Flight into Fantasy

Note: This might offend you if you take your religion seriously.

I’ve been doing a lot of soul-searching, and coming to the conclusion that I may possibly, just a little, be more Christian than I want to admit in my own views. So I’ve been reading up on Christianity on teh Interwebz, and have realized that if early Christianity had had benefit of the Internet and Fandom Wank people would definitely be calling them batshit crazy.

Martin Luther would have, instead of posting his problems with the Catholic church on the door to said church, have crossposted his rants to every single Christian community on the Internet, provoking epic flame wars among the devout.

The Puritans would have sent passive aggressive emo posts to the England-based Episcopal communities complaining about how they were being oppressed. They'd then start their own community, and Jonathan Edwards would have posted his “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”, which all the Puritan LJers would have linked to in a huge meme.

And those are the easy ones. The wank generated from whether or not the Trinity is an appropriately Biblical concept seems to have been fairly epic, at least according to Wikipedia. Hell, it probably still is, I just can't be bothered to look on any Christian LJ communities.

I think I’ve discovered a new band I like. Plus, seriously, how do you go wrong with a group name like Me First and the Gimme Gimmes?

I love Kate Rusby’s latest album. It’s been on repeat for a week.

This is one of my favorite tracks.

Little Jack Frost

Here is a tale of the trees in a wood
They were never that pleased on the land that they stood.
So they upped and they walked as far as they could
'Til they felt the sun shine on their branches.
I was little boy lost, and I was little boy blue
I am little Jack Frost but I am warm through and through
It's not easy to hide when your heart's on full view
Oh, tonight, cruel world be forgiving
Oh, for once in my life I am living.
There they did stand and there they did stay
When there came a young boy who was running away
From a mad world, a bad world, a world of decay
And it's comfort he sought in their branches
I was little boy lost, and I was little boy blue
I am little Jack Frost and but I am warm through and through
It's not easy to hide when your heart's on full view
Oh, tonight, cruel world be forgiving
Oh, for once in my life I am living.
There we found love and there we found joy
And the warmth in his heart oh, it filled the young boy
And his friends taught him magic and secrets of old
While the trees kept him safe with their branches.
I was little boy lost, and I was little boy blue
I am little Jack Frost but I am warm through and through
It's not easy to hide when your heart's on full view
Oh, tonight cruel world be forgiven
I was little boy lost, and I was little boy blue
I'm little Jack Frost but I am warm through and through
It's not easy to hide when your heart's on full view
Oh, tonight, cruel world be forgiving
Oh, for once in my life I am living.