Don't Cry Emo Kid!

Le sigh.

2008-01-10T22:04:23Z

Rules

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first article title on the page is the name of your band.

2. www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four words of the very last quote is the title of your album.

3. www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/
The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

wishes...

2008-01-01T06:21:06Z

May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't to forget make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

Halbes durch

2007-12-22T06:08:27Z

Its amazing to me that so much of the year has gone.

My regular group of drunkards from work asked what tonight was for me, some few of them recognizing that today was something beyond the normal Christmas tidings we receive during this time of year. Their disparate faiths lending credence to me during one night of many. I knew only to respond one thing:

'Celebrate tonight that we'll wake tomorrow and that life goes on, for if we don't revel in it today then the Sun will not rise tomorrow.'

windcaller @ 2007-11-01T07:17:00

2007-11-01T11:18:20Z

"I don't think those are the kinds of issues that are sticking with people. I think what people are seeing is twelve men piling on Hilary Clinton."
-- on NBC's Today, 11/1/2007

The Pruning - Rasputina

2007-10-19T00:48:01Z

On the border of an orchard,
on a cultivated lawn,
where they practice horticulture,
there they know what's going on.

They're not afraid to cut it.

Well then, the best get picked from this virtuous thicket,
by scythe or scissor, by instrument and implement.

That's how they cut it.

It's time to trim and thin an invasive vine.
The roots are lifted, the leaves are dry.

From natural laws to material things,
nothing in the truth can be changed.

Oh perilous world - You're showing every sign of losing your heart.
Fledgling and tattered during these strange later days,
just before it all fell apart.

You can build such fantastic palaces on foundations of straw,
on weird promises,
but with one fatal flaw.

The seedling is taken as a delicacy,
by the sower who's mowing down the nursery.
The reaper is hiding in the flowerbeds.
They're both thinking over what the other said.

They said,
"We each disturb the earth,
but you my friend,
yeah, you did it first,
yes you did."

Oh you perilous garden. Forever dying.

Its gonna rain.

2007-09-24T22:39:22Z

Sweetgrass & City Streets

2007-09-22T00:15:34Z

Bushes and briar,
thunder and fire.

In the ceremony
that is night,
the concrete forest
can be anywhere,
anywhen.

In the wail of a siren
rising up from the distance,
I hear a heartbeat,
a drumbeat,
a dancebeat.

I hear my own
heart
fire
beat.

I hear chanting.

Eagle feather, crow's caw
Coyote song, cat's paw
Ya-ha-hey, hip hop rapping
Fiddle jig, drumbeat tapping
Once a
Once a
Once upon a time...

I smell the sweet smoke
of smudge sticks,
of tobacco,
of sweetgrass on the corner
where cultures collide
and wisdoms meet.

And in that moment of grace,
where trees branch,
bud to leaf,
where moonlight
mingles with streetlight,
I see old spirits in new skins,
bearing beadwork,
carrying spare change and charms,
walking dreams,
walking large.

They whisper.
They whisper to each other
with the sounds of talking drums,
finger pads brushing taut hides.
The whisper,
deliberately,
like distant thunder,
approaching.

bushes and briar...

-Wendelessen

Beauracracy, woo-hoo!

2007-07-04T01:37:55Z

I was ,initally, rather put off that I would be having a holiday in the mid-week. I retrospect, its much like a mini-weekend. Now, I go dance. So there. :P

windcaller @ 2007-07-02T20:51:00

2007-07-03T00:53:09Z

Akin to the Geek Hierarchy Chart, I give you...

The Pagan Hierarchy Chart

(EDIT: It takes a couple of clicks to get to the full size version. Persevere!)

Somethin' Substantive

2007-05-19T04:25:01Z

...with mind bullets

Been a bit, but that seems to happen more often than not. I'll go through a couple of months where I'm posting a couple of times a week then hit a brain-space dead spell that leaves me staring at the computer screen without a coherently relatable thought in my fool head.

I suppose this is more of an 'I'm still alive' post than anything else. Other than getting a new laptop last month there've been no major events, upheavals or crises.

utu_eros and I experimented with brewing in March. We each put up a batch of beer and did a batch of mead together. The former is mostly gone, the latter will be coming with us to PSG. I actually just finished racking the mead and bottling about half of it. The remainder is going to go into 12 oz bottles for a spakrling mead. I'm rather pleased with it. We're also tossing around the thought of another batch of beer before we head out, as of now there's just enough time to get the process finished.

Ohio's new governor put a freeze on hiring and filling positions just after taking office in January. It just ended last week, so the promotion I interviewed for in December has been on hold since then. I know through unofficial channels that I got the job. At this point its just a matter of waiting for the beauracracy to move the paper before I get the official word, the raise and the essentially meaningless new title. The job is in the same department of the same agency in the same building on the same floor. The biggest difference is going to be a bigger cubicle about twenty five feet east of my current desk and bit more cash in my pocket at payday. I work with good people in an awesome environment though, so no big comlaints on the lack of major change - merely an observation.

We're flying out to Albequerqe next week. I'll be meeting the Boy's family; he'll be visiting for the first time in five years. It'll only be for a long weekend, but seeing as he has nephews he's never met every little bit makes a difference. In all fairness, he's been going to family dinner with me on Sundays and putting up with my family admirably, so a long weekend out there is a good idea. I'm finding the whole thing to be somewhat intimidating at this point, though not exactly nerve-wracking...yet.

When I found out that Falwell had died via text message from Pooh my immediate and lasting opinion was my response to him: How very sad for his family and fortunate for civil rights.

My wisteria started into its first full bloom yesterday. Its been too cool out to actually be outside and enjoy it, but I have at least another two weeks before the blossoms drop. There'll be plenty of warm evenings to spend in the garden before its gone again. On a side note, my koi bred over the winter or last season or whenever it is that koi breed. Only one of the fry survived to adolescence, but its now big enough that its not going to be eaten by the others. If it survives next winter I'll count it as win, pond fish are expensive and I got one for free.

29 days til PSG. I've started making lists and gathering needed items. Stopped at the fabric store last week and picked up the supplies to make my Tea Dance costume. I arranged to borrow my brother's truck for the week. I figured out last year that there's just no way to effectively pack all of the gear and stuff I need into my Tiburon, add Nathan's things to that and its beyond impossible. I feel like such a red neck when I'm driving his truck.It just being a truck doesn't bother me so much. I'm blaming it on the big hunting decals and nascar stickers plastered on the back of the cab, and he had the nerve to give my crap about driving my car for a week with a small chrome butterfly stuck on the back next to the license plate. ::sigh:: It still seems so far off yet, but I know I'm still going to be scrambling to get everything ready until the day before we leave.

windcaller @ 2007-04-25T21:00:00

2007-04-26T01:05:57Z

Ganked from e_falki and illious

I had to do it. The books were wonderful, and I had no idea a film was in the works!

windcaller @ 2007-04-07T20:29:00

2007-04-08T00:30:26Z

windcaller @ 2007-03-26T20:49:00

2007-03-27T00:51:55Z

"Never walk when you might run, never stand when you might walk or sit, never sit when you might lie down. Eat more than nine and twenty different foods between Moon's Day and Sun's Day. And remember the the health of the body is not everything. To be content in life, it is necessary to have, at least, these three things: Something to do, someone to love and something to hope for."

-- Cynthia Dart-Thornton, The Iron Tree

windcaller @ 2007-03-10T08:21:00

2007-03-10T13:23:28Z

windcaller @ 2007-03-06T23:08:00

2007-03-07T04:09:38Z

The Everything Test

There are many different types of tests on the internet today. Personality tests, purity tests, stereotype tests, political tests. But now, there is one test to rule them all.

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Personality

You are more logical than emotional, more concerned about others than concerned about self, more atheist than religious, more dependent than loner, more lazy than workaholic, more traditional than rebel, more engineering mind than artistic mind, more cynical than idealist, more leader than follower, and more introverted than extroverted.

As for specific personality traits, you are adventurous (90%), intellectual (80%), greedy (77%), slutty (76%).

Stereotypes
College Student	100%
Prep	85%
Punk Rock	67%

Life Experience
Sex	63%
Substances	65%
Travel	9%

Politics
Your political views would best be described as Socialist, whom you agree with around 78% of the time.

Socioeconomic
Your attitude toward life best associates you with Middle Class. You make more than 0% of those who have taken this test, and 12% less than the U.S. average.

If your life was a movie, it would be rated R.
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Not so much 'Zombie Menace'...

2007-02-25T19:10:09Z

...as 'Zombie Nuisance'.

A couple of nights ago I dreamed that the Zombies were rising to devour the city, but for some reason weren't doing it in hoardes and waves as is the usual zombie tactic. They were showing up two or three at a time...in my basement.

I didn't dream through entire days, though there were about a week and half's worth of mornings. The household waking up, making coffee and dealing with the zombies. At one point I remember taking the banister from the first to second floor stairs off of the wall and carrying it into the basement stairway so I wouldn't have to bother with actually going all the way downstairs to kill off one morning's batch of undead.

Near the end of the dream the risen dead in the basement were a sighing matter.

Sigh, "More zombies. Should we call someone about it or just keep clearing them out?"

"Who would we call to report that we have an undead problem?"

"Oh, I dunno. I'm just tired of having to slay them every morning to get to the dryer."

windcaller @ 2007-02-14T09:03:00

2007-02-14T14:04:29Z

windcaller @ 2007-01-20T00:59:00

2007-01-20T06:00:06Z

• HBO has acquired the rights to turn George R.R. Martin's best-selling fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire into a drama series. The plan, says Variety, is for each 1,000-pageish novel to fuel a season's worth of episodes.

windcaller @ 2006-12-24T14:47:00

2006-12-24T19:48:16Z

windcaller @ 2006-12-24T14:42:00

2006-12-24T19:46:28Z

windcaller @ 2006-12-16T18:44:00

2006-12-16T23:45:18Z

There won't be snow in Africa this Christmas time,
The greatest gift they'll get this year is windcaller.

Do They Know It's Christmas
from the Christmas Song Generator.

windcaller @ 2006-12-16T11:12:00

2006-12-16T16:12:51Z

Nicholas Was…

...older than sin, and his beard could grow no whiter. He wanted to die.

The dwarfish natives of the Arctic caverns did not speak his language, but conversed in their own twittering tongue, conducted incomprehensible rituals, when they were not actually working in the factories.

Once every year they forced him, sobbing and protesting, into Endless Night. During the journey he would stand near every child in the world, leave one of the dwarves' invisible gifts by its bedside. The children slept, frozen in time.

He envied Prometheus and Loki, Sisyphus and Judas. His punishment was harsher.

Ho.

-From Neil Gaiman’s short story collection, Smoke and Mirrors (Harper Perennial, 2001)

windcaller @ 2006-12-16T10:22:00

2006-12-16T15:23:48Z

windcaller @ 2006-12-15T20:38:00

2006-12-16T01:40:07Z

Journeys

2006-10-04T00:41:17Z

Felt as if I was just drug along tonight during my working. Too much information, too quickly delivered, left me more confused than I was before I started. I wasn't exactly looking to find clarity, more an idea of things forgotten or lost. The last couple of weeks somethings been nagging at me; something that I should have been doing, or should have done. Ever since I got back from BTW I've felt like that. Its that time of year, I guess.

With moving day coming around the good folk are clearing out their closets and finding the scraps they'd forgotten and I think some of the payments for past bargains are going to be coming due. Not that they aren't by their nature due and deserved, but my reserves are low and things are very unsettled to be worrying about extraneous tasks to accomplish and items to procure. Such is the way of things though, there's always a price.

Could be I missed a deadline with them I hadn't realized had passed. Could be I missed a less ephemeral deadline. It just worries me. Lots of things are worrying me right now, this not the least or greatest among them. There's more change in the works, big change, and I'm a lot less than ready for it. The last three or four months seem to have been nothing but changes and trials. Emotional, spiritual, financial, doesn't matter the arena; I've been fighting to make sure I can survive without sacrificing too much of what I though that I'd already won.

Its been an introspective evening, sorry 'bout that. So very much happening right now that is totally out of my grasp. Control is ultimately an illusion, but a comforting one. I'd almost wish for some resolution to everything that's in the air right now, it might actually be worth the price of the wishing. 'Least it seems that way right now. My perspective may be a bit skewed, but its so much harder to find answers from the inside.