Oh yeah, I forgot to mention…
Two things: what I’ve been reading and what music I’ve been into lately.
I finished all the Patrick Lencioni books I bought a few weeks ago. They are about business management, employee relations, teamwork, etc. Excellent books. Read them for yourself and specifically for anyone in your employ. Along those same lines, I also read Matthew Kelly’s The Dream Manager. Once again, if you manage people please read this book!
I’ve decided to head back into Old Testament study for a while. I read Ellen Davis’s Wondrous Depth: Preaching the Old Testament and am currently working through Robert Alter’s translation of 1 and 2 Samuel: The David Story. Really interesting stuff there.
Musically, I’ve been exploring electronica and dance/trance music. I know - that sounds very unlike me. But I’m really enjoying myself. For all you Christians out there, Andy Hunter’s new album Colours is great. I’m not into the monotony of Paul Van Dyk and company - it’s all just too repetitive. But I have really enjoyed Robert Miles’s “dream trance” albums. Everybody mentions “Dreamland” but I really like “23 am” and “Organik” better. Ambient albums are what really have captured my attention - stuff like The Orb’s “Adventures…” I’ve also discovered The Thievery Corporation. Good music.
Tags: ambient, books, dance music, music, theology, trance
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May 14, 2008 at 12:58 am
I was wondering who Robert Miles was. I recognized his song Children on YouTube though, it’s great. Also, Robert ALter is on my list to buy all of his books. I compared his translation of the Pentateuch with Fox’s and ended up buying Fox’s.
May 14, 2008 at 3:16 pm
Hey Nathan - Most people recognize Robert Miles’s “Children,” but it’s the albums that follow it that I think are particularly good. Alter’s Pentateuch translation is supposedly unconventional in some places. But I think that’s cool - something else to explore. I plan to read that and his Psalms translation in the next few months. I’m not sure why I started with Samuel first - first on the stack I suppose…
May 14, 2008 at 4:13 pm
Fox is even more unconventional than Alter. And in verse, which is why I ended up getting his instead.
May 16, 2008 at 4:54 pm
I’ll check out Fox - thanks, Nathan…