Devil's Halo
Me'Shell Ndegéocello: Devil's Halo
Love, love, love this woman's music--her vitality and creativity are always front and center, and the funk is never too far away--slow, melancholic mood pieces drive this offering, but she never disappoints.
What Will We Be (Limited Edition)
Devendra Banhart: What Will We Be (Limited Edition)
Often pigeon-holed, but never truly defined, Banhart offers up a new collection of songs that cover every conceivable genre from Chet Baker jazz stylings to a little bit of ska--truly a memorable and fine album to play out the end of the year.
Gains Nord- A Tribute To Serge Gainsbourg
Gainsnord-a Tribute to Serge Gainsbourg: Gains Nord- A Tribute To Serge Gainsbourg
Remixes of the magnificent monsieur Gainsbourg by a number of artists from Holland and Belgium--groovy songs made even groovier.
Ph.D., Jill Bolte Taylor: My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
If you haven't watched Jill Bolte Taylor's remarkable presentation at the TED conference, go directly to the web and check it out. This book fleshes out her deeply personal and insightful theories about the brain and what it takes to make the world a better place.
Thomas G. Guarino: Vattimo and Theology (Philosophy and Theology)
Guarino does a great job of unpacking Vattimo's challenging and provocative views about life and faith in the 21st century. The architect of pensere debole, 'weak thought' a concept designed to shake up the way you see God.
I think it was Miles Davis who said that musician's should play what is "not on the page," this is something of the spirit behind Lisa Rienermann's photographic work. She plays with the intersections of photography and typography using spaces between buildings to capture her ideas. There is, of course, a larger idea or concept at work here, that perhaps by looking at the gaps between things, ideas, theories etc. new ways of thinking and conceptualizing can occur.
"One of the paradoxes of social and cultural change is that it is the people who are most determined to preserve institutions as they are who put them most at risk. Nietzsche pointed out that the danger to stable institutions is growing stupidity, which haunts all stability like a shadow. It is the morally adventurous, the people who question and challenge the status quo who enable institutions to adapt to the future and maintain a developing life. It follows that the freedom to question is fundamental to moral and social evolution." Richard Holloway
