A new piece by Steven Hyden sets out to say I won’t love the new Killers record, but convinces me I will. I like the Imagine Dragons set-up of the Battle Born review, but by the time I got to the Grizzly Bear portion, I’d forgotten that half the piece was supposed to be about them.
Category: writing
The Good News is Supposed to Be Good
And Jesus said “the time has been fulfilled. The Kingdom of God is has come near. Repent, and believe the good news.”
“Master,” they said, “what is the good news? Tell us, so that we might believe it.”
And Jesus answered them: “the time has been fulfilled. The Kingdom of God has come near. Repent, and believe the good news.”
And Jesus ministered in Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God.
First Blurb for Praying Drunk by Kyle Minor
From 2012:
As I’ve said before, Kyle Minor is the hardest working man in fiction right now. If you aren’t following his career, you’re missing out on the chance to watch a great artist in the processing of becoming famous for his work. If you’re an emerging writer yourself, his successes are good markers for your own trajectory. More than that, he’s a hell of a writer and a generous, gracious guy. Be inspired by him.
It Could Have Gone This Way (Version 2)
It Could Have Gone This Way
And the rich young ruler asked Jesus, “Teacher, what must I do to be saved?” And Jesus said, “Sell all you have, give it to the poor, and come, follow me.” And the rich young ruler did as Jesus commanded, investing his wealth in subversive ways. He built up the broken, brought the poor to great feasts, honored the old and the sick and the gay in the synagogue and in public. And the Roman authorities arrested him as a political radical, a disturber of peace and he said unto them “You have said we disrupt the peace. But lo, we are making it.” And the Romans, ashamed at this disgrace, beat him and kept him in custody. His friends, the poor and the weary and weak, remembered the vision Jesus had given him. And they continued in that way, and all were built up, and lo, none were cast aside or turned away.
(Mark 10 re-imagined).
songs from a broken liturgy
We released this in 2012. I miss the live iterations of this project, which included visual art and movement. I miss working in the studio. I miss some of my best friends.
The intro track is available on Bandcamp, but the the rest of the disc is where the real art is.
Black Lab, “Time Ago.”
After graduation, I farmed CDs at Best Busy, the great beginning of the need to make sure everything would always be just so. I curated Aphex Twins and AC/DC according to their kind, sold DVD players for 400 dollars, caught kids stealing porn and shitty music. This came on every hour on the Summer of ’98 Best Buy Super Sampler, we played “Closing Time” to kick you out, Katie Holmes was Beatrice in songs sung by The Flys. How we sensed foreboding, how we savored loss. It was all we knew then, all we could. It’s most of what I miss.
Chris Cocca 