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May 13th, 2008
mech_angel
 | 11:16 am - So, I've been thinking.
I came across a thread, on some 'Kin forum somewhere I was tooling around on trying to find a specific meditation, and the thread was on 'what are Your symbols?'. Someone's response was that they were leery about posting them, because they didn't want to get summoned, lol, and all, but it made me think. Self-invocation and -evocation...So many possibilities.
Some of you now think I'm crazy. Or crazier. But the rest of you, think about it. 'Know thyself', and all. Write yourself a Goetia entry, or a version of the LBRP based not on the archangels, but parts of yourself. How would the ancient Greeks or Sumerians or Japanese have called on you at a ceremony? (Wow. Firefox's spellcheck doesn't recognize 'Sumerians'. Or 'spellcheck', for that matter.)
It could be wankery, but it also could be a powerful tool for self-exploration. For me? Well, I want my Shadowrun Future, and I'm a big proponent of being that which you want to see in the world, not just the change, but representing and transforming yourself into everything you want your Universe to be, and making it happen by your interaction thereof. I've been slacking a lot on this, recently.
And that's your morning Crazy. I need to get something in my stomach besides coffee, now.
PS: Speaking of breakfast, I may not have work this week at all. Pass along the commission infos to whomever might be interested, please? I like sammiches.
Current Mood: hungry
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ephealy
 | 02:13 pm - Terrance Dicks gets a Second Life
 Terrance Dicks is coming to Second Life! Today!
Who is Terrance Dicks? He's written more Doctor Who books than you've had hot dinners.
Where can you see him? Luckily, there are two places. Both events happen today.
Place the first: Union Island (SLURL), at 11 AM SLT. POC: Johninnit Ni
Place the second: Red Sky Club (SLURL), at 12 PM SLT. Terrance will be speaking with Jilly Kidd for a special episode of her popular Meet an Author show.
Current Location: Sofia, Bulgaria
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ephealy
 | 12:20 pm - Pale Nostalgia
I've been very nostalgic, lately, for some of the music I grew up on. Is it a bout of personal melancholy? I don't know, but I can't these songs out of my head. This one in particularly:
Current Location: Sofia, Bulgaria
Current Music: A Whiter Shade Of Pale by Procol Harum
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May 12th, 2008
mech_angel
 | 10:15 pm - Weird.
Went to drop off my app. for the Vortex hosting job...and received an on-the-spot interview. It went better than any of the other interviews I've had, though I've got a lack of any restaurant experience working against me. They said I'd know if I got it by eight pm. tonight, so I'm pretty sure they went with someone with more experience. I feel like I accomplished something solely by trying, because I've been internally torn on whether or not I could do this (both the app and the job) all week.
Current Mood: tired, full
Current Music: Einsturzende Neubauten-12305(te Nacht)
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mech_angel
| 09:37 pm - *purrs*
"The night is my nudity
the stars are my teeth
I throw myself among the dead
dressed in white sunlight"
Georges Bataille
Found on the Irr. transitional board. It sings right.
Also, yoinked from ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) dragonrose1125
The Winking Eyes of Az'ra-il,
One open wide for ev'ry Soul,
Cast forth their stare upon each life:
An eyeliad of burning coal.
And with each death an eye doth close,
As Winter's Hand plucketh Summer's Rose.
Our Lives are done, yet Our Sight is whole.
- Andrew Chumbley
Current Music: The Avengers-Paint It Black
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ephealy
| 10:29 pm - Recovery a long-dead AIM account
 A long time ago, back when EverQuest was a free (mostly text chat) game on AOL, I signed up for an AOL account. In 1996, everyone used AOL. If you wanted to communicate with people online, AOL was the method of choice. In fact, I got my first website client using AOL Instant Messaging.
Unfortunately, for me, I didn't maintain my AOL account, and lost my username of choice: ephealy.
Here I am, more than a decade later, and I'd like to re-secure my old username. Every time I sign up for a new site or service, I use the same username: ephealy. But, when it comes to AOL/AIM, I can't. After all this time, AOL still has my old, now defunct, screen name in their database. What more, I can't figure out how to get in touch with them so I can recover it. As far as I can tell, they want you to use an automated service, but that service can only recover accounts that have lapsed for less than six months.
So, I'm stuck. But, I am holding out hope that (some day) I can recover the first username I ever had.
If you happen to know how I can recover my old account, please let me know.
Current Location: Sofia, Bulgaria
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jewishmagi
[joovano]
 | 01:05 pm - Lag Ba-Omer Camp
(Apologies for cross-post.)
If anyone's interested in camping out in the woods of Pennsylvania (on
a pagan campground) and celebrating Lag Ba-Omer with me in a Burning
Man type setting, please contact me and I can give you more details.
(Basic info about the event can be found at
http://www.wickermanburn.org; basic info about my camp is at
http://www.wickermanburn.org/forum/messages/110/308.html?1210608127 .)
Jason
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mech_angel
 | 12:10 pm - Motivational Posters.
Bwahaha...Breakfast time. (Edit: The top one is a link to even more win.)
Current Mood: amused
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mech_angel
| 11:19 pm - A.D.D. posting.
I weigh roughly 140 pounds, according to the bag-thing at the airport that I climbed on when we dropped raoin's fiancee off to ship his ass to China. (It was 2:30am. Yes, we're hooligans. What??) I'm 5'1" at most. Looking at myself in a mirror, I am in the best damned shape I've been in for a while. I have visible biceps and probably triceps, without even trying to make them stand out. I'm getting abs, and my butt has side-dents again. But my knee-jerk reaction to that number was to feel ashamed, and looking up my BMI (26) puts me on the higher end of overweight, closer to obese. WTF is wrong with this picture?
I want more canvas; I've got sketches for two or three more of the Qliphotic Series that's apparently really wanting Out. I don't know if I can afford those two or three, let alone the eight or nine necessary to finish the whole bloody thing. And again, that attention, from all I've heard about working with those beings and energies, is something that makes me a little nervous.
Anyone around here ever have more luck than me, i.e. any, at editing out canvas texture from scans? Apparently it makes prints terrible and pretty much unsellable. I'm using OpenCanvas at the moment, and so far it looks like I'm fucked until I have a machine that can run Photoshop again. Blur tool helps, but doesn't fix it.
My mom is plotting a trip down here to visit, probably June, maybe July. I talked to her today, and tried calling my grandmom, but she was apparently out.
I have been offered tattoos in exchange for artwork. I have been plotting different ideas since I received this proposition. The major one is the kind-of angelic script sleeve I've been plotting for a looong time now. There are others, but this...I've finally figured out a way to do it, and that's in pieces. Figuring out single components, and either bringing them in one at a time, or doing the same on paper and then bringing in whole chunks of it. (I know it's not 'really' angelic script, before someone gets to that first. It's not Enochian, or the Malakim alphabet, or Hebrew. It's something that came to me during a period of very intense inner work, in that very simplified fashion, though I knew it to be more, somehow. Sound, light and shadow, shape, motion. Information.)
I need to dye my hair again, soon. :/
I'm rethinking my goals. That's a whole other post for later, when I finish this damned commission that's been sitting at the edge of my attention for a while now, waving and mooning me, and hoping I see it.
Current Mood: procrastinating
Current Music: wolven and raoin watching Ntnl. Geographic.
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ephealy
| 03:44 am - del.icio.us
 I now have a del.icio.us account... http://del.icio.us/ephealy
Current Location: Sofia, Bulgaria
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May 11th, 2008
urikson
 | 10:11 pm - Bye bye Lebanon...
I think this picture speaks for itself...
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urikson
| 08:06 pm - Islam is the new Nazism
Instead of telling you tales, I'll simply quote two people whose opinions weight far more than my own - the first is a great psychologist and the other is a monster of a man.
"We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. He is already on the way; he is like Mohammad. The emotion in Germany is Islamic; warlike and Islamic. They are all drunk with wild god. That can be the historic future. "
-Karl Jung
"The peoples of Islam will always be closer to us than, for example, France."
-Adolf Hitler
"...we should in all probability have been converted to Mohammedanism, that cult which glorifies the heroism and which opens up the seventh Heaven to the bold warrior alone. Then the Germanic races would have conquered the world. Christianity alone prevented them from doing so."
-Adolf Hitler
I rest my case.
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ephealy
 | 12:35 pm - Blighted Tome Show
Tome Show host, Jeff Griener, and I had a chance to chat about Blight Elves: Architects of Despair and Book of Bones: Blighted Bestiary, recently. Joining us was the editor, Rone Barton. It was a great time.
Tome Show #60: Blight Elves Interview
If you let the audio ride for a bit, after the closing credits, there's a little easter egg. Like I said, we had a good time...
Current Location: Sofia, Bulgaria
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May 10th, 2008
mech_angel
| 12:44 pm - Stolen from various places.
( ...and a meme. )
Current Mood: nerdy
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May 9th, 2008
lj_spotlight
[ljkrissy]
 | 03:12 pm - 05/09/08 Homepage Spotlight
kinokofry
Art and comics by Rebecca Clements
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lj_spotlight
[ljkrissy]
| 03:08 pm - 05/09/08 Homepage Spotlight
![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) wii_kartonline
All about Mario Kart Wii: challenge, chat & have fun
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lj_spotlight
[ljkrissy]
| 03:07 pm - 05/09/08 Homepage Spotlight
the_polaroids
Post and peruse Polaroid photos
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mech_angel
| 01:40 pm - Universe offers remedy.
I woke up today, and the toilets were fixed. Turns out that this house is old enough that some of the pipes are still made of cast iron, and highly prone to deposits. The water downstairs is also primarily just water, and not the toxic stew it could have become, as the ick remained lodged in the pipes and just the water overflowed. We're still waiting on the cleaners, but the bathrooms function again.
I got more sleep than I thought I would, but didn't get to sleep until about six. Woke up for good at eleven-thirty, and I'm very glad I canceled work for today. Got back my deposit from the old place, and though most of it is going to D to repay this month's rent here, the sixty-or-so difference makes me able to wait until next week, as the only bill I'm waiting on is my credit card.
And on top of this, a box of awesome, courtesy of sammaelhain and ceilede showed up on my doorstep not a half hour ago. I now have an asston of comics to read, some audiobooks and dvds burned to disc to listen to and watch. I may try to pass out on my face for a little bit longer, though. Things are still kind of...squirrely...in my brain.
Current Mood: tired, but better
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May 8th, 2008
mech_angel
 | 10:45 pm - Fuck.
The downstairs half-bathroom is flooding anytime water drains anywhere else in the house. There is a roughly ten-foot-around, half-inch-deep puddle on BOTH SIDES OF THE WALL, around where the bathroom is.
Plumber's supposed to be here at ten. If it's Glenn's buddy, who 'fixed' the fucking upstairs toilet on Tuesday, and likely caused this in the meantime, I'm going to hurt both of them. Then I'm going to watch D's mom, who is a fucking property lawyer as well as a minister, and has served the gov't of DC as the former in the past, eat him for breakfast.
I'm upstairs so I don't watch him, and get angrier.
Current Mood: infuriated
Current Music: a wet-dry vac, downstairs
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