Mephistos

It has been a while since I have done one of these, but just as I occasionally comment on some music I also occasionally comment on a movie (I have about a dozen of these, both music and movies to post yet).  I did however just see a new movie at the Kentucky Theatre over the weekend.  By the way, if you have not seen a movie at the Kentucky, you should make a plan to do so – it was restored some time back around 1987-88 to its splendor as 1930-40′s theatre.  They run a mixture of art films, popular movies, cult classics on the weekends, along with the occasional other oddity mixed in here and there.  In addition they have the Woodsongs television show filmed on location and occasionally other concerts are held in the venue.  One of my favorite Wednesday afternoon about sixtenn or seventeen years ago was seeing Dr. Zhivago on the big screen. Read more…

So during my time of frustration this morning, while I have been trying to figure out if I can get a restore from tape for the pictures that were accidentally removed, I have been easily distracted.  I thought I would throw up a couple of notes in regards to a couple of things that I have found this morning that look like they would be very nice to use with the blog.

First, I have noticed that a lot of folks have signatures at the bottom of their blog entries these days.  I like it, as one of the things I am always harping on is the lack of personal touch that occurs here in the electronic Read more…

In case you didn’t notice there are no pictures here in the Mephistos blog land this morning.  I did not realize it until just a minute ago when I went to finish up a couple of the posts from that I had been working on earlier this week, but now I see that they are all gone.  Nothing that WordPress did, and really nothing that I can blame on anyone else or any other 3rd party software package.  The big question is what did happen? Read more…

I had this thought that just would not let go of me for some reason this eve as I drove from the gym to the office for a bit of work.  The thought was just how I probably hit at least four of the deadly sins over the weekend.  The more I thought about the more I realized that even in my corrective action for some of the number, I probably transgressed another one.  I was probably put in this mindset by the french film I saw yesterday that starting with a viscount commenting about the only sin left to an old man was that of gluttony, as he devoured a chicken leg.  The more I thought about it, the more I really thought it would make a good blog and so here I find myself at nearly 4:30 a.m. in the morning contemplating not so much my ability to check the big ones off, but rather contemplating how hard it would be for someone to not, if honest with themselves, transgress at least one or two on occasion. And quickly, while I am thinking of it, the small image above is of Hieronymus Bosch’s The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things. Read more…

A good thing has come out of having my car broke down and in the shop for repair.  Yesterday afternoon I went and picked up the more rugged of the bikes (the one one needs work anyway and is in Danville).  Then given that all other plans had fallen through I road the bike downtown.   It was a good little trip to downtown and made me remember my college days a little bit, as when in college I had a bike around for a couple semesters and I also road right through part of Transylvania’s campus on my route.  I rode to a couple of different places once down town and much later – somewhere around one in the morning, I headed back home.  I think all told I probably rode close to five miles, but really can not say for sure. Read more…