Happy Palm Sunday/Holy Week/General Conference weekend! You definitely have other things you can/should be doing or contemplating, one way or another. But in case you need something to skim if the talks are boring, here’s a few posts from last year, to get you in the Easter spirit:

Jesus Christ Superstar and 2 Nephi 10:3

On Ian Mackaye’s Egg Hunt and Easter

“A Terrible Beauty Is [Re]Born”: W.B. Yeats, Julia de Burgos, and Romantic Resurrection

Or if nothing else, head-bang to this rendition of “In Contrast of Sin” by the Cleveland-based hard-core band Integrity, from their 1992 live album Palm Sunday (VHS streaks and all):

(Obviously we post the latter facetiously, but for what it’s worth, the lyrics–juvenile though they may be–aren’t entirely out-of-line for the sort of religious brooding and Thomasonian doubt that can sometimes accompany Holy Week):

“Evil lurking around every corner
Appearing adhering
In the doubt of my mind’s eye
Doubt fills you up inside
Drown emotion…Insanity
Never for you or with you
Only alone by myself

In my search for divinity
Is there no answers
Is there no end
All alone in my doubt
Living in contrast of sin

My walls surround me now
All greeting ignored
I put every once of energy
In who I am
So much failure
I wish I could understand

You’re alone in a world
You could never know
Full pain and suffering
Offered salvation
Doubting your faith
Has your life been been one huge mistake
Can you make amends
Gotta save yourself before it’s too late
Conflictions of morals
Take it out on others pain
I gotta know, I gotta believe
You wouldn’t leave me
In contrast of sin.”