wytchcroft

Well my place, my country maison du wytch or possibly Bag End, or possibly Wyts End, is - as you would see for yourself if unlucky enough to visit -
messy.

Very messy.

Very, very messy.

Messy raised to the power of at least eleventy one. 

In a nut shell; not an easy clean, hard to tidy, tricky to maintain. Somewhat resembling this:


but y'know, rural.

So of course i am grateful and gobsmacked to have spent the evening watching my Italian friend work wonders around my token efforts (i may have washed up). She would say; "I'm bloody good i am!" and she'd be right - although i believe my exact words were; "You are a masochistic sucker HA HA HA!"

But i am truly thankful if somewhat startled to realise i have carpets, walls, floorboards and bookcases! WOW!

I should take advantage of miracle working chums more often!

Koff! Seriously, though - thanks V! :))

When they came for her
at the knocking gate
did you give her away?
or did she fade...
... like a radio wave
( Read more... )

they opened up the belly of that Scottish church
looking for spirit and fingerprints
( Read more... )

and scarlet ribboned
woven round
these autumn trails
( Read more... )

 ,
"O Holy Wisdom, Soaring Power, 
encompass us with wings unfurled,
and carry us, encircling all, above, below,
and through the world."

"Every element has a sound,
an original sound from the order of God;
all those sounds unite
like the harmony from harps and zithers*."

Hildegard Von Bingen

*one for Gurdjieff!

as upon this night, this merry eve,
earth and heaven and all between
may easily be seen
( Read more... )

Among other things, October is the anniversary of Houdini's death which was actually on Halloween ...

Here is a picture of his famous Upside Down Trick - which wikipedia claims is still a mystery...



Well - i have a pretty good idea how it was done and i wonder if anyone else here has interesting theories of their own?

Houdini has of course had a huge impact down the years on popular culture and those within it,
(take a look at the list on that wiki entry - it's enormous!)  from David Blaine to Robbie Williams to Kristin Hersh. 
Her song Houdini Blues and video for Your Ghost can be compared to Kate Bush's song Houdini -
both seem to take escapology as a metaphor and seize on the idea of a key hidden in the mouth or passed by a kiss.... a symbol maybe... as if a gnosis of some sort could be delivered vocally by the artist.



On a more superficial level, escapology can be fun!!... but don't try it at home!

popular science never had it so... win!
thanks to misnomer at whedonesque for the wonderlink!!


 

 

listening to Lisa Germano recently has made a million songs of hers bubble again in my brain-pan...
this is one of 'em... and it's lush.


thanks to the uploader!

( lyrics )

Do you keep tabs on ex-boyfriends and -girlfriends over social networking sites? Do you think it's emotionally healthy or dangerous? Amusing or painful?

Sometimes i wonder where these psychotic questions come from.

But i guess that everybody has that chord and waits for it to get played.

There is no gone. There is no forgotten. There is no lost.
But all the same... 
From the silver in your belly to the water on my brain
memory is the whistle on the mystery train
so let's ride. Akiko-chan. One for you. And one = ALL.
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the beatles were a prism  (the beatles were a prison)

through which a decade of time, life and culture and all the attendant people (where do they all come from?), were refracted; light turned into music from black and white to any colour you like, roll up roll up.

the beatles were a prism through which john lennon could look at the pieces of himself and watch them in play - the first person to self create the movie of the beatles was john.( Read more... )

just a voice was rightly called Mighty

from 1965 


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and yes (as some saw yesterday)  - this - is still stuck in my head... 

and that was thunder i think clouds rumbling above the water tower as we sang 
sang broke toy to the bluebirds two beautiful blue birds twitching on the scuffed earth the curb still holding the iron print, that skid, you on a bike when that guy was - you thought he was following you home ("can i keep him?").

but the sun shatters the thin glass and it's a beautiful day
all over again
here in the dull expanse the swedish flat-lands no-lands the lowlands some call home
can i keep -
 
singing to the birds as we dance like cats among them scattering wings and beaks and claws and all for the dance
that's magic
playing

you sing me stunned "it could be very simple" summing up the thoughts i've been having, carrying them around like stones in my pocket and we're running down the dark culvert aaaah to the frozen edge of the lake and we skim those stones and they don't
break the glass
the frozen glass with all the underneath, all them colourful fish beneath - raging and hissing but they don't
break the glass
and it's a beautiful day
it's really a beautiful day

two children singing and laughing and waving and clapping
by the edges of a lake, cold water, wishing well
two magic neighbors
wish them
we should wish them well
get well
be well
again
some beautiful day. 

.........................................
lisa germano's album is wonderful.
"He must be God he can turn cats into pieces of furniture."

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dolhouse dollhouse dollhouse DOLLHOUSE 

one of my favourite films...

one of my favourite pieces of film music...

one of my favourite pieces of music. period.

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