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“Here Comes The Rain Again”

Here comes the rain again
Falling on my head like a memory
Falling on my head like a new emotion
I want to walk in the open wind
I want to talk like lovers do
I want to dive into your ocean
Is it raining with you

So baby talk to me
Like lovers do
Walk with me
Like lovers do
Talk to me
Like lovers do

Here comes the rain again
Raining in my head like a tragedy
Tearing me apart like a new emotion

Oooooh

I want to breathe in the open wind
I want to kiss like lovers do
I want to dive into your ocean
Is it raining with you

So baby talk to me
Like lovers do

Here comes the rain again
Falling on my head like a memory
Falling on my head like a new emotion
(Here it comes again, here it comes again)
I want to walk in the open wind
I want to talk like lovers do
I want to dive into your ocean
Is it raining with you

    Credits: Stewart David Allan, Lennox Ann

Lyrics got stuck in my head, part of mix tape from some place.

True confessions: one of the way of dealing with cabin fever, which it isn’t, but one of the ways I deal with this enforced inward journey? I dig out old technology. I fired up an iPod and discovered that it still worked, but that didn’t mean much, too unwieldy to effectively use as a way to listen to music.

However, I also dragged out an old (mini) iPad and fired it up, erased, updated, and added a new “internet radio” player, free app at the time. That lead me to its version of radio channels, which got me stuck on a German 80s80s.de feed for the app.

In the app, two characteristics that are widely amusing at the moment? The front end appears analog, and the images for the Various musical groups, frequently current images, appear in the player’s background.

So much of the EDM, electronic music has its roots in that synth-heavy early 80’s disco/new wave.

“Is it raining with you?”

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Pink Cake: The Quote Collection – Kramer Wetzel

Pink Cake

Pink Cake: A Commonplace Book

  • ISBN-10: 1434805751
  • ISBN-13: 978-1434805751

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Agency

Agency – William Gibson

Slipping back into a William Gibson novel, stylish, quirky, defies the laws of physics, and yet? The taut prose, highly stylized in a minimalist, stripped down way?
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At once the future, and current, too. Favorite author apocrypha? The term “cyber space” was first used in his literature, but was first written on a typewriter — not a computer.

Trent Reznor (?) dropped two albums for free, and I snagged them, confusing Nine Inch Nails music with mistrust and lack of evidence. Listening to the “Industrial Ambient,” I realized those albums were like the last couple of William Gibson novels I’ve read, just give it some time, there’s background building within deeply yet minimally stylistic and nuanced set of frames.

Then, this is the second book in as many days, that has a motorcycle scene in it, but this one? Strangely evocative of a Hunter Thompson passage, about Highway 101 in California, when the strange music starts.

Otherwise, this was just too long a ride, at night on the 101, nothing to see but asphalt and bumpers, illuminated by headlights and taillights.” Page 294.

Then, of the same genre, at one time? Hardwired, which, now in retrospect, reminds me of decades old slot machine called Haywire. There’s a connection.

Reading notes. Interactive fiction.

Good book, excellent if one is fan of the series.

Think there was a Blade Runner (movie) vibe to the earlier novel, The Peripheral.

Same kind essence, a number of different “feelings” to this one. Satisfying, for me.

Agency

Agency – William Gibson

404

404

Used to be fun, or funny, anyway, “404 – file not found.” The empty message from a website about missing data link.

4-04-2020

Kind sums up the year, so far.

Not nearly as cute or clever as some, but holds great personal meaning for me: astrofish.net/404.

Pluto Notes

Pluto Notes

Just some spurious notations, finalizing thoughts for a little book of transits, Pluto Notes.

The significance of the transiting Pluto cannot be underestimated. Sublime, powerful, weirdly exciting, and, at a times, exotic in its nature, the struggle with Pluto is quite real.

Whether it is a planet, a dwarf planet, or just an astroid-like presence, by now, its location is understood, and its astrological properties are better understood.

For the shorthand version, I’ll call it a planet, and for the shorthand version, I’m staying away from the definition, astronomically, but I’ll stick with it as a powerful unit — location, placeholder, planetoid, thing. Whatever.

Pluto’s orbit takes around 248 years, but as an observed point, it wasn’t seen until the early 1930’s, so we’re all short on observation. It has a rather oblong orbit, more like a racing oval than a circle.

One teacher suggested that Pluto was like Mars times Mars times Mars, or Mars to the third power. Mars(3). Not sure how the typeset will work on that one, but the idea is sound. But Pluto is very far away, and it can up to 20 degrees off the ecliptic, which means, even though a flat astrology chart shows Pluto in alignment, that alignment isn’t always as precise as we would like.

The singular note of some import? Ask the Sagittarius about the essence of the Pluto Transits. Those of us who have felt Pluto conjunction our Natal Sun, natal planets, or shift across Cardinal Points in our charts? We don’t care what one wants to call it, planet, dwarf planet, or merely a point on a chart, but its power is self-evident.

Just trying to make sense in a chaotic existence.

Kramer Wetzel’s little book of transits

“Coming Soon, to a bookseller near you.”

Book should be available soon.