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Elijah resides in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland where he is a postgraduate student in theology & art at the Institute of Theology, Imagination and the Arts at St Mary’s College, the University of St Andrews. Among other things, his interests include Ecumenical Christian theology, living in community, music, visual arts, nature, and the Detroit Tigers.

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(may contain "spoilers")

  • About Schmidt : When Warren sees his overseas foster child’s drawing.
  • Big Fish : When Will tells the fictional story of his father’s death at the end of the film.
  • Braveheart .
  • Brazil : When Sam is revealed to have not run away with Jill, but has simply lost his mind.
  • Brian’s Song : Gale’s locker room speech.
  • Ed Wood : When Ed Wood feels accomplished while watching "Plan 9 From Outer Space" at its premier.
  • Edward Scissorhands : When Kim leaves the mansion, forever parting ways with Edward.
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind : When Joel and Clementine decide to stay together knowing the ways that they will eventually disappoint one another.
  • The Fellowship of the Ring : When Boromir is dying—especially when he calls Aragorn “my king”—after h...
mar 1 2009 ∞
mar 2 2009 +

Cricket Wireless Amphitheater, Chula Vista, California

  • 15 Step
  • Airbag
  • There There (The Boney King of Nowhere)
  • All I Need
  • Nude
  • Talk Show Host
  • Where I End & You Begin (The Sky Is Falling In)
  • Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
  • The Gloaming (Softly Open Our Mouths in the Cold)
  • Faust Arp
  • How to Disappear Completely
  • Reckoner
  • Optimistic
  • Jigsaw Falling Into Place
  • Pyramid Song
  • Climbing Up the Walls
  • Bodysnatchers
nov 24 2008 ∞
nov 3 2009 +
  • Karl Barth (Swiss Reformed theologian, 1886-1968)
  • Benedict XVI (German Catholic theologian, Pope, b. 1927)
  • Niels Bohr (Danish atomic physicist, 1885-1962)
  • Jean Calvin (French Protestant theologian, 1509-1564)
  • Daniel Day-Lewis (English-born actor, b. 1957)
  • Bob Dylan (American musician, writer, & occasional actor, b. 1941)
  • Euripides (Greek playwright, ca. 480-406 BCE)
  • William Faulkner (American author, 1897-1962)
  • Gabriel García Márquez (Columbian author, b. 1927)
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne (American author, 1804-1864)
  • Andrew Jackson (American soldier, 7th Pre...
nov 13 2008 ∞
nov 16 2008 +
  • All Things Must Pass , George Harrison
  • Amnesiac , Radiohead
  • Another Green World , Brian Eno
  • The Beatles , The Beatles
  • The Boy With the Arab Strap , Belle & Sebastian
  • Figure 8 , Elliott Smith
  • The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan , Bob Dylan
  • Greetings From Michigan , Sufjan Stevens
  • If You're Feeling Sinister , Belle & Sebastian
  • Jane Doe , Converge
  • London Calling , The Clash
  • Magical Mystery Tour , The Beatles
  • Milo Goes to College , Descendents
  • Orphans , Tom Waits
  • The Sky's Gone Out , Bauhaus
  • The Times They Are A-Changin' , Bob Dylan
  • Vauxhall & I , Morrissey
  • The Velvet Underground , The Velvet Underground
  • Viva Hate , Morrissey
  • XO , Elliott Smith
nov 13 2008 ∞
mar 30 2009 +
  • Bauhaus
  • David Bazan (& his various incarnations)
  • The Beatles (& George Harrison's solo work)
  • Belle & Sebastian
  • Botch
  • The Clash
  • Converge
  • Desendents
  • Bob Dylan
  • Brian Eno
  • Joy Division
  • Ian MacKaye (& his various incarnations)
  • Morrissey (& his various incarnations)
  • Piebald
  • Pink Floyd
  • Radiohead
  • Daniel Smith (& his various incarnations)
  • Elliott Smith (& his various incarnations)
nov 12 2008 ∞
dec 6 2008 +

The Glass House, Pomona, California

  • In the Now
  • Dorothy at Forty
  • Butcher the Song
  • The Radiator Hums
  • From the Hips
  • Rise Up! Rise Up!
  • The Recluse
  • The Martyr
  • Mama, I'm Swollen
  • Art is Hard
  • Into the Fold
  • The Casualty
  • Staying Alive

Encore

  • Sink to the Beat
  • I Couldn't Love You
  • Some Red Handed Slight of Hand
nov 3 2009 ∞
nov 3 2009 +
  • Either/Or , Elliott Smith
  • Who's Next , The Who
  • Greatest Hits , Simon & Garfunkel
  • Pet Sounds , The Beach Boys
  • Decade , Neil Young
  • I Don't Want to Grow Up , Descendents
  • Heartattack and Vine , Tom Waits
  • Teaser and the Firecat , Cat Stevens
  • Tony's Greatest Hits (Vol. III) , Tony Bennett
dec 4 2008 ∞
dec 10 2008 +
  • An American Tragedy , Theodore Dreiser
  • The Dharma Bums , Jack Kerouac
  • For Whom the Bell Tolls , Ernest Hemingway
  • The Hamlet , William Faulkner
  • Herzog , Saul Bellow
  • The Humanity of God , Karl Barth
  • In Search of Lost Time , Marcel Proust
  • Light in August , William Faulkner
  • Midnight's Children , Salman Rushdie
  • Pale Fire , Vladimir Nabokov
  • A Partly Cloudy Patriot , Sarah Vowell
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man , James Joyce
  • The Reliability of Gospel Tradition , Birger Gerhardsson
  • The Secret Agent , Joseph Conrad
  • Sons & Lovers , D.H. Lawrence
  • State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America , Sarah Vowell
  • Tarantula , Bob Dylan
  • Tender is the Night , F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • The Trial , Franz Kafka
  • What is the What , Dave Eggers
nov 13 2008 ∞
dec 4 2008 +
  • A Beautiful Mind
  • Blade Runner
  • Bottle Rocket
  • Brazil
  • Casablanca
  • Dick Tracy
  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  • Ed Wood
  • Edward Scissorhands
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  • Johnny Dangerously
  • L.A. Confidential
  • The Lord of the Rings (The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King)
  • Magnolia
  • Raiders of the Lost Ark
  • The Right Stuff
  • Star Wars (Episodes IV-VI)
  • There Will Be Blood
  • The 39 Steps
nov 13 2008 ∞
dec 4 2008 +
  • Frank Auerbach
  • Georges Braque
  • Paul Cézanne
  • Theo van Doesburg
  • Max Ernst
  • Sam Francis
  • Vincent van Gogh
  • El Greco
  • Matthias Grünewald
  • Tim Hawkinson
  • Wassily Kandinsky
  • Paul Klee
  • Roy Lichtenstein
  • Pablo Picasso
  • Jackson Pollock
  • Robert Rauschenberg
  • Odilon Redon
  • Mark Rothko
  • Edward Steichen
  • Edward Weston
nov 12 2008 ∞
nov 12 2008 +

O2 ABC, Glasgow, Scotland

  • Southern Point
  • Cheerleader
  • Lullaby
  • Knife
  • Fine for Now
  • Two Weeks
  • Colorado
  • Deep Blue Sea
  • Ready, Able
  • I Live with You
  • The Foreground
  • While You Wait for the Others
  • On a Neck, On a Spit

Encore

  • He Hit Me
nov 3 2009 ∞
nov 3 2009 +
  • Joel Barish (the film _Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind_)
  • Edward Bloom (the film _Big Fish_)
  • Molly Bloom (the book _Ulysses_)
  • Michael Bluth (the television show "Arrested Development")
  • Dignan (the film _Bottle Rocket_)
  • Max Fisher (the film _Rushmore_)
  • Gandalf the Grey (the books The Hobbit & _The Lord of the Rings series_)
  • Hamlet (the play "Hamlet")
  • Tom Joad (the book _The Grapes of Wrath_)
  • Indiana Jones (the films "Raiders of the Lost Ark" & "The Last Crusade" [intentionally omitting the other two Indiana Jones films])
  • Alexei Karamazov (the book _The Brothers Karamazov_)
  • The Laughing Man (the short story "The Laughing Man")
  • Sam Lowry (the film _Brazil_)
feb 6 2009 ∞
feb 6 2009 +

The Troubadour, Los Angeles, California

  • Good News for the Pus Pickers
  • The Lord’s Rest
  • Rubbernecker
  • Singers Go First
  • Idiot Boksen
  • Cookin’ Mid-County
  • Animal In Every Corner
  • Jersey Loveryboy
  • Daughters Will Tune You
  • Flip Flop Flim Flam
  • Five Stars & Two Thumbs Up
  • Did I Step On Your Trumpet
  • Sold! To the Nice Rich Man
nov 24 2008 ∞
nov 3 2009 +
  • 1984 , George Orwell
  • Absolom! Absolom! , William Faulkner
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , Mark Twain
  • As I Lay Dying , William Faulkner
  • The Brothers Karamazov , Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • The Catcher in the Rye , J.D. Salinger
  • Chronicles, Vol. 1 , Bob Dylan
  • Dune , Frank Herbert
  • Flatland , Edwin Abbott
  • Freddy's Book , John Gardner
  • God Here & Now , Karl Barth
  • The Grapes of Wrath , John Steinbeck
  • The Great Gatsby , F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Hamlet , William Shakespeare
  • Heart of Darkness , Joseph Conrad
  • Jesus & the Victory of God , N.T. Wright
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers , J.R.R. Tolkien
  • Moby Dick , Herman Mellville
  • On Moral Fiction , John Gardner
  • Nine Stories , J.D. Salinger
nov 13 2008 ∞
dec 4 2008 +
nov 12 2008 ∞
nov 13 2008 +