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CHURCH GOING: August 2014
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August 26, 2014. Lost in the Dream. On more than one occasion I was asked what I've been listening to lately. In each case, it felt right to mention the new album from The War On Drugs, Lost in the Dream. The songs on Lost in the Dream. Labels: best of 2014. The war on drugs. August 5, 2014. Since reading Susan Sontag's On Photography. Several months ago, I've had some opportunity to engage with more fully with a few of its ideas. One of the fruits of this engagement is a comic I drew. An online magazine...
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CHURCH GOING: July 2014
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July 21, 2014. I'm taking part in a cross-country writing group called. Long Conversation . This month we were asked to describe a recent experience of exultant joy. Here's what I wrote. A recent experience of exultant joy? My joy in the 30 seconds it took to reach the base of Connor’s Hill came from a combination of the view, the warm, summer night air, and the vulnerability we all felt, speeding down a long hill, slightly under the influence. But most of all it was the way the air hit my skin...His fif...
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CHURCH GOING: June 2015
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June 30, 2015. Kendrick Lamar - "Alright". Kendrick Lamar continues his incredible streak with the new video for "Alright," one of many highlights from this year's To Pimp a Butterfly. Although I've listened to the album several dozen times, it continues to thrill and unsettle me. "Alright" appears about halfway through and features part of the heavy monologue that peppers TPAB. Check out this essay. By Michelle Huxtable, which remains the most thorough review I've read. June 25, 2015. There was always t...
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CHURCH GOING: January 2015
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January 23, 2015. Viet Cong - "Silhouettes". It's been a ridiculously good. Week for music releases. Stupidly good. Among the best is Viet Cong's eponymous full-length debut. Featuring two former members of the defunct Calgary band Women (whose Public Strain. Was my favourite album of 2010), Viet Cong's calling card is the brute force of its deadpan nihilism, which is near palpable in the video for "Silhouettes.". Labels: best of 2015. January 11, 2015. Ways of Seeing (1972). January 2, 2015.
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CHURCH GOING: July 2015
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July 16, 2015. Walter Benjamin's Theory of Distraction. Yesterday I was informed via. Twitter that it was Walter Benjamin's birthday. And as someone who's lately needed occasions (however arbitrary) for reading, I pulled one of his books off the shelf: the third volume in a set of anthologies I've up to this point mostly ignored. (I always figured Illuminations. Attempt to determine the effect of the work of art once its power of consecration has been eliminated. The educational value and the consumer va...
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CHURCH GOING: October 2014
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October 29, 2014. Jian Ghomeshi and the ways of judgment. It's not enough to simply stand by and wait for the facts to emerge. We need to make space for voices that are, under the current conditions, too afraid to speak. I'm struck by how fast the news of Ghomeshi's shameful activities has spread, how quickly we could take sides, and how quickly we all wanted to. Others who are doing the same. But how often do we think through what we're doing and how it might affect others? Not surprisingly, Ghomeshi's ...
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CHURCH GOING: Kendrick Lamar - "Alright"
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June 30, 2015. Kendrick Lamar - "Alright". Kendrick Lamar continues his incredible streak with the new video for "Alright," one of many highlights from this year's To Pimp a Butterfly. Although I've listened to the album several dozen times, it continues to thrill and unsettle me. "Alright" appears about halfway through and features part of the heavy monologue that peppers TPAB. Check out this essay. By Michelle Huxtable, which remains the most thorough review I've read. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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CHURCH GOING: Bento's Sketchbook
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June 25, 2015. For the Paris Review around the time of the book's publication in 2011, Berger describes Bento's Sketchbook. As a political book, in line with the interests and urgency that have defined his writing career. There was always this connection between art and all the other things that were happening in the world at the time, many of which were, in the wider sense of the word, political. For me, Bento’s Sketchbook. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). A serious house on serious earth it is,.
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CHURCH GOING: May 2015
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May 7, 2015. That Battle is Over". That Battle is Over. Is a song overflowing with sarcasm, a glib survey of contemporary post-feminism – a site of conflict now dominated by what Nina Power has described. As the "one dimensional woman," the feminine subject of late capitalism, where the hard won freedom of past feminist struggles culminates in the freedom to buy and the imperative to safeguard one's identity against precarious material conditions. Now Power's critique has a video to match. Are aware that...
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CHURCH GOING: December 2014
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December 28, 2014. Listing and listening in 2014. Over the last ten years, I’ve come to see my year-end ritual in a different light. (This critical pursuit was actually the occasion. There’s been a shift away from the kind of paternal criticism that used to dominate debates over artistic merit in the music industry. And yet lists persist, especially at this time of year. I wrote less about music throughout 2014 than I have in previous years, but I did manage to post a few brief notes on tracks by Ought.
