The Blues Boy
Narratives aren’t just for fiction and history buffs; they help define and
classify our friends, acquaintances and public figures. Overlay a known
character arc, and you’ve taken all the difficulty out
Music & Performing Arts
Sufjan Stevens’s <i> The Age of Adz</i> and the Irony Spectrum
Recently, the indie music world has been pulled taut between two very distinct
ends of its Irony-worldview spectrum. Irony – that all- encompassing value of
conscious discordance held by artists and audiences dwelling in
A Song Lit the Sky
The first time I heard Andrew Peterson [http://www.andrew-peterson.com/a] was on
a Carolina shore in late July. My friends and I sat in the sand watching the
traces of white
It’s A Wonderful Flight
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I wish I could enjoy flying the way my son does. His jaw-dropping, wide-eyed,
finger-pointing spirit is unfettered by the
Mystical Minimalism
…the tintinnabulation that so musically wells
From the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells—
From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.
—Poe
One perfect summer, when the sun stood clear