Archive for the ‘music’ Category

Midweek Humor

You can’t touch this.

February 22, 2012  Tags: , ,   Posted in: culture, humor, music  No Comments

Lead, follow, or just get you some popcorn and watch

My church had a “social” after the service Sunday and since it consisted (as all good “socials” do) of free food, I stayed and partook. I sat with some folks that I haven’t spent much time with in the past (which is the whole point of these things). I have to be honest, I didn’t [...]

January 30, 2012  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: culture, music, stuff to think about  No Comments

American entertainment

I ran across this on one of the St. Louis Cardinals websites the other day. One of the contestants on American Idol this year is the 15 year old daughter of Joe Magrane, who pitched for the Cardinals in the 1987 World Series. Here’s the video: So Steven Tyler thought it would be okay to [...]

January 24, 2012  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: culture, music, Stupid Things You Can Find on the Internet  2 Comments

Classic (German) Christian rock for the weekend: Semaja

I don’t remember when I first ran across Semaja. I know it was most likely at the Inner Court – the music department of the Shepherd’s Shoppe. But I remember liking them immediately. They were different. I don’t know, maybe I was in my European music phase, because I liked Edin Adahl, too. And Semaja [...]

January 22, 2012  Tags: ,   Posted in: music  No Comments

God-centric or Cristo-centric?

All of our music this morning was centered on Christ to some extent or another. There were a few songs that use the term God, but also referred to “the Lamb,” so I’m going to count those as songs about Christ also. This on the heals of reading an article by Glenn Packiam about song [...]

January 15, 2012  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: music, worship and the church  One Comment

Classic Christian song of the day: Chameleon

When you think of Petra’s album “Never Say Die” you probably, like me, think of songs like “The Coloring Song” or “For Annie” or maybe even “Angel of Light” or “Praise Ye The Lord.” As I was digitizing my Never Say Die record tonight, I heard “Chameleon” for the first time in years. And I [...]

January 3, 2012  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: music  No Comments

YIP: 2012: The Other Stuff

While combing through the sale books at Barnes and Nobles some years ago I ran across a book from the Klutz people that caught my attention. It was a book of knots. It came with two pieces of rope – a blue one and a red one – and even had holes in the hard [...]

January 2, 2012  Tags: , , , , , , ,   Posted in: music, worship and the church  No Comments

YIP: 2012: Music

Ah music. You knew music would have to show up on this list at some point, right? After all, a brief glimpse at the category list shows that I’ve written more about music than anything else. Of course the 30 days of recording in July had something to do with that. Like photography and writing, [...]

January 1, 2012  Tags: , ,   Posted in: music, Recording  No Comments

It’s Christmas

December 25, 2011  Tags: ,   Posted in: music, worship and the church  No Comments

Curious song of the day

My favorite Christmas movie is Holiday Inn. Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Marjorie Reynolds. It’s a musical with all the songs written by Irving Berlin, who if you don’t know, was a genius. On a soundtrack that includes White Christmas, the popular (at the time) Easter Parade and Be Careful It’s My Heart, it’s easy to [...]

December 22, 2011  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: music, stuff I think is cool  No Comments