Go forth and spotify

Just 2 this week… Janis Joplin (just go on… she died young there isn’t that much) and the album So Still by Mozez which I found via spotify this week… v chilled!

I will hopefully return to the blog properly at some point towards the end of next week. I have quite a lot to post about and I’ll finally have some time to go back and edit the post that I’ve written to remove all the crap and slander.

In the mean time- George wrote a good summary of how we’re all feeling atm which I suggest you read

See you at the other side (or, you know… today, tomorrow or at church)

Go forth and spotify

This week’s offerings

• Foreign Slippers… she’s swedish, she’s crazy and she supported Duke at Oran Mor last week
• Johnny Cash- America IV the man comes around
• Nivana- bleach
• Janis Joplin’s gratest hits
• Rufus Wainwright Want 2
• Bradley Hathaway I love him… even though he is a skinny skinny boy
• simon and garfunkel
• Red hot chilli peppers… stadium arcadium.

Go forth and spotify…..

Intolerant

Sometimes I think Jon Birch @ asbojesus is inside my head… this is a good example. I’m pretty bad at being all judge-y of people who get all judge-y…

Go forth and spotify

This week I have been mainly listening to

• Affirmation by savage garden (while standing on a chair dancing and remembering old times)
• REM (a bit of accelerate and some automatic for the people)
• Leonard Cohen (started with a bit of chelsea hotel #2 and then a bit of alexandra leaving and then cried a wee bit)
• Some Laura Marling (alas I cannot swim)
• Those Foy Vance limited ed eps
• and finally… some Duke Special tonight at 8ish in Oran Mor

Today

• I worked all morning… nicely productive
• Watched newswipe on iplayer with lunch… you have to see it if you haven’t
• Did comm. skills… misdiagnosis of cancer… hideously intense
• had an off mic discussion about the pay divide
• and an on mic one about mortality/swine flu/the aporkalypse
• Got a bit excited about Carol Ann Duffy maybe being the next poet laureate
• Got a little bit sad at the lacklustre response from others to this news
• Came home and read parts of rapture to celebrate
• Talked at length to Fran about the importance of ritual in spiritual life among other things (deserves a post to itself)… followed up by her understanding of human relationships being sacred and my understanding of the significance of the incarnation… we sometimes have deep chat!
• Now I am trying to atone for all the coffee today by drinking pints of water and listening to Indigo Girls
• Looking forward to this tomorrow. You should come if you’re in Glasgow!

So… that’s my day. Sorry for all the bullet points but it was a very fragmented day and it was good!

So sad and a nice thing…

I wish I could be coherent about this but it’s just so awful and sad. I wish I still had it in me to be shocked by Christians.

On a brighter note Warwick (assistant minister of my old church in NI) has been called to be the minister of 1st Presby Ballymoney (proving that sanity is alive and well in a small and surprising corner of Co. Antrim).

Go forth and spotify

Sorry about lack of blog… boring life, good soundtrack

• Burn the black suit by Juliet Turner (esp. Queen on canal Street, sorry to say and the cover of i hope that I don’t fall in love with you)
• Spirit by Van Morrision
• Transformer by Lou Reed (just all of it!)
• Adiemus by Karl Jenkins (the first one-songs of sanctuary… makes me sing it all day though)

That’s enough to be getting on with…

music on friday

I tried the “lyrics on friday” game but I’m bad at singling out one track for the week… And you don’t get to hear it! So, in true fast show style….

This week I have mainly been listening to
•foy vance (esp the limited ed eps from the gig)
•indigo girls- become you (esp you’ve got to show)
•duke special covers (esp got life and video killed the radio star)
•St Dominics preview by van morrison… All day on repeat
•just switched over to astral weeks

Go forth and spotify

Change is loss

Sho, this was originally going to be a post about how much I love going to churches where I actively disagree with the preaching but I realise that “love” and “”enjoy” are not suitable words for this. My last “church” was a semi worthwhile substitute which served the useful purpose of refining my opinions but ultimately it made me doubt my convictions and hate myself.

My masochistic tendency to go to churches that I dislike for long periods of time is (hopefully) dead. I am now worshipping in a community that challenges me for the right reasons and where I feel like it’s ok to disagree. There was a time recently where that would have seemed like a dull prospect…

I will mourn the passing of the most argumentative phase of my faith and hope that with its passing I can move towards a greater understanding of the people I disagree with. I now know that i need to be in a supportive, loving place so that can happen.

Christ is risen

There was a distinct lack of alleluias in church this morning… So I thought I’d blog one now

Alleluia

Trying not to moan about church too much, should make it an Easter resolution.

Have a wonderful day whatever you’re doing!