Charity by Meme, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Ice Bucket Challenge!

When I was in college, I was listening to my favorite morning show personalities on the radio, and they were interviewing some film star (I don’t recall who).  In the course of the interview, the radio guys brought up a charity that they ran in town, but presented it along these lines, “Well, Mr. So-and-So, you are a Hollywood guy, you have plenty of money, and we run a charity in town here to help children.  Since you have plenty of money, we can count on your support for the poor children, right?”

Of course he said yes.  He had to.  He had no idea what this charity was or what they did.  Yes, their mission was the “help children,” but what did that mean?  Did they take kids out of school and teach them to make moonshine?  Did they train them to be circus acts?  Did they teach them Islam, or Mormonism, or some strange religion that worships Bill Murray?

I suppose they were probably good, but I don’t know for sure.  I was in college, so I certainly didn’t have any money, so I never looked into the group to make sure they were okay.  But even at the time, I recognized what they had done – they had basically blackmailed the guy into giving them money.  Had he said no, they would have been talking about it for days, how Mr. So-and-So hates little kids, and the actor knew it too.  He had to offer up something to keep them happy. 

The TechnoFunkBoy's "Cross"

This is part two of an interview I had with with the frontman of The TechnoFunkBoy recently about their debut, Driver’s Seat.  Part 1 can be read here and Part 2 here.  In this part, we will discuss track 3 of the album, “Cross.”

The whole album can be downloaded for free here or streamed online here.  Please do take a listen.  Kaenor and the band were very careful to not only make the music good, but that the lyrics and music would glorify God.

Who am I? What am I doing here? And why are the fans expecting me to do something different?

When I was a youngster, I went to a Whitecross / White Heart concert with my youth group.  In short, it was epic, but not the point of this story.  The band opening for them was a local group called 20/20 Blind, and I very much enjoyed them.  I got their CD and I still have their tunes on my iPod.  It was a solid record.  One short-lived band I was in actually worked on covering one of their tunes, but we broke up before we could perform it live.

Anyway, several years later, I started to look up the band to see if they put out anything else or were still together or what.  It took some hunting, but I found 2020 Blind and saw that they had some new music.  It was free, so I downloaded the songs and took a listen.

And it didn’t sound the same at all.  I mean, not even a little bit.

The TechnoFunkBoy's "Almighty"

This is part two of an interview I had with with the frontman of The TechnoFunkBoy recently about tDriver’s Seat.  Part 1 can be read here.  In this part, we will discuss track 2 of the album, “Almighty.”
heir debut release,

The whole album can be downloaded for free here or streamed online here.  Please do take a listen.  Kaenor and the band were very careful to not only make the music good, but that the lyrics and music would glorify God.

The TechnoFunkBoy's Driver's Seat

I had the pleasure of sitting down with the frontman of The TechnoFunkBoy recently about their debut release, Driver’s Seat.  The band allowed me to produce this album for them for a few reasons, one

because of my love of the same sorts of music that they love, but also because of a commitment for exactly what this blog stands for – that art should glorify God, especially when we are explicitly singing about Him.

I considered reviewing the songs individually here, like I would any other album, but Kaenor Apana was very willing to chat about them directly, so I thought that would be a much better and more interactive look at the theology in these songs.  The interview will be posted over several weeks as we look at the songs in detail.  This week’s interview will be an introduction to the band and the album.

The album is free, so please download it here and give it a listen!