Showing posts with label Indiana Jones. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Indiana Jones. Show all posts

Friday, 15 February 2008

Blokes

I'm a bloke and I was just reading an insightful and thought provoking post by Dan (as recommended by Dave) about music and men. We're doing some thinking about how to do music at North Rocks @ Night. One of the things I'm thinking about is singing up the front. Here's some of what Dan wrote:

Another factor is who you stick up the front. If all your music leaders are girls then why are all the backing singers girls? At nitechurch we have 3 guy band leaders and a couple of guy backing vocalists. I’m always trying to encourage our guys to take up the mic. It gives example to guys in the congregation.

What songs are you singing? Are you always singing about Jesus being beautiful or lovely or ‘darling’. These are fine to sing at times but what is your diet? So many christian songs are girly. Don’t buy into it wholesale. Sing about Christ’s victory, his strength, our mission, His leadership. Guys get that stuff. We get the other stuff too and I’m being stereotypical but I’m just saying be careful.

Read the rest here. Well worth it.

Something else blokey is this - the new Indiana Jones teaser!

I love the quote "You're a teacher?" "Part time"

Friday, 5 October 2007

The Kingdom

Wow! This movie is crazy and I loved it. Shot in a similar style to Bourne Ultimatum (ie try to make Matt motion sick) this is an insane thrill ride almost too big for the 'big' screen!

Things I liked:
- Jamie Foxx is the man! (if you don't think so check out 'Ray' and 'Collateral'...)
- the opening credits/history lesson/clever visual effects
- action with lots of guns
- the cut to the heart moments when Arabs and Americans see eye to eye
- the irony of the ending
- only 65 - 70% full of "how awesome is America" (based on a poll of the 4 car passengers of the way home)

Check it out!

NEWS FLASH
While Googling for a piccy I found the title for the upcoming Indiana Jones movie - "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" - pretty long winded in my opinion. Harrison Ford is also the man!


We also saw shorts for a new Denzel Washington movie titled 'American Gangster' (our own Russell Crowe is in it too) - it looks good. Denzel Washington is also the man!