issue 64
News: A one-man bible show.
I just recently came up with the idea of a one-man show of the Bible as a companion piece to my annotation to the King James Bible (see Issue 56) , which consists not only of the stories that everybody seems to remember (like the ones that are ubiquitous in Children's picture book bibles [ie David and Goliath, The creation, Noah's flood, the gospels], so that the sex and violence in the regular bible doesn't alienate them from Christianity too soon), but also some parts of the Bible which tend to be obscure to people who haven't read the Bible (ie the times [all three] where Abraham [Isaac in the third one] saves his and his wife's life by claiming that she is his sister), and with my commentary from the original annotated Bible interspersed with the Narration and even the Characters' dialogue, although the dialogue will for the most part, not be taken verbatim from the King James Bible (though some exceptions will be taken when I do the poetic sections of the Old Testament and make light of the Elizabethan language and its absurdities to the modern day reader). The idea was inspired by the Reduced Shakespeare Company's own condensation of the Bible called: The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged). In their show the three members of the troupe act out sections of the Bible and often including jabs at the religious right (one of the top 10 rejected Commandments in the show was "The Christian Right is Neither Christian nor Right.")
Band Name of the Day: Frenglish. It comes from a line in the Movie D.E.B.S.: "You need to speak French or English. Frenglish is not a language."
Film Idea of the Day: See above.
Film Review of the Day: DEBS. In this film there is a secret test in the SAT which recruits teenaged girls (in Schoolgirl uniforms, no less) for a secret spying agency called D.E.B.S., and the plot consists of a major conflict of interest when one DEB (ironically, the only DEB in history to ace the secret test) falls in love with a supervillain named Lucy Diamond. When I saw the DVD, I mainly rented it for the apparent kitsch value of the film (Schoolgirls in uniform as secret agents), but I wound up enjoying it not just as a kitsch film, but as a film in general.
Quote of the Day: "Well, I believe in the soul. The c*ck. The p*ss*. The small of a woman's back. The hanging curveball. High fiber. Good scotch. That the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent, overrated crap. I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe there ought to be a Constitution Amendment outlawing Astroturf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas eve. And I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days...Goodnight.
___________Kevin Costner, Bull Durham
Link of the Day: Here's a site of movie monologues, including the above quote.
Tract Review: Heart Trouble?: A doctor diagnoses a man with a heart problem. He uses this to get off on a tangent on other "Heart Problems" (read: sin), and that the cure for the "Heart Problems" is Jesus.
Fame: No relation to the film/TV series or the David Bowie/John Lennon Collaboration, but it is a predominantly-black version of the recent tract The Star.
I just recently came up with the idea of a one-man show of the Bible as a companion piece to my annotation to the King James Bible (see Issue 56) , which consists not only of the stories that everybody seems to remember (like the ones that are ubiquitous in Children's picture book bibles [ie David and Goliath, The creation, Noah's flood, the gospels], so that the sex and violence in the regular bible doesn't alienate them from Christianity too soon), but also some parts of the Bible which tend to be obscure to people who haven't read the Bible (ie the times [all three] where Abraham [Isaac in the third one] saves his and his wife's life by claiming that she is his sister), and with my commentary from the original annotated Bible interspersed with the Narration and even the Characters' dialogue, although the dialogue will for the most part, not be taken verbatim from the King James Bible (though some exceptions will be taken when I do the poetic sections of the Old Testament and make light of the Elizabethan language and its absurdities to the modern day reader). The idea was inspired by the Reduced Shakespeare Company's own condensation of the Bible called: The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged). In their show the three members of the troupe act out sections of the Bible and often including jabs at the religious right (one of the top 10 rejected Commandments in the show was "The Christian Right is Neither Christian nor Right.")
Band Name of the Day: Frenglish. It comes from a line in the Movie D.E.B.S.: "You need to speak French or English. Frenglish is not a language."
Film Idea of the Day: See above.
Film Review of the Day: DEBS. In this film there is a secret test in the SAT which recruits teenaged girls (in Schoolgirl uniforms, no less) for a secret spying agency called D.E.B.S., and the plot consists of a major conflict of interest when one DEB (ironically, the only DEB in history to ace the secret test) falls in love with a supervillain named Lucy Diamond. When I saw the DVD, I mainly rented it for the apparent kitsch value of the film (Schoolgirls in uniform as secret agents), but I wound up enjoying it not just as a kitsch film, but as a film in general.
Quote of the Day: "Well, I believe in the soul. The c*ck. The p*ss*. The small of a woman's back. The hanging curveball. High fiber. Good scotch. That the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent, overrated crap. I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe there ought to be a Constitution Amendment outlawing Astroturf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas eve. And I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days...Goodnight.
___________Kevin Costner, Bull Durham
Link of the Day: Here's a site of movie monologues, including the above quote.
Tract Review: Heart Trouble?: A doctor diagnoses a man with a heart problem. He uses this to get off on a tangent on other "Heart Problems" (read: sin), and that the cure for the "Heart Problems" is Jesus.
Fame: No relation to the film/TV series or the David Bowie/John Lennon Collaboration, but it is a predominantly-black version of the recent tract The Star.
Labels: The Damn Bible, Theatre, Tract Reviews
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