All I want for solstice is my sanity...

I love the HP Lovecraft Historical Society. :) The following are from two holiday albums (I have the first). Thanks to Bill for reminding me of that gem of a CD.

I will unfortunately be nowhere near Second Life then

(I go onto Second Life once in a blue moon, after all, and I work/have plans that day.) According to Through the Filter of a Victorian Aesthetic there will be a presentation of the HP Lovecraft Historical Society's radio play for 'The Shadow Out of Time' on Thursday. I have to admit, I'm sorely tempted to buy the packaged set of HPLHS's Dark Adventure Theatre's four plays, which includes 'At the Mountains of Madness', 'The Dunwich Horror', 'The Shadow Out of Time', and 'The Shadow Over Innsmouth'. I love radio plays, and I love Lovecraft. I unfortunately don't have $80 to spare just now, though. But still...it's tempting. (If you already have a CD or so, you can mix and match, even get the wooden box, all at different rates, which I think is pretty nifty.)

A test!

Take the HP Lovecraft Historical Society's SaniTest. Then get back with me once you get out of Arkham Sanitarium...oh, yeah, just meet me there, come to think of it. I'll be looking for the secret laboratory.

My score:

Your SaniTest(TM) Results

Your score is: 134
For easier understanding, the HPLHS SaniTest assessment algorithm converts your raw score to a scale of 1 to 10. This number is your INSANITY INDEX.

INSANITY INDEX 7.55 Well, the SaniTest(TM) algorithm probably can't tell you anything that you haven't heard before: you're out of your mind. You score at the high end of the middle of the 'spectrum of madness,' in an area that's difficult to classify with precision. Test answers suggest a certain morbidity and even malevolence. Not that there's anything wrong with that. You are also willing to take risks that a saner person would shy away from. Other notable people who score at this level include Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett, mountain climber Sir Edmund Hillary, and cuneiform expert/Assyriologist Hermann Volrath Hilprecht.

Want

Dark Adventure Radio Theatre: At the Mountains of Madness

-and-

Dark Adventure Radio Theatre: The Dunwich Horror

Each from the folks at the HP Lovecraft Historical Society. :)

I have a recording of this

that I put on an ABBA album (because it is to the tune of 'Fernando').

Terence Chua's "Do You Hear the Pipes Cthulhu?'


and a wonderful performance of Shoggoth on the Roof's
'Tentacles!' from the HP Lovecraft Historical Society


I have their 'A Very Scary Solstice' album, thanks to Dee. But I may have to invest in the parody of Fiddler on the Roof, one of my favourite musicals.

Tekeli-li!! Tekeli-li!!! :) It's a star! It's a tree!

Oh, I know, you probably don't get it. Go read some Lovecraft already.

Thanks to YKWIA for pointing me to both so I could share them with you.

Reason #1,329 why I love Google

All this watching TV from my youth had me half-remembering a show from Nickleodeon in the 1980s where there was a Mr Wilberforce, aliens, and kids with paranormal powers. I Googled 'Wilberforce TV Nicklelodeon' and behold, came up with The Third Eye (and here's the Wikipedia entry). It was a collection of different mini-series from around the world with unusual happenings in them. The specific feature I remembered was a New Zealand show called 'Under the Mountain'. I am now happy, mystery solved.

Here are scenes from that feature:


and a longer scene, where they find out Mr Wilberforce is not what he appeared to be.



The (bad) aliens' subterranean base looks ripe for Shoggoths, let me tell you. By the way, remember 'Shoggoth on the Roof'? Well, apparently it was a condensation of an actual musical published by the HP Lovecraft Historical Society. For more, check out the article on Wikipedia. Songs include: 'Tentacles', 'Byakhee, Byakhee', 'Shoggoth Prayer', 'If I were a Deep One', and 'Do You Fear Me?'

I'd love to get a copy of the original cast recording. It can be obtained here. For more on 'Shoggoth', check out the HPLHS' website on the subject, including the trials and tribulations of staging it with music (it was threatened legally by the creators of the music for 'Fiddler on the Roof' and even though a parody and therefore legally they'd most likely win, they don't have the money for legal fees.)