Psalms and Songs

Lost in the Cloud

http://youtu.be/cqBujJ9OVFU

The Unknown Pleasures of Lent.

Lent approaches, as always, silently and without fanfare. This year, I will shape my Lenten writings around the songs of Joy Division. Consider it a commentary for a kind of Lenten soundtrack. Mind you, this is not a Christianizing of Joy Division in any way. If anything, it is a drawing of Lenten observers further

Bring ‘Em All Back To Life

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbnHmFKxPgA Feist, Metals, "Graveyard." I would sing this song at Bushwick Abbey.

My Art of Interrupting Interrupting Art [The Creative Process]

At the risk of sounding snotty, on this wonderfully dreary Saturday afternoon, I was catching up on my Paris Reviews, by polishing off Issue 203, and listening to NYC's classical music station WQXR's online contemporary station, Q2, and discovered Nico Muhly's I Drink The Air Before Me: Music Under Pressure 3. " I Drink the Air Before

This is the Crisis I Knew Had to Come

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrtXsFvIw7g Joy Division, "Passover" live at Ajanta Club, Derby, UK, April 19, 1980.