4/12/2004

TEN RANDOM THOUGHTS

  1. Does every Christian artist on the face of the planet have to record “Shout to the Lord,” or does it just seem like it?
  2. Pat Sajak is probably a lot hipper than he comes across as on “Wheel of Fortune.”
  3. I’ve thought about taking up golf, but I think it would be vastly more efficient for me to write a $500 check to a random sporting goods store, and insist on receiving absolutely no goods or services in exchange, because frankly, I doubt I’d stick with it.
  4. I have heard all the Freddy Adu puns I ever care to, thanks.
  5. You can now buy a complete box set of all seven “Police Academy” movies. When I was thirteen, I would have thought this was the greatest idea in the history of recorded thought.
  6. Why, for a nation that cultivates a public image of edginess and rampant masculinity, does Australia keep sending us musicians of almost-supernatural blandness? Olivia Newton-John, Savage Garden, Air Supply, and now Keith Urban? Surely they can do better, and yes, I’ve heard of Midnight Oil.
  7. Speaking of music, the next Nirvana is now about three years overdue. Hurry, please, I’m getting tired of Nickelback.
  8. Less than two weeks to the NFL draft. This is, for me, the same thing as “pitchers and catchers report” to those of the baseball persuasion.
  9. Claritin has joined Tylenol on my “drugs that seem to work for everyone but me” list.
  10. Any resemblence between this post and Larry King’s column are purely intentional. And I could go for some Potato Oles from Taco John’s.
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9 Comments

  1. Police Academy 3 was the greatest movie ever, it made my immigrant heart turn american! and yea, a new Rock group is needed.

    Comment by tevren — 4/12/2004 @ 3:12 pm

  2. Actually, I think you’ve got “Shout to the Lord” confused with “You Are My King (Amazing Love).” I find it very saddening that half of the Christian top 20 every week are rerecordings of praise songs that have already hit the charts. Surely there must be a way to not count those songs. I think It would be a much more interesting top 20 show if they did that.

    Comment by bryan — 4/12/2004 @ 3:50 pm

  3. Actually, Bryan, I could’ve also said “Now is the Time to Worship” or “I Can Only Imagine,” both of which I’ve heard more versions of than Baskin Robbins has flavors.

    Where are all the songwriters going, anyways?

    Comment by Mark Hasty — 4/12/2004 @ 4:16 pm

  4. Mark, I’m going to live blog the NFL draft, wanna get in on that action and do a sort of simulcast duet?

    Comment by Zygote — 4/12/2004 @ 8:19 pm

  5. Is this where I can ask again why all the songs in the Methodist Hymnal had to be written between 1790 and 1905?

    Comment by Harry — 4/12/2004 @ 8:41 pm

  6. Zygote, I’m a little busy in the morning on Saturday, but I could probably get in on the later rounds.

    Harry, it’s because it would be far, far worse if they’d all been written between 1965 and 2000.

    Comment by Mark Hasty — 4/12/2004 @ 8:44 pm

  7. Why all those dang praise songs anyway? It’s not like He can’t hear you whatever you’re saying. ‘Sides which, we all know they do it to show everybody else how much they love God.

    So howzabout some tunes telling the world how glad you are you get to live in such a wonderful world? I mean, what sort of character thinks God spends all day blissing out on praise songs? He’s heard them, including the ones that haven’t been written yet.

    What say we all sing a rousing chorus or two of Mademoiselle From Armentieres in honor of pretty French maids and He who made them possible.

    Comment by Alan Kellogg — 4/12/2004 @ 9:42 pm

  8. Yum. Taco John’s. There used to be one by my house back when I lived in MI. The health board shut them down. Their dressing for the taco salads is one of the greatest inventions known to man. We asked what it was once and they told us: equal parts creamy Italian dressing and random taco sauce. Never could make it taste as good as when it came out of those little plastic containers, though. Maybe it was the salmonella they threw in. . . .

    Comment by SS — 4/14/2004 @ 2:30 am

  9. Mark,

    If I’m correct, you would have been but 12 years old when the first Police Academy film hit theaters.

    Sure, you may have been 13 upon the release of the second one. But, were you really hoping, right then, that they’d even make five more of them?

    Comment by Paul — 4/14/2004 @ 9:36 pm

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