This will be the last post, at least for now, on my jonassink.wordpress.com blog. I’m moving over to a hosted blog at resonantimages.net. I purchased the domain a few months back but didn’t set up the rest of the site at that point. I’ve been working most of the afternoon on setting it up through DreamHost. Anyway, head on over to the new site and leave a comment saying hi!
Sunset Time-lapse from my Loft
Originally uploaded by Whateverland
Great time laps sunset capture on flickr.
Really funny video about typefaces. . .
Since my friend Brandon already did a great write up I’ll just link over to him for the actual story. I’ll just say that this guy could sing his laundry list and it would sound amazing. . .
Despite my best efforts, I seem to always end up awake late at night with some existential rhetorical question stuck in my head. We had the School of Theology at Vintage earlier tonight and we were talking about what the costs of being a Christian are. Obviously, here in America at least, modern day Christians don’t have to fear Roman soldiers breaking down their doors and feeding them to the lions, but that doesn’t mean our lives are all honey and lattes. One of the main things we talked about is how crazy it seems when you start looking at what Jesus said it takes to get into heaven. Time and again you read of Him giving people tasks that are impossible. For a person to enter Heaven based on their own merits requires them to be absolutely perfect and blameless. Since this is impossible in a post-fall world, it is by the grace of Jesus we are able to cross that hurdle and gain entry. Now, think about this for a second, what if Jesus ministry had been based around the idea that if you just tried hard enough or had good enough intentions you could gain entry to Heaven? Suddenly there is no need for the cross, no need for grace, no need to be compassionate and love your neighbor. The fact perfect adhearance to the law (ie the Old Covenant) is the only way a person can gain entrance to Heaven is one of the things that makes what Jesus says make any sense at all. Jesus doesn’t so much tell us to ignore Rabbinic law as He provides an end around for post-fall creation to be reconciled on the cross. By becoming the final ultimate sacrifice under the old covenant, He broke down the barriers and made it possible for us to attain the impossible.
That’s the unmistakeable sound of summer flying by. It’s hard to believe there are only three full weeks of family camp left at Mount Hermon. Summer always goes by really fast though. I’m finding time itself is moving faster and faster the older I get and that bothers me to no end. Having a sense of urgancy to finding your calling and the sense of time increasingly speeding by makes for some wicked late night conversations with God.
I am looking forward to the fall though. Vintage is great fun right now and it will be nice to get back into my usual routine of documenting church life. It’s hard feeling so disconnected when I can’t hang out much after the service on Sunday. It would be great to get some more documenters too to give some real variety to our coverage. As much as I love sleeping in the way I get to during the summer it is nice to get back on a somewhat regular schedule that makes it possible to hang out with friends on a regular basis. Hopefully I’ll get a chance to go back up to Seattle for a bit too for a real live vacation. We’ll see about that though. I wanted to do it last year and it didn’t work out. Anyway, that’s about it for now. No shocking revolations or deep philosophical thoughts tonight, just a little howdy! Later.
I saw a friend do this the other day and it looked like fun. Basically you just shuffle all your music and write down what songs come out next to the different scenes from the movie of your life. . .
Opening Credits: The Decemberists – The Crane Wife, Parts 1 & 2
Waking Up: Death Cab for Cutie – Talking Bird
First Day of School: The Eames Era – I Don’t Mind
Falling in Love: Weepies – Take It from Me
Fight Song: The Smashing Pumpkins – This Time
Breaking Up: Zolof the Rock & Roll Destroyer – Popsicle
Prom: Queen – You’re My Best Friend
Life: Rilo Kiley – Science vs Romance
Driving: Moby – Porcelain
Flashback: Nirvana – All Apologies (from Unplugged in New York)
Getting Back Together: Ray LaMontagne – Trouble
Wedding: Jonathan Coulton – The Future Soon
Party: She & Him – Sweet Darlin’
Birth of A Child: Gogol Borrdello – When the Trickster Starts A-pokin’
Final Battle: The New Pornographers – Chump Change
Funeral Song: Guns ‘n’ Roses – November Rain
Ending Credits: Foo Fighters – My Hero
Now, I do have to admit I cheated some because I have so much random music and podcasts and spoken word stuff on my Zune that half the list would have made no sense. So I skipped some songs and tracks if I didn’t recognize it or it was a stand up comic or something like that, all the songs did still appear randomly from my playlist though.
So what does this list say about my taste in music? I think it says I’m a geek with a penchant for 90’s rock and Indie pop bands no one’s ever heard of. Seems about right.
Dr Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, Joss Whedon’s latest project, is up for viewing in full online through Hulu for a limited time. Follow the link below for comic-superhero-musical awesomeness. There is a few crude jokes but nothing too bad.
Seriously Fox, bring back Firefly. . . right now.
