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This is the personal blog
of Kevin Ely a filmmaker and LifeChurch.tv video producer living in Oklahoma City with a wife and two daughters the thoughts and opinions expressed here are my own and do not represent the thoughts and opinions of my employers or co-workers or wife or daughters really it's just a place to collect the useless trivia of my life occasionally I might write something profound but it's few and far between although I am a deep thinker I just don't usually do it on my blog if you want to know my deepest darkest thoughts buy me a beer and I might tell you.

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Dec
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Matt Zoller Seitz begins a new essay series, this time on the films of Clint Eastwood.

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Nov
16th
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Everything is laid to waste, including physical science, dramatic tension and a certain amount of Cusack’s reputation as an actor with taste and scruples.
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Oct
26th
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I think as we went along, we were starting to become victims of our own optimism.
Wayne Coyne on Pitchfork.com, talking about the darker tone of the new Lips album Embryonic.
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Sep
26th
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Still Here?

Sorry for the light postings lately (for the two of you who care).  It’s been insanely busy lately, and doesn’t look to be lightening up any time soon.  Hopefully it will all be worth it and I’ll be able to share some exciting news in the next few days.

Anyway, I’ve been rethinking the purpose of this tumblog, and I’ll probably be posting more often in the coming months.  I just won’t be pretending this is a real blog.  I started this intending to exercise my writing muscles, but then it just became a repository for fun and interesting things I found online.  And I’m fine with that.  I just need to embrace it.  So I may be doing a rebrand down the line, maybe a layout tweak and a name change.

I may start a new, more substantial blog on my own site, but keep this going as well (check out Trish’s dual blogs in the friend roll for an example).  I don’t know how it will all turn out, but I promise I’ll try to keep it interesting.

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Jay-Z and Alicia Keys - “Empire State of Mind” from the 2009 VMA’s

I haven’t been able to get this song out of my head for the last two weeks.  For all the flack MTV gets about a lack of focus on music, they really know how to create an epic televised performance (random stage-crasher notwithstanding).  From the prizefighter-style intro, to the giant screen framed by fire escape balconies, to the shots of Beyonce marking out for her man, the production elevates a very good performance by Jay-Z and Alicia Keys into something anthemic.  Makes me miss NY something fierce.  Good thing I’ll be there in two weeks.

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Aug
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OKC’s local NPR affiliate KGOU profiled Matthew Alvin Brown today, leading up to Saturday night’s staged reading of “Rainbow Around the Sun” at Lyric on the Plaza.

Anyway, It’s a nice primer on “Rainbow” and a great reminder to reserve your seats immediately for Saturday’s show.  Word is there are less than 75 seats remaining two days before the show.

Reserve your seats by calling the Lyric Box Office at (405) 524-9312.

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Aug
24th
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Harsh Truth.  And a curse on all those who embed music tracks in a page and stick the mute button somewhere hard to find.
(via pwilkes)

Harsh Truth.  And a curse on all those who embed music tracks in a page and stick the mute button somewhere hard to find.

(via pwilkes)

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Aug
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Aug
13th
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“It’s a pristine print.”

“Oh, is it now?”

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Aug
10th
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Church Online Worship Session 2 - Trent Austin

“Healer” - Trent Austin with Marcy Priest from kevin ely on Vimeo.

A couple of weeks back we recorded another Worship Session for Church Online, this time featuring Trent Austin with Marcy Priest. We recorded three sets that will be rolled out over the next several weeks at live.lifechurch.tv.

Trent has always beena good friend and personal inspiration to me, and I’ve been wanting to do something like this with him for years.  And I’m really happy with the end product, so it’s doubly satisfying.

The song performed here is “Healer” by Hillsong United, and includes pieces of “How Great is Our God” (Tomlin) and “How Great Thou Art” (Traditional).

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Aug
9th
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Anderson Silva enters the matrix

Spoon boy: Do not try and bend the spoon. That’s impossible. Instead… only try to realize the truth.
Neo: What truth?
Spoon boy: There is no spoon.

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Neo: There is no spoon?
Spoon boy: Then you’ll see, that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.

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Neo: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge bullets?

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Morpheus: No, Neo. I’m trying to tell you that when you’re ready, you won’t have to.

forrest vs. silva 4

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Aug
8th
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reason #497 for loving St. Vincent: this cover of one of my favorite Beatles songs.

(via Migrant Beat)

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