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Rath, the Ghost of the Navigator ([info]navigatorsghost) wrote,
@ 2009-09-17 10:45:00

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Current mood: excitable
Current music:Bathory, Twilight of the Gods

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 [info]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

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[info]zeldenthuis
2009-09-17 10:33 am UTC (link)
I love you being you, as well. Happy anniversary♥ Love you. Tuesday was a definite turning point, wild magic all over the place~ It's going to be a good Autumn. And you're going home :) I am so happy for you, really.

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[info]navigatorsghost
2009-09-17 10:35 am UTC (link)
Thank you so much. Love you, too. *hugs tight* And yes, I am going home, and it is going to be okay, and I really really hope you will come and visit me there...?

*love so much* Thank you.

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[info]zeldenthuis
2009-09-17 10:36 am UTC (link)
I will be delighted to, yes, if I can ever get myself organised enough :) *hughug* ♥

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[info]navigatorsghost
2009-09-17 10:41 am UTC (link)
Yay! *hughugback*

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[info]koi_lungfish
2009-09-17 10:54 am UTC (link)
If you're missing your MP3 player, you left it on my armchair.

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[info]navigatorsghost
2009-09-17 10:57 am UTC (link)
*fail'd* I guessed as much but didn't want to wake you to get it. I'm sure I can survive the silence until I get home...

(BTW - re bags of stuff, there is a bag of empty DVD cases which is also for the tip downstairs. Everything else I think is for charityshoppage...)

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[info]koi_lungfish
2009-09-17 11:22 am UTC (link)
You could have just come in and gotten it. It's not like I'd mind.

[Will see to it, also have thrown the Mystery Brown Boots in as well]

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[info]navigatorsghost
2009-09-17 11:28 am UTC (link)
Possibly, but it was insignificant in the scheme of things - and I have an intrinsic discomfort with disturbing people while they're in bed. (Unless, of course, they're either going out with me or live in my head. >.> )

[Excellent!]

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[info]koi_lungfish
2009-09-17 11:35 am UTC (link)
Given a choice between being woken up by you or by the workmen outside laying tarmac, which do you think I prefer? It's not like I can't fall asleep again ... [except when there are workmen outside laying tarmac]

[Doesn't help the conversation that I was poking around with a 12 characters meme earlier, using the Cult of Irix and the Commissars, and one of the questions it coughed up was "Dalchiev comes home to find Krieg in their bed. How do they react?"]

[We shall have a bit more floorspace, yes]

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[info]navigatorsghost
2009-09-17 02:28 pm UTC (link)
...Krieg is appalled at the suggestion he would ever be in Dalchiev's bed for any reason other than "him being at death's door and that being the closest place he could be dumped while the medicae officer was on their way". The only alternative explanation he is willing to countenance is "Dalchiev invited him there" and he fully expects the Emperor to arise from the Golden Throne before THAT happens.

(I, meanwhile, a) think this is hilarious and b) want to know what Dalchiev WOULD make of that.)

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[info]koi_lungfish
2009-09-17 02:57 pm UTC (link)
Or one of them was sufficiently drunk to walk into the wrong bedroom.

[A long, thoughtful look, followed by a deep, solemn query along the lines of "Did your ceiling fall in?" or "The rumour that I do not sleep is not wholly true."]

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[info]navigatorsghost
2009-09-17 05:06 pm UTC (link)
[...you know, I've never seen anyone actually try to fall through the floor out of purely hypothetical embarrassment before. *pets Krieg*]

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[info]koi_lungfish
2009-09-17 05:28 pm UTC (link)
[How does that work? :: blink blink :: ]

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[info]princess_kessie
2009-09-17 01:38 pm UTC (link)
Another vote for being happy you are you :D

Happy metalversary, hun *hugs*

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[info]navigatorsghost
2009-09-17 02:29 pm UTC (link)
Eee, thank you. ^_^ *love*

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[info]raisedbymoogles
2009-09-17 10:18 pm UTC (link)
A Rath should always be a Rath! :O *....hugs*

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[info]navigatorsghost
2009-09-17 11:45 pm UTC (link)
*is a Rath as hard as ever I can!* *hugs back*

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[info]vequinox
2009-09-17 11:46 pm UTC (link)
I'm feeling Autumn here, too. I enjoy October a LOT, but winters here in Hoth are shivery cold and forlorn. BUT. October 31? Playtime for me. ;)

Also, ummm, I couldn't find it again, but you'd mentioned possibly coming to America around age 30 or so, for a visit...yes, I'd love to meet you in RL! :D (wtf, how did I lose a WHOLE COMMENT somewhere)

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[info]navigatorsghost
2009-09-17 11:59 pm UTC (link)
*hugs and sends blankets* Oh hell yes. October 31st = best night of the year. ^_^

And, YAAAAAAAY, thank you! I'm delighted to hear you say that - meeting you would be fantastic! I'll keep you informed of any developing plans, then... ^_^

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[info]lookingforsigns
2009-09-18 01:49 am UTC (link)
Whatever there is of the other current, for me, seems to be stifled by my whateveritis imbalance that leaves me to be shivering cold and hunting for blankets and jacket in even the slightest of chills.

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[info]vequinox
2009-09-19 09:40 pm UTC (link)
OH OH! I saw this thread and thought of you:
http://zip.4chan.org/cm/res/1635972.html

Hopefully it'll still be up.

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[info]ironlord
2009-09-22 06:52 pm UTC (link)
And then I got in and found that the parcel [info]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.

Although it could be something to do with me not putting said package in the post until I was satisfied that all the discs were working correctly. This took longer than it should have done.

Still, by my calculations it took four days from deposit in the postbox to a text telling me the parcel had arrived...

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