SuperBowl Sunday

Shadow Shot Sunday - Sept 27 2009

Fire Island Lighthouse - New York

Never Forget

God Bless America

SkyWatch Friday - July 10 2009

God's fireworks takes a bow so that we may enjoy America's fireworks

--- July 4th 2009 - Jones Beach, NY ---

The TicketMaster random Roulette Wheel technique

And so the saga continues ...

10am SHARP at TicketMaster.com ... tix to a show that I really want to attend go onsale ........ it makes no difference who the act might be, its the same roulette game for any given show

For the first 10 minutes all junk is popping up, lots of section 104's, then 103's, then 102's ... ut oh, this thing is getting worse and worse and going further back than where it started ... a bad sign ... But kept at it, spinning the wheel time and time again ... floor section 3, then 6, then back to 127-126 or thereabouts .. don't want anything less than center arena so nixed all of 'em .. it ain't looking too good right now, oh well ....

Suddenly another spin of the wheel drops a section 232 on my screen .... hmmmmm ... getting better but still way too high upstairs ... nixed that one ... More spins and its back to 102, 103, 127 again, with an occasional floor 6 or 4 popping up in the meantime ... it is now approx 10:20am or so, time is running out .... UGGHHHHH !

More spins of the roulette wheel ........

Then a 121 shows up ... almost perfect location, a bit high but not too bad, so grabbed a pair in 121 :)

Satisfied that I'm now *in* with good seats, kept on spinning the wheel just for amusement to see where it might go .... good move ..... a few more spins and its back to the back, 102-104-127 with the occasional floor 1-3-4-6 thrown in for good measure ... another eye popping 121 set, and a few opposite 109's ... tried for a single seat and 110 and 120 pop up

Then an amazing thing happened ... next spin (for a pair) pulls up section 8, row 21 ... thats FRONT CENTER ORCHESTRA folks !!!

Needless to say, GRABBED that pair immediately! (of course after checking that my eyes weren't deceiving and that they were in fact 21st row center)

Now I gots 2 sets of 2 tix, both in prime locations ... I'm happy, Life is Good :)

Cheers,
MM

Dark Side of the Wizard of Oz
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OK, I’d been reading and hearing about this thing for several decades now, but never actually tried it out myself to see if there was any veracity to it or if it was just simply the psychotic musings of some stoned out, LSD flashback, post-60’s hippy who happened to turn the sound off on their TV watching “Wizard of Oz” while listening to Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon”.

Apparently the theory goes that if one starts viewing “Wizard of Oz” at the same time as starting “Dark Side of the Moon”, they seem to be in sync with each other … DSOTM providing a dynamic ’soundtrack’ to the visual action in WOZ ………

Well, some schmuck actually synchronized them on audio/video and uploaded the series to YouTube :)

So now we get our answer … view at your own peril …. /laughs


Dark Side of the Oz - part one

Dark Side of the Oz - part two

Dark Side of the Oz - part three

Dark Side of the Oz - part four

Dark Side of the Oz - part five

Dark Side of the Oz - part six

Dark Side of the Oz - part seven


I found some of these mostly amusing, especially starting at the 3rd clip, when Dorothy is running away from the approaching tornado, and at the 6th clip when Dorothy is at the yellow brick crossroads and meets the scarecrow ... It really does seem to be synchronized somewhat :)

If anything, ya get to hear the magnificent Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety, as well as viewing the first half of an equally magnificent Wizard of Oz movie … what could be better than that?

Enjoy,
MM

Islanders Over and Out .....



5 games they lasted! WHOH!

Well, at least they made the playoffs and all were fairly close games, and I got my T-Shirt :) What more could a long suffering Islander fan ask for?


MM