Archive for October, 2005

Sufjan Stevens – Come On, Feel the Illinoise!

[Disclaimer: This poor reviewer had to fight the inclination to water down his review in order to save it from sounding over-dramatic. In the long run, buy this album and you will surely sympathize with this reviewer's plight of putting such a work into words.] 30,000 feet in the air, I am forced to...
October 9th, 2005 | Music | Read More

Foer, Johnathan Safran – Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Right now, I’m listening to a song called “How It Ends” by a band called Devotchka. I know about this song because it is played on trailers for the upcoming film, Everything Is Illuminated, a film based off of the best book I’ve read in the last five years. The author of Everything...
October 4th, 2005 | Books | Read More