Teach me to care and not to care.
Jonathan Councell is one of the most interesting classical high school teachers alive. He doesn’t have a big online presence, which makes this class a rarity. I definitely plan on taking it. Learn more and sign up here.
So, they’re making a movie which is an adaptation of a Broadway musical which is an adaptation of a movie… all of which have the same title and the same plot?
“There’s a tendency among modern Christians to throw the expression “loving Jesus” around as though it’s a universal solution to every theological, political, philosophical, aesthetic, moral and cultural dispute between baptized human beings, and that anyone who says otherwise is being legalistic or petty. However, it’s quite common for appeals to the fact we both “love Jesus” to mean, “You should be open to doing things my way and if you’re not, you’re being tribal and exclusive.” We’re embarrassed to admit there are deep, real differences between Christians and so we pretend “loving Jesus” can cover over all those differences.”
-from my latest for CiRCE
Air Jordan 1 Chicago “Lost And Found” (Size 13)
Esteban Paris Neroli incense, or Legendes D’Orient incense
The Robie House (also here)
Charles Farris V: British Expedition candle
The Balmoral by TRVDN
A bottle of the Witch
Servis Cheetahs (size 13)
“It’s the thought that counts” is something people say when they get a lousy gift. Should they, though? The latest episode of Proverbial is out now.
Ambient music is born of a rather simple premise: switching the foreground with the background. Sonically, there are many “backgrounds” upon which our lives carry out, the most common of which is simply the collective sound of nature itself: wind, rain, the roar of the ocean, flowing water, thunder, the chatter of insects, birdsong, the rustle of leaves. While there is nothing sophisticated or evenly orderly to the sound of nature, most people nonetheless find it pleasant and even comforting. Andy Stott’s “Time Away” is a series of surging, overlapping drones which mirror the background sounds of nature, albeit with references to the pleasing background sounds of civilization, like the distant hum of traffic.
“Top Gun: Maverick is a gazillion dollar action movie, but most of the film takes place in a school. It’s an elite flight school for fighter pilots, sure, but a school nonetheless, and the relationship between the teacher and his students in the film is strikingly free of modern classroom cliches. For starters, the teacher in Top Gun: Maverick is an actual teacher. He’s wiser, more experienced, and more humane than his students. He’s also older and more stable than his students, which means he really doesn’t have anything to learn from his students. They have a good deal to learn from him. Against such a conventional premise, our modern hackles are raised.”
-from What Top Gun: Maverick Gets Right About Education, my latest for CiRCE
It is interesting that we describe things happening “in heaven” or “in hell,” and yet things happen “on earth.” Earth is not an enclosed place, which is to say it is open to both heaven and hell.
There are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity.