Dr Draw @ Taste of the Danforth

Even with the rain and the lousy sound quality out front, this was amazing from the side. A really enjoyable set, inspiring and offered new ideas for me in my cello playing.

gritty and real

Life is both light and darkness. I have been reading Mike Pilavachi's For the Audience of One. It says everything I have issues with and one is the need for worship to be able to lament, to cry and feel sad and down. We need to face the tears of life. At the same time I am astounded by The Shack by William P. Young which I recently completed. There are many who find it distasteful and even demonic because it undermines some very cherished ways of seeing God. But perhaps it is our pre-judgments about God that affect even our willingness to be open to God and our way of seeing the world.

The cello can and should sometimes sound sweet or melancholically sad or even griity and a tiny bit angry.

Dead Children in Newspaper

Cold Fairyland, a Shanghai band has interested me for quite a while. They bring a significant fusion of ideas and musical styles, almost protest.