Late with the Musical Countdown - Six Weeks till BIFF

So what's the excuse for this week's Musical Countdown selection being late? There has been Wildfire here in Wayne County, Utah. This past week, over two-thousand acres were blackened but things now are under control.

Get your FastPass soon; make sure that you have a seat on Friday night for the first film of "Duck and Cover: It's Doomsday 2012." Take a look at the schedule of BIFF events such as the Party of the Stars, the Survivor Challenge, the World's Fastest Parade and much more!

In light of the recent forest fire, this week's selection comes from another American thrash metal band, Metallica. It’s the opening cut to Metallica‘s best album, And Justice For All, back when Lars Ulrich still used a double bass. “Blackened” (1988) refers to the charred remnants of the planet after a nuclear war. It's about the end of the world and human civilization - - through the destruction and pollution of the environment. And don’t forget the nuclear winter that follows.

Blackened is the end

Winter it will send

Throwing all you see

Into obscurity

Death of mother Earth

Never a rebirth

Evolution's end

Never will it mend

Never

Fire

To begin with the dance of the dead

Blackened is the end

To begin with the dance of the dead

Color our world blackened

Blistering of Earth

Terminate it's worth

Deadly nicotine

Kills what might have been

Callous frigid chill

Nothing left to kill

Never seen before

Breathing nevermore

Never

Fire

To begin with the dance of the dead

Blackened is the end

To begin with the dance of the dead

Color our world blackened

Blackened

Opposition (Opposition)

Contradiction (Contradiction)

Premonition (Premonition)

Compromise

Agitation (Agitation)

Violation (Violation)

Mutilation (Mutilation)

Planet dies

Darkest color

Blistered Earth

True death of life

(Termination) Termination (Termination)

(Expiration) Expiration

Cancellation

Human race

(Expectation) Expectation

(Liberation) Liberation

(Population) Population laid to waste

See our mother

Put to death (Death, death)

See our mother die

Smoldering decay

Take her breath away

Millions of our years

In minutes disappears

Darkening in vain

Decadence remains

All is said and done

Never is the sun

Never

Fire

To begin with the dance of the dead

Blackened is the end

To begin with the dance of the dead

Fire

Is the outcome of hypocrisy

Darkest potency

In the exit of humanity

Color our world blackened

Blackened

18th Annual BIFF "Duck & Cover" It's Doomsday 2012

The planning committee for BIFF is looking forward to next summer's events. Here at the BIFFblog, we can interact and inform about some of the things being planned. This is also an easy location for you to post your ideas related to the Bicknell International Film Festival.

The committee is in the process of selecting the feature films to match the theme: "Duck & Cover" It's Doomsday 2012. That's a fun and time-consuming process, and there are lots of options - - we just have to zero in on the best ("The Best in Bad Cinema").

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Music Countdown
This week, we are going to kick off a musical countdown to BIFF by posting the first in our series of "End of the World" tunes. Here we will connect you to our choices for a playlist to get you prepped for the apocalypse - - make that prepped for the 18th Annual BIFF events.

American songwriter Julian Cassablancas was first known as the front man of a New York rock band, The Strokes. This song was part of his debut solo album, Phrazes for the Young. The lyrics to this 2009 track: Four Chords of the Apocalypse can be found below. Twenty-four weeks until BIFF!

Julian Cassablancas at Coachella 2010

I hear it in your silence,

When you don't speak...

What was funny then,

Isn't funny anymore.

Hear it in your voice,

There's always a catch...

Well we're going nowhere,

And we're going there fast.

Anything to watch

While we are waiting

For this apocalypse?

What more is there to do?

Nice to be important

But so close to being despised

More important to be nice

I guess than being wise

So I take you shopping

I take you dancing too

I take you out

All the things you do

And I give you diamonds

But I give you space

So be with anyone you like

It's alright with me.

Oh time is over

Don't you know that

If a time won't

pause or burn

I'll stay right in my place

Now war is over!

- instrumental section -

When in your silence,

when you don't speak...

There is a quiet,

crying

rage,

burning inside you, so dear.

I'd give you anything

But I'd give you problems

Be with anyone you like

It's alright with me.

I hear it in your voice

I can see it in your lips

There's always a catch

I guess it's alright with me

No one's around

The map says you're here

And I can get loneliness

Screaming in my ear.

Our time is over

Don't you know that

If a time warp was open,

I'd stay right in my place

The war isn't over yet

The war is not over yet

Being nice is only hard
when others aren't
Our time is over