Dylan and The Year Of The Donut

I ran  Dylan's Birth Chart as soon as I heard he was born.

All of this stuff is important I'm sure, but I know Dylan and I remember the year. This was the year of the Donut and Bart Simpson was destined to become King (but he didn't realize it and he went fishing instead).

My blog, so my opinions come first.

Dylan's Chart readin by me:

1. Because of the sun bein up there next to the other stuff and the moon is 28 degree's rising over Homer. I predict Dylan will be a little dweeb in his early years and show a tendency to pick on his awesome and fantastic grandfather.
2. His middle years will be marked with periods of cold wetness during the winter months, damp and humid, rainy and windy days in the spring and his summers will be spent askin mom and dad "are we there yet" during long trips to the beaches.
3. His teen years spent in a fine prep school in Taiwan studying the fine art of making donuts and chasing girls around and askin em for dates.
4. His early adult life will be spent hiding from most of those girls so he don't get in trouble with the one he likes most.
5. Later, during his middle years he'll be heading out the door every morning at about 3 AM makin donuts and more donuts and more donuts.
6. In his old age Dylan will invest all of his savings and open the worlds first and only Rock N' Roll Donut Arcade, featuring live music, clowns and clones of clowns and FREE donuts for grandpa!

Now here's their boring version:

Intro:

Hi there, here is the interpretation of the astrological chart that you asked for. Also attached is a .GIF graphic file which depicts your chart wheel. Thank you for visiting the Astrolabe WEB site at http://alabe.com This report has been created especially for you. It represents your Unique picture at the time you were born and at the place you were born. If you are unsure of the exact time of day of your birth (or the date or the place), the reading will probably not seem as accurate as it could be in certain places, but other parts will seem to be very appropriate. You will notice at certain places in the reading that contradictory information seems to be given. This is to be expected, because the personality of most people is extremely complex. For example, at times we are quite shy and at other times we are very aggressive, and so forth. You will also notice that, at certain points in the reading, certain patterns may be repeated over and over, especially in a longer more detailed report than this one. This is also to be expected. This simply means that your horoscope has an extremely strong focus on this particular pattern and that you should pay extra close attention to what is said about it. Now, on with your Report! 

 Info:

Name: Dylan Rice
March 2 2009
4:05 PM Time Zone is EST
Attleboro, MA 

Report:

Rising Sign is in 25 Degrees Leo
You love to be the center of attention and you want to appear strong, confident and dominant. You are very proud of yourself, sometimes quite vain even. When all around you are bedraggled and falling apart, you look like a million bucks! Very dignified and honorable, you enjoy the power and privilege, but not the responsibilities, that come with leadership. You are very idealistic but can also be quite stubborn. Others impress you only if they have integrity (but wealth, power and influence can also turn your head). You prefer rich, elegant surroundings and possessions, and will try to acquire them as your budget allows. Physically, you are very impressive - - at your best you have a regal, charismatic demeanor and bearing. Try not to be such a showoff!  


Sun is in 12 Degrees Pisces.
Extremely sensitive and emotional, you absorb the emotions of others (whether positive or negative) like a sponge. Emotionally vulnerable, you are easily upset and tend to cry readily. You are at your best when you can structure your environment in such a way that you are surrounded by positive, upbeat people. You are very helpful and understanding of the needs of others. Indeed, at times this can be a disadvantage, because you can be a sucker for anyone who needs help. Shy, dreamy, romantic in nature, you delight in retreating into your private fantasy world. Just be careful that you do not get lost in it! Trust your intuitions -- you may be quite psychic.

Moon is in 23 Degrees Taurus.
Warmth, comfort, security and familiar surroundings are necessary for you to feel at ease. Very loving and affectionate, you prefer a steady, patterned way of life. Patient, calm and steadfast, you are not easily upset. Others look to you for support. You tend to be a slow starter and a slow mover -- others may try to rush you, but they will never succeed. Emotionally, you are quite stubborn -- your attitudes about people and things were firmly set in your youth and will change very little as an adult. You are also very cautious and conservative about spending money. It is not that you are selfish, you just need to feel secure. Beware of a tendency to become overly complacent and too self-satisfied.

Mercury is in 20 Degrees Aquarius.
You tend to be very opinionated -- you have strongly felt notions about things and are quite vocal about expressing and defending them. Yet you are also an original thinker -- you enjoy shocking others with your offbeat, original thoughts. You appreciate and need mental and intellectual stimulation. Your judgment is usually fair and impartial -- you can be a good critic because you can remain objective and unemotional about most things.

Venus is in 15 Degrees Aries.
You are a very affectionate person but you hate to be tied down. You are more than willing to be the aggressor in initiating new relationships. Indeed, once you have set your sights on someone, you tend to pursue him or her ardently and passionately. But you do demand your own way in a relationship. Try to give in to your partner's needs and desires once in a while.

Mars is in 20 Degrees Aquarius.
Your ideas and opinions are usually inventive and original, but sometimes they are merely eccentric and offbeat. You are altruistic -- you will work hard for the attainment of group goals, as long as they meet your high standards. You tend to resent traditional authority figures because you think that your ideas are better thought out and more valuable than theirs. Very idealistic, you are a rebel WITH a cause!

Jupiter is in 13 Degrees Aquarius.
Your personal growth occurs when you have the freedom to do things in new and interesting ways -- this brings out your natural inventiveness. You are an individualist, but you are also attracted to mass movements that emphasize social betterment and you will devote much time and energy to their efforts. Very fair- minded and objective, you have extraordinary skills at organization and administration.

Saturn is in 18 Degrees Virgo.
Your life must be orderly and practical and full of known and familiar routines in order for you to feel comfortable with yourself. Be careful, however, not to let "order" become the be-all and end-all of your life, or you may become cold, crass and unfeeling. Doing useful, practical things boosts your self- esteem. Abstract concepts and reasoning seem frivolous and a waste of time to you. You are very critical of yourself (and others), indeed at times quite self-deprecating. Try to relax a bit and allow yourself the freedom to fail once in a while. However, you probably won't fail very often because you are such a perfectionist.

Uranus is in 22 Degrees Pisces.
You, and most of your peers, are extremely idealistic and want to change society by completely reorienting its highest religious goals and aspirations. Just be careful to make sure that your new goal structures are properly grounded in reality so that they have a chance of being accepted by the majority.

Neptune is in 24 Degrees Aquarius.
You, and your entire generation, will idealize and even venerate the ability to remain detached as well as the ability to objectively analyze any given situation. There will be a concerted effort on your part to cure the ills of society as a whole. But be very careful to continue to maintain and protect the rights of individuals in the midst of these potentially far-reaching changes.

Pluto is in 03 Degrees Capricorn.
For your entire generation, this is a period of intense changes in the very fabric of society. Many accepted institutions may pass away or be born anew. The good of the community as a whole will be stressed and individual rights may come under attack. This will possibly be a period of decay that will lead to a new order.

N. Node is in 08 Degrees Aquarius.
As long as someone else (or a group or organization) appeals to your intellectual sensibilities, you'll try to ally yourself with them in some way. You may find that you always seem to get involved with many wide-ranging groups -- so much so that you find it difficult to fit them all into your busy schedule. Your many friends and acquaintances provide you with needed stimulation. You're loyal and fair-minded -- you try to spend time equally with all your friends, never concentrating on just one or two for any length of time. Although probably quite conservative yourself, you're attracted to those who are a bit offbeat or eccentric -- you enjoy watching their minds work.  

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Old grey whistle test 1975 [Complete]

Fantastic performance by Lynyrd Skynyrd at the Television Centre in London, England back in "75".

Enjoy...

***Check the box in bottom right corner of the viewer to watch this in full screen. Click this link [here] to download a copy of it for yourself

Rise: Blood Hunter (2007)

Rise: Blood Hunter (2007)

From Crackle: Rise: Blood Hunter

The snoopy reporter Sadie Blake is called by her nerd colleague Ethan Mills that has deciphered a code and found an address in Koreatown from information of the Goth Tricia Rawlins about a bloody cult. Sadie does not give attention to Ethan, but when she sees on the front page of the news that Tricia has been found dead in a dumpster in Koreatown, she decides to visit the address. She finds an abandoned house with a gruesome basement full of blood and she immediately drives to Ethan's apartment. She finds the place in a complete mess and is abducted by a stranger and taken to Bishop, who wants to know what Tricia has told her. Then, Bishop and his mate Eve kill Sadie and they have a necrophilic threesome with her body. Later, Sadie awakes in the freezer of the morgue and sooner she realizes that she is a vampire and promises revenge to her sire.

Needs more edit...

South Station, Boston

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South Station
Submitted by Paul Cutler III on Thu, 10/28/2010 - 11:43am.[on this page]


South Station is only 9 years old in this photo. All 28 tracks are in use, and at this time it is the busiest passenger terminal in the world. It was capable of handling 8 simultaneous train movements through the yard throat.


This picture most likely was taken from the drawbridge control cabin over the Fort Point Channel. This 3-bridge, 6-track structure was only torn down in the past 10 years or so for the Big Dig.


The large train shed was torn down in the 1930's due to the expense of maintaining it and the corrosive effects of the coal smoke on the steel and concrete structure. Not to mention keeping the glass clean.


The building on the left is the outbound express building, which was originally used by a predecessor of the Railway Express Agency. Most if not all the cars in the photo are wood framed cars. The 3 cars behind the leg of the tower are especially ancient with their flat arched roofs.


The building on the far right is the power plant and gas plant for power and lighting of the station (replaced by the South Postal Annex in the 1940's). The coal carrying cars are of the drop bottom gondola type, rather than a true hopper car. The reporting marks on that old tank car is "W.O.W.", and I have no idea what railroad or shipper that is.


The two ramps on the right lead to the abandoned underground commuter loop. This was to be used with electric commuter cars like the ones used on the Nantasket Beach Branch of the New Haven Railroad. This was center 3rd rail, like Lionel toy trains. Safety complaints and projected expense kept the New Haven from electrifying all Boston commuter traffic like it wanted to. South Station was the 1st terminal in the world to be designed for electric trains, and yet it didn't happen until the 1990's for Amtrak on the upper level. The reason for two ramps is that the one on the right was to be used for all Old Colony RR lines to the South and East, while the ramp to the left was to be used for all Providence, Franklin, Needham, Dedham, and Stoughton lines. From what I read, they tried to use the loop once with a steam engine test train, but almost killed everyone on board due to the total lack of ventilation.


The loop station was used at various times as a parking garage and a bowling alley. It was not fully removed until South Station's reconstruction in the mid-1980's.


The Atlantic Street wing of the station (visible at left) was torn down before preservation efforts started. It was rebuilt much wider in the 1980's for a food court. They reopened the same quarries used in the 1890's to get the same color granite. The Summer St. wing was shortened by half for the Stone & Webster tower.


All of South Station was owned by the Boston Terminal Co., which was jointly owned by the railroads that had their own stations replaced by South Station: Old Colony RR, Boston & Providence RR, Boston & Albany RR, and the New York & New England RR. Each RR owned 20% of the BTCo., plus the New Haven RR which owned the OCRR, NY&NE, and B&P (giving the NHRR 80 percent control).


Today, South Station is at 13 tracks, yet it has more scheduled trains than in 1940. There is serious talk of moving the Post Office out, and expanding the track diagram to 20 tracks.

 

Below is a picture of the lower level track system. 

I was talking with a friend of mine yesterday and mentioned them, but he didn't believe it. I replied that I myself didn't either until I saw them myself.

About 19 years ago I had gone into Boston at the beginning of the re-construction project, they had two full blocks of double high scaffolding blocking off the front and East sides of South Station. Along the inner sides of the scaffolding was a plywood barrier wall to protect pedestrians from falling debris and on that temporary barrier they had posters and historical referances to South Station posted along the path. 

It was very interesting, I think I spent a couple hours looking over all of the material. One particular point of interest was the underground tracks system. Several photos had pictures of trains parked underground on a series of tracks layed out in about a 2 mile radius right under the outer edges of the station and under the surrounding streets.

The note however with this picture of part of them says that they were never even put to use.  

"The lower level loop tracks which were never put into service.  The lower level later became an employee parking lot and a bowling alley.  This photo taken shortly after South Station was opened."

Link to that page is [here].


NOTE: I plan on emailing the station to ask for more access to the reference material that they had posted on the walls back then, because it was really very interesting anyway.

Blood on the tracks (1975), full post + bonus

(192 Kbps faf-rip from Top 100 Albums Series)

Blood on the tracks (1975)

"Blood on the Tracks is Bob Dylan's 15th studio album, released by Columbia Records in January 1975. The album marked Dylan's return to Columbia after a two-album stint with Asylum Records."


"The album, which followed years of lukewarm reception for Dylan's work, was greeted enthusiastically by fans and critics. In the years following its release it has come to be regarded as one of his best albums..."

Shared from From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia on this page [here].

01), "Tangled Up in Blue" – 5:42 (Sound 80 Studio - Minneapolis, MN - 12/30/74), [Download].

02),"Simple Twist of Fate" – 4:19 (A & R Studios - New York, NY - 9/19/74),[Download].

03),"You're a Big Girl Now" – 4:36 (Sound 80 Studio - Minneapolis, MN - 12/27/74),[Download].

04),"Idiot Wind" – 7:48 (Sound 80 Studio - Minneapolis, MN - 12/27/74),[Download].

05),"You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go" – 2:55 (A & R Studios - New York, NY - 9/17/74), [Download].

06),"Meet Me in the Morning" – 4:22 (A & R Studios - New York, NY - 9/16/74), [Download].

07),"Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts" – 8:51 (Sound 80 Studio - Minneapolis,MN - 12/30/74), [Download].
08),"If You See Her, Say Hello" – 4:49 (Sound 80 Studio - Minneapolis, MN - 12/30/74), [Download].

09),"Shelter from the Storm" – 5:02 (A & R Studios - New York, NY - 9/17/74), [Download].  
"My favorite track, so it gets the visuals, LOL"

10),"Buckets of Rain" – 3:22 (A & R Studios - New York, NY - 9/19/74), [Download].

Bonus track:

 Tangled up in blue (remix) [download].


NOTE: I'm not sure what faf means in English. What I do know though is that there are many files out there labeled "faf" and all of them are the highest quality, it even seems that higher bit rate files don't compare in sound quality of those. If anyone has any info on the ripping method then please share the info with me.