Further progress...

 

... but not yet where I want it to be.

I saw a St. Elmo's Fire streak over the slaughterhouse tonight. Oddly enough, I'd been explaining to Eric in the morning how the phenomenon worked this morning, after hearing the fuck-awful 80's song on the radio when we stopped in to get coffee. The song is from a movie I've never seen, I know that. I'm not even sure what the film is about and too apathetic to google a plot synopsis. Instead I got onto this tangent about how this song should have been the quintessential anthem for 80's Reagan coke-snorting AIDS-denying yuppie greed, because ultimately these light flashes were illusory pockets of phosphorescence and nothing more and could be responsible for leading people astray.

"St. Elmo's fire (also St. Elmo's light[1]) is an electrical weather phenomenon in which luminous plasma is created by a coronal discharge originating from a grounded object in an atmospheric electric field (such as those generated by thunderstorms or thunderstorms created by a volcanic explosion)."

Here is a short but meditative clip of this phenomenon. Nice white noise to it too.