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Fri, Jan. 2nd, 2009, 09:57 pm
U2 Geekiness

I was a HUGE U2 geek in high school and college. I specifically love the first three albums the most, which is why I am so thrille dthat they have been re-released with bonus CD's of live tracks and lost demos and such. 

Headed to best buy tommorrow.  
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Tue, Dec. 30th, 2008, 10:15 pm
To Jim on New Years Eve

 Dear Jim,

It’s been nearly a year now since you left. I started the year attending your funeral, and I am ending it by preparing myself to be the father of twins. At least the plot of the year went from death to life, rather than the other way around. We didn’t find your LJ post that described your ideal funeral until it was too late. Probably couldn’t have arranged to prop your body up in the corner and make your corpse try to bite people anyway. Not that we didn’t break a few laws together while you were alive mind you…

I wish I could have called you about the news of the twins. I wish you were here for a lot of stuff this year. The Iron Man movie was awesome and Dark Knight was just equally good. You know we would have seen at least one of those together and I couldn’t help but feel your ghost as I saw each one. I finally got a video game system too. Cant help but think we would have had a good time boxing Avatars of our friends on the Wii.  

I finished my second book, Strategic Sorcery. It is exactly what we discussed that night with Ed at the Inkwell a few years ago. I finally was able to get it down on paper. I hope people like it. You won’t get to read it, so I dedicated it to your memory.

I’ll be sure to offer you a drink and play Lay Me Low on the 25th of January. Wish you could be here to raise a glass to 2009 with us. Happy New Year anyway.

Jason

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Thu, Dec. 4th, 2008, 10:24 pm
Prop 8 the Musical


 
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Thu, Nov. 27th, 2008, 11:34 am
The parade was rick rolled

They rickrolled the Thanksgiving day parade.  
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Sun, Nov. 9th, 2008, 11:29 am
Need prop 8 info

Quick question for anyone who follows this more closely than I.

Did the same sex marriage laws in California open religious institutions up to law suits for refusing to perform same sex marriages?

I met seveal people who insisted that it did.

If so, than I understand why Prop 8 passed.

If not, than when the case progresses to become an amendment, which I hope it will, than this idea needs to be dispelled in no uncertain terms because it was used to get a lot of reasonable people to vote in a way that they probably would not have. 
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Tue, Nov. 4th, 2008, 12:39 am
OBAMA WON !!

 Holy Crap!

Obama swept Dixville Notch! 

Even I wasnt expecting that. 

I hope its an omen of things to come. 
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Fri, Oct. 17th, 2008, 01:20 am
Halloween Mix

 Halloween Mix Thus Far. 


Anyone have anything great to add?


 

1.      Shes the Witch                              The Somics

2.      Little Ghost                                   The White Stripes

3.      Hoodoo Voodoo                           Wilco

4.      Ghost of a Texas Ladies Man       Concrete Blond

5.      The Boogie Monster                     Gnarles Barkley

6.      Sam Jones                                     Richard Thompson

7.      Pretend Were Dead                      L7

8.      Teenage Werewolf                        The Cramps

9.      Who do you Love                         John Lee Hooker

10.  Turkish Song of the Dammed       The Pogues

11.  Spooky                                          Some cover of it

12.  Season of the Witch                      Donovan

13.  Red Right Hand                           Nic Cave

14.  Got My Mojo Working                 Muddy Waters

15.  All You Zombies                          The Hooters

16.  Darling Corey                               Red Molly

17.  Ghost Riders in the Sky                Johnny Cash

18.  Pet Semetary                                 Ramones

19.  Necromancer                                 Gnarles Barkley

20.  Sort of Haunted House                 Too Much Joy

21.  Walking with a Ghost                   Tegan and Sara

22.  Hold on, Hold on                          Neko Case

23.  Mystify                                         INXS

24.  Death in the Morning                    Traditional

25.  Scary Monsters                             David Bowie

26.  Every Day is Halloween               Ministry

27.  Dead Mans Party                          Oingo Boingo

28.  Demons                                        

29.  Haunted                                        Poe

30.  If I Were Going                            Afghan Whigs

31.  Dead Sound                                  Raveonettes

32.  Bela Lugosi’s Dead                      Bauhaus

33.  Mad Tom of Bedlam                    Jolie Holland

34.  Devils Haircut                               Beck

35.  Reptile                                           The Church

36.  Bloodletting                                  Concrete Blond

37.  The Hanging Garden                    The Cure

38.  Boning in the Boneyard                Fishbone

39.  I Aint Superstitious                       Howlin Wolf

40.  Devil Inside                                  INXS

41.  The Future                                     Leonard Cohen

42.  Dr Heckyll & Mr Jive                   Men At Work

43.  Don’t Fear the Reaper                  Blue Oyster Cult

44.  A Nightmare on my Street            DJ Jazzy Jeff and Fresh Prince

45.  No One Lives Forever                  Oingo Boingo

46.  Somebodys Watching Me             Rockwell

47.  Peek-A-Boo                                  Souxsie and the Banshees

48.  Superstition                                   Stevie Wonder

49.  Werewolves of London                Warren Zevon

50.  Another One Bites the Dust         Queen

51.  You Want the Candy                    Raveonettes

52.  My Wife and My Dead Wife       Robyn Hitchcock

53.  That Old Black Magic                  Sammy Davis Jr

54.  Stretched Out on Your Grave      Sinead O’Connor

55.  This Corrosion                               Sisters of Mercy

56.  Nemesis                                         Shriekback

57.  Hell                                               Squirrel But Zippers

58.  I Summon You                             Spoon

59.  Psycho Killer                                 Talking Heads

60.  Armageddon Days                        The The

61.  Where Your Eyes Don’t Go         They Might Be Giants

62.  Dead Soul                                     Nine Inch Nails

63.  The Wicked Witch is Dead           

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Thu, Oct. 9th, 2008, 11:38 pm
SNL Thrusday special

With all the news about Tina Fey's impersonation of Sarah Palin there have probably been a lot of people that abandoned the show thinking about staying up on Saturday night to give it another chance.

It was really nice of SNL to do a prime time special to let people know that its just as lame as it usually is, and there really isnt any reason to watch.  
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Mon, Sep. 29th, 2008, 03:29 pm
F.U, Pelosi

The bailout really bothers me. The very fact we need it at all. But I have come to believe that we do need it. I could be wrong. I'm not an economist. Of course, the economists dont really know either, but this is thier best guess. 

And it IS primarily the republicans fault. Deregulation of Free Markets and all that. 

BUT

TODAY WAS NOT THE TIME TO POINT THAT OUT!

You work all week to get enough frickin republicans to vote your way, and than before the big vote you make a big speech reminding everyone that its their fault!?

What did you THINK was gonna happen? 

There is plenty of time to cast blame AFTER the bill is passed. 
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Thu, Sep. 4th, 2008, 06:43 pm
Wii games

Howdy folks.

I am getting a Wii. I know I know its not as cool as a PS3, but honestly, my last gaming system was a sega genesis, so I really dont need a gemrs gaming system.

Now here are some games I am thinking about picking up. Please advise if you have played any of them on the Wii and found taht they suck.  Let me know if any of them are so awsome that I have to get them first

Mortal Kombat (whatever the latet one is)
Star Wars Foce Unleashed
Resident Evil 4
Okami
No More Heroes
Legend of Zelda (whatever the new one is.)
Metroid Prime 3
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Mon, Aug. 11th, 2008, 06:42 pm
Strategic Sorcery on LJ

Many thanks to [info]perruche_verte for setting up an RSS feed to Strategic Sorcery on LJ 

http://syndicated.livejournal.com/strategicsorcry/

You rock my friend.
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Mon, Aug. 11th, 2008, 03:34 pm
Pretenders still got it

Its nice to see that the Pretenders can still rock out.

BOOTS OF CHINESE PLASTIC

http://www.spinner.com/2008/07/22/pretenders-boots-of-chinese-plastic-free-mp3/

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Sat, Aug. 9th, 2008, 09:58 pm
Swedenborg = Buddha ??

 http://newchurchhistory.org/funfacts/?p=205#more-205

An interesting article: Emmanual Swedenborg, The Buddha of the North.
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Thu, Aug. 7th, 2008, 07:45 pm
COVER OF THE NEW BOOK

Here is the cover of the new book. As an added bonus, they decided to do a new edition of Protection and Reversal Magick with a new and swankier cover that is also pretty awsome, but which I cannot post yet.




 
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Tue, Aug. 5th, 2008, 08:42 pm
Strategic Sorcery Blog

Just a reminder that all my almost all my posts on magick are now being made at:



I am reserving the LJ for personal posts and random thoughts. I dont have a paid account, so I can't RSS feed it here and I just dont have it in me to copy and post everything, because I am posting there almost every day in an effort to break up writers block as I work on my new book. 

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Mon, Jul. 28th, 2008, 11:40 am
Fleet Foxes

New favorite Album of the moment: FLEET FOXES

It like CSN meets Nick Drake


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Mon, Jul. 28th, 2008, 09:27 am
Habanero Omlette

I made myself an omlette with some of the habanero cheddar I picked up at Sugarbush farms inside. 

I am sweating fucking buttlets! But oh, it was so good.

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Thu, Jul. 24th, 2008, 09:08 pm
Lon Milo DuQuette

I have never met or conversed with DuQuette. He has my respect as a writer: he is clear and entertaining, and has an excellent way of explained even the most complex subjects. I respect him also as a magician. He clearly does the magick he writes about, and that alone is worthy of respect. I do however disagree with his views on the nature of spirits and the importance of materials. I always have.
 
I am reading his latest book “Enochian Vision Magick” and enjoying it immensely. He does however push his view quite strongly. Some quotes from the current work:
 
“The only real changes I can effect with magick are changes within myself”
“Its all in your head, you just have no idea how big your head is”
“If you can’t make the magick ring out of paper, you can’t make it out of gold”
“In the art of magick, the magician must behave (at least for the duration of the operation) that the spirits are independent intelligences and have objective existence in a dimension outside of his or her own mind.”
 
In this book he is joining in with the scads of magicians that are looking back past the GD/Crowley lens that has affected most magick for the last 100 years, and presenting the system as it was received by Dee and Kelly, ditching much of the material that they stuck onto it, and taking seriously the parts that Mathers and Crowley ignored.  He does this, he assures us, because it will help get you psychologically inserted into the system, not because any of it is inherently important.
 
The thing is, that I don’t think even he believes this anymore. I think that because he is a good experimental magician, that he took a look at the material that Christeos Pir sent him, and the info contained in Petersons book and began to work with it. Work with it and find that it works better than the GD/Crowley stuff. I think, and I may be way off base here, that it disturbed him to find it so. He almost hints at this himself when he talks about challenging his own motto “Don’t try to duplicate the magick Dee and Kelley used to receive the system, just use the system they received!”
 
Throughout the book he seems distinctly uncomfortable when he has to advise the reader to dig a little deeper into the view that Dee and Kelley actually held about magick and religion. He seems VERY uncomfortable in advising people to pray. I think he is pushing his “mind-only” view very hard in this book because of it. God forbid that we accept that the angels actually advised the ring be made of gold for a reason. No, it must work just as well out of paper because that is the theory. Gold doesn’t have any special magickal properties at all. Nope, Nothing to see here..,

In my experience, if it works it works. If it doesnt it doesnt. Belief has surprisingly little to do with magick. Enochian works because its REAL, not because its easy to believe in. Recently someone asked Dr Kioni whether they could use a spell that required a Christian prayer even though he wasnt a believer. I loved his answer: "The name of Christ commands all the angels in heaven and earth. It doesnt matter whether you believe that or not. It just does..."  Opere Ex Operato baby.
 
Don’t get me wrong. I think the book is awesome, and possibly the best I have ever read on the subject. I admit to not having picked up Enochiana for almost 8 years, but there was a time when I was quite involved with it. The name Inominandum was given to me by an angel during an Enochian scrying session. When I did work with it, the more I cut out a lot of the GD protocols like drawn pentagrams and such and just used the calls and other prayers, the better I did with it. I wish I had this book then and am tempted to set aside a year or so in the future to re-visit the system. 

Its a great book. I am just amused at teh legths that DuQuette is going to in order to keep his psychological viewpoint.
 
I will be writing a review of the book for Behutet when I finish it, but just wanted to share these thoughts.
 
 
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Thu, Jul. 24th, 2008, 06:56 pm
Standing Corrected

Re: my last post Substantive. 

I Stand Corrected. 

Thanks for the info guys.

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Wed, Jul. 23rd, 2008, 06:43 pm
SUBSTANTIAL

What the fuck ever happened to the word SUBSTANTIAL? Why is everything now SUBSTANTIVE? 

Howabout saying "Barak Obama made a substantial policy speech today?"

"Substantive" is just a tortured sounding word that makes you sound like a 19 year old trying too hard to throw SAT words around to make himself seem smart.

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