Category: video
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iron and wine’s “boy with a coin” video
Sam Beam of Iron and Wine has recently released the first video from his latest album, The Shepherd’s Dog. The video is for one of the many great songs from the album, Boy with a Coin. Enjoy. Related… Matt writes about this video over at rednoW.com.
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martin luther king jr, 40 years today
Ben, make sure you play Take My Hand, Precious Lord in the meeting tonight. Play it real pretty. These were Martin Luther King Jr’s last words, 40 years ago today. Moments earlier James Earl Ray shot King while he was standing outside of his room on the 2nd floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel in…
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bon iver, “flume”
Earlier this week I listened to one of the All Songs Considered concerts from South by Southwest. This one featured Bon Iver, the stage name for Justin Vernon. I have hardly listened to anything else this week. Vernon’s album, For Emma, Forever Ago, was recorded in a remote cabin in northern Wisconsin. Here is Flume,…
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links: keller, test, o.t. violence, reality of sex
This has been an emotionally tiring day. I’ll spare you the details, but I’m worn out. I just strolled around Lake Ellyn (always therapeutic) while watching the full moon slowly being covered up with clouds that are supposed to bring us snow sometime tonight and tomorrow. That walk combined with the following links are enough…
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race, church and politics in america
We who live in this corner of the western Chicagoland suburbs tend to be fairly affluent and fairly white. There are plenty of exceptions (as my wife, who works with the working poor, could point out), but by in large we exist within a privileged white culture. One of the implications of this reality is…
David W. Swanson 