Maybe it's just me, but it seems kind of weird to read the news and realize that the man who had been mentioned in the news article that made me think of the Saint Judas poem, would normally have been seated right in the path of the deadly crash (article here). Even more stranger to realize the woman who died in his arms moved halfway around the world to do so (she's mentioned towards the end of the article) . Guess I'm in one of those moods where I think too much about fate and circumstance. I should probably go eat some ice cream...

Book of the Day: Just finished reading The Thirteenth Scroll by Rebecca Neason -- great book, can't wait for the next five or six in the series. Interesting characters and plot and the author has a knack for making the reader think about their own life.

Haven't surfed this enough to know exactly what I think, though it seems to be a good resource so far:Astral Projection Home Page
I'm listing it because it showed up on a librarian mailing list (hey, I finally got the librarian bit in), it has definite appeal to pagans, and I'm probably going to be trying some, in just a little bit. :)

Radio roulette for the evening: We Are All Made of Stars (Moby) and Here is Gone (Goo Goo Dolls). Not really sure what to make of either, only heard the first one once but i like it. Second seems relevant but is not how I feel, myself ... still very moving to sing along to, for what it's worth.

This poem just came to mind again--probably from a news article I read: Saint Judas (James Wright). The last line of this poem has always haunted me from time to time--read it in a correspondence G+T course I took in high school. Just thought I'd share it, not feeling suicidal or anything, have no fear. And I'm not even Christian, go figure.

Subconscious Soundtrack is diversifying more than usual today: Unchained Melody of all things is stuck in my mind. Not my usual style of music, to say the least.

Radio Roulette: (kinda like stichomancy really, but being the song on the radio when you happen to turn it on). This doesn't happen all the time to me, but once in a while, whole days go by when this seems to work wonderfully. Most interesting song of the day in radio roulette: The Middle (Jimmy Eat World )

Well it isn't exactly subconsious soundtrack, being poetry--but lines from Yeats' poems often pop into my head at odd moments (I'm still very very amused at the Easter 1916 quotes that passed on through a few weeks ago ...All changed, changed utterly:A terrible beauty is born. On second thought, not really that cheerful, but it seemed apt at the time. Anyhow, this week's random out-of-context mental musings a la Yeats is X: Her Anxiety from Words For Music Perhaps. Gee, I'm in such a chipper mood today.

Subconscious soundtrack of the evening: Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd)

A Strange Kind of Love (Peter Murphy) has been in my subconscious soundtrack a lot these past few weeks. Technically I shouldn't list it as that since I actually (consciously) listened to it on the way to work and I knew it was coming up on the tape--but it was one of those things where a song you've heard a zillion times suddenly becomes so incredibly relevant that you can feel it pouring through you. Anyway, I really liked this song this morning, so I'm mentioning it here. I really need to start posting stuff NOT about music, it just seems to be the major theme flowing through my life this week for some bizarre reason.

Blah, I really need to find a way to get comments on here so anyone actually reading this can respond if they wish to. Songs currently stuck in the subconscious soundtrack at the moment are: Seeing Red (Unwritten Law) and Blurry (Puddle of Mudd). Interestingly I'm in a good mood (in the morning yet *gasp*), so I'm not sure where they are coming from. Good songs though. I'm really beginning to think about how songs have changed over the decades--almost everything that moves me emotionally is from the 80s and after, and it seems like so much more is being communicated in newer songs--which probably scares some people but is why I listen to the kind of music I do even though I despise the marketing towards braindead 18-year olds. Still commercials and inane DJs are just a good reason to keep a cassette or two in the car. My mother thinks I like depressing music, but I don't see it that way--just not a real fluffy bunny here. Life isn't always fluffy bunnies--denying it solves no problems. Got to quit rambling now and go into work.
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Ever contemplate all the various ways the phrase "take no prisoners" can be interpreted when you really break it down word by word? Ever had the phrase pop up constantly over a several day period in weird circumstances? Not being a bloodthirsty type by nature, I'm beginning to view it in more of a "leave no trace" kind of way -- "no mercy" doesn't really cut it with me. That being said, I really wouldn't mind if the phrase quietly vanished from my life...getting tired of hearing it in my dreams and seeing it in odd places. Most annoyingly, I keep wanting to howl out Freebird when the phrase comes up, which is not really where I want to be, mindset-wise -- this birdy is in no mood to either fly off into the sunset or run for the hills. Oh well...

Songs stuck in my mind today (for those of you who don't know me already, my subconscious tends to communicate with me via songs on my own internal soundtrack--with occasional out-of-context bits of Yeats' poetry as well for a bit of variety):
My Sacrifice (Creed) -- I tend to find Creed a bit overbearing, but this song fits so well with some things going on in my life that I don't even mind this song being stuck in my mind, which is surprising.
Friends and Family (Trik Turner) -- I only first heard this song on Sunday but it has a catchy hook that obviously got noticed by my mind. Not sure what I think of it yet, but I think I like it overall. :)
And last but not least, one of those songs that comes up a lot when I'm a bit angry Welcome to the Jungle (Guns N' Roses) -- fairly self-explanatory really and a great one to scream along with.

A Pagan Afternoon Tea is the website of a really great person who has a pagan tea at her house every month near Houston. Jeannette has a lot of interesting links to follow here, click on the link in the text to get information on the actual local get-together.

Greetings! For those of you who are curious, I'm an eclectic pagan currently living in Houston, TX (not where I ever expected to end up for any length of time, but it's growing on me). The local pagans are fairly active bunch, as you can see by this link of events. I finally admitted I might be here a while and joined the Council of the Magickal Arts so I could go to the Beltane celebration out in the country west of here (well more northwest of here--Houston is a large place and I live near NASA). It was definitely worth it.

OK--I finally have a blog...now to decide what to post :)