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Headphones
I would have fallen in love with music in any case, but headphones hastened the process. My aqua transistor radio, a nearly constant childhood companion, was fine as a basic transmitter of tinny, monaural sound. But it was woefully lacking in, shall we say, sonic nuance. And so, early in my high school years....
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Joining the Chinese Heavy Metal Band
I knew that there was rock music in China, and I was determined to get as involved in it as I could—which turned out to be not very much, since I have the Chinese vocabulary of a three-year-old child. It doesn’t help that Chinese people are, as a rule, very polite and complimentary to foreigners, so if you....
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The Calcination of Scout Niblett
Emma Louise “Scout” Niblett likes to play with preconceptions. Raised in Nottingham, England, she takes her nickname and inspiration from the southern American heroine of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. Frequently and lazily described as a folksinger, she’ll lull you with a sweetly demure....
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Surrender to the Void (Nine Songs from 2009)
I haven’t a clue about apophatic theology, and have still not read the tattered copy of the Cloud of Unknowing I picked up in a California bookshop three years ago, so I’m once again finding my ontological footing through pop music. A theme has been moving through my life this year, which, if I had to put a name to it, might be....
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Clapping With Broken Hands
I’ve probably been depressed all my life. How else does one explain the nine-year-old kid who sat on the playground bench and wrote after-the-nuclear-holocaust short stories? Nevertheless, it’s what I did. But depression doesn’t fit easily within the Christian template. “Consider it all joy,” the apostle Paul writes....
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Issue 64
Art by Gerhard Richter, Jeremy Begbie on Orthodoxy, Interview with Les Murray, Fiction by Scott Russell Sanders.
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