The Warning

Hollywood Vampires

Bloodred Hourglass

Rotting Christ

Cradle of Filth

Bored

Nothing this minute, but my album of the day is Frisson Noir by Finnish metal goddess Tarja (she goes by her first name professionally, her full name is Tarja Turunen). Some of the best music she's put out since falling out with the band Nightwish 20+ years ago and starting her current solo career. Interesting list of guest performers, too, including a former Nightwish bandmate. I need to look up a few of them as the names don't ring a bell.

tint - tent

You will succeed, my student.

Not a boat fan, but probably powerboat. I am not sure how good I would be at handling a sail.

Canoe or Kayak?

Run - Exit Eden, Floor Jansen, probably god knows how many others have used that as title

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Decadent Pecan Tartlets

I'll take couple of those. Love pecans tarts (and pecans in baking in general).

And since Roland and I were talking about Tina Guo and Mia Asano, here's probably my favourite of their collaborations to date. Love how they start on acoustic violin and cello, then whip out their electrics for the guitar solo.

Stun - snit

Please Please Me - The Beatles

Oo, toughie. I've had both fresh (my wife lived in Atlantic Canada for a couple years and her sister lived in a similar part of China when I first met her) and in both Chinese and Western styles. Crab, I think.

Burgers fried or grilled?

Will you pass the test?

And there's some nice medium roast Costa Rican coffee waiting for you in the coffee pot. Teas today are Yorkshire Gold and Darjeeling. Kettle is hot if there's other teas that are more to your liking in our big box of tea. And there's lots of goodies around so I don't think to add any today.

Have good one!

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I have moved more towards instrumentals like Tina Guo's.

I love Tina. Have you heard violinist Mia Asano? Similar to Tina in that she's classically trained but leans to rock and metal. Her Viper electric violin has logged a lot of mileage since she graduated from conservatory a few years ago. She's recorded with Tina a couple times already and they will be touring Europe together next year with a project called The Legendary Orchestra that does opening shows for the Swedish metal band Sabaton. It's a new gig for Tina but Mia was on the orchestra's first tour with Sabaton.

Probably not. Never been a distance runner. Even in school, I was a better sprinter than distance runner. I think my son is working up to a half, though.

WYE do a triathlon (I actually had now-retired co-worker who did them)?

Please pass the bread plate.

Xtro

Never Comes The Day - The Moody Blues

Nope. Getting close to the edge of a cliff (or any high place) gives me serious willies. And I'm a terrible swimmer, too.

WYE drag race another driver on a public road?

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I thought you only listened to metal.

Actually, I am a relatively recent metalhead and have been a obsessed with it because it is new to me. Used to be rather down on metal with a few exceptions (some of Ozzy's solo stuff, some Metallica). Anna here gets some of the credit since she introduced me to Nightwish, the first metal band I got into. In fact, I have a broad range of musical interests and now that metal has joined the list, country is about the only major musical genre I don't listen to (though even there, I did like some of the New Country crowd in the 90s). If there's a real pattern to my musical tastes, it's probably a fondness for female vocalists like Sara. Joni Mitchell, Kate Bush, Sarah McLachlan, Sara Bareilles, and now many of my favourite metal singers are ladies like Floor Jansen (of the aforementioned Nightwish) and Alissa White-Gluz (Canadian singer who left a band last year and is kind of juggling multiple projects right now).

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I hope everyone is having a lovely day.

I'm on the brink of a headache. Seems to be a Thursday thing. Last Thursday it got bad enough that I booked off sick halfway through the day. This week, it's tolerable so I'm working.

Disclosure Day looks promising. Aliens coming to Earth is a trope Steven Spielberg has gone to several times in his 50+ year career (Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T. the Extraterrestrial, 2005 version of War of the Worlds, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull). And he has done some pretty good work with that trope (and some that is less so). Early reviews have been positive, too.

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And I've heard nothing about writers and actors, either.

Well, the actors are still up in the air, but it is known that Steven Knight, creator of the highly regarded TV series Peaky Blinders, is working on the script. I guess my worry would be that an acclaimed writer and director aren't necessarily what's needed to make a great Bond movie. It's what they do with the tropes and classic elements that will determine success here. A movie that is excellent in every regard but has nothing to make it feel like a Bond movie isn't what is needed. Villeneuve is apparently a Bond fan so I don't think that will happen, but it is a risk when you throw Oscar-grade talent at what is basically B-movie pulp with a budget.

Ugh

tens - tons

Book a hotel for vacation.

Gooooooooooooooooood morning!! How's things out there. Bit of hot spell in my world but supposed to cool off tomorrow.

Got some nice dark roast coffee going. In the teapots, we've got a Raspberry black tea and Kenyan Kambaa (a current favourite of mine). And I have goodies out.

Tell us about your world.

Floor Jansen, my current favourite singer, is dropping her second solo album this year. After leaning to a pop sound for her first, she's going back to her familiar metal sound for the second. Two songs were debuted live at recent concerts. This is "Run", shot by a fan at her concert in Plzen, Czech Republic.

Cute trivia: The concert in Plzen was one of two she did as support for the Swedish power metal band Sabaton. Why them? Her husband is their drummer.

I might try it. I'm not the most adept wilderness but a break from electronics probably would be a good thing.

WYE do a "round the world" cruise?

Nightwish

Evergrey

Primal Cult

Dark Tranquility

Abandon Agony

Whoa, Roland and Cora both back?!?!? Yippee!! It's been so quiet that I myself kind of drifted away.

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Tropical Mini Key Lime Pie

drools

I am losing a tooth (too badly messed up to root canal) but, hey, I have plenty more. At the rate I'm going, I won't run out until I am maybe 120 or so. 🤣

Seem to have settled on retiring in 2028, likely July or August so I can collect my bonus for the previous fiscal year.

Writing-wise, I have some projects on the go but the going is slow. One would go here as long as it doesn't get overly long and become another of my gestating novel(la)s.

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Listening to a lot of music, mainly Chili Peppers.

I listen to music constantly. Mostly metal these days but there's still non-metal favourites that sneak in. New Sara Bareilles coming later this summer for one.