A Girl's Best Friend, Anglican Style

It's been a while since I've posted one of my own song parodies, but I have a special treat for you.

Apparently the apple doesn't fall far from the ministerial tree -

I've just been notified that one of my former ministers and great mentors, the priest from an Episcopal Church I attended regularly over 10 years ago, is a parody lyricist.

This is rather how I imagine it would be to discover a hidden part of my family tree, thus clearing up some unexplained genetics. Really. This explains a lot.

But it gets better. She's not only written lyrics but has also taken it to the next level... and recorded a video.

So without further ado: "The Prayerbook Is A Girl's Best Friend." (Didn't you know that?)



Written and performed by Rev. Suzanne Guthrie (lyrics found here), based upon "Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend" from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

She puts me to shame. I think I need to step up my song parodies.

Thanks for the inspiration, Rev!

Shane Claiborne and The Simple Way

This is a chapel service at Drew (February 2011) in which the community welcomed activist and author Shane Claiborne to speak about his prophetic ministry, "The Simple Way."

I should have shared these videos in the first place, so please pretend that I'm not just posting them because I'm currently working on an assignment about Claiborne (and because I'm not signing into facebook during Lent, getting the codes to post these videos on AmenAbility was the best vaguely-facebookless way for me to review them!).

No, this service is worth sharing. I have mixed thoughts on Claiborne and his ministerial work, and I'm still struggling through this very short yet somehow agonizing assignment, but Claiborne has managed to work his way into several interesting conversations with colleagues and with others outside of Drew.

So see for yourself. What do you think?

And now excuse me while I go and write my pretend-letter homework.

Getting Twitchy With It

Na na-na na na-na na.

(If that didn't sound musical to you, go here.)

True story.

I do local housecleaning. Today, the man of the house was in, and I helped him put up some wood molding along the ceiling.

This required the use of a nail gun.



Which he did not ask me to handle.



Fortunately.

Anyway, the family is planning a Halloween party and the house is Decked. Out. In fact, there's a witch decoration dangling from the ceiling about five feet from where we were working. It's motion- and sound-sensitive. Do you see where this is going? The witch didn't take kindly to the noise of the nail gun, which sounded just enough like a gun-shot that the ensuing animatronic screaming and maniacal laughter made for a good show.

Do you know how many nails it takes to secure wood molding? Neither do I. But that's how many times this lollapalooza of horrific fun happened. If the neighbors could have heard it, I would have had my fill of mischief 'til at least Halloween.

Sadly Mr. Boss was not amused. (He probably was when it first happened. I just must have missed it, and by then the novelty had worn off. I'm sure of it.)

But I was über amused, and über unable to record the actual event. So I conjured up some sound clips and re-created the magic for you. (Blogger-willing that it works.)



When I created the sound file, my computer wanted me to fill out a few fields of information on it. So I did.

Artist: Twitch the Witch
Track Title: It's Less Violent Than It Sounds
Album Title: Gettin' Twitchy Wit' It

I reiterate. Na na-na na na-na na.

I hope you sang it with me that time.

DrewTube

This post is especially for those who are not able to view facebook videos (hi, Mama! <3) but would like to see Craig Chapel and the worship services there, as well as last week's matriculation service, which was very uniquely sort of worship/academia-mania all rolled into one. Just one more reason to love Theo School.

Also a special shout-out to Nehemiah and the Sarah Lawrence Gospel Choir/Res Miranda - I miss you all very much and hope you're rocking out the year! If you miss Nehemiah's voice as much as I do (or don't know yet what you're missing), check out the second video here.

If you prefer to see the true blue Drew Worship facebook page and see what else is new in the chapel, you can do so at this link.

But if you simply don't feel like moving any further than scrolling down... you're in luck!

Here is the celebration in which our incoming class signed The Book. My only regret is that you don't get to see our Church History professor deliver the address or the Korean Men's Choir sing "You Raise Me Up"... but at least there's The Book (oh, and the Dean):



And here's a service from Thursday, November 2... which I sadly missed while sick. Sarah Lawrence College's gospel choir's former director, the amazing Nehemiah Luckett, makes a guest appearance and sings a solo for one of the hymns in Part 1.








I probably will not post these often (not sure how well videos load for you all?), unless there is something in particular I'd like to share or address, but if you are interested in seeing more in the future, please let me know.