Jesus fuck, tax season... well, I'm done. All my paperwork is filled out, all I need to do is make serveral copies of several things, and off in the mail you go, never to cross my mind again... at least until next year.

The months between winter and true spring are almost always the most stressful for me. Life has just seemed too much to deal with in a normal day. I'm finding myself delaying simple tasks and chores for days and weeks. Laziness? I hope. I've gotten better this week, what with the end date for taxes coming up. But that's neither here nor there...

In re-reading old novels I haven't touched in almost 5 years, I've re-discovered a sense of enchantment. Fantasy worlds only half  remembered have sprung up fresh again, and with it remembering of my roots. I've become more creative at work, my writing is flowing easier, and I still can see the beauty in my world.  That is the most important, I think. Missing everyday miracles and enchantments is what dulls us. The use of the television to make up our imaginations is ruining our world. Along with sevreal dozen other evils... but I don't want to go there yet.

What I wanted to say now was that I started a sketch the other day. I haven't drawn in over 5 years, because I didn't think I was any good. Granted, it's not my best creative outlet, but to deny completely that medium was tantamount to heresy. It's based on a pun and I know many people who'd enjoy it. So, once it's finished I'lll borrow the scanner and post it.

But for now,... latest and not greatest but still inspired...

Worlds within worlds

tears and blood spawn life in fertile sacred grounds

The memories strong enough to blow us back a step

strike our guts and hearts

to say “This is truth, this is life

The other is a lie, a dream.”

Eat the forbidden fruit, drink blessed waters

see the clouds we hide ourselves in

Masks of faces so familiar we daren’t question

the smile so rare, a pocket in the eye that seems to glare

past the veil of intricacies, down to the simple earth hidden

Know for the first time, love

 

Bonus points if anyone, though very unlikely, can tell me what book I read to pull that vision out of.

Anyway, Dimmu Borgir this Saturday, and hopefully this time I will make it in, though I'm broke at the moment, so,... we shall see.

Also looking forward to seeing Opeth (courtesy of Lord Ace Venom for my birthday, thanks love!) and Eluveitie that same weekend. MSI and Dark Tranquility are both the week after my birthday that month, and hopefully I'll be able to catch those two.

I'll leave you with some new shit (at least for me) from a little punk band in SLC...

"Your only danger lies in safety" thats what she said to me. and life, it serves the risk taker, so lets see what we can be. grab a mask put on some black clothes and well paint some graffitti. join the infamous bike jihad, be all that you can be.

and we'll need love like this beating heart you see, it can kill you, or it can set you free. and we'll need violence like this bomb inside of me, it can kill you or it can set you free.

and so she grabbed me by the wrist and showed me something new. we fell in love and revolution, there was nothing we could do. this time of night always feels so right, and it always feels so true, your love it brings me freedom nothing else will ever do.

and we'll need love like this bomb inside of me, it can kill you, or it can set you free. and we'll need violence like this beating heart you see, it can kill you or it can set you free.

how can you be afraid if your life never even starts? we're the deadliest things in the world, f***in bombs and beating hearts.

and it just feels so right. how could it ever be wrong? and she and i we share a kiss as we light our fire bombs. and ill raise it to the sky and it's here in front of me. it can kill you or it can set you free!"

"Love is Freedom", Bombs and Beating Hearts, SLC. 

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Twilight and Beauty,
Salome

your welcome love, however I dont trust that place I bought the tickets from & am going to be nervous untill the tickets are in our hands. but here's hoping. LUVZ!