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Of course I’m old enough that I don’t need a reason to complain about music…but hear me out. My complaint about “music these days” is that it’s all the same. There is very little diversity in any Genre. Top 40 is processed Sex. Alternative is electronic’y U2 derivative. And can anything define “sameness” better than [...]
Lyrics to the Act of Congress song “In the Middle” (off the album “Declaration”). I highly recommend their work…. Are we so different you and I? Are we having trouble seeing eye to eye? I guess everybody’s got excuses and dreams and agendas it seems these days. What kind of person do you see when [...]
This one is a few years old, but a favorite by many. Interesting tidbit: There are NO electric instruments in this song at all, with the exception of bass guitar. It’s all acoustic guitar, mandolin, bosouki…I think maybe there’s a banjo in there too. Pretty cool…. This is a song written for a church series [...]
After a few years, we done got some new music for y’all to listen to! The plan is to release the whole project as a free download in January or February, when the holidays have worn off and people are looking for something new. I still want to focus on “house show” gigs instead of [...]
We’re always hearing how copyright fosters creativity and innovation. But we should re-think the right to control content vs the right to profit from it. Case in point: Amazon’s new kindle reader was supposed to have the ability to read e-books to you. This would be pretty handy if you’re blind. Or maybe you just [...]
Anyone who’s read this site knows about my thoughts regarding culture vs. doctrine. That is, there is a substantial chunk of “doctrine” in our churches that is not sourced in the Bible at all. Rather it is sourced in western/democratized/capitalistic/industrialized concepts that have come to be synonymous with “church” and “being a Christian”. It’s hard [...]
At long last Apple has finally dropped DRM in it’s iTunes music store. This is huge, although it was barely noticed because Steve Jobs wasn’t at Macworld. Anyway, DRM is a silly strategy that only hurts the people who buy music. It doesn’t stop piracy. It breaks. It can make all your songs not work [...]
I put this in my FB status, but this is actually a cool thought. We all know the song: why do birds, suddenly appear….every time…..you are near Just like me…they long to be…close to yooooou… Now think about this for a second. What if birds suddenly appeared everytime you were near. If it were robins [...]
These were going to be lyrics but I decided they couldn’t take the abuse. Seems kind of dark but it’s really quite the opposite. Plus, I always misspell lyrics as “lysrics” so there you go. — I never meant to be A grey planet in your orbit I always meant to see The strange curves [...]
These are the first iphone apps that I actually bought: They’re still half-baked from a feature perspective, but they’re pretty cool. Definitely handy music idea apps. I sat around a played with bloom for 15 minutes in my car. Which even made sense without taking drugs.
Another one of these making the rounds….and you have to check out 1:50. “The Way” International is a pseudo-cult that doesn’t believe in the trinity. If only all cults would have programs like this!
Just goes to show you…the Holy Spirit is real, but there’s something to be said for execution.
This is a great group. You need to get the new album. Get it on iTunes here. (No, I’m not making a cut. It’s good.) “Nature of Things” has made me want to sing again.
The good news is that Michael Guglielmucci, the guy who had cancer and wrote “Healer,” is not sick. The bad news is, he never was sick. It’s not a miracle. He’s a fake. I don’t understand people who fake cancer. One, it’s a terrible thing to do in light of the fact that there are [...]
Here’s a really cool collection of vintage mp3′s from 78 records.
Turns out the uber-cute little girl who ‘sang’ for the Olympic opening ceremonies was actually lip-syncing to the recorded voice of another girl. Apparently the real singer wasn’t cute enough for Communist sensibilities. First my childhood is crushed with the discovery that Kung-Fu movies are fake…now this. And it’s required some hasty backtracking since I’d [...]
Interesting link on Legendary Keyboards.
Seems there is no limit to offshoring. (HT: Stacey)
A few things of note. First, I’m hoping to record a couple additional tunes soon. These 2 songs will be put together with all 20 other songs from the CD’s and put into one massive CD. The idea is to make it easier to give away CDs (economies of scale) and make the full album [...]
One of the fundamentalist blogs I follow is Slice of Laodicea. Like most fundamentalist thought, I usually agree 100% and disagree 100%. Why? Because the logical positions in fundamentalism are usually sound, but the reasoning is not. (That’s a whole other post.) Today the commentary was on music and if it is ever “neutral”. The [...]
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