Rewind retro video of the day... Rewind is celebrating two themes this upcoming Friday... Halloween and Erasure. So this week Rewind will be alternating between the two themes. From London, England, here are Erasure with their 1989 single Drama!, the first from their 4th studio album Wild! Chart standings: Top-40 in New Zealand; Top-20 in Spain, Switzerland, Germany, and the US Hot Dance chart; Top-10 in the US Dance/Club Play chart; and Top-5 in the UK, Ireland, and the US Singles chart. Interestingly, The Jesus and Mary Chain were recording in the studio next door. Erasure invited them to sing the mob chorus Guilty! The video depicts Erasure in an alleyway and later a rooftop with various objects falling down upon them from the heavens, seemingly overwhelming them. Charles Fort was an author who was interested in anomalous phenomena that current scientific theories were unable to provide an answer. His books, such as The Book of the Damned (19), New Lands (23), Lo! (31), and Wild Talents (32). He delved into such topics as cryptozoology, UFOs, unexplained disappearances, poltergeist events, out-of-place artifacts, spontaneous fires, levitation, ball lightning... and falls. And by falls I mean stuff falling from the sky other than water: • Pliny the Elder described a storm in which frogs and fish fell to the ground in the 1st century AD. • Frogs also fell in Wigam, England in 1894. • French soldiers witnessed a fall of toads near the French city of Lille in 1794. • A fall of fish was witnessed in Allahabad, India, in 1836. The species were chalwa, and they were all dead and dried. • A gelatinous substance fell to the Earth in France (1836) and in Wilna, Lithuania (1846). In 1894, thousands of jellyfish rained down in Bath, England. • Witnesses from Lake County in CA reported a fall of sugar crystals in 1857. • In 1876, chunks of meat fell from the sky near Olympia Springs, KY, in a 100 x 50 yard expanse for several minutes. • In 1947, largemouth bass, sunfish, shad, and minnows fell in Marksville, LA. Many of them were frozen. • In 1953, Leicester, MA, experienced a downpour of frogs and toads. • In 2010, spangled perch (a type of fish) fell in a remote desert town in the Australian Outback. Much of this is assumed by scientists as a tornado that picked up stuff from one location and dropped it in another. But many of these downfalls occurred during a clear sky with no reported tornadoes in the vicinity. Fort proclaimed that there was a Super-Sargasso Sea in the sky into which all lost things go, like that sock youre missing after doing the laundry. When the Sea gets full, it releases these random objects back onto the Earth. This is of course tongue-in-cheek, but where else can these odd falls come from? youtube/watch?v=ltmgToAcWwE
Posted on: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 03:56:06 +0000
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