Jones Labels
So Jones Soda lets people submit pictures to put on labels. I've officially become one of those people in hopes that I might get a picture on a label eventually. Please visit jones.mattulrich.com to see my currently submitted labels and vote for them. Thanks friends!!
Matt
Photos, Images, and Pictures…Oh My!
Hello friends. I know I haven't been really good about keeping you posted on here, so I have another plan. Go to gallery.mattulrich.com and check out my pictures. I've been taking some pictures lately, mainly at Paige shows, so those should provide the opportunity for you to stay up-to-date with my life. In case you've been out of touch for a while, I've got older pictures on there as well. Enjoy, my friends.
Matt!
New Song
I wrote a new song. It's called "Back To You." My favorite line goes like this: "Like a dog returns to its vomit, baby, I'll be back to you." Great, huh? OK, I lied. I just came up with that in the shower. I think I stole at least the first part from the Good Book. Anyway, you can hear an authentic new song on my MySpace page. It's called "Find You."
Happy listening!
Matt
Sign Up!
I know it's kinda cheesy and old-school (in a bad way) to have a guestbook on one's personal website, but I decided to try it out anyway. Feel free to stop by mattulrich.com/guestbook and let me know you visited...whether you're a friend, a friend of a friend, or someone I don't even know. The more the merrier! Note: If you've already signed it, don't feel obligated to sign again. 
Sleepy I Am,
Yoda
WTH?
Let me define...What The Heck? Ok, now that we've got that cleared up, check out this site. Ridiculous. Whilst you're at it, check out this site as well. Anyway, I am about to embark on my third night in a row of 7+ hours of sleep. Aren't you proud? I thought you would be. Oh, in other news, Nathanael is officially the next Orangehaus Records artist. He decided for sure tonight. I'm not sure when he'll be actually signing, but I don't anticipate that it would be too long from now. Heck, we might even start recording over break. Well, I'm going to get at that sleepy-sleepy. I leave you with this challenge:
Comment on this post so I can know more than the usual 2-4 people are reading my blog regularly. This post could even be a guestbook of sorts.
There, I said it.
Goodnight.
Random…
So here's what you'd call a hodge-podge of topics in one post, a potpourri if you will. Let's get it started!
First off, here's a song I wrote for songwriting class. It's called "All My Days (Surrender to You)." It was supposed to be a worship song suitable for corporate worship. Well, it turned out to be a great worship song, but better for a soloist. Oh well. The lyrics please...
VERSE 1
O faithful One, of Whom I sing
This simple song to You I bring
Accept my praise; be magnified
In You I will be satisfied
CHORUS
I sing to the One and Only
You alone are pure and holy
My sole Desire, I give you praise
I surrender to You all my days
VERSE 2
O worthy One, what can I do
To glorify and honor You?
Words can’t express how You love me
Only Your blood on Calvary
BRIDGE
I am unworthy
But You made a way for me
You run my direction
Despite my imperfection
I might record it someday so you can hear it and not just read the words.
Topic #2: I put a song up on my MySpace page. It was a project for my recording tech class. Here's the link: myspace.com/mattulrich
Thirdly, I almost died tonite. Well, not really, but I thought I might. There was supposed to be a huge storm of "historic proportions" coming through, but we got lucky. There wasn't much of anything.
Next, I must comment on this blog. As much as I love WordPress, there's no community like there is with Xanga. I don't think I'll be switching, but I do have a Xanga so I can keep tabs on my friends. I might redesign this blog so it has a little more relaxed look (like Xanga). We'll see what I feel like and what kind of time I have. That probably will have to wait until Christmas break at the earliest.
On the topic of webdesign, I am still waiting on graphics from my friend Dane Benton to design the SGA website. So when I finally get that stuff, that website will be going up. Also, I am the official designer of artist websites for Orangehaus Records, or at least that's the way I understand that part of my position. I also was resonsible for designing and getting out the first electronic issue of the Orangehaus SPIN, our newsletter. You can read it here. So yay...pat me on the back. Gosh, that sounded conceited. Sorry. I guess I'm just keeping you informed of what I've been up to.
Another fun thing about my life is that I've been reading through Blue Like Jazz by Don Miller. Every Tuesday morning at the slightly ungodly hour of 7am, Doug Irving (my adopt-a-parent at my Anderson church) and I have breakfast at Panera. We talk about life and the book and pray with each other. So far it's been a rewarding time. I feel like I've learned and grown a lot through this time with Doug. I've also discovered I love Panera's dark and vibrant coffee. You should try it sometime.
Hm...what else? Oh, I've been working a bit on helping a friend named Jeff Owen design his cd cover. He seemed to like one of my ideas should the colors be modified, so we'll see. By the way, in addition to doing his own singer/songwriter thing, he plays bass for Joy Williams. Two of my other friends (sort of...one's more of an acquaintance, and the other is somewhere in-between) also play for Joy. Dylan Williams plays lead guitar, and Darren Rayl plays drums. The latter two have played for Jon McLaughlin in the past, and I believe Dylan still does when Jon wants a guitar player.
Next topic: my "free" iPod. Well, it technically will be free, assuming I get it. Any money I've paid hasn't been directly for the iPod. It's more because I wasn't careful when picking an offer to complete and because I bribed a few people to do offers. Anyway, having gotten my 5 referrals, it is now currently in the verification stage wherein the company makes sure all my referrals are legitimate. It says to wait 7-10 days (I'm pretty sure it said 5-7 when I first requested verification), but I feel like it's been that long or longer. So I continue to wait... I'll keep you updated.
Finally, I have some great new friends this semester. Among these are Kalyn Yocum, Megan McDaniel, Mindy Parsons, Chelsea Travis, Joe Balbaugh, Glen Lovitt, Antoine Brown (who, in combination with me, makes up "Mantoine"), Nate Heironimous, Phil Larson, and many others. The first few are new to AU, and the others have been here, but I've just gotten to know them a lot better this semester. Still no woman for me, though.
Thus ends what I believe to be my longest post ever. I am out.
Verbosely yours,
Matt
Pictures
So I wish I had a digital camera. If I did, I could put cool pictures up here for you to see. But I can't. Also, Facebook has sweet photo album capabilities now, so it would be amazing to share my photos with the world (well, at least my facebook friends). Heck, my MySpace friends would love it too. But I can't do anything about that. THEREFORE...I say you should click the PayPal Donate button (down the page on the left side) and send me some lovin' in the form of money. This would directly benefit you because you could then enjoy numerous pictures I'd post with the digital camera you funded. Ok, that is all for now. I will be checking my PayPal account in the next few days.
Oh by the way, you can check out the few photos I do have in my Facebook photo album (because I scanned hard copies years ago). Click here. I have a few more to put up, but for some reason, my superdrive on my Powerbook isn't working, so I can't get them off the cd. You can donate money for a new drive or--even better--a new iMac by clicking the same button.
Peace.
Matt
AudioScrobbler
Hey everyone! It's been a while, and I'll probably update you later, but I wanted to recommend a great site for those of you that listen to music on your computer a lot. It's called AudioScrobbler, and it's found at last.fm. Sign up on that website and download the software. The software will send an update to the server everytime you listen to music, and it will keep statistics about what you listen to. It's pretty nifty, so I thought I'd share. Check out my AudioScrobbler page if you want to see an example of the purpose of this site.
Matt