The Shore of Oblivion (1889)
Author Archives: Joshua Gibbs
20 Favorite Records Of All Time
20. Love Remains, How to Dress Well 19. Without You I’m Nothing, Placebo 18. Evening Star, Fripp & Eno 17. This is Hardcore, Pulp 16. Seventh Tree, Goldfrapp 15. The Celts, Enya 14. Lovely Thunder, Harold Budd 13. Carve Out the Face of My God, Infinite Body 12. The Boatman’s Call, Nick Cave & TheContinue reading “20 Favorite Records Of All Time”
20 Favorite Songs Of All Time
20. “Hope There’s Someone,” Antony & The Johnsons 19. “Always,” Erasure 18. “Here Comes the Flood,” Peter Gabriel 17. “Suicide Is Painless,” Bill Evans 16. “Life on Mars?” David Bowie 15. “Deer Stop,” Goldfrapp 14. “Heartbeats,” The Knife 13. “This,” Brian Eno 12. “Ambulance,” Blur 11. “Building A Mystery,” Sarah McLachlan 10. “Wish You WereContinue reading “20 Favorite Songs Of All Time”
Free Audio Version of “1983 (Church Calendar)”
I’ve recorded an audio version of my short story “1983 (Church Calendar),” which you can download here. “1983 (Church Calendar)” is taken from Blasphemers, my most recent book, which is available as an e-book on Amazon.
Interviewed:
Front Porch Republic interviewed me on the subject of classical education and you can read the interview here.
Now You Know This Is The End
“When he is stripped of the Christian tunic and the classical toga, there is nothing left of the European but a pale-skinned barbarian.”― Nicolás Gómez Dávila
That Time Of Year: Chromatics
The weather just turned perfect for Kill For Love.
Met Opera
I highly commend the free preview which the Met Opera is presently running. One free opera per day. This evening, my family watched a bit of Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites and it was spectacular.
Recommended
Charlie Chaplin’s Limelight (1952) was remarkable. “That’s all any of us are: amateurs. We don’t live long enough to be anything else.”
Catholicism & Orthodoxy
From the chapter in Laurus when Arseny visits a cathedral in Vienna: “It makes a twofold impression, Arseny reports to Ustina from St. Stephen’s Cathedral. On the one hand, there is the sense of something kindred because we have common roots. On the other hand, I do not feel at home here: after all, ourContinue reading “Catholicism & Orthodoxy”
There are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity. 