October 2007
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Elis: Griefshire I came across this album in my search for something in the symphonic/gothic metal genre as good as Tristania’s Illumination. I haven’t found it, but this one is rather striking. Griefshire could just as well be classified as progressive rock, and in fact I can imagine that if the heavy guitars were lightened…
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Or perhaps I should just say the women in Love in the Ruins. At any rate, I think the following passage is the key to understanding the way women are portrayed there: Women are mythical creatures. The have no more connection with the ordinary run of things than do centaurs. There are two errors that…
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It has been observed that artists live longer and drink less than writers. Perhaps they are rescued from the ghostliness of self by the things and the doing of their art. The painter and the sculptor are the Catholics of art, the writer is the Protestant. The former have the sacramentals, the concrete intermediaries between…
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I haven't done one of these posts for a long time. That number is bogus because I don't want to bother looking for the last one to see what the next number ought to be (but it has a secret gnostic significance). So anyway, behold: the hay sculptures of Greene County, Alabama. Hay and scrap…
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…is that it’s so dull and colorless. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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About. A day in the life of. Home. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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Complaining of the People (A Metapolitical Comment) Yeats tells how Maud Gonne (“my phoenix”) admonished him for regretting that he had spent much of his life working for the ungrateful Irish people: Thereon my phoenix answered in reproof, ‘The drunkards, pilferers of public funds, All the dishonest crowd I had driven away, When my luck…
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I didn’t plan it this way, but it’s appropriate that this album follows Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, because there’s a definite similarity in general technique and atmosphere: a stripped-down rock sound, a melancholy atmosphere, a very distinctive singer. The sound of Dear Sir can be very roughly described as somewhere between the rawer Neil…
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I've been meaning to post a couple of these since the marvelous concert last weekend. Here she is with some guitar player, singing a song that leaves one with the question: would it be worth it to die young if somebody would sing about you like this afterward? (I've assumed that this song is at…
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I've been reading The Best Catholic Writing 2007, an excellent anthology from Loyola Press. I ordered it mainly as a gesture of support for Dawn Eden (see links at right), who has a piece in it, but it's proved to be an excellent collection overall. I've read something over half of it now and am…
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