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 You Are Important (You Are Important Series) $6.99 What a wonderful series of books for young readers and a joy to read aloud to children important to you. It is refreshing to see illustrations that embrace multi-culturalism and Strong's interpretations are dazzling. I found my young reader fascinated by the really studying each drawing as if there was more to the story to discover.  Important Things with Demetri Martin: Season One $19.99 The show may be good, but this DVD isn't. I bought the DVD but ran into all sorts of problems when I tried to copy it to my home's media center. Apparently Comedy Central thought it would be a good idea to cripple the disc with some sort of copy protection that ends up making it unplayable on many systems (including software DVD players such as VLC). But worse, it makes it very difficult to transfer it to your computer or media center (even though you have the legal right to do so). Their copy protection makes it difficult for us consumers to use the product if they buy the DVD legally, but this show is easy to find on torrent sites because the pirates apparently had no problem circumventing the protection. So ironically that's the best place to find a usable version of this media, not by buying the DVD.  Russian Medieval Chant $18.98 I spent years studying and performing the church music of The West. The Latin influence in virtually all of those great compositions became second nature to my ears. When I discovered Eastern Orthodoxy and Orthodox Christian Chant, it was as if someone had scraped away 10 centuries of paint layers from an old building, revealing something quite simple yet very profound. There is no doubt that this CD is very well produced. However, the very title gives it away as--at best--a distortion of the Russian Chant which was born of Moscow's mother, Constantinople. The term "medieval" is a western and Latin term, as is "Deisus". The political and social ramifications of monarchies in the rationalistic Latin West were of a totally different paradigm than that of the mystical, logical Greek East. Give this as a gift to someone who is not well schooled in music, and they will likely enjoy it simply for the good production. Give this to a Russian and you will greatly embarrass yourself. |
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