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Most of my posts on this site tend to be about music, sports, politics, religion and God (sometimes all at the same time).  In the real world, I sell furniture for a living.  Once they found out I blogged,  I was co-opted as a contributor to The Upper Room Home Furnishings new website . So if you could care less about Banksy and Bono but you need some tips for designing yourself a pretty sweet Man Cave, just click  here . For my take on how to combine "His and Her" styles into one unified space, click  here . If room design isn't what you visit this blog for, don't worry.  More posts about Barack, Bands and Beatitudes will be coming soon.  

Banksy, the world famous artist, has been doing a month long “ residency ” on the streets of New York.  My favorite “exhibit” was the stall he set up in Central Park, offering signed, original Banksy pieces for $60.   The context in which we find things often determines how we value them.  The point Banksy was making is that “value” is really just hype.  Those same paintings displayed in a gallery would cause people to fight each other to pay $300,000 for them. Stripped of the cultural signifiers that tell us what’s “important”, the Banksy pieces appeared worthless.  Nobody thought these paintings were valuable because nobody expects to find anything valuable on the street.   I once paid $100 to see Feist perform at the National Arts Center but I’ve never given more than $5 to a homeless person.   Word Count: 140

I love music and I love arguing about music.  So occasionally I will be posting lists of my five favourite songs by a particular band or artist.  I expect you will disagree.  That’s what the comment section is for.   Let's do this! 5 Electrical Storm:  My totally irrational choice.  U2 themselves probably wouldn’t even put this in their top 25.    4 Where the Streets Have No Name:  The song that every worship leader wishes they had written and has spent their life trying to replicate.   3 Beautiful Day:  Hearing this song on the radio made me buy my first U2 album (And, ironically, what I thought at the time was the first “non-christian” album I had ever purchased. The joke was on me). 2 The Fly:  U2 is currently working on a new album.  If there is one song on there half as boundary pushing as The Fly, I will be supremely happy.   1 With Or Without You:  The Edge’s guitar work is always so innovative but it’s the s