May 2013
2 posts
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song of the week fourtynine
flume - sleepless
April 2013
1 post
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music twentytwelve: part four
1. mars hill music
modern post - grace alone / sing team - oh! great is our god / kings kaleidoscope - asaph’s arrows / kin - kin / citizens - already not yet
the number one album of the year is a total and complete cheat. here’s my flimsy reasoning: they are all EPs from the same church; five different bands, but who cares…
mars hill music released a slew of EPs from various...
March 2013
1 post
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song of the week fourtyeight
young summer - fever...
February 2013
2 posts
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song of the week fourtyseven
shel - paint my life
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music twentytwelve: part three
4. julia stone - by the horns
julia stone has one of the most unique voices i’ve ever heard. she just crafts great folk songs. she does great covers. her albums feels like it was recorded in 1974, placed in a sealed time capsule before anyone had heard it, and not opened until 2012. it’s nostalgic without being cheesy. it’s soft without being overtly feminine. it’s...
January 2013
3 posts
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music twentytwelve: part two
7. mumford and sons - babel
this was probably the album i was most looking forward to all year. loved the mumfs first album, and was eagerly anticipating a repeat effort. and that’s more or less what this is. it feels almost like a collection of b-sides that didn’t quite make the cut the first time around. it’s their first album…just not as good. some of the songs...
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music twentytwelve: part one
10. dry the river - weights and measures
its just so different, its good. its like bon iver, will oldham, and arcade fire were thrown into a test tube, and out came dry the river. it’s a really interesting mix of folk/bombastic rock/falsetto harmonies that for some reason works fairly well. they’re like the killers if the killers were cool.
9. judah & the lion - first...
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song of the week fourtysix
alt-j - fitzpleasure
December 2012
1 post
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song of the week fourtyfive
marcus foster - i was...
November 2012
2 posts
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song of the week fortyfour
kin - all my tears
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song of the week fortythree
future unlimited -...
October 2012
3 posts
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song of the week fortytwo
hudson taylor -...
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films to keep an eye on...
what to look for in the coming months….
brooklyn castle
this doc has a lot of buzz coming out of sxsw and hotdocs, and after watching the trailer i can see why. it looks like an uplifting story of human triumph, the american dream, and chess! when i heard that they’ve won more national championships than any other school, it blew my mind. it’s such an interesting and...
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song of the week fortyone
beautiful eulogy (feat....
September 2012
5 posts
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song of the week forty
little people - start...
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song of the week thirtynine
empire of the sun -...
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“The law is for the self-righteous, to humble their pride. The gospel is for the...”
– Charles Spurgeon
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song of the week thirtyeight
the modern post -...
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song of the week thirtyseven
fossil collective...
August 2012
2 posts
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song of the week thirtysix
yeasayer - longevity
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song of the week thirtyfive
mystery skulls -...
July 2012
2 posts
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song of the week thirtyfour
josh garrels - rise...
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song of the week thirtythree
ivan & alyosha -...
June 2012
4 posts
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song of the week thirtytwo
lovelite - heart...
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song of the week thirtyone
julia stone -...
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films to keep an eye on
musical docs galore!
big easy express
how in the world did i not know about this? mumford and sons and old crow medicine show are two of my favorite bands, and while i haven’t really gotten into edward sharpe the fact is this looks amazing! three of the biggest folky bands out there today riding on a train and touring across america? count me in! it’s a complete rip-off of festival...
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song of the week thirty
yeasayer - henrietta
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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song of the week twentythree
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...
