Both gospel and blues are musical traditions rooted in the American South, both are based in tragedy, pain, and misery. But the difference between gospel and blues is that the gospel offers hope. The very nature of the blues is that there is no hope. Your heart is broke, you’re probably going to die from …
Category: music
Jan 11
VBS 2013 Development Diary: #5: Music
For the past two years Rahne has composed the theme music. For Law of the West, our wild west VBS, I was looking for music that would fit in with a John Ford / John Wayne / Roy Rogers good guy kind of western—not a spaghetti western. When she was working on it, we listened to a lot …
Jul 19
Chick-chicky boom
So you know how you get a song stuck in your head? I’ve had the same one stuck in my head for like three weeks now and it won’t go away. The song is ‘Cuban Pete’ from 1994’s The Mask. It’s really getting on the kids’ nerves, too, because I walk around the house singing it …
May 20
Music and Memory
Every time I hear Elvis’s I Can’t Help Falling In Love With You it makes me think of Kaleb’s wife. Hold on–I know I have some ‘splainin’ to do–just give me a second. Music has a way of embedding memories. Trisha Yearwood and Clint Black, appropriately, used music to point this out, in The Song …
Apr 07
What’s your favorite Tim Burton movie?
Mine is that one where Johnny Depp plays that weird pasty guy, and all that creepy stuff happens and Danny Elfman’s music is all ‘oompa OOMPA oompa OOMPA.’ I’m just kidding. Really my favorite Tim Burton movie is Big Fish, probably the least Burtonesque movie he’s done. Second favorite? Probably Ed Wood, though I don’t …
Mar 23
Movie Review: The Hunger Games
I haven’t read The Hunger Games, and haven’t really paid attention to the book series. I had the barest concept of the story from The Baby, who liked the first book, was cool to the second, and hated the third. So I had pretty much no expectations going in. I only went because the girls …
