Front Line Assembly - The Blade

FLA:1992 Off the same album as Mindphaser. The album is called Tactical Neural Implant .

Front Line Assembly - Mindphaser

This is CLASSIC FLA 1992!! HardCore Industrial.

Our Aniversary...

Last night we went to eat at Fleming's Steakhouse. It was a very nice restaurant that had a very loud and festive atmosphere! They boast about 100 wines by the glass at the restaurant which is an impressive list.

We started with an appetizer of Wicked Cajun Barbecue Shrimp that had a very robust and spicy taste. We then ordered our main course which was MEAT!! I have the Prime New York Strip (16oz) and Sondra had the Prime Bone-In Ribeye. Hers was well done and i ordered mine medium. We had two sides: Fleming's Potatoes and Chipotle Cheddar Macroni and Cheese. The sides were very good. I had to send my steak back as it was under cooked. They were very willing to make it correct for em and i was glad of that.

It was a very nice night and we really enjoyed each other!! If you get a chance to dine at Fleming's i think that you will not be unhappy with the food.

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Mack: Christmas (not toooooooooooooooo sappy)

Thanks to Mack Hall for letting me publish this.

 

 

It's Not Over Until January 6th

 

Every year some folks take up their crayons and write querulously to the newspapers to demand that Christ be returned to Christmas, as if the newspapers are somehow at fault because Christmas is not what the writers of letters to the editor think it ought to be.

 

The real irony is that for much of Christian history Christ was not in Christmas because there was no Christmas at all.

 

Christmas as a Feast of the Church was formally established by Pope Julius I in 350.  Even then our poor, ignorant, superstitious ancestors only went to church on Christmas to worship God, and failed to buy masses of made-in-China stuff. 

 

Over time, European nations slowly developed the concept of the twelve days, keeping Christmas from the 25th of December until the Feast of the Epiphany, or Three Kings, on the 6th of January.  This worked well in agricultural societies in cold Europe because unless Sven and Gunter wanted to throw snowballs or hunt wolves or count icicles or something there wasn't a whole lot to do in mid-winter except stay indoors next to the fire.

 

While Martin Luther was rather fond of Christmas – and was devoted to the Blessed Mother, too – other reformers said "Bah, humbug!" to Christmas and forbade it under penalty of law.   In England and in the colonies  Puritans and their spiritual descendants, including Baptists and Methodists, were sternly opposed to the celebration of Christmas as Romish superstition.  To this day some evangelical congregations will not open the church doors when Christmas falls on a weekday.

 

In Scotland, Christmas was banned for over four hundred years, and not restored until 1958.  1958.  Not 1658 or 1758 or even 1858.  1958.  Put Christ into Christmas?  Nae, laddie, ye'd better not be thinkin' such evil thoughts.

 

Christmas as we know it is pretty much an invention of Charles Dickens, who imagined a merrie old English Christmas that never really was and wrote it into his books.  Dickens' Christmas is little more than some vague, fuzzy good feelings and some innocent partying, although he does allow his characters to walk to divine services on Christmas morning.

 

Christmas trees are a German tradition (someone will bring up the pagans at this point, and I say that if the pagans thought well of trees, good for them) Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha remembered the Christmas trees of his youth and popularized them in England.  American anglophiles followed the lead of Victoria and Albert, and Christmas trees became a symbol of Christmas in the English-speaking world late in the 19th century.

 

Christmas was and is a Feast Day of the Church, a day in which the Incarnation is realized.  Its other main purpose seems to be to serve as an institutional inadequacy for grumpy people to fault. 

 

Well, grumpy people, that's all right.  Perhaps we do eat more than we should on Christmas, and buy too much stuff, and indulge our children more than we ought to, but it's all a great deal of fun anyway.

 

Let the children have their night of fun and laughter,
let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play.
Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures
before we turn again to the stern task and the formidable years that lie before us,
resolved that, by our sacrifice and daring,
these same children shall not be robbed of their inheritance
or denied their right to live in a free and decent world.
And so, in God's mercy, a happy Christmas to you all.

 

-- Winston Churchill, 1941

 

-30-

 

I am not one of The People.

Thought for today...

The Godfather: Hold your friends close but your enemies closer. Posted via my LGVX8600 phone.

Wedding Anniversary...

Today is mine and Sondra’s 5 Year  Wedding Anniversary!

 

RMStringer

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"We are all geniuses when we dream"

- E.M. Cioran

 

Flat sun.

Taken with my LGVX8600 phone.
From RMStringer

Thought for today...

Robert E. Lee-It is well that war is so terrible or we should grow too fond of it. Posted via my LGVX8600 phone.

The Fixx - Red Skies at Night

Another version of this song from 1988 if i read the comments.

The Fixx-Red Skies

This video is HardCore 1980s in true form. This was on MTV when they were fab!

Korn - Evolution

What a GRE8T TRACK!!! I have loved this song since the first time i listened to it. Good video also.

Dr. Alban - No Coke

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Front 242 - Welcome To Paradise

Another Classic abeit a remix off the Fron By Fron Album form 1987. I saw them in Houston Texas 1993 at Lollapalooza.

Front 242 - Headhunter

Vintage Industrial Dance!!! 1987 off the Fron Gy Fron album.

Delerium - Flowers Become Screens

This is from Semanitc Spaces ablum from 1994.

Delerium - Innocente (Tiesto mix)

Yet another Gr8te remix...

Delerium ft. Sarah McLachlan - Silence [Tiesto Remix] Video

This is a very good mix of this song. It pushed Delerium to the BIG TIME. I have followed Delerium since about 1993. They are the group Frontline Assembly.

Bad Day at Work

This would SUCK!!!

2 More Videos...

Rob, Jeff, Bob, and Mark on a jump located on lower Buttermilk. It is located near the stairs that you have to carry your bike up. I shot this video.



This is Mark going down a set of stairs in the Forest Hill Park or Forest Hell as it is sometimes called!


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FCC Votes for Big Media: Throw the Rules Out

Dear Friend,

The Federal Communications Commission approved new rules that
will unleash a flood of media consolidation across America. The
new rules will further consolidate local media markets -- taking
away independent voices in cities already woefully short on
local news and investigative journalism.

Congress has the power to throw out these rules -- and if
100,000 people demand it, they'll have to listen. Click on the
link below to sign the open letter to Congress urging them to
stop the FCC and stand with the public interest.

http://action.freepress.net/campaign/sbmopenletter/

http://action.freepress.net/campaign/sbmopenletter?rk=j1xhEsM1uyCvW