Cultural reflections

God’s Doing and Humans’ Being: Dave Matthews Band’s Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King November 21, 2011 at 1:14 pm, by Jonah Rank NOTE: This is a long blogpost; however, it is a review of a long album. This review ain’t thorough, but I hope it does…

Entering “Weird Al” Yankovic’s Alpocalypse With the Right Kavvanah June 15, 2011 at 10:58 pm, by Jonah Rank Yesterday, I heard two great pieces of news: 1)      My copy of “Weird Al” Yankovic’s new CD, Alpocalypse, has now been shipped! 2)      I can listen to a streaming…

Elton John & Leon Russell’s The Union: Partnership, Not Death January 12, 2011 at 11:08 pm, by Jonah Rank I was not in love with it the first time I listened, but The Union has grown on me. It’s both Elton John’s and Leon Russell’s first…