On Crazy Heart and the Strange Appeal of Music Movies

June 3rd, 2010 in Uncategorized by admin 0

Dear TED WINS. Army,
So as it turns out, I still have a blog, which I’m apparently updating monthly now. Here’s your monthly post: I watched the first hour of Crazy Heart last night and it blew my mind (will watch the last hour tonight). What’s Crazy Heart, and why did it blow my mind?
Crazy Heart [...]

Unintentionally Hilarious Postmodern Websites, Vol. 1 (Pete Rollins, The Insurrection)

April 26th, 2010 in Uncategorized by admin 3

Shameless Promotion: Buy my new book, Kinda Christianity, which satirizes emergent, but not nearly as well as the real website below. Kinda Christianity is a blistering satire of Brian McLaren’s “A New Kind of Christianity,” and it retails for $7.99 which makes it cheaper than a lot of things – including an airport meal, movie [...]

NEEDTOBREATHE Concert Review (plus an impromptu essay on the use of the word bada**)

March 30th, 2010 in Uncategorized by admin 0

Something I should say, right up front: This show was awesome, from start to finish. All of it. I know I’ve gone negative/snarky with a lot of this stuff, but this whole experience was great. I’ll elaborate below.
The Intersection is a rock club in Grand Rapids. It’s the kind of rock club that can have [...]

Ted Partners With Four-Time Super Bowl Champion Bill Romanowski!

March 23rd, 2010 in Uncategorized by admin 0

Introducing the official nutritional supplements of the TED WINS. Army: TED WINS. Nutrition (in conjunction with Nutrition53.)
The Backstory: Before Ted became the author of several award winning books on sports and the church, and before he became friends with Kevin DeYoung, he was a pretty unremarkable football player. As such, he has tried every muscle-building [...]

Pastor Zach’s Basement (More CCM Pith)

March 18th, 2010 in Uncategorized by admin 3

More CCM Pith, for the book:
Back in Pastor Zach’s basement, where he has a stack of VHS tapes waiting for me on the coffee table. This is becoming so familiar…I’m learning to recognize early nineties fonts and color schemes (purple and teal).
Today we’ve got an Audio Adrenaline video on tap, from 1993.
Zach: “1993 -rocking like [...]

Deconstructing Degarmo & Key’s Video for “666″

March 9th, 2010 in Uncategorized by admin 0

Two blog posts in two days. It must be the sunshine. Reminder: Go here and buy some books: http://www.tedkluck.com/blog1/?p=158
So as a part of my ongoing research for a book I’m writing for Moody Press, cleverly titled “To Hell With the Devil: 365 Days of Christian Music, from Al Denson to Alice Cooper,” (a title which [...]

Spring Book Sale (and Cultural Items)

March 8th, 2010 in Uncategorized by admin 3

Greetings TED WINS. Army. Help me clean out myofficethis Spring (note: I know it’sSpring by the dirty, half-melted piles of snow around town)by buying some of my books.
As is customary, the books are brand-new, straight from the publisher (via a box in my office). Just paypal the amount to: k_luck96@hotmail.com with your address and an [...]

Help Me Understand the Appeal of the Movie “300″

February 25th, 2010 in Uncategorized by admin 0

Greetings TED WINS. Army. I’m blogging once a month now, from underneath an artificial sun lamp, in between tanning appointments and high doses of Vitamin D (note: for all non-Michigan readers, this is a reference to Seasonal Affective Disorder, which is another way of saying that Michigan really, really sucks in the wintertime and has [...]

Things I Learned While Reading The Official Bentley Magazine No. 30 Summer 2009 North America Edition

January 27th, 2010 in Uncategorized by admin 1

I recently spent a weekend at a nice cottage in Northern Michiagn, where I encountered the aforementioned magazine, which must have been left there by a previous resident, and which I eventually stole, having found it so unintentionally interesting/hilarious and delightfully over-written. Here are a few things I learned
Page 17: “You never actually own a [...]

Chapter () Excerpt, Tentatively Titled “I Want to Go Home” or “Do You Guys See What You’re Doing to the Blinds?”

January 16th, 2010 in Uncategorized by admin 2

As you may or may not know, I’m in the throes of writing a book for Moody Publishers – part of which involves me listening to only Christian music for a whole year. As such, part of that commitment includes only going to Christian concerts.
I went to one last night, with my Christian Music Sherpa, [...]