seriatim: One after another; in a series
It was part of Randolph’s pre-game ritual to open a bag of gummy bears, sort them by color order in the spectrum of visible light, and eat the whole lot of them seriatim.
And now for my top tens for 08:
2008 Metal Albums
Daylight Dies – Lost to the Living
Opeth – Watershed
Enslaved – Vertebrae
Amaseffer – Exodus: Slaves For Life
Ayreon – 01011001
Canvas Solaris – The Atomized Dream
Ihsahn – angL
Suspyre – When Time Fades
Pyramaze – Immortal
Andromeda – The Immunity Zone
2008 Prog Albums
Demians – Building an Empire
Steven Wilson – Insurgentes
Magenta – Metamorphosis
Simon Says – Tardigrade
The Tangent – Not As Good As The Book
Ephrat – No One’s Words
Lunatic Soul – Lunatic Soul
Pineapple Thief – Tightly Unwound
Marillion – Happiness is the Road, Volume 2: The Hard Shoulder
Moongarden – Songs from the Lighthouse
King Crimson – “Three of a Perfect Pair (Live)”
Gallery – “Sarin and Airplanes”
Retrospective – “Enemy World Vision”
Greg Lake – “I Believe In Father Christmas”
Brainstorm – “Surrounding Walls”
Genesis – “The Fountain of Salmacis”
Orphaned Land – “Norra el Norra (Entering the Ark)”
Sylvan – “Questions (Live)”
Skyclad – “Fainting by Numbers”
Agua de Annique – “Trail of Grief”
Frost* – “Falling Down”
Anubis Gate – “Andromeda Unchained”
Camel – “Flight of the Snow Goose (single edit)”
Deluge Grander – “Inaugural Bash (excerpt)”
The Third Ending – “Eleven”
Control Denied – “Cut Down”
The Watch – “The Border”
Jack Foster III – “Outbreak Monkey”
Emerson, Lake & Palmer – “The Curse of Baba Yaga/The Hut of Baba Yaga”
Tool – “h.”
3 – “My Divided Falling”
Rewiring Genesis – “Anyway”
Pagan’s Mind – “Evolution Exceed”
Kansas – “Paradox”
Elfonía – “Aura”
Marillion – “Warm Wet Circles”
Cynic – “Adam’s Murmur”
IZZ – “Ancient Memory”
Lunatic Soul – “The New Beginning”
Dionysus– “Puppet Show”
Mörglbl – “Les Mécanismes du Temps”
Devin Townsend – “The Greys”
Agalloch – “A Celebration for the Death of Man”
Ayreon – “Eyes of Time/Brainwaves”
Eyestrings – “Groove Seven”
apricate: To bask in the sun.
After learning of the phenomenon of midnight sun, Johnson booked a trip to Greenland so he could apricate for three days straight while gorging himself on halibut and reindeer meat.
Steven Wilson – “Harmony Korine”
Cherry Five – “The Swan Is A Murderer – Part 1”
Spock’s Beard – “Thoughts (Part II)”
Andromeda – “Worst Enemy”
Damon Shulman – “Scum”
Genesis – “White Mountain”
RC2 – “Coming Down Again”
Ark – “Absolute Zero”
Martyr – “Realms of Reverie”
Saga – “Sound Advice”
Enemy of the Sun – “Feel the Beating”
horripilation: the act or process of the hair bristling on the skin, as from cold or fear; goose flesh.
Gary shivered in anticipation of his favorite meal; the mere sound of milk trickling over cornflakes was enough to cause him horripilation and send his salivary glands into overdrive.
Incrassate : to make thicker
Doris’s recipe for Thanksgiving gravy was kept secret not because it was a closely guarded family tradition, but because it used a packet of freeze-dried brine shrimp to incrassate the drippings, and she was afraid that this knowledge might cause a scene among her more gastronomically conservative in-laws.
Tiles – “Window Dressing”
Oceansize – “Amputee”
Rush – “The Twilight Zone”
Magenta – “Prekestolen”
Age of Silence – “Mr. M, Man of Muzak”
Van der Graaf Generator – “Cog (excerpt from Lemmings)”
Primer – “Persona”
Pure Reason Revolution – “Nimos & Tambos”
East of the Wall – “Clowning Acheivement”
Gentle Giant – “Black Cat”
Sieges Even – “Duende”