Monday, June 22, 2015

Gabriel's Horn Did Nothing Until the 15th Century

After a bit of research, I didn't come up with a strong reason Archangel Gabriel should be on the side of a building downtown and is clearly up there blowing his horn.  In all I could find, the strongest reference to Gabriel's horn was the Lord telling him to hold off on blowing it because it foretold the Lord's return to Earth.

Research does not mean Bible study as I don't own one but I'll read from whatever sources I regard as credible, unbiased, etc to learn what I can.

The reason for the question is I believe the building on which he's planted downtown is a theater, as in stage.  However, that metaphor isn't working for me as missing the show brings the Judgment Day or ...?  Maybe answer two is he's not Gabriel and the trumpet is to herald the start of the show.

Even if the identification is not correct, the symbol regarding "The End of the World in Fort Worth" is what I want.  That symbol was invented in the Fifteenth Century by a painter and that's the first specific association with Gabriel.  According to the sources, there is no reference in any religious document which specifically names Gabriel as the one who blows a horn before the rising of the dead.  (WIKI:  Gabriel)

If I read my Catholic friend correctly, his reaction would be a shrug with a possible question, "And your point?"

I agree it's a shrug as the symbol works just fine regardless of how it developed.  Gabriel's horn tells the people of Fort Worth of the End of Times.


The horn comes over to the guitar just fine.  Normally I just want to rip into something, get hammered and see what comes.  This Gabriel's horn bit has a good hold and it rocks up just fine kicking it up to chords.

It's only just now I've realized it's been about six weeks of downtime.  Things ran way, way down in that time and it's remarkable the change since then in endurance time for playing the guitar.

Right now is some time for hammering the tune for the hell of it and see what happens throwing different things around.  It's one supreme luxury to get that back when the overwhelming thought has been Nothing Works.  This feels very damn good so it'll be a bit before recording anything as putting up different versions of it isn't much good.

There isn't enough time between Gabriel on the horn for Silas to do much with it as he's got to get onto the stage quickly inside the Rockhouse.  The scene to add the wizard on the porch adds five or ten seconds, not much.

That's leading to making a scene of the Night of the Living Dead Beatles as they loved to play with movie cameras and there are tricks one can do by editing the film to remove segments.  They used those tricks to make themselves jump all around in a scene without seeming to do anything.  A scene using that technique isn't difficult with digital editing so time can be added by creating a scene of the walking dead (maybe) in which they advance in that extreme-old-style 8mm-movie technique.

The question comes then is this a horror movie and that wasn't my purpose but I'm not averse to it so long as it's more than monsters biting your face just for meanness.


As to what's in the news ... dunno.  I noticed they caught the bad guys in New York.  Excellent as the last thing I saw about that was the word from some 80-year-old guy in the small town where it was believed the bad guys went and he was terrified.  Not any more, old guy.  Now you can get back to the porch and enjoying some Summertime again.

This is where it needs a clip from Jack Webb (Dragnet).

Update:  Whoops, they didn't get them yet but it sounds like cops soon will.


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