Pop Goes the Culture

A great chasm: Jesus, Mary Poppins and Kendrik Lamar on the rich and the poor

Read the New Testament closely enough, particularly the Gospel of Luke, and you can’t help but think, this Jesus guy sure is hard on the rich.

First thoughts on Paul Simon’s ‘Stranger to Stranger’

So much to take in from this new album. Easily one of his best. As great as Paul Simon has been, has he ever operated on this level? Familiar sound, brand new territory. It grabs the heart and mind like a complex novella.

The ideal husband

Father John Misty as love’s unreliable narrator

A house in Preston: Courtney Barnett and the ghost of Raymond Carver

A dad’s thoughts on ‘Boyhood’

There’s a scene in the movie “Boyhood” in which one of the adult characters says something meant to help…

When lyrics and music don’t cooperate

I heard Sublime’s “Summertime” in the coffee shop this morning, and it reminded me just how jaded the lyrics are compared to the jazzy sound the boys from Long Beach put out.