This set, recorded live in the Weston H. Noble Recital Hall at Luther College, was submitted as Undeclared's audition for the 2006 International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella. 

Star-Spangled Banner

Money

Florida

The Mute Monk is a captivating parable that will have you contemplating themes of grace, forgiveness, memory, and fate long after you’ve finished listening.

This audio is from episode 13 of the Unfolded, a podcast dedicated to "equipping grassroots theologians for creative thinking, engaging, and living." More here → http://homebrewedchristianity.com/2014/07/30/unfolded-episode-13-the-mute-monk/ 

The Mute Monk

Ghost In A Wedding Dress (Demo)

Dr. Thunder & the Generic Sodas - Paideia (2 Many Deadlines)

Based on the words from Psalm 121, this song was written and recorded for Faith Lutheran Church's 2012 Advent worship season. http://faithlc.org

Jake Bouma - Psalm 121 (Coming Home)

– David Foster Wallace, quoted in "Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself" by David Lipsky (At Amazon.com: http://bit.ly/AOCYEUBY)

“There’s so much beauty and profundity in all kinds of shitty pop culture all around us. Like, living in Bloomington: One of the things that I do, I mean, you have to listen to a lot of shitty country music. ‘Cause that’s like pretty much all there is on the radio when you’re tired of like, listening to Green Day on the one college radio station.  And these country musics are just so — you know, 'Baby since you’ve left I can’t live, I’m drinking all the time' and stuff. And I remember just being real impatient with it. Until I’d been living here about a year.  All of a sudden I realized that, what if you just imagined that this absent lover they're singing to is just a metaphor? And what they're really singing is to themselves, or to God, you know? 'Since you've left I'm so empty I can't live, my life has no meaning.' That in a weird way, I mean they're incredibly existentialist songs. That have the patina of the absent, of the romantic shit on it just to make it salable. But that all the pathos and heart that comes out of them, is they're singing about something much more elemental being missing, and their being incomplete without it. Than just, you know, some girl in tight jeans or something. And it’s so weird. It’s like you live immersed in this stuff, it’s very Flannery O’Connor-ish. And then every once in a while you realize that it’s all the same, and it’s all about the really profound shit. And that it’s adjusted in various ways to talk to various demographic groups for commercial reasons. But that if you cock your ear and listen real close, it’s — that it’s deep, you know?”

(I believe I originally found this and other clips from AOCYEUBY here: http://www.thetakeaway.org/2010/jul/01/start-conversation-david-lipsky-david-foster-wallace/)

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