Archive for May, 2006

Built to Spill – You In Reverse

The first track, “Goin’ Against Your Mind” on Built To Spill’s newest release acts as a Coles Notes (editor’s note: apparently, this is Canadian for “Cliff’s Notes”) for the entire album. An eight minute introduction that, like a thesis, sets the pace for...
May 1st, 2006 | Music | Read More

Intolerable, Incurable Injustice

I reach out my hand to greet a young man, a visitor to our mainly white, midwestern church: he’s Ferren, a native of Jefferson Parish in hurricane-hit Louisiana. He told me, “You know, Brooks, deep down I think we’re all the same.” We all need the same thing. Somehow he could...
May 1st, 2006 | Social Justice | Read More
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