Song Saturday: Tristania's My Lost Lenore

How's it going lurkers? This weekend's blogs have an Edgar Allan Poe theme. If you have been friends with me for the last decade or so or have at least been a subscriber of mine within the last 4 years, you already know that I am an Edgar Allan Poe fan. A stereotypical Goth trait. Am I right?

Considering that there are a few songs written about legendary authors, I decided to search for songs written about Edgar Allan Poe. Lo and behold were at least several songs about him.

"My Lost Lenore" by the Symphonic Gothic Metal band, Tristania, really caught my ears. The name of this band sounds vaguely familiar. Tristania comes from Dalane, Norway.

If you have ever read ANY of Edgar Allan Poe's work, the name, Lenore should sound very familiar to you. This is especially if you loved reading his narrative poem, "The Raven."

In the 1845 poem, "The Raven," the character Lenore is assumed to be a deceased wife. Poe wrote a poem specifically titled, "Lenore," which was published 2 years before "The Raven," also.

After listening to Tristania's song, "My Lost Lenore," I instantly thought of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven." The song was written by Morten Veland. If you would like to read the lyrics to "My Lost Lenore," click on the link right HERE.

"My Lost Lenore" was released on Tristania's debut album, Widow's Weeds in 1998. Wow! This album will turn 20 next year and I just discovered this song 2 days ago. Had I known about Tristania YEARS ago, I would've included the band on my music playlist, when I hosted my radio show.

To make up for it, I am sharing this Symphonic Gothic Metal band with you today. Besides, it has been a while, since I last shared any Gothic Metal bands in a Song Saturday blog. 

Better late than never, right? Anyway, here is Tristania's "My Lost Lenore" for today's Song Saturday.

Tristania "My Lost Lenore" Widow's Weeds (1998)

Cartoon Sunday: Mr. Nightmare's True Pizza Delivery Horror Story

How's it going lurkers? If you ask yours truly, I feel haunted houses and paranormal activity are more terrifying than monsters, unless they are Gremlins.

We all know those skeptics, who don't believe in ghosts or much of anything that can't be proven based on science. This may be difficult to believe, but science is NOT  the answer to everything.

A few years ago, I started reminiscing about the Scooby-Doo franchise. In fact, I happened to be watching a Scooby-Doo TV series. As an adult, I realized just how incredibly skeptical the overall franchise has been over the last 48 years.

Did you EVER notice that every time the characters on Scooby-Doo had to solve supernatural and paranormal related mysteries, there were ALWAYS arguments to disprove that supernatural and paranormal phenomena existed?

Growing up as a little girl during the 1980's and '90s, I was annoyed by the skepticism. I understand, that CBS and Hanna-Barbera wanted to appease the parent watch groups, in order to prevent more protesting during the '60s, but they actually helped promote and validated skeptics.

I will even go as far as saying that CBS, Hanna-Barbera, and many other companies caused the last 3-4 generations to grow up as skeptics. 

Ad nauseam, they must disprove EVERYTHING that doesn't fit their skeptical narrative about something being SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN.

Do you remember Charles Riborg Mann and George Ransom Twiss' book Physics? 

In the 1910 book, they asked: "When a tree falls in a lonely forest, and no animal is near by to hear it, does it make a sound? Why?"

The question was supposed to be about physical point of view. 

However, I believe it was a question made to validate and promote other people's denial of something OR someone's existence with more skepticism. 

This can ESPECIALLY  be said about those, who refuse to acknowledge supernatural and paranormal phenomena. Let's use the Scooby-Doo franchise as an example. 

In the original cartoon from 1969, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? Fred, Velma, and DAPHNE did NOT  believe in ghosts and monsters.  

By the end of each episode, all 3 characters were ALWAYS validated to make it seem like those, who DID believe in ghosts and monsters needed to be patronized by a shrink.

You may be saying, "Anna, you're overthinking this. It's only a cartoon." 

Scooby-Doo may be a cartoon, but it is a cartoon that has hidden messages in it. You really have to read between the lines so to say and pay close attention to the underlying messages.

Granted, it can be argued that Hanna-Barbera did not want to traumatize children with supernatural and paranormal phenomena. At the same time, the characters and the writing in this cartoon appear as being skeptical and wanting to ALWAYS disprove the existence of something or someone.

Anybody, who believes in supernatural and paranormal phenomena, are viewed as being crazy and delusional because skeptics bought into George Berkeley's philosophical lies about "immaterialism."

Immaterialism in philosophy is basically the metaphysical DENIAL of the existence of the material world. In other words, it's just your imagination; It's ALL in your head.

If some skeptics have not learned much of anything from today's blog, you should at least realize that just because you didn't see or hear something or someone, doesn't mean that something or someone does NOT  exist.

This next creepy story is another true pizza delivery story. It comes from YouTube's Mr. Nightmare. Mr. Nightmare's story was turned into an animation by Llama Arts.

In this paranormal story, Mr. Nightmare does his pizza delivery to a hidden house near the woods at night. Anyway, here's his true pizza delivery story for today's Cartoon Sunday. 

LET THE SKEPTICISM BEGIN!

Mr. Nightmare "True Pizza Delivery Horror Story" (2016)