Entertainment

How Sweet the Sound: The company I work for sponsored a celebration of church music in Memphis on October 6. It's pretty interesting to me that VZW decided to sponser a church choir competition, but I'm glad about it. If you have VCAST you can watch clips of the 3 winners. The choir from the medium sized congregation won from the perspective of the audience (which voted via TXT message). You can hear all six minutes of their song, and it sounds great! To view the clips go to Get It Now > Picture & Video > V CAST Video > Showcase > How Sweet the Sound-Memphis

Bella: I just read a review of the movie Bella in World Magazine. It stars Eduardo Verastegui (the Latin American version of Brad Pitt) as a Latino man with character. You don't see that too often in movies - typically they're either the bad guy (bandito) or the Don Juan (womanizer). A Latino man who wants to do the right thing and is a normal, understated guy seems interesting. The movie's produced by Metanoia Films, which aims to produce Christian themed films that are uplifting and inspiring. It's a love story, and I admit that I'm a sucker for a love story... It's only playing in 30 cities...Nashvegas is a relatively inexpensive plane ride. I may have to treat myself for my birthday...Then again, I guess I could wait for DVD.

Charlie Dodrill - playing in Statesville, NC in November. A much more reasonable BDay treat. I've never seen him live, but want to. I went to Columbia S.A. with his dad last summer. If Charlie's anything like his dad Randy, he's got to be a great guy, and his music is very fine.

Andrew Petersen & Sara Groves - in Charlotte on December 12! I'm probably most excited about this one. I saw Andrew Petersen a few years back when he traveled with Nicole Nordeman. He's a terrifically quirky, and very bright, poetic soul (right up there with Chris Rice). I've never seen Sara Groves live, but wow!!

OK, so not much is on my mind, but entertainments. Oh, well...