Phil Wickham’s cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.”

In case you’ve never heard it, this is hands down my favorite cover of this heavily covered song. I don’t even listen to Phil Wickham but I might have to start.

Tuesday Tunes: Weezer (Red Album)

To make sure I update this at least once a week, here is the first installation of Tuesday Tunes! Normally, I’ll try and cover a new release but since no new release today really caught my eye, today’s album is Weezer (Red Album). (Although if you really like hip hop, I gave the new N.E.R.D. album a quick listen and it’s not too shabby!)

If you didn’t fall in love with Weezer’s first self-titled album (the Blue Album) with such classics as “Say It Ain’t So” and “The Sweater Song” then try again. That CD made its home in my giant CD Walkman in junior high and is still one of my all-time favorites. However, no other Weezer album has been able to win me over completely (as I sometimes cringe when I listen to “Beverly Hills”).

But! Enter Weezer’s third self-titled album! I read somewhere that this was going to be a very experimental album but for the most part, it is the Weezer I first came to know and love. The album kicks off with “Troublemaker” which fittingly sets a “I do what I want!” theme. The best song to portray this theme is “Pork and Beans,” their first single. This song is not complete until you have watched the music video. And if you’re a fan of viral youtube videos, there should be some familiar faces making cameo appearances.

Rivers Cuomo actually takes a break during some songs and lets others take the lead vocal position. Those songs were probably my least favorite but still had a little Weezer flavor. All in all, old school Weezer fans should not be disappointed with their sixth full-length release.

Top three songs to check out: “Everybody Get Dangerous,” “Troublemaker,” and “The Greatest Man That Ever Lived.”

Is it okay to cry?

If you have not heard the news, tragedy has hit the household of Steven Curtis Chapman. Although I don’t know him, although I don’t even have any of his songs in my iTunes library, and although I don’t know what it feels to lose a family member, I couldn’t help but shed some tears for his beautiful girl, Maria Sue, whose life ended coincidentally on the day my brother was born twenty-two years ago.

Job 1:21 - “The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.”

In the year 2000…!

I’ve seen two articles about what the past thought about the future, so I thought it was enough to share with you guys.

- This is a video clip of what designers in the 1930s would think we would be wearing in the year 2000:

- This is an article from 1968 that you can read or skim through that thinks we would be traveling in our air-cushioned cars at 200mph to our four-hour work days. If those work days are too stressful, we can go to the underwater resort for vacation.

- And for the heck of it, here is one of the only Conan O’Brien “In the Year 2000″ videos I could find: