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Sunday Night Journal — December 21, 2008 I haven’t quite finished Whittaker Chambers’ Witness, but I’m ready to declare that it’s essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the 20th century and the spiritual battle being waged in the modern world generally—meaning, by “modern,” roughly “post-Enlightenment.” This will probably not be my only post…
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This is the third, and maybe last, of my investigations into classic punk. (The phrase itself is amusing, as the aging of a youth fad always is.) As I noted in the other two installments, on The Ramones and The Minutemen, I was not drawn to the whole punk vibe when it was new (I was…
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I really like this month’s cover picture, so much that I photographed the magazine so I could post it here (click for larger image). For more info about Magnificat, go here. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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To repeat what I said in response to Mary Ann’s question in the comments: I certainly didn’t mean to imply that Hollywood never hits the mark; I was generalizing pretty widely. I do think it happens more often that Hollywood does something good when it aims no higher than entertainment, and produces some kind of…
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Here is the flying bag scene from American Beauty (embedding disabled, so you have to click over to YouTube). It’s even better than I remembered. In fact it’s great. Too bad the rest of the movie doesn’t live up to it. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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Almost forgot: must link to Steeleye Span singing “Gaudete”. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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Sunday Night Journal — December 14, 2008 I said a few days ago that I would try to articulate the reasons why there aren’t very many Hollywood movies that I really care about. I don’t think I can construct an intellectually coherent argument based on the specifics of film-making, because I don’t know much about…
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I haven’t done much listening this week since Tuesday afternoon when I listened to Mahler’s 2nd. So, since I’ve been on the subject of Mahler, I’m going to cheat a little and pull a comment on his 1st from an old Sunday Night Journal. I was writing about a concert I’d attended and I had…
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Those who frequent Catholic sites on the web have no doubt seen the above headline a number of times already, but I want to add my voice to the chorus, with perhaps a slightly different twist. I haven’t actually read very much of Cardinal Dulles’s work, though from what I know he deserved the esteem…
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