Descent Into The Maelstrom
2008 August 26
A classic song by 70’s Australian punk band Radio Birdman. Descent Into The Maelstrom takes it’s name from a short story by Edgar Allen Poe in which the narrator experiences “the most terrible hurricane that ever came out of the heavens” off the coast of Norway while on a fishing trip. It created a vortex, or whirlpool, that drew him in as he held onto a barrell. The narrator spun around the whirlpool till it receeded and released him from it’s grip with premature grey hair and the weakened limbs of an old man.
Here’s Kerby Brown descending into another maelstrom….backside.
Click below for the sequence to see if he, like Poe’s protagonist, survives.
To see more of Andrew Buckley’s photos got to his website here.
It looks photoshopped because it is so crazy. I look at it several times a day …. and contemplate the horror, oh, the horror. *covers his eyes with his hands while peering through the fingers*
Hectic!
should we be getting ready for SUNDAY …. !!!!
Hmmmm, bit disappointing.
Actual waves were about a third of that size, though I topped them up with a generous supply of froth.