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Re: The Philosophy of Gaga - David Sessions - Patrol Magazine

JessP — Tue, 11 May 2010 23:24:39 -0000

Have you not heard of that madwoman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market-place, and cried incessantly: "I am looking for pop music! I am looking for pop!"

As many of those who did not listen to pop music were standing together there, she excited considerable laughter. Thus they shouted and laughed. The madwoman sprang into their midst and pierced them with her glances.

"Where has pop gone?" she cried. "I shall tell you. We have killed it - you and I. We are its murderers. Do we not hear anything yet of the noise of the gravediggers who are burying pop music? Do we not smell anything yet of pop's decomposition? Musics too decompose. Pop music is dead. Pop remains dead. And we have killed it.

Here the madwoman fell silent and again regarded her listeners; and they too were silent and stared at her in astonishment. At last she threw her lantern to the ground, and it broke and went out. "I have come too early," she said then; "my time has not come yet. The tremendous event is still on its way, still travelling - it has not yet reached the ears of men. Lightning and thunder require time, the light of the stars requires time, deeds require time even after they are done, before they can be seen and heard. This deed is still more distant from them than the distant stars - and yet they have done it themselves."

It has been further related that on that same day the madwoman entered divers clubs and there sang a single. Led out and quietened, she is said to have retorted each time: "what are these clubs now if they are not the tombs and sepulchres of pop music?"

Re: The New Atheists Meet Their Match - David Sessions - Patrol Magazine

JessP — Mon, 03 May 2010 00:09:55 -0000

The article is available again. It is superb. Hart puts into words things I had felt about the new atheists but couldn't begin to articulate. His challenge to Atheists to take seriously what Nietzsche wrote about when he proclaimed "God has died" was great. Thanks for posting this.

Re: mark driscoll really wants you to know he has a....

JessP — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:37:09 -0000

"...that is what a man is, me." Funny.

Re: songs for an end time army? i bet @derekwebb has a song on this record!!

JessP — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:35:30 -0000

I think the cover would have been better without the robed hands from heaven.

Re: songs for an end time army? i bet @derekwebb has a song on this record!!

JessP — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:34:11 -0000

Epic...

Re: mark driscoll really wants you to know he has a....

JessP — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:35:22 -0000

Yeah, but his whole M.O. is to be abrasive. He likes to push buttons, but then, like you said, when you dig deeper he is actually a moderate complementarian, not as extreme as first thought. With his tendency toward sensationalism, it will stir up the reactions that can be seen in this thread.

Re: mark driscoll really wants you to know he has a....

JessP — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:08:13 -0000

I think that it's good Driscoll is reaching out to the "everyday" men, but I dislike his apparent chauvinistic attitude. He's like the male version of "Girl Power."

Re: mark driscoll really wants you to know he has a....

JessP — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:46:01 -0000

The grass is always greener...

Re: mark driscoll really wants you to know he has a....

JessP — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:37:49 -0000

Saw this yesterday, then read this article: http://experimentaltheology...

I recommend reading it too. Thoughtful stuff.

Re: music: is this band serious, christian, or both? (AMAZING!)

JessP — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:48:56 -0000

So I did some research and as far as I can tell, the video is real. There is a facebook fanpage that appears to be a fake, but their original myspace page is down and about 3/4 or the videos of them on YouTube are taken down citing copyright violations.

The guys are students at Midland Christian high School in Texas and apparently like wearing sleeveless shirts.

When I was young, playing in a band, we just practiced a lot and played for friends on rare occasions. We may have recorded to a cassette deck once. For some reason these guys parents, who apparently have more dollars than sense, sent them to a recording studio and hired a videographer to make a music video. The whole thing is so absurd.

They needed to record it themselves and make their own video, like kids normally do.

Re: Wrangler Makes Excellent Use of Flash

JessP — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:23:04 -0000

Yeah, That's pretty cool. Although I didn't mean to take his shirt off!

Re: Video: Creative Music Video from Sour

JessP — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:55:23 -0000

Very Cool, I like this.

Re: Video: Baptazia

JessP — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 10:09:28 -0000

This was great

Re: Video: Britney Spears Live

JessP — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:18:24 -0000

Is she who she is because she is incredibly talented? Or is she who she is because hundred if not thousands of incredibly talented people have MADE her?

Re: Video: Britney Spears Live

JessP — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:21:37 -0000

Other pop stars like Christina Aguilera manage to sing a lot of their songs on stage too. It's not a secret that Britney's weakness is her voice.

Re: Video: Britney Spears Live

JessP — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:22:18 -0000

True : )

Re: Video: Britney Spears Live

JessP — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:49:08 -0000

I am an audio engineer and I think it is real. There are too many little things that are right for this to be a fake. For example the audible pops when she breaths hard, and on some high notes she chooses not to sing the part at all because she was out of breath. If it is a fake, it's a very good one.

What you hear in this video is not what you hear at a concert, for two reasons.
1. What you are hearing is "dry" vocals. No effects, no processing, nothing. Someone like B Spears would have reverb, compression, EQ, and pitch correction on her vocals in concert and on recordings.
2. Britney is lip syncing most of those songs. She is first and foremost an entertainer and then a singer. So in this video she is probably not even trying to stay on pitch, she's dancing, running, moving, etc. She's there to put on a show, not delight people with her voice.

All this video does is pull back the curtain and reveal there is no great and powerful OZ.