Reasons to love the internet

And speaking of the virtues of blogging, this extensive, mind-boggling post on Metafilter about the Blind Willie Johnson song "Dark is the Night" is possibly the post of the year in terms of scope and sheer "wow" value. It starts with Ry Cooder, goes on to Piero Paulo Pasolini's The Gospel According To St. Matthew, discusses all the different versions of the song as well as Cooder's influence on American folk music and film soundtracks, discusses Christ in the garden of Gethsemane, and winds up with the fact that the song is on the golden CD sent into the cosmos on Voyager. Man!

Ry Cooder, Metafilter, Blind Willie Johnson, Dark is the Night,Pasolini