Lena Dunham’s Inviolable Self by Alan Jacobs | Articles | First Things

I wait, with all the patience I can muster, for another Jane Austen. Lena Dunham’s Inviolable Self by Alan Jacobs | Articles | First Things

If art, even popular art—especially popular art—were simply a repository of an era’s wishes, to be matched beat for beat with its time’s psyche, it would not be art. It would be, well, a Comment, or an op-ed piece, with all the necessary fatuities of its kind. Adam Gopnik http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/four-kinds-of-opinion-pieces-i-will-not-read?mbid=social_twitter

Robert Crawford, “Thread”

wesleyhill: My faithHangs by a thread.It always has.No pointSpending longGoing over itWorrying,Will it snap?Will it go?Is it the wrongKind of faith?Better just to take itAnd sew.

…In a really basic way the words “God” and “Tree,” at different times in my life, became suddenly insufficient. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve come to see those things as two of my antecedents. I became desperate for a more meaningful encounter with both of them, which for me typically means new language. I wanted […]

[spotify id=”spotify%3Aalbum%3A3nT6KSqGMRP9JxPx60uRbm&view=coverart” width=”500″ height=”580″ /] At some point in the near future I’ll stop posting stuff about Ryan Culwell’s album “Flatlands”. But in the mean time, you should listen to it here. Listen like a 1000 times, so he’ll draw a royalty check. Or buy it here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/flatlands/id964081806 Rolling Stone says: …startling moments — the places […]

Ryan Culwell’s Flatlands

Ryan Culwell’s “Flatlands” turns five years old next week.

http://media.mtvnservices.com/embed/mgid:uma:video:cmt.com:1161226/cp~vid%3D1161226%26uri%3Dmgid%3Auma%3Avideo%3Acmt.com%3A1161226 Get More: “There is a highway shot of those awful wind turbines in the beginning of the video,” he says. “If you follow that road another 40 miles, you’ll end up at the Adobe Walls, where 28 hunters defeated 700 Indians in 1874. Billy Dixon shot a warrior off his horse from a mile away […]

mysteriesmanners: Above thy deep and dreamless sleep, the silent stars go by. The words had always touched him; every year they still brought back Christmas to him, for some reason, as nothing else could. Now they seemed to him as beautiful as any poetry he had ever known. He said them over to himself very…

zaforas: “A comprehensive overlook of the Nordic languages in their old world language families” by Minna Sundberg

Giving Medium a Shot: Seth Wieck

For non-dramatic creative work… https://static.medium.com/embed.js Seth Wieck Giving Medium a Shot: Seth Wieck