Well, technically, it’s Thursday.
But I won’t have time to post my traditional Friday Random Ten on Friday. Immediately after morning Minyan, I will be heading up to the north Georgia mountains for my annualdrunken debauch Religious Retreat at Camp Ramah Darom.
Camp Ramah Darom.
Think of it as a blogmeet...but without the blogs. And with a whole bunch of Religious Content. There will be plenty of conviviality and catching up with friends from around the entire Southeast. And did I mention Adult Beverages? There will be plenty of those.
A full weekend of a Kosher Diet, and complete adherence to the myriad restrictions of the Jewish Sabbath. As soon as the sun goes down on Friday, there will be no smoking (hold those cigars!), photography, flipping light switches, using electronic devices (including telephones), lighting fires, driving, or photography, until the sun sets Saturday night. It’s a sort of enforced downtime...and far more relaxing and pleasant than it may sound.
During morning services Saturday, I will - thanks to the vagaries of the calendar - read the Ten Commandments (the Exodus version). It’s a dramatic event to hear it chanted in the original Hebrew, one of only three passages in the Torah for which the congregation stands while it is read aloud. Afterwards, a wee dram (in Yiddish, a bissel schnapps) will be consumed by way of celebration.
Sundown Saturday, we’ll light up the bonfire and heat up a few hundred pounds of Big Rocks, the better to operate the Famous Sweat Hut. That’s when the honkin’ Big Cigars will be trotted out, along with a selection of High-End Booze.
But now it’s time to check out the Random Musical Offerings of the iPod d’Elisson. Here they is:
But I won’t have time to post my traditional Friday Random Ten on Friday. Immediately after morning Minyan, I will be heading up to the north Georgia mountains for my annual
Camp Ramah Darom.
Think of it as a blogmeet...but without the blogs. And with a whole bunch of Religious Content. There will be plenty of conviviality and catching up with friends from around the entire Southeast. And did I mention Adult Beverages? There will be plenty of those.
A full weekend of a Kosher Diet, and complete adherence to the myriad restrictions of the Jewish Sabbath. As soon as the sun goes down on Friday, there will be no smoking (hold those cigars!), photography, flipping light switches, using electronic devices (including telephones), lighting fires, driving, or photography, until the sun sets Saturday night. It’s a sort of enforced downtime...and far more relaxing and pleasant than it may sound.
During morning services Saturday, I will - thanks to the vagaries of the calendar - read the Ten Commandments (the Exodus version). It’s a dramatic event to hear it chanted in the original Hebrew, one of only three passages in the Torah for which the congregation stands while it is read aloud. Afterwards, a wee dram (in Yiddish, a bissel schnapps) will be consumed by way of celebration.
Sundown Saturday, we’ll light up the bonfire and heat up a few hundred pounds of Big Rocks, the better to operate the Famous Sweat Hut. That’s when the honkin’ Big Cigars will be trotted out, along with a selection of High-End Booze.
But now it’s time to check out the Random Musical Offerings of the iPod d’Elisson. Here they is:
- Professor Alexander Hartdegen - Klaus Badelt, The Time Machine (2002)
- Shvarts Un Vays - The Klezmatics
- Jabberwocky - Tom Waits
- Bublitchki - The Klezmer Conservatory Band
- In Taberna - Ego Sum Abbas - Christian Thielemann, Orff: Carmina Burana
- Pay It Back - Elvis Costello
- Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi - Christian Thielemann, Orff: Carmina Burana
- Meet Me Tomorrow Night - Professor Longhair
- Come Wi Goh Dung Deh - Linton Kwesi Johnson
Come, wi go dung deh
Mek wi tek a ride dung deh
Come, wi go dung deh
Mek wi fahwahd dung deh
We nuh bad it up a bad it up a bad it up
Come, wi go dung deh
De peeple dem a bawl fi food dung deh
Dem cyaan get no food but food dung deh
De peeple dem a bawl fi work dung deh
Dem cyaan get no work but work dung deh
De peeple dem a bawl fi shelta dung deh
Dem cyaan get a room but palace dung deh
De peeple dem a bawl fi mercy dung deh
Dem cyaan get no mercy, mercy no dung deh
Come, wi go dung deh
Mek wi tek a stride dung deh
Come, wi go dung deh
Mek wi fahwahd dung deh
We nuh bad it up a bad it up a bad it up
Come, wi go dung deh
De peeple dem a fite fi work dung deh
De peeple dem a fite wananada dung deh
De peeple dem a fite fi stay alive dung deh
De peeple dem a fite fi dem rites dung deh
De peeple dem a fite oppression dung deh
De peeple dem a fite fi dem life dung deh
De peeple dem a fite fi suvvie dung deh
De peeple dem a fite dem a fite dung deh
So come, wi go dung deh
Mek wi mek a stap dung deh
So come, wi go dung deh
Mek wi fahwahd dung deh
We nuh bad it up a bad it up a bad it up
Come, wi go dung deh - We Both Reached For The Gun - Chicago The Musical
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