Shaft theme on the ukulele

The lyrics come in a little after the one minute mark which is the best part.

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Land Slide

It all start to happen a little after 20 seconds . . .

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Earliest reference describes Christ as ‘magician’

A team of scientists led by renowned French marine archaeologist Franck Goddio recently announced that they have found a bowl, dating to between the late 2nd century B.C. and the early 1st century A.D., that is engraved with what they believe could be the world’s first known reference to Christ.

If the word “Christ” refers to the Biblical Jesus Christ, as is speculated, then the discovery may provide evidence that Christianity and paganism at times intertwined in the ancient world.

The full engraving on the bowl reads, “DIA CHRSTOU O GOISTAIS,” which has been interpreted by the excavation team to mean either, “by Christ the magician” or, “the magician by Christ.”

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From Basic Instinct to Showgirls to Jesus

Conversion for Hollywood screenwriter Joe Eszterhas happened while sitting on a curb crying. And not just crying but also, to his shock, praying about his alcohol and nicotine addictions and his newly diagnosed throat cancer.

“And suddenly,” he writes in his compelling new book, Crossbearer: A Memoir of Faith (St. Martin’s Press; 2008), “my heart stilled. My nerve endings stopped torturing me. I stopped trembling and twitching. … Something happened to me on that hellish muggy day … I was saved.”

It’s been more than seven years since then, but recently when I spoke by phone to Joe — creator of such sex-and-violence movies as “Basic Instinct” and “Jagged Edge” — it was clear his spiritual transformation wasn’t just a passing phase.

“There is a spirit in me that I’d never felt before,” he told me. “God opened up this formerly crusty, cynical heart.” Joe, his wife and children now are active members of a small Catholic church in a Cleveland suburb.

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