Saturday, January 6, 2007

won't you shock and entertain us?

today i watched both kill bills in a row. i really like those movies. they make me wanna kill shit.

i am, however, a pacifist. i don't believe any christian should be violent. ever. (show me once place in the new testiment where a christian is violent (and it is okay, we all know peter got in trouble for cutting off the dudes ear)).

today i walked around the park and listened to sad music. it's getting harder for me to listen to music (music that i like for music-sake) because it is so backwards to the life i want to live. why can't people write (good) songs about living a simple life, or how awesome it is to not fuck, or why it is okay to be single, or how being nothing is just fine, and how nothing but G-d will make you feel not-empty. and i listen to mewithoutYou too much as it is.

perhaps i should stop entaking all this worldly entertainment that i love so much. i can see myself not watching movies, but no music! that'd be unreasonable. so i have to ask myself if this is something G-d is okay with, or am i trying to serve two masters. am i?

1 comment:

andrew said...

it's not so much that lyrical content of music has to be about certain 'progressive thinking' themes...but it's more about the attitude and sincerity of the lyrical content of the music.

singing a song about how shitty you feel isn't a bad thing, because sometimes, healthy, 'progressive thinking' people feel pretty shitty, and they should sing about it. but don't sing a song that is encouraging the state of feeling shitty. that's SHITTY.