Downloadable: The Mountain Goats

Thanks to Daniel B for the good news about The Good News, a new collection from the Mountain Goats. The record has a theme - "twelve hard lessons the bible has taught me" - and you can get a sample of those lessons from the free download, Genesis 3:23.

I'll save you the effort:

So the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.

They're talking about Adam.

There's also a song about this one:

Then she said, "Here is Bilhah, my maidservant. Sleep with her so that she can bear children for me and that through her I too can build a family."

We'll have to wait until the album arrives on October 6th.

Keith Richards turns to the good book

Heartwarming news as the world prepares for Holy Week: Keith Richards is working his way through The Bible:

“I read it sometimes, but it bores me to death.

“I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.

“Why are they all hung up about all that ‘In the beginning’ stuff? Ah, well. At least it is stable.

“It has said the same damn thing since I was a kid.”

Really, Keith? Surely large chunks of the Bible hadn't actually happened yet when you were a kid.

We love that he's trying to understand religion by close study of the Bible and yet there's still the lingering suspicion that he hasn't got past the first three words of the first chapter yet.