Seven Crimes to Consider Before Music Piracy
TTM Readers: This is an article that I wrote for www.gapersblock.com As our readerbase doesn’t really overlap very well, they allowed me the opportunity to post it on TTM as well. You can see the original article with all its comments here, on Gaper’s Block. Hey there...
Review: Jason Mraz Makes Nickelback Sound Good
Have you ever taken a dump that the toilet just couldn’t seem to choke down? I feel like that toilet when I’m forced to listen to Jason Mraz’s scattin’, be-boppin’, skiddlywink warbling. I could be anywhere–walking down the street, in my grandmother’s car, at the...
Concert Review: Taylor Swift[ly] ruins a perfectly good Sunday
Last evening, at the behest of this organization, and with a chorus of vociferous protests, I sacrificed an evening on the couch to attend a Taylor Swift show. We are striving to engage with our culture and what is American culture if not teenagers with guitars?...
Ruminations on the Song “Human” by The Killers
As the proud owner of 20 college credit hours in philosophy, I can tell you with confidence that the entire history of philosophical discourse is little more than an endless series of killer one-liners. To quote a few: “An unexamined life is not worth living.” –...
Concert Review: Hey Coldplay, Fix This
Since my sophomore year in high school I – like most Americans – have maintained a recreational affinity for the band Coldplay. I own all their CDs, I know every word to every one of their songs, I have a Chris Martin shaped body pillow. Yet they are far from my...
Loosening the Buttons of Literature
I don’t think that people these days really appreciate the poets of our time. Our modern Shakespeares are left unnoticed and unappreciated, the profundity and meaning of their writing tossed into the gutters of our minds as worthless and forgettable. Well I’m here to...
It’s Time to Cast Our Crowns… for a Babe.
You know, Christians are people too. I think we often forget that in our faithful pursuit of righteousness, romance can waltz right into our lives. Today we look to popular worship band Casting Crowns for guidance on this confusing issue as we spelunk the romantic...
Satan: I Miss Michael Jackson
Have you heard? Michael Jackson is dead! I go on a little vaycay to the Bermuda Triangle for a couple of weeks and then the whole world goes to hell in a hand-basket! And it’s not even my hand-basket! I just… I just can’t believe it. It seems like just yesterday he...
Tiffany Thompson – We Interview Her
Having spent upwards of three years foisting the half-crazed diatribes we call “opinions” onto the unsuspecting internet community, we at The Talking Mirror have finally decided to acknowledge a world outside of ourselves. We’re going to start doing interviews!...