Music Monday 8.19.13

• Neko Case: The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight | Been enjoying this one today
• Volcano Choir: Repave | Justin Vernon and other human beings making music. From NPR First Listen, "If Vernon never releases another record under the name Bon Iver — and he's publicly suggested that that might be the case — more albums like Repave would render the issue largely irrelevant. It's that good."

• The Avett Brothers: Carolina Jubilee | One of their earliest albums. If you found them through their last 2-3 albums, I strongly encourage you to dig into their earlier stuff which I like a lot.
• Neko Case | Blacklisted & Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
• Buke & Gase: General Dome
• Woodkid: The Golden Age
• Kurt Vile: Wakin'on a Pretty Daze | One of my favorite albums this year.

• Chris Thile: Bach Sonatas & Partitas Volume 1
• Derek Webb: I Was Wrong, I'm Sorry & I Love You

Related articles

Jason Isbell on Fresh Air

Chris Thile | Bach: Sonatas & Partitas Vol 1

Music Monday 10.15.12

• Titus Andronicus: Local Business
• Bat for Lashes: The Haunted Man
• Civil Twilight: Holy Weather Remix EP
• Patrick Wolf: Sunlight & Riverdark

WORTH CHECKING OUT - FREE

• Redeemer Kansas City: Spirit of the Psalms

• Tame Impala: Lonerism
• Stephen Miller: Hymns
• Dum Dum Girls: End of Daze
• Gungor: A Creation Liturgy Life

SOMETHING NEW

"Baby It's Cold Outside" by Sharon Van Etten & Rufus Wainwright - Like this a lot. Though listening to Chrismas music in October is crazy, it's worth checking out. Sounds like the whole album is worth checking out, Holidays Rule, which is due out at the end of October. Artists on the album include The Civil Wars, Andrew Bird, Punch Brothers and more. Listen...

Music Monday 10.8.12

• Freelance Whales: Diluvia
• Bad Books: II 
• REWORK_Philip Glass Remixed (Interesting)
• Tame Impala: Lonerism (dude...trippy)

CHEAP ($2.99 - $5)

• $5 October Albums
• Radiohead: Kid A
• Ryan Adams: Gold
• The 99 Darkest Pieces of Classical Music
• M83: Saturdays = Youth
• Jay-Z: American Gangster
• Steve Earle: Copperhead Road
• Dum Dum Girls: End of Dayz 
• John Coltrane: A Love Supreme
• O Brother, Where Art Thou?
• The Beastie Boys: Licensed To Ill
• Guns 'N Roses: Use Your Illusion I
• Neko Case: Blacklisted
• The Roots: Illadelph Halflife
• Luciano Pavarotti: 75th Anniversary

• Propaganda: Excellent (or donation/free)
• Stephen Miller: Hymns
• Woods: Bend Beyond

Music Monday 9.3.12

STREAMING FREE

• Two Gallants: The Bloom & The Blight | (out tomorrow) if Jack White and Nirvana & The Black Keys birthed a band -- Never heard of them until today, and I'm REALLY liking my first listen into this one
• The Avett Brothers: The Carpenter | they can do no wrong
• Animal Collective: Centepede Hz
• Cat Power: Sun
• Stars: The North
• Deerhoof: Breakup Songs

CHEAP

• $5 Albums for September

BURNING UP MY iPOD

• Swans: The Seer (Pitchfork, Best New Album)
• Brandi Carlile: Bear Creek | ($5) another great album

Francis Schaeffer & L'Abri

Over the last couple of weeks I've been enjoying working out with Jerram Barrs audio from his two classes on Francis Schaeffer (Early Years & Later Years) at Covenant Seminary. Specifically, I've been listening by streaming through the Covenant Seminary Worldwide Classroom app on my Android phone.

I've thought for several years that one of the best things that could happen in American churches is that we would take a more L'Abri-like approach to our mission. You can read the Schaeffer's ministry at L'Abri in The Tapestry (out of print, but I just picked one up used but in perfect condition for $25) and L'Abri. I think churches like Soma Communities are doing this kind of thing better than most.

Whether or not you pick up the books, please go pick up these very helpful, free audio classes from Jerram Barrs are hard to beat as resources in thinking about mission, apologetics, living missionally, hospitality, etc. Download Francis Schaeffer: The Early Years and Francis Schaeffer: The Later Years now. You can get them through iTunes, or stream them over the Worldwide Classroom. While you are at it, find more great stuff from Jerram Barrs including his books The Heart of Evangelism and Learning Evangelism From Jesus.

Music Monday 5.14.12

STREAMING FREE

• Mount Eerie: Clear Moon
• Beach House: Bloom
• Best Coast: The Only Place

CHEAP

• Tuneyards: W H O K I L L ($4.99)
• Damien Jurado: Maraqopa ($4.99)
• Patrick Watson: Adventures In Your Own Backyard ($5)
• Of Monsters And Men: My Head Is An Animal ($4.99)
• Alabama Shakes: Boys & Girls ($5)
• Spiritualized: Sweet Heart Sweet Light ($4.99)
• May $5 Albums

BURNING UP MY iPOD

• Silversun Pickups: Neck of the Woods ($4.99!)
• Jack White: Blunderbuss

Music Monday 4.30.12

CHEAP

• Of Monsters And Men: My Head Is An Animal ($5)
• Alabama Shakes: Boys & Girls ($5)
• Spiritualized: Sweet Heart Sweet Light ($5)
• M. Ward: A Wasteland Companion ($5)
• The Shins: Wincing the Night Away ($4.99)
• $5 April Albums (Less than 24 hrs!)

STREAMING FREE

• Sara Watkins (of Nickel Creek): Sun Midnight Sun
• Lower Dens: Nootropics (out tomorrow!)
• Marriages: Kitsune (from Red Sparowes members)
• Father John Misty: Fear Fun (J. Tillman)
• Alcoholic Faith Mission: Ask Me This

WORTH CHECKING OUT

• The Followers: Wounded Healer (donation or free)
• Edbrooke Collective: Rewritten
• Kristen Gilles: The Whole Big Story (donation or free)

Learn to play the songs from Kristen Gilles... 

• You Grew The Tree 
• Bold Before God's Throne
• Rising Tide
• My Song In The Night

BURNING UP MY iPOD

• Jack White: Blunderbuss - (I love it)
• The Followers: Wounded Healer (donation or free)

Music Monday 3.26.12

CHEAP ($3.99, sale ends any moment!)

• The Strokes: Is This It
• Hospitality: Hospitality

STREAMING FREE

• Of Monsters & Men: My Head Is An Animal
  
• M. Ward: A Wasteland Companion

$5 ALBUMS

Only a few days left for some great $5 albums: 

• Ra Ra Riot: The Rhumb Line 
• The Decemberists: The Crane Wife
• Washed Out: Within and Without
• Ryan Adams: Ashes & Fire
• Fleet Foxes: Helplessness Blues
• many more!

HOT ON MY iPOD

• Lost In The Trees: A Church That Fits Our Needs
• Polica: Give You The Ghost
• Bhi Bhiman: Bhiman
• Anais Mitchell: Young Man In America

Music Monday 3.12.12

CHEAP

• Guns N' Roses: Greatest Hits | $0.25 = yes, a quarter! 
• $5 albums for March | Fleet Foxes, The Roots, Magnetic Fields, more

STREAMING FREE

• Nedry: SZ EP | "uniquely at a fascinating sonic crux"
• Esperanza Spalding: Radio Music Society | Jazzy
• Lost in the Trees: A Church That Fits Our Needs | Check this one!
• Delta Spirit: Delta Spirit

BURNING UP MY iPOD

• Polica: Give You The Ghost
• Anais Mitchell: Young Man In America

Things I Use

Productivity & Analog Tools - Everyday Carry

UPDATED January 2017

• Baron Fig Confidant Notebook 
• Field Notes | Daily pocket notebook, mind-dump, found info, dash/plus. I also use for writing poetry, keeping a daily memorandum, and more.
• DDC Stuff Sheath | For carrying/protecting Field Notes
• Crumpler Horseman 17in Messenger Bag | Brown & orange, love it
• Retro 1951 Orange | My most-used pen
• Muji Pen 0.38
• Waterman Charleston - Fountain Pen
• Noodler's Ahab Fountain Pen
• Opinel No 6 Carbon Knife - I use this daily to hand-sharpen pencils. It's on my desk sitting in an Altoids tin I use to collect and dispose of pencil shavings. 

Pencils

• Erasable Podcast | If you want to obsess with me over pencils
• Mitsubishi 9800 HB | Beautiful, dark green and smooth writing
• Palomino Blackwing 602 & Pearl | Best pencils around
• General's Cedar Point | Natural wood & lovely
• Kum Masterpiece | My EDC sharpener
• Kum Two Step Pencil Sharpener

Music

• Sennheiser Momentum 2.0 Over-Ear Headphones | If you see me at a cafe, I'm wearing these
• Beats by Dr. Dre Tour High-Resolution In-Ear Headphones from Monster | My EDC headphones in my Crumpler
• Klipsch ProMedia 2.1 THX Computer Speaker System | Home office music/audio
• Creative Sound Blaster Roar | Bluetooth speaker, for family gametime, firepit, and travel
• Amazon MP3 | I buy almost all of my music at Amazon

Computer

• MacBook Pro
• Rain Design mStand | So I sit right and don't break my neck
• Brother MFC-J870DW | For whole family, Wi-Fi printing anywhere in our house
• Altoids Wintergreen
• Crane's Stationary | Quality personal notes
• Seagate 3TB MacBook Backup

Apple & Kindle & Tech

• iPhone 6s
• iPad Mini 2
• Kindle 3G & Wi-Fi Paperwhite | Use nightly
• Kindle Paperwhite Cover | Persimmon, great color & function
• Echo Dot

Bibles & Devotional

• ESV Reader's Bible 
• ESV Reader's Bible - Psalms
• ESV Pitt Minion Reference Brown Goatskin (Cambridge) | everyday carry
• ESV Thinline Heirloom | For preaching
• ESV Study Bible | For study, app, reference
• Reformation Study Bible | Study
• ESV Compact Bible | My EDC, for portability, evangelism
• ESV Four Holy Gospels | Word & art, have used for family devotions
• Valley of Vision | Puritan prayers

Photography

• iPhone 6s
• *Nikon D50 | My dSLR camera
• Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 | Stock lens
• *Nikkor 28-200mm f/3.5-5.6G | Everyday lens
• Moo MiniCards | Photographer business card
• Tamrac Velocity 6 | Camera's compact sling pack

Poetry

• Field Notes | I am using a subscription-only version of their reporter's notebook for poetry writing
• Notes | I write some on-the-go in my Notes app

Apps & Tools

• Apple Music | Family subscription
• Squarespace | personal blog & church website
• Tweetbot | for Twitter
• Pocket | articles and posts archive
• iTunes | for music & iPod sync
• Amazon Prime | mostly for shipping, also for music
• Vimeo & YouTube | family & church videos
• Feedly | Use infrequently to see some blogs
• Trello | Quickly becoming the greatest app ever in my eyes
• Google Docs | So much done here