Tait + Taylor - Furler = Who Knows?!
Michael Tait is the new lead singer for the Newsboys... wow. Well, it's not like they haven't switched lineups & lead singers before - but bringing Tait onboard is an interesting twist. According to Wikipedia, they've got a new album coming out in May that Steve Taylor had a hand in, writing several songs & even singing on one of them.
If you don't know who I'm talking about, it's the CCM equivalent of George Michael taking over the lead vocal duties of Genesis from Phil Collins - who took them over from Peter Gabriel back in the day... and then having the love child of Weird Al & The Clash come and work on your new record. If you do know who I'm talking about, discuss how good my analogy is in the comments - yes, I'm talking to you, Zionred & Nord.
Rebel is...
My prediction: on Heroes, Rebel is Micah Sanders - the technology kid.
And here's my reasons why:
- We haven't seen him for a long time.
- There's the whole "I can manipulate tech" superpower.
- His mom's not around anymore to do stupid things that could endanger his life.
- He's got a cousin who can protect him while he's all wrapped up in the cyberworld.
- The only other character I can think of that might fit is Hana, and according to the webcomic she no longer has an actual body.
Rhino Is My Hero
The kids saw Bolt again at the "cheap" theater on Friday. (BTW, didn't these used to be called "dollar theaters"? It was $3/person, which is decent compared to getting yammed by the regular-priced theaters.) It comes out on DVD tomorrow. "(It's) beyond awesome! (it's)... be-awesome!"
Best quote... a network suit gives the Truman Show-esque director of Bolt's TV show a dose of reality: "The show's too predictable. The girl's in danger, the dog saves her from the creepy english guy, we get it. There's always a happy ending. And our focus groups tell us 18 to 35 year olds are unhappy. They're not happy with happy." Ahem... can anyone say, "This explains why comic books read like they do right now?!"
Must... Read... Rules... Closer...
Found two different games this last week that I've been playing incorrectly... and I'm the one who read/taught the rules:
- Strozzi: didn't catch the exception that you can't park more than one boat per player per port - makes the game tighter.
- Der Schwarze Pirat - Das Duell: made a bad assumption that ships are returned to the harbor when they're hit... they aren't. The way we played it when I screwed it up made the game last just short of forever. The right rules make it a lot of fun - portable The Black Pirat with the added bonus of firing a tiny wooden air cannon.
7 comments:
Ouch, Michael Tait as George Michael? Maybe Hall or Oates, or even one of NSync...
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Ouch, Michael Tait as George Michael? Maybe Hall or Oates, or even one of NSync...
I was going for a band that was contemporary of Genesis (my Newsboys comparison, due to change from J. James to P. Furler and improvement in sound/style) and had a comparable impact on rock music that DC Talk did to the CCM scene.
Hall & Oates might be OK, but I refuse DC Talk = N'SYNC. Shudder.
haha, i liked your analogy quite a bit. well said. but i don't anticipate liking the change of lead singers.
Hey, no imposter Jasons! :-)
Yes, Mark, they did used to be dollar theaters, in Nashville in 1992. Fresno 2009 is a little different. :-)
Imposter Jasons? I am Jason B - really! The Nashville one. And I agree, the Nsync thing is a bit of a stretch - and maybe more of an insult than George Michael. :)
Tait in The Newsboys?! that should be interesting. My prediction is that it won't last very long and the band will be forever lost to memories and obscurity.
Michael Tait used to hang out in my office at Benson (I am SO dating myself) and we would share a few laughs. That was long ago. He was a very nice guy; you couldn't always say that about Christian artists, unfortunately.
Actually, I used to go to a church that met in a theater that was sometimes a dollar theatre. Now on my side of the town (da semi-hood), we have a $1.50 theater.
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