26.2.10
25.2.10
[things lately/resting peaceful-like]
valentine's day.
fondest pair.
resting thoughts.
repairation of spring frocks (yes...i realize it's still february).
noisetrade.com has tons of sweet, free music - derek webb (the fellow behind noisetrade), the civil wars, joy williams, matthew perryman jones, sleeping at last, plain jane automobile....check it out, and at the very least download webb and the civil wars.
okay, download all of them.
fondest pair.
resting thoughts.
repairation of spring frocks (yes...i realize it's still february).
noisetrade.com has tons of sweet, free music - derek webb (the fellow behind noisetrade), the civil wars, joy williams, matthew perryman jones, sleeping at last, plain jane automobile....check it out, and at the very least download webb and the civil wars.
okay, download all of them.
24.2.10
[i love/hate you]
this song says a lot of things i've been thinking about lately in relation to the church and people who claim to be God's people, and the difference between judgement and acknowledgement.
[say what]
as far as we know, the first person to propound a theory of light was the greek philosopher and mystic pythagoras, who around 540 b.c. said that objects gave off small particles which in some way resembled their source. when these particles struck the eye, they produced vision. a hundred years later empedocles suggested that the reverse took place, that sight was the result of something which emanated from the eye, striking objects in the field of vision.
richard morris, light
1979
richard morris, light
1979
it's funny how fond we still are of those oddly-named greeks, no matter how wrong they were.
23.2.10
[not by a long shot]
in his crisis, tiger woods mentioned turning to buddhism, his mother’s religion. but what does that mean? if you are in a crisis, what would buddhism offer?
buddhism thinks that if you to look at your suffering, then it gets to be less painful, and that is the way out. zen buddhism actually teaches through sample predicaments:
student: “what if it’s a disaster?”
master: “that’s it too.”
john tarrant for speakeasy @ wsj.com
bahahaha.
22.2.10
bode miller is an olympic gold-medal hero.
awkward. awesomely awkward.
who didn't want to see this comeback? besides nbc, of course, which opted to show mr. miller's historic super combined victory on tape delay, several hours later. that's cool. as the nfl taught us years ago, nobody wants to watch live sports on a sunday afternoon.
still, mr. miller persevered—and now takes a restless place in olympic history. it's an amusing mantle for a dissident who liked to renounce the five-ring mystique, who appeared to care less if your breakfast wheaties came with his unshaven, blue-eyed visage. mr. miller with a gold medal is like leonard cohen with an mtv video music award—a strange, comical pairing that somehow feels all right...
...like his east coast homeboy walt whitman, mr. miller contained multitudes. he was large and contradicted himself. he was a nonconformist who graced magazine covers; a maverick draped in a nike deal. the media helped fuel the mythology, portraying mr. miller as a self-taught mountain boy aloof to the sport's fundamentals or customs. part shaman, part jeff spicoli, mr. miller would insist his skiing greatness was a matter of the moment, a state that couldn't be defined by hardware like medals.
jason gay for wsj.com
'bode-licious' is my new favorite word.
21.2.10
17.2.10
[short film]
one of my good friends is a very talented filmmaker and sent me the vid to his latest project last night.
i'll just say this guy never ceases to amaze.
so here you go.
i'll just say this guy never ceases to amaze.
so here you go.
The Last Wheel Turn from MyShowPro on Vimeo.
enjoy.
15.2.10
[last name EVER, first name GREATEST]
eeeech.
i missed a class by mistake this morning.
the extra sleep almost made it worth it.
sometimes i write letters to inanimate objects in my head:
(dear gap thermal hoodie - you were made for days like this. thank you.
or
dear winter - i hate you. you leave your snow laying everywhere and never bother to come back and clean it up. my car also says hey - and to give him a break once in awhile.
or
dear iTunes shuffle - really? 3871 songs, and that's the one you play?
or
dear facebook - let's face it: we've never really gotten along, and now i'm not sure we can be friends anymore. your chat always screws up and you're slower and change your mind too often.)
ever notice the film scores behind all the olympic athlete tv spots? this year i've heard mostly thomas newman (series of unfortunate events and a little road to perdition)...last time it was pirates of the caribbean and national treasure, and i heard coldplay last night.
now there's a phenomenon i shall never comprehend - coldplay.
ellen's birthday is approaching...
...and this entertains me to no end.
13.2.10
[man of a thousand faces]
paul and laura respectably married? why, that would make you see grace as a way back to the sovereignty of the law - grace as a mere one- or two-shot remission of guilt whose chief purpose was to suspend the rules for a while and give a second chance to people who now, having run out of chances, had best get back to the business that God really has in mind for them - namely watching their step. for at the roots of our fallen being, that is what we really think. our pride drives us to establish our own righteousness. we strive all our life to see ourselves as keepers of rules we cannot keep, as loyal subjects of laws under which we can only be judged outlaws. yet so deep is our need to derive our identity from our own self-respect - so profound is our conviction that unless we watch our step, the watchbird will take away our name - that we will spend a lifetime trying to do the impossible rather then, for even one carefree minute, consent to having it done for us by someone else...
we need more than than an occasional suspension of the rules. we need GRACE. and grace is not the offer of an exception to the rules; it is a new dispensation entirely. it says nothing about the rules (indeed, it leaves them intact); it simply says that since, because of our weakness, the rules can never be the basis of our existence. God is not going to make them such anymore. accordingly, in my view, there is nothing in my presentation of grace via a story of two people who have excused themselves from the received sexual ethic that is not, mutatis mutandum (perhaps even pari passu), in Jesus' presentation of himself as a sabbath-breaking Messiah. i am guilty as charged, and find myself in very good company indeed.
6.2.10
[projects]
painting a wall with chalkboard paint has been on my list for awhile, and i finally got it done last week. painting is a pleasant thing to do when one is snowed in.
5.2.10
3.2.10
[causality]
there seems to be a tendency for believers within some presbyterian and reformed churches to forget about the person and the power of the holy spirit....as we approach the great history of the church in the book of acts the question is often asked: should we call this book the acts of the apostles or the acts of the holy spirit?
we could rightly call it both. luke's account, as does every historical account ever penned (whether explicit or not), shows forth the sovereign majesty of our triune God's redemptive-missional activity in the world and through weak and broken vessels like us, who by His grace neither can nor will leave behind the holy spirit who goes before us and dwells within us.
we could rightly call it both. luke's account, as does every historical account ever penned (whether explicit or not), shows forth the sovereign majesty of our triune God's redemptive-missional activity in the world and through weak and broken vessels like us, who by His grace neither can nor will leave behind the holy spirit who goes before us and dwells within us.
burk parsons
2.2.10
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