and now words from Grant...

Hello there, you-SONICFLOOd-website-visitor-you! I am very impressed that you're here and especially if you're reading a chunk of text like this one. Hopefully you'll find this interesting.

A high-school student, who was doing research for a school project, asked me to describe my influences. This is pretty much what I wrote to him:

My thinking and spirituality have been influenced by several books/authors I could mention:

- Donald Miller, especially his books "Blue Like Jazz" and "Searching for God Knows What". I have also gone to hear him speak in public a couple of times. Most recently last Monday night (August 22nd, 2005 in Nashville)! He writes and speaks about the mystery and wonder of a loving relationship with Jesus, rather than the "commercial" or "religious" approach to being a Christian. He is also very funny!

- Paul (yes Paul Colman of my former band the Paul Colman Trio or pc3) greatly influenced my thinking on a lot of things too. He has some very wise older guys who have mentored him over the years in certain approaches to relationship and following Jesus. Thankfully, Paul passed some of these on to me.

- M. Scott Peck wrote a book called "The Road Less Traveled" which deeply influenced me some years back, but I still hold to the ideas and I am hoping to re-read it this year.

- Eugene H. Peterson's re-writing of scripture as "The Message" has also opened up the Bible to me in ways for which I am very thankful.

- My wife and I completed a wonderful seminar run by my church called "Ancient Paths" that was excellent and made significant changes in me. It's presented by a guy named Craig Hill. He wasn't at our church though. We had to watch him on video.

- "Men's Fraternity - A Journey Towards Authentic Manhood" was a life-changing early morning meeting/study that really helped me a great deal as well.

- I am also a big fan of Oswald Chamber’s “My Utmost For His Highest”. I have to read the updated edition because the original text, first published in 1935, is pretty tough to plough through with it's old style English language. ”My Utmost …” is a collection of daily studies. I always find them right on the ball and very challenging


My favorite passage of the Bible is Proverbs 3: 5 and 6. Look it up!


Early musical influences are many and varied:
- The Beatles, especially Paul McCartney
- Crowded House and Neil Finn
- Early Contemporary Christian music like Larry Norman, Randy Stonehill and The Resurrection Band
- Rock bands like Queen, Toto and Boston
- Hard rock bands like Deep Purple,King's X.

Right now I am loving these newer artists:
- Muse
- The Killers
- Keane
- Missy Higgins
- Butterfly Boucher
- Frou Frou
- Air
- The Cardigans

So there you go folks. Hopefully you know me - one fifth of SONICFLOOd - a little better now. See you at a show some time soon I hope!

Grant Norsworthy
(bassist)

FROM GRANT...

Have you heard about the competition that our record company INO are running? It’s pretty cool. They’re giving away a Sony PSP (PlayStation Portable) to the person who makes the best SONICFLOOd fansite. There have been a lot of entries and I have been looking through at them. Some are very cool! You can have a look for yourself and even vote for your favourite. I am not totally sure yet, but I think my favourite is going to be one of these numbers on the voting list – 3, 13, 24, 32, 37 or 41.

Voting finished on Friday August 31 (one week away), so grab this link and check it out:

INO Records Fansite

From Trey

hello peeps!!!! once again, thanks for visiting the SFd website and more importantly checking out our journal page....sorry it has taken a couple of months to update the journal page, but alot has been happening in the world of SFd and that has kept us super busy!!! wow, where to start?!?! well, since Chris last updated we had a SUPER busy month of July with a ton of shows at the beginning, and then a lil' vacation in the middle, only to come back and finish out July with a bang...the first of July we went out and played at some churches, then hit up Lifest and then we were able to be apart of The Song's 1st b-day up in Indy....HAPPY B-day!...then we finished up that run w/ a trip out to Denver for the CBA conference..from there we all went 5 seperate ways for vacation..kinda sad, but definitely relaxing...i for one went out to California to chill....VERY relaxing... we then met back up to fly up to Nebraska for a show w/ our buds Back To The Bible/Solid Sounds and then to East Bay Area Cali to see our friends in Brentwood! man, looking back now, i just realized i was only at my house a total of 2 days the month of July...the end of July saw us flying around 20 hours to visit the beautiful people of Singapore for two shows @ Sonicfest...dude, these people totally rocked out and showed us how God is working over there!! thanks to Stella, Greta, and the staff from Sonicfest for taking great care of us!! anyways, now we're in August, things are getting back to an easier pace..still keeping busy on the weekends, but atleast i'm home so i can keep my house tidy..HA (yeah right). anyways, looking forward to rockin' out my home state of NC this weekend..it happens to be Jordan's home state too!!! so we'll be getting to see some family and friends on this trip!! well, take it easy and we'll be catchin you guys soon!!!

- T-rex

From Chris,

Hey Everyone!
I first want to shout out to all our beloved supporters and fans in Singapore. God bless you! We had such a wonderful time meeting all of you and sharing our music. Sonic Fest 2005 at Fort Canning Park was a dream. All of the stage staff was amazing, the late night dinners and "real deal" Singapore that we saw was breathtaking. But mostly, it was the people. God's people have a heart for serving others and giving every element of their own lives. This was more than true in Singapore.
We've been home for two days now, and I think we're all back on schedule. But there is a lingering part of my being that misses that place a whole bunch! Mark, Stella, Greta, Kenny.. all of you have a place in my heart. We, SFd, cannot wait to be back there again soon!
We'll post some pictures soon. And I am sure that some of the guys have thoughts that they will post as well. But again, thank you!
We're back on the road here in a few days. Its exciting as ever. I am so excited about the things the God is teaching all of us. And about the ways He is using us. Your prayers and support are all coveted!
Talk to you soon! Drop over to www.sonicfest.net and have a look!

Chris

"I believe in Christ like I believe in the sun. Not only because I see it, but because by it all things are seen."
-- C.S Lewis