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You may have noticed I’ve been neglecting my Tumor duties as of late.  School has had me way bogged down, but I’m in the last stretch, with only 2+/- weeks left of classes (for this semester) and that’s pretty bitchin’.  Usually, I’d be all stressed at this point, with a few deadlines looming over my head, but I’ve gotten into that mental state that some call Nirvana, and yet others call Fuck It.  I’m used to getting all A’s, but now, I just don’t care.  If it’s a passing grade, it’s ok by me.

So, some things that are good:

• It’s spring, and the new leaves match my house
• Allergies are finally abating
• Classes are almost out
• Projects pretty much caught up on
• Skanky Chick and Roughneck Kid are moving out of the house across the street, leaving it open to any manner of person with enough cash for first and last month + deposit
• Got yummy pizza reheating (little things in life, ya know?)
• Fun trip (hopefully) to Columbia, South Carolina this weekend
• MastaG’s 75 pages into the 3rd Harry Potter book
• Pigpen’s Pigpen (with a birthday coming up)
• House to myself for the next 2.5 hours
• Ben&Jerry’s icecream has just released a new flavor: Black & Tan

Alllllll riiiiiight.

So, they’ve found a 1700 yr old papyrus containing, among other things, a pretty bitchin copy of the Gospel of Judas.   Theres a PDF floating around with a translation of the thing, and its pretty interesting.  I’ve always found it strange exactly how the church picked and chose from all of the texts floating around to create the New Testament, when they were nearly all written dozens of years after the events described. 

Reading this one, it could be the Goth version of the bible (not as in the Germanic tribes, more like the "hurt me i am bleeding inside slowly" goth), or maybe the David Lynch version of it.   Heres how I took it, and we’ll see what the more trained theologian/philosophers among us took.

OK, so pretty much this thing seems to be a ‘nobody gets Jesus but Judas’ kinda thing.  Evidently, theres some future generation that is all going to heaven, and everybody up to that point gets the shaft.  But, Jesus explains, since Judas gets Jesus, Judas gets to hang out with him for a little while, but afterwards will be hated for generations.  Weak.

Judas is told what looks to my eyes that going to church under a priest that sins is as bad as sinning yourself, and it pisses the big guy off, because its leading people astray from the way things need to be.  Figure that answers the question about how the books get picked and chose?  

Then we have a bunch of metaphysical stuff.  Gnostic.  Oh yeah.  Its all about the Barberos and things that the modern church has moved away from in the past couple of millenia, and then finally, in the spirit of David Lynch, the very last paragraph goes "oh yeah, and then he gets payed to betray Jesus."

OK, your turn.  I’m still confused. 

The Robot Ate Me is coming to Nashville.  Now, the question is, who can find out how to get tickets on the intarweb?  Hmm…

Theres two shows that day, one at music store Grimey’s, and the other at 310 Chestnut Street.  Now, I’ve learned that 310 used to be a record pressing shop.  I have not learned how to purchase tickets.

Related, however, I emailed the man behind the eating robots, Ryland, about maybe coming to Knoxville or something.  He was kind enough to reply and tell me that he tried to book a show at the Pilot Light, but it was full on the date he needed… C’est la vie. 

So, the AT indie rock groupie roster now includes:

The Robot Ate Me
The Walkmen
Evan Dorkin (another email many years ago)

How the hell did this become about Milk and Cheese?