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Arcade Fire “Neon Bible?? Dir. Vincent Morisset Frontman Win Butler’s disembodied and zoned-out face greets visitors to a mysterious Web site that, before its recent opening, was rumored to have performed all kinds of functions. The band had been leaving cryptic messages online for die-hard fans, who are a big crew, these days. The band’s debut album, “Funeral,” slayed critics and listeners alike. Their latest disc, “Neon Bible,” was sub-par to some...
...Funeral,” the song created a new world. The world of “Neon Bible,” however, is clearly rooted in our own. While it’s unfair to directly compare the two albums, the very nature of “Neon Bible?? dictates that it can’t evoke the same sense of wonder that its predecessor did. The disc’s sound is still recognizably Arcade Fire-esque, though this time around, their familiar melancholy is even deeper. Perhaps it’s precisely because the band...
Religion: Reverend Gomes is one of the best professors I’ve had at Harvard, and any class with him is a good idea. Try Religion 42 “The Christian Bible?? this semester, or hold out for his famous Harvard history course in the spring...
...kept it a secret for fear of expulsion or ex-gay therapy. But at the end of his sophomore year, he read Richard B. Hays’ “The Moral Vision of the New Testament”—a text on ethics in the Bible??and began to rethink his life and his faith.“God exists and I exist, and I started from there,” he says. Despite the messages he received from more extreme factions of his faith, Nelson knew that he could reconcile his identity...
...Kanye West’s “Touch the Sky,” a five-minute music video that was deemed grand enough to warrant a 30-second trailer hyping its release. But is this really surprising coming from Kanye “I Should Be in the Bible?? West?The video itself is another “cinematic” music video, which, either despite or because of all their pretensions, tend to feel like the products of film school grads not quite good enough for Hollywood but not quite honest enough to admit it. This...