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Post by nonrabbit on Jul 9, 2014 21:57:27 GMT
I was out in my car this afternoon with of course Homo Erraticus on the CD player and when the opening bars of Enter The Uninvited came on I was passing a Cemetery and I thought it was the perfect image for the start of that song. See what you think. That first image is brilliant and the last one. Hope your going to make this. I like the idea of storm clouds rolling in as well, maybe after the first picture? The song needs a dark video to accompany it.
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Post by steelmonkey on Jul 9, 2014 22:51:36 GMT
Dunno, For some reason this song conjures a sort of barren desert with volcanic peaks in the background....why ?
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Post by jackinthegreen on Jul 9, 2014 23:08:08 GMT
I was out in my car this afternoon with of course Homo Erraticus on the CD player and when the opening bars of Enter The Uninvited came on I was passing a Cemetery and I thought it was the perfect image for the start of that song. See what you think. Black Sabbath (by Black Sabbath) suits that little clip too........
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2014 19:05:14 GMT
San Diego Reader - On the Record www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2014/jul/12/cd-ian-andersons-emhomo-erraticusem/Ian Anderson's Homo Erraticus By Andrew Hamlin, July 12, 2014 Ian Anderson’s second solo album since quietly deep-spacing the Jethro Tull band moniker, and to boot his third excursion into his avatar Gerald Bostock, a child prodigy turned troubled adult. Only this time Bostock mostly stands in for deep-time, since Homo Erracticus stretches back to circa 6200 B.C.E. and ends here, now, honoring a rough chronology but flying forth and back as the master pleases, often to the tune of his Pied Piper silver aerophone. Bostock may be dissolved in the ages, but other honored Tull trademarks represent. That flute, of course, and the surge of electric organ through the deeper tradition of U.K. folk dancing, not to mention U.K. folks’ foibles in fable. The craggy, ruined vagabond from Aqualung and elsewhere, peered out over binoculars from the cover of 1979’s Stormwatch, gloating as a tempest overtook an oil rig. Thirty-five years later, oil rigs are blown, seas are rising, we’re deeper in goop than previously conceptualized, even as the disc reminds how trouble’s been with us always. We’ve just moved onto bigger, more dangerous toys. Anderson digs how fans can Google anything they don’t get, so he’s not shy about piling on history, Doggerland to Morris Traveller to “Neil, Buzz, and Michael.” And what’s next for history? One politician just claimed he deserves to serve because the “man” who beat him is actually a robot. We’ll see more of that — robots and protests. The Piper calls us children down the path and doesn’t hide his sly grin between toots.
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Post by maddogfagin on Jul 25, 2014 15:51:16 GMT
www.rockcellarmagazine.com/2014/06/12/not-living-in-the-past-ian-anderson/#sthash.i7o2G04n.dpbsNot Living in the PastWritten by: Berton AverreI was going to review the new Ian Anderson album. Not exactly review; more of a think piece. I was a big fan of Jethro Tull‘s, particularly in the early days. My brother and I saw them at Devonshire Downs, which was a San Fernando Valley version of Woodstock in ’69. In three days and nights, we saw Hendrix (twice), Spirit, Three Dog Night, Johnny Winter, Ike and Tina Turner, Creedence, Taj Mahal, the aforementioned Jethro Tull…that’s off the top of my head. Hendrix was supremely pissed off the first night and was awful, which is why we saw him twice; because he came back on Sunday afternoon, vowing to make up for the Friday night debacle, which he promptly did in an epic jam with Steve Cropper and other worthies. The blonde lead singer from Smith kept trying to horn in, and Eric Burdon finally slung her over his shoulder and carried her off the stage like a sack of potatoes. As for Tull, I can’t tell you if Mick Abrahams was still playing in the band: I was rather high at the time. If you’re a Jethro Tull fan, you know that guitarist Mick Abrahams left the group after the first album (apparently immediately after, which might be the reason it was called This Was). He went on to form Blodwyn Pig, who were favorites of ours as well: we saw them at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, opening for Procol Harum. I think the stage monitors sucked, because Mick sang sharp the entire set. Procol Harum did A Salty Dog live. Can you imagine? Getting back to Ian Anderson, the album Tull followed up This Was with was entitled Stand Up, and it was sublime. Abrahams had been replaced by a guy named Martin Lancelot Barre (although in later years he sensibly enough dropped the “Lancelot” part). For years (decades) I assumed him to be responsible for all these great acoustic guitar parts on many of the songs — no one could mix powerful rock with great folky tunes like Jethro Tull, with the possible (okay, obvious) exception of Zeppelin. A careful reading of the credits of Stand Up, though, suggests that Barre played only electric, which means all those tasty, intriguing, inventive acoustic guitar parts (as well as mandolin) must have been Mr. Anderson. Well, I don’t know about you, but I’m impressed. Do you know the song Fat Man? It’s wry to the point of being nasty, and centers around a terrific faux-Indian kind of riff, accompanied by Clive Bunker whipping out the hippest bongo drums part ever. And no, that’s not an oxymoron. The ballads on Stand Up also hold up extremely well: Look Into The Sun tugs at the nostalgia rings as well as anything from the era. As for the heavier songs, the aforementioned Bunker, Barre, and bassist Glen Cornick are all at the top of their crazed game. It’s the kind of record that reminds you how far we’ve come…downward. So now, over 40 years later, Ian Anderson puts out not just an album but a concept album. As I understand it, the songs on Homo Erraticus are representations of the works of a fictitious poet. Well, why not? Many of the songs’ titles are in Latin. And again, why not? “Erraticus” means erratic, or in this case perhaps wild: “Wild Man”. We have Puer Ferox Adventus (Arrival of the Wild Boy), Meliora Sequamur (Better Course?), and Tripudium Ad Bellum (Dancing To War). Why the Latin? We still hear it in law and medical jargon: in any other context we react to Latin as something insufferably stuffed-shirt. Except Anderson is way too smart a guy simply to stick out his chest and proclaim “Look at me: I’m speaking Latin!” The text of these songs seems to deal with the March of Time, kind of a “how do we find ourselves here?” I’m thinking Latin is an excellent tool to draw the line between past and future civilization: What could possibly scream “old dead guys” better? The starting point for the song Arrival of the Uninvited is the Roman Conquest (“We’re here!”) but it quickly careens into the twentieth and twenty first centuries with a dizzying spew of pop culture references: “Presley hips, Monroe lips”, “Bubblegum and Google bums”. Okay, that’s my new favorite couplet. One of the best songs — and very good it is — is entitled New Blood, Old Veins. I think we all know that feeling. If I had to mention anything that disappointed me in the music, I’d admit to kind of missing the snarl in Anderson’s singing. There are a boatload of singers in the annals of rock who do snotty (I’ve christened an entire sub-genre of 60s garage music “Snot Pop”): but no one ever did sleazy like Ian Anderson. There was always a whiff of the unsavory hiding around the corner, waiting to jump out at the slightest provocation. Was there ever a more disturbing first two lines of a song than “Sitting on a park bench/Eyeing little girls with bad intent”? And we hadn’t even gotten to the snot running down his nose yet. There’s another thing that happens with certain styles of music that’s unfortunate without at all being the musicians’ fault. Have you ever listened to a band from the 70s and heard a possible source for Spinal Tap? I think in this case it’s not much more than the mandolin parts (“And the elves were dancing”), but still not the optimum reference point for an artist, I should think. Homo Erraticus features actual musicians (good ones) actually playing. Yay. The only quibble I had with the recording aspects was the guitar sounds, which sounded a bit processed. Nothing beats the old 50 watt Marshall head. Now watch, someone will chip in, “That WAS a 50 watt Marshall head, dummy!” Well, come on: you don’t expect me to research this stuff, do you? All the hallmarks of Anderson’s music are in strong evidence. The shifting of tone, the musical ability to give different songs different faces. Time changes, key changes, tempo changes: all keeping us listeners alert. Another thing that jumped out at me on first hearing was the One-Legged Wonder has clearly been developing his flute chops over the years. Frankly, he’s playing a lot better than he ever did: a much clearer, more confident tone, especially in the upper register. This speaks volumes to me. The catchphrase of a true musician isn’t “I’m bitchen”, but “I want to get better.” Which might answer the question I was originally going to pose as this article’s raison d’etre (not Latin, but for snootiness pretty damn close). To wit, Why? Why do great artists of the past put out albums in the present? Tull fans will be pleased (which actually should be answer enough for me), but isn’t the relative blip the album creates in the silent-universe echo of the Internet a bit, well, depressing for someone who spent a decade or two selling in the millions and thrilling sold out arenas? "It all comes down to expectations, I suppose, and motivation."
Maybe Ian Anderson is following in the footsteps of the great cellist Pablo Casals, who was asked in an interview why the acknowledged maestro of his instrument for an entire generation would still play in his 90s? Casals’ response: “I think I’m seeing some improvement.” Well, on the off chance that Ian Anderson gives two $h1ts what I think, this was at heart an album worth writing, playing, recording, and (gulp) putting on Spotify. The songs address those same modern realities that give rise to my impertinent Why?, and in an honest, thought-provoking, entertaining manner. Compared to whatever else is out there right now, that’s definitely an improvement.
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Post by maddogfagin on Jul 28, 2014 14:46:04 GMT
Another promo single from HE. In the days of vinyl this would start a "feeding frenzy" on ebay but these days it's a different matter.
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Post by maddogfagin on Aug 13, 2014 15:04:33 GMT
Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson Releasing Deluxe Tour Edition of Latest Album Next Month13 August 2014 Jethro Tull frontman Ian Anderson has announced plans to release a deluxe expanded version of his latest solo album, Homo Erraticus, to coincide with his upcoming fall U.S. tour. The CD/DVD set includes specially filmed videos that accompany each album track, a live performance of the new song “Enter the Uninvited” and a recent interview with Anderson talking about the visuals, which also will be shown during the trek.More here www.classichitsandoldies.com/v2/2014/08/13/jethro-tulls-ian-anderson-releasing-deluxe-tour-edition-of-latest-album-next-month/Now I don't know about everyone else, but if as it seems likely that the above is solely for the US tour then it would be a rather good idea to release the DVD as a separate entity so that we poor suffering fans in other parts of the world don't have to fork out for the HE audio stuff again. And is this DVD for sale only in the States ? But then again it keeps the coffers full and my bank balance diminished
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Post by maddogfagin on Aug 15, 2014 10:47:45 GMT
Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson Releasing Deluxe Tour Edition of Latest Album Next Month13 August 2014 Jethro Tull frontman Ian Anderson has announced plans to release a deluxe expanded version of his latest solo album, Homo Erraticus, to coincide with his upcoming fall U.S. tour. The CD/DVD set includes specially filmed videos that accompany each album track, a live performance of the new song “Enter the Uninvited” and a recent interview with Anderson talking about the visuals, which also will be shown during the trek.More here www.classichitsandoldies.com/v2/2014/08/13/jethro-tulls-ian-anderson-releasing-deluxe-tour-edition-of-latest-album-next-month/Now I don't know about everyone else, but if as it seems likely that the above is solely for the US tour then it would be a rather good idea to release the DVD as a separate entity so that we poor suffering fans in other parts of the world don't have to fork out for the HE audio stuff again. And is this DVD for sale only in the States ? But then again it keeps the coffers full and my bank balance diminished According to the kscope web site at www.kscopemusic.com/2014/08/12/ian-andersons-homo-erraticus-available-cddvd-tour-edition/ this seems to be the cover artwork for the above mentioned tour edition.
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Post by JTull 007 on Aug 15, 2014 12:04:00 GMT
Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson Releasing Deluxe Tour Edition of Latest Album Next Month13 August 2014 Jethro Tull frontman Ian Anderson has announced plans to release a deluxe expanded version of his latest solo album, Homo Erraticus, to coincide with his upcoming fall U.S. tour. The CD/DVD set includes specially filmed videos that accompany each album track, a live performance of the new song “Enter the Uninvited” and a recent interview with Anderson talking about the visuals, which also will be shown during the trek.More here www.classichitsandoldies.com/v2/2014/08/13/jethro-tulls-ian-anderson-releasing-deluxe-tour-edition-of-latest-album-next-month/ Now I don't know about everyone else, but if as it seems likely that the above is solely for the US tour then it would be a rather good idea to release the DVD as a separate entity so that we poor suffering fans in other parts of the world don't have to fork out for the HE audio stuff again. And is this DVD for sale only in the States ? But then again it keeps the coffers full and my bank balance diminished According to the kscope web site at www.kscopemusic.com/2014/08/12/ian-andersons-homo-erraticus-available-cddvd-tour-edition/ this seems to be the cover artwork for the above mentioned tour edition. God Bless Kscope and Ian Anderson for this DVD !
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Post by steelmonkey on Aug 15, 2014 18:15:31 GMT
28 days till Live Homo in Seattle. 28 DAYS !!!!!
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Post by bunkerfan on Aug 15, 2014 19:51:34 GMT
28 days till Live Homo in Seattle. 28 DAYS !!!!! You lucky lucky man.
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Post by steelmonkey on Aug 15, 2014 19:59:45 GMT
I hate when you use words I don't understand.
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Post by maddogfagin on Aug 16, 2014 9:05:12 GMT
Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson Releasing Deluxe Tour Edition of Latest Album Next Month13 August 2014 Jethro Tull frontman Ian Anderson has announced plans to release a deluxe expanded version of his latest solo album, Homo Erraticus, to coincide with his upcoming fall U.S. tour. The CD/DVD set includes specially filmed videos that accompany each album track, a live performance of the new song “Enter the Uninvited” and a recent interview with Anderson talking about the visuals, which also will be shown during the trek.More here www.classichitsandoldies.com/v2/2014/08/13/jethro-tulls-ian-anderson-releasing-deluxe-tour-edition-of-latest-album-next-month/Now I don't know about everyone else, but if as it seems likely that the above is solely for the US tour then it would be a rather good idea to release the DVD as a separate entity so that we poor suffering fans in other parts of the world don't have to fork out for the HE audio stuff again. And is this DVD for sale only in the States ? But then again it keeps the coffers full and my bank balance diminished According to the kscope web site at www.kscopemusic.com/2014/08/12/ian-andersons-homo-erraticus-available-cddvd-tour-edition/ this seems to be the cover artwork for the above mentioned tour edition. www.burningshed.com/store/jethrotull/product/444/6018/Ian Anderson Homo Erraticus (Tour Edition) (cd/dvd-v preorder) Special CD/DVD-V tour edition of the acclaimed hit album from Jethro Tull frontman Ian Anderson. Featuring the exclusive videos to each album track, as seen at the shows (and set to hi-resolution 24 bit stereo audio), the dvd also includes a live performance of Enter The Uninvited and interview footage with Ian discussing the live visuals. Pre-order for 22nd September release. Preorder (£11.99 GBP) CD: 1. Doggerland [04:20] 2. Heavy Metals [01:29] 3. Enter The Uninvited [04:12] 4. Puer Ferox Adventus [07:11] 5. Meliora Sequamur [03:32] 6. The Turnpike Inn [03:08] 7. The Engineer [03:12] 8. The Pax Britannica [03:05] 9. Tripudium Ad Bellum [02:48] 10. After These Wars [04:28] 11. New Blood, Old Veins [02:31] 12. In For A Pound [00:36] 13. The Browning Of The Green [04:05] 14. Per Errationes Ad Astra [01:33] 15. Cold Dead Reckoning [05:28] DVD: 1. Visuals From The Show [56:38] 2. Enter The Uninvited (Live In High Wycombe Swan Theatre 2014) [04:39] 3. Ian Talks About The Show Visuals [20:50]
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Post by Essan on Aug 16, 2014 11:09:57 GMT
Just a thought: was the whole of the High Wycombe concert filmed?
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Post by bunkerfan on Aug 16, 2014 14:13:53 GMT
Just a thought: was the whole of the High Wycombe concert filmed? Good question. I reckon it was because I can't see the sense in setting video equipment up just for one song.
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Post by steelmonkey on Aug 23, 2014 20:59:02 GMT
Do I buy the tour edition...basically the songs for a third time ( couldn't wait for Burning Shed delivery so paid for download, too)? I'll have to wait and see if the backing videos during the concert are indeed worth another bank transfer from me to Ian...I swear I've done my share this year: Homo deluxe, homo download, APP deluxe, TAABs live and three concert tickets ( two for me, one for sister). It's true that Ian and his friends and family deserve the money more than my daughter deserves to go to college or doctors deserve it to keep me alive...but still, the backing videos from the live show will have to prove their worth before I buy,
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Post by bassackwards on Sept 15, 2014 19:20:53 GMT
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Post by nonrabbit on Oct 3, 2014 8:44:04 GMT
Maybe now that we're coming to the end of the year of the release of HE should we start to comment on how it's been received both in album sales and concert tickets?
He dropped some of the songs from the US concerts and decided not to play it in it's entirety which in itself is not unusual. I suppose it's down to whether as someone else has said, you see HE as one story or an album of individual songs with a similar theme.
I see it as a bit of both. When I first heard it I considered a couple of the songs surplus to the story. I think the story line spanned too many avenues and could have concentrated a bit more on say the Wandering Man himself, after all his image is on the front cover and all the way through the booklet and on the marketing of the album. I was a bit irritated at the similarities to TAAB2 and Meliora Sequamur in particular. I know he brought Gerald into the equation again but was that a slight cop out as far as imagination goes?
Another point I liked again raised by someone else on the Forum, is that maybe the story was too central to the UK and Europe although looking at the back catalogue of albums - it's usually always been UK focused anyway.
If you were to ask yourself to explain simply what HE is all about what would you say?
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Post by maddogfagin on Oct 3, 2014 16:20:27 GMT
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Post by steelmonkey on Oct 3, 2014 17:18:11 GMT
Hard to summarize HE. I like it A LOT...I think it's a latter day masterpiece, .998% as good as TAAB 2 but sometimes I don't feel like hearing it...too dense, too labored, but then i hear it and remember how great it is and how some of the riffs are such modern bullseyes...then it got a long rest when remixed APP was new. But it was SO GOOD live...so ambitious, perfect and memorable after two showings that it really pained me that downstream Tull fans wouldn't get what I got......The bottom line is that Ian's plan to sit down again 0n 1-1-2015 and produce another studio/live/ongoing legacy piece of work is tainted by the retreat on this year's tour...a sharp contrast to the two years that TAAB 2 was played throughout the world. I guess now we just wait to see setlists beyond current USA leg of tour.
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Post by Equus on Oct 3, 2014 18:56:20 GMT
I have just bought the Homo Erraticus tour edition... Love it! I listen to all my music on a Bang & Olufsen television set, so these DVD's are very welcome... I hope that they will do the same with the Thick As A Brick 1, and 2... A tour edition please!! Love to spend a little more money... Love to support this magnificent band!!
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Post by tullabye on Oct 3, 2014 23:25:48 GMT
Hard to summarize HE. I like it A LOT...I think it's a latter day masterpiece, .998% as good as TAAB 2 but sometimes I don't feel like hearing it...too dense, too labored, but then i hear it and remember how great it is and how some of the riffs are such modern bullseyes...then it got a long rest when remixed APP was new. But it was SO GOOD live...so ambitious, perfect and memorable after two showings that it really pained me that downstream Tull fans wouldn't get what I got......The bottom line is that Ian's plan to sit down again 0n 1-1-2015 and produce another studio/live/ongoing legacy piece of work is tainted by the retreat on this year's tour...a sharp contrast to the two years that TAAB 2 was played throughout the world. I guess now we just wait to see setlists beyond current USA leg of tour. Nothing to concern yourself over Monkey. The Orange County Ca. show was great. The whole HE performed flawlessly. MS was much better than on the record because of the harmonies which surprisingly worked well all night. I think Teacher is here to stay with more PP surprises in store next tour. Both were excellent as was the whole show. TOTR&R was better than remembered and they even managed to be in good form with the challenging vocals on SFTW. Bring on the muse. She'll be visiting Ian soon.
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Post by maddogfagin on Oct 6, 2014 11:11:17 GMT
I have just bought the Homo Erraticus tour edition... Love it! I listen to all my music on a Bang & Olufsen television set, so these DVD's are very welcome... I hope that they will do the same with the Thick As A Brick 1, and 2... A tour edition please!! Love to spend a little more money... Love to support this magnificent band!! For members in the States who have missed out on the complete Homo Erraticus show, I can recommend the HE Tour edition as, on the dvd disc, it has the whole album in audio and in sync with the video presentation. Also on the dvd is a live performance of "Enter The Uninvited" from the UK leg of the tour and also IA talking about how the live show visuals were made and conceived. Interesting and more than worthwhile for dedicated fans. The audio disc is the bog standard audio of HE. If anyone views the dvd on a home cinema set up I would think it would be an experience and a half.
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Post by meliorasequamur on Oct 6, 2014 15:09:59 GMT
Just a thought: was the whole of the High Wycombe concert filmed? Hello I was there but didn't see any specific equipment for filming, nor (as happened in Iceland) were people told this was going to happen and to shout their mouth and hands after each song
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Post by ed on Oct 11, 2014 2:33:41 GMT
I listened to the album...and went to the show in the US...GREAT SHOW...one of the best ever...and the album is the best in a long time! Better than TAAB 2 in my view...and the concert was better too!
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Post by ed on Oct 11, 2014 2:46:13 GMT
I listened to the album...and went to the show in the US...GREAT SHOW...one of the best ever...and the album is the best in a long time! Better than TAAB 2 in my view...and the concert was better too!
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Post by steelmonkey on Oct 11, 2014 15:59:58 GMT
Grateful, Ed ?
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Post by nonrabbit on Oct 12, 2014 16:00:33 GMT
Does anyone - lovers of, haters of and all in between get annoyed as much as I do with the repetition in some the songs?
I thought I'd stick the album on and I got confused as to whether I was listening to the intro of Heavy Metals or In For A Pound. There's repetition elsewhere too and with TAAB2. That's what spoils HE for me.
Way too much and I would like less of it please on the new project. Thank you.
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Post by onewhiteduck on Oct 12, 2014 18:48:18 GMT
Fresh start another day another................. Does it annoy me? not really. Next OnegreyingDuck
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Post by nonrabbit on Dec 5, 2014 9:44:58 GMT
The Wandering Man seeks winter solstice (solace)
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