I have NEVER understood the appeal of Mariah Carey. She has a big range, but little resonance in her voice, and her “sexy waif soul” schtick makes my back molars ache like chewing on tin foil. She’s traded on her new hottieness for decades… why do people not realize this shit gets old and bustit? BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Mariah breaks Elvis chart record
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The movie reviewer for SFgate.com reviews a recent Easter mass he attended, and this paragraph jumped out at me (yes, because I’m in favor of traditonal liturgy and liberal theology): Mick LaSalle I was talking to a former Episcopal pastor yesterday, and he told me that if he were to do it all over again, he’d go entirely the other way. Bring in organ music. Incense. Choirs. Maybe choirs singing in foreign languages. Things to make people feel that they’ve entered another world — a mysterious place where God dwells. Instead what you get in church these days feels 30…
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Caminante, no hay camino: The Great Vigil of Easter Brother Curtis spoke of the Exsultet:‘This past Easter morning at 4:00 a.m. we were celebrating the Easter Vigil in the monastery where I live. At one moment early on in the liturgy I was stunned, quite unexpectedly. I had a kind of epiphany, something which has very much stayed with me during these past months. The monastery chapel was still in darkness, illuminated only by lighted tapers held by the monks and a large number of people worshipping with us and the great Paschal Candle. In this darkened space tears rolled…
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Stephen Fry » Blog Archive » Bored of the dance Many reasons, all perfectly valid and many of them funny and some of them poignant, prevent Stephen Fry from enjoying the feeling of moving around in time to music. Also, he declares war on the idea that Americans are “irony illiterate.”
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One more tweak to the media template in ecto: need to use an entity for the ampersand in my character entity for tied eighth notes! And an ampersand, not a percent! Then click “APPLY.” Now listening:♫ The Police:Can’t Stand Losing You:Outlandos d’Amour (Remastered)[2:58] Technorati Tags: iTunes
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Inclusive Church blog: Our sound is our wound: audio of an address by the Revd Canon Lucy Winkett A long, but very interesting address from last fall’s Inclusive Church conference, “Drenched in Grace.” Best line: “We talk in the Church about modern music. We don’t mean modern music, we mean The Carpenters.”
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Grr! due to a recent flutter with my hard drive, iTunes has forgotten again that my old RED57 account at AOL doesn’t exist. I have to email support again to ask them to mere old and new, and verify billing. Grr!
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Things are about to get interesting in the Diocese of Chicago, in the “ancient Chinese curse” sense, so I went in search of a spiritual or musical unicorn chaser to get me in a better frame of mind. After yesterday’s horrifying screed from a Nigerian bishop named Orama put me off reading the Internets tubes for a day, a friend emailed me to say that the Archbishop of All Nigeria will be speaking in the Chicago suburbs later in September, in support of some congregations that broke away to affiliate with the Anglican Church of Rwanda (bah, no linky-love for…
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I had a flashback yesterday on the phones. I was working with a client the day before who needed hotels booked from one end of Utah to the other, because she’d just been transferred to the West and had a long, long, long, skinny district to check out. We were chatting along and kidding around a little while I made with the flying fingers – I’m faster booking things “old skool” although the graphical tool we have is useful for “set it and forget it” bookings. So this woman was laughing about something I’d said to crack her up, and…
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Masters of Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Concert Series Just noting for future reference: concert venue moved from the Ritz to Napili Kai.