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Doug Wilson's reminded me of my love for Bobby McFerrin.  The man is just awesome.  I even do the chest-slapping human drum thing too.  People tell me it looks lame and sounds nothing like Bobby.  I tell them 'Envy rots the bones' (Prov 14:30).

Anyway, here's three videos demonstrating the brilliance of McFerrin and the wonder of congregational singing.  Pity the middle one is idolatry!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHcEFk1i3b4&feature=related

Grinning?

Thought so.

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Mesmerising.  Like a car crash.

You'll have probably seen enough after about 4 minutes.

From here, via The Old Adam.

Even in the psychadelic imaginings of HR Puffenstuff, never did they conceive of something as bizzare as this.

I can't even think of the correct interrogative to attach to those puppets.

Who?

What?

Why?

How?

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Enjoyed reading this far too much.

Every night, [Simon Cowell, creator of The X-Factor / American Idol] paces the empty corridors of his monochrome mansion, worrying whether he has calibrated correctly the mix of trainwrecks/ugly nightingales/Iraq-based backstories, or whether something – somewhere – is askew. Will one mistimed child teardrop in episode three be the Toto that pulls back the curtain, finally revealing that the great karaoke wizard is in fact nothing but a diminutive man working the levers of public taste with a mixture of enthusiastic opportunism and gnawing inner despair at how easy it is?

Read the whole thing.

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