Can't... see... where I'm going..... Maybe if I sit still I'll look wise
Young Menad as The Raven
drawn Feb 2, 2008
posted July 27, 2009
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This is Menad, the second of Zela’s sons, as a boy, in what might be called a ‘school play’. Except they didn’t really have ‘schools’. A ‘youth play’, perhaps. He’s being the wise and sage character, The Raven. That’s why his hair is all around his head like a big poofy shiny black ball. This was inspired by a dream I had.
Speaking of dreams, I had one this morning… it went on for quite a while. The upshot of it all was that Flairé has informed me that his brother Marteth actually got married. Who knew? He was probably the last lad I would suspect to be a husband (and father – and grandfather!! O_O7 – that was part of it too). He could still be kidding. I’m not sure yet. But it was a gripping tale nonetheless. Although I’m not sure about the part with the chainsaw and goblins. Or the headless woman who tried to kill the heroine. Or the planets as small as the geodesic dome at the Montreal Expo (not that I’ve been) with blue oceans and lush grass and yellow sand and an accompanying ring of cat-food-shaped asteroids, or the RV that turned into a high-tech mansion, or the random Wheezing Pokémon that just randomly showed up around some cute kid and saved him from depressurization in space although he had to hold his breath in case he died of poison instead. But Marteth had a green cloak and was very dashing in it. Although it fell off when he went rushing to the rescue.
New chapter of Rekka no Ken: Vol. 1: The Tactician and the Heiress. It’s called Vortex of Strategy, after one of the game’s chapters. We meet the (un-Mary-Sue’d) Salir at long last, and more importantly, some real villains. Who promptly die and are forgotten for fifteen chapters after that. Just so you know. But they come back. Just so you know.
Finished watching the Tour de France today. It was epic!!! Those guys are just incredible. I shall read the other TdF book we have, 1965-2007, and watch the 2008 race we have taped on VHS, and watch the 2007 race we have on DVD. Whoohoo!
Great thunderstorm Saturday night. Beautiful beautiful sunset. Yesterday played the third movement of the Denis Bedard Mass-organ-parts-thingy (I forget the name, but it’s a great work) as a prelude to my second church, and the Carillon-Sortie by Mulet as a postlude. It went well; I left out some notes on purpose, but I didn’t falter which is important as it’s rather note-heavy. When my friends came over in the evening I found a recording on Classical Music Library online and it was about three Mach faster than mine. Which is fantastic (and discouraging) except that their registration was a bit mixture-heavy and it was hard to hear the main lines at all.
Oh yeah, so friends who came over! It was great fun; we listened to music and talked about music and played music and also watched Hardware Wars and Disco Star Wars but mostly it was other stuff. I want school now. Except I need to sign up for my last course. What counts as a third year history course? : P
