August 2007
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…what you were doing on this day ten years ago when you heard the news? Would you know what he was talking about? I had no idea what the title of this post of Rod Dreher's meant: "Where were you when you heard?" Turns out he's talking about the death of Princess Diana. I could…
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I had one cheer (from Ryan, in the comments) and one jeer (via email, from Robert, who has heard "A Whiter Shade of Pale" a few too many times) for my inclusion of Procol Harum in my desert island music picks. I hadn't listened to my favorite Procol album, A Salty Dog, for some years,…
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Such Beauty Can’t Disappear A week or two ago I linked to an entry on Rod Dreher’s blog where a Russian woman who signed herself simply as “Masha” had left some comments that struck me as beautiful, so much so that I’m going to reproduce them here in their entirety. I can’t ask her permission…
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Louis Philippe: An Unknown Spring It’s pretty rare for an artist to go from “never heard of him” to “indispensable” in my book, but it just happened with Louis Philippe. He’s been making music for twenty years or so, but for some reason, undoubtedly having to do with the fact that he works in an…
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By way of registering his complaint that I didn't include Chris Rea in my desert island list, Robert sends me a link to this staggeringly fine song on YouTube. Rea should indeed be a candidate for "essential"–his best work is about as good as it gets. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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My daily commute takes me across Mobile Bay. There are two routes, the long bridge which is part of I-10, and the causeway, a combination of raised roadway and bridges. I like the latter, which is much more scenic and leisurely. Most of it is only a few feet above water level. (Here is what…
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Well, this is something. I haven't read the whole article but anyone who read my Sixty-Forty post and the ensuing discussion of a few weeks ago can guess how much it interests me. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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Who's notable for his/her/their absence? If you solicited similar lists from people, especially critics, with a strong interest in the pop music of the past few decades, who would probably show up very frequently but is unrepresented here? It suddenly struck me that a majority of those polled would probably find him/her/them a big omission…
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Rupert Hine: Waving Not Drowning It’s been well over twenty years since my friend Robert sent me a tape of this album, which had gone out of print within a couple of years of its 1982 release. It’s still (or again?) out of print in this country, although you can get it as a thirty-dollar…
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Weekly posts will be a bit late this week–I was out of town all weekend and a few things had come up in my absence. In the meantime, this post by Dawn Eden rather struck home to me, and I particularly like the Chesterton line she quotes: The riddles of God are more satisfying than…
Light On Dark Water 