By now you must know about the latest blog to go from 1 to 75 jagillion readers in just two months: Stuff White People Like. If you don’t know about it, you must not be white, because if you are white you spend 57% of your time each day making sure you are keeping up [...]

I’m blogging through the series of videos made to accompany the album Flying Club Cup by Beirut (aka Zach Condon and band). Song #5 is Cliquot.

 
I think this may be my favorite song on the album. There is both resignation and hope. We lose people we deeply love, but life continues.

A plague in the [...]

Here is the video from the fourth song on Flying Club Cup by Beirut (Zach Condon and band). The song is “La Banlieue”

 
La banlieue (literally “the outskirts”) is the French term for an area of low income housing around the edge of a city. It’s the hood.
The song is one of two instrumentals on the [...]

I’m currently blogging day by day through the set of videos for Zach Condon’s (aka Beirut) magical album The Flying Club Cup. Today’s song is “Guyamas Sonora.”

I think it was this song that made me start thinking about another side to Zach’s exploration of French chanson on this album. While much of the album is [...]

Here is the video for “Sunday Smile,” the second song off Beirut’s new album Flying Club Cup.

This one is set in the courtyard of a Brooklyn apartment building. The first thing I like in this live arrangement is the subbing of twin ukuleles for the oom-pah synthesizers on the album version, a simpler and appropriately [...]

Beirut (Creator/songwriter Zach Condon & band) is a marvelous fusion of indie/pop sensibilities with European folk traditions. Condon’s first album, 2006’s Gulag Orkestar, was heavily influence by Balkan and gypsy traditions. I’ve had a soft spot in my heart for Eastern European folk music even since I spent a summer in Hungary. Condon and [...]

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What keeps me fixated on the TV series LOST? I know a lot of people gave up on the show after the second season. (Although ratings did drop, it still wins its time slot for the most important demographic and is the most DVR-ed show on TV.) The daytime-drama love triangle fixation [...]

There was heavy traffic along the Sacred Journey on a couple of posts this week, so lets lighten things up a bit today, shall we?
The Official LOST Podcast this week confirmed the rumors about next year’s episode schedule: straight episodes every week from January to May, no fall mini-season like this past year.

It’s Van Til spinning madly in his grave.

…to express the awesome power of the Gospel in a fresh and stunning way?
Maybe so, if this post from Dilbert creator Scott Adams is admitted as evidence.
Scott Adams asks “What’s Missing?” in the Imus debacle.