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Rath, the Ghost of the Navigator's InsaneJournal:
| Friday, January 22nd, 2010 | |
| 6:13 am | Story, anybody? I know I already did my creative writing for the night, those of you on that filter, but here's a bonus! Slightly context-shifted version of a story that I heard from Adene telling it to Naïs, and adapted to tell to ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} raisedbymoogles for a bedtime story, and she said I ought to post it. So here you go. A fairy tale, of sorts. *s*--- ( The Prince of Hearts and the Three Wishes ) --- Laters, Rath Current Mood:  thoughtfulCurrent Music: Belinda Carlisle, Summer Rain |
| Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 | |
| 4:11 pm | This IS the song that never ends, apparently. I love doing things that there is no possible reason to do, just for the sheer sake of it. Which may be why I'm currently attempting to find all the verses of Leonard Cohen's "A Thousand Kisses Deep". This is... not a minor challenge, since it appears that he changes them out almost, if not every, time he performs it. The actual recorded song version is beautiful, but there are so many more! I'm currently on 34 verses, some of which are variants of each other, but I can't possibly be anywhere near the end. ( This version, though, is my favourite so far. ) "A light that doesn't need to live, / And doesn't need to die..."? Yes, you're damn right I've got something in my eye. *s* Laters, The Navigator Current Mood: enrapturedCurrent Music: ...yes, obviously. |
| Sunday, December 13th, 2009 | |
| 3:21 pm | Six things post! Because I feel like it. Six things that have made me happy today! 1. Superdrug's Moroccan shower gel. It actually smells of desert sand and warm stone and sweet spices, and if I close my eyes and sniff I am instantly mentally teleported to somewhere that's all red and golden and sunlight and silk and sand, and it is absolutely delicious. I need to go and find out what else they do in the same range. 2. Koi is currently playing W.A.S.P.'s The Headless Children album, which I haven't heard in some time and had forgotten how much I unreservedly love. It was the first W.A.S.P. album I ever bought, on battered vinyl fished out of a discount box in one of teenage!Rath's local record stores; I had no idea what to expect from it, but I was grabbed by the sinister barbed wire and flame-wreathed skull on the cover, so. Turned out to be one of the best purchases I ever made, and pretty much set my taste in W.A.S.P. albums for the rest of time. I'll always love them best when they sound like they did here, perfectly balanced between feral rock'n'roll and a viciously sharp awareness of the world around them, dripping blood and spitting fire to disguse the lifetime's worth of pain and hunger that you can hear lurking somewhere just beneath the surface of those shredding jet-black riffs and screaming leads. I know the world of metal will be arguing about the respective merits of W.A.S.P.'s different aspects until the end of all things, but for me, they were fucking perfect right here. ♥ 3. I have an epic heap of spiritual-creative inspiration, thanks to Koi telling me stuff about the Slaaneshi cult that lives on one of its headworlds. I now want to do vast amounts of embroidery. And I will, as well, if Koi draws me the pictures I need so I can turn them into patterns... 4. I am also struggling to stop giggling, on account of said headworld also containing a lot of folk tales that Koi has been telling me. Some of them filthier than others: "I'll cut off your head!" "I haven't got a head!" "Then I'll cut off your arms!" "I haven't got any arms!" "Then what have you got?" "KNOBS!" ...you want an explanation? You'll have to wait till I stop laughing. ^_^ 5. These little guys, who have taken over my life since I got them on account of being so cute I literally can hardly bring myself to put them down. I am wrapped around their little furry fingers, seriously, I tell you. ♥ And we have all kinds of plans up our sleeves... well, my sleeves, anyway, since, y'know, neither of them have any... 6. I have pink rhinestones on my trousers. No, really, I ACTUALLY DO. Okay, okay, that's enough. Time to work... *scrams* Love, Rath Current Mood:  happyCurrent Music: W.A.S.P., Lake of Fools |
| Saturday, December 5th, 2009 | |
| 2:48 pm | Joy It's a beautiful day in Whitby today. ( Read more... ) Basically, I am really, really happy. Just wanted to mention it. ^_^ Laters, The Navigator Current Mood: highCurrent Music: Ensiferum, Wanderer |
| Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 | |
| 10:09 pm | Anyone want some Transformers? This is a crosspost from my LJ. Would anyone like any of Koi's old TFs what it is selling? Cheers, Rath Current Mood:  busyCurrent Music: Something Koi's listening to. |
| Monday, November 30th, 2009 | |
| 12:28 am | Apparently you should record your successes. I'm bored of To Do lists. So, since I feel the need of a morale boost, here instead is a Done List for this weekend! ( Achievement under here. ) And tomorrow's list of things I am going to do (as opposed to "should" do, I'm sick of giving myself orders): ( Going To Do list! ) That ought to do it... Laters, The Navigator Current Mood: accomplishedCurrent Music: Jetstream Lovers, If I Was Hit By A Meteor |
| Sunday, November 29th, 2009 | |
| 3:19 pm | Wait, I have more things to say! Who wants a Winterthing card? Since a few other people are doing this... If you would like a nondenominational Winterthing card from me, up here in Whitby, UK: please leave your address below and I will send you one! That is all, have a nice day. :) Love, Rath (Comments screened, so you can leave your address in safety!) Current Mood: excitedCurrent Music: It's STILL raining |
| 3:15 pm | Christmas wishlist meme! Crossposted from LJ in the hope that everyone on here will do it too. Okay, it's nearly December, so I figured it's time to trot this out! This meme was huge on LJ a few years ago, but I haven't seen much of it yet this year, so I figured I'd push it out there (that's your cue, guys, do the meme! I wanna get you all stuff!) So, my Winterthing wishlist: ( The Rules. ) ( And my list, which goes up to 11 because all things that are told to go up to 10 should do so: ) There we are. Some sensible stuff, some ridiculous stuff, some insanely expensive stuff but hey, it did say wish for whatever you really wanted... ^_^ Laters, Rath x PS I also wish I knew what to get all my friends, so I reiterate: everyone, please, steal this meme! <3 PPS If anyone does need to contact me, as per the rules, kit_scorah@yahoo.com is the address that I don't mind putting on unlocked posts. :) Current Mood:  festiveCurrent Music: Still just the rain |
| Saturday, November 14th, 2009 | |
| 11:34 pm | I'm back and I've brought a six things post! Okay, I have SO run out of money now, but life? Life is GOOD. ( Six things that have made me happy this week! ) So yes, that's what I'm currently being happy about. I hope you guys are all good, too. *attempts to hand around the happy in case anyone would like some* Laters, Rath Current Mood: busyCurrent Music: Yngwie Malmsteen, Cry No More |
| Saturday, October 31st, 2009 | |
| 1:57 pm | And today, I get two festivals for the price of one. Happy Hallowe'en, to those of you who celebrate it; Samhain blessings, to those of you celebrating that instead. To those of you who, like me, see no harm in doing both, best wishes twice over and I hope you're all having a lovely time. ♥♥♥ Right, now to go and watch classic cars, play with bats and eat candy, I think... Love, The Navigator PS Justin's chocolatiers are doing GREEN TOFFEE APPLES. O_O I thought you should all know that. Current Mood: hopefulCurrent Music: Curtis Stigers, The Man You're Gonna Fall In Love With |
| Monday, October 12th, 2009 | |
| 11:00 pm | Perfume! ZOMG, Slaanesh loves me, seriously. You guys will not believe this... A couple of years ago, I got a custom scent made for me by S'Amuser perfumers in Cambridge. It was basically perfect on me, the only scent ever to be so - all vanilla and amber and molten gold, and I adored it. Unfortunately, being all-natural, it eventually died on me... and S'Amuser closed down a while back. I thought I'd never have it again. I managed to find their email address, back in June, and sent them an email. The email bounced, or seemed to. I figured they'd gone out of business and that was going to be the end of it. Much quiet mourning ensued. Only tonight I just got an email from someone at the company, apologising for her mailbox having mislaid some of her mail! And she has all the supplies! And she's willing to make me up a custom batch just because I was dedicated enough to chase them down! I can have my perfume again! You all have no idea how happy this makes me. ^_^ Laters, The Navigator Current Mood: ecstaticCurrent Music: Crossfade, Invincible (random Youtube rec!) |
| Thursday, October 1st, 2009 | |
| 7:20 pm | VICTORY! Thank you Wacken and Iceland, for the solid month of heavy-duty exercise and not a lot of food by comparison; Thank you Whitby, for the constant supply of hills, steps and indeed Steps; Thank you food poisoning, even, I guess, because I sure didn't eat much for the last week; ...I FIT BACK INTO MY VELVET JEANS! AND MY LEATHER JEANS! WOOOOOOHOOOOOOO! I don't need to buy more trousers after all! And when I do they might even be size twelve! And now I don't even have to go to the laundrette in my pyjamas, how d'you like THEM apples... Laters, Rath PS Hail Slaanesh. ^_^ Current Mood:  over the moonCurrent Music: Rob Zombie, Blitzkrieg Bop (man, this is awful...) |
| Friday, September 25th, 2009 | |
| 2:05 pm | Flying dutchpost So, the house is empty, Koi's on its way to Whitby, and I feel like death warmed over but at least it's done. deepbluesquee - can you check your phone before you go home? I sent you a text to see if you wanted to come and sit and keep me company and get free pizza this evening. ^_^Hope everyone is okay, right, now to sort out work... Rath x PS This song is so beautiful it is severely interfering with my concentration. Hell yeah. ♥ Current Mood:  sickCurrent Music: Ingrimm, Letzte Reise |
| Thursday, September 17th, 2009 | |
| 10:45 am | Heavy metal is still the law, godsdammit... Tuesday was the 15th September, 2009. This is of note at least to me, because that makes it my fourteenth... well, for want of a better word, metalliversary. Fourteen years to the day since I said to a girl at my school "what's this heavy metal thing about?" and she shoved an Earache Records compilation entitled "Earplugged" into my hands. The thing is, ironically, I haven't grown up into any kind of grindcore fan. The majority of the stuff that was on that tape would leave me comparatively cold, now. But at the time, even though it wasn't exactly what I was looking for, it was a signpost. The basic revelation that "there exists a noise that goes like THIS" was all it took for me to decide I wanted to find out more... and then a few days later another friend pushed me Metallica, Megadeth and Iron Maiden, and the rest was history. So it seemed only fitting that Tuesday was the first night I properly noticed the start of the dark season, among other things. I was walking home after nightfall and it was genuinely cold, and the wind felt properly hungry for the first time in months, and the sky was a wild, cloud-streaked orange instead of just dark. Most people can sense at least on some level the huge surge of life energy that, in this country at least, comes up through April and May and peaks somewhere around Beltaine; I consider myself very lucky in being able to also pick up the corresponding other current that starts sometime in September and goes up to the peak at Samhain, heheh. And that has definitely started... *wild-eyed grin* And then I got in and found that the parcel ironlord had sent me, of about twenty albums' worth of viking metal/pagan metal/extreme metal of various flavours, had FINALLY arrived and my evening was complete. Apparently the postal strikes have an epic sense of timing. ^_^I'm just looking forward to my fifteen-year metalliversary next year, now. Cos by the time that hits, I'll be thirty. I'll have been a metalhead for HALF MY LIFE, official. ("It's not a bloody phase, Dad! It totally IS worth letting me spend my pocket money on all these CDs!") Seriously, it's awesome. I love being me. ^_^ Laters, Rath Current Mood:  excitableCurrent Music: Bathory, Twilight of the Gods |
| Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 | |
| 1:42 am | Late-night lols. So I googled "moogle" just now for reasons that are not particularly important, and I am now in stitches over this. (Read the whole way down - this is a rare, golden exception to the "never read comments on the internet" rule!) I also discovered that moogle.co.uk is the homepage of a National Lottery syndicate, bizarrely. I am very confused as to why, and also I thought that was illegal/against the Lottery rules. Someone needs to buy that domain and fill it with actual moogles, stat. In other news, zeldenthuis, I've just found something for the strange covers collection, in case you haven't heard this: Monumentum doing "Fade to Grey". Italian goth-dark-metallers do weird things. O_O I'm also currently in love with Mono Inc's "Grown", which I can't find on Youtube but the lyrics are here. Because, well, yes. O_O (Although whoever transcribed those lyrics didn't have a very good ear, but they're close.) [The administration thanks you for your time. This post was brought to you by http://www.relentlessenergy.com, because there are so many empties around the house now that even I'm starting to wonder if I have a problem. >.> ] Laters, Rath Current Mood:  Awake. FOREVER. O_OCurrent Music: as per post |
| Wednesday, September 9th, 2009 | |
| 2:34 pm | This is a 'nouncement! WEGOTTHEHOUSEWOOHOOO!!!!!!! Ahem. I mean to say, yes, we got our new house in Whitby, and Koi and I will be living on... CHURCH STREET. Yes. On the very road beneath St Mary's and the Abbey leading up to the 199 Steps, in the middle of the old town, right beneath the wings of the Shadow Over Whitby... in the top two floors of a rickety old little building tucked tight in between its neighbours, with the sun coming through the ceiling and my window overlooking Church Street itself. It is fragging perfect. There is only one place I'd have been happier to get and that would've been the very corner of the West Cliff, but there's nothing going up there so this will do just FINE, thankyou! And... well, I have nothing to add to this information, really. There is no point in my filling up half a page with capslock when everyone who knows me will be able to guess EXACTLY how I feel about this. ^_^ Laters, Rath PS And some kind souls have put a ton of Ingrimm songs on Youtube since I looked last! Yay! Current Mood: jubilantCurrent Music: Ingrimm, Ingrimm |
| 11:06 am | Games Day Right - quick call, who still wants to come to Games Day with me on Sunday 27th September? (Lupie, Raven, anyone else interested?) Cos I'm planning to get my train tickets in advance to save money, so I want to know if I'm likely to be going alone or if I need to sort out scheduling with people... Rath Current Mood: organisedCurrent Music: ASP, Hunger |
| Sunday, September 6th, 2009 | |
| 5:07 pm | Queeeek crosspost We, er, need to sell/give away some of our stuff before we move. >.> Anyone need a vacuum, fridge, bike, bass amp, or some water weaponry? If so, please head To the Koi & Rath Free Stuff Listing! Cheers, Rath Current Mood: hopefulCurrent Music: Ragnaröek, Ragnaröek |
| Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009 | |
| 1:54 pm | Six things post This could've been a post about how miserable I was. But y'know what? Bad day, I defy you. Six things that are making me happy today! 1) Bon Jovi, because Iron Maiden may be my all-time favourite band, but Bon Jovi were my first favourite band and they still make me smile when not much else can. I am going to be unashamedly sappy and make you all listen to Thank You For Loving Me. And also It's My Life, which is very appropriate to my current mood. ^_^ 2) Being into the Good Bit of my 2009 WWE calendar, ie the last five months which consists almost entirely of my favourite Superstars. This month, I have Edge smirking from my bedroom wall. There are so many worse ways to wake up than this. ^_^ 3) Equilibrium, who are brilliant. I'm particularly in love with Ruf in der Wind, which is the wildest dancing song I've heard in forever. Seriously, if I put this on and shut my eyes I can feel the whole sky spin above me - it's amazing. ♥ (For the German speakers on my friendslist, here are the lyrics - and if anyone has time to poke them, I'd love to know roughly what they mean! ^_^) 4) Text from Mum, to say that the tiny stray black kitten who was outside their house at the weekend has been reunited with his owners! ^_^ I'm so relieved. Tiny kitten was very tiny, should not have been out on his own! 5) My headcast. No special reason today, I just love all of them very much and they make my life a better place by leaning over my shoulder and poking me. ♥ 6) And finally, as if to justify my decision not to whinge, I got a phone call right after I started this post to ask if I wanted to come and view more houses! ^_^ Why yes, I do. Excellent! Laters, Rath Current Mood: taking on the worldCurrent Music: Equilibrium, Ruf in der Wind |
| Tuesday, September 1st, 2009 | |
| 7:15 pm | So I turn my back for two days... ...and come back to be informed that Disney's bought Marvel. Any bets on how long before Garth Ennis's Punisher runs go out of print with extreme prejudice, anyone? Laters, Rath Current Mood: sullied and unusualCurrent Music: Equilibrium, Verrat |
