Category Archives: art
Todd Snider — Pretty Dang Funny or Why Artists Should Be Allowed to Rave about Politics
Several years ago, grunge was king. And somewhere along the line, I caught this mysterious, but hilarious send-up of grunge about the real alternative band: the band who refused to play. Several years later, I had just dropped Jenn off at the daycare where she worked. I was at the light at the corner of Township [...]
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Art and Estrangement
Here’s an interesting quote about art from an moderately interesting review of a book by a guy named White: Drawing on the Russian Formalism of the 1920s, White maintains that “greatness” in art depends on “estrangement,” a perception from unfamiliar vantages that then tells us something “truer and more complete” about the world. And to [...]
Christian and The Arts
Here’s an interesting article in Forbes on Christians and the arts. One thing it mentions is the Brehm Center for the Arts, which is part of Fuller Theological Seminary. It’s a “center aspiring to be an evangelical arts think tank, with five stand-alone institutes focused upon worship and music, film and moving images, art and [...]
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My Band Manifesto
Last night, we had our first band practice. It went ok. But I think we’re all kind of going different directions, so I sent everybody in the band a huge rant about what my goals were. I probably should have reread it before I sent it. And I probably should reread it before I post [...]
More on FoxFaith
I got a couple comments on my post about FoxFaith. Unfortunately, I can’t post comments to my own blog (dang you Blogger Beta!!). So here’s the response to my brother’s comment I intended to post: I’m not frustrated about the artistry of it all. I’m mad about the fact that anybody is trying to co-opt some [...]
FoxFaith
I don’t know what FoxFaith Movies is. But there’s advertisments on cable for it, that it’s ‘movies you can believe in.’ Or to put it another way, they’re using my (our) faith to sell us stuff. Fox. Fox News? Fair and Balanced? That Fox. Co-opting my faith, my belief in the Almighty Creator of the [...]
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Why Nobody Loves Propaganda
I found a link to a review of Derek Webb’s album mockingbird (I think that link takes you to a free download). Anyways, the link made it clear that the author was bashing it. I followed, prepared to get riled up about somebody who didn’t get it (I haven’t listened to the album yet, but [...]
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The Slide from Art and Entertainment and Back Again