Did YOU Vote? (New Brunswick Provincial Election Night)

I used to always hear growing up that, "If you don't vote you don't have ANY right to complain about the way things are in your Province or Country"....

That's 100% bullshit. Being a 'Canadian' gives you the 'right' to do whatever you feel (obviously, I'm talking within reason)... If you don't want to vote, maybe you're lazy, maybe you don't care, maybe you're too busy, maybe you feel there's no one to vote for... Whatever your reason, that's up to you and IF you don't vote, you can bitch all you want. If I didn't have certain responsibilities, I probably wouldn't vote... But I did. Ask my neighbors, I went with them.

I'm very pessimistic about our World politics. I believe the system is broken. Each and every person running cannot be trusted.
I think there used to be a saying about lawyers, that none could be trusted, I feel that's the same about politicians. No matter what their intentions going in, the system is now so screwed and messed up, broken and destroyed that no matter WHAT 'good' intentions one running for an office may have, when they get into that position, the realities are much much different and they can never live up to the promises made on the campaign trails. How many years now have we seen on the news, months and years after elected persons are in office that their promises are listed and scrutinized and ALMOST always never fulfilled.

So why vote at all? It's a very good question. Last provincial election in NB some 65/68% voted. Why didn't the rest vote? Who knows, maybe for the reasons I wrote above...

There sadly will never be a time when NO one votes at all, society is just not like that. Like any protest, there's always going to be those who won't take part.
IF, no one voted, IF, people stopped buying certain products from certain companies, then those, the 'powers that be', might see, "Ohhh wow, the general populace is really upset here... But that will never happen (that no one votes or people completely boycott something.

So, if you voted, hurray for you! If you didn't, hurray for you... Sad things is, things are just going to remain the same, spiraling out of control, creating more and more division and dissatisfaction....

It's not a brave new World out there, it's just the same 'ol, same 'ol.....

"It's Your Money I'm After Baby"

During the early 1990's, along with a whole slew of Metal, Grunge, Pop and Rock, I got into a lot of 'Alternative Rock'.
Some of the bands, like Ned's Atomic Dustbin, Redd Kross, School Of Fish, Jesus Jones, Asexuals, Change of Heart, Blind Melon, Eels, Ween, Weezer and of course, The Wonderstuff.

Hailing from Stourbridge, in the West Midlands of the UK. Miles Hunt, is the son of Bill Hunt who was the keyboard player for early ELO/Wizzard along with Malcom Treece, Bob Jones and Martin Gilks.
The band was kinda Folk Rock, but more towards the 'Rock' side of things. They started off soft and grew large. The album that really turned me onto the band was 'Never Loved Elvis' released in 1990.
The single 'Size of a Cow' propelled the band into international recognition, but nothing, ever could touch the scale of their live shows in the homeland..
Seeing thousands of sweaty alt-Rock kids bouncing along with the band became a signature to their Euro shows.
'Construction For The Modern Idiot' released in 1993 and saw the band tour into 1994, when sadly, as it seemed they could only get bigger, they called it quits.

I used to walk to work everyday in 1993, and I worked way out on the highway at an NB Power building that was several kilometers from my Mom's place on Glenngary.
Each day I'd set out with my walkman, loaded with 'Never loved Elvis' and would walk to this song.
(Watch the audience in this video)

That's some pumpin music. The bands mix of Folk and Rock brought them on tour with Canadians 'Spirit of the West', and some of those members actually ended up recording and going on tour with the Wonderstuff.

THAT song would lead into 'Play' the second track off the album... Another amazing 'walking' song.

I could go through almost every album song by song, all hits to me, but I'll leave you with two more to explore.
'Here Comes Everyone', "If they fast die young, you'd make a good looking corpse"

Ok, I lied a couple more.... 'Unbearable'... I Didn't like you very much when I met, and now I like you even less...."

And last but not least, 'On The Ropes' from 'Construction For The Modern Idiot'...

Sadly, since the band broke up in 1994 I never for to see them live. They would have been on my bucket list for sure. I did get to see Ned's Atomic Dustbin though and they were another one of my favorites of the time period... Check out 'Walking Through Syrup'... The jawdropping, ear melting thing about Ned's Atomic Dustbin was they had TWO bass players, kinda like a lead and rhythm bass..

Plus Ned's used loads of great samples, from Clive Barker's 'Nightbreed' to 'The Wickerman'

Ahh great days and great music.

Now here's Buddy on my lap !

Now piss off my back's fukin' killing me.

Go Japan! (Great things happening on a little rock in space)

JAXA, the Japanese Space Agency is like the 'little space agency that could'. They've had some great success' and they've had some great loses, including a couple of probes that missed their mark, one completely sailing past the planet it was supposed to visit. Another probe's programming malfunctioned and it too became some huemahn waste out among the stars.
But the Hayabusa2 space probe has just plopped two hopping landers on the Near Earth Asteroid 'Ryugu'! It's quite a mission!

Read my friends and learn the secrets of the Milky Way (ok, really just some news on this space probe, but learning is fun!0

They Made It! Japan's Two Hopping Rovers Successfully Land on Asteroid Ryugu 

An artists rendering of the two 'hopping' space probes MINERVA-II1 -IMmge: JAXA

(CNN)The Japanese space agency JAXA said it made history Saturday by successfully landing two unmanned rovers on an asteroid.

"The two rovers are in good condition and are transmitting images and data," a JAXA statement said after the rovers separated from the Hayabusa2 spacecraft and landed on the asteroid Ryugu.

The rovers are collectively known as MINERVA-II1. The space agency reported that MINERVA-II1 is the world's first mobile exploration robot to land on the surface of an asteroid.
"I felt awed by what we had achieved in Japan. This is just a real charm of deep space exploration," said Takashi Kubota, a spokesman for the space agency.
The Hayabusa2 began its approach to Ryugu from an orbiting altitude of around 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) on Thursday afternoon.

As the craft approached to within 100 meters (328 feet) of the space rock, it sent back a photo showing Hayabusa2's shadow projected onto its barren, cratered surface.
Japan's Hayabusa-2 probe touching down on distant asteroid

First photo from MINERVA-II1 caught in mid 'hop' - Image: JAXA

Beneath their desolate surfaces, asteroids are believed to contain a rich treasure-trove of information about the formation of the solar system billions of years ago.
The 1 kilometer-wide space rock, which is shaped like a diamond, is expected to be "rich in water and organic materials," allowing scientists to "clarify interactions between the building blocks of Earth and the evolution of its oceans and life, thereby developing solar system science," JAXA said in a statement.

A series of specially designed cameras -- four on the first rover and three on the second -- will take stereo images of the asteroid's surface. The rovers are also equipped with temperature gauges and optical sensors as well as an accelerometer and a set of gyroscopes.

A third rover called MASCOT will be launched from Hayabusa2 in early October.
Later in the mission, scheduled for the end of October, the spacecraft will land on the asteroid after blowing a small crater in it using explosives, so samples that haven't been exposed to space can be gathered from below the object's surface.

After examining the far distant object and taking samples, Hayabusa2 will depart Ryugu in December 2019 before returning to Earth by the end of 2020 with its cargo of samples.

If successful, JAXA has said it will be the "world's first sample return mission to a C-type asteroid."
Japanese scientists are racing NASA for that achievement, with the US agency's sample retrieval mission due to arrive back on Earth in 2023.

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/22/asia/japan-rovers-asteroid/index.html
I know, it's from CNN, but it was the easiest to grab...

Three NASA Missions Return First Light Data

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) took this snapshot of the Large Magellanic Cloud (right) and the bright star R Doradus (left) with just a single detector of one of its cameras on Tuesday, Aug. 7. The frame is part of a swath of the southern sky TESS captured in its "first light" science image as part of its initial round of data collection. Credit: NASA/MIT/TESS

(phys.org) - - NASA's continued quest to explore our solar system and beyond received a boost of new information this week with three key missions proving not only that they are up and running, but that their science potential is exceptional. On Sept. 17, 2018, TESS—the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite—shared its first science observations. Later in the week, the latest two missions to join NASA's heliophysics fleet returned first light data: Parker Solar Probe, humanity's first mission to "touch" the Sun, and GOLD, a mission that studies the dynamic boundary between Earth and space.

First light data from GOLD was captured at 6 a.m. local time, near sunrise in eastern South America, and shows the ultraviolet atomic oxygen emission from Earth's upper atmosphere. Colors correspond to emission brightness, with the strongest in red and the weakest in blue. The emission is produced at altitudes around 100 miles above the surface (note how it extends above Earth's surface on the horizon), when Earth's upper atmosphere absorbs high energy photons and particles. The aurora, at the top and bottom of the image, and daytime airglow, on the right-hand side, are also visible. An ultraviolet star, 66 Ophiuchi, is visible above the western horizon of Earth. Credit: NASA/LASP/GOLD

Part of the data from TESS's initial science orbit includes a detailed picture of the southern sky taken with all four of the planet-hunter's wide-field cameras. The image captures a wealth of stars and other objects, including systems previously known to have exoplanets, planets beyond our solar system. TESS will spend the next two years monitoring the nearest, brightest stars for periodic dips in their brightness, known as transits. Such transits suggest a planet may be passing in front of its parent star. TESS is expected to find thousands of new planets using this method.

Together, the two other missions represent two key observation points in the giant system of space—dominated by particles and magnetic energy from the Sun—studied by the field of heliophysics. Parker Solar Probe will help us understand how the Sun's atmosphere drives particles out into space; GOLD monitors changes in the space close to Earth, much of them driven by ever-changing solar activity. The two viewpoints support heliophysics' focus on our star and how it influences the very nature of space—and, in turn, the atmospheres of planets and human technology.

In early September, each of Parker Solar Probe's four instrument suites powered on and returned their first observations on the spacecraft's journey to the Sun. While the data are not yet examples of the key science observations the spacecraft will take closer to the Sun, they show that each of the instruments is working well.

The instruments work in tandem to measure the Sun's electric and magnetic fields, and particles from the Sun and solar wind. They also capture images of the solar wind environment around the spacecraft. The mission's first close approach to the Sun will be in early November 2018, but even now, still outside the orbit of Venus, the instruments indicate they're ready to gather measurements of what's happening in the solar wind.

"All instruments returned data that not only serves for calibration, but also captures glimpses of what we expect them to measure near the Sun to solve the mysteries of the solar atmosphere, the corona," said Nour Raouafi, Parker Solar Probe project scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab in Laurel, Maryland.

WISPR, the mission's only onboard imager, captured the first snapshots from its journey to the Sun on Sept. 9, 2018. Similarly, the FIELDS instrument suite provided the first magnetic field observations and even captured a burst of radio waves, signatures of a solar flare. One of the SWEAP instruments sampled its first gust of solar wind, and the IS?IS instrument—pronounced "ee-sis" and including the symbol for the Sun in its acronym—successfully measured the energetic particle environment.

GOLD's first light closely followed Parker Solar Probe's. On Sept. 11, the GOLD—short for Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk—instrument powered on and opened its cover to scan Earth for the first time, returning a full-disk image of the Western Hemisphere in ultraviolet. In this wavelength of light, which is invisible to the human eye, GOLD enables researchers to view global-scale temperature and composition at the dynamic region where Earth's upper atmosphere meets space.

GOLD commissioning began Sept. 4 and will run through early October, as the team continues to prepare the instrument for its planned two-year science mission.

"The GOLD mission is a game-changer, providing never-before-seen footage of upper atmospheric weather similar to the very first terrestrial weather satellites," said Sarah Jones, GOLD mission scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. "These global-scale pictures of the boundary between Earth and space will allow scientists to start teasing out the effects coming from the Sun versus those coming from Earth's weather below."

With missions both near and far, like bookends in the vast stretch of space between the Sun and Earth, researchers are eager to fill knowledge gaps in our understanding of the complex relationship between solar activity and conditions at Earth.

Historically difficult to observe, the region GOLD studies is little-understood and can undergo dramatic change in as little as an hour. GOLD—which occupies geostationary orbit, hovering 22,000 miles over the Western Hemisphere—will provide hour-by-hour updates on the ever-changing conditions in near-Earth space, known as space weather. Shifts in space weather can garble space-traveling communications signals, interfere with electronics onboard satellites, endanger astronauts and at their most severe, disrupt power grids.

Meanwhile, Parker Solar Probe will travel into the blazing corona, closer to the Sun than any spacecraft before it. The mission seeks to answer fundamental questions about the Sun—questions that lie at the root of understanding how solar activity shapes space weather across the solar system.

The first images from WISPR, short for the Wide-field Imager for Parker Solar Probe. Researchers studied the images to determine the instrument was pointed as expected, using celestial landmarks as their guide. The left image shows the Milky Way, looking at the galactic center. In the right image, there is a distinctive cluster of four stars near the right edge that is in the constellation Scorpius. The planet Jupiter is also visible in the right image as the bright object slightly right of center. The Sun, not visible in the image, is far off to the right of the image's right edge. Credit: NASA/Naval Research Laboratory/Parker Solar Probe

TESS is a NASA Astrophysics Explorer mission led and operated by MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and managed by Goddard. Dr. George Ricker of MIT's Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research serves as principal investigator for the mission. Additional partners include Northrop Grumman, based in Falls Church, Virginia; NASA's Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley; the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts; MIT's Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, Massachusetts; and the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. More than a dozen universities, research institutes and observatories worldwide are participants in the mission.

Parker Solar Probe is part of NASA's Living with a Star Program, or LWS, to explore aspects of the Sun-Earth system that directly affect life and society. LWS is managed by Goddard for the Heliophysics Division of NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. Johns Hopkins APL manages the Parker Solar Probe mission for NASA. APL designed, built and operates the spacecraft.

GOLD is a NASA mission of opportunity as part of the heliophysics Explorer Program. Goddard manages the Explorer Program for the Heliophysics Division of NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. It is designed to provide frequent, low-cost access to space using principal investigator-led space science investigations relevant to the agency's astrophysics and heliophysics programs. GOLD is led by the University of Central Florida. The Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder built and operates the instrument. The GOLD instrument is hosted on a commercial communications satellite, SES-14, built by Airbus for Luxembourg-based satellite operator, SES.

Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2018-09-nasa-missions-first-light.html#jCp

Smashing Pumpkins killin' it in 1994!

Save It For Later....

Let's start out with a music video first and save the bad news for later...

Save It For Later 

The English Beat

Two dozen other dirty lovers

Must be a sucker for it

Cry cry but I don't need my mother

Just hold my hand while I come to a decision on it

Sooner or later

Your legs give way, you hit the ground

Save it for later

Don't run away and let me down

Sooner or later

You hit the deck, you get found out

Save it for later

Don't run away and let me down

You let me down

Black air and seven seas are rotten through

But what can you do?

I don't know how I'm meant to act with all of you lot

Sometimes you don't try

Just now now now now now now now now now now now

Now now now now now now now now now now now

Sooner or later

Your legs give way, you hit the ground

Save it for later

Don't run away and let me down

Sooner or later

You hit the deck, you get found out

Save it for later

Don't run away and let me down

You let me down

You runaway, runaway and let me down

Two dozen other stupid reasons

Why we should suffer for this

Don't bother trying to explain them

Just hold my hand while I come to a decision on it

Sooner or later

Your legs give way, you hit the ground

Save it for later

Don't run away and let me down

Sooner or later

You hit the deck, you get found out

Save it for later

Don't run away and let me down

You let me down

You run away run away

Runaway runaway runaway, runaway, and let me down

Songwriters: Andy Cox / Dave Wakeling / David Steele / David Frederick Wakeling / Everett Morton / Roger Charlery

Save It for Later lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc

Yeah, so I probably really shouldn't have done that walk tonight. 

Let's go back to last Saturday. I was walking off a curb and I did that fine, I am careful with curbs because even the smallest of 'drops' is pretty painful.. After I had got both feet on the ground I went to step forward and the pain came from my big toe, shot right up through my legs, almost buckling them, up my spine and to my brain. I have NO idea what brought that on. I have had pain in all my toes since about April 1999 and I do believe that this problem toe, my big toe on my right foot, is one that I had broken when i was about maybe 15/16 and I was walking down the carpet stairs to my bedroom when my foot slide perfectly following the curve of the step and my toe was driven straight down into the stair, I heard the crack, but I never did anything about it aside from nurse that toe for a while until it felt 'better'.

Goddamn it, it's only 7:20PM and it's already freakin just about dusk! 

Anyhow, it seems my big toe's latent injury just decided it needed more attention. THEN Tuesday night into Wednesday it was pretty cold, dreary and inclement and I woke up early Wednesday morning and my ankle was really painful and swollen.. It was the same when I woke up, but by the time I was ready to hobble some errands, it didn't feel all too bad, so of I went. Then last night it was a bit tender and I woke up again with it quite swollen and sore (My ANKLE|!) Despite it's bit of pain and tenderness I set out again today though I wrapped my ankle in tensor bandage. This evening I was cursing my ankle and toe... I decided since the weather was agreeable I'd go out, 'no pain no gain right'?

By the time I was almost home my hips felt like they were going to shatter... I'm blaming this on the 'change over' from Summer type weather to Fall, I mean, in a matter of days we went from near 35°C to +18°C and definitely a change in humidity.

I first was diagnosed with psoriatic arthritis in 2000 by rheumatologist Dr. Angela How. An amazing doctor. She was in oncology but saw so many people suffering from arthritis that she switched medical fields (I was also told that seeing so many people dying from cancer was also a bit of it). She felt she could do greater good dealing with us folk (arthritis sufferers).

For near a full year I had no diagnosis and from standing up to being in a wheelchair in 6 months was a frightening experience, especially since it came so very fast and no one knew what the hell was going on.

I saw a 'casting specialist' via my GP and he said that the incredible swelling of my feet and toes was due to.... "An infection from athletes foot"...... Seriously.... I was rubbing this shit on my toes and feet for like 2 months to obviously no avail (as well as taking an antibiotic -Which actually DID help a little bit at the time because there has been relief shown by taking antibiotics for psoriatic arthritis, the shit deal of course being if you take a lot of antibiotics it becomes harder to fight infections... I did actually go on an antibiotic regime sometime around 2007, just to try it because nothing else was working.

It's been a fight my friends and given that as we get older we all generally get joint issues anyhow, I could be seeing even rougher times within the next couple of decades as I get older and my body starts to give up the ghost as it were.... My rheumatologist said back in around 2003 that she thought I'd be in a permanently in a wheelchair by the time I was 30. So here's to proving them wrong.

Music!

Trumpet 

Josh Clayton-Felt

I love my trumpet, but I just can't make it sing

I love my trumpet, more than almost anything

She gave it to me, and she knows how to dream

So mush bigger than I do

I found myself at the top if a hill

I haven't climbed yet, but I'm sure I will

And the words going round could make you stand still

If you heard what they're saying

And every time (every time I think I know)

I think I know where I stand

Every time (every time I think I know)

I think I know that I can

I get turned around so easily

I love my trumpet, but I just can't make it talk

I stay up nights, but I've never seen the dark

And I hope you'll come by

And show me where to start

Cause I never would have gotten it for myself

Sometimes you need to take a little help

And when you gave it to me, so easily

I couldn't ever tell

And every time (every time I think I know)

I think I know where I stand

Every time (every time I think I know)

I think I know that I can

I get turned around so easily

Everything in this world had to come from somewhere

No, not her dhe came out of thin air

And she floats around, floats around

Floats around over there

And every time (every time I think I know)

I think I know where I stand

Every time (every time I think I know)

I think I know that I can

I get turned around so easily

Everything in this world had to come form somewhere

No, not here she came out of thin air

And she floats around, floats around, floats around

She floats around

She floats around my aching head

Until I don't know I said

I was standing outside myself

I was standing beside myself

Written by Josh Clayton Felt - Album: Inarticulate Nature Boy

Copyright ©1995 Josh Clayton-Felt

Rollin' Thunder & The Horror! (Part: Deux!)

That walk was, cold, painful, but OOOh so worth it!
The jehovah witness haven't been around since the weather turned... But tonight the latter day saints were around! I had a great 10/15 minute chat with those gals... 'Missionaries', 'Sister Rodriguez' and 'Sister Facewave' ('Facewave' is what a friend of mine replaces someone's name with when they've forgotten said person's name).

So, chat began about my cane and the marble in it. There's a marble in the mouth of the dragon on my cane and I was saying I'd like a blood red one or some other colors, but, you can't just buy 'one' marble, you got to buy a fucking bag of them! (I didn't swear that the nice young ladies) - From there I had told them that the jehovahs ain't been around lately, so the Green was theirs! Sister Facewave asked me if I was aware they were missionaries and Sister Rodriguez spoke up and said, "Oh yes, we've chatted before"... I mentioned that I had been to the Salt Lake City temple and Sister Facewave was astounded, she said she'd never even been there before, I told her she was still young. Sister Rodriguez inquired as to how I ended up at the temple and I explained the annual car trips across the Country with Dad..
Sister Rodriguez asked if I'd been to the cults website ever and truthfully, I told her yes I had not too long ago... I blurted out, 'You should no longer be referred to as 'mormons' or 'The LDS', just 'latter day saints' and she said or the church of jebiz crispy.... When I said this, Sister Facewave lost her mind!
She exclaimed, "How do you know that!!! Half our church doesn't even know that!!" and I just smiled wryly and said, 'I know things'.... And Sister Rodriguez lol actually said that too...
From there I said, 'You know, you're not going to convert me'.... And Sister Facewave asked, "Why not" and I told them I don't believe in 'god', I told them I believe in science, it's my god and Sister Rodriguez said, "We also believe in science" and I said, 'yes, but I've taken the 'god' part out of that equation and went on to say that I didn't need 'god' anymore, asked them, do we need Odin anymore, to which they both kinda looked at each other like, 'What???'.. and I went on, we don't need Zeus or Jupiter nor any of the Egyptian 'gods'.. I said that the Egyptian civilization lasted for over 5000 years (that we're willing to believe) with their religion and we don't need that anymore.. I said that I'd moved beyond the need of a 'god'... Sister Facewave asked if I'd read the book of mormon and I told her I had and that I had read the jehevah's book and the koran and the bible and that science has provided me with all the answers and added some questions for me, but that I didn't need to believe in any deity.
Sister Rodgriguez asked if when I thought about the universe, if I ever thought about god along with it and I said, 'no, look' I said, 'There's a theory that the universe is a hologram, so out there, outside of all this, there's some really fat computer nerd that's created all this, but I feel no need to worship it, nor prostrate myself before it, nor engage in any rituals to placate it' and I added that I didn't believe 'it' wished me to do any of that.
Then I mentioned multiple universes and they both agreed that they believed in that... Which for once, they surprised me... But my surprise was short lived as Sister Rodrguez stated that, 'We can't be the only huemahns out there"... So I began to see that she was mistaken the 'universe' for 'solar system', as she ended off saying, "Just think how many stars are out there, there has to be not just us".....
So with that, I bid the ladies a 'good-evening' and was off on my way home.

The old Centennial building / new courthouse is coming along... More floors gone...

Had 'Stag Chili for supper (My goto cold dreary Fall/Winter night supper).... The cats gonna hate me later....

Rollin' Thunder & The Horror!

Drug my body out of the house to get some provisions today. While quickly throwing on some rain gear at the corner of Regent and Dundonald St. I spotted our way over-kill of a vehicle, the RCMP T.A.V. (Tactical Armored Vehicle)... Like I said, that thing is WAY overkill for this city but man it's fuckin' bad ass! YOu could mow down a crowd of hippie protesters with that sucker and probably not even feel a bump!

As it went by I gave the guys a big 'thumbs up' and then threw them the 'Metal horns'... Which I don't think they seemed to appreciate!
I've always wondered if these suckers are equipped with those acoustic weaponry. The sound weapon that could make a crowd shit it's pants (really) or vomit or have panic attacks... Acoustic weapons are evil! But look like a load of fun!

Man, the weather changed. Cold and windy, one of the trees behind the house lost most of it's leaves yesterday afternoon. Elsa was being driven batty watching the blizzard of leaves falling and tossed and whirled about by the wind.

Had to wear fukin' pants today! Summer is OVER! Gone! POOF! Disappeared, all but a memory of those hot sweaty days, lounging on the deck of the houseboat, lounging by the pool.

Looks like the remnant of 'Florence' will hit us (not really) on Thursday. Just some wind and rain..... Which is what we got in the last couple of days... So I don't really know what the difference will be.

These cold wet wind blown evenings put me in a horror movie mood. Not that I haven't watched horror flicks year round, but the Fall just screams for Horror! get it??? 'Screams'??? Ahh

So last night, I watched to begin, John Carpenter's 'Prince of Darkness', classic, awesome movie! With the late Donald Pleasence and a side bit by Alice Cooper (killing someone while the victim's listening to his music)... If you've never seen 'Prince of Darkness', SEE IT!
After that I watched 1957's 'The Seventh Seal', a black and white Swedish flick.. Not so much horror as it is just ... hmm... eerie? Mysterious? Wikipedia calls it a "Historic fantasy" movie... it deals with a knight who is playing Death a game of chess as he travels and picks up companions along the way. The film is set in the period of the Black Death and of course the paranoia, religious fervor and death that came along with all that. It's a subtitle movie, but still a great movie.
Tonight i'm thinking 'X-Files - Fight the Future', not an all out Horror, but Sci-Fi/Horror and I just hadn't seen it in ages... Dunno why it popped in my head... I have about 100 or more Horror flicks lined up for September into October. So I'll be posting those as I watch them!

Translated that's 'The Seventh Seal'

Welcome To The Fall

The Fall

Ministry

Take this invitation

Bishop's Queen to Pawn

All of us were taken

All that was, is gone

Of this information

Shames us, one and all

Where's my compensation

Watching others fall

Welcome to the fall

Everything is useless

Nothing works at all

Nothing ever matters

Welcome to the fall

Songwriters: Al Jourgensen / Alien Jourgensen / Michael Bruce Balch

The Fall lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc

The Light Pours Out Of Me

Magazine

Time flies

Time crawls

Like an insect

Up and down the walls

The light pours out of me

The light pours out of me

The conspiracy

Of silence ought

To revolutionize

My thought

The light pours out of me

The light pours out of me

The cold light of day

Pours out of me

Leaving me black

And so healthy

The light pours out of me

The light pours out of me

It jerks out of me

Like blood

In this still life

Heartbeats of love

The light pours out of me

The light pours out of me

Songwriters: Howard Devoto / John Alexander Mcgeoch / Peter Shelley

The Light Pours Out Of Me lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, BMG Rights Management, Domino Publishing Company

I Believe

Ghost

I believe you could be

What I need to believe

I believe you could be

What I need to believe

I believe you could be

What I need to believe

I believe you could be

What I need to believe

It's the same old song

That I always sing each year

But because it's perennial

Don't make it less real

And I believe that she could be

What I need to believe

I believe you could be

(I believe)

What I need to believe

I believe you could be

What I need to believe

(Oh, it just keeps coming 'round again)

I believe you could be

What I need to believe

(It just keeps coming 'round again)

I believe you could be

What I need to believe

(It just keeps coming 'round again)

The conclusion I need

Is easily reached with you

You have given me all

And there's nothing left to do

And I believe that she could be

What I need to believe

I believe

It just keeps coming 'round again

I believe you could be

What I need to believe

(It just keeps coming 'round again)

I believe you could be

What I need to believe

(It just keeps coming 'round again)

I believe you could be

What I need to believe

(It just keeps coming 'round again)

I believe you could be

What I need to believe

Songwriters: Simon William Lord / James Anthony Shaw / James Ellis Ford

I Believe lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Warner/Chappell Music, Inc

The Necropolis Junction

Johnny Truant

I felt the sickness drain from my skin?..and it burns

You'll wait for us there

Under a blistered darkening sky

We'll be there?..

Burn them?

As I lay in shrouds among the wasted dead

A callus soul reveals the carriage blooded red

Look up to the sky

The clouds were dripping poison

Will we be the seekers?

Before we are the chosen

Will the angels give us hope

For a brighter sky than these

Something more than a bitter challenge

Something we cannot perceive

With a glance the gates are open

To a path that still remains

Unknown to those before us

If the demons have been slain

We all believe in angels

Because the planets aren't alone

We're the ones who'll forgive you

When the world is caving in

The damage turns to stone

Yeah, will the wounded seek out missions

For a darker sky than these

Will they carry on our burden

Find a life we cannot lead

They're eyes stripped at the retina

So the sun burns through their souls

Will the god sit back and pity?.Like before?

We all believe in angels

Because the planets aren't alone

We're the ones who'll forgive you

When the world is caving in

The damage turns to stone

Johnny Truant Copyright 2005