Sex God and Footsoldiers

So I was recently passed the baton of heading up Switchfoot's street team, the Footsoldiers. My good friend Katherine asked me last week to take over for her and I said yes, no hesitation. What an honor and a blessing to be working for such a beautiful and powerful movement, and such incredible people. I'm excited to see where it takes me, and hopefully, where I can take it.

Also, can't wait for Rob Bell's new book, Sex God. Should be out sometime in March. If you haven't read his previous one, Velvet Elvis, please do yourself a huge favor and turn those pages.

Much love.

Open Your Eyes

Last night I was driving down the 5, back home from meeting with my buddy, Bryan, in Anaheim. I thought I would give the new Snow Patrol album a listen, so I tuned up the iPod and was transported into symphonic rock melodies that made me want to tear off into the sunset, running headlong across the surface of the ocean to the perfect horizon line waiting nations away. My bones and muscles were chilled and frozen from the sounds coming from each song. One in particular, Open Your Eyes. If you want to experience something ridiculously beautiful, powerful, and positively overwhelming, listen to track 10, and loud. Sometime when you're alone in a room or your car, close your eyes, open the window of your room and of your soul, and let the music lift you. And when you get to 3:53 in the song, the melodies will overtake you and make you want to let go. The symphonic climax is loud and big and gorgeous, and you will feel drops of love and joy dripping down the walls of your heart. The music at three minutes and fifty three seconds will absolutely shake you. When I hear it, I can't help but think that God is smiling. For the next 90 seconds, you will be elevated...

Symphony Above The Trees

When the leaves begin to fall
Will you still believe
Because somewhere deep inside
There's a symphony above the trees

From green to red and back again our colors change
And then one day we lose our grip
When the wind shifts and takes you along
Don't forget that you'll be picked up once you slip

When the leaves begin to fall
The colors begin to crumble and bleed
But remember that we will sing again
For the symphony is born by the seed

And by the symphony we will believe...

Window In The Skies

Goodnight! U2's brought the heat again. Check out their new single, "Window In The Skies"...

We Are Marshall

Wow! Please see this movie...

Switchfoot and Harry Potter

I'm crying at the moment over 2 things...

1. I cannot wait for Switchfoot's new album on the 26th.
2. The title for Harry Potter 7 was just released.

Diggin' This Album...

RIGHT NOW...

My beautiful wife sleeps on our white couch. She is recovering from getting her wisdom teeth removed. She is the most beautiful thing in all the world when she sleeps. I have a coffee stain on my white v-neck t-shirt. I mis-sipped while I was reading the latest Paste Magazine. I finished Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince last night and can’t wait for the 7th to come out. I’m pumped that Duke won yesterday. I’m also pumped that USC lost, giving us OSU fans a hope for one more chance to smoke Michigan. I drank two cups of coffee today. I’m trying to figure out what book to read next (probably East of Eden or the first in the Lemony Snicket series). I really want to go back to Ohio for Christmas. I’m crazy in love with the woman sleeping on my couch, and now it’s time to go take care of her some more…

THOUGHTS AT 10:21 P.M.

I'm sitting at my kitchen table, staring across the room at my beautiful wife who is seated at our other computer (a nice, cheap eMac that we found on Craig's List) and thanking God for my life. Tonight was one of those nights you can't find the words to describe, but somewhere inside, you know God is playing a symphony. On top of living with my best friend and the love of my life, I got to spend time with my close brothers tonight for a little thing we do every Monday night now. We get together, grill some food, drink some wine, and sit around a table and go deep about God and life. Tonight we took some Scripture from Matthew 19 and hashed through it. What an incredibly refreshing thing to do. I cherish this time with my brothers, digging deep, challenging and chiseling away at each other in hopes of finding deeper meaning and purpose to our lives, and in the end, finding more of Christ. It's all too beautiful to put into words in an online journal.

And then I drive across town, walk through the door of my new home, and wrap my ridiculously gorgeous wife in my arms and tell her I love her. Whatever is going on, please keep signing me up...

I'm raising my glass of chocolate milk to love tonight...

I'M MARRIED...OH! GRAVITY

Well folks, Seth Bennett Williams is now officially married and he is the happiest man who has ever lived. The woman of my dreams now has my last name...ARE YOU KIDDING ME??? We live in a little apartment in Encinitas that we're currently putting together. We have to make it nice for the little gnomes that live with us. But honestly, there is nothing more beautiful than falling asleep with my best friend and the woman of my dreams in my arms at night. I'm in the stars.

Switchfoot's new site is now up. You can listen to clips of all the tracks on the new album, Oh! Gravity. Check it out.

Much love,
Seth

17 Days...

So I'm trying these Crest White Strips in hopes that I might have neon white teeth for the wedding. So far so good till today when I did two back to back while sitting at my computer at work. HELLO! I think my right #3 incisor is up in flame right now. I'm not even sure if there is such thing as a right #3 incisor, but who cares. My tooth is pretty much crazy sensitive to everything under the sun right now. And another thing about Crest White Strips...who had to make them so dang slippery on your teeth? You put one on and the next thing you know it's at the top back of your gums or something. The whole 30 minutes is a balance between straightening the dang things and trying not to go near anyone because you're foaming profusely at the mouth. Whatever, as long as they bring me snow white teeth by the 29th.

I have never wanted to be married more than today. If it were any longer than 17 days I'd probably go insane. I want to be married like there's no tomorrow! God, please help me through these next 17 days without blacking out and messing up my neon white teeth...

Much love, friends. Tonight I'll be dreaming of the woman I don't deserve, the woman of my dreams, and the woman I will call my wife in 17 turns of the sun...

2 things I'm excited about that come out tomorrow:
Continuum • John Mayer
Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven But Nobody Wants To Die • David Crowder

27 Days...

To Love The Woman You Love

Sometimes it's hard to love the woman you love
When you're under the blanket of rules
Sometimes it's hard to suppress your passion
When you're on a train full of jewels

The wheels continue in motion
Leading us a couple thousand miles east of the ocean
And we can breathe the day, it's so close
When the blanket will be lifted
And the rules will fade like a ghost

Sometimes it's hard to love the woman you love
When the world is leading you the wrong way
But sometimes it's easy to love the woman you love
When you remember that love has brought you here today

My love, I am here to tell you
That you are more beautiful than all the angels painting the sky
And when you lay your head to rest tonight
Remember that I will love you till the day I die

Sometimes it's easy to love the woman you love
When she is the one you can't stop dreaming of

And when I close my eyes tonight
Under the canvas of stars above
I will thank my Father in the skies
For there is nothing more beautiful
Than to truly love the woman you love

32 Days...

Little Miss Sunshine
See this movie.

35 Days...

My man Griffin House has done it again. Please do yourself a favor and give Homecoming a listen today. I haven't got the coin to buy it yet, but it doesn't hold me back from listening to the 30 second tease of each song on iTunes over and over. This dude can flat-out play. One of the top five songwriters in the world right now, hands down. Support my brother and buy a copy and listen to it till you brake it and have to buy another. It's just that good.

Love someone today.
Seth

39 Days...

Here's a list of movies I can't wait to see...

The Departed
Half Nelson
The Last Kiss
The Science of Sleep
Everyone's Hero
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

63 Days...

I want some Caribou Coffee right now. Even since I left the Midwest I haven't been able to get my hands on a cup except for the few times a year I fly through Minneapolis or stop by the hometown locations back in Ohio. Kel and I are heading back to Cinci next week for a Stolarski family vacation...that's right, I'm finally getting to go along, since I'm now 62 days away from officially being family. It's an honor that I get to go, and it's an honor that I get to call this wonderful group of people family.

I'm reading some Harry Potter right now. Order of the Phoenix to be exact. Great read, this Potter. Kel and I are going to try and finish it on vacation so we can run headlong into book 6. I've been dreaming a lot today about starting a coffee company. I know, I'm a freakin' dreamer if there ever was one, but I'm serious. I have a dream and a vision and I think it could be a really cool deal. And it would for sure have free wireless. No more of this pay for internet crap. That's straight bogus. A neighborhood coffee shop, sort of in the same league as Caribou, but focusing not only on coffee, but books as well. Good literature. Not a Barnes and Noble kind of deal either. A comfortable coffee shop that feels like a homestyle living room, complete with tables and couches and fireplace (you gotta have the fireplace), and then shelves with books. A place where people can come and buy a brew and grab a good piece of literature off a shelf along the wall like in their own home and read it, buy it, put it back for later, whatever they want. Who knows, could be a good thing. It'd probably be called Festival Coffee. Starbucks will probably be out of business within its first year.

Much love, friends. It feels good to write. I'm getting married in 62 days and I might just pass out I'm so excited. I'm crazy in love with my best friend, and it's just a little bonus that she also happens to be the most beautiful woman in all the world.

San Diego is as hot as McDonald's coffee right now.
Seth

77 Days...

My dad emailed me today and reminded me of some beautiful words penned by Frost. "Love knows no devotion like playing shore to the ocean." Simply gorgeous. For the first time in a year, I'm back to being thousands of miles away from the woman I love. Kel's back in Chicago for a wedding and I am sitting at work thanking God for her as I stare out a wall of windows on the 5 freeway. Missing someone does things to your heart that are simply indescribable. Even being apart for just a day, a thousand things that I love about Kel come rushing at me. The feeling of her soft hand in mine, the smell of her hair when she is in my arms, her feet in my lap when I drive. The list goes on. As I learn to love, I am also learning more and more how much I truly need God. I am selfish. I crave to be refined. I want to love the way Jesus loves me, you, us. I want to be able to love with a passion straight from my Father, a love that doesn't worry about the reflection in the mirror or what others think. I want to love my future wife the way that God designed it to be. No chains, no games. And Kel, if you are reading this, know that there is nothing in all the world more beautiful and irresistible than you. Thank you for saying yes to me for a lifetime. I don't deserve a second with you, but I cannot wait to spend the rest of my life as your man.

"Love knows no devotion like playing shore to the ocean."

Seth

81 Days...

I wrote this sometime last year. Hope it shakes you.

Dry Up The River

It’s time to dry up the river
That separates the black from the white
It’s time to arm ourselves with the weapon of love
In this battle we’ve been called to fight

Love is not a drug that runs out
Love is the potion that we’re all about
It’s time to dry up the river
Between the sick and the healthy
It’s time to open arms of peace
Instead of building a wall between the poor and the wealthy

Cuz one day the world is going to fade
And what will last but the love you made

The hate and the fists
The separation you won’t miss
Continents and countries
States and seas
We don’t live in a land
Meant to be separated by these
It’s time we threw love in the middle
And began to believe

That someday this land will be free
And neighbors we will be
From east coast to west coast
From the south pole to the northern most

We will walk together
And we will live together
And all the races and all the faces
Will sing together in harmony…

It’s time to dry up the river
That separates me from you

The day is gonna come
When all the colors will run
Into love in shades of you and me
Brothers and sisters, we are one
And we are free

It’s time to kiss the sand
Open your eyes, lend a hand
Spread your arms wide
Open your eyes to the skies
And remember that if we wanna fly
Love is the only direction when we die

It’s time to dry up the river
That separates black from white
Love is the only fuel
For a soul in flight

Let’s dry up this river tonight
Let’s dry up this river tonight
Let’s dry up this river that is separating
The wrong from the right

It’s time to dry up this river
That is keeping me from you
It’s time to dry up this river
Love has too much to do

Love has too much for you…

© 2006 Seth Williams

95 Days...

Clouds part like dirt from a soul
And your sky can be seen.
Clap your hands, it's a beautiful day,
Even all the sinners are free...

Yesterday, England won. That little blue-booted Beckham hooked a ball coated in mad english into the far corner of the goal to beat the boys of Ecuador. I hope to see England take home the Cup, but too many solid teams are left to say just yet. Brazil is still in it and they're a squad stacked with soccer wizards. You never know. Football is a fascinating deal.

If you want to be shaken, throw on Keane's new album, "Under the Iron Sea" and skip to track 8, "Crystal Ball". Damn, that's a fine tune. Listen to the whole album because it's phenomenal, but after "Crystal Ball", turn to track 11 and be elevated by the melodies of "The Frog Prince".

I'm finishing a cold cup of coffee. It's time to go. Going to pick up my girl to do some late night grocery shopping.

To a better place I am being carried.
In 94 days this boy will be married...

Seth

100 Days...

Brothers, sisters, dreamers, lovers, bratwurst eaters, Flybar clowns, and World Cup addicts...

Today is a beautiful day. Why? Becuase one, I am alive and breathing the fumes of truth and love, two, today marks fourteen months that Kel and I have been together, three, I'm going to buy Keane's new album, and four, we just hit double digits in the countdown to being husband to the most beautiful woman who has ever lived! HELLO! WATCH OUT! Can you hear the chorus of little garden gnomes all over the world singing, "99 days, 99 days..."! What the? I'm not sure what that meant, but who cares. I'm excited.

Update on the Cup...My boys from England moved on. In honor, I'm going to go no shirt all day at work. Could be a bit awkward, but why not celebrate with a bare chest. The Cup only happens once every four years! If USA wins tomorrow against Ghana and Italy smokes the Czechs, then I will complete the outfit and remove the pants as well.

Donnie, if you're reading this, I'm a thousand miles beyond envious of you being there at the Cup. Flybar on, my friend. Let love be the force that guides you and the pogo. Can't wait to see you soon!

I'm off to dream of her. 99 days and counting...

Love today with wind of passion.

Seth