Well, all this time I believed you when you said things, but now, you have forfeited your credibility. At least according to someone who can't even get a free LJ account to post their comments with.
Quick clarification: if you're a Christian in the century or so after the death of Jesus who wants to survive and practice Christianity, you really don't want to say that the Romans killed Jesus. To the Romans, Jesus was a man in the process of instigating a revolution. That was (and generally remains) a capital crime. And if you're a Christian, you're running around saying "Jesus was right and he was a god!" Romans do not take kindly to this. Romans also run your world. The reason that Pontius Pilate gets portrayed in such a dramatically ahistorical way in the Gospels (dude was a jerk) is basically that the writers had to come up with a version of the narrative that provided a reason for Jesus to die other than that he was a revolutionary. Jesus had to be portrayed such that the story would not make them the fundamentalist terrorists of their day. Mixed success on that front.
Apropos of nothing, did you ever receive those CDs I sent? I had a lot of trouble with the bloody customs declaration, and they made me rewrite the address in all caps, so I am afraid something might have gotten screwed up. Please tell me you received them.
P.S. One of the drama teachers was flipping out over Brecht/Weill so I played her a song from Lost in the Stars and she flipped out some more and I was like YAY someone at work shares my taste in music.
Speaking of Weimarian (not sure that's a word, but we'll go with it) music, have you heard William S. Burroughs singing (well, sort of) "Ich Bin Von Kopf Bis Fuss Auf Liebe Eingestellt," the Friedrich Hollander song long-associated with Marlene Dietrich? It can be found on the album Dead City Radio, and is worth a listen. I am including it in my musical, in a sort of tango arrangement, sung by a character based on Tiresias, in a tavern called The Hanged Man. It will be very Weimarian, but in a dark sci-fi way.
Oh man, I used to have that album. It was a great album. Alas, my asshole ex decided to loan it, sans my permission, to his irresponsible friend, who then lost it. I lost the vast majority of my music collection to that ex and his junky friends. (Appropriate, I ssuppose, in the case of Burroughs.)
Man, that "you're really forfeiting your credibility!" bleat is just priceless. I also dig the solemn invocation earlier - "the main barrier to understanding the official story is psychological."
I have to confess that I'm tempted to get in there and stump for my personal favorite conspiracy-nut meme, the lizard-people family of theories.
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I made a post just for you when I got them. <3 <3 <3
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P.S. One of the drama teachers was flipping out over Brecht/Weill so I played her a song from Lost in the Stars and she flipped out some more and I was like YAY someone at work shares my taste in music.
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Speaking of Weimarian (not sure that's a word, but we'll go with it) music, have you heard William S. Burroughs singing (well, sort of) "Ich Bin Von Kopf Bis Fuss Auf Liebe Eingestellt," the Friedrich Hollander song long-associated with Marlene Dietrich? It can be found on the album Dead City Radio, and is worth a listen. I am including it in my musical, in a sort of tango arrangement, sung by a character based on Tiresias, in a tavern called The Hanged Man. It will be very Weimarian, but in a dark sci-fi way.
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I have to confess that I'm tempted to get in there and stump for my personal favorite conspiracy-nut meme, the lizard-people family of theories.
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