Thursday, June 22, 2006
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about me
- ckjolly
- not one to be lumped in with everyone else, i enjoy being different: i laugh when i ought to cry, i run off the sides of mountains, i can't answer the question 'where are you from?', i told my husband i loved him before i met him, and i'm a woman who is doing her part to reverse the negative trends of extreme feminism. i seek to encourage my brothers-in-Christ, and discuss ways in which women can do the same.
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lol
The guy has just recorded himself miming to a Wierd Al song (that you can download from here.
I actually like the parody better than the normal song.
It's in my playlist at home.
That's pretty dern funny! Especially after hearing James Blunt's original version like, 50 times.
I'm amused. I love how, at the end, you can see the shadow of the guy filming it.
And I totally agree ... Christian music (especially 'worship' music) is the sort of pitiful bastsard cousin of popular music, but there are a few exceptions (Crowder's good, at least ...)
I have to agree with Chris...
I once heard a really poppy "I want to worship you Lord" song once at the end of a Scrubs episode! A Scrubs episode!!!!
Was the episode about God? No! Did it mention God? No, it was just so nothingy that words were totally un-christian!
It also seems like we often tell sweet lies to God in our worship songs today. Such as "You're all I want."
Can we honestly say that and believe it? I know the weakness of my own heart, I know that I desire other things.
"I vow to always be true," that's another one. It seems as though we sing whatever sounds good without thinking about what it really means.
And then there are the songs that are more about all that WE can do for God rather than how wonderful God is to us.
Do you ever notice how some worship songs mention I, me, my, us, we, etc. more than they mention You, Thee, Thy, Him, etc.?
chris - that was my favorite bit. the other version of the song had the guy getting run over by a car in the parking lot.
ironically, i was chatting it up with Amy yesterday afternoon and a particularly wretched song came on the sound system in the cafe. Jumbled phrases of "You are worthy" "Glory to God" "Hallelujah" etc. Not only did one feel the nothingness ... but the music itself was so bad that it was suggested by another friend that if i hated it so much i should cut off my ears and dig my eardrums out with a spoon.
ouch.
just leaving the cafe for a bit sounds so much less painful, plus, I have pretty ears, it would be such a shame ...
thankfully, the song ended just as i got up.
an hour or so later another wretched song cranked out of the speakers.
my friend, Leah, has posted a review of "You're Beautiful" here.
I actually like James Blunt's music but i found this clip quite hilarious!
I too like James Blunt, a little, but not to the extent that I wasn't amused by the video.
I used to be way into the Christian music scene, but I've grown quite tired of (as you say, Joe) the empty promises and prefer the honesty of so many so-called "Secular" artists. But there are a few good "christian" artists (damn, I hate the word "christian" as an adjective, it's supposed to be a noun) out there - dave crowder, jeremy camp, sarah groves (way deep poetry), to name a few.
mmm, yes ... big Sarah Groves fan ... Derek Webb, too
Derek Webb, of course, I forgot to even mention Caedmon's Call!
Hey, glad you dug my video...and yes, the sorry state of music today is why folks like Weird Al and myself exist...to turn pop culture on it's ear against itself...
and yes, the song is by Weird Al...but stars me, Insane Ian. ^_^
-Insane Ian
I shot the video you all seem to be enjoying. And yes, you can see me at the end, but how often do cameramen really get to make a cameo =)
Hey thats pretty sweet.
I was hanging out for each new post you did... it was like the highlight of my morning and day. OOooooh has Christine got a new post? I didn't want to comment on every post as I didn't want to seem too eagar.
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