Posted July 2, 2009 at 11:50am
Another fabulous example of “gospel-ized” pop. A Harlem gospel choir collaborates with U2 to cover “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For.”
Posted June 26, 2009 at 2:26am
I cannot stop watching this live performance of Michael Jackson’s at the 1988 Grammy Awards. “Man In the Mirror” plus a gospel choir plus an unbelievably honest performance make for a magical show. Everyone got themselves some CHURCH that night!
Posted June 26, 2009 at 1:56am
Stand By Me - Global remix
This is such a beautiful project. I’ve always loved this song and think that this might be my favorite version ever. Enjoy!
Posted May 19, 2009 at 9:32pm
"Quiet" by Paul Simon
I am heading for a time of quietWhen my restlessness is past
And I can lie down on my blanket
And release my fists at last
I am heading for a time of solitude
Of peace without illusions
When the perfect circle
Marries all beginnings and conclusions
And when they say
That you’re not good enough
Well the answer is
You’re not
But who are they
Or what is it
That eats at what you’ve got
With the hunger of ambition
For the change inside the purse
They are handcuffs on the soul, my friends
Handcuffs on the soul
And worse
I am heading for a place of quiet
Where the sage and sweetgrass grow
By a lake of sacred water
From the mountain’s melted snow
Posted May 11, 2009 at 2:10am
The journalism nerds’ intramural volleyball team picture plus my individual portrait. NERDALICIOUS.
Posted April 28, 2009 at 10:39am
Strive to be original—not for its own sake, but because no one has seen things before in precisely the way you see them. Collaborate with MCs and writers to bring their words to the public. Five years from now, most of your work will be gone and forgotten. You might be too. Don’t waste time or paint doing fill-ins and throw-ups. Always put up your best stuff first. Don’t save it. You could invent a whole new style, or have your eyes poked out, any day now.
— Rules of Graffiti. William Upski Wimsatt, “Bomb the Suburbs” (via sbg)
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
This, my friends, is how MY choir sings “Amazing Grace.”
[Boston University’s Inner Strength Gospel Choir, directed by Herbert S. Jones; arrangement of Amazing Grace by Herbert S. Jones for a special Howard Thurman tribute in 2005]
Must Jesus bear the cross alone
and all the world go free?
Know there’s a cross for everyone
and there’s a cross for me.
Amazing grace, how sweet the sound
that saved a wretch like me.
I once was lost but now am found,
was blind but now I see.
Father, I stretch my hands to thee;
No other have I known.
If thou withdraw thyself from me,
oh, wither shall I go?
Posted April 24, 2009 at 5:46pm
