Laura always gets it better than anyone else.

JV is on tour. Yesterday:

Today in Copenhagen I saw a group of Muslim kids taunting and kicking an old man in front of hundreds of people. I stood and cried, and in my anxious and depleted state I felt very clearly this was a sign of terrible things to come.

It is necessary to document things. That’s what his music says to me, for some reason, even though most of his songs read like crazy short stories; that lets you say, “ah, that’s where I was when I wrote that” or “ah, that’s where I was when I listened to that.” So that’s where we are.

There are MP3s on the site; they got me to buy the album, so take a minute to give them a listen.

Convocation, by Paisley Rekdal. Scroll to the bottom.

I missed Andrei! It was Sunday. Real Art Ways (no longer listed, sadly). They were doing a faith series and I think I had it confused with Cinestudio’s new French thing. Pas sur la bouche is not until February, which is, well, technically tomorrow.

I will have to go see The Squid and the Whale, then. My brother has been telling me to do so.

Am I still doing the commentary thing here? I don’t know. But I had this one saved for Andrei since about the last time I watched it: an article from the Journal of Religion and Film. Really! Not unlike the Journal of Religion and Popular Culture, it is great reading.