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Another Week Ends: Death Row Forgiveness, Sheen on Addiction, Hemingway’s Paranoia, Risky Professions, Nick Lowe, Tami Taylor & Werner’s Where’s Waldo

by David Zahl on Jul 22, 2011 • No Comments

1. A supremely powerful story about the forgiveness of one’s enemies over on CNN. It concerns Mark Anthony Stroman, a white supremacist on death row in Texas for a slew of hate crimes, including murder, that he committed just after 9/11. One of the men that he shot during his spree, a Muslim named Rais Bhuiyan, is publicly pleading for Stroman’s life, going so far as to travel Paris to ask the European Parliament to file a formal request that Texas commute Stroman’s sentence to life in prison, ht JD:

Bhuiyan believes that his attacker does not deserve to die…

Art / Film / Music

Nick Lowe And Dave Edmunds Were Born Fighting

by David Zahl on Mar 23, 2011 • 4 Comments

Last week’s long-awaited reissue of Nick Lowe’s classic 1979 Labour of Lust record brought to light a previously unseen documentary about its recording, “Born Fighters.” At the time, Nick was a member of Rockpile, a group whose one album under their own name tells only a fraction of their story. In fact, the closest corollary one could find would probably be the Traveling Wilburys, in that their short-lived collaboration was incredibly fruitful, with the creative juice overflowing into a number of other successful ventures. Over the three year period from 1978 to 1980, Rockpile (Lowe, Dave Edumunds, Billy Bremner and…

Music / Religion / Theology

What’s So Funny About Nick Lowe? Cruel Kindness, Lying Men and Failed Christians

by David Zahl on Jan 12, 2011 • No Comments

In 2002, The A/V Club ran a column called “Is There a God?”where they asked a bunch of celebrities, presumably as part of their regular interviews, the God question point blank. While my favorite answer was probably from American Movie guru Mark Borchardt (Q: Is there a God? MB: Why ask me?), my second favorite (tied with Dave Chappelle and Steven Wright) was definitely from New Wave deity Nick Lowe.

The Onion: Is there a God?

Nick Lowe: [Long pause.] Yes.

It’s a wonderful answer, and very much in keeping with modesty that has always been present on his records, and I’m talking…

Music / Psychology / TV

Johnny Cash sings Nick Lowe

by David Zahl on Feb 1, 2008 • No Comments

A lot of people don’t know that Nick Lowe was married to Johnny Cash’s step-daughter, Carlene Carter. Here’s Johnny doing one of Nick’s songs, “The Beast In Me”, which I think was also featured in an episode of The Soprano’s. It’s pretty powerful: