Move over Bruce
Brandon has hundreds upon hundreds of CDs in his music collection. More, if you count the songs he’s copied from library CDs. I have, well, a lot less than that. In fact, before I met Brandon, my musical repertoire was largely restricted to one man, Bruce Cockburn. In my defense, the man does have 27 albums.
I still love Bruce, but I’ve since expanded my musical lexicon to include Aimee Mann, Corinne Bailey Rae, Kathleen Edwards and Erin McKeown. And of course, I’ve always listened to Tori Amos, Tegan & Sara, John Williams, India Arie and The Cure. Now I have a new musical girl crush: Kimya Dawson.
I’d never heard of her until the film Juno. Both me and Brandon and the couple we saw the movie with were enthralled with the soundtrack. I ordered it last week and have been bopping to it in the gym, at work, and while writing research proposals. The whole soundtrack is folksy fun, but the four songs by Kimya Dawson really stand out. I just ordered her 2006 CD off of Amazon.
Filed under Music | Comments (2)Six-word memoir
The Rules
1. Write your own six word memoir
2. Post it on your blog and include a visual illustration if you’d like
3. Link to the person that tagged you in your post and to this original post if possible so we can track it as it travels across the blogosphere
4. Tag five more blogs with links
5. And don’t forget to leave a comment on the tagged blogs with an invitation to play! Charlynn tagged me, and my six word memoir is “For sale” Skinny pants, never worn.”
I am tagging Ottermatic, Lisa, Deniselle, Lindsay and Thoughtracer.
Filed under Personal | Comment (0)Road trip to Maysville
As reported in The Enquirer:
George Clooney wants to bring his new “Leatherheads” movie to Maysville, Ky., as part of his small-town tour promoting small-town pro football in the 1920s.
“They’d like to do a screening, if possible, in Maysville. They’re working on it,” says the actor’s mother, Nina Clooney, from her home in nearby Augusta.
I am so there.
Filed under Pop Culture | Comments (2)Just call me Reverend Rachel Richardson
So, I checked out the church through which Kathy Griffin was ordained and applied for ordination myself. Here’s the response I got back:
This is to confirm that Rachel Richardson has been ordained as a minister of the Universal Life Church, Modesto, California.
Date of Ordination: 3/10/2008
by Kevin Andrews, Pastor
www.ulc.net
The Universal Life Church is a “regularly established church or congregation” and all ordinations are done as the deliberate, thoughtful, and responsible act of a human being, not by a computer. The church holds regular meetings every Sunday morning in Modesto, and has congregations in all 50 states of the USA as well as countries throughout the world.
As a minister, you are authorized by the church to perform all peaceful rites and ceremonies of the church, including weddings, funerals, baptisms, blessings, and to preach, teach and hold meetings. You are entitled to all privileges and courtesies normally offered to members of the clergy.
Filed under Personal, Religion | Comment (0)I now pronounce you… a minister
After Brandon proposed, we initially planned to have a ceremony here in Cincinnati, where I had already lined up a local Buddhist woman to officiate. Then we decided to elope on Mackinac Island, Mich. where ministers, let alone lesbian Buddhist ministers, are a relative scarcity. Overall, we were really pleased with the minister we chose, who agreed to do a lovely non-religious ceremony in which we read our own vows. The minister was really just a formality, so it didn’t even bother me when he flubbed and accidentally inserted the whole “What god has put together…” line we had agreed beforehand to omit.
But if I had our wedding to do all over again, I’d totally ask Kathy Griffin to officiate.
The often provocative comedian - who raised some Christian groups’ hackles by joking about Jesus while accepting an Emmy Award last September - became ordained through an online church to officiate Saturday at the New York wedding of two fans, Brian Anstey and Elka Shapiro.
Griffin said she was ordained online by the Universal Life Church and completed additional paperwork to meet New York State requirements. But she insisted her role in the wedding was a one-night-only performance.
Maybe a renewal of our wedding vows is in order.
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