And remember, I've been your right-hand man all along

[sovay]

Sometime last year, lesser_celery introduced me to Robyn Hitchcock. This is perhaps my favorite song of his. I think the version I have may be earlier than that recorded on A Star for Bram, and I'm not entirely sure that it wasn't ripped from a soundtrack, either, but it stays with me. It feels like an unfinished haunting.

Judas Sings (Jesus & Me)

You're so degraded, you're so alone
Nothing can save you, not even the phone
This is the capital of bad luck and dope
Breaking a piece off you is your only hope

Nobody loves you but Jesus and me
I've got my reasons

You're so corrupted, you're so extreme
God and the angels are out of your dream
This is the century of I don't believe
In anything but what's up my sleeve
So what's up your sleeve?

Nobody loves you but Jesus and me
I've got my reasons, so does he
I want your money, but he wants your soul

I said I loved you and it was true
Nobody knows that better than you
I'm not political, I did what I could
I didn't mean no harm, but I mean no good

Nobody loves you but Jesus and me
I've got my reasons, so does he
I want your mystery, but he wants your soul

Comments

[kraada.livejournal.com]

Have you heard they found a copy of the Gospel of Judas now?

[sovay]

I think I saw that in National Geographic in the spring. I know very little about non-canonical gospels except for hero-tales about the child Jesus, which are pretty awesome.

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

The British Museum has an delightfully funny set of medieval comic-strip tiles (the Tring tiles) telling tales of young Super Jesus. Like all superheroes, he grapples with the morality of his powers.

(Did I tell you this already? Do I repeat myself? Very well, I repeat myself...)

[sovay]

(Did I tell you this already? Do I repeat myself? Very well, I repeat myself...)

You did not tell me this already. I must see these.

vide infra

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

Partial view here (http://www.artfund.org/artwork/409/the-tring-tiles)

Palsied handheld snapshots here (http://pics.livejournal.com/movingfinger/gallery/0000dzdp)

[sovay]

vide infra

These are wonderful. I love the expressions.

"Hey—what's in the oven?"

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

It's amazing how early the conventions of reperesenting rusticks were settled, isn't it?

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

I just realized (thanks to Beethoven's 6th on radio) that the goofy rustics and Vulcan in the storm sequence of Fantasia are strangely similar, but I can't find an image of Vulcan to substantiate this idea...

[lesser-celery.livejournal.com]

There are lots of nifty non-canonical gospels, but until the last few years they hadn’t gotten much press, for obvious reasons. Nowadays The Gospel of Mary is probably the best known because of Dan Brown. I have a book by Bart D. Ehrman, Lost Scriptures: Books that Did Not Make It into the New Testament, that has seventeen non-canonical gospels, along with various acts-of-the-apostles, epistles, and apocalypses that didn’t make the final cut. Gnostic gospels in particular are fun (if that be the word), because they show Jesus from a different point of view.

[sovay]

I have a book by Bart D. Ehrman, Lost Scriptures: Books that Did Not Make It into the New Testament, that has seventeen non-canonical gospels, along with various acts-of-the-apostles, epistles, and apocalypses that didn’t make the final cut.

Remind me to steal—er, borrow—that from you sometime.

This song is sort of a non-canonical version itself: the final lyrics are slightly different.

This is the world, if you want the world . . .