Strength and speed rightly draw admiring eyes. Whether stallion, sprinter, swimmer, striker, or wide receiver, the ripple of muscled thigh and the cheetah-esque capacity to finish are awe-inspiring. Such forceful, fluid athleticism commends itself. It needs little added praise.
Archive for December, 2008
unusual preferences: Psalm 147
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Psalms, textures on December 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
one for the textbooks: John Adams (motion picture soundtrack)
Posted in reseña, tagged film music, Hollywood Studio Symphony, music, reseña on December 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Rob Lane and Joseph Vitarelli have not only written a reflective and shimmering work of music. They have provided a textbook example of how to write film music itself. The thirty tracks of this HBO Series soundtrack strike notes that are alternately noble, daring, pensive, and troubled. All of it is stirring in the way [...]
¡ritmo!: Salsa (Ballroom Latin Dance)
Posted in reseña, when a white boy dances, tagged dance, music, reseña on December 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If salsa is not the most joyous of musical genres it is at least one of the happiest. This entry in the Ballroom Latin Dance series features splendid CD liner artistry and a solid lineup of high-energy salsa performed by little-known but expert musicians. The series comes at you without written comment as a simple [...]
fallen in a moment: Revelation 18
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Revelation, textures on December 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I am not a doomsayer. If this sounds both egocentric and unrequired, I risk making my statement in just this way because I am headed in the direction of one of those apocalyptic texts in Revelation of which the doomsayers drink deeply and then scatter their painfully precise predictions to the wind. As I write [...]
before and after: Sons of Korah, shelter
Posted in reseña, tagged music, reseña, Sons of Korah on December 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Every once in a while, trudging along in this vale of tears, one stumbles upon an artistic statement so fresh and compelling that one has to stop in a clearing, put a foot up on a log, and pause to wonder how he got this far without knowing about this. Sons of Korah and their [...]
the right kind of classical (actually, Baroque) greatest hits album: Bach, Greatest Hits (Sony Classical)
Posted in reseña, tagged J.S. Bach, music, reseña on December 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There are two things you should know before buying a greatest hits album by one of the legendary composers whose music we often call ‘classical’. First, the purists hate them. Their ire is understandable. Art music is so enriched by an understanding of its historical moment, its place in a composer’s career, the history of [...]
as bad as it is: Revelation 17
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Revelation, textures on December 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
For a reader like me who has lived without hunger and first-hand experience of judicial violence it is difficult to fathom the venom that the writer of the Apocalypse injects into his depictions of cosmic villains. Babylon the great mercantile capital, figured as a woman, is a case in point: So he carried me away [...]
H-180 3M 2″ Box Sealing Tape Dispenser
Posted in reseña, tagged gadgets, office products, reseña on December 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This little doobie is just the thing if you ship more than a handful of packages each week. The physics of it make it a simple matter to get a tight swath of tape around your package without wrinkled tape and disproportionate cursing. Trust me, you’ll quickly recoup the 25 clams you’ll invest via increased [...]
sovereign surgeon: Mo Leverett, The Sacrament of Life
Posted in reseña, tagged Mo Leverett, music, reseña on December 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Mo Leverett’s New Orleans jazz, a vehicle of the most streetworthy and reflective Christian faith, is just the thing. Sensuous, anchored, penetrating, persuasive, Leverett’s music celebrates life as a gift that is capable of thriving and enlightening journeys walked out in otherwise insufferable darkness. Leverett’s convincing voice is ragged in the very best sense yet [...]
a slight adjustment: Presto HeatDish plus Footlight
Posted in paterfamilias, reseña, tagged gadgets, office products, reseña on December 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My basement office—a.k.a. ‘the man cave’—is for me not unlike the Garden of Eden. Still, about 20 mornings per year it’s just a little too cold. I could attack this with the home heating equivalent of using a hammer to kill a mosquito, turning up the heat and arming every single corner of the place [...]
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