Come Monday...Jenna Torres

“Come Monday…” is a weekly series that will involve a review of, or commentary about, websites, movies, documentaries, television shows, sports, music, and whatever else may tickle my fancy at the time. Be assured that these reviews will be generally positive, as in accordance to the Jimmy Buffett song “Come Monday.” This is subject to change, however. In fact, I would be most derelict in my duties to neglect going on a rant every once in a while. For rants promote change, and change can be good—right? Therefore, since good is generally considered as being a positive force in 99.3% of the parallel universes that I am aware of, even a rant could be considered as being something positive, and a genuine hissy-fit would be even better (so I’m told).

Link: [Thinking With My Heart at Amazon.com]

Jenna Torres is an incredibly attractive lady who is even more beautiful on the inside, and I don’t understand why she isn’t a bigger star yet. For aside from being such a wonderful person—the girl can flat out sing!

No, there is really nothing more that I can say that can do her justice. Therefore, I would like to just get out of the way and invite you to listen for yourself.

The first video is of a very poignant interview with her music taking center stage from time to time. The next video is for her I Can’t Kiss Me, which is on her newest album, Thinking With My Heart. You can also listen to her music on [her MySpace page] and [her website].

Link: [On YouTube]


Link: [On YouTube]

I Can’t Kiss Me
Jenna Torres
I guess I’ll be shuttin’ the windows and openin’ doors
Taking out the garbage and fixin’ up cars
Payin’ the bills and mowin’ the lawn
Tellin’ the kids not to stay out ‘til dawn
And I know that a girl can take care of herself
I get along and I don’t need your help

But I can’t kiss me in the mornin’
I can’t get to know you
I can’t hold my own hand
I can’t kiss me and hug me
I can’t really love me
Not the way that you can
I still need a man

I can take on the world and I can go it alone
I won’t say a word while I sink like a stone
And I’ll lose my temper and put my foot down
I’ll disappear and I’ll paint the town
I know a girl can take care of herself
I get along and I don’t need your help

But I can’t kiss me in the mornin’
I can’t get to know you
I can’t hold my own hand
I can’t kiss me and hug me
I can’t really love me
Not the way that you can
I can’t want me and need me
I can’t really see me
Not the way that you can
I still need a man

I need to feel your breath on my back
Warms my skin
When you’re here you remind me that
This is what I’m missin’

Mirrors are broken I can’t calm me down
Whose gonna touch me if you’re not around
I leave the door open I leave all the light
The day isn’t over ‘til you said good-night
I know a girl can take care of herself
I get along and I don’t need your help

But I can’t kiss me in the mornin’
I can’t get to know you
I can’t hold my own hand
I can’t kiss me and hug me
I can’t really love me
Not the way that you can
I can’t want me and need me
I can’t really see me
Not the way that you can
I still need a man

I still need a man

I still need a man

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A Sunday Drive

Back during my childhood, our parents would often load up my brother and I after Sunday morning church services for a leisurely drive around where we lived. Even though we were seeing mostly familiar sights, it was still good to see them, and this is why “A Sunday Drive” sounded about right for the name of a weekly series revisiting familiar sites that are well worth seeing again and again.

Link: [A Little Piece of Me]

Link: [A Painting a Day by Veronica Escudero]

Link: [Alivening]

Link: [Indoor Street Art by Paul Baines]

Link: [My Second Trial]

Link: [Photographer In Training]

Link: [Plein Air Painting Journal]

Link: [Stand To Reason]

Link: [The Virtual Dime Museum]

Link: [This Artist's Journey]

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What About Him?

“To whom can I speak and give warning? Who will listen to me? Their ears are closed so they cannot hear. The word of the LORD is offensive to them; they find no pleasure in it.” [Jeremiah 6:10 NIV]

We just got through observing a day that was officially set aside for us to be thankful for all that we have in the [United States of America]. Since we have adopted more and more of a politically-correct position, Thanksgiving Day has become less and less of a religious holiday to most.

Thanksgiving Day also marks the beginning of the Christmas season, which is another holiday that has become less and less a religious one. Therefore, I ask you, does our Heavenly Father have a reason to be thankful for us?

Yes, that is a strange way of looking at it, but it is one that we should not turn a blind eye to. For the reason why each and every one of us exist is to give our Heavenly Father an opportunity to truly receive love that is freely given.

Of course, that is a position that hard-core [Calvinist] would vehemently oppose. For they have been led to believe that not all were created to spend all of eternity with our Heavenly Father in His Kingdom of Heaven as heirs to all that is His in glory, but is it not curious that all who want to believe in such a way are amongst those who want to believe that they are one of the chosen few bound for glory?

No, it would not be fair to just pick on their side of the issue. For hard-core [Arminians] have been led to believe that it is almost all up to us to save ourselves, which places many a road-block in the way to having the kind of relationship with our Heavenly Father that He can truly be thankful for.

You see, the absolute truth of the matter is in the middle of all that. For our Heavenly Father truly is in full control of all that happens, which makes most Arminian points moot. On the other hand, He also gives us the freedom to chose whether or not we want to truly be who we were created to be, which makes the Calvinist argument for limited election flat-out wrong.

Yes, all of that is in regards to where we will spend all of eternity after our time as a part of this world has come to an end, but there is a life to be lived in the meantime. It is during this time that presents our Heavenly Father with the most opportunities to be thankful. For it will be easy to sing His praises when we can truly see Him in all of His most awesome glory in Heaven, but it is another thing entirely when mired in the malaise of this world.

No, I am not talking about belting out the words to a familiar anthem with your hands in the air in the middle of some praise and worship service. For what our Heavenly Father wants the most from us is to have a very close and personal relationship, which requires being able to truly carry on a conversation with Him.

Tragically, far too many do not want to even consider the possibility of that. For they have been taught to be content with the promise of salvation from having to pay the price for their sins. This is enough for them, but what about our Heavenly Father?

Did you notice something curious about the verse that opened this piece? Did you notice that it was our Heavenly Father asking a rhetorical question about who He could speak to during a time we have been so strongly encouraged to believe was before His Holy Spirit moved upon the face of this world? So, how much more must He be upset at this time?

Yes, many have been led to believe that they do have a relationship with our Heavenly Father, but it is by their very own words that prove that they really do not have one. For they talk about the Bible as being the authority that governs their lives instead about its Author, and they talk about the church being more important than the state when it was our Heavenly Father who established both to accomplish His purposes.

No, this is not meant to encourage anyone to throw their Bible in the trash. This is meant to encourage as many as will to want to understand that the true “Word of God” is the Lord Jesus Christ—not the book that He had written about Himself in order to serve as written confirmation of what He wants to personally reveal to us. For when that is better understood, it should not be so hard to accept that He has been talking to us since we were in the womb, and His Holy Scriptures were given to help us to discern between what is truly of Him, the devil and our own imaginations. For without that, it is impossible to truly have a very close and personal relationship with Him.

The same applies to truly having worship service in a church. For of what satisfaction can it truly be to our Heavenly Father to hear people who have no idea who He really is praise His name?

“A horrible and shocking thing has happened in the land: The prophets prophesy lies, the priests rule by their own authority, and my people love it this way. But what will you do in the end?” [Jeremiah 5:30-31 NIV]

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Sites To See

This is the new version of FIVE FOR FRIDAY. As with the former, it is the SOLE purpose of this weekly series to call attention to sites that I think many would find most interesting—in one way or another. Please, go see for yourself.

Link: [Bread Breakers Ministry]

Link: [Carneelia: The Borneo Gurl]

Link: [Cat Lovers Site]

Link: [Civilianism News]

Link: [Daily Painter]

Link: [Green is NOT a 4 Letter Word!]

Link: [HoundsGood]

Link: [Humbled By Your Majesty]

Link: [Insomnimusing]

Link: [Knowing Miner]

Link: [KSHIPPYCHIC]

Link: [Life Ordinary]

Link: [Mommy's Little Corner]

Link: [Photo Spear]

Link: [Poetry - A Source of Life]

Link: [Rare Fairy]

Link: [Revelations: 0]

Link: [Simply Jews]

Link: [The Common Progressive]

Link: [The Truth About Lies]

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Something To Turkey Trot To

I have been feeling kinda guilty about the last [Come Monday…] posted here. For it was about a couple of different ways to properly cook a turkey, and turkey meat contains a lot of [tryptophan].

In other words, I was inadvertently promoting lethargy. For tryptophan makes you sleepy, and now is not the time for sleeping with liberals trying to undo all of the accomplishments of the Bush administration. (LOL?)

So, to remedy the situation, I offer the following video. For if it doesn’t get parts of your body a-gigglin’ that you never knew were meant to jiggle, another drumstick is not going to do any more damage than has been already done.

Robert Randolph & The Family Band - New Music - More Music Videos

Link: [On MTV]

Ain’t Nothing Wrong With That
Robert Randolph & The Family Band
Whether it’s rock and roll or old soul
It don’t matter
Disco calypso
It don’t matter
Suit and tie or tie-dye
It don’t matter
Snakeskins or timberlands
It don’t matter
Tight fade or long braid
It don’t matter
Red head or brunette
It don’t matter
Breakdance slamdance
It don’t matter
Do the jerk until it hurts
I’m tellin’ you

Ain’t nothin’ wrong with that
I’m tellin’ you
Ain’t nothin’ wrong with that
I’m tellin’ you
Ain’t nothin’ wrong with that

East coast or west coast
It don’t matter
Down south or up north
It don’t matter
Hollywood or in the hood
It don’t matter
Either way it’s all good
It don’t matter
Block party frat party
It don’t matter
Backyard or boulevard
It don’t matter
Red yellow back or white
It don’t matter
We all getting’ down tonight
I’m tellin’ you

Ain’t nothin’ wrong with that
I’m tellin’ you
Ain’t nothin’ wrong with that
I’m tellin’ you
Ain’t nothin’ wrong with that
Ain’t nothin’ wrong with that

Shake it shake it shake it
Shake it shake it shake it
Shake it shake it shake it
Shake it shake it shake it
Shake it shake it shake it
Shake it shake it shake it
Shake it shake it shake it
Shake it shake it shake it

I don’t know but I’ve been told
When the music get down in your soul
It makes want to lose control
And there

Ain’t nothin’ wrong with that
I’m tellin’ you
Ain’t nothin’ wrong with that
I’m tellin’ you
Ain’t nothin’ wrong with that
I’m tellin’ you
Ain’t nothin’ wrong with that
Ain’t nothing wrong with that
Hollywood or in the hood
I’m tellin’ you
Ain’t nothing wrong with that
Suit and tie or tie-dye
I’m tellin’ you
Ain’t nothing wrong with that

It don’t matter
It don’t matter
Let it go
It don’t matter
Let it go
It don’t matter
Let it go
It don’t matter
Let it go
It don’t matter

Link: [Robert Randolph & The Family Band]

Lyrics From: [elyrics.net]

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WhiteHeart Wednesday

Link: [Nothing But The Best: Radio Classics]



MP3 Audio From: [BlogDumps Video]

Morningstar
WhiteHeart
Hear the tale of a fallen people
Destined to wander their broken land
Their eyes are vacant full of empty meaning
What they’re missing they just don’t understand

Beyond the dark horizon
Out where the people are cryin’
A Morningstar will be risin’
Risin’ to show us the way

Long ago a secret treasure was given
To change the heart of every woman and man
But somehow the treasure was forgotten
It lies buried underneath the shiftin’ sand

Beyond the dark horizon
Out where the people are cryin’
A Morningstar will be risin’
Risin’ up with the bright dawn of healin’
Risin’ up to show us the way

Our eyes are not seeing
Our hearts are not feeling
We want to believe now
Come save us from ourselves

Beyond the dark horizon
Out where the people are dyin’
The Son of Man will be risin’
The Glory of the Lord will be shinin’

Shatter the dark horizon
Out where the people are cryin’
A Morningstar will be risin’
Risin’ to show us the way

Link: [WhiteHeart]

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TWO FOR TUESDAY

Link: [Steve Camp]
Also: [CampOnThis]

Not every song that will be featured here will be what is generally considered as being “Christian” in the eyes of this world. For some will be anguished cries from the pit of despair, and others will be quite obviously ferverent rants of rebellion. Nonetheless, be assured that they will all be of our Heavenly Father (in one way or another) and I hope that you have been given ears to hear the message.

Link: [On YouTube]

Don’t Tell Them Jesus Loves Them
Steve Camp
Oh
Suffering soul
Crying out for love
In a world that seldom cares

See
The hungry heart
Longing to be filled
Much more than our prayers

And a young girl sells herself on Seventh Avenue
And you hear her crying out for help
My God
What will we do

Don’t tell them Jesus loves them
‘Til you’re ready to love them too
‘Til your hearts breaks from the sorrow
And the pain they’re going through
With a life full of compassion
May we do what we must do
Don’t tell them Jesus loves them
‘Til you’re ready to love them too

Oh
The desperate man
Are we reaching for the souls
That are sinking down in sin

Oh
Cry for the child
We’ve lost our passion for the lost
And there are billions left to win

And another 40,000 children
Starve to death today
Would we risk all we have
To see what of them say

Don’t tell them Jesus loves them
‘Til you’re ready to love them too
‘Til your hearts breaks from the sorrow
And the pain they’re going through
With a life full of compassion
May we do what we must do
Don’t tell them Jesus loves them
‘Til you’re ready to love them too

Why have we waited so long
To show them Jesus lives
To share Salvation’s song

Why have our hearts become so proud
That we fail to see
To love them is to love God

And a young girl sells herself on Seventh Avenue
Hear her crying out for help
What will we do

Don’t tell them Jesus loves them
‘Til you’re ready to love them too
‘Til your hearts breaks from the sorrow
And the pain they’re going through
With a life full of compassion
May we do what we must do
Don’t tell them Jesus loves them
‘Til you’re ready to love them too


Link: [On YouTube]

Do You Feel Their Pain
Steve Camp
Have we failed again
Talking about the love of God
But judging those who need it most
All these afflicted ones
I feel their lives just fade away
Left to face the end alone
So we say a prayer for their needs
Afraid to touch
To hurt
To bleed

Do you feel their pain
Has it touched your life
Can you taste the salt
In the tears they cry
Will you love them more
Than the hate that’s been
Will you love them back
To life again

We should feel ashamed
Allowing fear to close our minds
These are lives we can’t ignore
Oh don’t turn away
Will you see Jesus in each of them
These are souls He suffered for
There is hope for them
Open up your heart
There is grace for them
And do you think we’ve gone too far

Do you feel their pain
Has it touched your life
Can you taste the salt
In the tears they cry
Will you love them more
Than the hate that’s been
Will you love them back
To life again

Oh empty eyes
And lonely souls
Starving for love
And crying for hope
And Jesus said
Bring them all to Me
I will make them whole
I can set them free

Will you care for them
Or let them go alone
Will you lend a hand
Or will you cast the stone

Do you feel their pain
Has it touched your life
Can you taste the salt
In the tears they cry
Will you love them more
Than the hate that’s been
Will you love them back
To life again

Do you feel their pain
Has it touched your life
Can you taste the salt
In the tears they cry
Will you love them more
Than the hate that’s been
Will you love them back
To life again

Do you feel their pain
Has it touched your life
Can you taste the salt
In the tears they cry
Do you love them more
Than the hate that’s been
Will you love them back
To life again

Do you feel their pain
Has it touched your life
Can you taste the salt
In the tears they cry
Do you love them more
Will you hate what’s been
Do you love them back
To life again

Do you feel their pain
Has it touched your life
Can you taste the salt
In the tears they cry
Do you love them more
Will you hate what’s been
Do you love them back
To life again

Lyrics from [here]. Scroll down after page opens.

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Come Monday...Good Eats

“Come Monday…” is a weekly series that will involve a review of, or commentary about, websites, movies, documentaries, television shows, sports, music, and whatever else may tickle my fancy at the time. Be assured that these reviews will be generally positive, as in accordance to the Jimmy Buffett song “Come Monday.” This is subject to change, however. In fact, I would be most derelict in my duties to neglect going on a rant every once in a while. For rants promote change, and change can be good—right? Therefore, since good is generally considered as being a positive force in 99.3% of the parallel universes that I am aware of, even a rant could be considered as being something positive, and a genuine hissy-fit would be even better (so I’m told).

Link: [Alton Brown]

If you have been paying very much attention at all to what is often going on here, you will be aware of the fact that I am rather strange in some ways. Okay, maybe in a lot of ways, but that is not something that I like to keep a close eye on.

Anyway, I suppose that becoming a fan of Alton Brown’s [Good Eats] on the [Food Network] does count as one in the strange column. For a manly man like myself normally only cares about killing the stuff that the little woman is duty-bound to prepare a delicious meal out of in pure appreciation for having such a fine example of manliness around.

Mr. Brown, however, has a way of presenting things that makes cooking almost appear to be not just woman’s work. In fact, he even gets into scientific stuff that is obviously way over the heads of most wives.

No, this is not to say that his shows are TOO educational. For they often have a kinda [Mystery Science Theatre 3000] feel to me, which makes them wildly entertaining—even without copious amounts of adult beverages and a bug zapper handy.

Evidently, I am not the only one who loves the show. For while searching high and low for some links and clips to spice this piece up a bit, I came across [ALTON BROWN AND GOOD EATS], which is a very impressive blog that I do not believe is directly affiliated with the show. I could be wrong, of course, but even if I am, it is still a very impressive blog.

By the way, new episodes of the show are broadcast at 7 PM on Mondays in my area, and repeats are generally on Monday through Friday at 10 PM. Times and temperatures may vary—depending upon where you are.

Yep, I reckon I have done enough tellin’, and now would be a good time to get to the showin’. Since it is only three more days until [Thanksgiving], the following videos on a couple of different ways to prepare a turkey might be just what you are looking for.

Link: [Part 1 of 3 On YouTube]


Link: [Part 2 of 3 On YouTube]


Link: [Part 3 of 3 On YouTube]


Link: [Part 1 of 4 On YouTube]


Link: [Part 2 of 4 On YouTube]


Link: [Part 3 of 4 On YouTube]


Link: [Part 4 of 4 On YouTube]

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A Sunday Drive

Back during my childhood, our parents would often load up my brother and I after Sunday morning church services for a leisurely drive around where we lived. Even though we were seeing mostly familiar sights, it was still good to see them, and this is why “A Sunday Drive” sounded about right for the name of a weekly series revisiting familiar sites that are well worth seeing again and again.

Link: [A Different Street]



Link: [Beyond Just Mom]

Link: [Brian Eppley Paintings]

Link: [Holy Experience]

Link: [Loriann Signori's Painting-A-Day]

Link: [That Which Heals Me]

Link: [The Art Rifle]

Link: [The Daily Puppy]

Link: [The Midnight Garden]

Link: [The Patriots Cave]

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Oh No He Did-int Again!

According to the [Wiktionary], to bow and scrape is to make a deep bow with the right leg drawn back (thus scraping the floor), left hand pressed across the abdomen, right arm held aside, and this is what some on the conservative side of the American political spectrum are accusing President Obama of doing again. Well, not exactly. For it is actually the second part of the definition of bowing and scraping that they are concerned about, which is to show excessive politeness or servility.

To get even more technical about it, it is the part about excessive servility that really has their dander up. For excessive servility boils down to being [submissive—even slavish].

If that was indeed the case, I would have to agree with their outrage. For we did not elect President Obama to prostrate himself (and our country) before anyone but our Heavenly Father, and far too many would take great exception to that last part—much to their detriment [Proverbs 16:18] and His dismay [2 Chronicles 7:14].

The thing is that President Obama is doing no such thing. For when he bowed before [King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia] and [Emperor Akihito of Japan], it was a show of respect—not submission.

Alas, is there not enough about the president’s policies for American conservatives to rant and rail about without throwing hissy-fits over such a non-issue? I mean, if the base is not energized to the max over his universal healthcare proposal(s) already, surely the [Contract With America] has expired.

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Sites To See

This is the new version of FIVE FOR FRIDAY. As with the former, it is the SOLE purpose of this weekly series to call attention to sites that I think many would find most interesting—in one way or another. Please, go see for yourself.

Link: [A Big Mission]

Link: [Alex Goodall]

Link: [Andi Bob]

Link: [Artdecadence]

Link: [My Caddy]

Link: [My Sense and Sensibility]

Link: [Only My Opinion]

Link: [Postcards From Malaysia]

Link: [Read Between The Lines]

Link: [Sketches]

Link: [So Far, So Good]

Link: [Sunday Madness]

Link: [Super Mommy To The Rescue]

Link: [Symphony of Love]

Link: [The Angels Weekly]

Link: [The Chicken Hammer]

Link: [The Journey]

Link: [The Joys of Simple Life]

Link: [Travel On The Tide]

Link: [Who Needs School?]

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