Jeffrey Overstreet

Jeffrey Overstreet is the author of a "memoir of dangerous moviegoing" called Through a Screen Darkly, and two fantasy novels - Auralia's Colors and Cyndere's Midnight. Jeffrey is a contributing editor for Seattle Pacific University's Response magazine, and he writes about art, faith, and culture for ChristianityToday.com and his own website, LookingCloser.org. He lives in Shoreline, Washington.

Ten Favorite Recordings from 2008
(Give or Take Fifteen)

Music & Performing Arts

Tags: B.B. King, Beach House, Beck, Bill Frisell, Bob Dylan, Bon Iver, BRian Eno, Calexico, Cat Power, Crosby Stills & Nash, David Byrne, DeVotchka, Drive-by Truckers, Elvis Costello, Emmylou Harris, Fleet Foxes, Jolie Holland, Lizz Wright, Loudon Wainwright III, Lucinda WIlliams, Marco Benevento, Mudcrutch, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Over the Rhine, Plants and Animals, Portishead, Ron Sexsmith, Ryan Adams and the Cardinals, Sam Phillips, She & Him, Sigur Ros, Sixpence None the Richer, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, Sufjan Stevens, Sun Kil Moon, T-Bone Burnett, Talking Heads, The Dodos, The Smiths, The Welcome Wagon, Top Ten 2008, U2, Vito and Monique Aiuto, Woven Hand

January 2, 2009

Let me humbly offer you a list of the music that caught my attention, held it, thrilled me, and ministered to my mind, heart, and soul in 2008.

“In the Parlance of Our Times”:
An Insufficient Appreciation of the Coen Brothers

Blog / Film & Television

Tags: Barton Fink, Burn After Reading, dark comedy, Ethan Coen, Fargo, Frances McDormand, Joel Coen, John Turturro, The Big Lebowski

September 25, 2008

In order to fully appreciate Burn After Reading, and how it carries on this Coen tradition, let’s consider three of their previous works.