PF: Penguins on the Move

January 2009, Southern Chile.

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SPT: Awake on a Beach

Here’s a thought experiment:*

You find yourself coming to awareness, the above being the first things you see.

How did you get there? (Hike in for camping? Teleported in? Jumping [think multiverse/alternate world]? Some sort of crash? Something else…?)
Why are you there? (Vacation? Recon? Running from…something or someone? Something seemingly random**? Something else…?)
What’s you backstory/context? (Soldier? Scientist? Weekend-warrior outdoorsman? Something else…?)

Now, what happens next?

* This will be a repeating idea, but with different images, because it can be fun. For an example of a story that essentially STARTS this way, read Andy Weir’s The Martian. The movie, while excellent, does Hollywood things to the sequence of events, so read the original for this.
** Weird genetic things come to mind, where it seems random at the time, but gets explained at some point during the grand scheme of events. Outlander, or Charles Stross’s Merchant Princes series for example.

Don’t Follow on MVM

Bon Jovi can be good for big, anthemic rock songs.

This one is no exception, but I would like to suggest a slight political undercurrent while you watch. For those here in the states, this is election week (which includes deciding who will be the next PotUS). I would encourage you to vote – but to consider your vote. Don’t blindly vote “party,” but consider who you want as a leader, who you feel the best person is for the job (regardless of color, race, party affiliation, etc).

We’re not meant to follow, and unless you get out and vote that’s exactly what you’re doing.

PF: Cemetery Statues

Buenos Aires, Argentina, December 2008

PF: Statue

IIRC, this was taken in Buenos Aires (possibly in a cemetery), December 2008.

PF: Chilean Lanscape

January 2009, Southern Chile

PF: Cemetery Vaults

December 2008, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Getting Rocked on MVM

This was the last big single for Def Leppard in the early 90s before Grunge took over the airwaves, and it’s still a track that I’ve been likely to include on mix tapes and playlists for high-energy/driving music.

PF: Horses at the Beach

Ushuaia, Argentina, inside the Tierra del Fuego National Park, December 2008.

Halo on MVM

Deep Blue Something… They are best known for “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” but the album it’s from (their 2nd, actually, which I don’t think I knew until putting this together), Home, has several other tracks that still hold up for me, twenty-some years after the album’s release.

This one is not only the next track on the album after BaT, but it’s also the only other charting single (such as it was… #102).