quoting [Reese Roper]
Do you have an opinion on the Christian market today?
Yeah, it would be to say that it is just as insular and backstabbing as it ever was, but somehow more appealing. There are a few bands out there that do a great job at spreading the love of Christ to the world (Switchfoot, you guys know I love you!), a few more who equip and encourage the church, and a great mass of musical hatchet-jobs that could never survive anywhere else but for the appeal of the forgiving and under-schooled ears of the Western Church. They only exist to add padding to our already comfortable church pews…
preach it Reese. as a musician, it’s irritated me for a long time that for centuries the Church lead the way in the arts. now, it’s hard to find anything in the creative arts labeled ‘Christian’ that is anything more than a cheap, watered down knock-off of something popular in the secular vein.
you may know him as the frontman from Five Iron Frenzy (RIP). check the whole article on Relevant here.
what i’m hearing right now
i love our local library. when we moved from State College a year ago, which has one of the best libraries in the country on campus at Penn State, i just never bothered to check ours out. not only do they have the usual fare – books – they have a kicking selection of CDs, DVDs (+ current releases) and get this…video games. yeah. 360, PS3, and Wii games. for free. libraries rock.
this is what the library gave me to listen to this week:
where the light is // john mayer , live in LA
long time coming // johnny lang
the unauthorized biography of reinhold messner // ben folds five
movie monday :: hip-hop violin
this is pretty tight. i’d hire these guys for a party. maybe my birthday party. it’s January 2nd, just in case you forgot.
p.s. i like especially like surprise parties
scandal hits the symphony
3rd Floor: shoes, swimwear, Milli Vanilli, Ashley Simpson…and now the Syndey Orchestra.
Eight years after Sydney hosted
what was dubbed “the best Olympic Games ever,” officials with the
Sydney Symphony Orchestra acknowledged their stirring performance at
the 2000 opening ceremony was entirely prerecorded. And perhaps even
more cringe-inducing for Sydneysiders: some of the music was recorded
by the orchestra of Sydney’s rival city, Melbourne. [more]
there really hasn’t been a good symphonic scandal in a while. thanks, Sydney!
setlist 06.15.08
sing to the king : billy foote
yesterday today and forever : vicki beeching
nothing but the blood:your blood : matt redman
you said : reuben morgan
he was there : david crowder band
we had a great service yesterday. i was pretty stressed about it for most of last week, mainly due to personnel. nate moved on friday morning to D.C., leaving us vacant on drums. i’m leading the worship band while spence is away, so it’s my problem to solve for two sundays. lucky for me, every drummer and their mother were on vacation for father’s day weekend. pair that with it being our pastor’s last sunday, and i was worried about coming though. and by thursday night rehearsal, still no drums, and no bass showed up to rehearsal, either. thankfully it worked out – drums and bass showed up sunday morning and rocked that gym like nobody’s business.
