These Dark, Satanic Blogs
I just listened to Hubert Parry's Jerusalem. Four times in a row. I think the tune is gorgeous. I find the text, although founded upon a deeply wrongheaded idea, to be weirdly moving. I love this song.
Deal with it.
Meanwhile ... Mixolydian Mode found a new blog devoted to Christian science fiction, called Old Testament Space Opera. (That's science fiction that happens to be Christian; not fiction that happens to be Christian Science.) Also, we are told a cappella music is getting creepy:
I admit it. I have a near-psychopathic hatred of a cappella, tormented by smug, smiling singers who, too mean to pay for real musicians to accompany them, commit diabolical acts on unsuspecting songs. There are exceptions: usually people who are not all teeth, hair, cocktail dresses and Burt Bacharach songs. The Spooky Men's Chorale are nothing like that. There is no chintz, no bling and no kitsch in their routine. Instead this rugby team-size choir of boofy blokes settles for a healthy blend of eccentricity, scariness and laughs.
Umie the Umlaut says, "ask your doctor about the Fredösphere!"
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I like it too. I first heard this on the Chariots of Fire Vangelis soundtrack 20 years ago. HDNET has been showing past "Last Night of the Proms." This is standard during the show.
http://www.digischool.nl/en/luistervaardigheid/songs/jerusalem.htm
Found it! Steve K.
Since this is a classic song of the English PROMs (Programmable Read-Only Memory). It's only fitting that it have a programming themed phrasing:
And did that source code in ancient time
Single-step through Cypress lawns green?
And was the holy man Ross Perot
On Cypress' pleasant lawns seen?
And did the contour plots #define
Shine forth upon our shaded clouds?
And was Imageware builded here
Among these dark Satanic normals?
Bring me my bowl of burning code!
Bring me my errors to debug!
Bring me my sphere! O clouds unfold!
Bring me my Diamond Fire-GL card!
I will not cease from mental fight;
nor shall my code sleep in my hand
til' we have built the dev tree
in Cypress' green and pleasant land
MAXIMS of ALTRUISM:
1. Abortion, murder, or moolah won't save thee. Only Jesus Christ;
2. Life's FAR too short to go to the abyss of Misery for eternity. But, yet, many people choose exactly that;
3. Repent and believe! WWIII looms!! Bush's a puppet for Satan, controlled by the Illuminati;
4. Only 2 realms after our lifelong demise, our Finite Existence... and 1 of 'em ain't too cool.
5. Choose: Our Mighty God vs. your wimpy ego;
6. Never leave me, Lord Jesus, as I’ll never leave you.
GOD BLESS!
Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam:
In Hoc Signo + Vinces
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