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| I've been listening to a lot of praise music lately... stuff that a year ago i would have cringed at because it was so slow. My tastes have changed a lot within the last year, a lot more slower indie stuff... I'll listen to Iron & Wine over Coheed, but i would still like to think i enjoy both equally.
I was listening to praise all night last night while at work... WOW Worship, Michael W Smith, Selah and some Waterdeep. I got in the car to go home around 11p and needed some good 'stay awake' music. Not hearing NIV in a LONG time I put on the Flesh and Blood album*...
I've thought about this many times but not lately... all the music i had just listened to that gets heavy rotation on Christian radio stations and sung in churches weekly... They have NOTHING on the praise and thought provoking lyrics of many in your face Christian hardcore bands that would make many Christians still cringe with their music and appearance.
You just don't get that from the Michael W Smiths' of the world. For the first time that night of nothing but praise it made me stop and think... Would I really die for my beliefs? I pray that I would if faced with the need to choose.
With that said... Enter the Worship Circle and anything that comes from the Ben Pasley and the Waterdeep crowd IS tremendously honest, broken praise... Praise that you can relate to with an honest heart. Go check out the lyrics (and chords) here... I wish that we could sing more honest praise in church... There's a time and a place for everything but the "Your face is all i seek" type songs... I don't know that I could ever sing those types of songs honestly. Or maybe it's just because we're in church singing these songs... being a "museum for saints" as usual... when that shouldn't be the case at all.
Sorry if all that is jumbled... I feel like i should spend more time on this post or just cancel it... but i have work to do and have squandered enough time already.
*I don't listen to hardcore or punk very often anymore but i of course
need to make sure that i don't forget the lyrics... you never know when
a One-21 mic pile-on will happen... it could be anywhere! How
embarrassing to be in the grocery store or mall and the mic gets thrown
at me, everyone jumps on my back yelling the lyrics and I've forgotten
them!
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| It's currently 75 degrees! It's an all sandal weekend and although i've worn my sandals a few times this winter amid snow, i hope to continue to wear them into the spring and until it gets cold again. Shoes/boots and I don't really get along well... I develop deep callouses and laura says my feet smell.. take away shoes and i'm good(er) to go.
One of the main reasons i didn't wear my sandals more this winter is I have a fear of my vehicle breaking down and not being prepared... middle of winter, walking on the side of the road wearing sandals? that's rather unprepared, now isn't it?
Demitri Martin said about people who wear flip-flops, it's like their saying, 'Hope I don't get chased today!'
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| Dear Windows,
Holding your mouse button down doesn't pop up a menu of options. Throwing my mouse into your upper right hand corner doesn't show me all my open windows. Throwing my mouse into your upper left doesn't tell me the weather, my current itunes track, webstats for EastEndPark and a sexy dancing hula girl. In fact, it does nothing at all. I look forward to leaving you behind in three weeks. I'll only use you when i'm asked to fix you by friends and family that don't know how to properly use you.
Sincerly,
a user since 3.0
C:\ cd windows
C:\windows\ run win
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| This a tech post... get ready NOT to comment.
It occurred to me on my way into work today of how I'm no longer computer reliant at all, but internet reliant. It used to be, years ago, you couldn't do anything unless you were on YOUR computer. If you were lucky enough to have a laptop, you could actually get work done outside of your computer desk at your house.
Right now, in my transition from working for the man and being the man, I gave up my work laptop and have been walking into the studio with only my ipod. Yet, I am completely up and running on whatever computer I'm using within two minutes. I load Gmail, Airset, Digg and Del.icio.us... no matter where I am I have everything I need to make appointments, continue research, email, work on files. If I could fit photoshop and dreamweaver on a thumb drive I could do EVERYTHING i ever do on any computer.
I read a lot of tech and so many analysts are predicting Google to take over the computing experience. Exactly what I described above, why do i need to store anything on my computer when it's so conveniently accessible through the internet? I have some gripes about google but I do think that the analysts are right. The "normal end user"* really could do every bit of their 'computing' straight from the browser.
It's really not a mac thing or a windows thing. I'm finally full OSX at home with my mini and powerbook but it really doesn't matter... give me a browser and an internet connection and I'm good to go.
*granted, i know that I would never be able to do this completely... nor anybody else making a living off internet related things. But my Dad, my sister, even Laura would be fine on any computer with a browser. Things like iLife and photoshop are fun programs but how often does "the public" really use them?
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