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The Screaming Blue Messiahs, ‘Gun Shy’ 1986. This band were a phenomenal live beast. Vinyl couldn’t quite capture it but there’s some crunchy fun here. Main man Bill Carter played his axe like Wilko Johnson. Helluva noise for a trio. Rockabilly from hell with punk attack. Lots of dirty blues riffs and licks, Cramps-ian drums, rumble bass. ‘Wide Blue Yonder’ is stomping tribal drums and keyboard wash with juicy axe waxing. ‘Holiday Head’ reverb, big chords, big bass. ‘Smash The Market Place’ suffers from too much 80s production but the guitar slashes away happily. ‘Just For Fun’ fast throbbing drums and twanged guitar. ‘Let’s Go Down to The Woods’ is funk slap with singalong chorus, and guitars. ‘Talking Doll’ big drums and more demented twang and riff. ‘Twin Cadillac Valentine’ fast shuffle beat and guitar atmospherics. ‘President Kennedy’s Mile’ Countryfied rockabilly slap. ‘Clear View’ a chunky fast R&B riff. ‘Killer Born Man’ slow and moody. Nasty. Like I said, this stuff was blistering live, especially compared to bedwetting Indy bands like the Lemondrops and Gigolo Aunts. They shoulda been contenders…
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Easter 2017 in Scicli (Ragusa - Sicily), the "Feast of the Man Alive", but also the "Feast of The Joy" ("The Joy" or even "The Man Alive" are terms used by the people of Scicli (RG) to affectionately call the Risen Christ); this cypress statue, carved at the end of the eighteenth century, is what remains of a classical Spanish tradition Easter rite. In Scicli, it’s possible, in old times, took place on Easter Day "the encounter" between the Virgin and the Risen Christ as happens in other centers of Sicily all the years, but the figure of the Virgin in Scicli in modern times is most likely vanished: there is who suggested that the birth of the modern Easter feast in Scicli could be identified in the workers' revolts that broke out in Sicily post-unity period of Italy: in 1882 Scicli on Easter day broke out a popular uprising against the Real Guards being beatenand, and the rioters arrested, that Easter day, the people rebelled against the new constitutive order by raising a Christ shaking a red flag symbolizing a militant socialism, a model of Christ not accepted by the clergy or the bourgeoisie and aristocracy.
The people had chosen a sacred image, which contradicted the aesthetic, moralistic and political aptitudes of that time, the naked body was just covered with a short pink shroud that then suddenly became red like that flag that impudently shook in its strong closed hand, a beautiful, mediterranean and burning young man, with a galvanizing and engaging look, with the swollen muscles typical of those who worked hard all his live, became the eternal leader expected and dreamed by the onset of the proletariat as a pagan transfiguration Messiah. Every year on Easter Day, "The Joy" returns to live, for a mysterious magical interplay between the bearers and the One who is also called “the Live
Man", is elevated to heaven by devotee, there are "frenetic" runs along the streets, turns around the squares, blesses and approves between shouts of joy: The Joy appropriates Himself of the city that no one can ever tear it for a consolidated and ancient association, in a triumph of thousands of hands destined to support his athletic body of warrior, there are so many anonymous bodies of devotees who find themselves miraculously in one single identity, his is the entire Sciclitan society behind him because he sums up himself and represents for all. The "vucculari" leaders, are the important figures who decide all the movements of the float with the Risen Christ (The "vuccule" are two large iron rings each planted at the front ends of the two long poles on which the float is mounted) , these are the important figures who decide all movement of Christ, prepare the itinerary, command the race or the wait, set the number of laps in the church or in the “square of the Virgin of Carmine”, organize the excursions to unusual places. There are people who remember when, in a very distant Easter, the Live Man suddenly took an alley out of the known path, abandoning the big crowd, coming unexpectedly into a small area of the old town, the devotees deposed the float with The Joy in front of the door of a humble home, where a young mother, consumed by cancer, was preparing to make his last trip. The feast of Easter Sunday opens with the procession of the Venerable, a heavy "silk banner" that bows to the Blessed Sacrament between two big wings of crowds, the statue of Christ kept in the Church of Santa Maria La Nova, the statue goes in procession for the streets of the city, is lifted up with his arms stretched high, first from a high and then on the other, to express the great happiness for the Resurrection, all the day until late. The great effort of the devotees, the frenzied and almost tarantulated, is not without risk: this year the fall of some carriers inside the church of Our Lady of Carmine, it almost provoked a series of falls, some of them finished under the other bearers with their weight of the heavy float (!): fortunately everyone came out unharmed, and … at the joyful scream of "Joy! Joy!" the frantic journey went on. A small curiosity, the songwriter Vinicio Capossela, fascinated with the celebration of Scicli's Live Man, wanted to dedicate a song to Him, infact the name of the song is "the Live Man".
Pasqua 2017 a Scicli (Ragusa – Sicilia), la “festa dell’Uomo Vivo” ma anche la “festa del Gioia” (Il "Gioia" o anche "L'Uomo Vivo", sono termini usati dagli sciclitani per chiamare e invocare affettuosamente il Cristo Risorto); questa statua di cipresso, scolpita alla fine del Settecento, è ciò che resta di un rito pasquale di classica tradizione spagnola; anche a Scicli, è ipotizzabile, avveniva nel giorno di Pasqua "l'incontro" tra la Vergine e il Cristo Risorto come avviene in altri centri della Sicilia, nel corso degli anni, però, la figura della Vergine con molta probabilità è scomparsa: c’è chi ha ipotizzato che la nascita della moderna festa di Pasqua a Scicli possa essere individuata nelle rivolte operaie che scoppiarono nella Sicilia post-unità d’Italia: nel 1882 a Scicli, il giorno di Pasqua, scoppiò una rivolta popolare, con Carabinieri Reali malmenati ed arresti dei rivoltosi, quel giorno di Pasqua, il popolo in festa si ribellava al nuovo ordine costituito innalzando un Cristo che agita una bandiera rossa simbolo di un socialismo militante, malvisto dal clero ed alle classi borghesi e aristocratiche,
il popolo aveva scelto un'immagine sacra, che contraddiceva i canoni estetici, moralistici e politici del tempo, il corpo nudo era coperto appena di una sindone rosa che poi diventò improvvisamente rossa come quella bandiera che impunemente agitava nel suo forte pugno chiuso, un popolano bello, mediterraneo e ardente, altero e virile al tempo stesso, dallo sguardo galvanizzante e coinvolgente, con i muscoli gonfi tipici di chi ha lavorato duro per tutta una vita, diventò a furor di popolo l'eterno condottiero atteso e sognato dal proletariato insorgente come un trasfigurantesi messia pagano. Ogni anno il giorno di Pasqua “il Gioia” ritorna a vivere, per una misteriosa compenetrazione magica tra i portatori e Colui che è chiamato anche “l’Uomo vivo”, viene innalzato al cielo da devoti invocanti, imprecanti, “corre” freneticamente per le strade, gira per le piazze, benedice e approva tra urli di gioia e schiamazzi: si appropria della città cui nessuno potrà strapparlo mai per un consolidato e antico sodalizio, in un tripudio di mille mani tese a sorreggere il suo atletico corpo di guerrigliero sono tanti corpi anonimi di devoti che si ritrovano per miracolo in un'unica sola identità, la sua, è l'intera società sciclitana che lo porta sulle spalle perché Lui la ricapitola in se e la rappresenta tutta. I capi "Vucculàri" sono le due figure importanti che decidono ogni movimento della vara con sopra il Cristo Risorto (Le "vùccule" (boccole) sono due grossi anelli di ferro piantati ciascuno alle estremità anteriori delle due lunghe aste, sulle quali è montato il fercolo), queste sono le figure importanti che decidono ogni movimento del Cristo, ne predispongono l'itinerario, comandano la corsa o l'attesa, stabiliscono il numero dei giri in chiesa o in piazza del Carmine, organizzano le fughe verso mete a volte anche inusuali. C’è chi ricorda di quando, in una lontana Pasqua, l’Uomo Vivo svoltò improvvisamente in un vicolo fuori dal percorso noto, abbandonando la ressa della folla, giungendo inatteso in un piccolo quartiere del centro storico, i devoti deposero la vara con sopra ‘U Gioia davanti alla porta di una umile casa, nella quale una giovane madre, consumata dal cancro, si apprestava a compiere il suo ultimo viaggio. La festa della Domenica di Pasqua si apre con la processione del Venerabile, un pesantissimo “stunnardu” (stendardo) di seta, che effettua un inchino al Santissimo Sacramento tra due fitte ali di folla, la statua del Cristo, custodita nella Chiesa di Santa Maria La Nova, viene portata in processione per le vie della città e fatta ondeggiare e ballare, viene sollevata con le braccia tese in alto, prima da un alto e poi dall’altro, per esprimere l’enorme felicità per l’avvenuta resurrezione, tutto il giorno sino a tarda ora. Il grande sforzo compiuto dai devoti, l’andirivieni frenetico e quasi tarantolato, non è esente da rischi: quest’anno nella chiesa della Madonna Carmine la rovinosa caduta di alcuni portatori, ha quasi causato un effetto domino, che ha fatto temere per l’incolumità di alcuni di loro finiti sotto gli altri portatori col relativo peso del pesante fercolo: fortunatamente tutti ne sono usciti incolumi ed, al grido osannante di Gioia ! Gioia! Il frenetico andirivieni è ripartito. Una piccola curiosità, il cantautore Vinicio Capossela, innamoratosi della festa dell’Uomo Vivo di Scicli, ha voluto dedicargli una sua canzone, che ha per titolo, appunto … “l’Uomo Vivo”.
the biggest Christmas tree in Arab country in fhuis , the tree tall is 2 m and cost our government 1 million dollar , they put the tree on the first day of December ,
How did Christmas start?
Since about 400 AD, Christians have celebrated the birth of Jesus. 'Christ' means 'Messiah' or 'Anointed One' - the title given to Jesus - and 'Mass' was a religious festival.
In the West today, the real meaning of Christmas is often forgotten. It has become a non-religious holiday! More children believe in Father Christmas than in Jesus. Christmas Day is a time for eating and drinking too much and watching television.
But the real Christmas story is found in the Christian Bible. It is told in two different books: Matthew and Luke chapters 1 and 2. If you have no Bible, you can read these chapters online. You may think that the story of the birth of Jesus, and the way that the West celebrates Christmas today, do not seem to have many connections.
These chapters tell how Jesus was born as a baby to Mary. This was no ordinary birth! She was not married, she was a virgin, (yes, really!) and an angel had told her she would bear a special baby. Her husband-to-be, Joseph, did not believe her at first. Who would? Then an angel told him in a dream that it was true! Probably no one else believed it. So when they had to travel from their home in Nazareth to Bethlehem (near Jerusalem), to register their names with the ruling Roman government, they probably escaped many hard words from other people.
Nativity
Arrival in Bethlehem brought worry and upset: there was no room for them to stay at the hotel. There was only space in the stable - the animal house for travellers' donkeys and horses.
Jesus was born that night, and as they had no bed for him, they used an animal feeding box filled with the dry grass the animals ate.
Christmas cards and pictures today make it all seem very nice. In truth, it must have been dirty and frightening for a young couple, far from their home and families. Possibly the birth was premature after the stress of the journey. This was a very poor place for Jesus to start his life on earth.
Five hundred years before, the prophet Micah had said,
"But you Bethlehem, though you are small, out of you will come for me, one who will be ruler over Israel, whose origins are from of old, from ancient times."
The prophet Isaiah had written,
"A child is born to us! A son is given to us! And he will be our ruler.
He will be called, "Wonderful Counsellor," "Mighty God," "Eternal Father," "Prince of Peace." His royal power will continue to grow; his kingdom will always be at peace....
He will rule as King David's successor, basing his power on right and justice, from now until the end of time."
These are only two of many prophetic words that told of the birth and life of Jesus, written hundreds of years before His birth.
LEARN (A LITTLE) ARAMAIC FROM YOUR NEW TESTAMENT
Edward M. Cook, Ph.D.
One of the things that makes Mel Gibson’s Passion of Christ a biblical movie with a difference is its use of the original languages of first century Palestine, Aramaic, and Latin. Although one could argue with his choice of Latin – most non-Jews at the time would probably have spoken Greek instead – no one can deny that Aramaic was widely used.
The languages that descended from first-century Aramaic are still spoken in a few places in the Middle East, and the Aramaic dialects are studied by many more, both scholars and laypeople, who want to read and research ancient texts vital to the history of both Judaism and Christianity. Parts of the books of Daniel and Ezra in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament are written in Aramaic, as are many of the Dead Sea Scrolls. A large percentage of the Jewish books of law, the Talmud, are written in a form of Aramaic, as well as early works of Christian theology.
It all sounds pretty esoteric, and most church members will get along fine without knowing Aramaic or any other ancient languages. But those who are interested in “the language of Jesus” can learn more than they think just by paying extra attention to the pages of their own New Testaments.
Take, for instance, the name “Bartholomew,” one of the original disciples mentioned four times in the New Testament (Matt. 10:3; Mark 3:18; Luke 6:14; Acts 1:13). In Greek, the name is read Bartholomaios, behind which lies the Aramaic name “Bar Tolmai.” Bar is the Aramaic word for “son,” and Bar Tolmai means “the son of Tolmai.”
Once you know what bar means, other “bar” names start leaping out at you: Barabbas, who was released in place of Jesus by Pilate, “the son of Abba”; Barjona, the surname of Peter in Matt. 16:17, means “son of Jonah”; Barnabas, the companion of Paul on his missionary journeys, means “son of consolation”(Acts 4:36); one of the early candidates to replace Judas was “Joseph called Barsabbas” (Acts 1:23), that is, Joseph son of Sabba, or “the elder”; and of course blind Bartimaeus, whom Jesus healed, “the son of Timai” (Mark 10:46).
Another common Aramaic word occurring in the names of places is the word beth, meaning “house,” or more broadly, “place.” This is a word that Aramaic shares with Hebrew; and everyone will already know the name of Bethlehem, “place of bread” – a location well known in the book of Ruth for its wheat fields.
Less familiar, perhaps, is the village of Bethsaida, where Phillip, Andrew, and Peter were from. Its name means “place of fishing,” which will be no surprise for those who remember Peter’s occupation. A village only a short walk from Jerusalem was Bethany, “the place of the poor,” where Mary, Martha, and Lazarus lived, according to John 11:1, and the place where Jesus was last seen before his Ascension, according to Luke 24:50. It was close to Bethphage, the “place of ripe fruit” (Luke 19:29).
The place Bethesda, which has given its name to so many hospitals, is something of a mystery. That was the name of a pool where, according to John 5, Jesus healed a lame man; and the name Bethesda looks plainly like a form of the Aramaic beth hisda, “the place of mercy,” which fits the story well. However, the most reliable ancient manuscripts read in place of Bethesda the name Beth Zatha, which might mean “the place of olives” – which is much less apt! If this were not enough, yet another ancient manuscript reads Bethsaida, and still another reads Belzetha – which has no meaning in Aramaic that I can discover. It could be that no one was sure of the exact name of the place; in any case, we are not.
One of the peculiarities of Aramaic compared to its sister languages is that Aramaic puts the definite article – the word meaning “the” – at the end of a word instead of at its beginning. So if you take the word keph, meaning “rock,” and add the article – simply the syllable a – you get kepha, “the rock,” which also happens to be the original Aramaic name of “Peter,” the nickname of Simon Bar Jona. It shows up in English bibles as “Cephas” (e.g., I Cor. 1:12).
You can also see the definite article in golgotha, “the skull,” from Aramaic gulgulta. It also appears in the name of Martha, which means “the lady,” Tabitha, “the gazelle,” and in the word talitha, “the little girl,” used by Jesus during a healing according to Mark 5:41. And it shows up in the word “messiah,” Aramaic meshiha, “the anointed one,” a word shared with Hebrew.
The New Testament gives only a few complete sentences in Aramaic. A short one is ephatha, “be opened!” in Mark 7:34, which Jesus utters while healing a blind man. In Aramaic, someone who has full use of their eyes is said to be “open.” Another example is talitha kum, “little girl, arise!” (Mark 5:41).
The most famous Aramaic sentence in the gospels -------- perhaps in all of Christianity! ---- is Messiah Yahushua's cry of dereliction from the cross, eli eli lama sabachthani, “my God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” (Matt. 27:46; Mark 15:34). Public reading of the scriptures often results in butchered pronunciation of this sentence. The word eli “my God” should be pronounced to rhyme with “daily,” lama “why?” should rhyme with “momma” and sabachthani “you have forsaken me” should rhyme with “sock hop Johnny.”
Outside the gospels, Aramaic is rarely quoted. The apostle Paul uses the sentence marana tha, “our Lord, come!” in I Corinthians 16:22. That's the word mar, "lord," with the suffix ana, "our," and the verb "to come" in the imperative.
The early church quickly moved into Gentile circles, where Aramaic was less commonly spoken, and that's why the New Testament was originally written in Greek. But the Aramaic language left its traces on its pages. Now you know what some of them are!
Team Robbo make their feelings known. Regent's Canal, near Camden Lock, London, UK - 9th. April 2010.
Annual Celebration to mark the anniversary of the first performance of Handel's Messiah in Fishamble Street Dublin in 1742.
Annual Celebration to mark the anniversary of the first performance of Handel's Messiah in Fishamble Street Dublin in 1742.
One year passed and I am illuminated now - Picture taken playing with Tomek Saciłowski. I believe that certain similarity with well-known mystical celebrity (I am still discovering the power of the beard) - can make this a nice duo with the Sweet Czech Saint
The business end, a 289cu in Ford V8 it pulled 12000rpm and screamed like a banshee. Note how the rear slick side walls have wrinkled in to increase the footprint on the ground.
On the strip, Brian launches off the start line, front wheels up and petrol pouring from the fuel tank breather. The front body was a new additon.
In many communities, boys and girls are separated in school from a young age. This gender segregation limits interaction between the sexes, and often the next time they meet substantially will be when they are ready to date for marriage.
The Jewish community in Adrianople, Turkey, has existed for over 1,000 years, and has witnessed its share of history—the false messiah who shook the 17th century Jewish world, Shabbatai Tzvi, declared allegiance to the Islamic faith in Adrianople. The boy’s school was founded by Alliance Israelite Universelle, a Paris-based organization, in 1867.
Jewish School in Adrianople
Adrianople (Edirne), Turkey, Early 20th century. Photograph
Collection of Yeshiva University Museum. 1979.025
In 1979 my brothers Brian, Raymond and I decided to pool our money and go Drag Racing, it took three years to build the car.
I named her The Deadly Messiah. This was the Brighton Drag and Custon Show 1983, we had just won Best race car in the show.
The performance of Handel's Messiah is part of the Cathedral's observance of Advent, the period of preparation for our celebration of the birth of Christ at Christmas, and our acknowledgement of Christ as judge over all things.