the unlikely orange

for today's saturday song, i bring you a track from david crowder's most recent (and final [insert sad face here]) project entitled: Give Us Rest (or A Requiem Mass in C [The Happiest of All Keys]).  seriously.  that's the title.  it is a hefty 2-disc project full of all the quirkiness that makes crowder the crazy-haired christian music prophet that he is.  on this track he gets in touch with his bluegrass sensibilities, but mixes it with a rousing anthemic chorus that is sure to get your foot tapping and your soul lifted up.  enjoy, and have a great weekend. 

"lent 5 - 2012: the broken get fixed" mixed media collage on stretched box canvas (acylic paint, found papers, vintage papers, glue, marker) march, 2012 gregory a. milinovich  last sunday was the fifth sunday of lent, and our theme in worship as we continued our series called "upside down and inside out: the paradox of the gospel," was that "the broken get fixed."  this has always been one of my favorite lenses through which to view the gospel, because, as i look around at this world (and especially in the mirrors of this world) i see so much brokenness.  and i hate it.  seriously: i hate brokenness.  everywhere i see it, it breaks (pun intended) my heart, whether it's in reading about arson in the local paper, or in something as trivial as the neighbor's ornamental geese.  you see, she dresses them up all the time, to match the holidays and the seasons.  she obviously loves those stupid things, and puts a great deal of care in...

-why do i feel like mike tyson ate a can of spinach and pounded me about the face and torso?  oh, yeah, up with a crying baby (ear infection) in the middle of the night.  now i know what shannon's been going through for months.  i don't know how she does it because i literally feel like zombies chased me across the county during the night, finally caught me behind some old abandoned barn, and performed such heinous zombie acts upon me that they cannot be mentioned, leaving me in a worthless pile of zombie-flesh.  that's precisely how i feel.  so, shannon, if you're reading:  i'm sorry for ever thinking you should just be able to be up and cheery after being up half the night with a crying baby.  or a terrifying zombie.  whichever.  -yesterday i finished a book i have been reading by former new york yankees catcher jorge posada and his wife laura called "the beauty of love" which is the personal story of their journey from children to adu...

"lent 4 - 2012: the dead are alive!" mixed media collage on stretched box canvas (glue, acrylic paint, found papers, printed papers, sticker label) march, 2012 gregory a. milinovich for the fourth sunday in lent, i made a collage that dealt with our continued theme of the paradoxes of the Gospel.  for that sunday we were looking at the paradox of how the dead are alive (those who lose their lives will find them).  of course, the whole easter story points to this, with the normal cycle of life leading to death being turned upside-down and inside-out as Jesus shows that he is starting something new in which life leads to death leads to life.  maybe this is the ultimate paradox: that death in its cold, merciless finality is rendered powerless in the face of God's love.  i thought i would illustrate this point with something colorful and bold, playing on the famous "love" logo and using the word "death" repeated over and over to form the ...

a new feature here at agent orange records: mondays with max.  given that our dog is older than betty white, we've decided to show our appreciation of this lazy life by sharing a max picture each monday.  basically, it will be a series of pictures of him sleeping, since that's mostly what he does.  but hey, maybe we should just let sleeping dogs lie, right?  and be featured on my blog.  here he is hugging bert, who looks terrified, if you ask me. but i guess you would be too, if you were a diminutive muppet with OCD and a paperclip collection and you were being strangled by a admittedly cute but full-sized bulldog with titanicly bad breath.  still, so cute, right?

happy saturday.  today i share a song from one of my favorite musicians.  he goes by the moniker sleeping at last .  i love his emotive falsetto voice.  this song happens to be from one of the twilight movie soundtracks.  it calls to mind the tremendous love between edward and bella.  beautiful song.  have a great day. 

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