Before I bought At Mount Zoomer, I read reviews about how they recorded it at the church owned by the Arcade Fire. My heart caught in my throat. The Arcade Fire treatment, I thought, was the last thing my lovely Wolf Parade ever needed, because Wolf Parade is all rough edges and the Arcade Fire [...]
Archive for July, 2008
Wolf Parade: At Mount Zoomer
Posted in Music, tagged concerts, Five Stars, four stars, hipster music, indie rock, the Arcade Fire, Wolf Parade on July 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
St. Apollonia
Posted in Obscure Saint Blogging, Religion, tagged Egyptian saints, maidens, martyrs, persecution, Roman Empire, saints, virgins on July 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Way before a dude named Prince was making Purple Rain, there was a martyr in Alexandria, Egypt, named Apollonia. Nothing, apparently, is known of her life, besides the fact that she was a Christian virgin who lived in Alexandria. Some sources say she was an older lady, but other sources say that’s a mistranslation, and [...]
St. Nicholas of Japan
Posted in Obscure Saint Blogging, Religion, tagged Eastern Orthodoxy, bishops, Russian Orthodoxy, Japan, Czar Nicholas II, Russo-Japanese War, Otsu Incident on July 20, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Sometimes I purposefully pick a saint that doesn’t seem to have too much weird stuff going on in the hopes that I can post on him or her in a quick, timely fashion. I’m never right. There’s always too much interesting historical stuff in the way. St. Nicholas of Japan was, in fact, a Russian. [...]
Eat this, James Cagney
Posted in Miscellany, Movies, tagged action, adventure, danger, los angeles, public transit, romance, things I should probably be ashamed to love on July 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Did you know there were book trailers? I’m a reading beast and I didn’t. Of course, maybe that’s the problem, since I guess trailers tend to be on television. I’ve learned about them recently thanks to the LA Public Transit system. The newer buses have TV screens in them, and most of the time it’s [...]
St. Hiatus
Posted in Obscure Saint Blogging, tagged hold your horses on July 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Hello fervent readers of Friday Obscure Saint blogging! Just popping in to say that there won’t be an obscure saint (or, probably, much else) for this week or next week. Henry & I are moving house–literally–and packing all your things and then unpacking them somewhere else is kind of a time suck. Hopefully we’ll be [...]
