If you were to scroll the radio...

 ... and come up with all quick Saturday songs... 

.. what would you get?

• Saturday in the Park by Chicago
  
• Saturday Night’s Alright (For Fighting) by Elton John
  
• Another Saturday Night by Cat Stevens
  
• Saturday Night by The Bay City Rollers
  
• Saturday by Twenty One Pilots
  
• Saturday Night Special by Lynard Skynard
  
• Saturday Morning (Live) [1975] by Harry Chapin
  

Mind you, if you scroll the dial, the songs must land directly on the word "Saturday".

Also, this is not a complete list.

What got me started in thinking a certain weekend day songs?

A science fiction cult movie... that has had a recent death (okay, 2 months ago) in its acting family (Meatloaf). I had Hot Patootie / Bless My Soul in my head since last night, seeing how I went searching through my closet for something and there was my Vital Toys Rocky Horror Picture Show Action Figures. 

A three pack that wasn't a night out: Columbia, Frank N Furter, Riff Raff. 

Not to mention that somewhere stashed away is a single Frank. Opened. 

I remember buying them in Sam Goody at the Westgate Mall at some point back in 2000. I think Goody turned into FYE at some point, but I could stand corrected. 

However, the figures aren't readily available these days on Amazon. There is a Riff Raff single figure selling for $45. 

I swear I didn't pay that for the threefer when I bought it.. I never would have. 

It just means now they are more a collectible item, and it's a shame that the plastic on the box I own is smushed as well as the cardboard outer box is torn. Might have been worth some money at some point. 😦☹

I guess it only calls for a quick jump to the left and a step to the right, as a midnight Saturday showing has long been forgotten. 

I've only seen this show performed live, once, and that was in Cambridge. Happened to be with my youth group in the early to mid 1990s. We did the Saturday into Sunday romp on Battle Street (Harvard Square) and went back to our religious center to sleep off the shenanigans that only teenagers can get into while being barely supervised and having no access to liquor or drugs. 

That I know of / saw. 

I remember half the kids lied when asked if we were new to the show. Meaning, if you've never been privy to the live stage rendition, you got a red V on your forehead, made with lipstick. 

Probably Revlon, but who asked the brand at the time? It was more likely something cheap as it was easy to mark people with. All some of us cared was the try of scratching it off.

Much like a scarlet letter sewn into the cloth of a woman, the V marked the virgins from the crowd so the audience participation would be a little more fun and skewed to those "not in the know". Therefore, when it was time for certain scenes or an intermission, the newbs got the brunt of a tortuous piece of entertainment. 

If you can make yourself a scarce newcomer in a packed auditorium, you can stand back and watch every truth speaking first timer go up and make an absolute pleasure joke out of themselves. I vaguely remember blown up balloons between the knee caps of my peers. 

Remember kids, this is a memory of over 25 years ago! 

I don't know where I'm going with this. I'm just piecing together a few different topics of the same information. Don't mind my thought train stopping at every station and burning more coal. 

It's too bad VH-1 only shows the movie every Halloween because commercials take the joy out of the film. But then again, I wonder if the channel still plays it, as it's been years since I've sought it out to watch on All Hallows Eve. Also, commercials don't allow you to concentrate that much on what you're watching since the station needs paid time. 

Can they pay me for not flipping to something else for 2-5 minutes? 

Please?

I should probably watch the movie again one of these days. Much like I keep saying to myself to watch Some Like It Hot on Valentine's Day like I used to. Things and times change and you forget your rituals. I'm a bad person. I know that. 

But at least I have the reminders of days gone by to reflect on.

Until more impressions are made...

Cheers! 

"But when worlds collide..."

 "Said George Pal to his bride"

Okay, so I'm not watching Rocky Horror Picture Show, but I have a couple lines from Science Fiction Double Feature in my head right now. 

I think it's because of everything going on in the world right now... between Russia invading Ukraine (and countries are trying to help Ukraine... just in support and backing... unless WWIII starts any minute), the Coronavirus still happening, weather is crazy (it's been hitting 90 degrees here the last few days while it's been snowing in New England), there's something going on we're not totally privy to. 

It's probably because I recently picked up the album (at the library) POST HUMAN: SURVIVAL HORROR by Bring Me The Horizon. I had skipped around the CD and the first song I listened to was Parasite Eve, which is a title of a video game (so I read somewhere). Unfortunately, the song is about the current health problem in the world, as the song was written during lockdown. 

This was actually the first time I have heard of the band. Listening to a few more songs, they stick to the metalcore genre. I'm no avid fan of the metal and submetal music, but I do listen to more mainstream bands every so often. Hearing this new group, especially when they attach themselves to a worldly problem, is interesting. As it seems everyone got on the "we have nothing else to do but make a home record now" bus (see Elton John, Debórah Bond, Eric Clapton, Mick Jagger & Dave Grohl, and so many more that I don't want to start hyperlinking to everyone). 

So ... Bring Me The Horizon has some interesting band logos online. It seems they take their inspiration from spiritual items, but it doesn't seem they are a religious group. The images bring on a dark connotation because I think they aren't meant to be a pop group, so they have to have a brand that people will recognize. Considering their website has what looks like someone's body part got an actual brand. The pictures on the skin are two ying yangs, a bat, crescent moon and their main atom star logo. I don't know how to describe the atom star. But as a warning, it's graphic. See it here. 

But... the atom is not an atom. As I looked for an explanation of the logo, I searched what it was. It's called "unicursal hexagram" and other bands / people / things have used something similar. 

More web searches, the band also frequently uses a lot of geometric patterns (circular) and an umbrella with raindrops. It seems the hexagram is their main picture. 

You learn something new every day. I think I'd look in to more of their albums to purchase just to give them a try. I don't know if I'd see them in person, as the local music hall is way too friggin tiny for this size of boom. Trust me... I have learned that lesson the hard way when I went to the Dio concert (and other big drum use shows). If I were still up north, I'd think about seeing them perform. I wouldn't call myself an immediate fan and go run to every concert and buy all the merch, but I would definitely give them another listen.

Until my ears start bleeding...

Cheers;