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Rain and Fire Crossed the Ocean

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People who believe in angels bother me. That they find invisible spirits lurking along with them in moments of the most undivine. It’s a form of voyeur fetish, possibly. Or more accurately a safer type of exhibitionism. Exhibitionism in that there would be, in these instances of angelic watchers, a presence so doggedly concerned with the individuals goings on as to follow them through all manner of banal carnal taking and leaving.

Further, there is the belief that these angels are following everyone. The angelic host is hinted at in the Bible fairly often, but hardly numbered and never individually assigned. That is probably the exotic influence of a bunch of goddamn heathen wood fairy loving Celts and Barbarians as Christianity adapted to live as it went from the sparse, hot, and civilized Mediterranean and into the densely wooded heathen frontier of Europe. And in that, I thank the goddamn wood fairy believing savages. At least it adds a little creepy personal flair to the idea of angels. Previously they were assigned the more clerical positions in the Roman pantheon. The fairy principle gave them enormous numbers and diverse occupation.

These hypotheses are, of course, unresearched but fairly reasonable.

I did not sit here at my computer, caffeinated, irritated, and generally just needing the internet (which does not live at my house) for a minute or two, with the intention of writing about angels. Angels occupy about five seconds of my thought every other month or so. The real purpose of all this ramble is a need to discuss my personal future. This is, after all, a blog. An ongoing act of narcissism so ridiculous it could only have been conceived in the decades following Nirvana’s unplugged album. Here, short of possible angelic motherfuckers and wood fairies, I reign as some sort of supreme being. At least until the coffee shop girl gets over her nerves and comes over to tell me to buy more Sumatra or leave. She caught me glaring at her. I believe strongly that I have bought an extra hour.

So, the idea of writer’s block is a fairly ancient one dating at least as far back as the Ordovician. That’s why I had to go all Hadean on some motherfucking words. I was like, “Bitch, I was writing about stupid shit or making readers horny about fluvial sandstone back when the moon was still in Theia’s cisted ovary(ies).”

The words, of course and obviously, did not care. They are not ones to bully. And I have figured that my creativity has went a somewhat different route lately anyway. Notes are making themselves friends. Musical notes. I am, and have always been, taken places by music that logic cannot dictate, which is not true of words. If there were ever a truly rational and spaded in human activity, it would be the rationalization of the Blues scale. Take every damn word and sentence you’ve loved and it would not rationalize the way the 7th falls totally and madly in love with the greater Satan of the Pentatonic scale.

And so in that, maybe I am totally lost, as I knew would one day happen, to the frills and fluffy bullshit necessary to write words anybody cares about.

These hypotheses are, of course, unresearched but fairly reasonable.

Maybe I should start a themed blog. About kittens.

Written by Casey

June 24, 2010 at 10:31 am

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  1. I don’t believe in Angels, but I do believe in writer’s block. The best cure for it is to just write anything and just accept that everything will not be perfect, and you will like everything much better when you look at it later.

    I don’t have a cure for believing in angels. Reading?

    dr. ken

    June 24, 2010 at 7:25 pm

  2. Okay, mother f-er! Get cracking with the blogging! Me thinks that you found a writer-killer: the girlfriend.

    dr. ken

    October 23, 2010 at 1:41 pm


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