Uncut
Today "Uncut" has less to do with circumcision and more with the British. Apparently, almost all music and computer magazines in England include CDs. This is not unlike candy to me. I can't resist. Uncut is like a British RollingStone, but better because it includes a CD and is not RollingStone. I would subscribe, but that would elevate this sporadic guilty pleasure into a world of pop admittance that I'm not ready for. I'm just too punk rock for all that (but not in the Ramones/NOFX punk rock sense, really punk rock, you know?). There's no need to give The Man money, when I have The Internet.
Lately, I have been into reading about the history of Mary Magdalen, the early Christians, Rennes-le-Chateau, and other boring history stuff They never tell you about. I love it, but reading about it all makes me sad. This is because I know I will only remember about one percent of it all even as I close the book. In the future, whenever I overhear a conversation about holy blood and the South of France, or what happened to Lazarus after he lived again, I will shout out, "Hey! I know something about that, and I would love to illuminate you with my vast knowledge right now. But I can't. So shutup! I hate you!" Then whoever it is that I just verbally shat upon will turn to me and say, "You are just too punk rock for me, man."
Lately, I have been into reading about the history of Mary Magdalen, the early Christians, Rennes-le-Chateau, and other boring history stuff They never tell you about. I love it, but reading about it all makes me sad. This is because I know I will only remember about one percent of it all even as I close the book. In the future, whenever I overhear a conversation about holy blood and the South of France, or what happened to Lazarus after he lived again, I will shout out, "Hey! I know something about that, and I would love to illuminate you with my vast knowledge right now. But I can't. So shutup! I hate you!" Then whoever it is that I just verbally shat upon will turn to me and say, "You are just too punk rock for me, man."
posted by Stephen "Steve" at 8/21/2004 10:47:00 PM
4 Comments:
Wow. And here all this time I thought Mary Magdalen had an "e" on the end of it, like Magdalene. Amazing. Thank you for teaching me today, sir. You are not too punk for me.
Jeanette, you are actually correct. Magdalen can be spell many ways: Magdalen, Magdalene, Magdala, Madeleine, Maddalena, etc. It really depends on the culture of the translator as to the spelling. Interestingly, it also depends of the culture of the reader as to the nature of her character. Is she a prostitute, like the western church would have you believe until recently? Or is she Christ's greatest disciple as the Eastern Church has maintained for centuries? But that is all to be covered in an upcoming blog entry . . .
Oh yeah, and Punk you. I am too punk. I am, I am.
Punk? Punk? You know that that's the sound of? I think you do.