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”
Author Archives: Joshua Gibbs
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”
The Writer’s Life
The question is not whether you can do it once. The question is not whether you can do it every now and again. The question is not whether you can do it when the Spirit leads you. The question is whether you can do it over and over again, every week, every month, every year,Continue reading “The Writer’s Life”
Lethargy Personified
One of my all-time favorite songs sounds more appropriate than ever.
There are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity. 