maintaining a blog was more of a hassle than i thought. i feel compelled to write in here but just don't sit down and do it.
sometimes it's kinda like i want my ideas to be super profound or something. some people use blogs to write about their daily adventures but i just don't have time!
plus i'm all into how it (my blog) looks, and keep changing it and i don't even know if anyone looks at this. except maybe my friend alex. he's great.
on a different note, i have found something slightly interesting. i don't often get crushes on celebrities at all or anything, but right now i have a mad crush on the singer of fleet foxes, robin pecknold. man he is attractive. grungy, kinda gross-looking, wears plaid, has a burly beard. he even sings nice and is intelligent. my kinda guy. so i looked up whether or not he has a girlfriend and of course, her name's olivia. i googled 'robin and olivia' (naturally) and discovered that they put up this valentine's playlist sometime last year, of songs they had collaboratively decided made them feel "lovey". (too cute. seriously.) i glanced at it, and the song title 'psalm 42' caught my eye, of course, because i'm christian like that, and saw that it was sung by a band called 'the trees community'.
i googled it and came upon this site devoted to this completely hippy 70s christian band that apparently made music in forests with sitars, beards, some overalls and a lot of liberal christian love for the monastic and simple life. psalm 42 is a treat. the great thing is how they take themselves so seriously.
i have no idea how many people have heard of the trees community, but i honestly love it. it's so weird.
the question it makes me ask is: how has christian music become so boring as it is today? this is inspiring, listening to this. the inventiveness and experimentation with instrumentation (suffix-alliteration?) is commendable. i mean, i'm personally growing tired of the way music is done in churches. that's a huge blanket statement, i know, but if you go to almost any protestant christian church you will know what i mean. the traditions surrounding modern worship music are not inherently wrong. the traditions in this case meaning the typical sorts of songs being chosen, the instruments used, the relationship between audience and performers, etc. it's just that when tradition is done just for the sake of it, and without thought or meaning, it can be alienating. people want authenticity, and freshness. i'm sure the church music i experience now was effective or fresh at some point in time, but change needs to happen. i'd like to see the concept of worship in churches severely altered.
do we draw on influences from other cultures? how is music evolving? how does christianity keep up? does it need to? can i do anything to help this?
maybe less guitars. maybe making music and worship more communal, rather than a 4 or 5 ... or 10 person band up front with microphones. me and my friend alicia have this fun time everytime people clap after we sing a song in a church-like setting. we laugh because it's funny that it's become a performance.
maybe it isn't so bad though. i'm thinking through all of this and i want to change it myself but i'm not sure what i can practically do, other than infiltrate the system myself and start change in a small way. much like planting a seed and slowly watching it grow; maybe even like a mustard seed.
at least if worship music isn't going to change we can always pull out our ipods and listen to our illegally downloaded copy of fleet foxes' new album and fall in love with robin pecknold's voice and lyrics. and if all else fails, we have his nice skinny legs and inadvertent attractiveness immortalized in this sweet video on vimeo (thanks to la blogotheque.) go internet.
Fleet Foxes - A Take Away Show from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.
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