Autumnal Beckoning....

Ahhh...

My favorite time of year is starting to rear it's head and peak around the corner. The chill in the air, the color in the trees and the Octoberfests on the beer shelves are all signs that fall is moving into the picture.

Despite fall including my favorite holiday, HALLOWEEN, it's also visually quite stunning. The trees are really starting to change color and are starting to hint at what may be a real spectacular cornucopia of an autumnal color pallet for the plant life around here this season!

Since I had surgery last October, I missed out on my annual fall hike at a nearby nature center. I'm most definitely going to have to make up for it this year!

On to other stuff...

Even though I would love to go, I think I'll forego the Judas Priest / Anthrax concert this coming Saturday night. I really must conserve funds for the upcoming holiday season (blech and ba-humbug!) as well as new tires for the Zangzmobile. And I hate to admit this, but I seemed to like the John Bush fronted version of Anthrax rather than the recently reunited original line up of the band. I'm probably in the minority here, but although I was initially disappointed when Joey Belladonna left the band 12 years ago, the John Bush version of Anthrax really grew on me and I felt they were a little more musically viable than before. I felt they were a new and fresh band. Sadly, they were pretty ignored from the buying public during the Bush period even though they were far more musically matured. I more than realize that the original line up certainly aren't slouches! I just appreciate songs like, "Only" and "Nothing" and "Taking the Music Back" from the Bush era than some of the classics from the Belladonna era. Odd as it may be, that's what I'm feelin'.

I heard that Lord of the Rings fans are making a documentary about how the writings of J.R. Tolkein has inspired pop culture. In fact they got RUSH vocalist/bassist/songwriter, Geddy Lee to do an interview since RUSH recorded the song "Rivendale". They also got an interview with Lemme Kilmister, vocalist/bassist/songwriter from Motorhead. I haven't a friggin' clue as to what he'll have to say about the matter. But one things for sure, he'll have a drink in his hand!!! God bless Lemme!!!

I'm trying to take Friday off so I can go see the movie "Serenity" based on the short lived, Sci-Fi meets wild west TV series, "Firefly". I'm looking forward to it. I don't know if it will be a big hit and spawn a sequel (which it will deserve) since it will be a niche audience of hard core "Firefly" fans. Once a scrub up a little fundage, I'd like to pick up the series on DVD. The show rocked! I'll give a review once I've seen it.

That's all for today. Watch for a bit of a slight transformation with my Blog of Geekdom within the next week. You should know by now that the coming season brings with it........ the undead! Bwahahahahahahahahaha (thunder...lightning.... Zangz coughing on his own snot while trying to give a big, evil chortle).

See ya soon.

Zangz.