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I Get On My Knees... for God's Grace
Sep. 27th, 2004 01:40 pmI have a few things to mention.
Firstly:
I just had one of the most hilarious conversations on the petridish chatterbox. It started with Terry defending me from Jason D'Orazio by making a mock post in the forum and we all started chatting and MAN I wish it logged... it was basically just making fun of Jason and Harris and their ridiculous comments but it just got so funny and Terry made this comment about hiring Mikhail to puke on his couch for his theoretical party and I started laughing out loud and Bryce and Jackie were wondering what the hell was going on. Unfortunately, I just couldn't hold it in. God, why doesn't petridish have a log??
Secondly:
My second day of being in Ohio involved going to this church to watch Edwin play the violin with this lady. So we get to the church WAY too early, and the choir is practicing. They have this soloist who is just awful. They finish pretty quickly.
Church starts. My mom and I are sitting together (apart from Edwin) and the congregation stands for the first hymn. This kid gets up ... he's probably around 13. That real awkward age. He has this skinny little guido mustache and he walks over to this drum kit. .... And he starts playing. The hymn starts and ... get this. Imagine for a moment a New Kids on the Block song. Except that instead of saying "Hangin' Tough" or something, it's talking about God. Backed by drums. And the words are being projected onto a huge screen behind the pulpit.
My mother started laughing and pinching me, and I started to laugh. What really got me, however, was when the "chorus" of the hymn comes on and it's like "Oh, Oh, Oh" "Holy, Holy, Holy" I started to laugh so hard that I had to stop singing and put my head down and cover my face with my hair. It was just ludicrous.
But it was about to get worse. The choir gets up with their soloist to do the "big number" and it's the terrible singer and it turns out the song is called "I Get On My Knees for God's Grace" ... Do I really even need to MAKE this joke?
The woman is singing it very Mariah-Carey-esque, except that she's no Mariah, and once again, I'm trying not to laugh. It would be rude... plus her family is sitting in front of us in the pews (she seems to have about 7 children).
Anyway .... after a few more drum-backed hymns, the service ended. But I will say it's one of the more amusing services I've ever been to.
Firstly:
I just had one of the most hilarious conversations on the petridish chatterbox. It started with Terry defending me from Jason D'Orazio by making a mock post in the forum and we all started chatting and MAN I wish it logged... it was basically just making fun of Jason and Harris and their ridiculous comments but it just got so funny and Terry made this comment about hiring Mikhail to puke on his couch for his theoretical party and I started laughing out loud and Bryce and Jackie were wondering what the hell was going on. Unfortunately, I just couldn't hold it in. God, why doesn't petridish have a log??
Secondly:
My second day of being in Ohio involved going to this church to watch Edwin play the violin with this lady. So we get to the church WAY too early, and the choir is practicing. They have this soloist who is just awful. They finish pretty quickly.
Church starts. My mom and I are sitting together (apart from Edwin) and the congregation stands for the first hymn. This kid gets up ... he's probably around 13. That real awkward age. He has this skinny little guido mustache and he walks over to this drum kit. .... And he starts playing. The hymn starts and ... get this. Imagine for a moment a New Kids on the Block song. Except that instead of saying "Hangin' Tough" or something, it's talking about God. Backed by drums. And the words are being projected onto a huge screen behind the pulpit.
My mother started laughing and pinching me, and I started to laugh. What really got me, however, was when the "chorus" of the hymn comes on and it's like "Oh, Oh, Oh" "Holy, Holy, Holy" I started to laugh so hard that I had to stop singing and put my head down and cover my face with my hair. It was just ludicrous.
But it was about to get worse. The choir gets up with their soloist to do the "big number" and it's the terrible singer and it turns out the song is called "I Get On My Knees for God's Grace" ... Do I really even need to MAKE this joke?
The woman is singing it very Mariah-Carey-esque, except that she's no Mariah, and once again, I'm trying not to laugh. It would be rude... plus her family is sitting in front of us in the pews (she seems to have about 7 children).
Anyway .... after a few more drum-backed hymns, the service ended. But I will say it's one of the more amusing services I've ever been to.
