I've Tasted The Body Of Christ
I’m slightly perplexed.
I just found out that many Christmas songs were written by Jews.
Adolphe Adam wrote the music for "O Holy Night."
Mel Torme wrote "Christmas Song".
Irving Berlin wrote "White Christmas".
And "We Need a Little Christmas", "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree", "A Holly Jolly Christmas", "The Christmas Waltz", "Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow", "Silver Bells", and "I'm Getting' Nuttin' for Christmas" were all also written by people who have been Bat/Bar Mitzvahed.
Just last week, I was complaining about the Christmas music playing at my job because I thought it was disrespectful to play "religious" songs for people who may not be of the Christian faith.
Actually, I was really complaining because I cannot stand those songs even though I am of the Christmas celebrating variety. I don't care if the songs are wrapped up modern day versions of themselves with people like Nora Jones or Gwen Stefani singing—they still are horrible and do not put me in the Christmas mood.
I've never purchased one of those Very Special Christmas collections.
The only Christmas song that I do like is John Lennon's Happy Christmas.
But he's been long dead so I can't count on another one from him.
Plus, that song isn’t exactly your cookie-cutter variety of Christmas song.
I wondered if Mark David Chapman, the guy who killed Lennon, was Jewish. Turns out, he's not. He was actually briefly enrolled at Covenant College, a Christian university in Georgia and was supposedly a devout Christian despite the fact that he had attempted suicide by asphyxiation from the exhaust of a car. Chapman had an obsession with J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye.
The movie, The Good Girl features Jake Gyllenhaal as a kid who goes by the name Holden due to his obsession of Salinger’s character in that very same book. Supposedly Gyllenhall is also a big fan of Salinger’s work and even has named his production company Nine Stories after the author’s collection.
Jake is not starring in the movie they are making about Chapman. Jared Leto got the part and Lindsay Lohan is playing the Lennon fan who befriends him. Hmm…so that’s how those two met.
I’m glad Leto is back to acting. His band was really bad. But so are most bands that are "commercial". There is no more passion for rock music anymore. Not that I loved K-Rock, but it was one of the only NYC stations that played some of the songs I like and it’s going off the air on Monday with the format changing to talk/classic rock.
Even the music award shows all feature rap and country artists and the categories are blended into one. Will Smith, Mariah Carey, and 50 Cent were nominated in the Pop/Rock category at the American Music Awards. Will Smith won Favorite Pop/Rock Male Artist.
And almost every winner thanks Jesus.
Who is thanking Moses?
I am not going to say "I digress" because you obviously know I am.
There’s this band called The LeeVees who features ex-members of Guster and some other band I never heard of, and they sing Hanukah songs. The song I heard was pretty good. You know, these guys are Jewish, so they are passionate about their faith and wrote a song about it. And the song was good.
Sure, Lennon was certainly not a Christian crusader. But the man was certainly passionate and the lyrics of his song display that. One can certainly argue that Lennon did possess an ecclesiastic quality.
Maybe that’s why I dislike most Christmas songs—because they were written by Jewish people who don’t even like Jesus. There’s no passion for the Christ.
And no, I don’t like Christian rock, nor do I want to hear a Christmas song by Destiny’s Child.
But maybe I have nothing to worry about because apparently the word Christmas is too much for some people and they want to replace it with "Holiday". Like saying Holiday Tree instead of Christmas tree. You know, it was the Clinton administration who put forth that saying in the 90s, dubbing the White House tree a Holiday Tree.
Maybe I should follow another 1993-era Clinton idea: Don’t ask; don’t tell. Even though the former president denounced that ten years after he signed it into law.
I’ve never been one to keep my mouth shut when I am passionate about something.
Happy Jewmas.
Jesus was a Jew.
Maybe that could be the new chorus of a Holiday song sung by Beck.
I just found out that many Christmas songs were written by Jews.
Adolphe Adam wrote the music for "O Holy Night."
Mel Torme wrote "Christmas Song".
Irving Berlin wrote "White Christmas".
And "We Need a Little Christmas", "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree", "A Holly Jolly Christmas", "The Christmas Waltz", "Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow", "Silver Bells", and "I'm Getting' Nuttin' for Christmas" were all also written by people who have been Bat/Bar Mitzvahed.
Just last week, I was complaining about the Christmas music playing at my job because I thought it was disrespectful to play "religious" songs for people who may not be of the Christian faith.
Actually, I was really complaining because I cannot stand those songs even though I am of the Christmas celebrating variety. I don't care if the songs are wrapped up modern day versions of themselves with people like Nora Jones or Gwen Stefani singing—they still are horrible and do not put me in the Christmas mood.
I've never purchased one of those Very Special Christmas collections.
The only Christmas song that I do like is John Lennon's Happy Christmas.
But he's been long dead so I can't count on another one from him.
Plus, that song isn’t exactly your cookie-cutter variety of Christmas song.
I wondered if Mark David Chapman, the guy who killed Lennon, was Jewish. Turns out, he's not. He was actually briefly enrolled at Covenant College, a Christian university in Georgia and was supposedly a devout Christian despite the fact that he had attempted suicide by asphyxiation from the exhaust of a car. Chapman had an obsession with J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye.
The movie, The Good Girl features Jake Gyllenhaal as a kid who goes by the name Holden due to his obsession of Salinger’s character in that very same book. Supposedly Gyllenhall is also a big fan of Salinger’s work and even has named his production company Nine Stories after the author’s collection.
Jake is not starring in the movie they are making about Chapman. Jared Leto got the part and Lindsay Lohan is playing the Lennon fan who befriends him. Hmm…so that’s how those two met.
I’m glad Leto is back to acting. His band was really bad. But so are most bands that are "commercial". There is no more passion for rock music anymore. Not that I loved K-Rock, but it was one of the only NYC stations that played some of the songs I like and it’s going off the air on Monday with the format changing to talk/classic rock.
Even the music award shows all feature rap and country artists and the categories are blended into one. Will Smith, Mariah Carey, and 50 Cent were nominated in the Pop/Rock category at the American Music Awards. Will Smith won Favorite Pop/Rock Male Artist.
And almost every winner thanks Jesus.
Who is thanking Moses?
I am not going to say "I digress" because you obviously know I am.
There’s this band called The LeeVees who features ex-members of Guster and some other band I never heard of, and they sing Hanukah songs. The song I heard was pretty good. You know, these guys are Jewish, so they are passionate about their faith and wrote a song about it. And the song was good.
Sure, Lennon was certainly not a Christian crusader. But the man was certainly passionate and the lyrics of his song display that. One can certainly argue that Lennon did possess an ecclesiastic quality.
Maybe that’s why I dislike most Christmas songs—because they were written by Jewish people who don’t even like Jesus. There’s no passion for the Christ.
And no, I don’t like Christian rock, nor do I want to hear a Christmas song by Destiny’s Child.
But maybe I have nothing to worry about because apparently the word Christmas is too much for some people and they want to replace it with "Holiday". Like saying Holiday Tree instead of Christmas tree. You know, it was the Clinton administration who put forth that saying in the 90s, dubbing the White House tree a Holiday Tree.
Maybe I should follow another 1993-era Clinton idea: Don’t ask; don’t tell. Even though the former president denounced that ten years after he signed it into law.
I’ve never been one to keep my mouth shut when I am passionate about something.
Happy Jewmas.
Jesus was a Jew.
Maybe that could be the new chorus of a Holiday song sung by Beck.
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