What Would Jesus Drink? -- “A rabbi, a priest and a minister walk into a bar.
The bartender looks at them and says, ‘What is this, a joke?’
In one Pennsylvania bar, it's no laughing matter.
On the last Friday of every month, teams of chaplains...set up camp in the
Market Cross Pub in Carlisle, Penn. for a few hours to lend a sympathetic, non-judgmental ear to patrons looking for someone to listen to their tales of woe.”
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posted by ericb
on Feb 19, 2008 -
42 comments
This cheesy 1979 promo film from the group,
Blackjack, offers a glimpse into the hard rock past of balladeer Michael Bolton, which also includes a co-writing credit for a
Top 40 hit by Kiss. Similarly, Bill Joel disavows the days when he
posed in medieval armor next to slabs of raw beef on the cover of the self-titled album by Joel's heavy metal duo,
Attila, although
Julian Cope is a fan of the album and its Deep Purplish vibes (check out
Holy Moses and
Wonder Woman). To round out the trifecta, we have Tori Amos who got marketed as the metal-chick frontwoman of
Y Kant Tori Read (check out the video for
The Big Picture). On the other hand, metalheads have the opposite problem of hiding their pop past. Examples include the industrial metal band Ministry's early days as a
new wave synth act and Tommy Iommi's brief tenure as a
member of Jethro Tull before becoming lead guitarist of Black Sabbath. Meanwhile,
Bon Scott, the late lead singer of AC/DC, is probably spinning in his grave over the YouTube footage of him as an
Australian teen idol and a
bearded hippie with a recorder.
posted by jonp72
on Nov 26, 2007 -
70 comments
How do you do: since 1950,
Pacific Garden Mission in Chicago, Illinois has produced dramatized salvation stories which are now
syndicated around the world. 2,950 weekly one hour stories have been produced so far, and the variety of wayward paths these poor sinners have taken is astonishing, running the gamut from "
Gambling, Lying, Fear", to "
Country Music, Bigamy, Pride" to "
Jewish, Seeking, Piano(
part 2)." Whatever their false beliefs, all these fortunate folks have one thing in common (well, besides being voiced by the
same few people): their hearts and minds and lives have all been
UNSHACKLED! With impressive production values and sound effects created onstage during the live taping, it may be the last true radio drama.
Sadly, PGM does not evangelize open audio formats; Real or WMP only.
posted by contraption
on Jul 12, 2007 -
11 comments
