December 2010
WatchBilly Bragg sings Joanna Newsom’s “On a Good Day”.
“Our nature does not change by will” - a rather Lutheran-sounding thought (and an effective dampener on new year’s resolutions…) from Joanna Newsom from the beautiful song “On a Good Day”, on her album “Have One On Me”.
The song seems to be about a relationship that the singer knows is ending, but she can’t bring herself to break it off...
With your shimmering dress, It says no, it says yes, It says I’ve nothing left for concealing. It’s your shiftless flesh and your old girl’s grace, It’s your young girl’s face that I’m breathing.
Scott Walker, “Duchess”.
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-12-19) →
Kanye West (19)
Janelle Monáe (18)
Eels (14)
Ralph Vaughan Williams (13)
Amy Macdonald (12)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“‘The body of Christ’ needs eyes that look progressively ahead, feet...”
– Tomas Halik, Patience With God, p.79
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Flash 10.2 on 64-bit Ubuntu: a quick HOWTO
So I downloaded the Flash 10.2 beta for Linux, but it’s only available for 32-bit. So if you’re running 64-bit, Adobe’s instructions for installation (“delete existing libflashplayer.so from the plugins folder and replace with the new version”) won’t work.
However, if you’ve previously installed Flash 10.1 using Ubuntu’s flashplugin-installer...
“It is wrong to hold creation and evolution as mutual exclusive alternatives. I...”
– Theodosius Dobzhansky, biologist and Russian Orthodox Christian. From the same article in which Dobzhansky made the famous assertion that:
“Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.”
Confessing Evangelical » Evolution and the weather
“I was a lazy arse. I got a 2:2 and I was /grateful/ for it. I only spent three...”
– David Mitchell on why he only got a 2:2 at university. Replace “history” with “maths” and that’s me, pretty much word for word.
David Mitchell under the spotlight | Media | The Observer
“Because if this is gonna be a Christian nation that doesn’t help the poor,...”
– Stephen Colbert (via cjhubbs)
“Tradition is the living faith of the dead; traditionalism is the dead faith of...”
– Jaroslav Pelikan (via jrandomhermeneut)
“I agree with atheists on many things, often on almost everything - except their...”
– Tomas Halik, Patience with God, p. ix. (via phantasmagorical)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-12-12) →
They Might Be Giants (135)
The Magnetic Fields (58)
The Beatles (20)
Neil Young (16)
The Smiths (14)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
We are only at the beginning of the end for the Coalition. There will be other horrible measures to vote on, and each time the fractiousness and rancour will increase. Mr Clegg will have to keep on betraying his “principles”, as managerialists do. And then one morning – Friday, May 6, 2011, to be precise – the Lib Dems will wake up to find they have been obliterated in English local...
My perfect 10.0s
So Kanye West’s latest album got 10.0 out of 10.0 at Pitchfork, for what it’s worth (in contrast to the art form of music as a whole, which could of course only muster 6.8).
This being the internet, someone has of course put together a page recording all the albums to get 10.0. Here are the ones which I have in my collection:
Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
The Fall –...
“Our Lord speaks and we listen. His Word bestows what it says. Faith that is born...”
– From Norman Nagel’s introduction to Lutheran Worship.
As quoted in my 2004 blog post: Confessing Evangelical » The God “who gives but does not take”
“C*** has sadly lost its resonant tang. My guess is that after ‘and’...”
– Rod Liddle, The Spectator, 11 December 2010. (Not yet available online.)