January 2010
12 posts
Y2K+10
Ten years ago as it turned midnight and everyone waited to see if the world was going to blow up, I was in Columbia, SC sitting in the van praying with Joe Creep, Jason, and Brandon. We had just played a show and we decided we wanted to be alone for the beginning of Y2K. We sat in the van taking turns telling funny stories from the past two years as a band. Then we prayed for a long time. When we...
December 2009
18 posts
Introduction to Influence
I’ve decided to periodically post some of my influences for the 6 people who actually read the Cool Hand Luke Tumblr.
One time...
I just remembered that one time a grown man emailed me and said that my lyrics were not biblical. In this same email he said, “The eye is the window to the soul,” is found in the Bible.
“Most of the ways that people work with music and market music and do it, I...”
– David Eugene Edwards
I don't like hearing myself talk.
Do you ever hear yourself on a voice mail and think, “Is that really what I sound like?” That’s how mixing this live record is. I talk a lot at shows. Too much, usually. I say “um” a lot. I start a point and never quite make it. Oh well. That’s a live record, isn’t it?
“Seek what you seek; but remember that it is not where you seek it.”
– St. Augustine from Confessions
Hello Tennesseans
Don’t forget the show this Saturday, December the 12th, at Rocketown in Nashville, TN. It’s a benefit for the International Justice Mission featuring Derek Webb, Matthew Mayfield, and Cool Hand Luke.
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Christmas Time
I’ve been listening to Christmas songs by really good bands. All the songs are really bad. Why is that? I think December 1 rolls around and they think, “Oh, we should have written a Christmas song. Let’s just throw one together and see what happens.” Anyway, Cool Hand Luke has a Tumblr now. Happy Sunday.
-Mark