Musical Countdown to BIFF continues . . .

Okay so in order to get on-track calendar-wise, that is to match up with the Friday startup date of the Bicknell International Film Festival (July 20th, 2012): here is the second installment of the Musical Countdown to BIFF. After posting the first installment earlier this week, I thought it might be a good idea to count how many weeks are between today and the BIFF? Twenty-four! So now I'm wondering; are there twenty-four good tunes about mass destruction, Armageddon, annihilation, apocalypse, catastrophe, decimation, devastation, holocaust, and the end of the world? Make that 25 with the addition of the first entry? Stay tuned and see (8-); but no problem picking today's standout song track.

A brief reminder that this year, BIFF activities include an Independent Film Contest. Anyone can enter and win. Learn more about it at http://www.thebiff.org/ifc.html.

This Week's Countdown Addition - 23 Weeks til BIFF:
Back in 1977 a debut album, "My Aim is True", introduced the world and the U.S. to an English punk band, Elvis Costello and The Attractions. They were at their peak and poised to break onto the American music scene with an appearance on Saturday Night Live and a concert tour. Elvis was 22 years old, skinny as a rail, and possessed his share of youthful angst. The band's album included a swaggering garage-punk story song, "Waiting for the End of the World". From there it was full throttle ahead. Written by Elvis Costello; let us know what you think of the choices, recommend your own picks:

Waiting for the End of the World (1977)
by Elvis Costello & The Attractions

The man from the television crawled into the train

I wonder who he's gonna stick it in this time

Everyone was looking for a little entertainment

So they'll probably pull his hands off when they find out his name

And then they shut down the power all along the line

And we got stuck in the tunnel where no lights shine

They got to touching all the girls who were too scared to call out

Nobody was saying anything at all

We were waiting for the end of the world

Waiting for the end of the world

Waiting for the end of the world

Dear Lord, I sincerely hope you're coming

'cause you really started something

Things got back to normal as the train began to roll again

We got to the station about twenty minutes later

The legendary hitchhiker says that he knows where it's at

Now he'd like to go to Spain or somewhere like that

With his two-tone Bible and his funny cigarettes,

His suntan lotion and his castanets

He was waiting for the end of the world

Waiting for the end of the world

Waiting for the end of the world

Dear Lord, I sincerely hope you're coming

'cause you really started something

And then the bride, the groom, the congregation and the priest

All got onto the train when we were three stations east

Hiding from a scandal in the national press

They had been trying to get married since they stole the wedding dress

You may see them drowning as you stroll along the beach

But don't throw out the lifeline till they're clean out of reach

Waiting for the end of the world

Waiting for the end of the world

Waiting for the end of the world

Waiting for the end of the world

I been waiting

I been waiting

I been waiting

I been waiting

Waiting for you

Waiting for you

So long

So long

So long

So long, soooOOO long

Dear Lord

That's it for this week, back next Friday for No. twenty three.