Hell's Bells

It's June! Lots of rain, humidity, everything's green - but soon it will be beastly hot and everything will get brown and crispy...

(Image: "The Pirate and the Mermaid" by Scott Gustavson)

My husband's birthday is in a couple of days... tonight we saw the latest "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie - I liked the script and the new characters (the mermaids were a great idea) and the scenery was great (lots of aerial shots, underwater, computer-generated stuff looked really good) Depp is always wonderful to watch and Geoffrey Rush is brilliant, as usual - Ian McShane is terrific, too... Now I'm waiting for the Green Lantern movie - also might go and see the new X-Men flick - speaking of x-men, we saw a trailer for a new Hugh Jackman movie about a giant "rock 'em sock 'em robot" that looked like it could be good...

I am looking forward to next Tuesday (June 21) - it's the Solstice, so I will have to blog about that - will do some sort of ceremony to welcome Summer in all its glory

Oh - okay, here's something random:

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hell's Bells can refer to:

• "Hells Bells" (song), a 1980 song by Australian hard rock group AC/DC
• Hell's Bells, a song by English jazz band Bruford, from their 1979 album One of a Kind
• "Hell's Bells" (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Hell's Bells (TV series), a British comedy series starring Derek Nimmo
• Hell's Bells (1929 film), a part of the Walt Disney Silly Symphonies animated series
• Hell's Bells: The Dangers of Rock 'N' Roll, a 1989 Christian documentary film about rock and roll
• Hells Bells, the original name for the Nintendo game Deadly Towers
• Hell's Belles, a fictional super villain team in the Marvel Comics Universe, composed of female mutant terrorists
• Hell's Belles (film), a 1970 biker film
• Hell's Belles (band), an all female AC/DC cover band, originally from Seattle, Washington
• HellsBelles, a heavy metal band from Great Britain active from 1983 to 1987
• Datura, a hallucinogenic plant sometimes known as Hell's Bells
• Hell's Bells (play), a comedy play in three acts written by Barry Conners

Not quite what I was expecting... but wait, what's this?

Hell’s bells is an interjection, an expression of surprise and disappointment. It was shortened from the original "Hell’s bells and buckets of blood." Although this expression’s exact provenance is not known, it is believed to have originated aboard 17th century pirate ships.

Wow - now that's more like it, right? This makes perfect sense, given the movie we just saw and the image I found to go along with it

It's late - time to wrap up - I'm also plotting some future blog posts about more mundane things... kicking around a few ideas, including sharing some jewelry I've been making, perhaps a poem or two my mother wrote more than 60 years ago, some interesting web sites, pet peeves, random insights... so, stay tuned, be safe, have fun and enjoy the Summer!