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:: Thursday, April 15, 2004 ::

What a wonderful Internet, part 1
I've been listening to this album a lot over the past week, thanks to the Internet. Not just because I purchased the record online but mainly because I was influenced to buy it because one of the participants in this blog's recent compilation of best rock albums ranked it highly. He and I share some common interests in music, so I decided to find out more about this album and the group. Boy, I'm glad I did.

The Pixies' Doolittle came out during the dark time of my life, when I was cloistered deep in an evangelical subculture and trying to figure our just what was so evil about non-Christian music. There's a big, ugly gap in my knowledge of secular music, beginning around 1987 and continuing until 1990 or '91. As a neophyte in the faith who was walking out of some pretty cruddy sin and addition (um, I mean "addiction," of course), I had this compulsion to also get rid of a lot of other so-called "baggage" from my life. It actually helped me to focus for a season on more spiritual things until I could get on a bit firmer footing.

But anyway. Had it not been for the Internet and the network of friends I've been able to develop through it, I probably would not have met David Hopkins. And I probably would have never been introduced to Pixies music.

:: Andrew 13:39 + ::
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