Singin' 'bout Home

 Hero Homes

 Images of homecoming still move us today, as reflected in pop songs like

·        The Beatles:  “Two of Us”—“on our way back home”

·        Tom Jones:  “Green Green Grass of Home”

·        Ed Sheeran:  “Castle on the Hill”

·        John Denver: “Take Me Home, Country Roads”

·        Grand Funk:  “I’m Your Captain”—“I’m getting closer to my home”

·        Simon & Garfunkel:  “Homeward Bound”

·        Bruce Springsteen:  “My Hometown”

·       Bon Jovi:  “Who Says You Can’t Go Home”

Hope you make it back home before curfew!  See you Monday.

  

Phoning To Or From New York?

Hero Homes

The ending of E.T. The Extraterrestrial shows him reunited with his folk.  

We never learn what his “home” is like in the 1982 movie, but an authorized tie-in called E.T.: The Book of the Green Planet was released in 1985.  It depicted E.T.’s homeworld as a lush green paradise.  

1999’s Star Wars: The Phantom Menace included a brief shot of three members of E.T.’s race cheering for Queen Amidala.

One Hero Home is a real-world location! 177A Bleecker Street in NYC may sound innocuous, but a quick Google Maps search will reveal that Dr. Strange’s lair, his Sanctum Sanctorum, is an actual place.

            Inuit beliefs across far North America include the paradisical afterlife Qudlivun, and several places of misery and pain, Adliparmiut and Adlivun.

 See you Thursday, fellow seekers!