Mirror mirror on the wall, who is the one going crazy of them all? I am!!

Things have been insane for the past couple of weeks, especially this week. Renown has been very demanding and draining, it seems I’m requested to go to quite a number of shows in the next little bit. I’ve got possible shows on March 11th, 13th, 29th, 31st, April 2nd, and April 5th just to name some. Crazy.

I’ve got two interviews this week coming up, I have one of them ready and it looks like it could be an amusing one depending on how the band answers the questions. I haven’t even had time to start the next one yet, that’s going to have to be tomorrow or Thursday, which is cutting it close as the interview is Friday. But I’m sure it’ll be good too.

Since things are so crazy this week though, I can pretty much promise you that there won’t be an update on Monday. Sorry gang! But the week after that I should have an interview or two at least for you.

Today I got my complimentary copy of the Today’s New International Version (TNIV) in the mail. It’s pretty cool. It’s not a study Bible per se, as there aren’t any extra notes throughout the Bible. There’s just a bit of study info at the front and that’s about it — the rest is just the Bible text itself. Which is fine, considering it was free. I am actually primarily interested in reading the actual text itself to see how this new translation fairs. I haven’t had the time to really sit down and look at it that thoroughly, but I kind of like it so far.

It’s by the same people who did the NIV (which came out in 1976 — to show it it’s age), and they have been working on the TNIV for ten years now. The point of it is to make it more understandable to today’s culture, but using more modern-English grammar, vocabulary, etc. It’s supposedly not a huge enough change to alter any meanings, it’s just more modernized so – as I just stated – today’s culture can understand it easier. You can view examples here.

Right now the NIV is the most common used translation of the Bible. Will this replace it? Honestly, I’m not sure yet as I haven’t read enough of it… but I wouldn’t be surprised if it did eventually from the looks of it.

It’s causing a lot of controversy though, since some people don’t like the idea of “modernizing” the Bible as it automatically seems to put the idea of compromise in their heads. I don’t seem to think that’s the case here though; modernizing doesn’t always mean compromising. Wasn’t the NIV controversial when it first released? It only takes time to let the dust settle and then maybe more people will view it unbiasedly.

But again, I have yet to read much of it…so who knows, perhaps there is truth to the critics. I’m not really sure what exactly they are against, I’ll have to look into it more. Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong and you know something I don’t, which wouldn’t be hard as I don’t know an excessive amount yet about it other than what’s on the official website I linked to above.

You can order copies of them in bulk though from their store, which is kind of cool… cases of 24 paperbacks (the simple one I have) are only $1.99 each. I think I might do that. There’s this one cover that’s funny… it’s called “The End Of The World As We Knew It.” You can see it by clicking here. I wouldn’t mind picking it up just because it’s amusing, even if it ends up that the translation isn’t as good.

I ended up getting the yellowish paint-textured looking one, with a box/frame and a bird painted in black on it… It looks not too bad and kind of artsy, but the other one is more amusing. You can see the one I got here.

Anyway, I’m out for now gang… Tomorrow I’m working from 11 to 4:30, then I’ve got renown work before and after that. Hooray, hoorah.

Godspeed.