Life Under the Vulcan Sun

I just made another Vulcan Mix for the Fall! Hope you enjoy and that it enraptures your heart with wondrous visions of goldenrod-orange leaves swirling down upon the Vulcan's mount... and me, Octoberfest in hand, thinking of you all.

And boom goes the dynamite.

Job Hunting

Hey guys, I just wanted to let you know that, now that I'm done with my internship with Campus Outreach, I'm looking for more writing/editing work to try to support myself through seminary at least for this semester. I'm competent at editing for spelling/grammar, style, language, argument and logic, and for formatting via Adobe InDesign or Word. I'm looking to charge rates around $15-20 per hour, but that would change depending on the nature of the project (and I could drop them down for friends, of course).

I know a few of you have had work like this in the past; I just wanted to put this out there as part of searching. If you hear of anyone who needs work like this, I'd really appreciate it if you could pass it on to me.

P.S., I love you guys (and gals). It was great to have so many people around last week for John and Jamie's wedding. Peace!

By Popular Demand...

It was great to see most of y'all this weekend at the Lambuth/Simpson festivities! What a fun celebration! Thanks, Jamie and John, for letting us be a part of the beginning of your marital bliss!

Several of you expressed interest in seeing this, starring Mimi and most of my family:) It was the highlight of our reception!

Let us know when y'all are headed to New Orleans!

Music for Posterity

Okay, so as I've contemplated succumbing to my deeply ingrained white-person impulse to buy a vinyl player, I've seen thinking about musical posterity. Let's face it: most of us find the vast majority of radio-play music awful. Simply awful. And the sad truth is that the "best" of that (of which there are a few okay songs, I guess) are going to be on the "oldies" station someday when our kids are starting to drive--unless everyone just has satellite radio, or mp3 jacks into their brains.

So I was thinking, what is the music from my time (90s on) that I would want to wave crotchetily at my kids and say, "THIS was around! This was the good stuff back in my day, even if it's not getting played on the radio!" And, while I would by no means consider this the final list, this is at least the product of one good thought-session on the matter. In no particular order:

Counting Crows- August and Everything After

MewithoutYou- Brother, Sister

Sufjan Stevens- Seven Swans

Josh Ritter- The Animal Years

Iron and Wine- Our Endless Numbered Days

And this list kinda hurts: I'd love to be able to squeeze more on here. But this is, in my opinion, the really good stuff, the albums I would want my kids to know existed. And so for you, dear friends:

What would your list for posterity be? What would be your top five albums (from the 90s forward; the good old stuff will still be around) that you want your kids to know about someday?