Jesus Christ!

 

AJ

BJ

Which one? The angry one or the pretty one?

I got threatened in a comment on my last post for using this guy's name with an exclamation mark. I was threatened with hell and/or a stoning. (As a place, shouldn't hell have a capital letter?)

Should I have said, "Angry Jesus!" or "Beautiful Jesus!"?

Normally, when someone threatens me with violence, I can call the police. Does this still count if someone is religious?

Robert, a blogger who comes and goes, said, "Do you want stoning or hell for irreverent blasphemy?"

Now, I bet that if I replied, "I'm going to run you over with my car next time I see you." I could be in serious trouble. How do people like Catholics get away Scott free when making similar threats? Ah, the power of religion! A bit scary really.

Well, I'm off to get some practice done. I'll watch out for people carrying stones.

Ciao.

Guy Fox Day.

 No, I HAVE spelt that correctly.

I'm talking about the day that celebrates male foxes, not the silly cracker thing.

It is a little weird how both days fall on the 5th of November, but that's life.

Okay, okay, I know that you'll want to hear about my music practice.

I probably told you that this month I want to devote each day to practising one of my 30 tune repertoire pieces. My original intention was to do this on both violin and guitar, but I have decided to turn my main concentration back onto violin. 

Let's take a look at how my practice is going this year.

Double Bass.

42 1/2 hours of practice. I haven't been pushing the double bass too hard this year, and it's a very long time since I've had a bass gig, but I want to keep my chops up. I'll put in as much time on it as I can.

Guitar.

83 1/2 hours of practice. I often refer to this instrument as my hobby instrument. I've played it for a long time and want to keep improving my technique, but I play it mainly for fun.

Violin.

220 hours of practice. This is my main instrument these days and I want to get out and play it. This month I am putting in a concentrated effort to tidy up my 30 tune repertoire so that I might be able to get out and play some gigs. The violin comes first.

Total Practice for the year so far - 346 hours. This has probably been my most productive practice year ever!

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Well, today and tomorrow I need to track down a butternut pie to take to Peter's on Saturday. They're evidently pretty hard to come by, but I have discovered a couple of places that might have them. I yearn for the good old days when he ate sausage rolls. Ah well, gotta move with the times.

Okay, that's it for this morning. Enjoy Guy Fox Day, though there are no foxes in the wild in this country. Before you complain, remember that Guy Fawkes's adventures happened in England.

Ciao tutti.

Just reading Rob's latest post.

 

Peter is on my back to write a post, so here goes.

Here's something from Peter that I really liked.

I think he must have used AI to get that image. I liked it and used it on my Facebook page. I wrote, "If you regularly practise more than one musical instrument, it's okay to play with yourself. Just saying." It has had over 40 likes so far. Thanks Peter.

Back to Robert's post. It doesn't really tell us much. The latest posts he got rid of were much more interesting. He did a good job of playing the violin on one. Ah well, they're all gone now.

I'm going to Peter and Lynn's for afternoon tea on Saturday. Peter wants me to bring a butternut pie.

I'm doing some research to see if I can buy one. Ah, life was simpler when Peter ate meat savories. 

The November repertoire based practice is going well so far. Well, it is early days. I've only got half an hour still to do today. The November practice requires at least two hours per day. It is good to set goals and keep to them.

I just realized that the name on Robert's blog is incorrect. It should have the word 'Angry' before 'Jesus'. AJ will be pissed off!

Well, that's it from me for today. Make sure that you make goals and get your practice done.

Ciao tutti.

A new practice schedule for a new month.

 "Thirty days hath September,

April, June and November."

Hey, that's the same number as the number of tunes I have in my violin repertoire!

One tune for every day in November!

I've decided to also learn those 30 tunes on my guitar, so I'll know the repertoire on two instruments.

Don't get me wrong, the violin will still be my main instrument.

Every day I'll target one specific tune on one instrument. I'll give that half an hour (on each instrument) then I'll devote another half hour (on each instrument) to three or six repertoire pieces.

In those two hours of practice I'll also make sure that technical practice (scales, etc.) is not neglected.

On the guitar that includes pick work and on the violin that includes long bows and intonation checks.

There you go.

I've done my guitar hour. Now it's violin time. It'd be good to get a bit of double bass (bass has its own repertoire) practice done too.

Ciao tutti.

Working again.

 

Hey, I said working not war king.

Bloody computers. Updating my (our) computer has been a taxing event. I have just got things almost back to normal. Akish and The The The Guy have also helped by getting their blogs going again. Unfortunately, there were problems with P. E. Nis's blog. Never mind, I'm sure he'll make his presence known with heaps of comments. 

Unfortunately, I must leave you there for now because I have quite a bit of music practice to catch up on. I have been looking after my elder grandson for quite a bit of the day. 

Hey, it is great to have things working again!

Long may it last!

Ciao.

So, why am I writing a post this morning?

 

Well, I was fifteen minutes into some guitar practice and I realised how cold I was. I remembered that there was a nice heater down by our computer, so I put the guitar on its stand and headed down to the computer.

The heater is on.

So, what am I going to write about? Does it really matter? The only person who I can rely on to read it is Peter.

AKA the hat guy.

Though he will be busy tidying up his house today because 'The Old Girl' comes home late tomorrow. He only has two days to get things in order.

I was mucking around on the computer, as I started to warm up, and I saw that Rob still has a blog.

See here.

He has gone back to his older name. No mention of The Curmudgeon. I wonder if he still reads our blogs? Well, there hasn't been a comment from him for quite a while, so probably not.

I guess I should get back to my guitar practice.

Then I'll get back onto the violin, the instrument that gets by far the most practice.

Well, that's it from me.

Ciao Peter, and anybody else who read this.

Father B speaks.

 Father B speaks here...

"Firstly, let me say thank you to Richard of Richard's Bass Bag (the original bass bagging site) for attempting to save me from embarrassment by not using my full name. Yes, my full name is Father Banana. It seems that I am not the only priest around here named after a fruit. There was quite an incident in our local church recently when two men appeared and claimed to be Jesus Christ.

Beautiful Jesus

Angry Jesus

I found their pictures on recent posts on this blog. Both claim, by their name, to give a particular 'quality' to our saviour. How do we go about finding out if one of these two men is the actual Jesus Christ? The only blogger around here with expert knowledge has buggered off. Well, Catholics do tend to be more conversant with the Bible than atheists. Fortunately, Richard (of RBB) has agreed to send out a series of questions to these two 'I am Jesus' claimers. So, I'll pass you over to him."

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Okay, thanks to my computer expertise, I have made contact with both Beautiful Jesus and Angry Jesus. They have both agreed to answer my questions. Here goes...

Richard (of RBB): Okay, let's start. Would you consider yourself worthy of the title 'beautiful'?

Beautiful Jesus: Yes, most certainly.

Angry Jesus: Okay, I'm certainly not ugly but I prefer the words 'rugged' and 'handsome'.

Richard (of RBB): Do you find yourself getting angry?

Beautiful Jesus: I like to control my emotions, but I do like to give out love. I encourage my disciples to tell others that they love them, especially in slightly tight situations. Your ex-blogger Rob was very good at doing this. Your other blogger, Peter, doesn't really qualify as a disciple and would probably never say such a phrase to another man. Sad.

Angry Jesus: I pride myself on my anger. It cuts through the shit.

Richard (of RBB): Are you claiming to be the Jesus Christ who died on the cross to save us all from sin?

Beautiful Jesus: Yes.

Angry Jesus: For fuck's sake! If dad had wanted to get rid of sin, all he had to do was shake his hand. I told him that there was no way I was going to be nailed up on a piece of wood. I think he found an actor to stand in. Beaut Jesus is just a bloody actor! Dad would have promised him a place in Heaven.

Beautiful Jesus: No, I'm not and my name is not Beaut!

Angry Jesus: It's bloody true and you know it! Anyway, I think you look like a pansy. 

Beautiful Jesus: A pansy? Where are you coming from?

Angry Jesus: If I were coming you'd soon know all about it! Pansy!

Richard (of RBB): Okay, I think we'd better wrap it up there. Thanks guys, no more opinions or answers. Please. Gosh, you can probably see why it is easier being an atheist! Ciao for now.

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