Looking for the words to one of my all-time favorite songs, I am amused to find most of it at the bottom of this page: “The Discipleship of Marriage, Part 3 – ChristianSinglesDating.com Article”. The opening/closing stanza is omitted, presumably because it frames the song as a letter to the lover being dumped (“when you waken I’ll be gone”). But much of what remains can be read as an attack on organized religion:

. . . They’ll try to stop you singing in the middle of your song
for they do not want you free, and they will not make you strong . . . .
[They’ll] tell you that the darkness is a blessing in disguise,
for you never have to notice if you’re sighted or you’re blind;
and they’ll do their best to keep you from the light.

Well okay, I suppose Jack Chick feels the same way about evilutionists.

(The song: “From me to you” was sung by Janis Ian:, but is out of place in a woman’s mouth, Woman was not designed to lead; 1Pet.3:1-7)

Where did she say anything about leading?

Udhay Shankar sent me this link: Black Sabbath songs covered by medieval music band Rondellus. Yow! Have you heard this?

I was prompted by a post to alt.peeves to seek confirmation of my brilliant originality by websearching for phrases that I had jotted down as clever. In light of this research, the name of my band will be “A Wellmeaning Oaf”, and our first album will be “Return to Porlock”. (I am particularly disappointed in “Usual Suspicions” and “Red Weather”.)

In the process I found this essay by one Sarah David about enjoying the B-52’s. Whom, in turn, I didn’t expect to see dominating the search results so thoroughly (are there no webpages about bombers?). I can take only so much of the B-52’s at one sitting (about as much as Devo) but I love the counterpoint of “52 Girls”.

Another essay using that same phrase is this one about bad fight scenes in fiction.

Watching some Indian equivalent of MTV, my housemate remarked, “Got good songs, now they need decent choreography. Call Paula Abdul!”

What fun! The Covers Project uses a database of cover songs to create chains of cover songs. (GirlHacker)

I dreamt I was listening to Tom Lehrer sing one of his standards, with an extra verse I had not heard before. Of course it was (seemed) brilliant, and of course I could not remember a word of it come daylight.

At a party in 1981 I predicted that within twenty years there would be digital music players with no moving parts. I was a bit worried there until MP3 players came along. (Good thing nobody remembers I predicted that such players would dominate.) But I didn’t expect downloading into RAM; I thought the content would be on ROM cartridges.