In a world...

Christmas is approaching thick and fast my friends, for some this is an exciting prospect, the tree, the carols, the presents, for some this is a daunting time of worry, debt, and slippery roads. Apart from the slippery roads this would be the same for christmas no matter what time of year it fell (Australians have christmas in the middle of their summer so they're living proof!)
We all know the nativity story, about the teenager who becomes pregnant with the Son of God, she journeys with her betrothed to his home town, give birth in a barn, get visited by rich men and poor shepherds (what happened to that gold in the end...). It's every little girls dream to be cast as Mary, every little boys dream to be cast as Herod. But if you think about the story, if it were to happen today it would seem like the start of another doomed relationship that forms part of a broken society.
It's probably likely that even if you've thought about this scenario you've given it more of an overview and never delved too deep into the role of each character in its conception.
On Sunday 12th December, Alchemi presents the most famous birthday in the world through the eyes and mind of Joseph, the "other" guy.

The Gentleman Rhymer

Whilst perusing youtube as one does when one has not much to do I came across a man that called himself Mr B, The Gentleman Rhymer. intrigued I watched on of his videos. And another one. Then another one. Then I visited his Facebook page, myspace page, website and watched every video I could on Youtube.

Now that I have run out of new ways to watch and listen to his music (until I get his album) I must now spread the word! So here for your delight is a song that is close to my heart, I hope you'll be as intrigued as i am to check out the rest of his stuff at his Myspace page 

The art of Alchemy

I've got myself involved in a new event being held at my church, it's a sunday evening event with contemporary worship and speakers with bits of multi-media goodness dotted around to keep it all varied. It's name is Alchemi, slightly altered from "Alchemy", in which gold is attempted to be obtained from common metals.


Here below is one such piece of media-wizardry that will be shown in church this sunday morning to help advertise for the evening. It was meant to be shown with "short skirt, long jacket" by Cake playing in the background, but the vocals came in too early and I couldn't be bothered to cut it up into an instrumental version. Enjoy!



Sunday morning promo from Paul Lewzey on Vimeo.