Who Woulda Thunk It

The other day I was looking for something interesting to read so I Googled book recommendations and one thing led to another...and before long I was checking out what the bestselling books of all time were. I already knew that the Bible was #1 (duh) but I was kind of happy to see that women feature prominently (also knew J.K. Rowlings was way up there, with Harry Potter) and that Judy Blume had a few books in the list for children's books.

As for the Bible, it certainly has had its influence, including in odd places like a Portishead song. I remember when I first got "Dummy" (for free), their outstanding debut, I fell in love with every one of the songs but one of my favorites was "Wandering Star". Here's the chorus:

Wandering stars,

For whom it is reserved,

the blackness of darkness, forever,

Wandering stars,

For whom it is reserved,

The blackness of darkness, forever.

Well, five years later I was a Christian and one day while reading the Bible for the first time, I discovered some "familiar" words in the Book of Jude:

12These men are blemishes at your love feasts, eating with you without the slightest qualm—shepherds who feed only themselves. They are clouds without rain, blown along by the wind; autumn trees, without fruit and uprooted—twice dead. 13They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.

I wonder if they just flipped through the Bible and found this and wrote a song around it or just how this ended up in one of the coolest indie albums ever?



PS Happy Fourth of July!!!!