So, having conducted my grand experiment, I am now ready to reveal results. And the results are:

Not exactly overwhelming. I'm not sure if I expected too much but I'm not sure that there has been that much change in my thinking. I guess I probably instinctively tend to censor my music anway, so there's not that much that gets through that would do me too much damage. It was probably a bit of a weird week to do it because work was pretty stressful. Although I think that it actually meant that lots more of the tunes that got stuck in my head were more likely to point me to God, although there are probably some other tunes that I boycotted that can at times do the same thing (The Killers, "These Things I've Done" comes to mind – great lyrics).

I guess I'll probably keep it up. I think probably the biggest thing is that I'm more likely to add things to my music collection that have got some goodness in them. Fix any problems at the source. In the past I've tended to go along a bit with anything that has got a bit of bop-ability and that isn't going to have me laughed out of town by my youth minions (although I've got some Frank Sinatra, Jamie Cullum and Michael Buble – so it's not always successful). I did miss playing Scissor Sisters "Take Your Mama" as I drove along, so I think there'll be a return to that. But we're just going to watch the iPod's input from now on. So overall, despite my pessimism at the start of this post – I think the Experiment was a success. So in the words of Dale Kerrigan "Looks like everybody's kicked a goal".

(for any american/british/american expats in germany readers, do yourself a favour and find a copy of "The Castle" – the best Australian comedy ever. It'll explain everything)