prana

Indecision sucks! I've been paralyzed by that for years. It would seem that I'm getting somewhere finally now. We'll see.

About the Puppy song, I know what you mean, I think it's quite good for a movie but not as good as we can expect from them. I don't know if it's Marc Walk's fault but I already don't like oGhr much, I hope he's not going to spoil the next SP...!

I've discovered a new "band" (I think the guy is alone)recently, it's called Dsormais and there's 2 albums, "Climate Variations" and "Iambrokenandremadeiambroken". I've been listening to "Climate Variations nonstop, it's impressively fantastic, in the same spirit as zoviet france, o yuki conjugate, etc... You HAVE TO listen to it.
It's a beauty!

Try to take it easy anyway

K

Hey, man, what the heck is going on in your life? That journal entry doesn't sound so good. Have you got school, a place to live yet, your mum's doing better? I hope you're alright.

So, what do you think about that SP song?

And you're right, you have to enjoy every chance to have fun because worries expand tenfold when you grow old and fun is harder and harder to get... I am always amazed when I look around me when I'm in clubs/pubs or at gigs. It seems that the people between 25 & 35 have all disappeared, like you're not supposed to live once you're in that faithful age bracket...
Most of them are now at home with kids or family, busy forgetting they once were young and non-caring.

There is no way it's going to happen to me anytime soon... Most of my friends grow old fast around me and it's a daily remember of how I DON'T want to become, ever. Party on my friend!

K

Sounds like you had a smashing time. Good for you. I start school myself in 2 weeks. Keep on, keeping on.

Hey P

I hope things are looking up for you! Any exciting plans for the "virtual" new year that begins (September) ?
I plan to start Tai-Chi because it's been a long, long time since I've started to think that's the only way to calm me down and give me peace of mind (I'm done with alcohol and the whole self-destruction thing, too many years wasted). Also planning to finally start & learn Italian... will see...

Great news:
The first official new Skinny Puppy song in about 10 years, "Optimissed" is featured on the soundtrack of the "Underworld" film, to be released on Sept 3 if I remember well. OK, I couldn't wait and I've got the song from the net. It's brilliant, though I was surprised at first. It's very fitting for a film I think, but not really Puppy-like (or old puppy). But cEvin Key said it was going to be reworked and put on the forthcoming album...

Take care mate

K

I am sorry to hear that.

Best Wishes my friend.

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Interesting idea about keeping records of symbols, but somebody got to it about 80 years before I did. His name is Carl Jung.

And of course there is a broad range of books of dreams and mythology to browse.

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On a related note, I got told by a psychic that one of my gifts is a strong connection to Archetypes.

I still haven't figured out what that means.

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Be Well.

Yep, sorry to hear that too, it's always hard to let people go when they've brought Light in your life. Hopefully he's now in a better place.

I hope you're OK and will leave you with this: (it's translated from French, so it doesn't sound that good but I think it's worth stating here, as you've been through a lot these last months)

"The bigger the misfortune, the braver it is to live"



K

Sorry you didn't get to go to APC. If it makes you feel any better, the tour dates came out maybe 2 weeks before the first show, so lots of people didn't know. I didn't even know til I saw an ad in the Phoenix and then it was too late to get tickets from Ticketmaster-off to eBay I went. I must say though, I do not feel my money was wasted. The show on Sunday was amazing and I loved the new songs they played. There are live mp3s floating about if you'd like to hear some new stuff. Also- Maynard has been calling this tour a "soundcheck" or a "warmup", and said on Sunday that they'll be touring again right after Thirteenth Step is released next month. I assume it'll be a bigger tour (that is, bigger venues) so maybe we'll both get to see APC for a humane price

Sorry to hear things aren't going too well, but... as trite as it sounds some text said "This, too, shall pass." Perseverance is a virtue. In time, if you're a feeling person, you'll begin to remember what emotions are and what a grand variety there is. I've found that as hard as it can be for me to deal with the hard times in life, they do make the good ones much sweeter. Unless I'm feeling down and then it just makes them bitter-sweet.

Wierd, I think you just related I Ching to the Tarot for me. Same deal: no 'real' answers, it doesn't tell you what to do, but rather it tells you the general sense of what has, is, or shall happen so that your choices may be better guided. For a simplistic example: if you were to draw a card which had as one meaning the entering of a difficult phase of life, it wouldn't be there to say your life will get difficult so much as to suggest that life gets that way sometimes. Further it would probably suggest any number of actions: passivity, let the difficulties pass, action: work to make them pass, solace: take heart in knowing they will pass eventually, etc.

I'm glad I helped you get excited about school again.

It's always a chance to make things better and meet new people.

Been awhile since I heard a peep from ya, so I thought I'd just pop in with a check to see if you're doing alright. You are, right?

god what's with all this martial arts thing that's impossible to pronounce?

scary sounds good

K

hey i live in b-town, ecch i hate dealing with land lords, i'm being screwed by my roomate whom is backing out of moving in and screwing me on the lease, i need soeone to live with for a year staring july 30th

Hi, prana. Lemme know if you get my email. NEW tape swap...and yes, this one WILL take place. Good luck to you on the home front.

Gotta check the ohGr stuff then! Seen the vid (without sound... at work) and I am curious. But I was very much disappointed by the Welt album and Ritalin wasn't exactly brilliant either. Such a waste to have Nivek Ogre waste his inimitable voice this way. That's why I can't wait for the new SP, because cEvin Key & him are unique. "Frozen Sky" is one of the best songs ever, eventhough it's not officially labelled SP... it is 100%

'hope you're good,

K