David Dunham defends his tattoos
Great acting in Mickey Rourke’s tragic The Wrestler
Review of Dark Knight among posts at Christian Carnival #257
Find it at Ancient Hebrew Poetry (HT: Parableman)
Film Doubt ‘riveting’, ‘contains profound reflections on faith’
Bono think new U2 album could be their best ever
Rumors about the album discussed by Krish Kandiah
Get U218 Singles at Amazon for $3.99 (HT: Zach Nielsen)
Jeff Buckley and the Unexplainable
By Prodigal Jon
Have you ever bumped into the unexplainable? Something that didn’t line up with your expectations of how this life works? A moment that didn’t make sense but yet was still happening all the same?
Chris Cornell did. He’s from Soundgarden and Audioslave. Here is what he said in a recent issue of Rolling Stone about hearing Jeff Buckley sing:
“Hearing Jeff’s live at SIN-E EP was one of those moments that happens only a few times in your life as a music fan—it was something otherworldly … that’s not about technical ability, that’s something else.”
In that same issue, Billy Joel struggled to make sense of Ray Charles …
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Marley and Me ‘gentle, unpretentious’, ‘delightful’
Dallas Morning News reviewer picks Third Day’s Revelation as top CD of ‘08
See Mario Tarradell’s list, which included mostly secular artists
Valkyrie: too much focus on Cruise’s character, but a fair depiction
Jordan J. Bailor, Acton PowerBlog
Flyleaf: ‘All Around Me’
This won ‘Video of the Year’ and ‘Best Rock Video of the Year’ at the Gospel Music Channel’s Video Music Awards (HT: Joanne Brokaw):
Disney will NOT fund Narnia film, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Mark Moring, Christianity Today
Things that happened for the first time in 2008
A list by FellowElder at Pure Church
Christafari and Friends: Reggae Redemption Songs II
Review by Andree Farias at Christian Music Today dot com
