Oddwalk Ministries exists to help young and old alike embrace life as Eucharistic people through fun, upbeat and interactive music and witnessing. We share a message of community, participation, and mission with every group.

We would love the opportunity to share the Gospel in our unique way with the people of your diocese, parish, school, group or organization. We have presented in a variety of venues and settings (Catholic, Christian, and secular; ten people to many thousands) and are ready to be a part of your next rally, convention, mission, prayer service, concert, or retreat.

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We’ve just noticed that “Alright Now” is starting to be available at some online sources. We’re checking into puzzling details like why our name is listed as “Odd Walk” and one place has us listed only under “Cerneka” and why certain tracks aren’t available (at least yet) for purchase…

Anyway, if you’re the sort that wants a good deal on music from iTunes, Rhapsody or Amazon, click the appropriate link and off you go!

As promised, here’s a video that is more-or-less the same set of slides we used at the NCYC 2009 Comedy Club last fall, starring our good friend (and sometimes band member) Ricky Willmann. The audio is compressed from our new CD “Alright Now.” Enjoy!

… that Noah Cerneka is the son of Shannon and the Godson of Orin (and of course son of Erin C and Godson of Erin H as well), look no further than this video snapped by Erin C as ultimate proof.

Maybe, first, listen to this little clip of a song from our first album with GIA (Walk Away Different) titled “At Your Name” –

Then, watch this video – and to answer your first question, yes, that is a pink, furry, Doodlebops keytar.

Awesome!

Well, we’re finally getting around to getting some of the video from our awesome time last fall at NCYC up – and it’s probably just as well that we’ve waited, as now we’ve got something to get that awful taste of a losing Olympic wager video out of our mouths…

Anyway, here’s out performance of “These Are the Chords to Every Christian Song I Know” with the band (Rick, Dan, and Gary) before Fr. Tony Ricard’s concurrent session in the Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City. So much fun with 7,500 or so of our closest friends, a great video shot by the crew there.

We plan to upload the slideshow we used with “Teenagers in My Car” at the comedy club soon too, and maybe a song from one of the two masses we had the honor to minister at. For now, enjoy “GC/DC” – the chords to every Christian song we know! (Did you want the matching shirt? You can get that right here!)

Well, here’s the completion of our lost wager responsibilities to Clay Imoo, an “eh”-laden video from our appearance Monday (yesterday) at a confirmation retreat. We’ve tacked a little of our “O, Canada” recording on the end too (see the post just before this one). Enjoy, and congratulations again to Clay and to all of Canada!

What an outstanding hockey match this afternoon, and an outstanding win by Canada.  Great team, great gold medal count, and a great Olympic games.

Having at last lost a wager with Clay Imoo that wasn’t ultimately negated, we follow through with our end of the deal.  Here’s part one, a serious rendition of Canada’s national anthem – they do, after all, deserve it!

Oh Canada (2/28/10) – In Honor of Clay, Canada, and our losing Olympic hockey wagers…

Stay tuned, for as soon as we can, we’ll post a video of us at an event, ending every non-stage-time sentence with “eh?”

Well, just like last year, we’ve got a revised wager with Clay Imoo after Oddwalk lost round one.  Let’s just say if USA doesn’t win the gold in Men’s hockey, there will be a keytar-licious rendition of “Oh, Canada” coming your way, eh?

You’ll recall last year we got out of our initial loss when the Canucks lost in the second round of the playoffs… Will we be so lucky this year? Only time will tell – go USA!

Well, we’re back at it again with Clay Imoo, our Vancouverite friend. (Remember our betting rivalry from last year, beginning with this post?) Our first wager of the Olympics: Women’s Hockey. Our teams are scheduled to play one another for the gold medal at 4:30 local time on Thursday. USA won their last game against Sweden 9-1, canada beat Finland 5-0, so it promises to be a good match.

If Team USA wins, Clay will post a video of himself singing our national anthem (in english) wearing red, white & blue, and if Canada wins, at our next appearance, we’ll end all our non-stage time sentences with “eh?” and post a video of that!

Once again, we know who the real winner will be after all of this: no one.

And again, any posts related to such things will be filed under “baseball” to show we really care.

Oh, and to make this post worth anything at all, here’s a pic of Lady Gaga playing a weird keytar (it appears the actual playing is probably that guy in the bottom left though). Thanks to Michael K for the pic!

(and shamelessly stolen from someecards.com)

We’re presently hoping to negotiate with Clay a possible wager on… perhaps women’s hockey?  That or, you know, something else Canada is reasonably good at. Is ice fishing an Olympic sport?

Worth a repost from last year – where do you see yourself in this video?

A couple Lenten tidbits from friends of Oddwalkia – first, D. Scott Miller:

This is our prayer as we begin Lent.

Lord, today, as is each day, is the day of salvation. Now is a very acceptable time. Create within us clean hearts, O God, and renew steadfast spirits within us.

We who know sin seek to be reconciled with You, God. Great is your compassion and your goodness, O Lord, be merciful for we have sinned. Wipe out our offenses, wash away all our guilt, and cleanse us from our sin.

Lord, today, as we should each day, we proclaim a fast. We do this not to win the praise of others, We strive not to be hypocrites blowing our own horn before others. No, no, no, Lord, we desire to return to You with our whole hearts with fasting, and weeping, and mourning; Take pity on Your people.

And from comedian Judy McDonald:

And lastly, from us, our new Lenten song, “Fill Us, O God”

Blessed Lent, all!

Well, since the closing up shop over at gcast, it’s been an annoying couple days – BUT!  The new pOddcast (2.0) is up and running, and you can find it in at least three ways:

1) Our new pOddcast page here at the main site: http://oddwalkministries.com/oddblog/?page_id=5332

2) At iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=355739050

3) In any RSS reader: http://oddwalkministries.com/oddblog/?feed=pc2

All the old stuff from the first pOddcast has been transferred over, so you can subscribe to the new one, and unsubscribe the old.  Enjoy!

Orin’s co-worker at the Shrine, Alex, shared this funny video with him the other day:

Fill Us, O God (2/10/10) – A new Lenten song from Orin and Shannon

These posts and the ones like it sprinkled about the Oddblog are due to moving the pOddcast to a local feed.

Well, shame on gcast – they’ve shut down the uploading of new audio, and hence our pOddcast, at least in that iteration. Bah.

But – we’ve already got a new pOddcast set up, right here through WordPress! We’ve posted the player to the bottom of this post too (probably won’t show up when this gets ported over to facebook and such though).

Here’s the direct link to the new pOddcast page on the main site.

Your iTunes subscription, if you had one, is now dead, but we should get a new one sometime soon, we’ll update you all when that happens, hopefully.

For now, here’s that player we promised, and a pretty rough version of our new Lenten song, “Fill Us, O God” – enjoy!


Fill Us, O God (2/10/10) – A new Lenten song from Shannon and Orin