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Date: 02 December 2003 18:47:35
So, the other night I was sitting being studious in my room reading Mikhail Bakhtin and I heard a familiar melody drifting across the Clyde and the Glasgow tower (well, the car park and the train track actually). Hmmm, thought I must be some band playing at the SECC. So I opened my window and realised it was Radiohead (God Loves His Children if I'm not mistaken). So I went to the kitchen and opened the double doors to the outside world (like a balcony, just without the balcony bit...so nothing like a balcony....) letting the sound in and had a glass of wine to Thom and the lads. It was a cool moment. However, the law of karma must have detected an inbalance in the universe 'cos next week Status Quo are playing. Think I'll be elsewhere.
Cool moment (pt II). It's not often in theology lectures that I get a chance to talk about one of my favourite authors, Douglas Coupland. I guess that's why I'm drawn towards literature, theology and the arts, it just opens up spaces which aren't there normally. Still, to get a chance to talk about a book like Life After God (highly recommended by the way) with undergrads is still rare. But last week my time came and I blurted forth on the relevance of Coupland to theology and why Christians need (now more than ever) to listen to this guy and others like him. This is probably meaningless to you all, but it was cool for me.
Cheers,
DK.