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The Conjecturer 2004 April

The Conjecturer 2004 April
Jim Borowski  |  by www.conjecturer.com. All rights reserved. 21.05 | 9:13

Filed under: at 3:07 am on Friday, April 30, 2004

Thanks to the , I have learnt of John Da-Bih-Shuh s debut. While I do dig Brit accents, he s a trifle boring, despite his jokes about the Jews, the Arabs, gays, and the Kerry s (I especially liked the quip about gays being thrown in the slammer ). Meh.

He sounds like one of those guys who narrates audiobooks, only drier, like sand, or perhaps my sense of humor.
Weirdly, he sounds like a Kiwi I know, which should be a point of shame both for me (for not being able to tell the difference between New Zealand and ) and for Meesta Derbyshire, for sounding so very generic. Filed under: at 1:25 pm on Wednesday, April 28, 2004

Mike raised a good point in our .

He said,

I think that the Christian music industry is doing nothing but allowing youth group moms to buy their kids safe albums and allowing Christians to become closed-minded about one more form of art. It is allowing Christians to avoid that much more contact with the world outside the Christian church.
That s right.

There s a concerted effort to the church, to make it safe and fuzzy. On a broader cultural level, Christians have taken the in the world but not of it ideal to a separate but equal, but we re more equal than you level, like a spiritual Jim Crowe.
Filed under: at 8:53 am on Wednesday, April 28, 2004

  • I m always tickled with a wave of mirth whene er a professor asks a student with dark skin where are you from?

    and the answer is something like Ohio. The confusion and embarassment that result is simply priceless.

  • : There are two ways, I suppose, one could inform readers of the Geneva Convention stipulation against using places of worship to conduct military attacks.

    One might be to headline saying that Terrorists Attack Coalition Forces From Mosques. That would be one way to present the information.
    Another might be to say: Mosques Targeted in Fallujah.

    That was the Los Angeles Times headline this morning.

  • : It s looking more and more as if one of the best reasons to get rid of Saddam Hussein was that it was probably the only way to get rid of Oil-for-Food.
  • I m not ordinarily a superficial person, but aren t there some people who just should not display affection in public?

    Like, really really ugly (and chubby) people who decide that it s their right, nay, duty to make out in a Starbucks?

    • dc:title="Where Are the Men?" dc:title="Firefly, the Complete Series" Filed under: at 9:48 am on Monday, April 26, 2004
    DHB has an interesting piece on how Christian Rock has been one of the music industry s (they spring off this NYT piece on how most Christian bands ).

    While that s not the main focus of their article, it did raise something interesting. I m not so sure that the marginalization of Christian musicians is entirely the work of the evil corporations that run most of the music biz in this country. While that s certainly a big consideration, I feel I must also point out that most Christian bands really suck.

    Besides a notable few, there is a remarkable lack of creativity from Christian pop musicians (especially when a lot of labels specifically compare them to equivalent non-Christian bands for the purposes of providing a safe alternative).
    Basically, the Christian music industry does not treat its bands maturely. Besides the disrespect of telling the bands that they cannot succeed apart from copying more popular bands, they are made to sign morality clauses that prohibit things like drinking, smoking, gays, and cursing.

    Sorry, but these things are a part of life, and preventing Christians from being able to offer their perspectives on them simply makes people go elsewhere for thoughts. The bands suffer too, of course, but not like the bands on non-Christian labels. Theirs is a worse fate, I would say, being held to a standard most people simply cannot keep.

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