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Friday, June 24, 2005

Note: Apparently Blogger is having issues that I can't fix on my end of things--sorry for the temporary format ugliness.

The Joys of the Internet

I googled myself--admit it, you've all done it too and I at least can claim to be doing "market research" or something along those lines--and spent an incredibly entertaining half hour looking through the results. It's nice to know that "Dawn Xiana Moon" will bring you right to this site, and after a page, "Dawn Moon" will bring you here as well (searching for the words rather than the phrase, I didn't try that). But among the more amusing items:

1. Someone from Blogcritics.org stumbled across this website and decided to review my CD. Apparently he liked it: "In this day and age of cookie cutter 'American Idol' music, where the emphases are on the next big hit, it is refreshing to find someone that brings passion and feeling back to their music."

2. I found myself linked on someone's site under "Friends and Acquaintances"--for the life of me, I couldn't figure out who I knew in Madison, Wisconsin named Rob. Until I looked at the URL and discovered that it was Rob Shereda! I haven't talked to him in forever--while on the exec board of Students for Life we had a blast poking fun at our president (all in good fun, Andrew is a good guy) and life in general. Rob definitely brought out my sarcastic side....

3. I'd almost forgotten about this, but Christianity Today once quoted a film review I wrote (actually, it was the first piece I'd ever really published, a scathing review of Star Wars: Episode II). "Somewhere along the way, it seems George Lucas lost sight of his original vision and caved in to marketing pressures and the urge to show off his technical wizardry. The movie was better than I feared, but worse than I hoped it would be."

4. Ricke, who's now in the process of recording my full-length CD (more on that later), posted a blog notable for this line: "[In Toledo, we had] excellent Chinese food at some little place that I still don't understand how she knew about...." Don't you know, there's an underground network of Chinese people spreading the word on restaurants with awesome food, even if they are local holes-in-the-wall. (Ahem: Carolyn, I really am Chinese you know.) In all seriousness though, I found out about that place thanks to a Singaporean cousin who got her MBA at the University of Toledo and ever since, my family will go out of the way to eat there anytime we're near Toledo. So it's almost an international underground network. :-)

5. Brian Thomas from Kaleo Fellowship, which is apparently a church in CA, wrote what looks like a well thought-out essay on Christianity and the arts. And referenced a Relevant Magazine article I wrote on the subject. "Moon points out that we have a tendency to think that our culture is morally looser than the 'good ol' days,' but historically we know this is not exactly true. We bemoan the violence of modern videogames, but think about the Roman games (literally death-matches)." This is one of my pet subjects, so I'm definitely going to read the article in its entirety later.

6. Back when I was about to release First Verse, my brother posted the full lyrics to "Self-Destructive" on his blog, followed with "buy her CD... support my sister." Awww.

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