Contrary to appearances, I haven't dropped off the face of the earth, though some exotic bronchial infection has been having a house party in my chest this last week, kicking my life into survival mode and leaving me with little left to give when it came time to blog. Meanwhile, the page has turned on October and it's time to pick a new "Disc of the Month." (See the sidebar.)
Lately U2's No Line on the Horizon's been getting a lot of airtime on the drive to and from work. Now, it hasn't been nearly as earth-shattering an aural experience as Achtung Baby (the best rock album of the 90s?), but I've really enjoyed this latest U2 effort. Lots of memorable moments: the weird cello on "Breathe," Bono's falsetto lunge on "Crazy Tonight," the rumbling rhythms of "Being Born." Even "Get on Your Boots," though it kinda confused me when I heard it as a single, somehow, in context with the rest of the album, makes perfect sense.
Anyways, still convalescing a bit, I don't have much to say, except to share some of my favorite lines from this Month's CD of the Month:
1. I gotta stand up for faith, hope, love/ but while I'm getting over certainty / stop helping God across the road like a little old lady
2. I found grace inside the sound, / I found grace, it's all I've found
3. I was speeding on a subway/ Through the stations of the cross
4. Every day I die again and again and reborn / Every day I need to find the courage / to walk out into the streets
5. It's not a hill it's a mountain / as you start out the climb
6. The roar that lies on the other side of silence / The forest fire that is fear so deny it
7. Listen for me, I'll be shouting / Shouting to the darkness / squeeze out sparks of light
Me 2?
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Perhaps I shelved this CD too quickly. I'll have to listen to it again. Some good stuff there. A U2 CD that isn't Achtung or Joshua Tree can still be something.
I think quote number 7 is a variant on what it seems is a favourite theme/line of Bono's(borrowed from Bruce Cockburn's Lovers in a Dangerous Time): "You've got to kick at the darkness until it bleeds daylight." I can't actually remember right now what U2 song it first appears in, but he's quoting a voice "on the radio, late last night". Is it "Silver and Gold"?
Dude, I wish I had time right now to listen to all these sermons. Perhaps sometime. If I come back to them I'll start with this one though. It seems to address somethhing you and I have gone back and forth on often!! You'd have enjoyed our Barth seminar reading today. He talked about the already/not yet alot.
In one part where he was emphasizing the "already" and the "yet" of the "not yet" (as opposed to emphasizing the "not"), I couldn't resist writing in the margin: "Dale wins". (Not that you and I have a fight over this or anything, but in emphasis I think we often came at this from different angles (me railing against triumphalism and you reminding me of the primacy of the triumph) and in that sense I'm glad to have that verbal reparte!)
Sorry to everyone else in Dale's blogland, that won't really make sense.
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