Dreams and Memes.
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wolven7Dreams were of everyone, again. A pastische of red and gold pulsating light, and interacting with my family and friends in a way that was, I guess, amenable. Doing puzzles with family members, conversations with old friends. Every single one of you was there. But I don't remember it too well, any more.
I wrote a song, in my dream, last night, and I don't remember the lyrics or the music, anymore. I wish I knew how to read or write music, but I just don't. I'd make my life so much easier, some times...
Here's that thing that's going around and isn't an embarassing social disease:
Comment on this post. I'll choose seven interests from your profile and you'll explain what they mean and why you are interested in them.
Post this along with your answers in your own journal so that others can play along.
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papajoemambo's
continual awakening: this stems from the Zen idea that awakening to Nirvana is something that Keeps Happening. It doesn't
simply happen once and boom, you're done. It's a constant process of recognition and change, in the self, a perfect dance between being and becoming. This also tracks with the Leibnizian idea that every smallest unit of time the universe is destroyed and created again; hence the only thing that exists is Now, and the Need to recognise it,and be awake in every piece of that Now.
corvids: I like Ravens. A lot. They are messengers, they are portents, they are the bearers of knowledge. Ravens are like a punk Irish psychics with integrity and honour, but who'll still kick ten shades of shit out of you, if you so much as look at them funny. They're extremely intelligent, and can learn more concept-formation than most parrots and some dogs. Crows are pretty smart, but they're like the Brooklynite cousins of Ravens. Rooks are strange. Blue Jays are assholes.
filler bunny: There's just something about that little rabbit that's so cute in its horror. Schadenfreude and a protective urge, together in a strangely perverse dance...
isomorphic and endomorphic relations: The ability to map a thing onto other things, to mirror and map them within themselves, is very important to me. Knowing the relationships within two systems well enough to show how they can reflect and aid each other. It strengthens the systems, and the observer.
mechanical organics: This is different, for me, than biomechanica, but only slightly. When I think of biomech, I think of Giger, something chitinous, slick, technological but grown, and that has a place in what I'm talking about, but the transitions aren't as smooth. In Mechanical Organics, you can still see the grafts where the wires and tubing are getting into place, you can still see the line where the natural (organic) mates with the technological. I like that liminal space.
robert m. pirsig: I was given Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by my highschool principal, with the words, "Here, Damien, I think you might enjoy this." The book literally changed my life. Had I not realised that there were other people in the world thinking the types of thoughts I was thinking, taking them down roads I could understand, I wouldn't be in school for Philosophy and Religious Studies, right now. I would have gone to Savanah, and hated my way through art school (too competitive; no good for me. I either dominate of co-operate, depending on the situation). Ever since, I've wanted to meet Pirsig, and talk to him, see how his ideas have evolved and changed over time, but, to quote Bill Shatner, "it hasn't happened yet."
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tom waits|urban dirtpath voodoo: When i listen to Tom Waits, i hear so much emotion, so much depth to his voice, to the music he composes and I see so many different images. There is a quality to his song that takes something like plowing a field, or finding human bones, or a series of disappearnces into a magical experience. There is a visceral, guts and meat and bone magic to Tom Waits' music that is hard to capture, hard to find other places (ego_likeness does it, sometimes), and expresses itself in sepia tones and dried blood red. I love it.
I forgot to answer this in the comment but, in regards to A.O. Spare, I like his work, but to add him is to remove another, and making that choice isn't exactly Necessary, yet, as you very clearly saw the shape of him, in the combination of other things. There are a lot of things like that, though; places where I hope the absence of the thing leaves enough of a shape to feel by.
Next we have
cailement's
athena: The goddess of wisdom, cunning, tactical warrfare, victory, and forethought. One of the least revered of the Greek Gods, save the city. That was more lipservice than anything. I like what she stands for and I think she should get more credit.
the corinthian: One of my two favourite characters from the series, and a thought-form that has a lot of weight and meaning to it, for me. The idea of a nightmare mirror of your soul that shows you... what? Yourself? What you're capable of? What you fear you can do? What you fear you can never do? Everything you hope and pray you're not? Yes. And if you don't learn from it, it will destroy you. I love that.
deadsy: One of the most interesting bands to make music, in a long time. They're goth-rock new wave industrial and every album they make is a stage of a magickal working, for them, a stage of personal transmutation and realisation. They're like Tool, if Tool were completely different.
darick robertson: Series artist for Transmetropolitan. Brilliant artist, perfectly captured that world, all around nice guy.
marshmallow peeps: They're disturbing, they're probably evil, and only Waffle House coffee can kill them. They are fascinating. :)
hel: When you have an affinity for certain gods and pantheons, you have to take the family with it, moe often than not. So, for example, if I like Fenris, the wolf who (Spoiler Alert!) devours Baldur/The Sun, to signal the beginning of the end of the world, you get his... Half Sister. Sorry. There was really no way around that. Anyway. Hel: Queen of Helheim, the cold dark underworld where non-valourous deaths go to spend eternity, and generally cool big sister.
learning from other people: If you can't take other people's mistakes in, as well, if you can't assess their situations and factors and learn from them, grow, and try it your Own way, then you will constantly be in pain. I think that you have to make the effort to find out what what other people did wrong and right, and to take that into yourself. Not as a substitute for experience, but in addition to it. And learning from other people in the broader sense: being able to take in lessons, to be taught, rather than always thinking I have the best answer, right away. Very important.
And that's some stuff about me. Let's talk about you.
I wrote a song, in my dream, last night, and I don't remember the lyrics or the music, anymore. I wish I knew how to read or write music, but I just don't. I'd make my life so much easier, some times...
Here's that thing that's going around and isn't an embarassing social disease:
Comment on this post. I'll choose seven interests from your profile and you'll explain what they mean and why you are interested in them.
Post this along with your answers in your own journal so that others can play along.
papajoemambo's continual awakening: this stems from the Zen idea that awakening to Nirvana is something that Keeps Happening. It doesn't
simply happen once and boom, you're done. It's a constant process of recognition and change, in the self, a perfect dance between being and becoming. This also tracks with the Leibnizian idea that every smallest unit of time the universe is destroyed and created again; hence the only thing that exists is Now, and the Need to recognise it,and be awake in every piece of that Now.
corvids: I like Ravens. A lot. They are messengers, they are portents, they are the bearers of knowledge. Ravens are like a punk Irish psychics with integrity and honour, but who'll still kick ten shades of shit out of you, if you so much as look at them funny. They're extremely intelligent, and can learn more concept-formation than most parrots and some dogs. Crows are pretty smart, but they're like the Brooklynite cousins of Ravens. Rooks are strange. Blue Jays are assholes.
filler bunny: There's just something about that little rabbit that's so cute in its horror. Schadenfreude and a protective urge, together in a strangely perverse dance...
isomorphic and endomorphic relations: The ability to map a thing onto other things, to mirror and map them within themselves, is very important to me. Knowing the relationships within two systems well enough to show how they can reflect and aid each other. It strengthens the systems, and the observer.
mechanical organics: This is different, for me, than biomechanica, but only slightly. When I think of biomech, I think of Giger, something chitinous, slick, technological but grown, and that has a place in what I'm talking about, but the transitions aren't as smooth. In Mechanical Organics, you can still see the grafts where the wires and tubing are getting into place, you can still see the line where the natural (organic) mates with the technological. I like that liminal space.
robert m. pirsig: I was given Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by my highschool principal, with the words, "Here, Damien, I think you might enjoy this." The book literally changed my life. Had I not realised that there were other people in the world thinking the types of thoughts I was thinking, taking them down roads I could understand, I wouldn't be in school for Philosophy and Religious Studies, right now. I would have gone to Savanah, and hated my way through art school (too competitive; no good for me. I either dominate of co-operate, depending on the situation). Ever since, I've wanted to meet Pirsig, and talk to him, see how his ideas have evolved and changed over time, but, to quote Bill Shatner, "it hasn't happened yet."
&
tom waits|urban dirtpath voodoo: When i listen to Tom Waits, i hear so much emotion, so much depth to his voice, to the music he composes and I see so many different images. There is a quality to his song that takes something like plowing a field, or finding human bones, or a series of disappearnces into a magical experience. There is a visceral, guts and meat and bone magic to Tom Waits' music that is hard to capture, hard to find other places (
ego_likeness does it, sometimes), and expresses itself in sepia tones and dried blood red. I love it.I forgot to answer this in the comment but, in regards to A.O. Spare, I like his work, but to add him is to remove another, and making that choice isn't exactly Necessary, yet, as you very clearly saw the shape of him, in the combination of other things. There are a lot of things like that, though; places where I hope the absence of the thing leaves enough of a shape to feel by.
Next we have
cailement's athena: The goddess of wisdom, cunning, tactical warrfare, victory, and forethought. One of the least revered of the Greek Gods, save the city. That was more lipservice than anything. I like what she stands for and I think she should get more credit.
the corinthian: One of my two favourite characters from the series, and a thought-form that has a lot of weight and meaning to it, for me. The idea of a nightmare mirror of your soul that shows you... what? Yourself? What you're capable of? What you fear you can do? What you fear you can never do? Everything you hope and pray you're not? Yes. And if you don't learn from it, it will destroy you. I love that.
deadsy: One of the most interesting bands to make music, in a long time. They're goth-rock new wave industrial and every album they make is a stage of a magickal working, for them, a stage of personal transmutation and realisation. They're like Tool, if Tool were completely different.
darick robertson: Series artist for Transmetropolitan. Brilliant artist, perfectly captured that world, all around nice guy.
marshmallow peeps: They're disturbing, they're probably evil, and only Waffle House coffee can kill them. They are fascinating. :)
hel: When you have an affinity for certain gods and pantheons, you have to take the family with it, moe often than not. So, for example, if I like Fenris, the wolf who (Spoiler Alert!) devours Baldur/The Sun, to signal the beginning of the end of the world, you get his... Half Sister. Sorry. There was really no way around that. Anyway. Hel: Queen of Helheim, the cold dark underworld where non-valourous deaths go to spend eternity, and generally cool big sister.
learning from other people: If you can't take other people's mistakes in, as well, if you can't assess their situations and factors and learn from them, grow, and try it your Own way, then you will constantly be in pain. I think that you have to make the effort to find out what what other people did wrong and right, and to take that into yourself. Not as a substitute for experience, but in addition to it. And learning from other people in the broader sense: being able to take in lessons, to be taught, rather than always thinking I have the best answer, right away. Very important.
And that's some stuff about me. Let's talk about you.
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Bother bother bother
Date: 2007-10-04 02:30 pm (UTC)Nevarr~! I am interested in nothing! I am a nihilist! Life holds no ... ooh, shiny. (bounds off) (by which I mean, returning to work)
Re: Bother bother bother
Date: 2007-10-04 02:34 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-10-04 08:43 pm (UTC)Johnny Colt
1920
Disturbed
Band-Aids
Eyebrows
Kabuki
no subject
Date: 2007-10-04 05:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-04 08:48 pm (UTC)Buying drinks in public
Nyanko
Others
The breakfast of champions
Unity
atonement
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Date: 2007-10-04 06:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-04 08:51 pm (UTC)not stupid people
supernatural
warren ellis
mu*ing
pixies
roses
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Date: 2007-10-04 11:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-05 12:03 am (UTC)industrial fantasy and horror
logic loops
moonlight on wires
qee
static
yezidi
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Date: 2007-10-05 05:48 am (UTC)Sitting in the classroom
Falling of to sleep
My mind has wandered everywhere
But where it needs to be
I think that I am falling
My head begins to jerk
I wake up in the same old place
Completely lacking merth
I know this is not forever
That this time will pass me by
But I can:t stop thinking how I hate this place
How it makes me want to die
A poem, just for you. But I kinda like it, so I might post it on mine too . . .
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Date: 2007-10-05 12:51 pm (UTC)holly black
shisa
smallville
That's all I've got. :)
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Date: 2007-10-08 06:41 am (UTC)holly black is an author who writes about faeries. Her first book that I read, Tithe, is REALLY about FAERIES. Dark, old school shit. I highly recommend her.
shisa are the traditional chinese lion guardians that are all over the place here. The female one has her mouth closed, the male has his mouth open. I dig guardians and gargoyles in general, so the fact that they're EVERYWHERE here is really cool.
smallville. dood, it's superman. Except he's young and is still full of that wonderful POTENTIAL that I love so much. My favorite episodes are where they actually bring in DC characters and play with them. Although this show has finally put it through my head that I hate the character Lois Lane. I hate her with a passion. No matter which superman story it is, I have always hated her.
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Date: 2007-10-05 06:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-05 12:54 pm (UTC)butch walker
neopets
ohio
tattoos
ds9
vicar of dibley
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Date: 2007-10-06 04:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-06 04:38 pm (UTC)cutting things
intellectual barbarians
koda kumi's skankiness
monoceros supremacy theory
socioling
team narwhal