February 2012
20 posts
“Make no mistake: Yesterday Mitt Romney struggled to win in his home state and if...”
– From the campaign of Rick Santorum
*audrey assad*: Tony Lucido →
audreyassad:
Just wanted to take a few minutes to post some words about Tony Lucido, who played bass on my latest record. These words, though they are well-intentioned, cannot begin to sum up how much of a pleasure it is to work with this guy. He’s got talent coming out his ears, and he adds to that a passion…
“What Fluke is arguing, then, is that her fellow law students have a right to...”
– Georgetown co-ed: Please pay for us to have sex … We’re going broke buying birth control « Hot Air
“For me, the events of 9/11 were certainly a catalyst, the new ingredient that...”
– New Statesman - The God wars
“The Obama administration’s proposed defense budget calls for military families...”
– Trashing Tricare | Washington Free Beacon
“Remember this was all written by a white guy who worked on The Facts of Life....”
– Mark Lisanti live-blogs ‘Crash’ - Grantland
“I still run the show
Don’t you forget it
So I had to let some go...”
– David Bazan, Fewer Broken Pieces
“Nowadays, people just churn out these records, but they’re not really...”
– Santigold Talks Long-Awaited New Album | News | Pitchfork
“If the mandate were only about extending contraception coverage, exempting...”
– Kulturkampf as Public Health - Rich Lowry - National Review Online
“Curiously, before the hearing there was apparently no great concern by the House...”
– Where the Women Were During the House Contraception Mandate Hearing | Christianity Today | A Magazine of Evangelical Conviction
“As a woman, I was embarrassed by the cry of “Where are the women?”...”
– Where the Women Were During the House Contraception Mandate Hearing | Christianity Today | A Magazine of Evangelical Conviction
“So something is missing. At a time when we need most the voices of Catholic...”
– Something missing?: Catholic World Report
Music Lessons (that work for publishing, too) -... →
As a result, the music business built huge systems. They created top-heavy organizations, dedicated superstores, a loss-leader touring industry, extraordinarily high profit margins, MTV and more. It was a well-greased system, but the key question: why did it deserve to last forever?
Bishop Lori and the Parable of the Kosher Deli «... →
“Meanwhile, there is no imposition at all on the freedom of those who want to eat pork. That is, they are subject to no government interference at all in their choice to eat pork, and pork is ubiquitous and cheap, available at the overwhelming majority of restaurants and grocers. Indeed, some pork producers and retailers, and even the government itself, are so eager to promote the eating of...
“A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and...”
– L.P. Jack from his Education Through Recreation, published in 1932.
Liz sent this quote to me this morning. I won’t pretend to be a “master in the art of living” (still too clumsy at life, still finding my legs), but work looks ever more like play and play more like work. The similarities create...
“If much in the world were mystery the limits of that world were not, for it was...”
– Cormac McCarthy (from Blood Meridian)
“It’s a safe bet that the wealthy median American consumer of the 2020s, 2030s,...”
– Why We Shouldn’t Worry About The (Alleged) Decline Of The Music Industry - Forbes
January 2012
18 posts
Ah! Happy they whose hearts can break And peace of pardon win! How else may man make straight his plan And cleanse his soul from Sin? How else but through a broken heart May Lord Christ enter in? -Oscar Wilde
http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/arts/al0010.html
Album Commentary: First Aid Kit - The Lion's Roar
On The Lion’s Roar First Aid Kit offers but band-aids for mortal wounds. The album is a walk through a sullen, emotional forest. Thick like a fog, themes of inadequacy, regret, division (both personal and interpersonal), and disorientation hug the listener warmly throughout. And the remedy presented is an unrelenting optimism without reason that seems the natural survival instinct of they...
Album Commentary: David Crowder Band - Give Us...
This album sounds like:
The post-modern rock and rolling grandson of a protestant Flannery O’Connor character travels to Rome and falls madly, wildly, unfetteringly in love with the Roman Catholic Mass. He is enamored by the liturgy, the incense, the tall ceilinged Cathedrals, the history, and the embrace of the scientific method; is awakened to Natural Law, the Eucharistic feast, and...
heartcry asked: what do you think about the artist propaganda? He was around before bethke...I personally enjoyed Propaganda's G.O.S.P.E.L video more than both bethke videos I've seen. It has more musicality, flow, grounded-ness, and conviction to me.
The Anima Christi
Soul of Christ, sanctify me Body of Christ, save me Blood of Christ, inebriate me Water from Christ’s side, wash me Passion of Christ, strengthen me O good Jesus, hear me Within Thy wounds hide me Suffer me not to be separated from Thee From the malicious enemy defend me In the hour of my death call me And bid me come unto Thee That I may praise Thee with Thy saints and with Thy...
apoplecticskeptic asked: so pleased to hear a believer state out loud that Bethke is absolutely pedestrian... milquetoast, even. it's the equivalent to the state of CCM in the 80s, aping a portion of pop culture and doing a decent enough job of it, but it reeks of "me too! me too!" and lacks that genuine ART thing, passion, originality, danger.
I saw a new Bethke spoken word video yesterday. This post is not about agreement or disagreement.* What I have to say is that I realized, while watching it, that he falls right into the sweet spot of Pop. He sits squarely on a mat made of interweaving artistic skill and pedestrian abilities. Whoever is producing the videos has yet to be rivaled, but only because no professional has bothered. Yet,...
“The album w h o k i l l by tUnE-yArDs was just named record of the year by...”
– Chuck Klosterman on tUnE-yArDs - Grantland
Best footnote I’ve read in a while.
“The road is dark
and it’s a thin thin line
But I want you to know...”
– Bruce Springsteen - Tougher Than The Rest
Last Word: Odetta - Video Library - The New York... →
Introspective interview with a humble, beautiful and influential soul, the one and only, irreplaceable Odetta.
“…there’s nothing wrong w/ acknowledging God’s works (of creation,...”
– Scott Hahn
Obama Makes It Official: Suspected Terrorists Can... →
Hey, America. New Year, New Rules.
Pretty much, if you voted for a federal politician in office- president, representative, whatever- you should give yourself a punch in the mouth.
December 2011
27 posts
WatchLesson learned? Face peaceful opposition with violence and ignore international oversight and pressure and you cause civil war.
http://cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/world/2011/12/29/pkg-syria-homs-army-defect.cnn.html (via Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com)
The Hideous Marketing of 'Modern Warfare 3' - D.B.... →
Obama Wants to Raise the Debt Ceiling Again →
$1.2 flipping trillion
something wintertime: The only thing worse than... →
dintheverb:
I HATE this phrase. I hate reading posts that contain this phrase. There are always myriad things worse, things we haven’t considered, things we have no experience with, no frame of reference, not enough honesty in us to admit, blah, blah, blah.
The only thing worse than “the only thing worse…
“As a general rule, what a leader does matters, not what he or she would do if...”
– President Obama and the Spread of Security Theater - Conor Friedersdorf - Politics - The Atlantic
“Each tree, Jesus says, is known by its own fruit” (Luke 6:44). This is true of...”
– Padre Raniero Cantalamessa — www.cantalamessa.org — Readability
“Please, you guys have to put these on; people will want to kill you less.”
– http://www.grantland.com/blog/the-triangle/post/_/id/10753/nba-lockout-an-ode-to-sweaters
Wesley Morris on LeBron, Dwyane, Amar'e, and the... →
An interesting look at Basketball Nerd style and black culture.
Includes this great aside:
“All the interesting comic tension of the show was in how long it would take until Will got Carlton to do something black. How long until he, say, wore a track suit or stopped dancing like Belinda Carlisle and started doing the running man. This, of course, is also what people spent Sammy Davis...
Nerd Girlfriend! →
I saw this and shouted “NERD GIRLFRIEND!!” at my wife.