Head-dibs

 Many blessings on this Thanksgiving Day!

Baby boy got married! Our oldest boy (Jonathan) was his best man and two sisters were bridesmaids. So proud of William and Kayla!

On the way to Indiana to see my youngest boy get married. Drove a portion of I-40 I’ve never been on before and couldn’t help but think that if I just kept going, would end up in God’s country.  Just want to say that Kentucky seems to have a sense of humor. There’s a town called Paint Lick. 

 

Ok, so I had a head start. Was going for Hemingway but looking more like Lazar Wolf (the Butcher in “Fiddler On The Roof”).

  When biting Boreas, fell and doure,   Sharp shivers thro' the leafless bow'r;  When Phoebus gies a short-liv'd glow'r,           Far south the lift,  Dim-dark'ning thro' the flaky show'r,           Or whirling drift:  Ae night the storm the steeples rocked,  Poor Labour sweet in sleep was locked,  While burns, wi' snawy wreeths upchoked,           Wild-eddying swirl,  Or thro' the mining outlet bocked,           Down headlong hurl.  List'ning, the doors an' winnocks rattle,  I thought me on the ourie cattle,  Or silly sheep, wha bide this brattle           O' winter war,  And thro' the drift, deep-lairing, sprattle,           Benea...

 Rush based the entire album, “Clockwork Angels” on Voltaire’s 1759 work “Candide,” a fantasy in its own right. This is the final song, my favorite song from my favorite album from my favorite band. 

 Trans Siberian Orchestra found inspiration for the character Mephistopheles in Faust for the concept album “Beethoven’s Last Night”. Here is one song from a live concert where the devil tempts the deaf composer to make a deal.

A tongue-in-cheek submission but both book and band are classic!

Another Rush masterpiece based on Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan”

Who would have thought to put Emily Bronte to music? Kate Bush did!

Must this require an introduction? So much packed into such a short song!

Ray Bradbury strikes again with a short story from “The Illustrated Man” in the heavy beats of Deadmau5. Put on your headphones and drop the beat! I’ve run many miles to this piece— which has a touch of irony, if you know the story.

 Blind Guardian makes a timely contribution with their work based on Frank Herbert’s “Dune” (new movie just released—can’t wait to see it)!

I love this entry. Take a line from Shakespeare’s Hamlet and nurture it into a full novel by Ray Bradbury (“Something Wicked This Way Comes”) Then put it to music with a pinch of yet another Bradbury classic (“The Illustrated Man”) … wind it up and let it go!