Anti-Statism, Relativism, Prosperity Gospel, etc.
Nov 20, 2009 Cedarville, links, music, philosophy, television
So I took a trip to Myanmar this week. I’ll blog about it later. In the meantime I have a bunch of tabs of stuff I’ve been meaning to share and I’ll have to just dump them w/o much comment because they’re slowing down Firefox. The Atlantic: “Did Christianity Cause the Crash?” by Hanna Rosin. [...]
Tags: Arcade Fire, Arrested Development, Christianity, homosexuality, Judd Apatow, postmodernism, Prosperity Gospel, Ray Lamontagne, recession, relativism, statism
Favorite Singles of 2008
Dec 30, 2008 music
Here are 20 of my favorite songs released in 2008. As usual, I’ve agonized over this list and have changed it numerous times. Like always, I only picked one song per album (otherwise artists like Bon Iver & Robert Forster would just completely dominate this list) and they’re only loosely ranked by preference. So for [...]
Tags: 2008, Avett Brothers, Band of Horses, Blitzen Trapper, Bon Iver, Coldplay, Fleet Foxes, Jonas Brothers, Langhorne Slim, M83, Mates of State, MGMT, MIA, mp3, music, My Morning Jacket, Pete Molinari, Port O'Brien, Ray Lamontagne, Robert Forster, She & Him, Spiritualized, Taylor Swift, The Hold Steady, TV on the Radio, Vampire Weekend
Jim James connection
This is all I’ve been doing for the last days before November hit us. I was trying to hit GoldStar (VIP club) and I did just 4 hours before the midnight deadline on the 31st. Now I’m on a bit poker’d out so I’m going to take it easy for a while and re-charge. I [...]
Tags: Band of Horses, Jim James, M. Ward, mp3, My Morning Jacket, poker, Ray Lamontagne
Sep 24, 2005 links, music, personal
Well I kind of wanted to see my main man Ray perform on Oct. 1st in Columbus, but it looks like I’ll be heading to Indy instead for good times and great oldies with mis hombres. It’s too bad because Ray would’ve been a great concert for a date. A date to get dressed up [...]
Tags: Brenton, Osama, Ray Lamontagne
Sep 9, 2005 Cedarville, music, personal
I went to one of Futrell’s classes today with Sarah. Makes me wish again that I was an English major. Dinner at Los Mariachis and of course now my belly is completely full and my clothes smell like Mexican butt. Yum. Everyone’s headed to the soccer game so I’m staying at my place til that’s [...]
Tags: Antony, Futrell, Ray Lamontagne, Sarah