It’s not the best idea to get to know a band by way of a greatest hits album. It’s the Cliff Notes approach to music, worthy only to the degree that it leads to deeper immersion. My son gave me this CD for Christmas. Prior to this, I knew the Goo Goo Dolls mostly via [...]
Archive for February, 2008
monochrome delirious: Goo Goo Dolls, Greatest Hits (the Singles)
Posted in reseña, tagged Goo Goo Dolls, music, reseña on February 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
advance guard, rear guard: Numbers 8-10
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Numbers, textures on February 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Threat and danger concentrate the mind exquisitely. They bring matters of life and death to the fore. Lesser arguments drop away. Israel’s constitutional narrative considers through the lens of threat and danger the fledgling nation’s trek out of servitude in Egypt, into the still lethal wasteland of wilderness, and then into a land of promise [...]
only sleeping: Mark 5
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Mark, textures on February 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The gospel writers occasionally seem to have lost the thread of communication theory. What end is served, for example, by quoting one of your story’s main figures in a language that your readers do not understand? Such an obfuscating move might be put down to the desire to impress, the practice of linguistic elitism. There, [...]
proximity’s integrity: Mark 5
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Mark, textures on February 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In a short career studded with the jaw-dropping actions we call miracles, Jesus’ most spectacular confrontation with the crowded spaces of the gospels’ spiritual geography goes under the title ‘the Gadarene demoniac’. This was the fellow who wandered among the tombs, the ineffective chains of citizens’ arrest hanging from his body, cutting himself and crying [...]
the wind and the sea: Mark 4
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Mark, textures on February 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In the gospel accounts of his life, Jesus’ authority over all things—an advised rather than careless description—becomes increasingly evident as his little cohort follows him around the land. The confidence that emerges in fits and starts runs a course that is at cross purposes with fear, its primary alternative.
alternative explanations: Mark 3
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Mark, textures on February 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It might have been the sheer numbers of people who followed Jesus into the region of the Sea of Galilee that spooked the custodians of religious stability. On the one hand, it is not easy to fault them. Religious madmen and the gullibility of the throngs had caused considerable harm to the Jewish people’s destiny, [...]
Aaron’s silence: Leviticus 10-11
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Leviticus, textures on February 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
When we might have expected paternal wrath or rebellious fury or grief’s loudest howling, Aaron gives us only silence. It is an enigmatic, even mysterious, stillness. In the wake of the summary execution by Yahweh of his sons Nadab and Abihu for the offense of offering unsolicited ‘strange fire’ on Yahweh’s altar, Aaron’s quiet is [...]
on my mind: Damien Rice, O
Posted in reseña, tagged Damien Rice, music, reseña on February 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This stunning Damien Rice offering is by turns imperfect, soulish, quirky, self-absorbed, and fantastic. Rice’s persuasive voice is complemented with uncommon tact by gorgeous female accompaniment. Though it never ceases to be a Damien Rice album, Lisa Hannigan and her friends are so good that they play a solid supporting role without which Rice would [...]
at least there’s you: Daughtry, Daughtry
Posted in reseña, tagged Daughtry, music, reseña on February 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Like the mythological Athena, Daughtry seems have sprung full grown and fully armed from the head of his father, call him Music. I mean, where is the warm-up here? Where is the amateurish posing, the awkward yearning to be profound? This eponymous debut album plays like a very strong sophomore effort, not the uneven first [...]
Mr. Brahms successfully downsizes: The Complete String Quartets, The Complete Clarinet Sonatas (Philips Duo)
Posted in reseña, tagged Johannes Brahms, music, reseña on February 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As an amateur music lover with only a spotty control of the repertoire, it always amazes me when it turns out that a composer whom I’ve come to know via the big works–his symphonies, for example–excels in the small stuff as well. The Quartetto Italiano does Brahms proud on this Philips Duo recording of his [...]
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