For some reason, daughter #1 was humming The Birdie Song this evening. I have no idea where she got it from, but she ran screaming when I found the original version and played it for her.

After listening to it again, my verdict is that the 80's have quite a lot to answer for in the bad music department. But, misery loves company, so I'll share it with anyone reading this. Enjoy!

If I have unexpected listening time (extra yard work or driving) or am feeling experimental I will also listen to these podcasts:

##Revolutions

Weekly

If you love audio books, there's a really good chance that you'll like podcasts. Or at least that's what I'm told. I went the other direction. I started with podcasts and loved them so much that I never made it to audio books. I started listening to podcasts when I had an average total daily commute time of two and a half hours a day, so my current listening lineup tends towards long-form offerings.

My list:

##Jocko Podcast

I'd like to capture in writing something that I spoke about in a sermon, a few weeks ago, that I titled "Not exactly as planned".

Remember this, and shew yourselves men: bring it again to mind, O ye transgressors. Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure: Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.

Isaiah 46:8-11

In the King James Version (KJV) of the bible the phrase "I will do all my pleasure" is translated in several other versions as "I will accomplish all my purpose". From this and other verses, we understand that the will of God is going to be completed as he has chosen and to his pleasure. Kind of comes with the territory for an all powerful deity, so I suppose we shouldn't be surprised. This certainty is how we can read the book of Revelations and be certain that the victory we see there is absolutely certain to happen. Yet, even within that absolutely guaranteed victory we still see a number (unfortunately a large number) of people reject the Lord's attempts to warn them of the foolishness of their rejection of him. Even within the accomplishment of the will of God, we see human freewill being exercised.

Not the first time that AC/DC's classic track Thunderstruck has appeared on this site, but today we have a 10 minute long remix for those times when you just can't get enough Thunderstruck.

Remixes are different from the normal covers I like to feature around here. They typically include audio samples from the original track, but then those samples are carefully mixed in such a way as to bring a whole different feel to the original track. A reasonable man might conceed that a remix is not strictly a cover, but I like remixes as much as covers, so I have no intention of being that reasonable man today.