12 Propositions…#10-12
January 14, 2010
I promise that I didn’t forget about the last three. But everybody started posting stuff and I didn’t want to overwhelm all you readers. So here are the final three Propositions, mostly more reflections on the Christian calendar, which I have been meditating on a lot lately.
#10) Advent and Pentecost are both perpetual seasons that in some form or another can and should frame or inform our celebrations and fasts for the other seasons.
#11) The Calendar is a living Catechism both on the text of the Gospels and on the Christian life
#12) Sufjan Stevens is the second greatest artist of the last decade and a paradigm shifter on how music will be made and performed in the future
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January 14, 2010 at 12:45
Sufjan’s new album (the classical one) is absolutely superb! Especially the first half. The guy is musical genius.
January 14, 2010 at 13:02
He really is (a musical genius). I just went to a show of his and he played a bunch of new songs; they are all like 10 minute abstract rock operas! The guy barely touched anything but his electric guitar. Radically different stuff than Michigan and Illinois, definitely different than The BQE. He’s a chameleon.
Plus he started his own record company, he takes bands under his wing…If a “Gift” can be given, it is Sufjan to the music industry.
January 14, 2010 at 18:13
If he is the second greatest artist of the last decade, who, then, is the first?
January 14, 2010 at 18:51
Thank you, finally. Dear God, I can sleep soundly now.
January 14, 2010 at 19:13
Jason,
For that you’ll have to see Proposition #7
Josh,
My pleasure
January 14, 2010 at 21:10
It seems that #10,11, & 12 are all aesthetic preferences. Why no YouTube links to this guy — I’ve never heard him.
January 14, 2010 at 21:25
Sabio,
On #10 and #11 I’m not so sure it’s aesthetic so much as it is a theoretical speculation on the nature of the Church Calendar. There is a certain amount of aesthetic involved in most discussions of liturgy, but I think that our aesthetics often say things about underlying theological positions.
And on #12, here are a few links to his stuff. Chicago,and John Wayne Gacy Jr. should be good enough to get you started
January 14, 2010 at 21:24
Two of my favorites:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69mLJw0g6MQ (music doesn’t start until around 2 minute mark)
January 14, 2010 at 21:27
Holy crap Reed, we independently picked the same two songs!
January 14, 2010 at 22:31
Tony: Radiohead–gotcha!
January 17, 2010 at 3:50
Thanx for the intro to Stevens — not my cup of tea but I appreciate the glimpse.