tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-125858392009-08-15T21:00:38.150-05:00The old SHLOG. New one located at shaungroves.com/shlogShaun Groveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03047910312376945063noreply@blogger.comBlogger645125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12585839.post-1165780616283552292006-12-10T13:55:00.000-06:002006-12-10T16:41:34.030-06:00

SHLOG has moved to shaungroves.com/shlogPlease change all links on your site to reflect the change of address. Thanks. See you at the new SHLOG.

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It's the ultimate display of Jesus-powered evangelical manliness: Two alpha-male boomers enter the ring. A steel cage lowers, fencing the two warriors in for a fight to the death...or the front page of your local newspaper. One, a complete set of Republican talking points come to life, a comedian with lightening fast lips and a die-hard commitment to never putting down a toilet seat. The

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SHLOG is closed until Friday December 8th. I'll be using my usual blogging time to finish up the new shaungroves.com and shlog.com. Thanks for understanding. I will check comments here so feel free to keep them coming, but no new blog posts will appear.See you again soon.-Shaun

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On December 1st only, you can download a song of mine FOR FREE at MyFreeMusicFriday.com (as well as one from Aaron Shust and another by Chris Rice.)This is FREE free, not free-if-you-give-us-your-e-mail-address kind of free. Totally free.You CAN hand over your e-mail address though if you want to receive info about all future free music offerings from MyFreeMusicFriday.com and be entered in a

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I'm making a list of the best ten albums of 2006 for Billboard.com. Jog my memory. What's your list look like?

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It's hard for a svelte man to find pants. In America. In Europe, not a problem. Japan, a sinch. But in a nation where the average waist size - I'm betting - dwarfs the average in-seam measurement it's not a breeze.Twelve stores later I finally found a pair of 30/32 black pants that fit like my usual freakish 30/34's.And Becky says they're navy blue.Here we go again.I'm having seconds at

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I'm meeting the head honcho over at indieheaven.com for breakfast this morning. Then quickly from there I head to Music Row up in Nashville to be interviewed by a man whose last name is "Thunder" - so he would have us to believe. Then it's off to buy pants for that wedding I practiced for yesterday - and look through Brody's shoes for a black pair anywhere near my size. (Again, this wedding

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This is the kind of music geekery I'll write more of on the new site, which will have a blog dedicated to music and musicians.I biggest difference I hear at the moment between the mainstream music my ears gravitate toward and the "contemporary" music in so many U.S. churches could be described as a tonal one. Here's what I mean in geeky theory terms. (I have a degree in theory/composition so I

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I'm practicing for a wedding. I don't do weddings. Not because I'm above it but because I'm not that good. You have to be an actual singer to pull off a song you didn't write, in public, with any amount of confidence. Scary.I wouldn't do this for just anyone. But for the Dream Weaver I'd do anything, as long as it's legal in the majority of states and doesn't involve clowns. Clowns scare me

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My former label has launched a new marketing initiative: myfreemusicfriday.com There you'll get three songs every Friday for no money. (More about that later this week.) And you can stream three videos from Rocketown Records artists. And, lastly, you can read a "blog" they call "Our 2 Cents." (Can we get a ruling on whether this is a blog? What IS a blog by definition anyway?)Anyway, my

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"I want to go to a whore," he said, his four year-old brow furrowed by the weight of his sincerity."You want to what?" I kept my head down and continued to fervently work the tiny screws out of his broken car's underside."I want to go to a WHORE!" He pinched a tiny screw between his index finger and thumb until it sprang from his grip and bounced across the table and into the abyss that is the

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What do you do when you need a cover for a live album but you...Don't have professionally taken high-resolution pictures from the showDon't have the budget for a graphic designerDon't have time to do much work on it yourselfI called Tim Parker. I remembered the ten or so comp covers Tim designed for my Twilight CD. My favorite was this illustration in shades of orange of me on a horizon line

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I've read a few book son writing, a few more blogs by writers, and they all mention becoming a better writer by forcing yourself to write every day. I do that. But I've run out of things to say. When that's the case, the experts recommend, we should go back in time to one moment in our life, maybe something seemingly mundane or ordinary, and write about it in detail. We're supposed to try not

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What should you get for the person who has everything? Nothing.So why don't we give them that this Christmas? Seriously. What is it that keeps us from giving nothing to people who have everything...and people who have enough?

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My friend Brant over at Kamp Krusty writes...I don't know if he wrote that from his University office, or from his own home in the leafy, Urbana, Illinois neighborhood that we wanted to live in, but couldn't afford to. Doesn't matter. What is noteworthy is that we have become like those barbarians, who were apparently chiefly noted for their inequalities of income. He's right. But we need to

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Hey, heads up. Things may look weird here at SHLOG.COM for a little while this evening. It's all part of the move to the new site. So if the blog looks unusual, don't worry, it'll be back to normal soon. And soon after that we'll move to a better blog.Thanks,The Management

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I woke up with a throat full of razor blades and the day didn't get better from there. I couldn't hear. I couldn't taste. I couldn't be nice. I was short-fused and longed to just be left alone.As is often the case when I'm emotionally and physically under the weather, my head filled with melodies and lyrical fragments. Inspiration always strikes me when I'm the least available to play along. I

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You knew it would come to this.

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I'm thankful for family. I'm thankful that I've eaten and slept in some sort of bed and been reasonably healthy every day of the last 365. These are the usual things I'm thankful for. But this year, add to the usual something unusual: Failure.This year I officially failed as a Christian recording artist, defined (cynically, admittedly, and accurately I think by me) as "a person making music

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Thanksgiving blog beak time.The in-laws are here. The sister-in-law is arriving soon. Time to step away from the laptop. (I think I can. I think I can) And hang out with family.See you again when the ham and hashbrown casserole are gone.Happy Thanksgiving.

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Christianity Today has just published (on-line) their picks for the best ["Christian"] albums of 2006. Fellow blogger/indie folk-rocker Andrew Osenga is #11.And it reads..."If The Normals had only continued after 2002's A Place Where You Belong … well, it might have been as impressive as this sophomore effort from front man Andrew Osenga, who also serves as lead guitarist for Caedmon's Call.

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Too poor for a PS3 and too bored to make it through the work day? Check out Line Rider.Play it/make it here.See what's possible here.There's even a forum and a squidoo lens.Have fun. Link us to anything you make. If you're looking to record your creation on a Mac I recommend Snapz Pro.Hey, who needs Sony?

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I made it. You can too.

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I stayed up later than I wanted to last night writing a pretty good post for the blog today. I finished and actually thought it might be something to send on to one of the magazines I sometimes write for. I was eager to get it posted here and get the discussion started. But I knew that my late night writing is even more full of misspellings than my day time writing, so I hit "save as draft.Doh

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