Divine Comedy

Song: Aurora

bjork
I got this quote from All Music Guide. That site is just the best when you’re bored:

    [Vespertine is] Described by Björk as “about being on your own in your house with your laptop and whispering for a year and just writing a very peaceful song that tiptoes”

bjork is my hero. She’s waay too funky crazy for everyone. You know about her exploits on award shows (swan). You might have seen her as Space Ghost’s fuckin’ delerious wife on the respective show. But have you listened to her music? Go buy Debut or something right now cuz its “bomb”. Oh wait, just dl it. I forgot about that… (being stuck with 28k is torture sometimes).

Oh well, I go back to SD later today. What a glorious drive that’ll be. At least I have like 2 bowls of shake left. That+good music makes the drive not bad at all. When I get back tho, imma hafta buy a sack that I can’t afford to make up for all the lost partying. This vacation was purely staying home with my family, which was really good for the soul and all that jazz, but it gets kinda boring, and now all I long for is to get fucked. [up.]

books
Oh yeah I saw something on this site that I’ve been frequenting. Who is this “ari” person? I dunno. But the site looks cool and its interesting reading. Anyway, she says she judges books by their cover. Yeah I do too. I think that’s actually why I don’t read nearly as much as I used to. When I was little I check out as many books as I could, lug em all home and read em, then go back for more. Nowadays though… The last time I checked out a book was in early summer. And it was Dante’s Inferno and Dantes’ Inferno. I wanted to read the classic, but since everyone refers to it as “Dante’s Inferno”, I thought that was the full title. That’s how I found the other book. A very interesting read indeed, bout a mad bomber who hits all of LA’s hotspots cuz of some fanatical devotion/hate for another mad bomber (Dantes), and the people who chase them. Of course, there’s Inferno references and shit thrown about. I probably never woulda read it otherwise; its only a mediocre book. ANYway, back to my point. Kids books always have flashy (or hella crappy cartoon) covers and whatnot that always catch your eye. Big people books? Not most of the time. They rely on such silly things as best-selling authors and catchy names to drag you into reading the back/jacket. For me though, only when a cover catches my eye will I read a book not reccomended to me or by a liked author. SOMEtimes the catchy title trick works, or in the case of the above explained, the tricky title catches me (AHAHAHA).

So a note to all aspiring authors: Use flashy/catchy/pretty/shiny cover art. Tacky as it may be, you’re gonna sell more books and gain more fans that way.

    On an ironic note, I was just fuming to someone about how much I hate the commercialism of our current society, where flash and fluff is the name of the game. I love how people contradict themselves left and right.

Oh yeah, not everyone knows Inferno. Its not a book. Its a poem-soliloquy-one-of-those-not-regular-reading-thingies. But the version I got was story-y enough for me. By the way, there’s so many versions of it. Flip through em first to see if its the right one for you. I got one that tries to this the same rhyming scheme as the original (Italian was it?) one, so it kinda sacrificed word choice for rhyming and etc etc. Anyway, its about this dude (the author actually) who goes through a forest, meets an angel, who saves his life and also happens to be the tourguide to hell. There’s 9 levels (that’s where the expression comes from) and each one holds progressively worse sinners and their tortures. Man. Now this shit is fucked up. Some of those tortures are just… gooooood damn. But you gotta admit, they do fit the crime. Throughout the journey, they confront a lotta famous people who’ve been condemned to damnation, including Cleopatra, Napolean and Mike Tyson (ok no not really the last 2, this book was written in like the 1300’s or something). It all boils down to meeting the man himself, Satan. But yeah, its a good read. And look what I found just now. Here’s me.

The Dante’s Inferno Test has banished you to the Eigth Level of Hell – the Malebolge!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:

Level Score
Purgatory (Repenting Believers) Very Low
Level 1 – Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers) Moderate
Level 2 (Lustful) Moderate
Level 3 (Gluttonous) Very Low
Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious) Very Low
Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy) Moderate
Level 6 – The City of Dis (Heretics) Low
Level 7 (Violent) Moderate
Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers) High
Level 9 – Cocytus (Treacherous) Low

Fuck man, 8th!? I’m not THAT bad, shit!

EDIT: Oops… I put that I believe in killing ppl… hahaha no wonder. Otherwise, I’m in Limbo! Cool!(?) Still pretty violent and malebolgiant though…

Level | Score
Purgatory | Low
Level 1 – Limbo | Very High
Level 2 | Low
Level 3 | Very Low
Level 4 | Very Low
Level 5 | Low
Level 6 – The City of Dis | Low
Level 7 | Moderate
Level 8- the Malebolge | Moderate
Level 9 – Cocytus | Very Low

ANYway, I should really be getting to sleep. I’m supposed to wake up in 2 hours (yeah right).

Have fun!

About Terry McCall

I'm currently working on everything. INcluding this blog. For the past few hours, I've been keeping some of my typos. In what I write that is.

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