This is Bob Dylan Week.
So far I’m liking the new album.
Can’t not like the “Workingman’s Blues 2″
Got my tickets to see him Friday.
Yesterday, got my Rolling Stone in the mail, guess who’s on the cover.
I feel like a kid on Christmas.
Bob Dylan – Modern Times released today
August 29, 2006 by 3 Comments
"Be brave and dare with a holy boldness." – Teresa…
August 29, 2006 by Leave a Comment
“Be brave and dare with a holy boldness.”
– Teresa of Avila
“Character is what you are in the dark.”
– Dwight L. Moody
Empty Legacy – MTV Turns 25 by Chuck Colson
August 28, 2006 by Leave a Comment
Empty Legacy
MTV Turns 25
August 28, 2006
MTV turned 25 this month—but with uncharacteristic modesty, the cable channel isn’t doing much celebrating. It’s been left mostly to the news media to honor MTV’s many accomplishments.
“Without MTV,” the Associated Press points out, “you might not have reality television. Commercials wouldn’t have vertigo-inducing quick cuts. Musicians wouldn’t need to look like models to survive. Kelly Osbourne [of the reality show The Osbournes] wouldn’t have gotten near a recording studio. And only seamstresses would know about wardrobe malfunctions.”
If that were my legacy, I’m not sure I’d want to call attention to it either. But that’s not really the reason MTV is playing down its anniversary. As the Associated Press says, “When your average viewer is 20 years old . . . perhaps it’s wise not to mention you’re 25. MTV wants to be the perpetual adolescent.” The Washington Post puts it more succinctly: “At MTV, it is always about the now.”
Perpetual adolescence and living only for the moment are just a couple of the twisted values that MTV has foisted upon us over the past twenty-five years. There’s also exhibitionism, voyeurism, promiscuity, greed, and a host of other vices. Through its style as well as its content, MTV has done all it can to promote the cheap, the vulgar, and the flashy over the good, the true, and the beautiful.
I’m not saying that MTV has added anything to the culture that wasn’t already present. All these elements have always been part of sinful human nature. Where MTV distinguished itself was in glorifying these things—moreover, glorifying them for a young audience.
For those who thought that there is an absence of…
August 24, 2006 by 1 Comment
For those who thought that there is an absence of spirituality in Hollywood, I suggest seeing “Talladega Nights, The Ballad of Ricky Bobby”
“Help me Allah … Help me Tom Cruise, … Help me Opray Winfrey …”
and the prayer to Baby Jesus at the dinner table is something too funny to be sacreligious.
Some told me that this isn’t as funny as “Anchorman” but whatever, it’s in the same league. Go see it if you need to laugh.
Snakes on a Plane – Terrible but Not So Bad
August 22, 2006 by Leave a Comment
Snakes on a Plane. Wow, what can I say? It’s terrible, but not so bad.
Snakes on a Plane Review by Kurt Lorder (linked to title)
The Art of Being David Bazan
August 21, 2006 by Leave a Comment
An interview with the always controversial Pedro the Lion frontman.
Groundbreaking Recording Artist/Author David Crowder Releases Second Book, Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven, But Nobody Wants to Die: Or (The Eschatolo
August 21, 2006 by Leave a Comment
“Death does not win,” David Crowder writes. “It is only the beginning.” In his second and highly personal book, Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven, But Nobody Wants to Die: Or (The Eschatology of Bluegrass) the groundbreaking musician explores the relationship between death, life, grief and community—a quest that was compounded by the sudden, accidental death of his friend and pastor, Kyle Lake. Co-written by band-mate Mike Hogan and following Crowder’s critically acclaimed first book, Praise Habit, the book is a journey of embracing the importance of living fully, grieving deeply, all while focusing on the future hopes of God’s promises.
Pat Robertson on Global Warming
August 19, 2006 by Leave a Comment
“And it is getting hotter, and the ice caps are melting, and there is a buildup of carbon dioxide in the air. And I think we really need to address the burning of fossil fuels. If we are contributing to the destruction of this planet, we need to do something about it.”
– Pat Robertson, admitting on his television show, The 700 Club, that recent heat waves have convinced him of the reality of global warming.
The rumor (that I just started) is that Robertson will make a cameo in Al Gore’s upcoming sequel, “False Actualities”.
Hurricane Memorial Worries ACLU
August 19, 2006 by Leave a Comment
The American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana is unhappy with plans for a memorial to be located in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, honoring the victims of Hurricane Katrina. The memorial would be a well-lit 13-foot by 7-foot stainless-steel cross strategically mounted near the shoreline of the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet at Shell Beach. The cross and accompanying stone monument, listing the names of the 129 parish residents who died in the hurricane, are earmarked for what the parish says is private land and are to be financed with donations, according to parish president Henry “Junior” Rodriguez.
A letter was sent in July by the Louisiana ACLU executive director Joe Cook explaining that the government promotion of a patently religious symbol on a public waterway is a violation of the Constitution’s call for the separation of church and state, reports the Associated Press.
Rodriguez said, however, that he sees nothing improper about the memorial. “The memorial is being coordinated by a group of volunteers on their own time, and no public money is going to the project that will be on private land,” stated Charlie Reppel, Rodriguez’s chief of staff. “The committee members are all volunteers, including me. We are putting in a lot of unpaid overtime.”
While the ACLU thinks a memorial to the storm and its victims is “clearly appropriate,” said Cook, St. Bernard’s is “still all very questionable. I think there is official government involvement with the endorsement and advancement of this clearly religious symbol.”
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