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November 2022

November 09, 2022

Disorderly Conductor: I watch “Tár”

Lydia Tár is a force of nature--or so she wants us to think. Tár, played...

May 2022

May 27, 2022

Against Wholesome Horror Films: I watch “Wes Craven’s New Nightmare”

I loved A Nightmare on Elm Street before I even saw it. In elementary school...

May 12, 2021

Between Mushroom Cloud and Monastery: I read “Generation X”

and discover more than I expected: ...Generation X is something stranger than a novel of...

March 2020

March 21, 2020

Cabin Fever: A bunch of short movie notes

Sea Fever: Basically an Irish version of Underwater--trapped people encounter an unexplained underwater phenomenon which...

August 2019

August 17, 2019

“I Want Everyone to Get High!”… And Other Contemporary Christian Anthems

Relatively short reviews of three new(ish) albums by indie musicians who are various stripes of...

June 2019

June 02, 2019

Raissa Maritain : Souffrance :: me : Sleaziness

Yesterday I finished Brenna Moore's Sacred Dread: Raïssa Maritain, the Allure of Suffering, and the...

November 2018

November 01, 2018

Death of an Edgelord: I review a new biopic of the founder of Norwegian death metal

demons are made of mouths: Lords of Chaos, a new biopic of the late founder...

October 2017

October 12, 2017

A Girl in Love

I recently watched Writer of O, the 2004 documentary about Pauline Reage/Dominique Aury/Anne Desclos, the...

October 12, 2017

Barth Behind Bars

So I finally read me some of that Karl Barth I've heard so much about....

July 2017

July 31, 2017

The Cross and the Cannibal: I read “Fires on the Plain”

Fires on the Plain, Shohei Ooka's 1951 novel of the Japanese defeat in the Philippines,...

March 2017

March 21, 2017

From Girlhood to Sublimity: Watching “The Fits” Again

It is the last dream of children: to be forever untouched. --Audre Lorde, Zami: A...

December 2016

December 24, 2016

“Unexpected Beauty in the Union Station Metro”: Prince of Petworth

posts: Tymara Walker posts on youtube (thanks to all for sending links): “This is the...

September 2016

September 03, 2016

“Divine Disco: The beatific sub-genre that delivered sermons on the dance floor”: The Guardian

grauniading: With its reputation for sex, drugs and unbridled hedonism, disco doesn’t have a reputation...

July 2016

July 15, 2016

“Ecstatic Dance”: I review “The Fits,” A Stunning Film

review at First Things: Anna Rose Holmer's extraordinary new film The Fits begins with a...

May 2016

May 26, 2016

Christina the Astonishing: From Laura Swan, “The Wisdom of the Beguines”

(of which more soon) Once, while visiting the Benedictine nuns at St. Catherine's near Sint-Truiden...

December 2015

December 20, 2015

“The Sinner Teodora” Takes Viewers Inside a Romanian Women’s Monastery

Last night I watched "Pacatoasa Teodora" (The Sinner Teodora), an elliptical documentary by director Anca...

November 2015

November 10, 2015

Pascale Monnin, An Artist of Haitian Resurrection

Over the weekend I discovered a new artist: the Swiss-Haitian painter and sculptor Pascale Monnin....

July 2015

July 13, 2015

From Lionel Johnson, “By the Statue of King Charles at Charing Cross”

Vanquished in life, his death By beauty made amends: The passing of his breath Won...

July 08, 2015

From David Foster Wallace, “All That”

This was the year, at five or six, that I learned the meaning of “reverence,”...

June 2015

June 12, 2015

Toller Cranston Skates for Mexico: A Fever Dream

One reason I loved the Mountain Goats' new album Beat the Champ so much is...

June 12, 2015

From Pierre Clitandre, “Cathedral of the August Heat: A Novel of Haiti”

Then the ragged crowd pressed forward, in spite of the threat of the guns. They...

April 2015

April 02, 2015

Gregorio Allegri, “Miserere”

The choir at St Matthew's sang this at Tenebrae last night. Amazing. And with that,...

March 2015

March 02, 2015

“Public Policy’s Absent Aesthetics”: I’m at AmCon

rantin': ...What leapt out to me was the absence of the aesthetic side of smoking...

October 2014

October 29, 2014

“Gay and Catholic” Book Extra: Bridal Mysticism for the Rest of Us

One of the biggest gaps in the book is its relative silence about prayer. There's...

October 22, 2014

“Sublime Recovery and Banal Recovery”: I’m in AmCon

sketching: This week I’m preparing to go to the 10th National Harm Reduction Conference (which...

October 15, 2014

“Ivan Bilibin’s Russian Wonder Tales”

One of my favorite picture books when I was a child--second only to Tomie de...

October 07, 2014

Dark, Dark My Light: “Martyrs”

Well, let's start spooky movie season with a series of horrifying bangs. All I knew...

October 02, 2014

“In Between Insomnia and Scandinavia”: Gorgeous Paintings Inspired by Norwegian Family Novels

via Matt Frost. TMN: You’ve said the novel trilogy Kristin Lavransdatter was an inspiration for...

September 2014

September 25, 2014

From David Foster Wallace, “Infinite Jest”

But so some E.T.A.s [=students at Enfied Tennis Academy]--not just Hal Incandenza by any means--are...

September 13, 2014

Captive Virgins: St Gregory of Nyssa vs. … Well… Vs. Me, I Guess

and let's see what that title does for my search requests. Wesley Hill truffled up...