Everyone But Me

Nathan "Porch Swing Summer"
Matt "Simplicity"
Kevin "Lamplighter"
Andrew "Hurting Each Other"

Summer Job Day 1

7:40 AM. Breakfast eaten, cup of tea, ol' trusty laptop plugged in and possibly ready to electrocute me, non-GFW'd internet fired up, stack of records (real and digital) to listen to, and goal borrowed from something I read on Jessica Suarez's blog: "completing and submitting one piece a day."

At Good Letters (I haven't been linking to all of these, so feel free to browse the archives): "My Summer Job."

It's About Time

Amazing, the new Rentals material (Songs About Time, all can be heard on MySpace) is actually good. I think none of the Rentals MK II circa 2007 are even involved. Apparently the formula is [Matt Sharp's Ego] + [Whoever is around him that can play instruments] = good music. I do not have the patience or interest or fast enough internet to keep up with all these movies or whatever they are also making, but I am digging the music.

Around the Well

A review of Iron and Wine's Around the Well for Christianity Today's music website.

 

Currently setting up summer assignments to work on in July-August. Get in touch if you have something I should be writing about or you are someone I should be writing for.

It's June 4.

I Was Suprised to Hear These Two Songs In A Row (or at all)

In the cafeteria yesterday, I guess the radio was playing, and I heard two unexpected songs in a row:

 

1. "Touch My Body" by Mariah Carey. I had heard this in a taxi a few days before (and at the time I didn't know it was Mariah Carey), but my point is that this song is much too dirty for Chinese radio. Are they playing it in America?

 

2. "Travelling Light" by Joel Hanson and Sara Groves. It wasn't just that I heard a bunch of what you might call "worship keywords" (river, lay my burdens down, etc) it was that I instantly thought "Wait a minute, this is Joel Hanson." His is a voice I have known well since I was thirteen years old, Hanson being the singer of PFR, my favorite band when I was a teenager. I was kind of thrilled.

 

So there you have it. Chinese radio: sex ballads and Christian worship songs in succession.

 

ALSO, this is a depressing headline: "Jeff Buckley Remembered in Podcast."

Swears and Rumors of Swears

Well, I'm sorry, but I had to. At Good Letters, something about bad words and Christian rock.

At Christian music today, 100 word review of the mewithoutYou record.