August 2014
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Sonic Youth (Thurston Moore and Lee Rinaldo) I'm cheating; this week's installment is actually two guitars. But I can't separate them–they don't alternate solos or anything like that, and they produce one sound that I doubt could be produced by either of them alone. Perhaps one of them is more responsible for the strangely appealing…
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Are they really as crazy as Dostoevsky makes them seem? Or is it just that Dostoevsky was somewhat crazy?
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I finally bought and read this a couple of weeks ago. I suspect most people who read this blog and would be interested have already read it, but in case that's not true, I'll say that anyone interested in Flannery O'Connor should read it, both for what it reveals about her and for what it…
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…that God better have a damn good reason for some of this stuff. Or at least I can't. That reminds me: a week or so ago Daniel mentioned Ananias and Sapphira in a comment, suggesting that Peter was way out of line in calling down capital punishment from God on them for what was, admittedly,…
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Phil Keaggy CCM (Contemporary Christian Music) is not the place you'd normally go to hear some shredding. That's part of the reason why Phil Keaggy's name is not widely known outside the circles of CCM and guitar aficionados and players. (He converted to evangelical Christianity as a rising rock musician with the band Glass Harp,…
Light On Dark Water 