David Quotes

Especially those that you missed :-)

By TraceWillow

Don’t we sometimes wonder what David is REALLY thinking behind that innocent-looking face and that angelic smile?

These captions are just in jest  –  won’t it be fun though to be able to read his mind?     :D

Click the pics to enlarge them and use the subsequent arrows to navigate

“Dang those tinted lenses they made me wear”

“Don’t download my music illegally”

“Ok enough…stop calling me Ah Pek”

“Mr Spielberg? An extravaganza vampire role?”

“Oh yes, Mr. President, this is David Archuleta…may I help you?”

“You’re sure it won’t fall off?”

“How many times do I have to tell them I wanna write my own music?”

“Whack the haters? Naah…I’ll just whack the drum”

“I love my fans. They are always doing things for me…and to me”

“He should have given me 2 stomachs instead of vocal paralysis”

“Stop pinching me Cook, you’ve won already”

“Hmm…that chick looks cute. Pity she’s my Mom’s age”

“When I grow up, I want to be David Archuleta”

“Sorry Mum, promise I’ll try not to miss the ball next time”

“Yes girl, you are cute but sorry, I am waay cuter”

“I wonder if I’ll look like them one day”

“The truth is, I went to the gym but got into the wrong machine. It pumped up my chest and arms but not my height”

IMAGINE – A Love Story

By Tracewillow

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most
We ask ourselves ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and famous?’
Actually, who are you not to be?
When we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people
permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fears,
our presence automatically liberates them.

- Nelson Mandela -

Imagine
A cry calls out to me
Imagine
A torrent of elixir engulfs me
Awake and sleep no more, it says
Listen and sleep no more, it says
         A desert’s poignant lament haunting me, yet pastoral rusticity
         A tidal wave’s merciless revelling drowning me or is it godly benevolence
         Or perhaps just 2 smiling arms, inviting
         Speaking to me, soothing yet incensing
I cannot tell if I have been healed or mortally wounded
I only know I grew wings and floated away

Imagine
That cry calls out again
Imagine
Ponderment dancing in a web
So many chances to take, it says
So many ways one can tumble, it says
         Unburden your faithless faltering heart, dear one
         Today tomorrow and always more than ever before
          I will walk steadfastly beside you
         Even though your light should in time incomprehensibly dim
As each ignorant generation callously moves on
And possibly never even heard your name

BEGIN: ALBUM COVER AND TRACK LIST

It’s official folks. Here is the album cover for David’s new album BEGIN:

And here is the confirmed track list:

1 – Beautiful
2 – Somewhere Only We Know
3 – Everybody Hurts
4 – Don’t Give Up
5 – Angel
6 – Bridge Over Troubled Water
7 – Broken
8 – True Colors
9 – Pride (In The Name Of Love)
10 – Be Still My Soul

Truth be told, I’m really surprised at the track list as I thought it would comprise of more spiritual songs along the lines of Be Still My Soul, etc. But, I have to say I’m loving the selection and am really curious to see what he does with some of the songs cause they honestly are some of my favourites.

For those of you who are not familiar with the songs, a youtube user called cheche3d was kind enough to do a playlist of the songs listed. Do check it out HERE.

Spring cleaning

Hey all. I thought it was high time we did some spring cleaning here at AAM. Come September this year AAM will be 4 years old and I thought maybe we should go with a new look. I looked around the store of custom themes that WordPress supplies and settled on this one called ‘Chateau’. It’s major advantages are that it allows a lot more customizing. For example the banner is much larger for moi to post images and the huge pic of David that you see staring out at you is thanks to the background custom feature of this particular theme. So you can expect more of such jaw dropping photos to be posted on AAM in future. The color scheme can also be changed at will so that’s another plus.

The other theme that I experimented with was the so called ‘Chilean’ look that Amy really liked but that theme didn’t have enough of customizing features. It was a pretty straight forward and restricted theme so I decided to stick with the ‘Chateau’. Moreover a lot of the other custom themes were pretty much like the original one that AAM has used all this while. This current theme has enough of a difference to give AAM a fresh new look.

What do you guys think?

John

A Reply From Archu-Elder (…You Wish!)

By Tracewillow

Since a kid I have wanted real bad to be called Elder
There’s a nice ring to it, makes me feel sorta mature and clever
Your dear grandpapa must have been a sweet old soul like me
Adorableness Overload like what you guys say unto me with glee

My vocal cords are still awesome I guess you’d want to know
Eating chillis is no hindrance, that’s how my tummy juices flow
Hot spicy curries and everything nice laid out on the table
Even taking everyone’s share, my weight is miraculously very stable

Often cheered on to sing in church I oblige to make everyone happy
But it’s not a proper concert y’know, I don’t charge even a single penny
My Discipline Elder reminds me I must stand very still while singing
Never to run left and right, just belt out the joy I’m bringing

All my fellow Mission Elders and Sisters are nice and very awesome
So much fun when we go on our bicycle rides in two’s and threesome
Cab drivers are very friendly and chatty to me in Spanish I must admit
I flash them my sunny smile when I sometimes don’t quite understand it

They tell me the senoritas are pretty I’ve not taken a serious look
They flutter their eyelashes in my direction I hurry to hide in a nook
No stalkers or forced-kissers yet, oh Lord I’d rather be a saint
I do love you guys but often you too really make me wanna faint

Washing my own dirty socks is not at all a huge problem
It’s my God-gifted hair that I usually find kinda troublesome
In dire need of a good hairstylist and something called Fix
Both are frowned upon here, I should have learnt some hair tricks

It’s awesome I can now wear the same outfit everyday
Just like the cartoon characters and not so much money to pay
All my skin-tight tees I miss but am strictly not permitted to wear
Except in bed or when my Wardrobe Elder neither sees nor cares

I have a THOUGHT in my mind, in fact many many thoughts
My family my friends and how much of BEGIN will be bought
I can’t wait to bring back in 2014 the person I will become
Fatter or thinner,  maybe taller. or perhaps much wiser and some

Aw thanks for all your letters that seem to have shattered my letterbox
My Admin Elder has given me stern warnings and some pretty hard knocks
It’s great to know you are excited for BEGIN to keenly obtain
The story of my life it surely is, to BEGIN yet again and again…

Have to thank the Lord now, fix my hair and go to bed and sleep
Hope the cats are not out tonight, need tons of sleep that’s deep
Thanks you guys so much for relentlessly standing by me
I’ll send up a special prayer for you tonight, you’ll see

From:  ARCHU-ELDER
Released by The Strictly Limited Communications Department
Chilean Mission
A Secret Somewhere near Santiago, Chile