Wednesday, January 31, 2007

My dreams have come true! (maybe)

So whenever I watch Back to the Future 2 I am always struck by the movies portrayal of the future. I just watched it like a week or two ago and realized that when Marty goes to the future he visits 2015 which is only 8 years away now. I'm sure in 1989 when the movie came out 2015 seemed like a long way into the future but now it's not too far off. The portrayal of the future in the movie has been brought that much closer for me after reading this article. I always wondered when we would get around to flying cars. Well now it looks like they might be a real possibility.

I can't tell you how many times I have been sitting in traffic on one of LA's many freeways and began to day dream about Back to the Future 2 and owning my own flying car. Well it looks like my dreams might come true some day soon.

Monday, January 29, 2007

Cold War Kids



There is a lot to like about this band. They are going to have a big year in 07.

First of all their band name is awesome. I can't get the song "Hang Me Up To Dry" out of my head. The music video is brilliant. They are somehow connected to my friend Dave Beeman who I worked with at New Life a few summers back and who also used to be the drummer for this band called John Wilkes Kissing Booth (another great band name) because I have seen pictures of him hanging out with the band on their website. Also a friend of mine, Jeff Bartsch, edited one of their music videos.

Anyway I thought I would share the music video for the song "Hang Me Up To Dry" by the Cold War Kids

Sunday, January 28, 2007

Try not to laugh. Just try.

If you have about 10 minutes, watch this video. You may want to pause it and let it load all the way before playing.



Two thoughts.

#1 This is better than anything on American TV.
#2 I think we found a way to get young people interested in going to the library.

Thanks to my buddy Ryan for the recommendation on the video. Hilarious.

Super Poll

One of my most frequented web stops is espn.com. I am a huge sports fan and their website gives me everything I need to stay up to speed on all my favorite teams.

On their main page they have poll questions that change every couple days. Currently the question is "Should Super Bowl Sunday be a national holiday?" If you vote, then a color-coded map of the nation pops up showing you the poll-results state by state. I voted "no" and thought for sure that I would be in the majority. I was wrong.

At the time of this post, 23,652 people had submitted their response and 59% of the people who responded thought that Super Bowl Sunday should be a national holiday. Are you kidding me?

Arkansas was the only "red" state, having 52% of their 104 responses saying that it shouldn't be a national holiday. Minnesotas 624 respondents were split 50-50 making it a gray state (although doesn't blue and red make purple?).

This baffles me. I think the Super Bowl is one of the most overrated events in pop culture. It is bloated and vacuous and overhyped, just like Prince. Hey, maybe Prince should play halfti...wait...nevermind.

Monday, January 22, 2007

Let's Hear it for the B's

Well I got my grades back from my first quarter of Seminary and I got a B+ in both classes (Hebrew Prophets and Christian Ethics). I was most surprised by my grade in Prophets because the last few weeks of that class were a blur and I absolutely tanked the final, even writing a somewhat pathetic apology/explanation for my poor effort in the blue book before turning it in. So I guess I must have done well on the paper I wrote for that class (an exegetical paper on "The Song of the Vineyard" in Isaiah 5:1-6) which helped bring my grade back up above the respectable line.

8 units down 88 to go.

Next up:
A 5 week intensive course called Theology and Culture taught by a visiting professor named John Drane who coincidentally happens to be from Scotland (see post below).

Scotland?!

The Bride and I are looking into possibly serving God in Glasgow Scotland next year with an organization called NieuCommunities. Check out the link if you are curious about what we are looking into but if you are a person who prays at all please be praying for us as we seek to figure out the next few years of our lives and how to best bring glory to God with what he has given us.

Thursday, January 18, 2007

Favorite/Least favorite commercials of the moment-1/18/07

Since the Beatles Song of the week has kind of fizzled out perhaps we can replace it with another semi regular contribution...Favorite/Least Favorite commercials of the moment.

Favorite


Least Favorite

And my least favorite I am having trouble finding online (probably because it is so bad) but it is another cell phone commercial (for verizon I think) where two guys download "Rock the Casbah" to their phone and then listen to it together wondering what the singer is saying. The title of the song is "Rock the Casbah", that is what he is saying. If you download a song and it the title is on the display of your phone, how do you not know what the singer is saying when he says "Rock the Casbah"? I can't even watch it anymore.

Guess who's back?

Happy 2007!

What do you mean 2007 is already almost 3 weeks old? You mean I missed the ball dropping? I missed Ryan Seacrest and Carson Daly vying for the title of "Most Irrelevant Person Ever"? Man I need to blog more often...or not.

Anyway I think I should dedicate my first blog entry of 07 to the return of a great radio personality to the air waves of southern california. That's right, after a few months of taking some time off from radio, Petros Papadakis is back and better than ever. The self proclaimed "man of the people of the city: of the ciudad" Petros has been focusing on his TV career as a football analyst with Fox Sports and host of Spike TV's "Pro's vs. Joes" ever since leaving KMPC 1540 the Ticket a few months back. Well now Petros joins Matt "Money" Smith at KLAC 570 for the afternoon drive time show called PMS: The Petros and Money Show.

If you are a fan of pop-culture, sports, or you just like to have a laugh from time to time then check out PMS, which can be downloaded here.