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December exploits …

Not sure why (although holidays and extended daylight may have something to do with it), but December seemed to be a month in which I knocked over a bucket-load of reading, listened to a tonne of music, and enjoyed more flicks than usual. Here’s my exploits:

Reading:

Listening:

Watching:

Brewing: Sumatra Mandaling

Drinking:

 

2010 in film

One never tires of seeing just how insanely clever some people are, and of seeing evidence of the incredible amount of time some people seem to have at their disposal. Gen I, of G-Whiz Productions, is one such dude. She has taken 270 of this year’s movies and remixed them into one video. Amazing.

One also never tires of seeing just how insane some people are, period. Consider this, for example:

November exploits …

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September exploits …

Reading: Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation by James K.A. Smith; A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society by Eugene H. Peterson; Home by Marilynne Robinson; Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self (The Terry Lectures Series) by Marilynne Robinson; On My Country and the World by Mikhail Gorbachev; The Theology of Food: Eating and the Eucharist by Angel F. Mendez Montoya; Theology of the Reformed Confessions by Karl Barth; Practicing Our Faith: A Way of Life for a Searching People edited by Dorothy C. Bass; Confessions of a Reformission Rev.: Hard Lessons from an Emerging Missional Church by Mark Driscoll (I confess that some skim reading was required here, but this is proof that I read widely!); The Challenge of Jesus’ Parables edited by Richard N. Longenecker; Counterpoint by R.S. Thomas; The Parables of Grace by Robert Farrar Capon; Between Two Worlds: Understanding And Managing Clergy Stress by Andrew R. Irvine; Theological Controversies in the Presbyterian Church of New South Wales, 1865–1915: The Rise of Liberal Evangelicalism by Peter Barnes.

Listening: Songs of Love & Hate by Leonard Cohen; Beneath Southland Skies by Mike Brosnan; Mass in G Minor by Vaughan Williams; In Buenos Aires Volume 1: 1973 Concert by Bill Evans Trio; Symphonies Nos. 7 ‘Sinfonia Antartica’ & 8 by Vaughan Williams; God Willin’ & The Creek Don’t Rise by Ray Lamontagne & The Pariah Dogs; Trouble and Gossip In The Grain by Ray LaMontagne; August & Everything After, Recovering the Satellites, This Desert Life, Across A Wire: Live In New York City, Films About Ghosts, Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings, New Amsterdam: Live at Heineken Music Hall and Hard Candy by Counting Crows; So Much More, Hope for the Hopeless and Brett Dennen by Brett Dennen; Supply And Demand and Last Days At the Lodge by Amos Lee; Stop All The World Now, Sound The Alarm, Australia by Howie Day; You Can Tell Georgia, Take My Blanket and Go, Stompin Grounds, Sessions From Motor Ave., Paris In The Morning, Only Four Seasons, Last Clock On The Wall, Julie Blue, Joe Purdy and Canyon Joe by Joe Purdy.

Watching: U2: Go Home – Live from Slane Castle; Abandoned; Law Abiding Citizen; Salt; Saw VI; Alice in Wonderland; The Matrix; When Did You Last See Your Father?; Pink Floyd: Pulse; Robin Hood; Love Happens.

Brewing: Sumatra Mandaling.

Drinking: Felton Road Pinot Noir Cornish Point 2009; Waipara Hills Pinot Noir 2008.

[Image: Elizabeth Kaeton]

August exploits …

From the reading chair: A People Betrayed: The Role of the West in Rwanda’s Genocide by Linda Melvern; Colossians and Philemon: An Introduction and Commentary by NT Wright; Critical Reflections Of Stanley Hauerwas’ Theology Of Disability: Disabling Society, Enabling Theology edited by John Swinton; The Disabled God: Toward a Liberatory Theology of Disability by Nancy L Eiesland; The Good and Beautiful God: Falling in Love With the God Jesus Knows by James Bryan Smith; Christian Identity (Studies in Reformed Theology) edited by Eddy Van Der Borght; Counterpoint by RS Thomas; Uncommon Gratitude: Alleluia for All That Is by Joan Chittister & Rowan Williams; The Promise of the Father: Jesus and God in the New Testament by Marianne Meye Thompson; How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry by Edward Hirsch; Teachers As Cultural Workers: Letters to Those Who Dare Teach by Paulo Freire; Theological Fragments: Essays in Unsystematic Theology by Duncan B. Forrester; Very Little … Almost Nothing: Death, Philosophy and Literature by Simon Critchley; Foundations of Dogmatics, Vol. 1 by Otto Weber; Reformational Theology: A New Paradigm for Doing Dogmatics by Gordon J. Spykman; Care of the Soul : A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life by Thomas Moore; Bread Baking: An Artisan’s Perspective by Daniel T. DiMuzio; Books of Amos and Hosea by Harry Mowvley; Resist!: Christian Dissent for the 21st Century edited by Michael G. Long.

Through the iPod: U2 Go Home – Live from Slane Castle by U2; London Calling: Live in Hyde Park by Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band; Foundling by David Gray; All Delighted People by Sufjan Stevens.

On the screen: Edge of Darkness; Where the Wild Things Are; Shelter; Shutter Island; The Infidel; The Wolfman; After Life; Into the Storm; Into the Wild.

July bests …

From the reading chair:

Hannah’s Child: A Theologian’s Memoir by Stanley Hauerwas; White on Black by Ruben Gallego; Les Murray: A Life in Progress by Peter F. Alexander; Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka; The South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the “Fram” 1910–1912 by Roald Amundsen; On Human Worth: A Christian Vindication of Equality by Duncan B. Forrester; God’s Being is in Becoming: The Trinitarian Being of God in the Theology of Karl Barth by Eberhard Jüngel; Prayers Plainly Spoken by Stanley Hauerwas.

Through the iPod:

Life in Slow Motion by David Gray; Sunshine on Leith by The Proclaimers; Telling Stories by Tracy Chapman; Masterpieces by Bob Dylan; Complete Recordings by Robert Johnson; In Person & On Stage by John Prine; The Age of Miracles by Mary-Chapin Carpenter; I and Love and You by The Avett Brothers; Mingus Ah Um by Charles Mingus; 11:11 by Rodrigo y Gabriela; Open Sesame by Freddie Hubbard; 100 Miles From Memphis by Sheryl Crow; Songs From The Heart by Celtic Woman; The Imagine Project by Herbie Hancock; Sweet and Wild by Jewel; Heart and Soul by Kenny G; Need You Now by Lady Antebellum; Revolution by Miranda Lambert; Journey to the One by Pharoah Sanders; Fearless by Taylor Swift; Monk’s Dream by Thelonious Monk; Backatown by Trombone Shorty; Sigh No More by Mumford & Sons; Go by Dexter Gordon; April Uprising by The John Butler Trio; Intriguer by Crowded House.

On the screen:

The Road [2009]. (BTW: The worst flick I saw this month was The Lovely Bones [2010])

Eating Out:

Catlins Café: The best lunch I’ve had out in many moons. Remember those burgers we used to eat in the seventies? I found them again here. Soooo good. The food in this wee Owaka café was brilliant, the coffee was very nice, and the new hosts – Aileen & Steve Clarke – are delightful … friendly, but not ‘in-ya-face’ kind of friendly. If you’re in the Catlins, you ought consider popping in for a feed. They also run some accommodation. And just in case you’re wondering, I’m not getting paid for this wee plug. And if you do visit the area, make sure you get along to Nugget Point, one of my favourite bits of coastline in the world.

 

June bests …

From the reading chair: Patterns of Reform: Continuity and Change in the Reformation Kirk by James D. Kirk; Humanism and Reform: The Church in Europe, England and Scotland, 1400–1643 edited by James Kirk; The True Face of the Kirk: An Examination of the Ethos and Traditions of the Church of Scotland by R. Stuart Louden; Theology of the Reformed Confessions and Knowledge of God and the Service of God According to the Teaching of the Reformation: Recalling the Scottish Confession of 1560 by Karl Barth; John Knox: An Introduction to His Life and Works by Richard G. Kyle and Dale W. Johnson (reviewed here); Called to Be Human: Letters to My Children on Living a Christian Life by Michael Jinkins; Theosis in the Theology of Thomas Torrance by Myk Habets (reviewed here); Hyperion and Selected Poems by Friedrich Holderlin.

Through the iPod: Beethoven, Britten: Violin Concertos, Bach: Inventions & Partita and Vivaldi: The Four Seasons by Janine Jansen.

On the screen: The Wire: The Complete Third Season; Invictus.

May bests …

From the reading chair: The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, Day by Elie Wiesel; A Simplicity of Faith: My Experience in Mourning and Free in Obedience by William Stringfellow; Christology: A Global Introduction by Veli-Matti Karkkainen; Emily Dickinson’s Approving God: Divine Design and the Problem of Suffering by Patrick J. Keane; Return to Rome: Confessions of an Evangelical Catholic by Francis J. Beckwith; The Plague by Albert Camus; Changing the Conversation: A Third Way for Congregations by Anthony B. Robinson (reviewed here); Theological Investigations, Volume 19 by Karl Rahner; Playing God: Poems About Medicine by Glenn Colquhoun; For Us Surrender Is Out of the Question: A Story from Burma’s Never-Ending War by Mac McClelland; Naming the Silences: God, Medicine, and the Problem of Suffering by Stanley Hauerwas.

Through the iPod: Bach Cantatas 57, 110, 151 by Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki; Sacrificium by Cecilia Bartoli; After the Morning and Hill of Thieves by Cara Dillon; Hindemith: Viola Sonatas, Vol. 1 by Lawrence Power Lawrence Power and Simon Crawford-Phillips; The Near Demise of The High Wire Dancer by Antje Duvekot; Nicola Porpora: Orlando by Olga Pitarch, Betsabee Hass Robert Expert.

On the screen: The Idiot (Hakuchi) [1951]; Winter in Wartime (Oorlogswinter) [2008]; We Can Be Heroes [2010]; Breaking the Silence: Burma’s Resistance [2009].

April bests …

From the reading chair: Atonement: The Person and Work of Christ by T.F. Torrance; Divine Empathy: A Theology of God by Edward Farley; The Knot of Vipers, by François Mauriac; Reformed Worship by Howard L. Rice & James C. Huffstutler; God’s Inescapable Nearness by Eduard Schweizer; Aussie Gems: Cindy Ella by Tom Champion & Glen Singleton; Aussie Gems: Redback on the Toilet Seat by Slim Newton & Craig Smith; Participating in God: A Pastoral Doctrine of the Trinity by Paul S. Fiddes; The Doors of the Sea: Where Was God in the Tsunami? by David Bentley Hart; Theology & Ministry in Context & Crisis: A South African Perspective by John W. de Gruchy; Good and Evil by Edward Farley; Common Life: Poems by Robert Cording.

Through the iPod: Women and Country by Jakob Dylan; Hold on to Me by The Black Sorrows; X&Y by Coldplay; Symphony No. 6; Into the Twilight; Summer Music by Sir Arnold Bax; Infamous Angel, My Life and The Way I Should by Iris DeMent; Paganini: Violin Concertos with Salvatore Accardo; Nothing Like the Sun and The Dream of the Blue Turtles by Sting; Leave Your Sleep by Natalie Merchant; Standard Songs for Average People by John Prine & Mac Wiseman; Fair & Square by John Prine.

On the screen: Boy [2010]; Endgame [2009]; The White Ribbon [2009]; God on Trial [2008]. BTW: I also saw von Trier’s Antichrist, the most hideous and uninteresting film I’ve seen this year.

By the bottle: Wasp, by Invercargill Brewery.

March bests …

From the reading chair: Genesis: Interpretation Commentary by Walter Brueggemann (this really is an exceptional book); The Incarnation: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Incarnation of the Son of God edited by Stephen T. Davis, Daniel Kendall and Gerald O’Collins; God in the Wasteland: The Reality of Truth in a World of Fading Dreams by David F. Wells (this was a re-read for me and, for the most part, was almost as profitable as the first time ‘round way back in 1994); Love’s Endeavour, Love’s Expense: The Response of Being to the Love of God by William Hubert Vanstone; Lament for a Son by Nicholas Wolterstorff; Incarnation Anyway: Arguments for Supralapsarian Christology by Edwin Chr Van Driel (I’ll post a review of this one in due course).

Through the iPod: In Our Bedroom After the War by Stars; Scratch My Back by Peter Gabriel; Another Sky by Altan; Hobo by Charlie Winston; Melodii Tuvi: Throat Songs and Folk Tunes from Tuva by Various Artists; Black Noise by Pantha Du Prince; Knee Deep in the North Sea by Portico Quartet; Albertine by Brooke Fraser; American Central Dust by Son Volt; Grace by The Soweto Gospel Choir; San Patricio by The Chieftains & Ry Cooder; A Young Person’s Guide To Kyle Bobby Dunn by Kyle Bobby Dunn.

On the screen: The Wire: Second Season; Marx Brothers – The Cocoanuts/Animal Crackers/Monkey Business/Horse Feathers/Duck Soup; Hancock’s Half Hour [Volume 1]

By the bottle: Highland Park 15 Year Old

February bests …

From the reading chair: Concerning The True Care of Souls by Martin Bucer [the appearance of this volume – the first ever translation in English! – is a momentous landmark]; People of Bread: Rediscovering Ecclesiology by Wolfgang Vondey; Cross-Shattered Christ: Meditations on the Seven Last Words by Stanley Hauerwas; Words for Silence: A Year of Contemplative Meditations by Gregory Fruehwirth; On Religion: The Revelation of God As the Sublimation of Religion by Karl Barth; Thinking about Christ with Schleiermacher by Catherine L. Kelsey.

Through the iPod: Keepers, Workbench Songs, and Somedays The Song Writes You by Guy Clark; Going Somewhere by Colin Hay; Arrogance Ignorance and Greed by Show of Hands; Too Long in the Wasteland by James McMurtry; Cimarron Manifesto by Jimmy LaFavel; Live and No Deeper Blue by Townes Van Zandt; American VI: Aint No Grave by Johnny Cash. Did I mention Somedays The Song Writes You by Guy Clark? Absolutely brilliant!!!!

On the screen: Two Weeks [2007]; Dead Man Walking [1995].

Why the Oscars are a con

‘This year’s Oscar nominations are a parade of propaganda, stereotypes and downright dishonesty. The dominant theme is as old as Hollywood: America’s divine right to invade other societies, steal their history and occupy our memory. When will directors and writers behave like artists and not pimps for a world-view devoted to control and destruction?

I grew up on the movie myth of the Wild West, which was harmless enough unless you happened to be a Native American. The formula is unchanged. Self-regarding distortions present the nobility of the American colonial aggressor as a cover for massacre, from the Philippines to Iraq. I only fully understood the power of the con when I was sent to Vietnam as a war reporter. The Vietnamese were “gooks” and “Indians”, whose industrial murder was preordained in John Wayne movies and left to Hollywood to glamourise or redeem.

I use the word murder advisedly, because what Hollywood does brilliantly is suppress the truth about America’s assaults. These are not wars, but the export of a gun-addicted, homicidal “culture”. And when the notion of psychopaths as heroes wears thin, the bloodbath becomes an “American tragedy” with a soundtrack of pure angst …

My Oscar for the worst of this year’s nominees goes to Invictus, Clint Eastwood’s unctuous insult to the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. Based on a hagiography of Mandela by a British journalist, John Carlin, the film might have been a product of apartheid propaganda. In promoting the racist, thuggish rugby culture as a panacea of the “rainbow nation”, Eastwood gives barely a hint that many black South Africans were deeply embarrassed and hurt by Mandela’s embrace of the hated springbok symbol of their suffering. He airbrushes white violence – but not black violence, which is ever present as a threat. As for the Boer racists, they have hearts of gold, because they “didn’t really know”. The subliminal theme is all too familiar: colonialism deserves forgiveness and accommodation, never justice. At first I thought Invictus could not be taken seriously, but then I looked around the cinema at young people and others for whom the horrors of apartheid have no reference, and I understood the damage such a slick travesty does to our memory and its moral lessons. Imagine Eastwood making a happy-Sambo equivalent in America’s Deep South. He would not dare’. – John Pilger

Read the rest here.

January bests …

From the reading chair: Not Every Spirit: A Dogmatics of Christian Disbelief by Christopher Morse; Secular Christianity and God Who Acts by Robert J. Blaikie; The Calvin Handbook edited by Herman J. Selderhuis; Studies in Theology by James Denney; Institutes of the Christian Religion: 1541 French Edition by John Calvin, edited by Elsie McKee; Markings: Poems and Drawings, and Berlin Diary by Cilla McQueen; Practical Theology: An Introduction by Richard R. Osmer.

Through the iPod: The Astounding Eyes of Rita, Le Pas Du Chat Noir, Astrakan Cafe, ECM Touchstones: Conte de l’Incroyable Amour, Le Voyage de Sahar, Thimar, Barzakh, and Khomsa, all by Anouar Brahem; Available Light by Dave Dobbyn; Arvo Pärt: I am the True Vine by Paul Hillier; Britten Choral Works by Choir of King’s College Cambridge

On the screen: The Wire (Season 1); Mary and Max [2009].

By the bottle: Olssens Nipple Hill Pinot Noir 2008

95 Theses Rap

Yale is not only about Harold Attridge, Adela Yarbro Collins, Bruce Gordon, John Hare, Denys Turner, Miroslav Volf, and a host of other great scholars. It’s also home to Bulldog Productions, a student-run film company who are producing some really great stuff. Here a clever wee clip from 2007 on Luther’s 95 Theses:

If you havin’ Church problems then don’t blame God, son …
I got ninety-five theses but the Pope ain’t one.

VERSE 1

Listen up, all my people, it’s a story for the telling
’bout the sin and injustice and corruption I been smelling:
I met that homie Tetzel, then I started rebelling
Once I seen the fat Indulgences that he been selling.
Now the Cath’lics of the world straight up disgracin’ me
Just because I waved my finger at the papacy.
My people got riled up over this Reformation …
That’s when Leo threatened me with Excommunication.
I warned y’all that Rome best agree to the terms.
If not, then you can eat my Diet of Worms!
You think you done something spectacular?
I wrote the Bible in the vernacular!
A heretic! [What?] Someone throw me a bone.
You forgot salvation comes through faith alone.
I’m on a mission from God. You think I do this for fun?
I got ninety-five theses but the Pope ain’t one.
Save me!

CHORUS

Ninety-five theses but the Pope ain’t one.
If you havin’ Church problems then don’t blame God, son …
I got ninety-five theses but the Pope ain’t one.

VERSE 2

One Five One Seven… that’s when it first went down.
Then the real test was when it started spreading around.
Sixty days to recant what I said? Father, please!
You’ve had, what? Goin’ on fifteen centuries?
“Oh snap, he’s messin’ with the holy communion.”
But I ain’t never dissed your precious hypostatic union!
“One place at one time.” Well, thank you Zwingli.
Yeah, way to disregard that whole “I’m God” thingy!
Getting’ all up in my rosary … you little punk.
Your momma shoulda told you not to mess with no monk.
What you bumpin’ me for? Suddenly you sore.
Keep that up, you’ll have yourself another Peasant War.
You blame common folk for the smack they talkin’ …
You ain’t even taught them proper Christian doctrine.
With my hat, my Bible, and my sexy little nun,
I got ninety-five theses but the Pope ain’t one.
Save me!

CHORUS

VERSE 3

When I wrote the ninety-five, haters straight up assailed ’em.
Now they only care whether or not I nailed ’em or mailed ’em.
They got psychoanalytic. Now everyone’s a critic,
And getting on my case just because I’m anti-Semitic.
I’ve come back from obscurity to teach y’all a lesson,
Cuz someone here still ain’t read their Augsburg Confession.
I said Catholicism brings a life of excess,
And we all remember what went down with Philip of Hesse!
But you forgot about me and my demonstration?
Like you can just create your own denomination?
“We don’t like this part, so we’ll just add a little twist.”
Now we Anglican, Amish, and even Calvinist.
I gave you the power, you gone and abused it.
I gave you God’s truth, you just confused it.
Don’t you never underestimate the s*** that I done …
I got 95 theses but the Pope ain’t one.
Save me!

CHORUS

Shout out to Johann Gutenberg … I see you baby.

December bests …

From the reading chair:

Wrestling with God: The Story of My Life by Lloyd Geering; On Human Worth: A Christian Vindication of Equality by Duncan B. Forrester; Transformation of the Self in the Thought of Friedrich Schleiermacher by Jacqueline Mariña (reviewed here); Calvin’s Bible Commentary on the Psalms, Part I by John Calvin; Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years by Diarmaid MacCulloch; Home: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson.

Through the iPod:

Sweet Bells by Kate Rusby; Guillaume de Machaut: Motets, Morimur, Motetten and English and Italian Renaissance Madrigals by Hilliard Ensemble, Officium – Jan Gabarek & The Hilliard Ensemble by Cristobal de Morales; Battle Studies by John Mayer; Stay Strong by Blair Douglas.

On the screen:

Allie Eagle and Me; Eagle vs. Shark; Doubt; The Lion King.

By the bottle: Coriole Redstone Cabernet Sauvignon 2006.

November bests …

From the reading chair:

Reforming Theology: Explorations in the Theological Traditions of the United Reformed Church by David Peel; Dr. Dog by Babette Cole; Theology of Hope by Jürgen Moltmann; Open Secrets: A Spiritual Journey Through a Country Church by Richard Lischer; First As Tragedy, Then As Farce by Slavoj Žižek; Windows on the Cross by Tom Smail; The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton; The Pseudonyms of God by Robert McAfee Brown.

Through the iPod: Raising Sand by Alison Krauss and Robert Plant; American III: Solitary Man and American V: A Hundred Highways by Johnny Cash; Battle Studies by John Mayer; Play On by Carrie Underwood; The Charity of Night, Stealing Fire and Life Short Call Now by Bruce Cockburn; The Circle by Bon Jovi; Jennifer Hudson by Jennifer Hudson; Reality Killed the Video Star by Robbie Williams (this one took a while to grow on me); The North Star by Roddy Frame (HT: Bruce put me on to this). And as I begin to get into the Christmas thing, I’m listening to Christmas by Bruce Cockburn; Christmas in the Heart by Bob Dylan; My Christmas by Andrea Bocelli; Come to the Cradle by Michael Card; and Breath Of Heaven: A Christmas Collection by Vince Gill.

On the screen: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer [2006]

September bests …

BackspacerFrom the reading chair: Biography as Theology: How Life Stories Can Remake Today’s Theology by James Wm. McClendon; The Concentration Camp and Other Stories by Geoffrey C. Bingham; The End of Suffering: Finding Purpose in Pain by Scott Cairns [reviewed here]; Pastoral Theology in the Classical Tradition by Andrew Purves; Poems for Gardeners edited by Germaine Greer; No Rusty Swords: Letters, Lectures, and Notes from the Collected Works by Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

Through the iPod: Come Up Full and The Crossing by Meg Hutchinson; Backspacer by Pearl Jam; Beautiful World and The Road Between by Khristian Mizzi; My Holiday by Mindy Smith; Our Bright Future by Tracy Chapman; Death Magnetic by Metallica; Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98 – Carlos Kleiber/Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra by Johannes Brahms.

On the screen: Shooting Dogs [2007], reviewed here;  Wallace and Gromit: A Matter of Loaf or Death [2009]; Shaun the Sheep: Sheep on the Loose [2009]; Shaun the Sheep: Off the Baa! [2008]; Sometimes in April [2005].

By the bottle: Seppeltsfield Cellar No 9 Muscat Rutherford (tasting notes).

August bests …

Moltmann - A Broad PlaceFrom the reading chair: In the Beauty of the Lilies, by John Updike; A Broad Place, by Jürgen Moltmann; An Educated Clergy: Scottish Theological Education and Training in the Kirk and Secession, 1560-1850, by Jack C. Whytock.

Through the iPod: Jewel, Lullaby; KD Lang, Watershed; jj, jj n° 2; Lucinda Williams, Little Honey and West; Emmylou Harris, All I Intended to Be; John Hiatt, Same Old Man and Slow Turning.

On the screen: Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man [2005]; Disgrace [2008]

In the glass: Two Degrees Pinot Noir 2007.