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New Music From The Dailies - Signal Chain

Published
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Chad
on 9 April 2008
in art and culture, audio, emerging church and faith and theology
. 28 Comments

Well.  I wish to assure Mike and Corey that I have not slunk off anywhere.  All of the bittersweet couplets are already written.  

This past week has been very, very busy.    Anyways… here is something new for you all to hear.  I will again send you to The Dailies website to hear it.  This one’s got a little fundie-bait in it, not to mention a pretty sweet bass part.  :)

Click here and enjoy!

It’s a Surreal World Out There

Published
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Chad
on 1 April 2008
in art and culture, geek and laugh!
. 26 Comments

Just when I thought the world couldn’t get any stranger… well… let’s just say that there always seems to be something weirder just around the bend.

I mean, yeah, there’s the Asian shot for shot remake of the tithing video, but then there’s this, and this falls into an altogether new category. I’m just… stunned at the internet.

Check out this video… just… amazing.

Fundamentalist Christian Talk Show Host Confronts Bono at Milwaukee Airport

New Music from The Dailies

Published
by
Chad
on 28 March 2008
in audio
. 24 Comments

Alrighty, I’ll break the blogging fast with a little demo-licious goodness.

For several weeks now, I’ve been blogging in obscurity over at our recently simplified website.  It’s been fun… a private little place for me to put my thoughts,  creating a little backlog of material for when we decided to make it known to ya’ll.  That time has come, we think.  

I won’t post the audio here, because I want you guys to go over there!  :)  Feel free to comment here or there, or anywhere.  I’ll continue posting material and then alerting the Addison Roadies about any and all new stuff.  We hope you enjoy!  There’s more discussion about the music itself on our blog.

 www.thedailiesmusic.com 

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of Thirty-Year-Old Nerds

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Chad
on 14 February 2008
in art and culture, current events and geek
. 11 Comments

So, normally I post like… once a month…  Sorry for interrupting my usual rhythm.

The new Indiana Jones trailer premiered today, and 49 seconds into the trailer, that horn fanfare starts up, and I became 12 again.  I actually jumped up and down with delight, I’m moderately ashamed to say.

It’s my belief that Raiders is the single greatest action film of all time, with maybe Aliens and the original Die Hard vying for the silver medal.  I miss the 80’s, man.  It’s the story, stupid.  It’s always the story.  Raiders was a classic in ‘82, it’s a classic in ‘08, and it will still be a classic in ‘82 again.  

Just try these on for size… and I’m going from memory here.

“Throw me the idol, I throw you the whip!”

“Snakes… why’d it have to be snakes…”

“Wave it at anything that slithers!”

“It ain’t the years, honey… it’s the mileage.”

And so on…  So, everyone knows that Temple of Doom was too dark, and that Last Crusade was too glib, but even those flicks had some utterly classic moments.  It’s amazing to me that even when Spielberg misfires, (let’s say… War of the Worlds) he’s still totally arresting as a storyteller.  I think that Munich is perhaps the single most underrated movie of the last five years.  The bottom line is that, for me, the Indiana Jones movies were way more a part of my growing-up lexicon then the Star Wars movies.  Sorry, kids.  Luke was kind of a weenie.  If Han was the focus of the story, it would have been different.  

The line squat at The Village starts at around 4pm,  May 22nd, for anyone who’s with me.   

Heaven, Hell, Lucifer, Free Will, and Colbert

Published
by
Chad
on 13 February 2008
in The Intra-Web-O-Sphere!, art and culture, current events, faith and theology, laugh! and technology
. 75 Comments

Last Monday night, there was a fascinating little TV moment that I actually missed. My sister told me about it yesterday, and I found it on the intertubes and was moved to shrieks and giggles.Watch the video first, and then read on, I don’t want to spoil it for you with my little commentary.

It’s about a five minute clip, and the payoff is right at the end, with perhaps the most insta-tastic-ready-made Addison Road tagline of all time. You’ll know it when you hear it, I promise.

So, if you’re not hip to Colbert, then you’re not hip. For the unhip, Stephen Colbert has created a cult figure of steadily growing proportions. He is lampooning Bill O’Reilly and other pundits who take themselves uber seriously, which is what makes this clip so interesting to me.

See… when he begins, he’s doing his standard thing: taking conservatism to an often hilarious extreme.Most of his guests know what’s happening, and still manage to get off an interesting interview. They play the game because they understand the character.Heck, even Huckabee’s been on. In fact, Colbert, Stewart, and Conan O’Brien have been staging a mock fight for weeks over who is responsible for Huckabee’s unlikely success thus far, such as it is.

So… here’s Colbert doing his regular (albeit hilarious) schtick, and he’s got this guy who’s deconstructing one of the fundamental doctrines of scripture, and who takes himself quite seriously. Watch as Colbert slowly moves from playing along to getting more and more genuinely frustrated. I think that little 30-second speech he makes at the end is the real Stephen, who was raised Roman Catholic.

To me, the greatest thing about this is watching the guest (a professor at Stanford, none the less) get flustered as he encounters a court jester who’s intellect matches and (likely) surpasses his own. He thought he was gonna get a free ride to plug his book.

Poor bastard. As President George Bush can tell you… Colbert is a force to be reckoned with.