They call it the dance...

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Happy St Vitus' day everyone!
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presumably your meerkat is a worshipper
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Sticky sweet suckers in the Halloween air...
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Thrash Harry wrote:Sticky sweet suckers in the Halloween air...
Good call Harry, but I was thinking more along the lines of this: clicky
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So that's why I'm feeling extra twitchy today.
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Isn't St. Vitus the patron saint of Bill Oddie?
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100% the best song. good call Mark :notworthy: :notworthy:

does he exist, thought it was electro-shock treatment a la - Artaud :?:
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As "Vitus" is Latin for life IIRC, the saint himself is probably an adoption of a Roman god into the Christian pantheon. (Or should that be panhagion?) This hypothesis is given weight by his nurse, saint Crescentia, probably an adopted moon-goddess.

As for St Vitus' Dance itself; or Sydenham's Chorea, clicky here.
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markfiend wrote:As "Vitus" is Latin for life IIRC, the saint himself is probably an adoption of a Roman god into the Christian pantheon. (Or should that be panhagion?) This hypothesis is given weight by his nurse, saint Crescentia, probably an adopted moon-goddess.

As for St Vitus' Dance itself; or Sydenham's Chorea, clicky here.
cheers for the heads up Mark...but i already knew about the illness. i seem to remember way back when, PM saying it was about Artaud. didn't they once do a song "directly" about him? i read alot of his stuff years back, he was cured by shock treatment...anyway, time moves on. still a great song, thanks for reminding me 8)
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markfiend wrote: didn't they once do a song "directly" about him? i read alot of his stuff years back, he was cured by shock treatment...anyway, time moves on. still a great song, thanks for reminding me 8)
Antonin Artaud is on Burning From The Inside, has that great line "Those Indians wank on his bones"
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@ pib: Oh right, wires crossed there ;D
@ hal: Possibly Bauhaus' finest moment :lol:
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