Light On Dark Water

Amiina is the group of four young women who comprise the string section for Sigur Rós in their Heima concerts, and I think on some of their studio recordings as well. Having discovered from the credits of Heima that they are a musical unit in their own right, I went looking for more information and…

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I’ve been keeping these magazines since I first subscribed in 2000, because there are usually at least a couple of things in every issue that I’d like to re-read. But the time has come to face the fact that I’m very unlikely to look at them again, considering all the books I still haven’t read,…

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By Matthew Lickona, at Inside Catholic. He liked it better than Janet Cupo and I did (see the comments on that post). I don’t really disagree with his appraisal of the Catholic themes, I just didn’t find it that effective as a movie. There was a line I really liked at the end, but now…

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Clare sent me this piece about a suburban English witch (apologies for the bimbo photos in the sidebar—seems to be SOP for the Daily Mail). It strikes me as half amusing, half slightly alarming. Most self-styled witches and pagans these days seem intent on separating themselves from the traditional notion of the witch as someone…

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If not, try to take a look tonight. The Moon-Jupiter-Venus conjunction is beautiful. I browsed around the net and found some great photos. Here are two from Weather Underground—click on them for the full-size images. I was vaguely aware of having seen a news story or two about this, but wasn’t even thinking about it…

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Sunday Night Journal — November 30, 2008 This is something of a follow-up to last week’s journal, and to some of the discussion that followed it. The topic there was the broad one of defiance of God, and the discussion began with the question of when the rejection by a Catholic of some part of…

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Based on snippets heard here and there, I’ve wanted for some time to hear some genuine mariachi music. There’s a ton of it on eMusic—a search for “mariachi” turns up 153 artists and 117 albums, and that would catch only titles that actually included the word—but I had no way of knowing what was good.…

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Alabama 36, Auburn 0. I’m sorry, Auburn fans, I don’t like to gloat but this is sweet. I used to be willing to admit that Alabama fans are more obnoxious than Auburn fans, but that was before y’all started winning so much. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js

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