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

Fourteen Weeks to Go

Who is counting down the weeks until the Bicknell International Film Festival? Are you with us or are you doomed (Doomed to miss out that is . . .  on one of the most fun, unique and sometimes quirky event in all of Southern Utah)? Festival co-founders Trent Harris and Lory Smith called this "the largest international film festival in southern Utah" and "the smallest international film festival in the world."

Checklist:

• Have you got your costume planned or put together?
• Getting ideas for decorating the vehicle for the "World's Fastest Parade?"
• Purchased your FastPass online (Gets you into all the events)?
• Have you started planning and producing a video to enter in the 2nd annual Independent Film Contest?

Two great bands are lined up for the Friday & Saturday night parties, food, fun, festivities, and more. There will also be a few surprises this year; you don't want to miss out!

Now this week's music selection: World Destruction by Time Zone. Time Zone was an electro band headed by Afrika Bambaataa, an American DJ from the South Bronx, NY - - an originator in hip-hop music and culture, instrumental in moving the street gang, the Black Spades, into the music and culture-oriented Universal Zulu Nation. Bambaataa worked with different musicians for each Time Zone project. This song, a collaboration with punk-rocker John Lydon, is Time Zone's most well-known single. It was later used on The Supranos - in the first episode of the fourth season. The song played at the beginning of the episode as Tony gets his newspaper and again during the closing credits.

World Destruction (1984) by Time Zone

Speak about destruction. (x3)

This is a world destruction, your life ain`t nothing.

The human race is becoming a disgrace.

Countries are fighting with chemical warfare.

Not giving a damn about the people who live there.

Nostradamus predicts the coming of the Antichrist.

Hey, look out, the third world nations are on the rise.

The Democratic-Communist Relationship,

won`t stand in the way of the Islamic force.

The CIA is looking for defectors.

The KGB is smarter than you think.

Brainwash mentalities to control the system.

Using TV and movies - religions of course.

Yes, the world is headed for destruction.

Is it a nuclear war? 

What are you asking for?

This is a world destruction. Your life ain`t nothing.

The human race is becoming a disgrace.

The rich get richer.

The poor are getting poorer.

Fascist, chauvinistic government fools.

People, Moslems, Christians and Hindus.

Are in a time zone still searching for the truth.

Who are you to think you`re a superior race?

Facing forth your everlasting doom.

We are Time Zone. We`ve come to drop a bomb on you.

World destruction, kaboom, kaboom, kaboom!

This is the world destruction, your life ain`t nothing.

The human race is becoming a disgrace.

Nationalities are fighting with each other.

Why is this? Because the system tells you.

Putting people in faceless categories.

Knowledge isn`t what it used to be.

Military tactics to control a nation.

Who wants to be a president or king? Me!

Mother Nature is gonna work against you.

Nothing in your power that you can do.

Yes, the world is headed for destruction.

You and I know it, cause the Bible tells you.

If we don`t start to look for a better life,

the whole world will be destroyed in a time zone!

In a time zone (x3)

Speak about destruction. (x3)

In a time zone (x3)

Speak about destruction