Happy Easter + "Ghost Story"

I just looked at last night's blog and I see that I not only failed to wish you a Happy Easter but I also forgot to sign off. Double fail, Ad! I mean, I never forget to sign off. It's automatic:

See you in the morning, tons of love til then (or a variation of the love description) xoxoxoxoxoxo :):)

But for some reason I forgot to do it last night. Probably because I was not only Dog Tired but was also Youtubing versions of our Easter Anthems at the last minute before I went to bed. I wanted to make sure I had all my lines right because I had never sung these songs before. So I guess I was preoccupied.

Well, I'll not let it happen again, and I hope you did have a nice Easter Sunday. We had a good turnout in church, and we in the choir sang our butts off throughout the service. I love especially the hymns, as you know, and a famous one for Easter is "Christ The Lord Is Risen Today", with it's rise-and-fall "alleluia" refrain. When I have a song like that with a powerful melody, that is also mostly sung in the upper tenor register, I am gonna give it everything I've got. I have also remarked, in my blog about Notre Dame, the spiritual energy I can feel when I am singing in church, and on Easter Sunday that feeling is amplified to the highest degree. I could sing those hymns all day because the melodies are so full of emotion and were deliberately written to inspire. ////

Tonight I watched an episode of "Ghost Story", and I've just gotta say yet again that this may be the scariest TV show that was ever broadcast. I mean, consider this : the stars of this episode were Hal Linden and Mike Farrell. In other words, "Barney Miller" and "B.J." from "M.A.S.H".

Two guys that are identified with classic sitcoms.  How can you make them scary? And yet here, in this story about a serial killer on a college campus who may actually be a vampire, their light comedy personas work against the dark setting. Linden and Farrell are professors who are recruited by the campus police chief to act as the leaders of an escort safety patrol after night classes have let out. A killer has been attacking co-eds in the cemetery that borders the college. On safety patrol one night, Hal Linden swears he saw a fellow professor running after a girl in the cemetery.

The only problem is that the professor in question has been dead for several years. During his tenure in the Science Dept., however, he wrote a thesis about blood chemistry that made him a legend at the school because he tied his findings to a potential for immortality. He believed that an ongoing re-invigoration of the blood could extend a person's life indefinitely......and yeah, he was a pretty twisted puppy.

So now the campus police chief is all worked up because Linden claims he saw the dead professor in the cemetery, chasing down his latest victim. And I am sorry to tell you this, but the Chief recruits professors Linden and Mike Farrell to dig up the dead guy's grave, just to make sure he is still in there, because Linden is saying that he's not, that he is in fact out and about.

This is me speaking again. I don't think I need any more evidence to back up the Scariness Factor of "Ghost Story". And I haven't even touched on all the other aspects of this episode that make it so weird and frightening, but they mostly have to do with William Castle's use of color and lighting, and the way in which he isolates his characters in their environment, so that they seem to have no recourse to the outside world. If you haven't purchased the complete series dvd collection yet, I'm sure you will want to do so in the near future.

That's all I know for tonight. I will see you in the morning with much love sent to you until then.

xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo  :):)