Green Oasis

I made a video yesterday to compare two photos: one of my two-year-old daughter (let’s call her Monster Kitty) and one of my wife at the same age.

I’m not so good with video editing that I added a synced audio track, but you get the idea. It’s freaky because it’s like they’re like twins. The funny thing is that I didn’t even have to rotate the photos to get their faces lined up.

In a small Utah town where the word of God will save your soul, all Hell is about to break loose.

The Book of Zombie is a Mormon-themed horror flick. (No, I don’t think Mormons are zombies no matter how many brains they eat.… I kid.)

Judas has a point.

Jesus and Mary Magdalene are good, but the actor who portrays Judas owns this movie.

I’ve known for a while about the Nirvana song Jesus Don’t Want Me For a Sunbeam (originally by The Vaselines), but I was just reminded of it and I think it’s cute.

Jesus don’t want me for a sunbeam. ‘Cause sunbeams are not made like me.
Don’t expect me to cry for all the reasons you had to die. Don’t ever ask your
love of me.

Don’t expect me to cry.
Don’t expect me to lie.
Don’t expect me to die for thee.

For those who don’t know, this is a parody of a popular Christian song for children, I’ll Be a Sunbeam. It’s popular in Mormon circles where child folk tradition dictates that the refrain is sung with special emphasis on the syllable “beam” sometimes accompanied by hopping up in your seat:

A sunbeam, a sunbeam,
Jesus wants me for a sunbeam;
A sunbeam, a sunbeam,
I’ll be a sunbeamfor Him.

Are Mormon kids the only ones who do this?

Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails (songwriter of Hurt) in a 2005 interview for Rolling Stone about seeing Johnny Cash’s video cover for the first time: “I saw the video and it took my breath away. Immediately my throat had a lump in it, and at that point, it really struck home. It was heartbreaking. I had goosebumps, which I have right now even thinking about it. It became really inspiring to me.… It works. And it probably works better than my version.… I haven’t listened to my version since then.”

Mortality is a bittersweet pill.