- Author: Brad
- Filed under: church, concert, extract'd, planning, quotes of note, religion, sacred space, technology, theatre, worship
- Date: Jan 18,2008
A new feature for 2008: extract’d. This is where I ‘extract’ a quote of note that has garnered my attention that I think might garner yours. It’s intended to spur conversation. And yes, it is eerily like Out of Ur’s “Out of Context” feature. But on relevintage, I get to pick the quotes. So there…
Here’s this week’s edition:
“It has nothing to do with the Christmas message. . . . It’s selling a sensation, an experience. . . . What competitive churches understand is that you are not going to sell your service on the basis of doctrine because it’s all the same. When people go to church they . . . want to know if there’s a good show. And often that’s not coming out of doctrine, it comes from music, theatrics and the sound system.”
-James Twitchell, professor of English and advertising at the University of Florida, from a recent Chicago Tribune article, “Megachurches, megashows: Some organzations spend $1 million on performances to spread message”.
HT: Justin Taylor
Unbelievable…you just have to read it to believe it:
They say the neon lights are bright on Broadway, but maybe those aren’t lights at all…maybe they’re laser beams from GIANT PINK ROBOTS! They say the women treat you fine on Broadway– but do they do battle with those diabolical pink machines?
That’s right: Broadway will soon get just a bit battier, as Wayne Coyne revealed in a recent interview with EW.com that the Flaming Lips’ 2002 LP Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots will be transformed into a Broadway musical.
Described Coyne, “There’s the real world and then there’s this fantastical world. This girl, the Yoshimi character, is dying of something. And these two guys are battling to come visit her in the hospital. And as one of the boyfriends envisions trying to save the girl, he enters this other dimension where Yoshimi is this Japanese warrior and the pink robots are an incarnation of her disease. It’s almost like the disease has to win in order for her soul to survive. Or something like that.” On Broad-waaaay!
“The West Wing”/”Sports Night” scribe Aaron Sorkin has signed on to script the Yoshimi musical, while director/producer Des McAnuff will guide the production, according to EW.com. “When Des heard the record,” said Coyne, “he heard a lot about death and loss and the triumph of your own optimism…he had an emotional attachment to it.”
The musical, which may well include other songs from across the Lips’ catalogue, is still far from opening night, but the pink robot cogs have been set in motion.
