John Camp

(untitled)

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Coolest watch (vintage Milgauss 1019)

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JAZ in London (Sept. 22)

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As a special one off party, Sixty Five records welcome from Charleston, USA the First Minister of Disco, John Zahl (JAZ) for a first time exclusive gig in London. Known for his obscure disco edits on Beard Science, Messalina and Sixty Five, his legendary mixes and weekly radio show, JAZ’s take on the disco edit genre is right up there with the best of them.

He’ll be supported by the Legendary Tone, Mudd & Simon Purnell.

7-2am FREE

Best photo I've ever taken!

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Chilly: For Your Love (1978)

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JAZ's favorite mixes of the decade (2000-2010)

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My faves (take your pick, these are all rad beyond belief!) -->

Mark 7: Slow Blow (my favorite mix of all time!)

Ryan Chimney/Beat Broker's "Cosmix" series (and "the slow beat mix")

Balearic Mike's "Cosmic Alphonsus" series & the two he did at Emergency in '06

DJ Zecky's "Bar Jam 19.05.04" pts. 1 & 2

Relaxer's "Relaxer Goes Leather (Eagle 2006)"

Jeno's "Castle of the Imagination" pt. 1

Soft Rocks: Lower East Side Boogie

Hey Convict's BIS show (the one with Boomerang's 'Na Zapadou" track in it).

Albion: Mixtura series

Charles Bals: Beach Freaks Don't Like Secrets

Hysteric's: Sun After Rain

Baris K's "Eurasia Mix" series

(obviously) Harvey's: Sarcastic Disco

Loud-E: Lazertown 2007 (and the IFMX transmission)

Frank (of Voodoo Funk blog) "Lagos Disco Inferno" & "Show Me Your Backside"

Marni's "Lonely Galaxy"

Casco: the one he did live in London a few years ago with all the Italo classics

Javels/Cedric "Les Yeux dans les Yeux"

Matthew Burgess: "The Love in your Eye"

Jan Hammered's "Airport Airport"

Tolouse Low Tracks: "Savant Dance"

Vidal Benjamin's "Balearic Nightmare"

Lexx: Love Without Sound

Alex Le-Tan's: When the Snow Falls

Nitedog & Lovefingers: Poolside Pleasures (live at the Ace Hotel)

Bumrocks & Hey Convict: Purple Brain

Fleming Dalum's "Boogie Down Rimini"

Sorcerer's "El Increíble Viaje de la Hechicero"

Baldelli's "Cosmic Disc?! Cosmic Rock!!"

...and "A Mix by JAZ" (both discs) ;)

JAZ is the Minister

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I'm selling some records:

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My Discogs Store (Click Me!)

Happy belated 4th of July!

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This is my favorite Jimi Hendrix moment:

William Kilpatrick quote:

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“It is very nearly the First Commandment of the psychological society that we should accept ourselves as we are. We are urged to greater self-awareness on the happy assumption that we will like what we find. We are, as the saying goes, OK. We just have to learn to be ourselves…In contrast, Christianity starts off by saying that we’re not OK the way we are. There is something wrong with us – a twist in our natures. And the twist is not removed by liking yourself” (The Emperor's New Clothes, pp. 20-21).

Flaming Pianos

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Walter Bense

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From the intro to Holl's "Reconstruction of Morality":

"All traditional ethics -- whether focusing on virtues, culture, values, or duties -- are to be 'purified' by the (right) Christian ethic, which retains their good points even as it goes beyond them”.

ORS - Who Built the Pyramids?

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Great lighting at the beginning!

The much better instrumental version is: this.

Edgar Mueller: The Crevasse

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Whit Stillman's Barcelona (classic Dance/Bible scene)

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Interview with Daniele Baldelli

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At least watch the first half. He was inspired (un-selfconsciously). When he plays Harry Thumann at 33, instead of 45, you begin to sense the magic of this man's amazing ears.

Slow-Motion dancing (in real time) -->

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Frusen Glädjé + Lent =

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Stirring.

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(thanks JDK)

Choose Your Own Adventure?

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"The One" -- probably his way of referring to a Law/Gospel hermeneutic:

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Valerie Dore: The Night (1984)

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Don't miss the (best French Revolution) drummer (of all time) starting at 0:33!!!

Excerpt from Pascal's "Provincial Letters: #2"

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Shall I describe for you the situation of the church in the midst of these different views? I think of it like a man who, leaving his native country to travel abroad, encounters robbers who would him so severely that they leave him half dead. He sends for three doctors who are resident in the neighborhood. The first, after probing his wounds, pronounces them to be mortal and tells him that only God can restore him. The second, wishing to flatter him, assures him that he has sufficient strength to reach home and insults the first for opposing his opinion and threatens to ruin him. When the unfortunate patient sees the third physician approach, he stretches out his hands to welcome him as the one who will decide the dispute.

This physician, upon looking at his wounds and learning of the opinions already given, agrees with the second and together they turn upon the first with contempt. They now form the strongest party. The patient infers from this that the third physician agrees with the second, and on asking him the question, assures him most positively that he has enough strength for the proposed journey. But the wounded man, expatiating upon his weakness, asks how he came to this conclusion.

"Why, you still have legs, and legs are the means which according to the nature of things, are sufficient for the purpose of walking."

The wounded traveler replies, "That may be, but have I all the strength required for using them? They really seem useless to me in my present weakened condition."

"Certainly they are," replies the physician, "and you will never be able to walk unless God gives you some extraordinary assistance to sustain and guide you."

"What then," says the sick man, "have I not sufficient strength in myself to be able to walk?"

"Oh no, far from it."

"Then you have a different opinion from your friend respecting my real condition."

"I must admit, I have."

What do you suppose the wounded man would say to all this? He would certainly complain of the strange procedure and of the ambiguous language of the third physician. He scolds him for agreeing with the second, when in fact he is of a contrary opinion, although they appear to agree and drive away the first in doing so. When he tries his strength and finds that he is only weak, he gets rid of them both. He then recalls the first one, who puts him under his care, follows his advice, and asks God for strength which he knows he needs. His petitions are heard, and eventually he reaches home in peace.

Japan: Life in Tokyo (1981)

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Carl Sagan:

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Excerpt from "For Sinners Only: The Book of the Oxford Groups"

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"What is the Group teaching about smokes and drinks?" I asked.

"What do you think?"

That is the characteristic Group answer. The decision is left to you. Rigidity over details is unpopular. There are principles in the Fellowship, but no rigid rules. Throw a question at the Group and it comes back to you. Here are certain facts. Interpret them as you think best under God's guidance. "Do anything God lets you." That is the guiding theory of the Group, and that gives freedom.

Jerry Andress & 1 Corinthians 1:28

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God chose the things that are not—to nullify the things that are.

Gary Numan: Music for Chameleons (1982)

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Bassline city!

Thornton Wilder re: Theophilus North

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"One of the themes that subtends Theophilus North is that old question -- what does a man do with despair (his rage, his frustration)! What does every different kind of person 'store up' to evade, surmount, transmute, incorporate those aspects of life which are beyond our power to alter. It would seem to be a depressing subject, but it's not."

Dennis Edwards: Don't Look Any Further (1984)

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Bassline city!

Thornton Wilder quote:

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"All men aspire to excellence. All men strive to incorporate elements of the Absolute into their lives. These efforts are doomed to failure. Every man is an archer whose arrow is aimed to the center of the target; but our arrows are leaden, their feathers are ill...our eyesight is imperfect; our education has failed to distinguish the true from the false targets; the strength in our arm is insufficiently developed."
(taken from his unfinished preface to Theophilus North)

(disco) Romans 7

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"I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do...For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing." (Romans 7:15,19)

JAZ Church:

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Christian Funk:

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Limousine: Holy Spirit (Sweden, 1976)

Richard Rohr on Julian of Norwich:

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"As she put it, 'First there is the fall, and then there is the recovery from the fall. But both are the mercy of God.' Maybe you can't believe that until the second half of life."

(from Everything Belongs, p.20,21)

Astronaut (Remi Gaillard)

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Graham Tomlin quote:

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If all this is anywhere near true, the first stage in a church's approach to its non-Christian neighbours may not be in thinking 'how can we persuade them that it's true?', but by asking 'how can we make them want to know more?' (p. 13)

Hot Chocolate: Your Love in Me (1977)

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Luther, Heidelberg Disputation:

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"The thirst for glory is not ended by satisfying it but rather by extinguishing it."

Jorge Ben & Tim Maia: Lorraine (1981)

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ComMOONion

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Check it out, Buzz Aldrin took communion on the moon:

“In the radio blackout, I opened the little plastic packages which contained the bread and the wine. I poured the wine into the chalice our church had given me. In the one-sixth gravity of the moon, the wine slowly curled and gracefully came up the side of the cup. Then I read the Scripture, ‘I am the vine, you are the branches. Whosoever abides in me will bring forth much fruit. Apart from me you can do nothing.’ I had intended to read my communion passage back to earth, but at the last minute [they] had requested that I not do this. NASA was already embroiled in a legal battle with Madelyn Murray O’Hare, the celebrated opponent of religion, over the Apollo 8 crew reading from Genesis while orbiting the moon at Christmas. I agreed reluctantly. …I ate the tiny Host and swallowed the wine. I gave thanks for the intelligence and spirit that had brought two young pilots to the Sea of Tranquility. It was interesting for me to think: the very first liquid ever poured on the moon, and the very first food eaten there, were the communion elements.”

(Aldrin quote taken from Eric Metaxis' interview)

Amazing words from Ezekiel:

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Then I looked, and I saw a hand stretched out to me. In it was a scroll, 10 which He unrolled before me. On both sides of it were written words of lament and mourning and woe. And He said to me, "Son of man, eat what is before you, eat this scroll..."

So I opened my mouth, and He gave me the scroll to eat. Then He said to me, "Son of man, eat this scroll I am giving you and fill your stomach with it." So I ate it, and it tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth.

(Eazy 2:9-3:3)

"Love Is My Message"

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Zodiac: Mysterious Universe (Latvia, 1982)

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note: Don't miss the part that starts at 1:54.

Aaron Broomfield: I'm Gonna Miss You (1981)

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Turtle-Gopher

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Remembering Donnay:

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Cosmic Christ

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45 King

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"A Note On Sports"*

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"Please note that there are only two references to sports in this book. They are on pages 71 and 95, and both are appropriately dismissive. If you wish for sports information, might I kindly refer you to every other aspect of our culture?"

* (quote taken from John Hodgman's "The Areas of My Expertise")

Stern-Combo Meissen: Der Kampf um den Sudpol (GDR, 1977)

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Abreaction in Art

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My father gave a brilliant talk at the Mockingbird Conference last week in NYC. You can hear it here:

...and, if nothing else, download the readings (from Kerouac, Wilder, Tolstoy, and Eliot) here:

Click Me!

Albatros: Volo AZ 504 (1976)

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2009's Best New Site:

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COSMICDUDES.COM

Plaidmusic quote:

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"Before i grew a beard and started listening to sophisticated disco..."

(taken from plaidmusic blog)

On Irony:

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"The default for Wallace would have been irony—the prevailing tone of his generation. But, as Wallace saw it, irony could critique but it couldn’t nourish or redeem."
(Quote taken from D. T. Max's excellent recent New Yorker article on David Foster Wallace: The Unfinished)

Beard Science EP3: Out Now!

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Specials AKA: Girlfriend

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Galatians 6:3

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"If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself."

Can We Get Serious for a Minute? (German Balearia)

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William Pitt: City Lights

Frank Zander: Captain Starlight

Remember This?!

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JAZ : "I Played Sports" (out now!)

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Piccadilly says: "...the Jaz CD (causing much interest when played in the shop)...The minister of edits, Jaz, follows up his amazingly ace twelves on Beard Science and Sixty Five with his first full length CD, which naturally features another 14 edits. 13 of these are previously unreleased and none of them disappoint - there's not a dud track on the disc! On "I Played Sports" Jaz takes us right across the board, from Balearic mellowness via spacious choral cosmic rock to a mix of underground and full-on disco. All the time he never goes for the obvious heard-em-before tracks to mess with, instead these cuts will have even the the most well-versed in the Balearic / cosmic / disco arts scratching their heads in wonder."

Click Me to Hear Samples!

(untitled)

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"As loyal citizens of the modern world we believe in our own efficacy." (E. Perel)

Libre Ambiance out now!!!

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Available from Juno (Click Me!)

Bubbles

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A nice slice of baby-disco:

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(dedicated to TZ)

Bombers - Get Dancin' (1979)

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Friday Nights (10-1)

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JAZ = Uncle (since Oct. 28)

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Introducing Tommy Z.

1 Corinthians 13:12

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"For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known."

Connecting the dots between Article 26 of "The 39 Articles of Religion" (1562) and 1980

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Article XXVI: Of the Unworthiness of the Ministers...

"Although in the visible Church the evil be ever mingled with the good, and sometimes the evil have chief authority in the Ministration of the Word and Sacraments, yet forasmuch as they do not the same in their own name, but in Christ's, and do minister by his commission and authority, we may use their Ministry, both in hearing the Word of God, and in the receiving of the Sacraments. Neither is the effect of Christ's ordinance taken away by their wickedness, nor the grace of God's gifts diminished from such as by faith and rightly do receive the Sacraments ministered unto them; which be effectual, because of Christ's institution and promise, although they be ministered by evil men."

(note: Thank you Cliff Swartz for this amazing nugget!)

In case you haven't been following my train of thought, these will help you to get back on track:

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Intro:

Craft Fair:

Wonder Woman (JAZ edit)

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Mark Mattes quote:

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"Theology should not be about providing an overall system, but instead should deconstruct systems." (taken from p. 181, The Role of Justification in Contemporary Theology)

David Foster Wallace (R.I.P.)

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The alternative:

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...You can hear him spin some of those gems on Thursdays in NYC, or check out his amazing blog: Voodoo Funk

Nacht und Nebel: Beats of Love (Live 1984)

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New 12" out:

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"Claremont 56 sublabel with another collection of stunning disco tracks. Track one is a peak into the album by JAZ that will be released later this year and is a driving disco number for peak times. On the flip manchester's Cosmic Janes edits are not the obvious choice of tracks..but therefore much more interesthing then many of the edits comibg out these days. Diving into the 80's obscure pop releases we have some excellent tracks that will get the party started!! well done!" (Flexx)

Available from Juno, Piccadilly, and Flexx.

Grace in Practice quote:

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"People become semi-Pelagians the day (after) they become Christians. This is the heart of it. People in the world, including Christians, are Pelagians by nature. They want to do it for themselves. 'Control' is the key word or concept. But control fails massively at some specific, vulnerable point of opening. When this happens, people are undone and they open up to grace...But the moment things are patched up a bit, life morphs back toward control, into semi-Pelagianism. Semi-Pelagianism is the compromise Christians force between the grace that saved them and the Pelagianism inherent in their human nature. It is the Achilles' heel that besets Christians and all the Christian churches." (pp. 92-93)

Rodney Mullen

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My Favorite Band:

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Spike the Punch (Italo 101 Mega-Mix)

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Re: Dennis Wilson

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Wonderful to see Pacific Ocean Blues re-issued recently with much of the Bambu sessions material on it as well. Dennis Wilson is one of my all-time faves! The music he made toward the end of his quite tragic career was undeniably Christian. He was, for me, the archetype of the sinner-in-need-of-a-savior, albeit of a most drunken and sentimental variety, which may be why I like him so much, because of the extremity of his own predicament, and the deep need that his helplessness generated.

Here follow four wonderful quotes, all found on the recent re-release of Pacific Ocean Blues/Bambu Sessions:

"I believe my Jesus is in my soul. Come on brother, let's rock and roll." (Friday Night)

"I know a carpenter who had a dream, killed the man but you couldn't kill the dream. Who said it was easy? People gotta be free!" (Dreamer)

"My Jesus, you open up my heart and make me laugh when I'm feelin' down. No more lonely nights." (You and I)

"Turn the corner all alone? He meets you there. The one you love is everywhere, and you can follow. When summer burns and winter blows, the Holy Man. When you lose the innocence, he's standing there. Holy Man will meet you there." (The Holy Man)

Amazing, no? I think so. And wait 'til you hear the music and especially his tortured and beautiful voice! -JAZ+

p.s., For what it's worth, I could say most of the same things about Andy Gibb too.

Adolf Koberle quote:

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"The sanctification of conduct by the strengthening of the will; the sanctification of the emotions by a strenuous training of the soul; the sanctification of thought by a deepening of the understanding; moralism, mysticism, speculation, these are the three ladders on which men continually seek to climb up to God, with a persistent purpose that it seems nothing can check; a storming of Heaven that is just as pathetic in its unceasing efforts as in its final futility." (p. 2, The Quest for Holiness)

Y'all know about larping?

2008-07-04T04:33:00.002+01:00

Which is better?

Magic Missle
or
Lightning Bolt

Learn more:

...and check out the:

Dragon Fight (featuring World of Warcraft fantasy car in background at 0:59)

Kilpatrick quote:

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"But the honeymoon period is over. Humanistic psychology looks more and more like one of those seemingly benign drugs whose harmful effects don't become apparent until years later." (p. 36, Emperor's New Clothes)

A Mux!

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Click Me!

Self-Portrait:

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A special song from the Cosmos:

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Capon quote:

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"Direct, straight-line, intervening power does, of course, have many uses. With it, you can lift the spaghetti from the plate to your mouth, wipe the sauce off your slacks, carry them to the dry cleaners, and perhaps even make enough money to ransom them back. Indeed, straight-line power ("use the force you need to get the result you want") is responsible for almost everything that happens in the world. And the beauty of it is, it works. From removing the dust with a cloth to removing your enemy with a .45, it achieves its ends in sensible, effective, easily understood ways.
"Unfortunately, it has a whopping limitation. If you take the view that one of the chief objects in life is to remain in loving relationships with other people, straight-line power becomes useless. Oh, admittedly, you can snatch your baby boy away from the edge of a cliff and not have a broken relationship on your hands. But just try interfering with his plans for the season when he is twenty, and see what happens, especially if his chosen plans play havoc with your own. Suppose he makes unauthorized use of your car, and you use a little straight-line verbal power to scare him out of doing it again. Well and good. But suppose further that he does it again anyway -- and again and again and again. What do you do next if you are committed to straight-line power? You raise your voice a little more nastily each time till you can't shout any louder. And then you beat him (if you are stronger than he is) until you can't beat any harder. Then you chain him to a radiator till....But you see the point. At some very early crux in that difficult, personal relationship, the whole thing will be destroyed unless you -- who, on any reasonable view, should be allowed to use straight-line power -- simply refuse to use it; unless, in other words, you decide that instead of dishing out justifiable pain and punishment, you are willing, quite foolishly, to take a beating yourself.
"But such a paradoxical exercise of power, please note, is a hundred and eighty degrees away from the straight-line variety. It is, to introduce a phrase from Luther, left-handed power...Left-handed power is precisely paradoxical power: power that looks for all the world like weakness, intervention that seems indistinguishable from nonintervention."
(Kingdom, Grace, Judgment, pp. 18-19)

Twinkling Tower

2008-05-23T04:56:00.000+01:00

Stephany: Shame (1983)

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A Robot in Detroit

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Cosmic Carpenters

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Poppin John

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Interview with yours truly (just up on the Another Night On Earth blog) + a new mix:

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Click Me To Read It!

Big Train

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Barrabas: On The Road Again (1981)

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With one voice they cried out, "Away with this man! Release Barabbas to us!" (Luke 23:18)

Karl Holl quote:

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"Christianity, on the other hand, drew the rabble." (from The Distinctive Elements in Christianity's amazing 2nd Chapter)

Flexi Cowboys

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