A B B

 

Father B sat at the back of the church. He liked to take in the full picture. The church was about a third full and mass was due to start very soon, He would not be saying the mass, but he had been asked by Father Orange to give the sermon. He had accepted the request. He noticed that the front row was empty, except for two bearded men with long hair. One sat at the extreme left and the other sat at the extreme right. Father Orange came out onto the altar accompanied by two altar boys. He asked the congregation to stand and a lone organist started to play a church style song. I doubt that he was pissed but there were quite a few wrong notes.

After the hymn Father Orange went into action, assisted by the two altar boys. After a while, at the appropriate time, he introduced Father B as the person who would be delivering today's sermon. Father B got up and approached the pulpit.

He spoke. "Good morning and welcome. Today's sermon will be about Jesus. He is known as the Son of God and he is instrumental to why we are all here today. As far as I know, he doesn't play a musical instrument." There was a light polite snigger from the congregation. Father B carried on, "Nay, but seriously folks, the Jesus who came down to Earth all those years ago was a quiet man, a man who wouldn't stand out in a crowd because of his appearance."

The man sitting on the left of the front row, if you were looking from the front, seemed very agitated. He just couldn't sit still. The man on the right gave him quite an evil look. Father B became more aware of both of them and felt uncomfortable.

Suddenly the man on the right got up and approached the pulpit. "Hop down, Father," he commanded. "I don't want to slip on you." He was making a joke of Father B's name. Father B wanted to hold his ground but thought that it might be safer to move. He certainly didn't want to be squashed up there. The guy climbed into the pulpit and then he spoke.

"Hi, some people call me A and I'm here to tell you about the real Jesus. Let me start by saying that he certainly wasn't considered beautiful. Also, he didn't take shit." The guy who was at the left stood up and placed himself in front of the pulpit. He turned and spoke to the crowd.

"People often refer to me a B Jesus." He pointed to A. "I guess you can guess what they call him, but he IS NOT who he claims to be!"

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Gosh, we have a situation developing here! Maybe we need Satan to break this up? Maybe this sort of thing is what got Satan into trouble in the first place! 

To be continued.

The present state of the blogs.

 Into resting?

OR

Boar ring?

I'm off to work now. Will concentrate on violin practice today. What will you concentrate on?

Come on readers reader, let me know in the comments.

I reckon that Peter will be cleaning the house and putting silly hats away.

If Rob was still around these parts, he'd answer, "Cleaning toilets." Then he'd complain about cleaners not getting fancy work cars. 

Ciao uno.

Tuesday, a wet day after very strong winds.

 I've just read a new post by TC. It literally goes on a bit. It's like quite long. Have a read.

"Like I literally feel good in this hat, but
I won't like wear it when The Old Girl comes home."

There's a link to his blog (The Curmudgeon) on the righthand top of this blog,*

I've seen a few comments from that ex-blogger Rob on TC's blog but I don't know what has happened to his blog. I haven't bothered to look because it has probably gone again. 

I'm home from work today. I spent most of Sunday night in A & E and got to bed at 3am. Same problems, different day. I'm feeling like I'm on the mend today and will most likely return to work tomorrow.

Practice suffered yesterday. I only did fifteen minutes on the violin and half an hour on the double bass. Hopefully I'll catch up today. I find that double bass practice is good for my health. It gets me off the couch and standing up. It also gets quite a bit of movement out of my body. I'll try to do a bit more double bass practice today. In fact, I will.

Well, that's me for today. I'll go and do that double bass practice now.

Ciao tutti.

* the original bass bagging site

Jesus Christ!

Which one of these two best represents the guy named in the title of this post?

Pretty Jesus

 Angry Jesus

Here's a more important question.

When we all die, who will be right? The Christians or the Atheists or people who worship a different god?

Will there be a Jesus (pretty or angry)? Will there be a Shiva or Brahma? Will there be no gods at all? Will there be a godlike figure that no one on Earth knew about?

One thing is for sure, we can't all be right.

Everyone thinks that THEY and THEIR BELIEFS are correct. 

There wouldn't be too many Catholics, for example, who think that they might have it all wrong.

THERE IS NO CONCRETE PROOF FOR ANY POSITION.

Lots of people will disagree with that last statement. They'll quote the Bible or the Quran or maybe even try to prove their thoughts with science. 

If nothing else, unless people who believe that there is absolutely nothing after death are correct, there are going to be a lot of disappointed people. "That's for damn sure." (to quote Jack Reacher).

Maybe Music is the ONE TRUE GOD?

Well, it does seem to cater for just about everyone,

There is music from just about every culture and heaps of different forms inside our western culture.

There is Classical, Jazz, Rock, Folk, Heavy Metal, Funk, Country, Pop, and the list goes on and on and on.

I think I'll go with Music.

Maybe you're reading this and feeling smug because you have proof of your opinion.

Please let us know about it in a comment. Make sure it is 'proof' though. Please don't just quote the Bible or something similar.

That's it.

Ciao.

Mid Labour Weekend.

 Today is the middle of Labour Weekend.

Sort of like the middle finger.

If you're a fulltime worker, it's the holiday tomorrow (on Monday) that makes it all worthwhile. Neither our other blogger (Peter) nor I usually work on a Monday, so it makes little difference to us, except that I have been invited to morning tea at my grandsons' place. Yes! It will be great to see them both.

My practice for this year now stands at 329 hours. I'll certainly get to 330 today.

I have no gigs on the horizon. Okay, I did turn a silly gig down, but I have nothing on the horizon, not even a jam. I have not had a double bass gig for over a year. Hence, I guess, the fact that my double bass practice is falling behind. There is a folk festival not too far down the road in the Nui but it is very expensive to get in and there is no promise of a chance to play. Anyway, folk musicians aren't very exciting to play with.

However, I am doing worthwhile practice on the guitar and violin. Practice is its own reward - it makes you play better.

Well, I'll leave it there for this morning. I think my next step will be towards the bathroom.

Enjoy your mid Labour Weekend day.

Ciao.

Good morning, it's Labour Weekend!

 

There must be a National Weekend some time too? I hope there's not an ACT Weekend or a NZ First Weekend.

It's a cloudy old day in the Nui and it is supposed to rain soon. At least my lawns are done. The property is looking pretty good. 

My practice is going pretty well too. It's not quite 8am and I have already done half an hour on the guitar. I hope that Peter is practising his guitar.

Peter

He's evidently going away in January and staying in a place where a guitar is provided. He seems keen to be able to play some background music for his lady. I guess he'll be learning a few chords first. Then he'll probably run over a few pentatonic scales. 

I'll read Rob's new blog (Robert's Cello Bag) later to see how his practice is going. I hope he is working on his scales and looking for patterns that will help him to get around the instrument. I hope he is not wasting all his practice time on Hayden concertos.

The new computer is going pretty well now but I still can't do screen prints. Ah well, it's something I can work on.

We're driving up past Upper Hutt around lunchtime to visit some friends of Shelley's at a camping ground. It doesn't look like it'll be a great day to visit a camping ground, but that's life.

I think I'll go and do another half hour of guitar practice. As Peter knows now the guitar is a good instrument to practise when you haven't been up long. You can sit on the couch and make yourself comfortable. That wouldn't really be possible if you were practising the trombone or the double bass.

See you later.

Ciao.

It looks like he's back!

Rob is back and he's got rid of all the silly stuff using The Curmudgeon's blog. TC will forgive him when he sees this. 

Unfortunately I'm still getting used to my computer and can't take screen shots, so I've had to write out (by copying) what I saw on his new blog,

Here goes..

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ROBERT'S CELLO BAG

Putting C G D and A back onto the cello

Hi all. By the grase of Jesus and Mary I'm back.

Firstly, sorry to The Curmudgeon. I shouldn't have messed with hiz blog. I went to confession and revealed everything to Father Banana. I also prayed to Mary. Anyway, let's get on wiht it.

On this blog ill obviously be explaining the Bible to those athests who dont understand what they are missing out on. Im also going too be talking about the cello and the violin. Ill play a bit of the Hiyden cello concertos and explain how to finger scales on the cello. You can just read, sit back and enjoy,

Ill be puting a link up to my new blog soon.

Its good too be back,

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Good to see Robert back on board.