April 28, 2018 saintlist

     Saints Abdiesus, George, Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Mark, Cletus, Zeta, and Peter Chanel, please pray for us.

Funk nite at the BL pt. CIV: Stones' "Hot Stuff"

     Tonite we feature, from the Rolling Stones' 1976 "Black and Blue", the funky hit single "Hot Stuff":

     Funk it up!

April 21, 2018 saintlist

     Saints Paternus, Bernadette, Anicetus, Apollonius the Apologist, Alphege, Marian, and Anselm, please pray for us.

April 14, 2018 saintlist

     Saints Julie Billiart, Waldetrudis, Michael de Sanctis, Marguerite d'Youville, Julius, Pope Martin I, and Lydwine, please pray for us.

April 7, 2018 saintlist

     Saints Hugh of Grenoble, Francis of Paola, Richard of Wyche, Isidore of Seville, Vincent Ferrer, William of Eskilsoe, and John Baptist de la Salle, please pray for us.

March 31, 2018 saintlist

     On this Holy Saturday, Saints Dismas, Margaret Clitherow, Rupert, Venturino of Bergamo, Berthold, Peter Regulatus, and Benjamin, please pray for us.

Funk nite at the BL pt. CIII: Elmer Bernstein's musical flight for Taarna in "Heavy Metal"

     Tonite we feature 1981 film "Heavy Metal" and part of the late great Elmer Bernstein's iconic score, for the flight of the last Taarakian, Taarna the Defender, over the shimmering landscape of her fantasy world. The musical style may not be "funk" per se, but the whole sound-and-vision thing put together is pretty funky, in a broad sense:

     Funk it up!