Christmas Text-fessional for 2007
Sunday the High Schooler’s met at 11 AM with the Jr. Higher’s. Andy LaChance leads the JH worship, but he asked me to play along on electric. I haven’t played electric with the band in several months. ‘Twas fun. Here is the rundown.
Blessed Be Your Name – G - I’ve never sang this song this low… That was a weird range for my voice… This is USUALLY in B for me, i drop it to A for flow purposes sometimes, but… dang… G was freakin’ low for this song. But was fun to play
Grandma Got Ran Over by a Reindeer – G- Andy pulled a fast one on the group and told everyone he wrote a song last Christmas that was really important to him, slowed everything down, brought the lights down, then sang the chorus to this song… laughter ensued… of course, we went into a punkish rendition of the song the rest of the way. Good times.
It Came Upon A Midnight Clear – Cm- So… i’m not sure what possessed andy to pick this one, and it didn’t take him long to agree during practice when he realized he had no idea how old-school language every verse other than the first is… he wanted to scratch it, I convinced him to keep it and I would perform the last couple of verses “edgar allan poe” poetry reading style… it was funny. I tried to convince some of the youth to come up, but alas, they wouldn’t. I’m sure had any traditionalists been there, they would’ve called me a heretic and said i was disrespectful… but hey… whatever.
Two movies watched via DVD this holiday weekend:
Hot Rod- Alright. I’ll admit it. I keep quoting it. I thought it was mildly entertaining, but more importantly, it has quotable power. It did NOT live up to the hype that my Bro-In-Law poured onto it, but the parts that were entertaining keep coming up in conversation and life. Dinner with the fam tuesday night had more references to this movie than I’d care to admit….
Happy Feet – I wanted to like this movie. I didn’t want my daughter watching an agenda driven movie with more sexual references than American Pie. The movie is really well done and has a lot of funny moments, but the negatives far outweigh the positives. It is extremely anti-religious, which isn’t always a bad thing, but its overdone here. Not that it threatens the way of following Christ that we are raising our daughter on, but there were some things I wasn’t too happy about.
It was very “green” in nature. Again, not a completely bad thing, but it pushes a lot of eco-driven stuff. I’m all for making this earth a better place to live, but it just got annoying after a while. It also played into a lot of racial stereo-types, but what we fail to realize is that EVERY kids movie does this.
Top it off with the major sub-plot centralized around getting action… *cough*sex*cough* and it was a pretty disappointing “family” movie… On a different scale (i.e. – reg. movie, not family movie), i’d probably score it a little higher. I just didn’t know I’d need to debreif my daughter so much after watching it…
And that, as they say , is that…
Read from my newly acquired bottle of Axe Body Spray (gifted from my dad of all people): If you spray it, she will come….