What if God was one of us?

The intro to "St. Theresa" kicks serious ass, as well.

 

So is Papa John's Stadium on the back side or the front side?

 

The sad thing about Joan Osborne is that she made a really good album. Really good.

"One of Us" is by far the worst song on the album.

 

As founder and generalissimo of SJ's AA, do you get backstage passes from time to time? Maybe for one of the Meadowlands shows, or even Soldier Field? If you don't, you're getting shafted. Might wanna renegotiate.

Re: your question, though, I think we get to hang out with God any time we want -- and that is, any time we see the beautiful complexity of the world, or something that defies our comprehension, or something that makes us realize how lucky we are to be where we're at. Things like watching your first kid being born, or taking in the splendor from a mountain peak in Alaska, or waking up next to someone you love. That is being with God to me. No questions, no stories. No worries. Just peace.

 

Not to turn all theological on another thread, but you're right ... we get to hang out with God all the time. I guess what I meant was, can you imagine the emotional feeling you'd get standing in God's presence, walking the Earth with him and conversing with him?

 

Relish is pretty high on my Top 10 Albums of the 90s. "Ladder" blows every song away on the album.

 

It was Bob Nastanovich, not Malkmus.

 

Back side. It's between Churchill Downs and the Fairgrounds.

 

Which gives me a chance to share my all-time favourite Weird Al Yankovic parody:

If god had long hair and a goatee
And if his eyes were pretty glazed
If he looked spaced out
Would you buy his story
Would you believe he had an eye infection?

And yeah yeah god looks baked
Yeah yeah god smells good
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah
What if god smoked cannabis?
Hit the bong like some of us
Drove a tie-dyed microbus
And he subscribes to rolling stone

When god made this place, in the beginning
Did he plant any seeds?
Or did he put them there for Adam and Eve
So they’d be hungry for the apple
That the snake was always offering

And yeah yeah god rolls great
Yeah yeah god smells good
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah
What if god smoked cannabis?
Do you s'pose he had a buzz?
When he made the platypus
When he created earth our home
Does he like pearl jam or the stones?

And do you think he rolls his own
Up there in heaven on the throne
And when the saints go marching home
Maybe he sits and smokes a bowl.

 

Dr. Evil's cover version is a lot better. Tighter and better.

 

He he he

 

I read somewhere that Osborne wore a "fake" nose ring (clip on). What a looser.