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Gang Gang Dance: God’s Money It’s appropriate that this review follows that of Hounds of Love, because parts of God’s Money sound like they might have been taken from Kate Bush’s audio sketchpad—quirky (there’s that word again) little ideas and snippets, vocal lines that sound like they could be the seeds of elaborate songs, sung…
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Eventually, Like Napoleon: My 9/11 Column When I heard the news of John Kennedy’s assassination I was sitting in tenth-grade biology class. When I heard the news of the 9/11 attacks I was on my way to work, crossing Mobile Bay on I-10. These are the only two major news stories of my life for…
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What will you think needs doing at the end? What needs doing now? Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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From Joseph Bottum at First Things. He praises Powers very highly but then seems to say that he is justly, or at least understandably, neglected. But Powers had narrowed his vision down to a point where it could not survive the passing of its moment…. He really was the finest American Catholic writer of the…
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Betjeman, Slowly Strolling Back All right, let’s concede that Eliot captured most definitively the anxiety and disorientation of the early 20th century for intellectuals and artists. Let’s grant further that the latter groups were more conscious than most people of dramatic changes in progress, and more interested in and capable of articulating that consciousness.…
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John Allen at the National Catholic Reporter has a fine, thorough summary of the ideas probably percolating in the seminar ("Schulerkreis") currently under way under the guidance of Benedict. I was particularly struck by this line from a 2004 Vatican document: But it is important to note that, according to the Catholic understanding of divine…
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Kate Bush: The Hounds of Love Some years ago (probably closer to twenty than fifteen) a co-worker lent me his copy of a Kate Bush best-of collection called The Whole Story. I liked most of it quite well and have had in mind ever since to hear more of her music, but it wasn’t a…
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Ok, my wife is two for two in picking movies just because they sound interesting that turn out to be very good. The one I mentioned a few days ago as being something about a dwarf living in a train station turned out to be a wonderful little movie called The Station Agent (link is…
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I figure most people who read this blog probably also read Open Book, but for those who don’t: Amy has a great post on these two saints today, including some typically rich words from the Pope.
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A Fit Instrument? Thus, in this age which boasts of its atomic power, it no longer makes sense to maintain that war is a fit instrument with which to repair the violation of justice. –John XXIII, Pacem in Terris (1963) At least as far back as Pacem in Terris, and as recently as certain remarks…
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