December 2009
12 posts
"We Who Prayed and Wept"- Wendell Berry
We who prayed and wept for liberty from kings and the yoke of liberty accept the tyranny of things we do not need. In plenitude too free, we have become adept beneath the yoke of greed. Those who will not learn in plenty to keep their place must learn it by their need when they have had their way and the fields spurn their seed. We have failed Thy grace. Lord, I flinch and pray, send Thy...
“The boy sat tottering. The man watched him that he not topple into the flames....”
– Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Wendell Berry- "A Purification"
I confess my sins: that I have not been happy
enough considering my good luck;
have listened to too much noise;
have been inattentive to wonders;
have lusted after praise.
WatchRob Bell interviewing Shane Hipps about the premise of his book Flickering Pixels: How Technology Shapes Your Faith
“I believe the common character of the universe is not harmony, but chaos,...”
– Werner Herzog, director of Grizzly Man
“If you repeat music too often, if you rub the edges off music you really take...”
– Richard Thompson from In The Edges, a short documentary about the making of the soundtrack for the documentary Grizzly Man.
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my top albums of 2009
1. Dark Was The Night: With a near perfect collection of artists, this album is chilling and incredible, just like Sufjan’s “You Are The Blood” would suggest.
2. Merriweather Post Pavillion- Animal Collective: The creative synth explosions fused with infectious beats and cathartic lyrics makes this be at the top of everyone’s list for 2009.
3. The Man on the Moon- Kid...
“It was most confusing; the folk tradition demanded that I play what I heard and...”
– Ralph Ellison, Living With Music.
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