Archive for January, 2004

Let’s start maximizing profit, kiddies!

Friday, January 30th, 2004

I’ve decided to begin a new weekly feature feature to be updated as often as I feel like it, henceforth known as “The TPS Report” (a reference to the meaningless pieces of corporate detritus featured in the movie Office Space) . The TPS report is dedicated to stories of demeaning job stupidity from my own […]

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You’re not making this easy, CCM…

Thursday, January 29th, 2004

I often get tired of hearing people bashing CCM for being shallow and money-grubbing, ineffective in its own self-stated purpose of “reaching the lost.” CCM was a big part of my spiritual formation as a “baby Christian,” and a lot of its influence still comes out in the music I write today, so you can probably understand a little of my defensiveness. Yes, there are problems with it (as with any intersection of faith, art, and business), but it just feels counter-productive to constantly whine about how bad it all is, when it’s seemingly ministering to lots of people.

Then I read something like this that makes me want to join in the chorus of dissent.

Where to begin?

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So long, Tom O’Dell

Wednesday, January 28th, 2004

Edit (as of 5/8/06): For those of you who don’t feel like schlepping your way through hundreds of comments: yes, I know the knife show is back and on the air on your local PAX (or whatever they’re calling themselves now) affiliate. This post was written over 2 years ago, when the world was a […]

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Little, hollow, victories

Monday, January 19th, 2004

Thanks to Geof and a few others linking to this site, I’m now the #2 Google result (edit: and the #4 for an old website) for my own (apparently very common) name.
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What did I do?

Friday, January 16th, 2004

Somehow, in attempting to create a new category for my “Plight of the Indie Musician” posts, I deleted this one. So, I copied it over from the old MT site and…uh…there it is. Again.
w00t, or something.
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