Archive for the 'The Arts' Category

Hymns at the Harp

Wednesday, November 29th, 2006 | Posted in Local Songwriters

December 2nd at 8:30pm at The Harp Irish Pub in Roswell.
Featuring music by Gary McLoughlin and painting by Amanda Trawick.
Gary McLoughlin
From county Armagh in Northern Ireland, Gary has been playing music for over 20 years, 18 of which he has spent leading worship for churches. Whether he’s composing celtic/folk songs or writing poetry, Gary has [...]

The Art Spin

Tuesday, November 14th, 2006 | Posted in The Arts

While browsing my RSS feeds, I ran across Brian Eno’s latest artistic endeavours. After going to the official 77 Million Paintings site, I was instantly transported back to my days at Atlanta College of Art (recently merged into Savannah College of Art). Believe it or not, while attending a fine arts school for a degree in electronic [...]

Farewell Cruel Cable TV World

Tuesday, November 7th, 2006 | Posted in Family, Football, General, The Arts

Our three month special for getting regular Cable at a low, low price ended recently. Now we are doing something the cable company didn’t plan on. We downgraded to broadcast basic — no more HGTV, Animal Planet, or Travel Channel. (It was cheaper to get the promo special and pay no setup fee than to get Broadcast [...]

Rich Mullins Interviews

Monday, October 23rd, 2006 | Posted in Kingdom Bits, The Arts

“You’re going to get burned. Always choose to be burned by that fire that refines - the fire of obedience rather than the fire of sin.” — Rich Mullins
I stumbled across KidBrothers.net today. It has a collection of interviews with the late Rich Mullins. I’ve always respected Rich because he was a Christian musician that [...]

Flatt Rascals

Monday, September 11th, 2006 | Posted in The Arts

Over the past year or two I’ve been listening to more and more country music. I particularly like the older, classic stuff and I do like a lot of the new stuff, but I must say … I hate Rascal Flatts. They sound like an adult contemporary Christian group, minus the Chrisitian. Is it any [...]

Awake, My Soul: The Story of the Sacred Harp

Wednesday, July 19th, 2006 | Posted in The Arts

Here’s a cool, new musical documentary that has been in the making for quite a while. One of the directors is the sister of a friend of mine. It’s about a type of religious singing that has a long Southern history. The executive producers are two guys from the band Third Day. I’m glad to [...]

A Song Never Forgotten

Friday, March 24th, 2006 | Posted in The Arts

I was recalling this song to my friend Kevin the other day. I can’t believe I found the lyrics but now I can share them with you.
Back in highschool, some friends and I went to the local music store to pick out a cassette from the $1 Bargain Bin (typically unknown artists) and see who [...]

Polyandrium

Tuesday, December 20th, 2005 | Posted in Photography

I don’t know why it’s not in most dictionaries, but:

Polyandrium
Cemetary, originally a cemetery for the victims of great battles.

I found it while searching through an online thesaurus. The photo is of Union Hill Cemetary. I was driving back from lunch at Waffle House with Kevin, and decided to pull over and take a few [...]

Ding Fries Are Done

Friday, December 16th, 2005 | Posted in The Arts

Okay, not too much going on so I figure I’ll just spread some Christmas cheer. This presentation does contain one curse word but it’s not gratuitous in context of the passion and intensity of the creative expression is now profanity free. Now you can let the whole family enjoy!
Ding Fries Are Done.

Watching Narnia

Saturday, December 10th, 2005 | Posted in The Arts

Well we went to see The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe opening night and give it two thumbs up. After thoroughly enjoying the film I went back home and read the reviews on Rotten Tomatoes. After my previous post and reading the movie reviews, it just reiterated the fact to me that no matter [...]