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Name: Adam
Birthday: 2/4/1986
Gender: Male
Interests: Faith in Jesus Christ above all else, and living a life worth living! Music is my second love, I dare say! My favorite bands are Project86, blindside, APerfectCircle, P.O.D., Tool, incubis, Demon Hunter, Children of Bodom and Atreyu. My third love is writing poetry, pros, and short stories. My influences are Andrew Schwab(Project86), Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Frost, Christian Lindskog(Blindside), Frank Peretti, Ted Dekker, Ryan Clark(Demon Hunter), C. S. Lewis, and J.R.R. Tolkien.
---------------------------------------------------{As someone has said, forgiveness is setting a prisoner free and then discovering the prisoner was you: John Eldgedge}
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2/7/2005
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| Where to begin? Where to begin. I don't care who reads this . . .
God is good, overly good to me. Evereywhere i look i see misery and brokeness. Everywhere i look i see people who are missing out on what i have.
Everywhere i look i see empty substitues such as: porn. today i drove to york to take a written point test so i could keep my license. i took the test and passed with flying colors, and afterward i was walking out and right next to the penndot place i saw a book store. so i walked in to take a look. there were more porn mags than i've ever seen in one place!! It should have sickened me . . . but in a moment of weekness i slightly picked it up and then i realized what i was doing!!! Temptation is all around, it doens't care who you are. it doesn't care how much of a reputation you have as an out standing christian. temptaion is there to kill and deceive. well i'm sick of it . . . i could have had an amazing talk with the cashier, but no, i was to rapped up in temptation to realize that.
i'm not writting this for your simpathy or for you to look down on me. i'm just so sick of what the world offers!!! i know i need to make a difference, but i can't do it on my own anymore!! satan is doing anything he can to break me, and a peice of it is working . . . but another peice of it isn't . . . . Like i said God is good . . . gotta love him for his patients
off to work
-adam gettel
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| Last Stance Festival
Before and After . . .
For me Tuesday August 1st 2006 began 3 months before the actual concert. Many, many hours went into this one day, and ever single minute was worth it!
The manual labor began on Monday July 31st 2006 at 7am, that day 23 other people (mostly teenagers) joined in on the fun which lasted nonstop until 12pm. As a group we put up 2 tents and 1 huge stage (48 feet long, 16 feet wide and 4 foot high.) It was in the nineties all day, with no clouds or rain. After 12pm came and went I stayed awake all night dealing with loose ends until 6:30am when Rob Myers and his sound crew came to the grounds to begin set up. From there the day’s duties began. Another group constructed a 40 feet by 20 feet tent without my help or instruction for which I am extremely grateful for.
And that was where the stress began to kick in. Three weeks prior I had rented a huge electric generator which upon plug in decided it didn’t like the heat either! After an hour of waiting for the rental people to come to the grounds and try and fix it, they arrived to be just as frustrated and confused at the piece of equipment as I was. After another hour of waiting Rob makes the decision to go rent another generator from Mechanicsburg (an hour and half drive to and from,) you can understand my frustration because the show was scheduled to begin at 10am, and it was 10am, also the show had to be over by 11pm due to a noise ordinance.
And this is where divine assistance was received! Only 5 minutes later Rob discovers an entire untapped electric box connected to telephone lines which was naked to the eyes of even the owners of the land! This box lay only 10 – 15 feet from the stage. Sound check for the first band was 45 minutes later!!!
On with the story . . . 45 minutes later the music was started by a local drum and bass band know as “bratcore.” Due to their grooves and stage antics the crowd was entertained.
The next band to take the stage was Boonsboro natives “Rest Assured,” a very talented young group of guys who brought major flavor to the bland black and blue stage.
Shortly following “RA” was “Debello,” passionate guitars, young minds and a crowd gathering these boys did great. Expect these faith filled rockers to go far!
Newly reformed “Maid of Fury” took to metal carnage as best they could in the heat. From head banging to moshing any amount of heat could not stop these 4 boys from claiming their place.
At 1:50pm (20 minutes before their set time) “Inshalla” was on stage with a sound check and instruments in hand completely ready! Unfortunately we had to make them wait until their set which was 2:10pm. And when the clock struck 2:10 their ability to craft music was worn on their sleeves.
Around 3pm “Marsiglia” took to the stage like bread to butter. They did not shy away, their music was great, and many people enjoyed their old school, yet fresh take on music.
Following suit “the Hybrid” rocked out. Completely new as a band and yet amazingly gifted in the art of ‘intensity meats melody.’ Keep your eyes on these guys!
Not unknown to owning the crowd in whatever type of setting “the Alexander Set” went crazy, and shattered what you thought could be metal! I expect them to be as big as norma jean!
Know as the best metal band to ever emerge out of Chambersburg Pennsylvania, The Spectral façade endured many technical difficulties, and persevered! The crowd was in the words of mark from the movie ‘empire records’: MOSHY!
All the way from Delaware “Morning Abroad” drove, and drove they did to meat the heat and people. Their music and stage presence was incredible which was what I had expected since they were going to play warped tour 2 days later. Watch out MTV.
“Fourth Element” made the crowd dance . . . and my mind swim in a musical wonderland. Many thanks for being great at what God gifted you to do!
And after several hours on the road Pittsburgh’s very own “Once Nothing,” almost broke the entire stage from their passion for going crazy. Always a pleasure to watch!!!!!! Can I get a HALLELUJAH? RIGHT NOW!
They’ll be signed ASAP . . .
And with a re-release of their amazing album “Apparitions of Melody” which is only a few days away “Kids in the Way,” broke out of the heat with passion and a purpose! I’ve heard nothing but great things about these guys! Also Breck Arnold had the pleasure of introducing these guys. Major props bro!!
And to end the day, “Spoken” a band 10 + years in the making did an amazing job. As one of my favorite bands they ROCKED! I’ve seen them perform over and over and it never ever gets old! Every single time is a pleasure!
My deepest thanks and blessings go out to these bands for braving the heat on an uncovered stage all day long! The festival would not have been the same without your unique styles and diversity.
Also a great friend of mine named Mark brought out a small car show, with enough free food and drinks to feed 1000 people. If some one left with an unfilled belly . . . well . . . yeah! Many, many, many thanks go to him for blessing everyone present with both food and laughter, for Mark is one of the most loving and funny people I’ve ever met!
Tear down of lights and sound ended at 1:30am when I chugged to sheetz to eat the first bit of food all day (for me.)
About 15 minutes afterward my head found my pillow and I did not wake until 10am on Wednesday August 2nd 2006 at 10 am.
The day began with the finding of a clean up, tear down crew. Luckily it twasn’t hard, and at 1:30pm me and 6 other amazing individuals started taking down the stage and tents. We ended at 8pm . . . we then took showers and ate pizza!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The attendance for the day was 250 people who paid, and about 150 people there to work or play music! That may sound low, but with the heat being 110 degrease that is amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My thanks go to everyone there, for a portion of the day or all day long! I also want to thank everyone who wanted to come but couldn’t due to work or any other reason! Every single one of you is my hero!!!
Special thanks go out to Rob Myers, Josh Redding and their crews who ran sound and lights regardless of technical issues or broken equipment!
Also I would like to thank every single person who did any form of work for me whether or not you were paid! Without you the day wouldn’t have been so amazing. So thank you to:
Rome (TEABAG,) ducky (my twin,) Breck, Reese, Lilly (beloved in God’s eyes,) Carley, Jordan, Mark D (your in my prayers), mark H, pauly, Chris P, Chris S(newest bro,) josh, James, Carrie, Kim and Keren Nigh (my sisters,) Newman(chillest of the illest,) Arcadia, Karen (Scoops,) Dara Gamby, Charlie (chuck,) Derek(my new found cousin,) Rob (the military man,) Matt (love those convos,) Chrissy, Bean (business minded yet slightly fabricated,) Lindsay, Casey, every single band member, every single person who promoted this shindig, and anyone I forgot . . . I love you peoples!
Sincerely (sun burnt)
-Adam Gettel
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Take me home
Take me away from the window
I’ve strained my eyes through glass to long
and then lay me down
Give me my blanket
Hug me tight as I sleep tonight . . . in my bed full of loneliness
your always invited to join me in a lost security
you've always been there anyway
I forgot . . .
you were in the house before I stood in the door way
you were here in this house long before my first slumber
before my first lost love left me to a bed of blankets
I forgot . . . I forgot . . . I forgot
where you first were, before me
take me there and bring me back anew!
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| yeah life is crazy . . . . one minute you could be manicly depressed wondering 'why' and then the next be sitting still and wondering where has faith gone . . .
i guess i've been extremely let down by 'the american church' latly. the whole notion of 'sunday service' makes my stomach churn, and then the fact that there's absolutly nothing going on at my church for me to be involved in . . . or even be at extremely bothers me.
i haven't been putting God first in my life latly . . . i can't pay attention to the bible or any other book when i read, my thoughts are always on last stance and what's going on. I really need to talk . . . with some one older and wiser than myself. but at the same time all of the people that come to mind live very far away . . .
yeah life is crazy . . . and yet God keeps on blessing me constantly????
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| so it seems i am at a new place in my life.
i semi feel like a sessioned vetrin and a scarred puppy!!! God's got so much for me and i do not know how to handle it!!!!!!! frankly it crushing and it unnerving!!
but another funny thing about God is this every time he steps it up a notch he sends you some form of confidence or concil!! he did for me the other day . . . it's a bit of a funny story or i think so!
on friday i was so excited to go see 'Project 86,' 'august burns red,' and 'alove for enemies' at knights of columbis in annapolis md. but no one wanted to go with me except my friend matt angle (great guy) so we left cburg at 5:30pm . . . the show began at 6pm . . . we left late due to my bloody job. so anyway i hopped over to the frappe house and got directions fomr mapquest. well we left . . .
now let me tell you about matt. he's studying theology right now and wants to be a teacher. ok . . . so do not go on a road trip one on one with a theologian unless you like deep talks. and i love deep talks especially the one's that challenge me!!!
so the trip consisted with tons of different topics . . . and we even got into philosopy! but what i took from it was something i desperatly forgot! i was telling matt about my feelings regarding last stance and everything God has for me right now.
i've alwasy felt like a failure with anything i do . . . it's been a feeling on my back for a long time!!!! i was telling matt how my biggest fear is of failing and continuallly failing!
(oh we also got so extremely lost that we just backtracked and drove to htown)
he looked at me and said ignor your fears. (or something like that) and he gave me a 'freeby advice'
to let tomarrow worry about tomarrow. that's the brunt of it, but the implications are intense! cause they mean you must just unload all of your worries to Christ and then have faith he'll handle it.
we then stopped at keren and kims place after dennys and chilled for a while
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