Rob Thomas’ first single off Cradlesong, Her Diamonds, may not have set the airwaves on fire, but the second single off Cradlesong, Give Me the Meltdown, stands to turn Thomas’ fortunes around. Give Me the Meltdown debuted this week at #106 on the Billboard Hot 100 (which is actually #6 on its Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles) on the strength of sales, but airplay for this power-pop song is almost a guaranteed situation. The...

I’ve completed another original praise song titled We Exalt You. The demo for We Exalt You, which you can hear streamed below, was recorded by Victory Fort’s worship team, with worship leader (and Jam 88.3 DJ) Gabe Gabriel on lead vocal. I wrote We Exalt You using Psalm 108 as a Biblical basis. Psalm 108 is particularly nice because it takes words that typically work within a worship setting, set to praise. I wrote it with an...

Earlier this evening, I was Googling Carnie Wilson of Wilson Phillips, when I stumbled into her ad for the People for Ethical Treatment of Animals. In the mid-90s, Wilson posed for Todd Oldham, her body covered by fluorescent felt foliage above the headline “Turn Over a New Leaf—Don’t Wear Fur.” It’s certainly one of the tamer PETA ads; the ones from Eva Mendez and Joanna Krupa, in particular, are a lot...

I have a Calvin and Hobbes tattoo. I got it when I was a sophomore in college. I enjoyed Calvin and Hobbes, and the spirit that the creative young boy and his sidekick imaginary tiger resonated with the collegiate me. To date, there has never been a comic strip that has communicated the many questions that life can bring up, and deal with the myriad answers with which one can come up to answer, than Calvin and Hobbes. It was a brilliant...

Last night, Cathy started watching Boys Over Flowers, the hottest Asian telenovela airing on local shores. The show revolves around a young, independently strong female student who becomes the object of attention of the most powerful student in the most exclusive school in Korea. He attempts, together with his two best friends – there is a third, to complete the foursome known as F4, but he does not participate – in making this...

Ladies and gentlemen, this is Ruan Jing Tian, more commonly known to the kapuso as Ethan Ruan, the smoldering hero of hit Taiwanese telenovela Fated to Love You. Ethan first entered our lives when my wife, Cathy, was lent a DVD copy of Fated to Love You by her friend Sally. Cathy soon fell in love with the series, and completed the 20+ episode Taiwanese telenovela within a matter of days. She soon learned that Ethan had another TV series,...