New Music Alert

If you follow me on Twitter – and if you don’t what are you waiting for – you will have received my humble suggestion earlier today that you should be checking out the music of “The Letter Black” in the near future.  After all, that’s what all the cool people are doing these days.   [...]

The Post Sermonizing Blues

Well, today was my turn to preach again, and as always I love the process of getting there and delivering the message.  I always feel blessed to have the opportunity to study and prepare for a week and then share what I’ve learned and been challenged by with a few hundred people on Sunday morning.  [...]

Help Me Spend My iTunes Money *UPDATE #2*

Well after much thinking, eating, sleeping, reading, and listening to dozens and dozens of thirty second clips of songs on iTunes, I think I have finally narrowed the list down to eight potential album purchases.  Thanks to the wonders of the wordpress upgrade in the new year, I can now post polls here too so [...]

Help Me Spend My iTunes Money *UPDATE*

Thankyou so much to all of you who have taken the time to give me your suggestions for what albums to get.  I’ve been listening through them on iTunes – the 30 second previews at least – and I’m giving some of them some thought.  They all seem like “good” picks, but I haven’t heard [...]

Help Me Spend My iTunes Money

I love me my music, and new music is one of the best gifts I can get.  Wonderfully, I have received $80 in iTunes gift cards over the past few months.  However, this also leaves me with somewhat of a quandry: What albums should I buy with said funds?  Thus far, I have spent about [...]

New Music Monday

Yes, it’s true that new music actually comes out on Tuesdays and not Mondays, but the music I’m talking about isn’t actually new, it’s just new to me.  With my becoming slightly more ancient on Wednesday of last week some people decided to pay me for this feat of death defiance.  Some of that money [...]

The five people I’d invite to my front yard barbecue

At first you may be thinking, “Wow, that’s a really interesting idea for a post. How original! There are lots of people I’d like to meet, but would I want to barbecue with them? I wonder what interesting people Ben would invite?” You may be thinking these thoughts, unless your name is Brad in which [...]

My musical world has been rocked . . . (picture mouth gaping)

Tonight I heard Dragonforce on the XM42 Liquid Metal station.  My mouth still hasn’t closed, and that’s not just because I’m a mouth breather with a cold.  I know a lot of music, and like I said a few posts ago, I’m re-embracing my metal side.  Why have I never heard these guys before?  Which [...]

Re-embracing the Metal in Me

For those of you who are worried by the title; no I haven’t recently had any pins or rods inserted into my body for any serious injuries, and no I’m not talking about metal in me like the iron in my blood.  I saw what too much iron in your blood could lead to in [...]

The Soundtrack of My Life . . . ?

I found this interesting little exercise in the comments of Knotter’s blog and thought I would give it a go.  As all of you who know me at all know, I am a hopeless music addict.  Between Jenn and I we have over 500 some albums.  Right now there are 327 albums listed in my [...]