“Hey! He says “plateau”! Right there in the lyrics! Perfect excuse to shoot YET ANOTHER MUSIC VIDEO IN THE DESERT. Now, who has a 100-mile extension cord for the amp?”
The Easter Egg Hunt. Smell the vinegar. Get the fake plastic grass stuck to your skin. Often used as an “evangelistic outreach”, I have yet to hear anyone who ended up going to a church because of an easter egg hunt. You make sure you get to bed on time though, for Sunrise Service awaits us tomorrow!
We’re BACK! Sorry we’ve been silent, things have been busy at the ChristiaNostalgette House. Don’t worry, we have a good one for you. You know you missed him.
I watched my fair share of Superbook. It was never a big favorite of mine (I watched a lot of Ninja Turtles and Masters of the Universe, if we’re being honest), but I enjoyed it. In general interestingness, apparently, CBN (and Pat Robertson) was actually fairly influential in bringing anime to a wider audience in the US due to Superbook (and later, The Flying House). This website has a pretty thorough history of Superbook, along with early behind the scenes stuff, downloads, episodes, clips and….pretty much everything you could want that involves Superbook. They’re apparently working on a CGI reboot, which of course sounds totally awful. But hopefully I’m wrong.
(This isn’t your GOOD FRIDAY post….that will come later!) Sorry we’ve been so quiet, but thanks to @benherndon, I’ve had this one in my pocket all week for you guys. Can’t say I’d thought of it in years. Having listened to it again, I think I understand it even less than I did in high school. Are all Australians high? And do they all wear eyeliner? Nevermind, I know the answer.
Who’s crazier - the band or the crowd who gets excited about the word CANADA!?
It’s GOOD FRIDAY around these parts! In celebration, I submit to you what I truly believe is one of the very best Christian albums of the 90s, Plumb’s self-titled debut. They (her? I could never figure out when Plumb went from a band to a single artist, but whatever) were genuinely something completely different from what we could otherwise find at our local Christian bookstore. This album definitely helped me get through that huge jump from middle school to high school, mostly in one piece. “Willow Tree” was definitely a favorite song of mine, but there was never any official video released, so you’re welcome to go listen to this YouTube video, featuring angsty, incredibly literal photos in slideshow. Alternatively, you can marvel at the incredible 90s’-ness and horribly-sync’d video for (the also fantastic song) “Crazy”. If you look hard enough, I’m sure you can find the cast of the first season of Friends jumping around in that huge nest of her hair. Enjoy.
I’ll admit it, I definitely wore one of these for a few months. I remember being pretty astonished that even kids at my high school who weren’t Christians (or, if they were, didn’t talk about it), were wearing them. It got super weird when the vocally anti-Christian crowd started wearing them….until one explained to me that his stood for “What Would Jack Daniels Do?” I pointed out that a) this was in error, because his bracelet did not say “WWJDD”, and b) he would make whisky, clearly.
Despite it’s awkwardness (“Double You Double You Jay Dee, man!”), WWJD got popular enough to warrant its own Wiki page, as well as this movie which I will assume has been in development hell for well over a decade, seeing they sorta missed the timeliness boat.
