"Magus Perde, take your hand from off the chain...
...loose the wish to still the rain, the storm about to be... Here am I, voyager into life."
I've come to the realization that if I only post when I do something extraordinary, or if something extraordinary happens to me, I may never get to post at all here, other than LJI entries. And, fond as I am of therealljidol, it's not the be-all-and-end-all purpose of this blog.
My April mindset made me pull out Jethro Tull's A PASSION PLAY a few nights ago. After the long winter [and now the threat of a few more days of said winter], the frogs were singing in the evening twilight outside my office window. While the annual green terror has also been delayed by the long winter, the calendar still says what it says, and my mind is its own all-too-effective mousetrap. It wears me out on a hamster wheel, and then snaps a cage down to shatter me.
But the four-act musical that is A PASSION PLAY was rather soothing this past Saturday, harmonizing surprisingly well with the spring peepers, and reminding me of the summer of 1980, two years before I ever had an inkling that there would be a green terror in my life.
I had the cassette tape that The Esteemed FRM made for me playing nearly every Saturday night that summer before I went away to college. It was good to revisit it.
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Something else I've recently found soothing is this very silly opening to THE LATE LATE SHOW WITH CRAIG FERGUSON from a few years ago. As always, he goes straight to the heart of the matter and sums it up most succinctly despite the ridiculous costumes and trappings.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9P4SxtphJ4
I'd like my life to be "the triumph of intellect and romance over brute force and cynicism".