I have a good friend — a songwriter — who hates everything American Idol stands for, and he is ashamed of me for watching. I don’t blame him. I am ashamed of me. But it is a guilty pleasure. Unfortunately, it is a guilty pleasure that steals hours of my life from me.
I was the type of kid who used to think about time travel. I used to think about how it would work, and how the way it was presented on television was often contrary to how I thought it would work. As I read the work of C.S. Lewis, and the way he liked to think about time and God’s ability to be simultaneously in and out of time, it occurred to me that maybe the scientific questions I loved to ask were not far off from the theological questions I loved to ask.
The inevitable question is why am I just now getting into “Lost”, when the entire country figured it out years ago? “You’re not watching Lost??” they would ask me. I always wanted to catch someone with a mouth full of water when I told them, so I could get that stereotypical, hilarious liquid-spit, as if my life were a screwball comedy. The truth is that at the time “Lost” began, I was in a short-lived men’s Bible study, and I knew I couldn’t just jump in the middle of a show like that.
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Matthew and Lizi The Meaning of It All "Soulful vocals and heartfelt songwriting"  |
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Andy Melvin The Human Engine Waits "Catchy and exquisite, energetic and mellow" |
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Peter Nevland Just My Mouth "Laugh, and then cry. Smile big" |
