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The Forest Poltergeist with Travis Watson - Dec 9, 2023

Seriah is joined by Travis Watson to discuss his latest book “The Forest Poltergeist” and numerous related subjects. Topics include research rabbit holes, psychic research, Animism, the concept of the wilderness poltergeist, class B Sasquatch encounters, Big Foot Research Organization (BFRO), the paradoxes of flesh and blood Sasquatch, Eric Ouellet’s book “Illuminations: the UFO Experience as a Parapsychological Event”, apports, the Enfield poltergeist case, the Black Monk haunting, loud sounds some people hear and others do not, a mysterious set of tracks in the snow in the UK, unexplainable pools of water, Sasquatch footprint casts, tree structures, Timothy Renner, an incident involving Bigfoot and a ghost, the “silo” effect in paranormal research, stone throwing, “Monster Quest” TV show, Guy Lyon Playfair, Spiritism, a poltergeist case in Brazil, Dogman, Linda Godfrey, the Black Stone Gap case in Canada, Recurrent Spontaneous Psychokinetic Activity (RSPA), apparitions, wandering bits of consciousness, expectation and perception, one-off monster sightings, an encounter with a humanoid aquatic creature in Canada, the Loveland Frogman, the ubiquity of poltergeist activity in paranormal experiences, PK energy and mass sightings, energy lines connecting sacred sites, foxfire and will-o-wisps, earth energy, Mike Clelland and shamanic initiation, spirit animals, familiars, alcohol and its lack of hallucinogenic properties, Jeff Meldrum, Sasquatch track casts, most common experiences in a Class B encounter, wood knocking, tree shaking, strange smells, poltergeist activity compare/contrast with Sasquatch activity, bias in anthropology, the art of tracking, Colin Wilson, sulfur/brimstone, Loren Coleman, lake monsters, “Old Gods of Appalachia” podcast, Oz Effect silence, Jenny Randles, apex predators, a UK UFO experience involving strange silence, Carlos Castenada, magickal practice, consciousness and brain-wave states, Watson’s personal experiences in the Superstition Mountains, zones of fear, poltergeist sounds vs animal sounds, tree structures, poltergeist moving objects around and altering their environment, Olive Hill poltergeist case, William G. Roll, Lloyd Auerbach, furniture structures, fear and perception, a bizarre experience with eggs in the refrigerator, poltergeist disappearing/reappearing objects, a reporter hit with a lego, a 1980’s UK poltergeist encounter with multiple repeated witnesses, and much more! This is focused but riveting conversation!

- Recap by Vincent Treewell

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Dune: Prophecy | Official Teaser | Max

The Dune prequel series, Dune: Prophecy, will premiere on Max in Fall 2024.

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L.S. Dunes and Pony at The Opera House on July 13, 2023 | 📸: Kurtis Watson

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273: The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band // Will the Circle Be Unbroken

Will the Circle Be Unbroken The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band 1972, United Artists

Who can endure a sentimentalist music critic? Still, this morning anyway, my heart’s fit to weep over a one-hundred-and-ten minutes of exultant roots music and a beautiful idea executed to perfection. The notion behind Will the Circle Be Unbroken was to use the Dirt Band, a crew of talented longhairs from California, as a bridge between the trendy country rock of the day and the genre’s pantheon of avuncularly voiced pioneers. (And I guess in Maybelle Carter’s case ‘aunticularly voiced.’) Many of these sorts of intergenerational tribute projects give me queasy tasting notes of hapless arts council funding or the rap number from Walk Hard, but somehow this triple LP from the heart of rock’s imperial phase manages to be both reverent of traditional country and bluegrass history and present these genres as living organisms.

The Dirt Band are joined by a Field of Dreams cast of legends, plus an adjunct wing of ace players like fiddle genius Vassar Clements, and while the Dirties sneak in one original the focus is squarely on the standards. None of these takes supplant the originals, but the recording fidelity, superlative playing, and warm communal energy make for lovely alternatives. Merle Travis’s “Dark as a Dungeon,” one of the greatest folk and country songs of the century, has never sounded more lovely or doomed; Doc Watson gives Jimmie Driftwood’s “Tennessee Stud” a broad-shouldered boisterousness; Earl Scruggs and the Dirt Band’s John McEuen present the classic fiddle reel “Soldier’s Joy” as an infectious banjo duel. 

Many of the songs include snatches of studio chatter between the band and their guests: Mother Maybelle sounds like the sweetest old thing imaginable; Roy Acuff comes off like as much of a pompous Haven Hamilton-type as I’d always heard he was; Jimmy Martin gives elderly prospector cricket. The tapes are even rolling for the first meeting of guitar legends Travis and Watson, who have an adorably awkward little chat before declaring themselves “buddies.” These peeks into the process are part of Circle’s artifice, but it feels like an honest attempt to capture the historic nature of the summit. The album rounds off with nods to the deep past in the form of a number of Carter family cuts, an homage to bluegrass father “Uncle” Dave Macon, and a group singalong of the spiritual “Will the Circle Be Unbroken?” But then, right there at the end, we get 17-year-old Randy Scruggs performing a solo instrumental take on Joni Mitchell’s 1968 “Both Sides, Now.” The symbolism of the teenaged son of Earl Scruggs playing such a recent (and aptly-named) tune is clear, quietly closing the circle between past and present, a pact sealed.

273/365

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Odell with Travis Kelce, Miles Chamley-Watson, Winnie Harlow, Eiza Gonzalez and Ajay Sangha at the 2023 Vanity Fair Oscar Party

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If you watched the game last night, you'll understand. 🤣🤣

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Letters From Watson Liveblog - Dec. 22

The Creeping Man, Part 3 of 3

I don't think it's intentional but I'm going to count Holmes and Watson being in the bushes here as a reference to the earlier stories, like say The Speckled Band, just to create for myself a sense of finality. After all, this is the last case we have before Holmes' retirement! And with everything they've been through, they're still just two guys solving a mystery by hiding in some bushes.

For a story ostensibly set right before Holmes' retirement, I think this is the first reference we've gotten from Holmes himself that he's going to retire. It's an offhand comment too, though him saying "of my dreams" would suggest he's been thinking about this for a while now.

Woah, why would he do that? Not only is it just plain mean, but provoking an angry dog that's been chained up is just asking for it to get loose and attack you. I think that's a pretty common trope actually.

Well, I won't say the Professor deserves it, but it is comeuppance. This also isn't the first angry dog we've seen, so in my head I'm going to see this as another reference to all those previous dogs that have attacked people in these stories.

Remember that other time that guy got his throat ripped out? Doyle's really bringing it home.

Ah yes, the monkey drug case. I had forgotten what this was until now. One of Sherlock Holmes' last cases! One of his last great adventures! The last mystery of the great detective Sherlock Holmes! And it's about a monkey drug.

Jokes aside, I do think it's funny to think that this case is the reason Holmes retired. Like it was either too weird for Holmes or too nonsensical, and he just couldn't deal with it anymore. Bees make more sense than this.

And the Professor did it so he could be younger and marry his coworker's daughter. I thought they were already engaged but whatever, I guess not.

That last line from Holmes though sounds like one of those quotes which are profound on its own but in context is being applied to a very strange situation.

I'm going to assume Holmes doesn't really understand how the drug worked and is thus explaining this through his understanding of the case, not the weird science behind it. Still, a very funny line.

As for my final thoughts, I think ultimately there was a lot of missed potential in this story to establish more parallels between Holmes and Professor Presbury. You have this older, intelligent, learned man, respected by his peers and colleagues with a well-established reputation trying to turn back time and make himself younger. And you have a story set right before Holmes is about to retire! That feels like a great set up for him to see himself in the Professor, reflect about his age, or his legacy, or at least talk more about his retirement plans. Instead it's kind of a standard, interesting mystery.

But also, all that's just my imagination pulling ahead of the way Doyle wrote these stories. Honestly, I don't mind that it's a standard, if not a little stranger, mystery. I don't think Holmes would be the type to think about his age like it was a burden or something holding him back. I think he'd simply wake up one day and go, "I ought to retire," and he would simply leave to play with his bees.

So while I wish this story was a bit more, I'm glad to enjoy it the way it is.

Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3

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Ottawa Senators - Oktoberfest

Singing or dancing?

Brady Tkachuk: Both. At the same time.

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Dune: Prophecy Teaser 2

Set 10,000 years before Paul Atreides, Dune: Prophecy follows the establishment of the sisterhood that would become known as the Bene Gesserit.

Dune: Prophecy is inspired by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson's Sisterhood of Dune, set within Frank Herbert's Dune. The series stars Emily Watson (Valya Harkonnen), Olivia Williams (Tula Harkonnen), Travis Fimmel, Jodhi May, Mark Strong, Sarah-Sofie Boussnina, Josh Heuston, Chloe Lea, Jade Anouka, Camilla Beeput, Faoileann Cunningham, Edward Davis, Aoife Hinds, Chris Mason, Shalom Brune-Franklin, Jihae, Tabu, Charithra Chandran, Jessica Barden, Emma Canning, and Yerin Ha.

Dune: Prophecy will premiere on Max in November 2024.

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Trailer for Max's 'Dune: Prophecy' Arrives

Trailer for Max's 'Dune: Prophecy' Arrives @StreamOnMax #DuneProphecy

Hot on the heels of the best movie of the year, Dune: Part Two, Legendary and WB are wasting no time at all expanding on the Dune saga! In fact, to the surprise of everyone, a new series for Max will be arriving this fall! And we got a first look at the trailer for Dune: Prophecy today. Continue reading Trailer for Max’s ‘Dune: Prophecy’ Arrives

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Dune: Prophecy | Official Teaser 2 - Control

The Dune prequel series, Dune: Prophecy, will premiere on Max in November 2024.

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chester watson - fish don't climb trees (2023)

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"Bumblebee" (2018). Dir. Travis Knight.

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Ottawa Senators || 2022-23 NHL Season

(Opening Night Roster vs BUF)

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Ivy

The credits for Sam Wood’s IVY (1947, Criterion Channel) play over an image of an urn containing flowers. At their end, the urn becomes a skull. That sets the tone for this gothic noir set in Edwardian England (the original novel by Marie Belloc Lowndes took place in the 1920s). It’s a visually scrumptious film, with producer William Cameron Menzies, a frequent Wood collaborator, supervising production design and even some of the camera set-ups. Joan Fontaine, often in white, looks the perfect young innocent. But she’s actually an ambitious schemer. Having run through husband Richard Ney’s fortune and tired of doctor lover Patric Knowles, she comes up with a plan to rid herself of both so she can seduce wealthy businessman Herbert Marshall. In the 1940s, her evil was so shocking it cost the film at the box office. Today, it seems like fitting revenge for saddling her with three such unmagnetic leading men. Charles Bennett’s screenplay starts with Fontaine presented as a Gothic victim. She’s covered in shadows when she visits a fortune teller (Una O’Connor) whose spooky presence seems to terrorize her.  But when O’Connor advises her to dump her lover because she’s about to meet a man who can solve her problems, Fontaine perks up, and you realize how amoral she is. The actress looks terrific and has some fascinating flirtation scenes, though when she’s being duplicitous, she strays into the Joan Crawford school of energetic overstatement. None of the men are a match for her, but the film has some intriguing character women who more than hold their own, including Lucille Watson as Knowles’ mother, Sara Allgood as his nurse and Rosalind Ivan as Fontaine’s maid, a woman who can find the laughs in a mourning scene. Russell Metty did the moody cinematography, Orry Kelly and Travis Banton created the costumes and composer Daniele Amfitheatrof pours on the harpsichord whenever Fontaine does something particularly evil.