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[wickedflea]

It drives me crazy when people talk about what a kick-ass band they must have in heaven. "John Bonham, Jimi Hendrix, Scuzzy Cliff Burton, Janis Joplin, and Liberace are probably havin' one awesome jam session up in the good place!" I mean, OK, so maybe playing music is just about the best thing you can do on this earth, but even if you do believe in heaven, isn't it kind of lame to imagine that we're going to be doing exactly the same things in heaven that we do on earth?

"Boy, they're going to have one hell of an accounting department in hell. Phil Ledbetter and Irving Schlonzborg are gonna be crunchin' the numbers for Satan, boy!"

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[buscemi.livejournal.com]

"Boy, they're going to have one hell of an accounting department in hell. Phil Ledbetter and Irving Schlonzborg are gonna be crunchin' the numbers for Satan, boy!"

>>Ha. Crunchin' Numbers for Satan. Now there's a band name. Death metal math rock, I'm thinkin'.

[buscemi.livejournal.com]

Would all the numbers on their calculators be 6s?

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Heck yeah!

[mipplet.livejournal.com]

You make a good point. However, philosophically, I think there's something to that mentality. Wouldn't you want to have things in heaven that you cherish here on earth, like your loved ones, kitty cats, imported beer, etc? Some of these things are more important than others, I grant you, but still. I went to a religious school for 10 years of my life, and we were always told that heaven would be "more brilliant than anyhting you could ever imagine." However, they also told us that certain things did not exist in heaven. For instance, they said that there would be no marriage in heaven because there would be no need for marriage, since everyone will love each other (?). I was also told that heaven would consist of singing praises to god 24 hours a day, 7 days a year. That sounds more like my idea of hell, actually. I'd take Janis Joplin over Jesus tunes any day of the week!

(Sorry for my rant, your post just spawned all these religious memories from my corrupt childhood...!)

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Oh sure, if it's going to be the kind of place where we do stuff and have things, then sure, I want my Physical Graffiti! I guess I'm hoping for a higher-plane kind of thing where you lie around in a perpetual state of mambo. But yeah, if there's a bunch of suckers singing Kum-ba-ya I'm going to ask for a transfer.

[mipplet.livejournal.com]

They should sell t-shirts with that catch phrase: "Heaven is...a perpetual state of mambo!"

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Good idea, but the Baptists will never go for it!

[4hour-ramona.livejournal.com]

dude, i'll bet chopin hisself is givin pie-ano lessons to libeace, and beethoven and edison have cooked up some sort of mathymatical 'lectronic musicstuffs and have enlisted ian curtis and jeff buckley as their frontmen. i wonder who gets to be on the guestlist for shows in heaven... and are beers free?

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

You ask good questions. Maybe we can make start up our own afterlife club where all the beers will be free and plentiful . . .