Monthly Archives: January 2008
Art and Faith
Last weekend, I went down to Greenville to a Free Methodist camp where they were having a youth retreat. and did a seminar on art and faith. Of course, I ended up talking a lot about the spectrum, what art is (“challenging people in a unique way to see truth”), and telling them that art has [...]
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More on Politics
I was sad to see that Edwards dropped out of the Presidential race. Maybe he’s all talk. But he was the only one who had, at the heart of his campaign, even talk about about caring for the poor. Tony Jones just endorsed Obama. On the other hand, I’m not sure I buy what Obama is [...]
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Roger McGuinn with Creative Commons
Roger McGuinn of The Byrds has a website called The Folk Den where he takes a public domain folk song, records it and lets you enjoy it in all it’s DRM and Creative Commons glory. I think his arrangements are, for the most part, ridiculous and do violence to some great American songs. But his idea is, [...]
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Stuff
Here’s a great post on accumulating stuff. On a regular basis, I consider getting rid of most of my stuff. Which is a lot of stuff (particularly guitars, guitar gear and computer stuff). But then I chicken out. Our new house in Decatur is bigger than our old house, which makes it even easier to accumulate stuff. [...]
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Jeff Tweedy, Brian McLaren and Faith
Yesterday, I posted, wondering about how Jeff Tweedy’s music tends towards aspects of faith. While I looking around the intertube for information about it, I stumbled onto the rest of an interview from Paste with Tweedy. I had read the original interview a couple years ago when it was first printed. The above link, though, [...]
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SSH = Geek
Today, I saw, in my RSS reader, a show I wanted to download from archive.org. All the shows there are individual files–you download them via ftp or through your browser. So, I ssh-ed in to my computer at home, and started the download via the command line ftp. For a long time, I never understood SSH. [...]
Piracy and Donations
Check this out: some Wilco fans downloaded A Ghost Is Born before it came out. They wanted to give back to Wilco, but legally, they couldn’t take the money, so they suggested people donate to Doctors Without Borders. According to Tweedy, they recieved about $15,000! That’s no small chunk of change. and I thought everybody who [...]
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Religion Is Always Politics
Walking down the intertube’s rabbit hole for information about Tweedy’s religious influences, I stumbled onto this page about David Dark, an author and Presbyterian pastor. Check out this quote: “[R]eligion is always ‘politics’ under a different name (and vice versa), and the Bible towers over everything. The Bible is everybody’s book but nobody’s monopoly.” How’s [...]
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Uncle Tupelo and Faith
Last month, I downloaded a bootleg of Uncle Tupelo’s last show (I think you have to register to download the torrent…I think there’s two seeders still, so it might be worth your time). I got around to listening to it last night. It’s a phenomenal show. Just really amazing. You can hear how young Jeff Tweedy [...]
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