Sunday, September 21, 2008

NIGHTWISH @ The HOB, NOLA

Nightwish in pictures:

September 20, 2008
























Nightwish in video:
7 Days To The Wolves (opening song)
:D



I LOVE them!!!!!!!!

It was an absolutely amazing show!

Thank you, Nightwish!

ONE of the many reasons I do love them:

Lyrical masterpieces!

The Poet And The Pendulum

[Part 1: White Lands Of Empathica]

The end.

The songwriter's dead.

The blade fell upon him

Taking him to the white lands Of Empathica

Of Innocence

Empathica

Innocence

[Part 2: Home]

The dreamer and the wine

Poet without a rhyme

A widow writer torn apart by chains of Hell

One last perfect verse

It's still the same old song

Oh Christ, how I hate what I have become

Take me home

[Chorus:]

Get away, run away, fly away

Lead me astray

to dreamer's hideaway

I cannot cry 'cause the shoulder cries more

I cannot die,

I, a whore for this cold world

Forgive me,I have but two faces

One for the world,One for God,

save me

I cannot cry 'cause the shoulder cries more

I cannot die,

I, a whore for this cold world

My home was there and then,

those meadows of heaven

Adventure-filled days

One with every smiling face

Please, no more words

Thoughts from a severed head

No more praise,

Tell me once my heart goes right

Take me home

[Part 3: The Pacific]

Sparkle my scenery

With Turquoise waterfall

With beauty underneath

he ever free

Tuck me in beneath the blue

Beneath the Pain,

Beneath the rain

Goodnight kiss for a child in time

Swaying blade my lullaby

On the shore we sat and hoped

Under the same pale moon

Whose guiding light chose you,

Chose you all

"I'm afraid, I'm so afraid.

being raped, again and again, and again

I know I will die alone

but loved.

You live long enough to hear the sounds of guns,

Long enough to find yourself screaming every night,

Live long enough to see your friends betray you.

For years I've been strapped unto this altar.

Now I only have three minutes and counting.

I just wish the tide would catch me first

and give me a death I always longed for."

[Part 4: Dark Passion Play]

2nd robber to the right of Christ

Cut in half - infanticide

The world will rejoice today

as the crows feast on the rotting poet

Everyone must bury their own

No pack to bury the heart of stone

Now he`s home in hell, serves him well

Slain by the bell,

tolling for his farewell

The morning dawned upon his altar

Remains of the dark passion play

Performed by his friends without shame

Spitting on his grave as they came

[Chorus]

"Today, in the year of our Lord, 2005

Tuomas was called from the cares of the world

He stopped crying at the end of each beautiful day.

The music he wrote had too long been without silence.

He was found naked and dead,

With a smile in his face,

a pen and 1000 pages of erased text.

"Save me"

[Part 5: Mother And Father]

Be still, my son

You`re home

Oh when did you become so cold?

The blade will keep on descending

All you need is to feel my love

Search for beauty, find your shore

Try to save them all, bleed no more

You have such oceans within

In the end, I will always love you

The beginning.

(and then, there's the magical music that goes with those lyrics)

Almost too... beautiful....

*sigh*

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Hurriane Ike Tales, Tails and Videos

From somewhere in SouthEast Louisiana

(September 11, 2008)



The MOON OF IKE ~ Over Louisiana

September 11, 2008

2 nights before Ike made landfall in Texas
(The moon makes it's appearance at 1:03)


*note: Tinker Belle howls at the IKE MOON*





A little later that night, the sky cried a bit:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqBrf-1XVYo




The following day, tropical storm force winds were felt:

(September 12, 2008)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wP7ZohJ8i4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MYb11QSb2k




The winds howled (much like Tinker Belle) and the windmills turned:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQElifFKV8I





Tinker Belle let her hair down, allowing it to blow freely in the wind, as she ran through puddles of water.


Sandy Ann remained diligent while on sentry duty.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0RHs7-pJSw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8OuzX8cPbI

*note: Please try to ignore the cameo appearances of my trash cans and garden hose*




After an afternoon of frolicking in Ike's winds and puddles, it was time to lie on the grass and do some cloud gazing. A beautiful blue sky it was! Complete with white, fluffy clouds floating by:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfm79G9IG6w



Early the next morning (September 13, 2008), Ike made landfall in Texas, devasting many areas of Texas and Louisiana's Gulf Coast. Please don't forget the victims of this hurricane.


Visit:


http://american.redcross.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ntld_main&s_src=splashpagebutton


to find out how you can help.



Thank you!!!!



Hugs and Much Love,


Wendy, The Weather Girl