It is hard to believe nearly a month has gone by since Rob and Kirstin came through on the Eat well food tour. Several times in July I began a post but never finished and posted them.
Since my last post I was approached by the PR firm for Johnny Indovina (lead singer of Human Drama) and his new band Sound of the Blue Heart, asking if I’d do some pieces on the new album, Wind of Change. I received the album last Monday but didn’t get a chance to listen through it completely last week. I am doing so now and am enjoying the album, though on first listen the songs are not grabbing me.
Preaching has been really difficult lately. I am not exactly sure why. Though it may be that in following the semi-continuous Old Testament Lectionary readings of the story of David I am working [...]

Original post by lekamphausen@netzero.net (Larry Kamphausen)

Everybody with ears knows that Kelly Clarkson can sing, whether or not everybody agrees with the message that lies beneath the glossy surface of American Idol. The message: we can make these nobodies into somebodies, provided those nobodies conform to traditional standards of “good singing.” Clarkson adheres to those standards, even if she has recently not adhered to the Los Angeles standard of anorexic beauty. Clarkson has regained her realistic Texan body, but it has come with a bizarre side-effect.
Kelly Clarkson has become a robot.
I understand that the way people make records has changed. Everything is over-processed, auto-tuned and, once unleashed on radio, compressed into submission. What I don’t understand is why someone somewhere thought that Kelly Clarkson needed her voice to be processed beyond all recognition. On “I Do Not Hook Up,” she’s someone else. She’s Miley Cyrus. It is unsettling and unbecoming, as the world barely even needed [...]

Original post by (evil)amy