John Womack’s Albums

Not bad for a baby brother – there are only a couple here that aren’t in my iTunes Library.

Album Artist
Animals Pink Floyd
Meteora Linkin Park
The White Album The Beatles
Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine
One of These Nights The Eagles
Physical Gaffiti Led Zeppelin
Second Helping Lynyrd Skynrd
Achtung Baby U2
Blood Sugar Sex Magic Red Hot Chili Peppers
Life’s Rich Pageant R.E.M.

Under God

America is the greatest country the world has ever known, save God’s chosen people. It’s greatness is not found in capitalism nor democracy, not even in freedom. America is great because we were founded under God. But that all disappeared on a Sunday night on the second day of Spring. We sold capitalism to government-run. We replaced democracy with mandates. And freedom was lost to the ones we chose to represent us.

Slowly, inexorably, suddenly we abandoned our foundation, and like the Jewish nation of scripture we will suffer the fate of nations professing faith in God and then turning from Him. The wall of separation we have erected in this beloved America is not between church and state, it is between us and God. And we should be prepared as a country to live without God on our side. For the Jews that meant a divided nation. It meant they would be delivered into the hands of their enemies and scattered, dissipated, lost. That is our fate now.

This country is already divided between conservative and liberal, between Christian and secular, not between black and white or rich and poor. And now the states will line up in opposition to the federal government, unable to meet its demands. And our enemies will build bombs or buy up our credit. And we will help them to destroy us by embracing them while we chastise our friends. Because when we turn our gaze from God, we see the world instead. A world that sees man as master, that believes we make the choices of life and death, that has the arrogance to suppose we can destroy God’s creation.

For everything good God provides, the world debases. Responsibility becomes entitlement. Love becomes sex. Murder becomes a choice. How silly we become, mere pawns in the battle between good and evil, between God and the Great Deceiver. We are helpless to defeat the lies of this world and do not see it. We must understand we are powerless. We must petition God for guidance. Our founding fathers understood that, and His guidance is what produced our prosperity, our very supremacy. If we do not submit we are lost, and like Bart Stupak we will sell our souls for a promise from a liar.

Always, though, there is a remnant that continues to believe in the God of our fathers. And God has made specific promises to those accepting the salvation of his Son. And unlike man’s promises, God’s word can not be rescinded or altered. That may be just a quaint concept in this secular world, but some things are true whether you believe them or not. When the Jews in their despair turned back to God, He was always there waiting for them. He is waiting for us, too. But America must decide what we will become, one nation under God or just another fallen empire.

glimpse

sweet swells of music in the dead of night.
rhythmic waves wafting through the timeless twilight.
or in the searing heat of summer,
a boogaloo beat that just won’t quit.

the pounding surf of your soul,
glimpsing the mysterious music of the whole.

a daring dance in focuses of light,
in distinction then disappearing out of sight.
or in a golden burst you can’t quite remember,
a revelation you can’t make fit.

through the wake of your soul,
a glimpse of the mysterious whole.

but you can find harmony without a fight.
you can make the canvas of consciousness bright.
or you can blindly be the loser,
misplacing the prize offered as a gift.

the completeness of the soul,
in the oneness of the whole.

© 2010 Wasted Space Publishing

My Playlist 00126

A little more rock n’ roll on this list.

Song Time Artist Album
Dragway 42 5:20 The Pretenders Viva El Amor
Go Away 4:55 Elvis Costello Momofuku
Hundred Mile High City 3:56 Ocean Colour Scene Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
Day Tripper 2:50 The Beatles Past Masters, V2
No Can Do 4:54 Mark Knopfler Golden Heart
What It Is Kid 4:14 ZZ Top Mescalero
Beyond Here Lies Nothing 3:51 Bob Dylan Together Through Life
Live With Me 3:33 The Rolling Stones Let It Bleed
Keep On Growing 6:22 Derek & The Dominos Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs
1/2 Full 4:11 Pearl Jam Riot Act
Wiser Time 5:33 The Black Crowes Amorica
Like I’ve Never Been Gone 6:00 Robert Plant Pictures At Eleven
Trip Through Your Wires 3:32 U2 Joshua Tree
Three Marlenas 4:59 The Wallflowers Bringing Down The Horse
Dancing Barefoot 4:21 Allison Moorer Mockingbird
Waiting For The Sun 4:21 The Jayhawks Hollywood Town Hall
Between Two Worlds 5:13 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Long After Dark
17 Songs/1.2 Hours

My Desert Island Records

Here’s a list of Desert Island Records (in alphabetical order by artist):

Album

Artist

Rubber Soul The Beatles
Sea Change Beck
Blood on the Tracks Bob Dylan
Tusk Fleetwood Mac
Smile The Jayhawks
Physical Graffiti Led Zeppelin
Car Wheels on a Gravel Road Lucinda Williams
The Final Cut Pink Floyd
Murmur R.E.M.
Achtung Baby U2

My Playlist 91215

Here’s a list of what we’re hearing lately:

Song

Time

Artist

Album

Mother Of Violence 3:26 Peter Gabriel 2:Claw
Pink Moon 2:07 Nick Drake Pink Moon
Island Hopping 2:37 Joe Strummer Earthquake Weather
Down On Rodeo 4:27 Lindsey Buckingham Under the Skin
Walk 2:48 Blind Melon Soup
Girls In Their Summer Clothes 4:19 Bruce Springsteen Magic
A Change of Mind 4:40 Marc Ford It’s About Time
Here I Go Again 2:54 Kim Richey Kim Richey
Side Of The Road (Live) 3:54 Lucinda Williams Lucinda Williams
Thrasher 5:41 Neil Young Rust Never Sleeps (Live)
Windfall 2:58 Son Volt Trace
Sweetness Follows 4:22 R.E.M. Automatic For The People
Father And Son 3:41 Cat Stevens Tea For The Tillerman
Pinky 3:54 Elton John Caribou
They Are All In Love 3:03 The Who The Who By Numbers
Daydream 4:42 Journey Evolution
Buddha Of Suburbia 4:22 David Bowie The Buddha Of Suburbia
Warning Sign 5:31 Coldplay A Rush Of Blood To The Head

18 Songs/1.1 hours

Mark’s Book List

Title Author
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell Susanna Clarke
A Soldier of the Great War Mark Helprin
Dune Frank Herbert
The Stand Stephen King
Paradise Lost John Milton
Complete Works William Shakespeare
Arcadia Tom Stoppard
The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle David Wroblewski

Mark’s Record List

Album Artist
Rubber Soul The Beatles
Kind of Blue Miles Davis
Blood on the Tracks Bob Dylan
Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975) The Eagles
The Cole Porter Song Book Ella Fitzgerald
Utopia Parkway Fountains of Wayne
Play Moby
Serenades & Divertimenti Wolfgnag Amadeus Mozart
Forty Licks The Rolling Stones
Songs for Swingin’ Lovers Frank Sinatra

Mark’s Movie List

Year Title Director
1954 Seven Samurai Akira Kurosawa
1960 Psycho Alfred Hitchcock
1974 The Godfather: Part II Francis Ford Coppola
1980 The Empire Strikes Back Irvin Kershner
1990 Miller’s Crossing Joel Coen
1993 Schindler’s List Steven Spielberg
1994 The Shawshank Redemption Frank Darabont
1999 Magnolia Paul Thomas Anderson
2001-2003 The Lord of the Rings Peter Jackson
2004 The Incredibles Brad Bird