#mtv

Loki'd! ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#funny #god #hiddleston #loki #mischief

Worship, then, needs to be characterized by hospitality; it needs to be inviting. But at the same time, it should be inviting seekers into the church and its unique story and language. Worship should be an occasion of cross-cultural hospitality. Consider an analogy: when I travel to France, I hope to be made to feel welcome. However, I don't expect my French hosts to become Americans in order to make me feel at home. I don't expect them to start speaking English, ordering pizza, talking about the New York Yankees, and so on. Indeed, if I wanted that, I would have just stayed home! Instead, what I'm hoping for is to be welcomed into their unique French culture; that's why I've come to France in the first place. And I know that this will take some work on my part. I'm expecting things to be different; indeed, I'm looking for just this difference. So also, I think, with hospitable worship: seekers are looking for something our culture can't provide. Many don't want a religious version of what they can already get at the mall. And this is especially true of postmodern or Gen X seekers: they are looking for elements of transcendence and challenge that MTV could never give them. Rather than an MTVized version of the gospel, they are searching for the mysterious practices of the ancient gospel. ↗

— James K.A. Smith

#church #gospel #liturgy #mtv #postmodernism

NC-17 means that you get it in like 3 theaters. They won't run the spots on MTV, won't run the advertising. It's the kiss of death so there was really no other choice. ↗

— Rob Zombie

#choice #death #get #kiss #like

MTV was such a great training for me. I did live interviews with everyone from Michael Jackson to Madonna. ↗

— Carson Daly

#everyone #great #i #interviews #jackson

My friend made me a leather dress for the MTV awards. It gives you confidence, wearing something you love. ↗

— Cat Deeley

#confidence #dress #friend #gives #leather

Pop music has been all but relegated to the remainder bin at MTV and VH1, where high-maintenance concoctions such as Paris Hilton, Flavor Flav, and Hulk Hogan's biohazard clan of bleached specimens provide endless hours of death-hastening diversion. ↗

— James Wolcott

#bin #bleached #clan #diversion #endless

The MTV Video Awards were never about the video, but about the song. Most of the time it was just to glorify people for the wrong reason. ↗

— Michel Gondry

#awards #glorify #just #most #mtv

When I auditioned for the show, I didn't realize it was an MTV production, which is going to make for really good tunes during the episodes, if nothing else. ↗

— Neil Patrick Harris

#during #else #episodes #going #good

I wasn't that wild about that. I told them basically if they were really going to want to bring back heavy metal to a program on MTV, then they are really going to have to get in touch with what real heavy metal is. ↗

— Phil Anselmo

#back #basically #bring #get #going

I think that what's perceived as punk out in shopping malls or in chain stores or on MTV has almost nothing to do with what punk is about. ↗

— Jello Biafra

#almost #chain #i #i think #malls