A musical dedication from all of me - to all of you

Another gem from New Waver, and one of the few I can post in an all audiences blog entry.

The lyrics are fitting for anybody reading this!

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Media I Gave You All The Best Years Of My Life

I dug the Birthday Party, idolized Nick Cave
Evangelized their music, converted all my mates
The revolution fizzled, working is my fate
They've sold us Bad Seeds records ever since on Triple-J

Media I gave you all the best years of my life
Facebook, MySpace, Mess and Noise for several hours a night
I spend my time convincing folk to pay rock stars attention
I can't afford to rent a room for my record collection

I go to arthouse cinemas several nights a week
I blog about the classics and buy the DVDs
Directors don't know who I am, or care that I exist
But I defend their work for hours at parties when I'm pissed

Media I gave you all the best years of my life
I tell the world about you on social network sites
When I'm not consuming you, I'm telling others to
And wishing I could hang around the people who make you

Latest "Word Picture" Psalm 13 - God's steadfast love in adversity

A dear friend suggested / challenged / dared me to do this, probably because he thought it would speak to/for me.

I have my reasons for having chosen this image, but I tend to like to keep those close to the chest. I've no interest in telling anyone else how they should think or feel in response to a photo, a scripture text, or a life crisis.

In this case, I started with the public domain ASV and updated it, consulting the usual sources (especially Luther and my wife.)

Vespers - Ergo Phizmiz' arrangement of Monteverdi's

Since I'm always looking for good sources of music to legally use with my projects, came across a place called the Free Music Archive.

There I stumbled across a project called (music from)

The House of Dr Faustus by Ergo Phizmiz.

When I discover gems which the composer / performer / artist has been generous enough to put out under a creative commons or similar license, I like to give them as much encouragement, support, and publicity as I can.

Good news on pain front | Consider the crocus video a good test of how well you know me

We finally heard back from the D.O. pain specialist we've been trying to get an appointment with. He will review my records. If I am a candidate for the sort of interventional treatment he provides, he'll take me on.

If not, he'll give me a referral.

Nice to have some movement on this.

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Next- I had no deeper purpose behind the crocus slide show, but now it seems to be resonating with some very deep, very raw, very "vulnerable" aspects of my personality.

I wonder how many of you understand why? In retrospect, it seems obvious to me... but I have the inside track on knowing and understanding myself

BOTANIST- is there a botanist in the house? I need to know what kind of chestnut tree this is

I took hundreds of photos of the buds of these chestnuts which grow wild as underbrush in the glen by the creeks (see most recent Ambrose romp video.)

I know its chestnut

I know it doesn't produce edible nuts

I know it grows wild as a weedy underbrush in Indiana.

But I don't know what kind it is, and as I'd like to do a slideshow from first bud to this point, it'd be really nice to know and be able to label/tag it appropriately.

DANKE!

The obligatory spring posting of "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park" / Mayan Apocalypse Cord

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Here's another BRILLIANT song from "Unicorn Frolic" artist Greg Landgraf

Mayan Apocalypse Cord

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This is a great video of the old demento classic

Cadejo : Noun - Legendary Central American cow sized Goat - Dogs

I'd never heard of this beast until today, but I needed some figurative way to describe what a bizarre version of surreality I'm living, so searched for mythical bests, found this one.

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From the wiki:

The cadejo (IPA pronunication /ka.�e.xo/) is a character from Belizean, Salvadoran, Nicaraguan,Costa Rican, Honduran, Guatemalan andsouthern Mexican folklore. There is a good, white cadejo and an evil, black cadejo. Both are spirits that appear at night to travellers: the white to protect them from harm during their journey, the black (sometimes an incarnation of the devil), to kill them. They usually appear in the form of a large (up to the size of a cow), shaggy dog with burning red eyes and a goat's hooves, although in some areas they have morebull-like characteristics. According to the stories, many have tried to kill the black cadejo but have failed and perished. Also it is said that if a cadejo is killed, it will smell terrible for several days, and then its body will disappear. Some Guatemalan folklore also tells of a cadejo that guards drunks against anyone who tries to rob or hurt them. When the cadejo is near, it is said to bring about a strong goat-like smell. Most people say never to turn your back to the creature because otherwise you will go crazy.

In popular etymology, the name cadejo is thought to have derived from the Spanish word "cadena", meaning "chain"; the cadejo is at times represented as dragging a chain behind him. There is a fairly large member of the weasel family, the tayra, which in common speech is called a cadejo and is cited as a possible source of the legend.

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See wiki article for the rest
Image from: http://trianacartoon.blogspot.com/2009/07/el-cadejo-version-triana.html

I thought the idea of my "pain" and "condition" being a white and a black dog-goat was very apropos!