If you don't feel like clicking the link, here's an excerpt:
Apparently the Darwin OS is not the original creation of Apple Computers but is instead based off of an older, obsolete OS called "BSD Unix". The child-indoctrinatingly-cute cartoon mascot of this OS is a devil holding a pitchfork. This OS -- and its Darwin offspring -- extensively use what are called "daemons" (which is how Pagans write "demon" -- they are notoriously poor spellers: magick, vampyre, etc.) which is a program that hides in the background, doing things without the user's notice. If you are using a new Macintosh running OS X then you probably have these "daemons" on your computer, hardly something a good Christian would want! This clearly illustrates that not only is Macintosh based on Darwinism, but Darwinism is based on Satanism.
Y'all... there's just nothing I can add to that...
It is Cher after all.
Her evening at the Erwin Center in Austin was a simpler Cher--back to basics, stripped down, sort of Cher unplugged. Not.
The 90 minute show featured only 10 costume changes, an eight-piece band, 2 huge video screens, one GIANT video screen, two glamorous staircases from an elevated platform to the main stage, a life-sized elephant with moving head and trunk, 8 gorgeous dancers, acrobats, trapezes, streamer cannons, enough lights to heat a small town and a Diva of all Divas entrance from the roof, descending atop a chandelier, bedecked in floor length white fur and rhinestones, singing U2's "Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For. Oh. My. God!
The set was sort of "Last Waltz Meets Wheel of Fortune, Millennium Edition" with fantastic chandeliers, and a backdrop wall of white squares that took on the color of any projected lights. Slings, trapezes, climbing ropes and bungee sets punctuated the enormous multi-level light trusses, from which dancers and acrobats dangled, climbed, swung and fell to the stage. The video screens alternated between closeups of Cher and the band and a sort of video resume of her career. During the costume and makeup changes, we were treated to clips of the Sonny & Cher show, Cher's acting repertoire and even old music videos to which she sang along. She even trotted out old gems like "Half Breed, "Dark Lady," and "Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves." Fabulous. Fagalicious. So incredibly gay that a film clip of Liberace looked like a Log Cabin Republican in Cher's shadow. I was enthralled.
Here's the setlist:
1. Still Havent Found What Im Looking For
2. Song For The Lonely
3. Different Kind of Love Song
4. All or Nothing
5. We All Sleep Alone
6. I Found Someone
7. Bang Bang
8. All I Really Want To Do
9. Half Breed
10. Gypies Tramps and Theives
11. Dark Lady
12. Take Me Home
13. The Way Of Love
14. After All
15. Just like Jessie James
16. Heart of Stone
17. It's In His Kiss (Shoop Shoop)
18. Strong Enough
19. If I Could Turn Back Time
20. Believe
I loved every excessive, overstaged, overproduced minute of it. She is 56, looks 36 and held me and the entire audience in her thrall. As "Hippie Cher Barbie" in bellbottoms and Afro, or in Bob Mackie diamonds and leather, a showgirl ringmaster, a transvestite pinata or as "Oh My God! How Does That Stay UP?" Cher in a hankie's worth of gauze and 3 million sequins, the woman looks FABulous in everything she wears. And the girl can make an entrance.
Thanks to Steve for getting the tickets, and to old friends and new: Steve, of course, and Marty, Jerry, Bill, David, Paul and Robert for the best night out I've spent in a long time.
