Od yavo' Shalom

This song was on a CD that was made during my time in CPE (Clinical Pastoral Education, Chaplaincy Education). I have always enjoyed the song, and never knew the name of it. Today I decided to look up the meaning and the translation of the song.

I found that it was written as a peace song, and is now a anthem for peace between Israel and Palestine.

The combination of Hebrew Shalom (peace) and Arabic Salaam (peace) made me want to know the background of the song.

For more here is a Wikipedia Article on the Song.

Here is a good version of the song on Youtube.

#	English translation	Transliteration	Hebrew
1	Peace will come upon us	Od yavo' shalom aleinu	עוד יבוא שלום עלינו
2	Peace will come upon us	Od yavo' shalom aleinu	עוד יבוא שלום עלינו
3	Peace will come upon us	Od yavo' shalom aleinu	עוד יבוא שלום עלינו
4	and on everyone.	Ve'al kulam (x2)	ועל כולם
5	Salaam ('peace' in Arabic)	Salaam (Salaam)	סלאאם
6	On us and on all the world	Aleinu ve'al kol ha olam	עלינו ועל כל העולם
7	Salaam, Salaam	Salaam, Salaam (x2)	סלאאם ,סלאאם

Christmas blurbs

Hey all,

Christmas time blurbs,

Follow Santa at Norad.

My Friend Gloria's Internship church Gloria Dei created a free Music CD that is very good, a mix of devotional/worship music that can be listened to any time as well. It is called Hope for a Tree Cut Down. It can be found here.

I have two Christmas Eve Services that I am leading today, one at Faith Lutheran, and one at St. Luke. They are both candlelight services, I put together the Faith service myself, so hopefully it will go well.

My parents and sister are here for the week and then we will head up to my Grandparents for Christmas there. That will be fun, all the family except for two cousins will be there.

Laters, and Merry Christmas!

Erik

edit:fixed link to hope for a tree cut down

Chacarron!!!!!

K, this song is hilarious, I have no idea what it means, but it is just funny to listen to, makes you laugh and feel good.




It is also used to comedic effect on Family Guy.







Last, 6 Days until The Simpsons Movie!!!

flight of the bumble bee on accordion

guy playing flight of the bumble bee on accordion, oh yeah, its awesome.



and his fingers move fast enough to almost blur.

cool,

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Leo Kottke

As you know I took as my Lenten Discipline giving up TV, during this time I started to really listen to A Prairie Home Companion. I had listened to Leo Kottke before and really enjoyed him. When I found out that he was a frequent guest of the show, I started to look up the shows that he was on.

I found the song, Twice, on an episode from Jan 8th 2005. It is incredibly done and despite what it says on his first album cover, he actually has a very nice voice. His first album states that his voice sounds like geese farting.

umm yeah

Here is the link to the show, the segment with Twice is number 5.

http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/programs/2005/01/08/

If you listen to the whole show, the Croatian singers are very good and interesting as well.


Laters,

Horrible Song lyrics

Black Eyed Peas - My Humps



ok, I will say this song does have a good beat and gets in your head, but if you listen to the lyrics they are some of the worst I have found. Not for what they say, just the unoriginality of them. I want to see what the person writing this was thinking ...

ok, first well have

my humps
my humps umm

my humps
my humps
my humps

my lovely lady lumps


(just repeat this about 80 times)

- writer name


k,

Erik

Oklahoma

well last night was fun, little more hectic than normal though.

Got back from work at 6:45, Finished making dinner at 7:10. I had just sat down to eat, when my friend Addie calls me to see if I wanted to go to Oklahoma the musical.
She had an extra ticket and did not want to waste it. I said that I would and asked when it was starting, "Yeah, It starts at 7:30" so well I ate in about 5 secs and ran out the door in order to get there on time. Parked at Church, and power walked over, got there at 7:29 and had just sat down, not even gotten my jacket completely off when the overture started.

that was fun, not much else to the story, it was good.


yep,
later