By tracewillow
While David is busy eating his french toast with the sis (I see thick-cut toast with strawberries, oodles of ice-cream, custard or is it some sort of lemony syrup, and probably oozings of butter – yummy!) from the french toast truck, let us look at more pics of the Archucook concert happening.
Think I would rather not drivel over french toast at the moment when I have David’s concert pics to drool over (even though it is a Cook concert haha! )
Thank you Cindy Cassity and debrakay for the pictures!
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Why is David praying to Cook?! 😯
(Heh! Heh!)
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David is doing a thumbs-up on Cook. They are both so supportive of each other.
But we Archies know better. Our thumbs-up’s are for David!!
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Oops.. missed this pic. Cook did give David a thumbs-up too! 🙂
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Bye-bye from the stage for the moment, David.
We look forward to seeing you more up there onstage and singing – soon!! 🙂
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And after the Archucook concert –
(Wonder what’s wrapped up in that aluminium foil. Midnight supper? 🙂 )
By tracewillow
Is it 2008 or 2014? 😯
It doesn’t really matter. Time can fly or stand still all it wants, but this Archucook bromance will always be ingrained in our hearts. I am having goosepimples just looking at this pic. 🙂
Our observations:
– David is looking more relaxed being in the public eye, than before his Middle East trip. It is a good sign.
– David has grown up in his interaction with Cook.
– The interaction between him and Cook is genuine and sincere.
– Cook will always treat David as a much-loved younger brother.
– David has nice legs. 😉
– David is still wearing those socks with shorts. Erm …
(… quite cute really. Maybe he is setting a new fashion trend … just like that buttoned-up look … or maybe he doesn’t even realise he is wearing them … oh well, it’s just the Voice I should care about, I keep reminding myself. Still … maybe he should go get a pair of nice sandals … and forget the socks … oh well, nevermind. Just go SING, David.)
With thanks to Marydee – this beautiful montage –
And this is Jason’s account of that evening in the Ethiopian restaurant.
” ..next came a real special moment, when the restaurant owner approached our table and begged David to sing.
“When introduced, the crowd kind of took notice and clapped a little, but once he laid into the first line of “Stand By Me” with “When the night has come”, there was a collective gasp and everyone reached for their phones to record it. With the flutes and drumbeats, and whatever other instruments were on stage, backing Dean and David’s performance, this was something most unique to witness. The cheers following the song lead to him throwing down REM’s, “Everybody Hurts”, to which the audience chanted “ONE MORE! ONE MORE!” upon his finish. Turning red from embarrassment we returned to our seats to sit back down and then came the flood. The whole room seemed to converge on David like a swarm of flies to a recent kill. We had to flank him with our people as we rushed him out of the place for his own safety.One guy grabbed David, in a headlock for a picture, Dan and I ripped the guy’s arm off David and yelled, ‘Hey, NO Touch!’ It got scary quick.”
And this hilarious number when David was singing. Guess it speaks for all of us too!! 😀
http://instagram.com/p/q390UDqw3Y/
And the Snippets of Everybody Hurts and Bridge Over Troubled Waters which brought the soldiers to tears and standing ovations.
http://iconosquare.com/p/771128495770206687_13846055
http://instagram.com/p/q13NohkIMY/
By tracewillow
We at AAM decided that there has been too much talk about wars and plane crashes the past few weeks at every David-site, including ours. Even a David Archuleta site (peaceful and gentle David, remember?) has pictures of fighter planes and guns and soldiers toting guns – we can’t even begin to know all the names of these weapons and instruments of warfare. And the news of all those plane crashes – 370.. 17 .. Taiwan.. Algeria – is enough to make one lose sight of cheeriness and all the lighter things which can still instill a calmer demeanour to our lives and make us feel that life is still worth living.
Even with heavy hearts, we need to deal with adversity with not just grace, but also humour. Facing setbacks and possibly creating comebacks. We are not brushing off reality. Neither are we going to forget the importance and significances of what has come to pass and valuable lessons learnt.
Like David, Dean, Dan and Jason – from the pics I have seen, and from that vid where their plane was shot at in Afghanistan – they were holding up calmly with smiles on their faces, with lots of humour to boot.
So we will deviate somewhat from the horrors of war (since David has sent a tweet that he is home) and have some much needed humour (and a real G A H!! pic at the end!) in this post. 🙂 We have been getting many hilariously wacky poses and jokes from Jason Hewitt as he journeys with David in the Middle East and I’m sure most of you guys have seen them and had some good laughs. But we would rather focus on David. 🙂 Don’t ask why. 😉
Aahh.. this picture of peace and smiles is better. 🙂 Taken in Ethiopia.
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We had David in a funny Bunny Suit before. Then a smart Missionary Suit Now, at the far end, a Bomb-Diffusing Suit!
But let us not think of it as a military suit. Think of it as David in another kind of suit. 😉
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David weighing 200 Lbs! (Or more?!)
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T H E G A H P I C T U R E ! ! !
The Face that can lighten our hearts in the face of adversity.
And the Voice that can make us love our neighbour as we love ourselves.
By tracewillow
Thanks to Walter Clark, an army nurse in the Middle East,who recorded this, we have this gem of David singing Bring Him Home.
As we all know, this beautiful piece of music was taken from the stage production of Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables, all the songs of which David had learnt since the age of 6.
Just for the sake of knowing a little more about Bring Him Home, all the songs from Les Miz are worthy of great listens, thanks to the French composer, Claude-Michel Schonberg and the lyricist, Alain Boublil. The original production was staged at the Palais de Sport in Paris in 1980 and opened to high acclaim in London and Broadway and was nominated for 12 Tony Awards in 1987, and won 8 including Best Musical and Best Original Score.
I saw the stage production in London 3 times during 3 consecutive years and cried 3 consecutive times. Then I watched the film version starring Hugh Jackman 3 times, and cried another 3 times.
Listening to this full version of David’s, I cried the 7th time! There will be more crying to do when I continue to listen to it more times!!
I have long wished for David to sing Empty Chairs At Empty Tables, also from Les Miz, but Bring Him Home is definitely aptly sung in the Middle East. I hope they will bring all those soldiers home soon, together with all the soldiers in the warzones in the world, who are fighting there and fighting for their lives.
Please let all the wars cease. Too many lives have been lost. And for what?
Please bring all those young men home soon.