Your Hearts Are All Anchors.

yo. so, it took a little bit longer then two weeks, but i hope that you find it worth it. enjoy my friends. Anchor.

BIG NEWS (the old tour updates will continue. don't frown.)

Ok. Lakes is setting a deadline for themselves to finish everything that is in their control for the album by the end of August. this is August you say? well that's what i said when Seth let me know. Another great bit of news is that i'm going to be posting a documentary style video which was made for Lakes during the recording of "your heart is an anchor" that's right! you'll be hearing a new recorded song, and video within the next two weeks. we got to take care of a few tidbits, and then we can throw it on ya. So hold tight.

DAY 5 (charlie peacock and 20,000 people)

wake up in time for the breakfast today. sun is shining, and let me say, although i've never been to cornerstone, i heard a million times that this was the best weather by far in its 25 years of existing history, and it just felt like it was gonna be a great day. Today we picked up Louis at the hotel as he wanted a ride and then we got going. We got to the booth and sold some merch, we were also trying to sell stuff for a nonprofit organization called rise up. you should check them out. they are amazing! anyways, really the only bad part of the day was that we sold our last cd to this guy.



this kid wasn't the problem, it was the fact that the band and the record label are completely out of physical compact discs. i didn't know that ever happened. how weird. speaking of the militia group, some time around noon, we headed over to a tent where rory, owner of the militia group was speaking.



he spoke on being a christian in the business world of music, and he ended up being a great speaker. well, around two or something, we headed over to the ephraim clothing booth and the band played an all acoustic show.







the crowd really seemed to enjoy themselves, and the ephraim crew are a bunch of sweethearts. be sure to check out their site. the band then gathered up their belongings and headed over to the chasing canadia stage,



and battled against the forces of hardcore once again.



it seemed that in the confusion of all the crazy loud noises mixing up, jacob decided he should play bass. looks huge on him, but he made it sound good.



lakes couldn't really hear themselves, but the kids were really into it.the crowd moved down the line a little bit to the radio fashion stage, and the lakes party continued.



this show was filled with a bunch of familiar faces, and we really started making a lot of friends. this is one of them.



erin and her fiance (that's me in the pic. not her fiance.) were from ohio and north carolina if i remember correctly, and they got married a little bit after cornerstone, and spent their honeymoon down in costa rica. they're both in the armed forces. so crazy to see everyone at such a huge festival as individuals. it was really great meeting everyone that we did. the radio fashion show, was event filled. seth played an old watashi wa called "andy" as a request, the was a question and answer period that got a little silly, but seth explained a lot about things such as the whole "watashi wa" "eager seas" to "lakes" transformation, about how the new record is coming along (all throughout the tour they've been playing new songs like "ghost" "broadland", "the heart is an anchor", he also let on that some of the funny names of songs on the last e.p. were due to the fact that his wife got to name the songs and got a kick that people had to say things like "i love that lakes song...latersss. it's my favorite" or "indian lover. that doesn't seem politically correct." well, after the show, the fun continued. A lot of kids stuck around and talked to the guys and becky, and seth even gave a short guitar lesson on how to play "indian lover"



and along the lines of "indian lover" a kid came up who was engaged to a native american girl and showed seth a tatoo that he got on his upper left butt cheek



that was inspired by lakes song, and his fiance.



too good. what a great time. the day continued on as we headed back to the booth, there were rumors swirling around within the group all week long that charlie peacock, who was performing on the mainstage and doing the communion this night around 10 was going to ask becky, and that group that she was here with...lakes... to sing background vocals with him on stage, in front of 20,000 people to his songs "in the light" (made famous by dc talk) and "all in all" a worship song sung by churches. but there had been no call. it's around 7 or 8 and what do you know, becky gets the call. All Lakes on hand. we had to walk to the mainstage, kind of sneak in, because we didn't have the proper backstage pass necessary to get back there, and luckily Anna Gilbert was there to help us smuggle ourselves right in. We were whisked into a room where we learned there were more verses then we knew, about seven minutes to learn the songs, and don't worry, there were only about 20,000 people watching, and there were huge screens so that people could see our acne. No big deal. All of the sudden we were in a room with Charlie Peacock and he told us to relax, that God was in control, and we went out and sang.







It was so crazy. But it went off without a hitch. To be done with that was the weirdest feeling. How strange is this tour. Well, if you've been to Cornerstone, you know how far away mainstage is from the merch booths, so we were a litte bummed we had to walk back. Enter Chico, who then lent us Charlie's golf cart. Oh the fun never stops. The five of us going up hills, jacob driving, becky in the middle, jason sitting on the end of the bench, with seth and myself hanging on to the back. We giggled like school children. We ended up finding a rave, yeah, a rave, danced for a song or two, then i think we left when jacob decided he needed a tambourine. seth tried to find a ride home separate from us because he wanted to watch 'me without you' (who i just listened to, sad to say, for the first time today. and if i had known anything about them, i would have campained hard to have all of us stay. they are amazing. check them out. and their wild lifestyle. amazing.) but he couldn't find one, so we all went back to our hotel room, victorious over the day. Is it really possible to have the days get any crazier? Hope all is well with you guys. I'll try to make the next blog a tad bit shorter.....Sorry.