This circle of friends...

Between Blue is not a band. Between Blue was a name a bunch of friends thought up to better vocalize what we are about. Landon Maloney, Aaron Maloney, Levi Sikes, Nathan Gioconda, and Me are all good friends. Not a band. We are friends that have chosen to give of our talents for the cause of growing together and, in turn, growing in Christ. We are not a band. We are a cause. No we don't hold conventions or parade down the street with big signs saying "We love Jesus". We, However, play shows, hone our skills with our instruments, love people, give God the glory. If God didn't have a place for this band, our very profile picture makes absolutely no sense. I don't want to be fake about my music ever again. I don't want to play another show, have another picture taken of me, record another song, go to another gosh darn practice without thinking of how God feels looking from above. As long as we still play shows from our hearts, God is smiling. That thought just gives me the driving need to live like the undeserving holy saint I am. THank you for giving of yourselves, my friends. yes you guys, my bandmates, my friends. Andrew

Currently listening : This Is an Outrage! By Capital Lights Release date: 2008-07-08

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Stillness and peace make sense, but not always, but today they did....

Hey friends.
I witnessed a peculiar string of events today, as they happened to/because of me.
Friends, take the opportunity of silence to let anger just float off. Today, I was tromping around the kitchen complaining about nothing of particular importance but of course treating it like the world hanged in the balance.

I was asked to husk some corn, but my mom directed me outside. It was right then I realized that every single event, turn of events, or change of events (read: scheduling a practice) is an opportunity to be patient, peaceable, calm, ,,,,,,
as I find myself being carried from grace to grace, I am often dragged low to the ground. If only I had the foresight to tuck up my legs!

So in the silence of frustration, the frust. slowly became feigned, till I didn't know why I should be angry. pray for others when you are angry, because brooding is awfully selfish, and praying needs to be unselfish.

I have clothes and I am being called to eat a meal in my kitchen, in my house!
Jehovah Jireh is great.

Another thought during the corn husk: who am I to judge another man? the way of Christ is first pure, then peaceable, and I have no authority to badmouth another human soul.

Peace,
levi

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to all between blue members... and to the world
Category: Life

hey its aaron. since i never seem to be able to see you guys in the same place i figured id write this for you. im honestly really proud of you guys. it really means alot to me that you dont flip out about the fact that life is pulling me here there and every where. i want to throw out there that although  i will be touring on the 19th i will be going from va to pa and am going to see if there is a possability i can stop in to play. or even to watch you. you guys mean the world to me each and every one of you. i know alot of times i talk about as chain and how if one of us isnt there the chain is weak. well im that weak link right now and i know that. im doing the bast i can to book us shows i can play... however i truelly feel God is calling me to do this. you all know i have been praying about it alot. but.... you all better have your butts at east end on july 8th cause there is going to be a between blue drummer there readdy to play a show :) k well i love you all.

PLEAse when any one especially band members read this message me on my myspace :) thank you

aaron

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happnin.

This is whats happnin.

Summer is heaaare for all of us, now, = relief.

We hope you get to heaaare our EP sometime soon. We are on our last song. It has been a voyage across sound and schedule, but I think we'll have a very nice document&183;

Heaaare is what's going to happen:

Possible shows June 19th and July 23rd.

An improvisational four-piece version of Between Blue (maybe Between Blue Lite? Between Blue Low-Cal? Diet Between Blue?), as Aaron helps out Failure to Excel on the drums. SO keep your eyes to the horizon.

I am really blessed to be doing this with friends. It makes being in a band much. much more fulfilling. It then becomes friends making things rather than just a group.

Almond Tree Blossoms?
The Almond Tree?
Some Sort of Creature....?


????

O, the thinks you can think,

levi

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Authenticity and Deservation

So, I just read marevia's newest writing. I would recommend reading it and its bits of wisdom. (here)

I want authenticity. I want to combine my leanings for describing the bold, the intricate, the tint of color, the stretch of landscape with

something

real.

I've been learning about the Romantics-- Byron and Shelley and all those blokes.
Kubla Kahn: I envision the ice walls, the honeydew, etc. but there is nothing else substantial. It's like white bread trying to tell customers it's got's the whole grains (it doesn't. I like Flax n' Fiber)

I always find myself split (when I write) b/w the romantic and the realistic.
I have all these thoughts but no words, then words but no songs.

Aestheticism + authenti city get blame tangled.
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The second word in the title may have been made up, but I mean "what I deserve." I don't deserve much at all. I'm not scared, I guess. I'm just dumbfounded. I'm amazed, that I have been rescued from all that I could have been or could be. The Almighty is very, very mighty, and it's that feeling of turning my neck, over my jutted shoulder like a square wooden socket. I creak, I wear. But then I finally realize that this God, this savior I have chosen to let rescue me is the one I love, with a love diced up by very human fits of mine.

O My God, you are ____________.

So then, this music we create.
Is it even close? What will we make it to be?
Dreams increase and increase and pile up. It's a giant pile, and I need to shuffle through and find the one designed for me.

There's so much more on my mind=
music is translation.

peace
levi

Currently listening : Killing Floor By Vigilantes of Love Release date: 1997-11-18

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where we are...

We are all well. We've questioned our positions. We've had our opinions. We are at peace. I am at least. I'm content, but not comfortable. I'm alway working out possible new songs. some might fit and some might feel just for my own endeavors. We live, we write, take criticism, we love music, we love God. My experience in this band has been nothing short of extraordinary. No amount of money could be worth my experience in this band. Playing music for others to hear is nothing short of priceless. If I could be locked in a room to write and play music all my life, I would. God made this pull in me to every guitar and piano in sight, because he knows my potential. So vote if you like, we'd appreciate it. What we'd appreciate far more is to see you all at our shows to see us and the fine musical acts we play with. THank you and God bless, Andrew

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The Future is Not Shiny, It is Wood-Paneled

This, friends, is the future of Between Blue. Read with a very, very heavy sense of seriousness and truth. :)
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We'll make a recording.... the critics will say "it's ambitious enough, nestled with pleasant juxtaposed surprises of sparkle and grungy bombast paired with foundational well-crafted songwriting. However, the reverb upholstered drums and the sometimes overbearing arrangements of "beauty" and "ambiance" grow a bit redundant."

For the follow up, I would strip down my effects to one overdrive, one pedal reverb, and possibly one pedal tremomlo and delay. A fretless electric bass will have been bought by this time. Aaron would cut his drum kit size in half, resulting in only eight pieces (!). Landon would buy a Tele. Nathan will realize sonorous electric piano sounds and the magic of the "dark tenor" mournful vocal. Andrew will adopt octave'd minor chords on acoustic guitar and low-key crooning, sometimes verging on glassy and textural. We will make a home in an Oregon wilderness and produce a full album in one week with minimal mixing and Audacity freeware. The result will be an organic outpouring of hazy lyrical interpretations of loneliness reconciling with a sense of unavoidable purpose. 'Quicksilver bursts' of blues lines throughout.


And that is the future of Between Blue! :)
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That's actually sounding quite agreeable!

From a month ago, to a friend:
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"The competition STILL has a month to go!
:(
It's been, more than anything, full of wisdom. It's made me think of God weighing my spirit on a balance with ambition on the other side getting a bit heavier. So I need to adjust that, and the whole stressing of unjust gain in the proverbs put me in my place a little bit. We are doing so much better than I ever expected, and that alone is a gift to treasure."
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bye, levi

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.to have a birds eye view.
Current mood: happy

Recent turn in emotional and spiritual souls have lead us to see things a bit more clearly. I've recently come to the realization that I can't completely control my world. A matter of trust has turned my mind in new direction. I still hope and I still dream, but my outlook is definitely not as bleak as I once thought it. to let it all be and not bawl over it. I've damaged myself over the years and desperately been crawling to fix it. Many pieces have been glued together, but many are still scattered across the floor. I want to publicly apologize for my mess though it may look as if I did little wrong. It time for all of us to get our feet out the door and leave the mess behind. I'm just gonna leave the mess behind because my soul has been replaced with a new one that won't break. Should we still kick bad habits? of course. but aching over the all the fallen pieces get us nowhere.

your good friend,Andrew Elder

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Snip-Snap-Snip-Snap! Double take, etc. (Voting Update)

So, in a curious twist, Young Guns, 2008, has,

,,,,,,

not only extended the voting period until May 1st, but also allowed us all to vote EVERY HOUR??

http://www.youngguns2008.com/bands/delaware/between_blue.php

Snap, that's industrious.

Now, once the voting is done, the winners will be announced May 15.
This has been an expedition of a competition. A trek. A voyage. A triathlon.

O dear, 15 days left!!

There's a reason for all of this, so we'll accept it.

Be positive, B+,
levi

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Levi is aspiring.

Potentially...
you see, it’s time to update lots and lots of stuff. And work on that fifth track....

Expect to see some visual changes in the upcoming weeks...

I would really like to redesign this page from the ground up, but CSS is Cognitive.Stripping.Silliness and very confusing.
!!!
heehee, I’ll give it my best shot.

have you ever felt saturated with information?
I would like simplicity please....

This competition has been a gift and a bother...we have been "competing" for two months now, but just by posting bulletins? Writing things?

A war of the words and occasional "public appearances"....
like a Presidential election....

:)

I am going to take up painting, as in real painting with messes and brushes and such.
So we’ll see what happens with all of that...

Enjoy simple things and know where good things come from...

-levi

Currently listening : Boxer By The National Release date: 22 May, 2007

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