Gods damn enterwebs

I have been spending way to much tim on the internet (enterwebs as my friends call it) due to being bored, with out a car and snowed into my house over the past week. I have discovered the addictivness of such sits as FML, Texts from Last Night, Fail Blog, and Post Secret. Grrrrr for boredom...FML!!

Daemonia Nymphe

Well I am home now for winter break. I wanted to post pictures of my drive home, because we drove along the river that I grew up playing in...but never have seen it really in winter, or at least not this late into the season because of the road conditions tend to be rather dangerous, however this year has been extreamly cold but very very dry...no snow yet which is very crazy. So I got to see the river and the ice dams that build up this time of year. Anyways I will post pictures as soon as I get them off my phone.

Well I wanted to do another music post...maybe my last post was also music but I don't remember, anyways, this is about Daemonia Nymphe which has come to be one of my favorite pagan bands, and favorite ritual music. They sing in greek song about the ancient gods and so on, with a little bit of a modern twist in some song, but in others they play traditional greek instruments. Well here are some of their songs, because I feel like sharing their awesomeness lol. Anyways will do another post later.

First Look...Maybe

So I am applying to be a member of lookbook.nu which is a fashion website, that you have to be invited to join or apply for. Well one of the things you have to do to be accepted is show them what you will post as your first "look" or outfit. So here is is.

I have no idea if this is going to be good to get me in but I am going to try.

None-Western Art

this is something that I have meaning to blog about for a long time but never gotten around to it. But this quarter I have been taking a none-western art history class. I have found it extremely interesting, because I really didn't know much about the cultures and art of the areas that where covered. We covered Africa, Middle East, India, China, Japan, Early south America and north America, New Zealand and Easter Island. One of the most remarkable things I learned in that class however had to do with me. I consider my self to be a rather liberal person with very few judgments about a particular people...well this class really tested that, because I realised how I had been viewing most of these people with the social connotation of the word "primitive" *see number five below*

(-adjective: 1.being the first or earliest of the kind or in existence, esp. in an early age of the world: primitive forms of life. 2. early in the history of the world or of humankind. 3. characteristic of early ages or of an early state of human development: primitive toolmaking. 4. Anthropology. of or pertaining to a preliterate or tribal people having cultural or physical similarities with their early ancestors: no longer in technical use. 5. unaffected or little affected by civilizing influences; uncivilized; savage: primitive passions. 6. being in its earliest period; early: the primitive phase of the history of a town. 7. old-fashioned: primitive ideas and habits. 8. simple; unsophisticated: a primitive farm implement. 9. crude; unrefined: primitive living conditions.)

Don't get me wrong, i did not feel that this was a bad thing, I just however saw them as being not as civilized, controlled and sophisticated a society as the Europeans.

However these peoples ideas, concepts and ways or life where amazing and so interesting and in many cases much more civil then Europeans of their time. I had no concepts of the massive African empires or the sophistication of the Chinese philosophy. I found elements in each of these cultures that kinda drew me in...not only on a academic level but more on that spiritual level as well. I thought that it was really amazing, and I think of all my other classes that I most likely learned the most in my art history class. Anyways, just thought that I would share that.

Florence and the Machine

Ok so I really feel like sharing my favorite band with you all...so is so awesome and I love her. (and I heard a rumor that she may be pagan....however that is just a rumor that I picked up some where and I can't find any info to back it, so it's most likly not true)

you should really watch this vid its my favorite, but I can't embed it...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpLXQorSQe8

and this one too...I love these songs so much!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nxO-yPQesA

Holy Hell

In the normal world $287.39 could of been a new wardrobe, designer clothing, computer, cell phone, ps3, or about three months of spending money for food and such...

However because I am a college student
$287.39 = 11 texts books for THREE classes.
6 of which where under ten dollars, and ten where used...Holy Hell

well I now have copies of...

The Bhagavad Gita (a classic of indian spirituality)
The Dhammapada (another classic of indian spirituality)
The Holy Bible
The Koran
The Upanishads (yet another classic of indian spirituality)
Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching
Confucius: The Analects

All of which are for my sacred texts of the world class...which should be pretty interesting.

Anyways I find it kinda depressing specially when I only got $40 from buy backs this quarter...damn textbooks

"My boy builds Coffins" Tee-Shirt

A tee-shirt design I made inspired by a song by one of my favorite bands, Florence and the Machine, called "My boy builds coffins." Turned out more halloweeny then I wanted it too, I think if I do this design again I need to do something other then orange and pink in the middle.