Watching Countdown. It just gets better and better (worse and worse). A tell-all book, Tempting Faith, is coming out exposing the Bushies’ covert contempt for the RELIGIOUS RIGHT, referring to them as “nuts” and “goofy,” fawning over them in public, laughing at them behind their back, and giving them nothing -- zilch, zip, squat, nada -- for their fanatical loyalty. Karl Rove and Ken Mehlman are bashed. (Thank You, Lord!) The author professes to be a Christian himself. As we say, I’m not making this up.
The show is now over and I’ve had enough of politics and switched to KET, hoping to get Mystery! starring Helen Mirren as "Inspector Jane Tennyson," or that guy who looks every bit the part of a hard-boiled Yank cop until he starts spouting his musical Cockney, as "Inspector Lewis," who has moved into the job of inspector Morse and whose gravitas has increased for his new job (as the Senator from Pendergast did when the moon and stars fell on him in 1945).
I got instead the show, Jubilee, a KET production, which tonight features "The Lonesome Pine," a bluegrass group, singing “Look What the Lord Has Done.” It has blown away the stink of politics for the moment, leaving a windswept, rain-washed, star-filled landscape of music and holiness, which I think are related in some way we have yet to learn to appreciate. Good music is eloquent in a way that no preachers can be. Hymns are the strength of Protestant Christianity. Just hearing Virgil Thomson’s use of the old hymns in his symphonic works evokes a reverence in me that no sermon or Bible study has ever been able to do.
Hot damn! And now they're playing a breakdown, the kind that John and Natalie danced to when they were tots. Praise God!
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My musical tastes are catholic, as most of you know. Now I'm enjoying opening night at the Met, where Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 17 is playing. I'm in ecstasy. (Might also have to do with the event being hosted by Paula Zahn, who is dressed for the prom in a posh frock with her hair all gussied up. The girl once played cello. Did you know that?
I caught the ending of opening night and the little that I heard was sublime. In choir, which was tonight, we have been practicing a song entitled IN THIS VERY ROOM. It says, "In this very room there's quite enough love for everyone, and in this very room there's quite enough joy for everyone." It makes me feel so peaceful in the midst of all the disasters of this life.
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