Archive for the ‘Music’ Category

Favorite Wedding Songs?

I’ve been charged with making a playlist for our wedding reception. I’m going straight to you guys, what are the best songs for playing at a wedding reception? Slow songs, fast songs, classics, everything. Bring it on.
Name your favorite dance songs….

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Walcott by Vampire Weekend

#80.3 – VAMPIRE WEEKEND – Walcott / One
by lablogotheque

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Friday Chill

friday. freakin’ weekend. dig it.
Flynn Adam – “Dishes”

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U2 – Magnificent

Churches. If you make sucky music, even the rockstars will cry out. Why the heck wasn’t this song written by 1 of the thousands of professional worship leaders in a church? Hmm………….

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The Fountainhead

I’ve been reading Ayn Rand’s work, The Fountainhead, lately. The bad thing about reading great literature is that it makes all other reading quite boring. For instance, I was reading both Rand’s The Foundainhead and The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey. I’ll let you guess which one seemed to get boring pretty quickly. 
And here is my thought [...]

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the kingdom of God is like an orchestra

so tonight i spent a solid amount of time hanging out a band concert. within the first “movement,” i saw a parable:
The Kingdom of God is like and orchestra
I imagine myself at this orchestra, sitting next to Jesus and he leans over and whispers. He whispers so quietly that you have to force yourself to [...]

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ain’t no reason things are this way

there ain’t no reasons things are this way
its how they’ve always been and they intend to stay
i don’t know why i say the things i say,
but i say them anyway.
but love will come set me free
~Brett Dennen in “Ain’t No Reason”

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brooke fraser – albertine

Usually, I don’t really like the music that comes from “christian” musicians. It seems like a lot of their creativity & artistry gets zapped because they’re trying to conform to a genre.
except for a few. and one of those few is Brooke Fraser.
Allie introduced me to her music about 6 months ago and I’ve grown [...]

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Coldplay: Life in Technicolor ii

OK. I totally love this music video. It’s like creativity and cheesiness and humor and not-taking-yourselves-too-seriously combined into a pretty entertaining music video.

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