Shedding The Things That Harm Us Most

I want to warn you of the graphic nature of this video. It has more than a few violent moments of a man being hit by different cars. My wife made me promise I would warn you sufficiently. There is no gore. There is no gratuitous violence (meaning it all has an ultimate point). I [...]

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Nine Inch Nails: Year Zero

We may not be the only church in America reviewing this CD, but I am almost certain that we may very well be the only church in America recommending this CD. I’ve been considering whether I should post this review or not since the day the disc was released. The truth is that I’ve always [...]

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The Raconteurs – Level

I just love these guys. Seeing them, last September, at the Verizon was a-once-in-a-lifetime event. It doubtless, they will ever be back to Houston, but if they are…drop everything to go see them.

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Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007)

“No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious and charitable institutions become, the music will still be wonderful. If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC”

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An American Poet

Since around 1989 I’ve had this fascination with Jim Morrison and The Doors. Never, in my opinion, has popular culture/art/music seen such an incredibly powerful force be so self-indulgently destructive. Yet, in the midst of his own inward and outward self-decay he continued to show such metaphysical gifting. When we lost Jim Morrison (we being [...]

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A Perfect Circle.

I have to say. The more I listen, the more I find that A Perfect Circle could quite possibly be the most intelligent music I’ve heard in more than a decade. By “intelligent”, I don’t mean “prog-rock” complexity. I simply mean that these guys are spectacular musicians, intelligent writers, obviously voracious readers and that their [...]

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Bono on Worship and Music, Part 3

Now my mind is still going on this topic so I guess I’ll go ahead and finish it. So, how should this shape our lives? Well, I think it might ought to shape our lives in a few possible ways. First, let me say that for those who may not know me enough to guess [...]

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Bono on Worship and Music, Part 2

Okay, so a few days later I am finally coming back around to the “Bono on Worship and Music” topic. Not that this will be such a long post that it took me enormous amounts of time to formulate it…it’s just that these days much of my time has been used setting up a server [...]

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Bono on Worship and Music

Good evening. I’m taking a quick break from Nerd Night to interject something I want to come back to a little later. I really want to open this up and get some thoughts from you though, as well. Re-reading through my little copy of the Grove Press book entitled “Selections from the Book of Psalms”, [...]

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Anyone want to see….

The Birthday Tattoo?

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