Music
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Via Image magazine on Facebook, here is an interesting piece at pop culture mag Paste: a discussion of Sufjan Stevens and the general situation of the Christian artist in an anti-Christian culture. In general it's not anything that anyone familiar with the thinking of writers like Walker Percy hasn't already heard, but it's interesting that it appears here.…
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Weekend Music I've been thinking I might stop doing this, as I'm so busy these days that I rarely even listen to music. But I happened to run across both these today, by totally unrelated paths, and the juxtaposition was so striking that I'm passing it along. The first was a post by godescalc at There…
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Weekend Music My buddy Robert sent me this a couple of weeks ago. It certainly sounds like it was released in 1968, which it was. Notice the sitar. A lovely and sad song. I don't recall ever hearing anything by David Blue back in those days, though the cover of this album looks familiar. It…
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Weekend Music I went looking for this Elmore James classic on YouTube a few days ago, and to my surprise found it performed very creditably by a young Finnish woman. Truly, American music has conquered the world. I have to admit, though, that I prefer the original. It just has a flavor that's a…
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Weekend Music I've been busy since Friday morning, and maybe it's too late to do my usual weekend music post, but I've been wanting to post this anyway, so I'll go ahead. Let me warn you: this is a real tear-jerker. Those lines Something as simple as girls and boys gets tossed all around and…
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Weekend Music Don't listen if you don't feel up to a tearjerker. There is no particular significance to my posting this; I just happen to have listened to the album (1000 Kisses) on my commute this week, and was again knocked over by the best songs on it, which is most of them, all but…
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I'm almost sorry. I already have more music than I can listen to. (What is Spotify?)
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Weekend Music (and Movie) I admit that I'm posting this music mainly because I wanted to say something about the movie, which I watched in three segments over the past week or so. It's almost three hours long, and I had trouble finding a single stretch of time to watch it. I tend to assume…
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Weekend Music I've mentioned the eMusic and Amazon free mp3s of which I've collected quite a few. This is one of those. A couple of days ago I was listening, on my way to work, to a fairly random collection of stuff having in common only that I had obtained it around the same time…
Light On Dark Water 