I think literature is just "idk how we sort this, or it has won many prizes"
basically, at least as a bookstore category
like there's things it isn't, it isn't an airport novel, it isn't Mills & Boon, it probably isn't SF and if it involves crime at all it's not going to look like a Patricia Cornwell or James Patterson novel
and there's things it might be. it might have won awards
it might resemble some more famous book that won awards, but if too many authors had the same idea then it starts to look suspiciously like a genre (are novels-inspired-by-Angela's-Ashes a genre? maybe)
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Current maturity level: taking this sticker that says "You'll love what's inside!" from a package of photo prints and putting it on the fly of my pants
It was! I should try to hunt down the later parts of it, I recall getting to Brother Odd but stopping at some point within that one. It's been a few years since I read it.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I have no idea how they managed to fuck that one up while getting the other two right. Only thing I can think of...note that the island there has mountable curbs, while the other two don't. Maybe they designed it so that larger vehicles would have to drive over the island, thus making it unsuitable for a sign? Even so, I'm not sure the left-pointing arrow was the best solution.
I don't think contemporary Christian worship music is my jam, just from my slim and random pickings off of the radio and going to a few church sessions. Or maybe I'm not looking in the right places.
I'm not sure what exactly you mean by this, because there might be some things I could link you depending on what you mean.
All of the CCM that I've listened to has been plainly about His Love and Jesus and all of that, and it just doesn't really mesh with me. It's, like, sentimental when it's supposed to be inspirational or moving. Of course hearing it right after after jokes about LGBT people, as happened in one case, certainly doesn't endear me to the music even if that's not the most reasonable thing.
I was intentionally vague because I know I've listened to very little of it. Going off of the wiki page and personal experience pretty much. I just don't appreciate sentimentality, or plainness for lack of a better phrasing, personally, for this stuff. Leaving more than a little ambiguity would be nice.
Nah, most CCM is indeed godawful trash.
There is some Christian music I know, however, that is fairly ambiguous and sonically interesting.
@MetaFour could recommend you some if you ask him, too.
Ah, I see. I'll take your word for it, but would you mind filling me in on how and why?
Throw them at me you two, if you want.
Commerical Christian music has largely been dreck (or rather, it's been a different kind of dreck than mainstream music) because the audience for it has been innately distrustful of rock music for decades. So musicians played stuff that sounded at least five years old if they wanted the audience, while musicians who actually made modern stuff (Larry Norman, Daniel Amos, Steve Taylor, etc) got shunned and had to go independent.
It also doesn't help that most Contemporary Christian Music is recorded in Nashville, so it gets recorded much the same way that modern country music does. Specifically, the vocals are VERY LOUD in the mix and the instruments are quieter, so even the stuff that tries to sound like rock or pop just sounds subtly off instead.
In the 80s and 90s, there were waves of new musicians who wanted to make real music for the church crowd, especially for teens in the church who never bought into the idea that Jesus and rock were antithetical. Unfortunately, by the mid-2000s, market forces squashed this developing music scene. The Christian radio stations (which were all listener-supported rather than commercial-supported) focused aggressively on the tastes of their biggest donors. And market research told them that their biggest class of donor was "Beckies". Becky, of course, was a white soccer mom living in the suburbs, and her favorite music was theologically light, feel-good, not-too-loud pablum. So the market got saturated with sappy music that, at its hardest, just copied U2 and Coldplay. Some labels tried to fight that trend, but they bled money because their bands didn't get any radio support. Musicians who didn't fit that mold recognized that the CCM scene was hostile to them, so they went independent or even joined mainstream labels.
As for worship music that's actually worth listening to, I particularly like:
I'm not quite sure if they're what you're looking for, though. These albums are all based on old hymns and liturgies (though the Welcome Wagon mixes in some surprises, like covers of The Smiths and Lou Reed) so they're very explicitly about God and Salvation. But the language of those older hymns does strike me as less sentimental and more awe-inspiring than most modern worship lyrics.
Now, if you want some recommendations that are Christian but not explicitly worship, I could give you those, too. But I need to go now.
I have to wonder what the "Becky" types thought of artists like Amy Grant and Michael W. Smith (who I've only heard of because they went mainstream) going mainstream in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
In mid-December [Anna Mae Aquash] was taken from Denver, Colorado, to Rapid City, South Dakota, and interrogated again, then taken to Rosebud Reservation and finally to a far corner of Pine Ridge Reservation, where she was killed by a gunshot wound to the back of the head. Her decomposing body was found February 1976. After the corner failed to find the bullet hole in Aquash's head, the FBI severed both of her hands and sent them to Washington, DC, allegedly for identification purposes, then buried her as a Jane Doe.[32] Aquash's body was later exhumed and given a second burial.
Today's public service announcement: never, ever, ever piss off the FBI unless you absolutely have to. They are remorseless and hideous in nature.
I mean, the CIA is still worse somehow, but that's comparing Asmodeus to Mephistophles
In mid-December [Anna Mae Aquash] was taken from Denver, Colorado, to Rapid City, South Dakota, and interrogated again, then taken to Rosebud Reservation and finally to a far corner of Pine Ridge Reservation, where she was killed by a gunshot wound to the back of the head. Her decomposing body was found February 1976. After the corner failed to find the bullet hole in Aquash's head, the FBI severed both of her hands and sent them to Washington, DC, allegedly for identification purposes, then buried her as a Jane Doe.[32] Aquash's body was later exhumed and given a second burial.
Today's public service announcement: never, ever, ever piss off the FBI unless you absolutely have to. They are remorseless and hideous in nature.
I mean, the CIA is still worse somehow, but that's comparing Asmodeus to Mephistophles
This quote makes it sound like the FBI executed her (which I would believe, given several events with Black Panthers) but that does not seem to be the case, and Wikipedia says her relatives claim she was killed because she was thought to be an informant.
Still, that's one of the highest organizations in the land pulling a Carl the Llama on a corpse and dumping it in a nameless graves for really, really sketchy reasons.
Anyway the new Star Wars was fun, and had good new characters, which made up for the fact that all the villains except for Phasma were either carbon copies of original trilogy villains or Millenial Vader.
"Other great examples include Bertrand Russell—who looks like an upstanding, if not dry, aristocratic gentleman, Arthur Schopenhauer—who looks like a well-dressed mystic, and Ayn Rand—who looks like the Wicked Witch of the West."
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like, Christopher Moore is in literature on the same shelf as Yukio Mishima
the Mishima selection was very lacking btw
more Mishima
so I will not have to pirate crappy PDFs or check things out from the library that I forget to finish in time
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
More precisely, Tommyknockers-level Stephen King.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
like there's things it isn't, it isn't an airport novel, it isn't Mills & Boon, it probably isn't SF and if it involves crime at all it's not going to look like a Patricia Cornwell or James Patterson novel
and there's things it might be. it might have won awards
it might resemble some more famous book that won awards, but if too many authors had the same idea then it starts to look suspiciously like a genre (are novels-inspired-by-Angela's-Ashes a genre? maybe)
suggesting the bbc hires me to choose its article images
i think i'm screwed
but the more tired i get, the more screwed i am
so i guess i'll sleep on it
There was a sufficient level of gleep glop aliens
It was! I should try to hunt down the later parts of it, I recall getting to Brother Odd but stopping at some point within that one. It's been a few years since I read it.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Kind of uncomfortable. Not terribly so.
Something that makes me lay hands on myself.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Today's public service announcement: never, ever, ever piss off the FBI unless you absolutely have to. They are remorseless and hideous in nature.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
I think he has probably established blockades, which are kinda like safe zones