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Too Many Coats
If you have 2 coats, you've stolen one from the poor. Dorothy Day

Figuring out how to live out all the gospel all the time...
Sunday, February 13, 2005
What if Sir Mix-a-Lot got saved?

Found this link on my friend, Kurt's, LiveJournal. It's Sir Mix-a-Lot's explicit song Baby Got Back parodied and titled Baby Got Book. Check it out. You'll laugh. You'll reminisce. Perhaps cry. And you'll likely want to watch it more than once. A few thoughts upon watching it:

1. I've always been a firm supporter of the redeeming value of music, art, literature...but wow.

2. Not only does this do a nice job of redeeming a very controversial song of the early 90's, but it also, in the same breath, pokes fun at aspects of mainstream Christianity. What more could a guy recovering from a life in the Bible Belt and is still trying to find the sacred in the secular want???

3. I found myself thinking, "I can apply this to youth group on Sunday." Woah. Then I had to douse myself with some cold water and jump out of the bittersweet flashback to my days as a youth "minister".

Enjoy.

Posted @ 6:37 PM   Comments = 6

6 Comments:

At 9:49 PM, Blogger Daryl said...

Cool video dude. It's great.

 
At 5:32 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I have to give credit on that to my friend Nora, who is awesome.

And why is "minister" in quotes?

 
At 5:32 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I have to give credit on that to my friend Nora, who is awesome.

And why is "minister" in quotes?

--Kurt

 
At 8:51 PM, Blogger Aaron said...

Haha, b/c Kurt, don't you have to be a holy roler or something to be a minister? For real though, I never really felt like I was much of a minister or ever did any real ministering.

 
At 9:20 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I didn't realize your days as a youth "minister" were bittersweet.

 
At 11:08 PM, Blogger Aaron said...

Note, I didn't say my days as a youth minister were bittersweet, I said the flashback was bittersweet.

 

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