Are You Ready To Rock Jesus-style?!?

As I begin to write this, I just realized that this is the second straight post touching on Christian culture and praise/worship music. This is most definitely unintentional on my part. The clip from a couple of days ago was simply too good to pass up…and today’s news simply shows how prophetic I really am.

Without any further ado…you’ll remember that back in April (4.2.08 to be exact), I posted a little satirical news item about a new game entitled Praise Band. During one of the times that Teddy and I were hanging out, the idea of a Christian rip-off of Rock Band popped into my head and I passed it off in conversation as something that was legitimately in development. When Teddy (who is not a gullible man) fell for it and thought that it was an actual product, I knew I had to try it out on the world of the internets. And as luck would have it, a few other people thought that it was legit. So I blew the whistle on myself and revealed that it was merely for grins and giggles.

Fast forward to yesterday. It was brought to my attention in the comments that fiction has become fact, life is imitating satire…my friends, I give you Guitar Praise!!

I wish I were joking about this, but as you can see from the link, this product is quite real. They’ve even got a tracklisting of all the artists who will be featured on the game. Apparently it’s only for PCs and Macs right now, but who knows? Maybe it’ll be licensed at some point for the big three console systems.

Now if I were a prideful man, I might brag about how this is obviously proof of prophetic powers, but to be honest, I think this has more to do with how easy it is to predict the knock-off crap that the Christian bubble poops out rather than my own spiritual gifts. It’s yet another example of how lazy some of my brothers and sisters tend to be.

The irony is that there are some good songs and artists on this game. Some of these folks (Family Force 5, Hawk Nelson, Flyleaf, Relient K) are known in wider music circles. All of them have had songs licensed and used in commercials, they’ve appeared on various “mainstream” tours…it’s not that much of a stretch to think that they might be able to appear in a download pack at some point for Guitar Hero or Rock Band. So why settle for some cheap facsimile? Are they even aware of their involvement in this nonsense? And The Crucified?!?!? How in the world did they end up on this game? Does Mark Salomon know about this? Do any of the kiddies who will be playing this even know who they are? It’s crazy.

So there you go. The moral of this story? Just keep waiting on the rest of the world to come up with something creative and then give it the Jesus Special. Repackage it with the right “code” words and Christians will eat it up. Or will they? Only time will tell…

While You’re Down There, Grab A Couple Socks!!

There are times when words fail. Best as I can, there’s not much I can do to prepare you for this clip. God’s really been transforming my heart towards true worship (ironic considering how long I’ve been playing with different worship teams)…but I can’t help but simultaneously laugh and cringe at stuff like this. Nothing like a Holy Ghost hoe-down, I guess!

and just for comparison…here’s the original music video from Dead or Alive. At least that worship band got the bad haircuts nailed.

Butt Roll’d!!

I don’t know if this is the funniest thing I’ve seen in a while…or the dumbest. If it’s the latter, I’ve probably already lost too many brain cells to make a proper assessment. So I leave it to you, dear reader:

Bands as Font Names

Now I’m not a graphic designer. Or a visual artist. Not in the least. My stick figures make anorexics look like Henry VIII. But I’d like to think that I can appreciate good design when I see it. And I’d also like to think that I can appreciate a good graphic design joke when I see one. Especially if it’s one that crosses over into areas where I do have experience…namely font usage (hey, I use Word fonts like a champ!) and band names.

This guy put together a sweet list of Fonts used as band names, along with the genre of music that the band would play. Check it out. Hilarious, no?

As an aside, he somehow missed my new project: Plantagenet Cherokee. We’re a prog rock indie group made up of nominal Native American descendants. Just wait until you hear our debut limited release EP entitled “Iroquois Tears II: In Which The Guardians of Our Shores Receive The Everlasting Divine Sight.” It’s gonna be awesome.

Can I Try This At Renovatus?

Worst Fight Scene Ever?

Not only is this a terrible fight scene, but it’s also dubbed.

Not only is it dubbed, but it’s dubbed into GERMAN.

Not only is it dubbed into GERMAN, but it features a legless ninja in a wheelchair.

Let that sink in.

Legless. Ninja.

In a WHEELCHAIR.

This might actually be the most amazing fight scene ever created since the dawn of civilization.

Watchmen Trailer

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Go here. Now!

JediGym

Amazing. And sad. Sad that the only Star Wars-related stuff that actually brings me joy comes from people not named George Lucas.

Hellboy 2: The Golden Army

Oh hot damn! I’m going to see an advance screening of Hellboy 2 this evening and I am freakin’ stoked. The Rouse will be accompanying me and I’m sure a good time will be had by all. Aside from The Dark Knight, which opens a week from this Friday, Hellboy has been one of my most anticipated movies of the summer. I dug Iron Man and enjoyed The Incredible Hulk…but Hellboy is hands-down one of my favorite comic characters. There’s a depth and pathos to the world that Mike Mignola created that just resonates with me.

If you haven’t caught a glimpse yet of this, here’s one of the previews. It’s gonna be awesome…

Little Hands Little Feet

My beloved started a new blog to chronicle our adventures in parenthood, family-hood, and general awesomeness-hood. It’s called Little Hands Little Feet and you can find it here. It’ll be a great place to keep up with our latest news, pictures and adventures. Of course, I’ll still keep bringing you the random retardedness that you’ve come to know and love from the House of Hunt (how do you like the new look?), but LHLF will be totally family-centric. Rock on!