In Pursuit of Mysteries

Tonight!

R and I are going to this event tonight. Our friends Denny and Sophia were going but have gotten ill so we’ll be off alone. Feel free to attend if you are local too! I think that we will be mostly on the “Hell” side with Circus Contraption though.

NEW YEAR’S EVE — HEAVEN AND HELL BALL

We’re also pleased to announce that we’ll be performing on New Year’s Eve at the HEAVEN AND HELL BALL.  (On the “Hell” side, naturally…)
Come celebrate the arrival of 2006 with us!

Here are the details:

HEAVEN AND HELL BALL
DEC 31, 2005
CONWORKS - SEATTLE
$30.00

DECIBEL, STATIC FACTORY & CONWORKS are joining forces to bring you the annual New Years Eve HEAVEN AND HELL BALL.

With 3 HUGE rooms featuring international musical talent, dancing, circus cabaret, costumes, a burlesque show, amazing sound (provided by KV2), interactive visuals, food vendors, multiple bars and lounges (including a VIP lounge) this promises to be a night to remember.

HEAVEN: presented by Decibel

JOHN TEJADA - L.A. (live PA)
Poker Flat, Plug Research, Playhouse, Palette Records

TIPPER - U.K. (downtempo/IDM set)
Colony, Tipper Music

ABSTRACT SOUL featuring Jerry Abstract and Nordic Soul (tag team DJ set)
Decibel, Shitkatapult, Fixelplix, Dreaming in Stereo

* Visuals presented by Killing Frenzy and Shannon Palmer
** INCREDIBLE Sound provided by KV2 Audio
(as heard at the 2005 Decibel Festival)

HELL: presented by Static Factory

Circus Contraption
www.circuscontraption.com

FCS North
www.fcsnorth.com/fcs

Atomic Bombshell Burlesque Show
www.theatomicbombshells.net

WD40

diem

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Doors open at 9PM
This is a 21+ event
$30 Advance Tickets available at http://www.ticketwindowonline.com
$35 Door

ConWorks is located at:
500 Boren Avenue North, Seattle

T-Shirt Lust

R and I saw some t-shirts once, about six months ago, at a local mall when we were doing some other shopping. At the time, I wanted one of the shirts but I didn’t feel like spending the money and didn’t think it was worth it. Since then, I’ve wanted the shirt but haven’t been able to find it. R and I even stopped by the same place a week and a half ago in order to see if they still have them. They did not. I had hoped to get it for yule but I got the cool (and it is) Cthulhu the Destroyer shirt instead.

Today, a package came and it was the shirt! R had tracked it down and ordered it for me. My wife is great!

In its full glory:

chillin with my gnomies

Viridarium Umbris

I’m in luck. I thought that I had missed out on getting Viridarium Umbris from Schulke because I hadn’t preordered it a while back. It turns out that Fields Books in San Francisco is the distributor of the book for the west coast. I paid a slightly higher price but a copy of it is on its way to me today.

A description of the book:

An extensive grimorium of Wortcunning, or herb-magic, the Pleasure-Garden treats of the secret knowledge of trees and herbs as delivered by the Fallen Angels unto mankind. The book’s principal concerns are the sorcery and gnosis of the Greenwood, as arising from the varied luminaries of the Eternal Gardens of the Arte Magical. As a grimoire of Spiritual Botany, the Book is a Hortus Conclusus of text and image intended for the indwelling of these plant-spirits.
The work encompasses magical practices, formulae, and mystical exegesis, all treating the respective arcana of Nature-Spirits and the powers of individual plants. Much of the magical foci are on devotion, purity, humility, silence, solitude, and the hieros-gamos of wortcunner and plant as a tutelary relationship, in conjunction with the Mysteries of Cain, first tiller of the soil. The whole is intended as a textual reification of the Green Arts within the context of the Sabbatic Craft Tradition, and within the greater ambit of Brythonic plantlore and folk magic.

http://www.fieldsbooks.com/1205/grimiore.html