…it sort of comes from St. Paul and the Old Testament.

You really don't know anything about Scientology, do you?

But that would cost at least six bees

Careful my fidei defensor, wrath's a sin

People like Medieval monks

When I heard the word Western Culture, I reach for my Browning

When I heard the word Western Culture, I reach for my Browning

Looks like ZMF and TFAD had a kid

So the "Church" then doesn't do any good either, only a few particular members who happen to be affiliated?

"poor man's Bryan Ferry" has a surprising number of hits on Google

Woody Guthrie?

Not great? But it was on Bravo's Five Star Cinema!

That's what I'm taking about! Cheesy flute playing the whole final chorus of Hey Jude.

Are they the ones responsible for that piano-y music (not to be confused with "pianey" music) in some Chinese and pan-Asian restaurants? Or are we now importing that from recording studio sweatshops?

Trying to do Pride and Prejudice too.

You're gonna miss my hoo-hah, my tangoing, my blind driving, my hoo-hah!

You know there was/is horrible abuse going on in churches in Catholic dominant countries too. Look up the Magdalene Laundries in Ireland.

He does kinda look like Serge Gainsbourg with a beard

Gore's Messiah is a good, quick read.

Also, Lucretius' The Order of Things, Suetonius' The Twelve Caesars, Virgil's Aeneid, and anything about the Gracchi