Jason Kirk
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Jason Kirk:
[Answering questions that I wasn't able to get to during our book launch party.] From Asheville Melanie: "How much time did you spend putting together all these music references? THE DINGEES, ARE YOU KIDDING ME?? Was there a band you couldn't fit in?"
Jason Kirk
A ton! Not just going back and re-listening and scouring tracklists to see which thematic elements lined up (every reference in there is for a Reason besides just timing or nostalgia or whatever), but also big-picture stuff like trying to tell the story of the Evangelical music industry within the context of 2000s music at large — as in, showing characters who don't just listen to those Dingees, but know and appreciate the secular bands that influenced the Dingees.
A ton of scene bands came out just barely too late to be included, but the main one is mewithoutYou from Philadelphia. My doubt-afflicted church kids from Pennsylvania surely adooooored mwY. Had to go chapter title, at least.
A ton of scene bands came out just barely too late to be included, but the main one is mewithoutYou from Philadelphia. My doubt-afflicted church kids from Pennsylvania surely adooooored mwY. Had to go chapter title, at least.
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Jason Kirk
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Jason Kirk:
[Answering questions that I wasn't able to get to during our book launch party.] From Knoxville Lucas: ""From your perspective, how did you feel your own faith grow and change as you composed, refined, and polished this manuscript? By extension: how do you feel the manuscript shaped you as you were writing it? Are there any surprising truths you found to be true about yourself as you articulated the book?
Jason Kirk
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Jason Kirk:
[Answering questions that I wasn't able to get to during our book launch party] From Dan McFall: "You've hinted at it on social media over the year and I am curious what putting this novel together has revealed to you about your faith today? Not necessary in Christianity or even a biblical notion of God just what spiritual catharsis came out of the book."
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