made up name

My friend, Ben, says that he doesn't think that my friend Jimmy Hankins really exists. They've never met, and he thinks that Jimmy Hankins is just a name that I made up so that when people have a cool story I can tell a cooler one and drop the name "Jimmy Hankins" as the buddy that I did it with. That way, no one will be the wiser, and who's gonna mess with a guy as cool as this "Jimmy Hankins" seems to be.

I think that is a hilarious thought, but Jimmy is real (really, ben, I'm not making this up) and tonight he and his wife invited us over for some Sunday night snack food and just some hanging out. After eating some tots and a few other things and after my son threw up on their couch Jimmy and I slipped upstairs to his studio and began working in Sony Acid on a bit of a song...45 minutes later after pouring through stacks of loops we had come up with a brilliant piece of work that we called "Kings". It was a good groove...lyrically weak, but a solid effort for under an hour.

I loved it. Had a blast. Laughed, sang, played guitar, just exercised a bit of creativity and just had a blast doing it. I love being creative. I love the processes of being creative, and it doesn't just have to be music, really. I mean, that's probably my favorite creative outlet, but I like to write, to come up with speaking topics and deliver them, to create worship environments, to attempt at visual art. I don't know what it is about it...maybe it's that God is creative (look at all of the colors, smell the smells, experience the tastes, look at all of the faces of your friends on facebook...he's creative) and that is the part of God that he made most resonate within me.

Maybe I'm just a rebel who wants things his own way, but I like to think that it is the first reason.