at one time
Fingers and mouth, tainted and worn
your mind is sharp, but your body sore
I'm sorry for what I did
they did
they'll do
knowing what could've been.
you're so much more, so much more than ordinary.
Kev sang with a tone of truth,
a tone of the pure
about a woman making her day brighter, the unwed youth
just like you
just like you
just
like
you
but someday, his love you'll find
and he won't be blind
to the fact that your beauty and strength
your eyes and scent
will all be perfectly held
in
his
arms.
..in His arms, more importantly
and for that day I yearn
so you'll finally be complete
finding the love you seek
not in places dark, quick and tainted alike
but in places warm, safe, and dry, not a tear in eye.
I'll never forget
how much I loved
how much I cared
how much I yearned, dreamt and gave.
But John, you continue to put it so well,
as she won't be standing in my room...
as she won't be waking up by my side...
no, cuz she really is so gone, gone, gone, gone, gone.
John your album brings me...
back.
I pray the hurt is healing
the tears are patching
the words are fixing
mind is changing gears.
No, the armadillo isn't crossing the road
...again.
But as those closest know, the hurt doesn't dissolve
like sugar in water
like ice on sidewalks
like a heart gently held in warm hands.
The beauty that surpases even my technicolor dreams
with bobbing strands of gold and brown
with eyes rich in hues of the brightest skies,
the most perfect soft, grassy fields
and the welcomed deep afternoon clouds rumbling with passion and dignity in their troposphere thrones.
The blues greens and gray's dance in the most romantic
It passes, and wanes, with no request for stasis.
I just want a moment, a minute, a second, to breath in what you are
to hold what is only mine in the love stories played out in the theater of my mind
but will never be.
Not, 'will never be again', but will never be
as your heart's tone rings truer everyday with
songs not sung to me, not sung to us.
Empassioned and enthused, I pray your day has found you well
in peaceful meditation of the afternoon,
and a respectful evening of tires spinning and lively chatter amongst loved ones.
The south calls you once, the west once,
and yet the direction being pulled, I've dreamt
is
to
me.
I'll await until my promised date
"4 and change" years from now
with bated breath
I will wait.
Ne'r to hold a hand
to share a kiss
to embrace gently.
And as folly as it may be to believe in truths shared in what can only be described as 'pinky promises'
I'll wait...
