Sexual Conservatism and Other Stuff...

Thing the First:
Blaqk Audio doesn't suck. (Which, granted, doesn't surprise me). It actually reminds a bit of Depeche Mode in flavour. Depeche Mode that's been, um, remixed over a somewhat VNV-Nation-esque dance-beat.
I like 'em. :-)
So if you like Depeche Mode or VNV Nation (or AFI, for that matter, since it's Jade and Davey doing this project) you should check them out. :-)
"Bitter For Sweet" and "Wake Up, Open the Door, and Escape to the Sea" are pretty tracks, the latter, in particular, has a lovely melancholy going on. Very pretty. :-)
"Mute" is cute and fairly dance-floor friendly (it's got handy, random slow bits between the super-fast bits, which lends a nice mix to the piece).


Thing the Second:
I received my copy of Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth in the mail yesterday! Woohoo! :-D It is very cool, for all that it has a lot of biblical references. I think it makes a good companion book to Glenys Livingstone's PaGaian Cosmology book. :-)


Thing the Third:
Pagaian Cosmology is, thus far, turning out to be quite good. Granted, I'm only on the first chapter. But it's looking like it'll keep going with the coolness. It's about embodied, nested cosmology wherein cells-we-ecosystem-earth-solar!system-galaxy-universe are are one thing. It combines Pagan cosmology with stuff like the Gaia Hypothesis and quantum physics and other hard-science theories of how the universe Is, and came to be the way it is.


Thing the Fourth:
One Tenacious Baby Mama is a very nifty site.
I find myself wondering why I don't feel attacked when I'm reading it.
As in: Is it because she's talking 'nice' - pulling a lot of punches when she doesn't have to, that sort of thing - or is it because she's talking about sexual conservatism (an area where I can recognize my own issues, even if I can't do so well enough to name them) rather than any of the other Isms wherein I am privileged and she is not.
I haven't figured it out yet, but I'd like to.
I like how, at the beginning, she goes through all the other Isms that she has to deal with, in one way or another, and how they relate to sexual conservatism.

So...
I'm bisexual. But I don't look it. (Not that I know what we 'look' like, I grant you).
I am (a cis woman) married, monogamously, to a (cis) man. As such, I pretty-much read as het.
I enjoy sex outside, but I've only done it once, in a place that was fairly unpopulated.
The thought of being sexually available scares the fuck out of me. (Ha. Literally).
I don't make my living as a sex/skin worker.
While I write buckets of porn/erotica, I haven't published any and, were I to successfully do so, it would be under a pseudonym (so far).
I pretty much fit the bill for sexual conservatism.
(The things you learn in a day...)


Thing the Fifth:
Watch the You-Tube Clip
The woman doing this spoken word piece is both awesome and scary.
Yes, I said scary.
She is awesome and scary in the same way, I think, that Angela Gossow is awesome and scary. As in she is a woman who is being loud and aggressive and not-back-downish in a world where Women Aren't Supposed to Do That.


Thing the Sixth:
Somewhere in my brain, there is a post about Women in Metal. It will get written eventually. This is more or less a note to myself to Think About That for a while. :-)


And now, off to choir. :-)


- TTFN,
- Amazon. :-)

Things and Stuff, Concerning (sort of) Home Imrovement and Jewelery...

Choir went well.
Thank goodness.

And I don't screw up as much as I thought I did, so yay! :-)


After choir, I dropped into the Sassy Bead on Bank (which is right near where we do our rehearsals) and was able to make some exchanges.

What I brought back:
- Strand of mahogany obsidian chunks (left over from Explodingrunes' hammer necklace - which he liked, woohoo!)
- Strand of dark green jade balls _ strand of yellow onyx balls (too big for the pride necklace I had in mind - the balls I'd have been using for the other colours are smaller, and significantly cheaper, so I decided to say 'screw it' and get something else. I kept the red ones, though, which I have two strands of, for my 'Blood Countess' collar. Which should be quite snazzy. Hematite, or (possibly) onyx, will be the contrasting colour). :-)


What I got in exchange (+ an extra six cents):
- (much shorter) strand of snowflake obsidian (regular cut, not irregular chunks)
- another strand of red fossil (for the Blood Countess collar)
- a package of 5 silver/nickel magnetic clasps
- 26 small nickel balls
- A cowrie shell set in silver - very pretty and quasi ornate. Will likely become the center-piece of a nickel-&-shell!chips (and possibly pearls) princess necklace. It's really pretty, and I like it. :-)

the snowflake obsidian + about 14 of the nickel balls (plus a wodge of my hematite balls) + some of my grey Sculpey will become the "Frost Hammer" necklace -- I'm inclined towards donating this one to Gaia Gathering, for use as a door prize or a fund-raising piece or something.[1]



After that, I came home and ate. And watched "The Matrix". :-)
<*insert squeeing about Belinda here*>


To do with the rest of my evening:

Finish Dealing (however temporarily) with The Bedroom.
(Seriously. I just sorted and folded all of Paul clean clothes, for ease of moving out of the way? So many of his clothes are coloured for his office job - sage/beige/white - and so few are coloured for his skin tone... He needs blood-ruby-wine-garnet-cherry-crimson-burgundy reds. He has tomato/scarlet reds. He needs malachite/emerald greens and he has sage/olive greens. I feel this sudden urge to go shopping. For my husband. This might or might not be good. :-\ )

Anyway. His clothes are all on the client bed in the office now. Now to tidy up the rest of the stuff. (There's a lot of Stuff to deal with... Good golly...). Wish me luck! :-)


After I'm done with that, though, I get to have a nice long bath, with a book (not sure which, yet) and chocolate-mint bath milk. :-) Woohoo! :-D May re-dye my hair tonight, too. Not sure yet. :-)


And now for something completely different: A Meme. (Oh, the sarcasm...)

Or at least the results of a meme. This is what I got for the album cover meme that I ganked from Ami_B:

( Third Crusade presents... )

You can thank Nelson Mandela for the spectacular album title, by the way. :-)


According to the "Random-Wiki Album Generator Meme", ( these are the songs: )

Anyway. That is all. Now I must go and do more bedroom-prep. :-)


- TTFN,
- Amazon. :-)


[1] Note to Self: When next at Michael's, pick up:
- Hematite balls
- Shell chips (white/un-dyed)
- Citrine chips
- irregular pearls (un-dyed)
- Turquoise balls (maybe)
- Tiny onyx balls
- Fancy jasper chips
- Red jasper balls
- Shell balls OR tiny cowrie shell beads.

I need to figure out how to make my little Sculpey Goddess figures. :-)