May 2012
4 posts
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song of the week twentynine
bag raiders -...
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song of the week twentyeight
iron & wine - my...
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the avengers
“There was an idea to bring together a group of remarkable people, so when we needed them, they could fight the battles that we never could…”
some quick thoughts on the avengers:
i’m not a comic book guy. i loved the batman and spider man cartoons growing up, but i’ve never read a comic book, and i don’t follow any of it religiously. i don’t...
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song of the week twentyseven
dry the river -...
April 2012
4 posts
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cleveland link of the week →
rembrandt exhibit at the cleveland museum of art. what more do you need to know??
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song of the week twentysix
polica (feat. mike...
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song of the week twentyfive
gotye (feat. kimbra)...
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cleveland link of the week →
CLEVELAND RESTAURANT WEEK 2012
cleveland restaurant week is upon us! check out the awesome deals and help support some of cleveland’s best independent restaurants.
March 2012
5 posts
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song of the week twentyfour
allen stone - unaware
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cleveland link of the week →
CLEVELAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
so excited for this year’s cleveland film fest! starts tonight with cleveland native john chuldenko’s nesting. tons of great independent and foreign films, and handful of cleveland ones as well!
film i’m most looking forward to: andrew bird: fever year
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50 films | #46
singin’ in the rain by gene kelly & stanley donen
“meet the greatest actor in the world! i’d rather kiss a tarantula!”
the most iconic moment from singin in the rain, is also its most poignant. i was afraid going in that the titular song sequence would be cliched and boring. i’ve seen spoofs of it, i’ve heard the song a hundred times, how much of an...
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fenech-soler -...
February 2012
2 posts
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song of the week twentytwo
the roots -...
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song of the week twentyone
delta spirit -...
January 2012
7 posts
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song of the week twenty
ghost ship - the...
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song of the week nineteen
rend collective...
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music twentyeleven | part three
the best album of 2011…
josh garrels | love & war & the sea between
what makes josh garrels so amazing, is that i’m really hard pressed to find any artist who sounds remotely like him. there’s elements of matisyahu, bon iver, iron & wine, van morrison, and he brings a unqiue voice to a christan music scene where unique voices are few and far between. i discovered...
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music twentyeleven | part two
part two of the three part breakdown of the best music of the year (albums 4-2)
gungor | ghosts upon the earth
gungor seemed to be the breakout christian artist of the year in 2011, but it seemed (at least to me) that most of the buzz came from 2010’s beautiful things album. if that’s the case that’s all well in good, but this year’s ghosts upon the earth may be even...
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song of the week eighteen
seryn - we will all be...
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50 films | #47
rushmore by wes anderson
“i saved latin. what did you ever do?”
the countdown of the 50 best films i have ever seen continues with wes anderson’s sophmore effort rushmore. put on your blazer and tie and join as many clubs as you can…
what makes rushmore so great is the way it twists all the conventions of the genres in which it plays. it’s a high school comedy,...
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music twentyeleven | part one
counting down the best music of 2011. (in very particular order) (albums 7-5)
the milk carton kids | prologue
i had the opportunity to check out the milk carton kids live twice this year. the first time i had never heard of them. they were the opening and backing band for joe purdy when he came to town. we were really excited to see joe purdy who’s one of my favorite artists, but we...
December 2011
3 posts
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song of the week seventeen (christmas month)
she...
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50films | #48
titicut follies by frederick wiseman
“i need help, i just don’t know where i can get it… well, you’ll get it here, i guess”
our trip through my fifty favorite films has us on the mental hospital for the criminally insane and the direct cinema masterpiece, titicut follies…
frederick wireman is probably the master of direct cinema. direct cinema is...
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song of the week sixteen (christmas month)
she...
November 2011
6 posts
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song of the week fifteen (christmas month)
my...
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song of the week fourteen
wolf gang - the king...
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50films | #49
children of men by alfonso cuaron
“as the sound of the playgrounds faded, the despair set in. very odd, what happens in a world without children’s voices”
we’re counting down my top 50 films i have ever seen. we land in the year 2027 with the sci-fi masterpiece children of men…
there are few films that actually shake your entire world as you leave the theater....
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song of the week thirteen
other lives - how could...
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50films | #50
reservoir dogs by quentin tarantino
“are you gonna bark all day, little doggy, or are you going to bite?”
i’m counting down my fifty favorite films i have ever seen. we start at number 50 with quentin tarantino’s directorial debut, reservoir dogs…
reservoir dogs was for me, the movie that made me love movies. i was in high school and had just watched desperado...
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song of the week twelve
james vincent mcmorrow -...
October 2011
10 posts
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song of the week eleven
bifrost arts (feat. leigh...
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films to keep an eye on...
documentaries galore!!!
elevate
basketball is one of my favorite sports, and this looks like an interesting peak inside what international recruiting (specifically from africa) is like, but hopefully even more-so an intimate look into the lives of these young men.
into the abyss
herzog is a master. this film looks disturbing in all too real ways. it keeps with herzog’s viewpoint on...
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cleveland link of the week →
best steakhouse in cleveland (or the cleveland area). we went there last night, and every single thing we ate was amazing. 150 yr old barn converted into an upscale restaurant. it might break your wallet, but well worth it.
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song of the week ten
passenger - night vision...
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“the world needs to see christians burning, not with self-righteous fury at the...”
– kevin deyoung
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song of the week nine
future islands - balance
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“we are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition...”
– c.s. lewis
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films to keep an eye on...
being elmo
this looks amazing. i am a muppet fan and to get this kind of history, behind the scenes look at arguably one of the most influential muppets ever makes me want to throw my hands in the air and scream. muppet style.
the muppets
just to keep the theme going, one of the movies i’m really looking forward to this fall. the muppets are back in a big way!
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song of the week eight
boy and bear - feeding...
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song of the week seven
groove armada - history
September 2011
11 posts
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films to keep an eye on...
wuthering heights
i really loved 2011’s jane erye, and while none of the filmmakers are a part of this adaptation, it’s source material comes from a similar place. the stark realism and grittiness of the trailers has me in, and then you add that it’s from the people who made fish tank and i’m all in.
bombay beach
wow. i know nothing about this film, but after...
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song of the week six
lisa hannigan - home
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moneyball
“how can you not be romantic about baseball?”
moneyball is not like any baseball, or any sports movie for that matter, that i’ve ever seen. it’s way more concerned with the goings on behind the scenes that what’s playing out on the field. the film focuses on how a team with the second lowest payroll in major league baseball, competes with the teams who have the...
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inspiration 9.22
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“aspire humbly to greatness”
– pastor mark driscoll
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films to keep an eye on
these are a few trailers that have recently caught my eye…
urbanized
made by the filmmaker behind the greatest film on a typeface you’ll ever see, helvetica. his focus in all his films is on how design impacts and inhabits our lives. his second film, objectified, was about the design behind ordinary everyday objects. his subject matter continues to get bigger and bigger, and...
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song of the week five
the milk carton kids -...
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cleveland link of the week →
this week’s cleveland link of the week is for the 2011 ingenuity festival! ingenuity fest is a 3 day festival that celebrates creation in art, design, engineering, food, music, and more. the best part is, it’s free. it runs this friday through sunday, and i will definitely be at some part of the weekend.
most of the festival takes place underneath the superior bridge that runs over...
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random videos i've made.
these are a couple of videos that i made that i didn’t want to throw on my portfolio site (johnheberle.tumblr.com), but wanted to share them because i think they’re great. or at least good for a laugh.
this was done as the opening for our freshmen retreat this year. theme was the epic story of the bible, and epic movies.
EPIC. from StudentCulture on Vimeo.
this was the opening...