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Joe Henry, Sam Phillips, and The Long Play: LookingCloser.org's Video Blog #2

I'm still a beginner when it comes to iMovie. But I'm learning a little every time I work with it. This episode, in which I learn that ten minutes is too long for this sort of thing, covers some of my favorite recent music. And it

Looking Elsewhere

Browser: Still Walking. Unforgivable Blackness. Joe Henry. Inglourious Basterds.

Hi ho, Jeffrey the Recovering Storyteller here. It's my first real day off since completing Raven's Ladder. I plan to rest. Write reviews. And see movies. 500 Days of Summer and District 9, to be specific. My friend, painter Laura Lasworth, loved the first one, and

Looking Elsewhere

Post-"Raven's Ladder" Browser: Catching up. Dawn Treader! Catching up on summer movies. Joe Henry. More.

Having turned in Raven's Ladder, I'm excited, exhausted, and eager to enjoy what little bit of summer remains. I've spent these beautiful months laboring over a hot laptop to finish the third book in The Auralia Thread, and I hope to read some great

Gratitude for Joe Henry's "Blood from Stars"

On Songs & Albums

Gratitude for Joe Henry's "Blood from Stars"

Please put on your seatbelts and helmets: I'm reduced to blathering in the very superlatives that have been beaten senseless and slapped upon lesser albums, and I'm gonna throw them around. (Then, no doubt, I'll come crawling back to revise this, feeling rather embarrassed

On Songs & Albums

The next Joe Henry album

Thanks to Andy Whitman for passing along this press release for the new album from Joe Henry: Renaissance Man Eschews Decorum to Reveal More Vital, Raw and Dark 11th Album Joe Henry's new record Blood From Stars begins with a poignant and haunting piano prelude before launching into

Looking Elsewhere

The Browser, 5/8: O'Connor; Berryman; Joe Henry; Elvis Costello; Ron Burgundy; Image on Lumet's latest

Do you have the equipment? Flannery O'Connor blogged twice this week. That's always worth a look. And what great quotes. * The Badge of Shame This is why I read Jeff Berryman's blog. His anecdotes and observations interrupt my scattered, frivolous thoughts with sobering insights.

On Songs & Albums

"Civilians" Appear in Christianity Today

Look for my review of Joe Henry's Civilians. on page 83 of the March 2008 issue of Christianity Today. I promised I'd post one a long, long time ago, and now it's finally out, but in print. (It'll probably pop up online

On Songs & Albums

Here Come the "Civilians"

The album I've been waiting for all year comes out tomorrow. Here's Thom Jurek's review.