Dance Duet
Between the music with the Claire De Lune samples, the evocative choreography, or the spot-on cinematography and editing, this video makes me want to create something.
January 11th, 2012
January 9th, 2012
Should You Quit Your Band?
Humorous flowchart to help you decide whether or not you should quit your job.
December 16th, 2011
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205. Sing to her. Every day. Even when you don’t feel like it. Do it often enough and the sound of your voice will become a permanent source of steadiness in her life.
December 12th, 2011
Happy Birthday, Frank
I keep re-listening to this episode of This American Life about Frank Sinatra.
December 7th, 2011
Hyphen, Em Dash, and Dash
For you grammar geeks
December 6th, 2011
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It’s not that I don’t like Christmas music. I just don’t much like it for church use, that is, I question it’s usefulness for the worship of God. Few songs address God directly. They’re retellings of various aspects of the Christmas story, which can be useful until we sing the same kind of song four different times.
But my biggest concern is how traditional Christmas music evokes feelings of nostalgia and notions of the importance of family. Neither of which I’m against—both of which I regularly indulge in without guilt—but that’s not what Christmas ultimately is about.
I feel like it’s my job as a worship leader to shake people out of vague feelings of warmth and into feelings of amazement that God would take on flesh and blood. With my innate skepticism and cynicism, I need to be shaken a good deal too. Every Christmas.
Can you tell me some Christmas songs that will shake me up?
November 22nd, 2011
Yelping with Cormac McCarthy
Yelp reviews as written in the prose style of Cormac McCarthy
November 5th, 2011
A short movie centered around a deaf teenage girl who gets into American Sign Language poetry. Sign language poetry, man! Check it out. It’s beautiful.
October 31st, 2011
“Fear the Boom and Bust” a Hayek vs. Keynes Rap Anthem (by EconStories)
October 17th, 2011
One of the Reasons Why I Like Dave the Economist
I tell him I’m feeling melancholy and make a fleeting reference about my humors being out of balance. He tells me I should do some bloodletting.
