if you like music…

I always liked going to the Barnes and Noble music listening stations, mostly because of the red dot net similar artists feature. This feature allows you to type in a band and find similar bands and to give em a listen. I thought, how great would it be to have this at home. Thanks to Pandora now I do and now, I am exposed to tons of artists I may have never been otherwise.

The way it works? You type in a song or artist you like and it creates a station of similar artists/songs. It’s free, all you have to do is create an account.

Pandora was created by the music genome project, this is what they have to say about themselves:

“Ever since we started the Music Genome Project, our friends would ask:

Can you help me discover more music that I’ll like?

Those questions often evolved into great conversations. Each friend told us their favorite artists and songs, explored the music we suggested, gave us feedback, and we in turn made new suggestions. Everybody started joking that we were now their personal DJs.

We created Pandora so that we can have that same kind of conversation with you.”

So if you like music, I mean really like music…

Roots, Rock and Reggae

I just returned form the Roots Rock and Reggae Festival. Wow, what a way to end the summer! The jams were flowing like wine at the banquet of Dionysus. The line up included, among others, Steve and Ziggy Marley. They remained true the reggae tradition of singing about love, freedom and power to the people. It was a great experience.

hiding in the suburbs

I have sent much of today hiding out in the suburbs watching a U2 video (Live in Chicago on the Vertigo Tour). I have a friend who once said that watching U2 is like going to church. Those of you who know me, know that I have a problem with the phrase “going to church.” So I will just say that today has been like a monastic retreat. U2 really is U2 when you watch them live. I must confess that in my minds eye I flashed back to the most excellent movie of Bill and Ted’s excellent adventure. Perhaps U2 really is the band, that has a shot at changing the world, they’re sure working for something like it.

 

**** The phrase going to church is as ridiculous as my arm or foot saying that they are going to me. They are a part of me, they don’t come and go. They are a part of me. Same with the church, we are the church, there is no coming and going.

 

 

Science- Anti God?

For too long it has seemed among some of those who dot the religious landscape of America that Science was somehow the enemy of faith. It appeared that "fact" became the opposite of belief, unless it somehow backed presuppositions…

Science was about proof, and faith was about belief, at times in the unbelievable, even contrary to the evidence.

No more! Those who follow the world of theoretical physics, cosmology, and quantum sciences already know what I'm getting at. Theoretical physicists such as Michio Kaku are now dedicating themselves to understanding what they call the “mind of God”. This, they say is something like a song, a melody playing throughout the "multiverese", the universe is aparently to small these days! We are on the cusp of a new scientific revolution akin to the Copernican revolution in its magnitude with tremendous theological implications.

My take is that those most dedicated to the search for God, (the people of faith) should lead the way in putting language and heart to what science is just now discovering, and what we perhaps have felt all along.

"She was like the sweetest of songs,

 

I didn't know the words at first so I just hummed along" –Nawbaw

You can catch a video of Dr. Kaku talking about all this and more courtesy the BBC.

Here…

a circus symphony

Just returned from the Living Room where I experienced Anathallo. They are something to experience, performance art in the truest sense. I would say they’re much like a collision between a circus full of poets and a symphony. Do check them out.