music genres

okay.  so clearly there is a problem with genre names.  They just don’t describe the genre at all. That said, I would like to relabel them for myself.  I provided an example of each:

1. Smooth Grit: John Mclaughlin – Amelia’s Missing
2. Soft Funk:  Dave Barnes – Someday Sarah
3. Dance Funk: Chromeo – Bonafied Lovin’
4. Carefree / Nonchalance: Chairlift – Bruises
5. Somehow Significant : Sara Bareilles – One Sweet Love
6. Black Depressing Music: Brian Mcknight – 6,8,12
7. White Depressing Music: John Mayer – Slow Dancing in a Burning Room
8. White operatic singers with glamorous hair: The Darkness – I believe in a thing called Love
9. Epic Teen anthems: 3eb – god of wine
10. Kids Bop: The Click Five – Angel to you devil to me
11. Male Hippie: Glen Hansard – Say it to me now
12. Female Hippie: Regina Spektor – Samson
13. Talented Christian: Future of Forestry – Twilight
14. Non-talented Christian: Rebecca St. James  – every single song
15. British Builds and hooks: Coldplay – Politik
16. British Non-Builds and hooks: Travis – Side
17. Black people saying stuff in a cool way: Lupe Fiasco – Hip Hop saved my life
18. Black people trying to sing: Kanye West – Love Lock down
19. Jay Chou: Jay Chou – Black Humor
20. Jay Chou Imitators – Yida – How Long
21. Non Jay Chou imitators: Khalil Fong – Love
22. Broadway: Wicked – Defying Gravity
23. Jazzy instrumental – Bill Evans: Waltz for Debby

Just bored I guess…anyways, on to the rest of the day!

A tribute to Honor

It’s hard to describe, but we all know it, and deep inside of us, we all appreciate it.  But despite its many portrayals in movies and novels alike, Honor is rarely if ever displayed in our personal lives.  That’s a real tragedy.  I  believe that Honor  is something that men and women of every race and creed long to know.  And when they lose sight of it, due to various circumstances, they lose a piece of themselves in the process.

Life is mundane. But Life spent for things beyond ourselves, kindness, charity, integrity, humility, selflessness, loyalty, generosity,  chivalry, brotherhood… things that we cannot quantify, and yet things that add so much meaning to our lives, transform the mundane into the meaningful.

New things New things

yes yes, there are a great many new things in my life.  new job, new transitions, new places, new people, new ministry.

But the most important out of all of these is…

I am now a fan of Taylor Swift.

Yes, this 24 year old asian male loves to listen to adolescent country girl music.

More seriously: Life is hard, but in pain and brokeness, there is grace to be experienced.  Even through adversity, God’s grace teaches, and makes Christ more and more the strength of my heart.  In a world full of opinions and voices, thank God, for the unchanging, uncompromising, Scriptures.  Year after year, He remains the same.   Faithful and True.  Whew.