Is it me, or do most Brits get a kind of Pavlovian response when hearing Indian raga music, that your mouth starts watering and you feel like you're in desperate need of a curry? And - more worryingly perhaps - you begin hallucinating that wonderful Indian-restaurant smell ( Read more... )

I'd heard of Flight of the Conchords before (for those who don't know, they're a duo of New Zealanders who started out performing comedy songs, and now they have a show based around their fictional career on HBO, or BBC4 if you're in the UK ( Read more... )

...'That wasn't Question Time, it was a lynch mob ( Read more... )

I don't fully understand the BBC's approach to the BNP. On the one hand, impartiality is a good thing, and since the scandal over Dr David Kelly in the run-up to the Iraq war, they've been solidly rapped over the knuckles and the impartiality has been even more strongly enforced than before. On the other hand, umm ( Read more... )

Just on a whim, today I'm going to list (in no particular order) pieces of liturgical/sacred music which I absolutely love to hear in plainsong/Gregorian chant. If anyone knows of a place where I can get a hold of recordings of these, please let me know ( Read more... )

Very interesting review of some potentially ground-breaking books on liturgical theology. The reassessment of the Liturgical Movement is particularly interesting, but I'm also intrigued by the notion that Christian worship is rooted in the Temple rather than the synagogue. Fascinating. God I wish I were still in school ( Read more... )

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One of my professors at Yale, Gregory Woolfenden, was commemorated in the intercessions this morning ( Read more... )

I've been feeling quite down today about the jobsearch and stuff, to I visited this blog* where I found the following YouTube video.

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I nearly pissed myself with laughter, especially at the first verse. Thank God for misheard lyrics.

*Incidentally, found it through this blog, by a current Mirfield student ( Read more... )

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