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U2 Medium, Rare + Lillywhite!

UPDATE: Here's Steve Lillywhite talking about No Line on the Horizon at NPR. If you're a U2 fan, you're in for a treat. Fan club members will receive a two-disc set of rarities called U2:Medium, Rare and Remastered. Here's the track

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To Be and To Have (2002) and The Class (2008)

This two-part review of The Class and To Be and To Have was originally published at Christianity Today. * "Carpe Diem." Remember that? That's what Professor Keating (Robin Williams) told his class of troubled youngsters in Dead Poets Society. "Seize the days, boys. Make your lives

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Auralia geekery

Many thanks to the folks at Faith and Geekery, especially Aaron, for their kind words about Auralia's Colors. As a refreshingly different entry into a genre that has earned many of the popularly-held stereotypes about it, Auralia’s Colors is worth reading, and not only if you’re

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The Class (2009)

This two-part review of The Class and To Be and To Have was originally published at Christianity Today. "Carpe Diem." Remember that? That's what Professor Keating (Robin Williams) told his class of troubled youngsters in Dead Poets Society. "Seize the days, boys. Make your lives

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Today's Favorite: Breakthroughs in Big-Screen Visual Artistry

The Wizard of Oz enchanted audiences with a wonderland of color that made moviegoing more vivid and exuberantly engaging. When Star Wars opened in 1977, it represented a giant leap forward in the art of visual effects and sound effects. Tron gave us an aesthetic experience through computers that was

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Will One More FilmBlog Unleash the Apocalypse?

Every thirty seconds, a new film blog is born. And every day, one of those is about movies "from a Christian perspective." The more film blogs there are, the more I'm losing interest in participating in them or reading them. The more I discover and enjoy

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Browser: Melody. Cylons. Vampires. Favorite Albums. Migraines. Radiohead. David Bazan. U2.

Suzanne Vega answers the question, "What's a melody for?" And I rise to my feet to applaud. 2. The original Starbuck hates the new Battlestar Galactica, and has interesting reasons. But Jason Morehead is brave enough to stand up and fight him like a man. Or

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A Concert Stage With No Backdrop

U2's upcoming tour is going to be something concertgoers haven't seen before. Check it out here. Be sure to use the different "cameras" listed in the corner.

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"Watchmen": Five Reviews from Critics that Matter to Me (They Disagree)

Post your review, or a link to your favorite, below. Here are five from voices that matter to me: * Robert Davis * Steven D. Greydanus * Russ Breimeier * Andrew O'Hehir * Roger Ebert

U2

U2's Best Performance in 2009 So Far...

Okay, now that you've seen the best, here's a bonus. And now, check out Cathleen Falsani's wonderful meditation on the album. Okay, one more.

Jim Jarmusch

"Raven's Ladder": An Update

The new strand of The Auralia Thread will be called Raven's Ladder. I hope you like it. Tonight (all night) and tomorrow morning (all morning) I am packaging up my first draft for the editor. I have that familiar sensation of excitement and nerves and relief and apprehension.

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The U2 Late Show Continues...

"Every generation gets a chance to change the world Pity the nation that won't listen to your boys and girls Cos the sweetest melody is the one we haven't heard Is it true that perfect love drives out all fear? The right to appear ridiculous

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Doing our due Dillinger

The names Johnny Depp and Christian Bale are almost a guarantee of a quality motion picture. The name Michael Mann just about seals the deal. And this Untouchables-flavored trailer only throws fuel on the fire. But then, these two lines have grabbed my attention: "Robbin' banks is gettin&

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Farewell to Horton Foote, screenwriter of "Tender Mercies," "To Kill a Mockingbird"

I'm a little late relaying this news, but I learned on Twitter earlier today that Horton Foote has died. In screenplays for such movies as “Tender Mercies,” “To Kill a Mockingbird” and “The Trip to Bountiful,” and in plays like “The Young Man From Atlanta” and his nine-play

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Auralia Thread Update: New Title for the Gold Strand?

On Friday, I'll be turning in the (very rough) draft of the third book in The Auralia Thread. Then, my editor will plow through it and come up with many brilliant suggestions for sharpening the story for you. When she's finished, I'll go back

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The Death of Satire

Novelist A.G. Harmon on satire: Have satirists all gone to film and TV? There are some candidates. The Office is a remarkable sketch of the work-a-day world, but there’s no real edge to it. However brilliant Jerry Seinfeld was, his show can’t qualify either. Nobody was made

U2

U2's next album is "Songs of Ascent", coming soon.

I'm actually more excited about hearing this album, due to Bono's description (which, as most U2 fans know, usually isn't, um, precise): The new disc will be called "Songs of Ascent," and it will be more mellow than the current album, "

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Breathe, U2 Fans. It's Here.

And just for old time's sake... my favorite five minutes of U2's history, right here:

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Auralia in King County's Journal Newspapers This Month

Many, many thanks to writer Cathy Herholdt, an inspired writer who has given Auralia and Cyndere a generous amount of wordage in the March editions of the Journal newspapers, which are popping up all over the King County area as we speak. Tell your friends, and pick up a copy!

Cyndere's Midnight

Auralia in King County's Journal Newspapers This Month

Many, many thanks to writer Cathy Herholdt, an inspired writer who has given Auralia and Cyndere a generous amount of wordage in the March editions of the Journal newspapers, which are popping up all over the King County area as we speak. Tell your friends, and pick up a copy!

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What is "Munyurangabo"? And Why Do You Need to Know About It?

Of all the films I saw in 2008, two stood out above the rest. But neither of them are in my "Favorites of 2008" list. That's because they haven't been released yet. Since then, The Class has been released. It's showing now,

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Yancey Considers Obama, MLK, and How Christians Can Influence Change

Philip Yancey on Obama and the dream of Martin Luther King: In no way do I discount the important policy differences between Obama and the majority of evangelicals. But at the least, can we use this moment for reflection and, yes, repentance for our share in the sin of racism

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Browser: Never Let Them Spoil "Never Let Me Go"; Sam Phillips; Andy Warhol's Faith

Another of my favorite novels is coming to the big screen. Keira Knightley will star in Mark Romanek's adaptation of Never Let Me Go, an extraordinary science fiction novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, author or The Remains of the Day. But there's a problem here. The book

Today's Favorite

Today's Favorite: Dupery ("We're here to view the tapestries.")

What's your favorite scene of one character pulling the wool over another character's eyes in order to distract them so that he, she, or others can sneak past unnoticed? I love Fozzie Bear and Kermit the Frog posing as "The Pizza Twins" in The

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Andy Whitman on "No Line On the Horizon"

Here's Whitman's take on U2's No Line on the Horizon.