February 2012
10 posts
1 tag
One of the most annoying things about being an adult is that you have to schedule times to hang out with your friends on a calendar, instead of showing up on their doorstep and staying for three days.
There is no truer characteristic of believers than that they should promote the glory of the Lord, with which their whole happiness is connected. - Calvin
“To some you’re like a prison
when they’ve yet to taste freedom,...”
– Josh Dies
“My God and Father, while I stray // Far from my home in life’s rough way // Oh...”
– Charlotte Elliott
Poet Porn →
3/9 Nashville, TN @ Rocketown 3/10 Douglasville, GA @ The 7 Venue 3/11 Jacksonville, FL @ Murray Hill Theatre 3/12 Pensacola, FL @ American Legion Hall 3/14 Mission, TX @ Never Say Never Festival 3/17 Dallas, TX @ South By So What Festival 3/20 Tucson, AZ @ The Rock 3/21 Anaheim, CA @ House of Blues 3/23 Simi Valley, CA @ 118 West ...
Silence and Solitude →
And, in this case, a yearning for it, as I have somehow become, more naturally: a public loudmouth.
Sex-Trafficking At The Super Bowl →
January 2012
5 posts
Top Ten Albums of Twenty Eleven
I’ve been skirting around writing this list since the beginning of the year because I don’t really think I listened to a lot of music in 2011, and didn’t even know if I’d have ten bands to choose from when I sat down to think about it, so I never sat down to think about it. Now I’m sitting down to think about it, and I was wrong, of course.
This year was crazy. I...
30 tags
How Jesus Used Stieg Larsson To Overwhelm Me With...
“‘I need to write this book’, he said. ‘It’s really important to me. I saw a rape and I didn’t do anything. I felt terrible about what I had seen.’ - The incident happened in 1969 at a camping site in northern Sweden. Three of his friends assaulted a 15-year-old girl as Larsson watched.”
- Stieg Larsson - http://abcn.ws/w1rGLS
It’s fair to say that I’m relatively obsessed with Stieg Larsson’s...
First Timers: The First Time I Learned About Sex →
Yet another example of what will either be appreciated vulnerability or self-destructive storytelling.
God's Character in Relation to Steamy Sexy Sex →
Or, at least, some observations that I’ve turned into conclusions.
December 2011
4 posts
1 tag
WatchGod’s Work, Our Witness.
This was such a joy to watch. I am privileged to call Mars Hill home, and even more excited about the work that Jesus is doing than ever.
November 2011
8 posts
Monologues EP Releases Today via Come&Live!
Hello everyone!
Today is the official release date for Monologues EP via Come&Live! That means that if you would like to go get yourself a copy of the album, you can have it completely free at www.comeandlive.com - digital booklet and all!
Just a heads up, should you decide to donate to download the album and support my wife and I through your Come&Live! donation, you must specify...
Premier LTP "Memories" Video →
Premier showing of @levithepoet video “Memories” from next week’s brand new Monologues EP now showing at hopecore.com
Marital Love Is Like Death →
The Mouth, The Man →
Recently, I had the opportunity to participate in an interview with Hopecore Magazine’s Jameson Ketchum. We talked about the life and the wife and the changes and the EP and Come&Live! and friends and family and Jesus and all kinds of neat things, really. Well, you can see it here in the November issue.
“… and while his death was ugly we must not let it scare us from God....”
– La Dispute
Chocolate (05/08/2008)
just out the back door and on the wall you smile at me and then decide to fall
straight into my arms
what if that day i had turned away and what if that night
she hadn’t heard me say
i’d die for you any day and would you like to fly away
with me
and as i remember i hold her tight
and we lie close together and shiver well into the night
“when you’re not around,...
October 2011
12 posts
“Remember, anger is temporary insanity.”
– Spurgeon
Cigarette
black, black, bled
and we all dress up in red
to be certain to proclaim our worth
live, live, life
no regrets when we die
but we all return back to the same earth
i walk on you
someday you’ll walk on me too
i feed on you
you feed on me too
dust to
dust to
dust to
dust
i return
and i burn
into the ash that falls cold
from the end of your cigarette
blue, blue, blood
gives...
2003 and we called it "Tragedy" (you know who you...
tuesday night and it’s cold outside the window
he says man, if this is what we’re in for i think i’d better wear my new coat
cause the rainwater river’s floating down the gutter
a little quicker than it was a half hour ago
and the rainwater gutter’s looking pretty pretty right now
and he shouts it’s getting colder
things are different when we’re...
Behind The Scenes w/ XXXChurch & Simply Youth... →
This weekend, I flew to Burbank to film a four week youth curriculum for Simply Youth Ministry that will be out next year alongside Craig Gross and Chris Clapp w/ XXXChurch. I know it won’t be new to any of you, but here’s a little behind the scenes footage of Pretty In Pornography, which will be an extra feature on the DVD. Enjoy here.
I swear God lives in the city. He’s got a thousand blinking eyelids and he peaks out beneath the window panes from a thousand colored irises. They stretch high into the reflection of the sky from mud puddles that ripple from the vibrations of the cars driving by. And I look down at them, rock back and forth, from heel to toe, over a crack in the pavement, singing to myself: “Well, God so loved the...
FREE PREORDER CONTEST
Well, there’s a contest going on for a free LTP EP pre-order package at http://levithepoet.net and I figure that those of you on here have as much of right to know about it as the twitter / FB folks. Do it up.
Two Million Of You Naked And Spread Out Across The...
this morning i woke with an
uncontrollable urge to hit my reflection in the mirror
as hard as i could so that the glass would shatter
into basic tiny fragments and litter the floor
with my two million little faces
staring back at me
glittering and smirking and spread out across the tile.
like somehow that might fix the problem.
like quick, violent outbursts might be the solution to the...
XXXChurch Blog: Creatures Of Habit →
LTP Interview w/ The Common Eclectic →
Meet Levi Macallister, a.k.a. Levi the Poet, a spoken word artist based out of ‘everywhere ‘Merica’. We got to have an internet ‘sit down’ with Levi discussing his existence as Levi the Poet, ‘Touring and living life relentlessly… an authentic expression of what it is to wear your heart on your sleeve’. What follows is what he had to say- without...
1 tag
September 2011
1 post
Bring Back Emo Music
“I called to tell you I love you, and I called to tell you I’m leaving.” Oh, we were a temperamental spark and we were a quick, fleeting season, and any swift, evening wind could have blown us a kiss to keep the embers burning, but we smoldered into ashes and we stopped yearning for a flame that burned blue enough to melt our hearts together, but, “I called to tell you that I’ll never leave, and...
August 2011
2 posts
21 tags
A Call To Consistency
When I read the book of Revelations, I’m nearly overwhelmed by its apocalyptic language. In fact, this last time through, all I could hear was a booming composition similar to the Inception soundtrack in my head - the part where all of the buildings are falling to pieces in DiCaprio’s limbo - you know what I’m talking about?
I just finished M’Cheyne’s One Year Bible...
July 2011
11 posts
Birthday Musings and the Respect That I Have For...
Well, let me tell you how this goes: I always have some things to say until I sit down in front of my computer to write them, and then: woosh! they vanish into thin air. It’s as if all of the thoughts that are always going through my head get together and have little meetings - like a committee of tricksters that agree to convince me it is a good time to get some of them out on paper, and...
A Heads Up & My Prayer For You
Dear anyone / everyone interested in seeing me perform on this month’s C&L! Arrows Are Deadly tour: I will be performing at least one poem (“Kaleidoscope” - available for free download at http://amanofmanywords.com) every night to introduce White Collar Sideshow. On some nights, where time allows, I will have a set that begins twenty minutes PRIOR to the package. It would be...
A Prostitute, A Prayer, An Explaination... →
Hello everyone,
I just posted a poem that I wrote a long time ago called “Kaleidoscope”. I have had a video of it posted for quite a while online from a XXX Church youth event that I took part in last year, and frankly, I should’ve made it available to everyone a long time ago. I suppose I just thought that I would finally play catch-up in what has been such an insane year in...
