Year In Review: 2015 in Movies
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Are you SICK OF IT ALL? Specifically the top 40 Christmas songs, the ones that started playing on BlackFriday?
This album will be in my Top 5. Currently, it is even pushing for the top spot.
In fact, there was so much that I had a hard time giving each album its proper time. So these reviews might be a little shorter and rushed than I would normally like.
This is starter music, the milk to the meat of these other names I've listed.
sweepstakes, coupons, or any other kind of benefit, but only if I tweet/facebook/email all my friends? No. DON'T DO THIS TO YOUR FRIENDS. I see you doing it. Is it really worth it? Has anyone every won ANYTHING?
I'm not feeling sorry for myself (not much, at least), I'm just leaning into it. Sad and tired, yes, but well-soundtracked.
Go watch Chef. Then sit down with a copy of Capon's book. Wine and cheese pair admirably with both.
Yes, I clean up when I get home, yes, I cook dinner too, sometimes I even leave the house and visit with friends, but then: Netflix.
Here are some of the albums that came out in September that I have really been enjoying.
Being born in '95, my playlist would have consisted largely of VeggieTales songs, but Josh was gracious enough to let us kids to stretch into the '00s. So here we go.
The month of August has been good to me musically. I won free tickets to the three day Austin City Limits Festival in October.
There is a special way that music touches our lives. Specific songs, playlists, and albums are able to etch themselves into the very fabric of our history.
Yes, the sacrament is no longer found in heaven. It has been brought down. But it is not so abstract as to be unseen. There is truly a man who stands before us. He stares us right in the eyes.
Christian are in a tough spot today. The old "sin free" stigma is refuted at almost every corner of the church. But the world demands the old facade if only as a rhetorical device. It allows them to love the broken but not the forgiven.