Day day

[kiya]

Hip all wrong.
Managed to catch train anyway.
Met queenofhalves at Diesel, made acquaintance of a friend of hers.
Ran into ninevrise at Diesel too.
Used bookstores are dens of temptation and iniquity.
Introduced to strange Indian bakery by teinedreugan.
Went to games.
Played with small person who really likes the shiny power button on the laptop.
Read some Eliot aloud, including bits that I clearly needed to read at the time.
Snuggled arawen, for lack of anything more helpful to do.
Discussed non-plans for tomorrow with teinedreugan.
Removed pigeon from fireplace (well, teinedreugan did).
Prepared for people to come measure our doors at a ridiculous hour of the morning.
Contemplating:

Quick now, here, now, always—
A condition of complete simplicity
(Costing not less than everything)

and symbology of a rose made of fire as some sort of weird dedication thing. There's a Black Heart thought in here somewhere. Consumed by fire or fire.

I want ... I reach for ... something. All I wanted was a piece of the night, it never had to get so dark. Ahh, nebulous yearnings.

Also, I want my hip to not hurt.

Comments

[whispercricket]

Introduced to strange Indian bakery by teinedreugan.

I think it's actually Tibetan, but I'm not completely sure...

I quite like that place. :)

[anghara.livejournal.com]

All I wanted was a piece of the night, it never had to get so dark

OOh. This line gives me shivers.

[kiya]

Jim Steinman is a genius. ;) It's one of his lyrics.

The song is titled "Original Sin". I first encountered it on the soundtrack to The Shadow, I believe, where the singer is a woman; the actual recording I have of it is by Meat Loaf. There are some others kicking around.

Whee, a lyrics site that doesn't seem to generate umpty pop-ups or weird formatting, though it is light text on dark: Original Sin lyrics.

[brooksmoses]

He is, indeed. I'm amused -- this comment reminded me that I'd been meaning to check and see if one of Suzi's songs on her in-car CD was written by him. And it was, despite the version on the CD being a cover by Celine Dion.

So, er, I ended up buying the CD with the original on it. Which also happens to be the one that the original of Original Sin is on, ironically enough.

[kiya]

"Welcome to the Neighborhood"? What was the song?

[brooksmoses]

The CD is Original Sin, by Pandora's Box. (On second thought, it may not be the original, but I thought it was.) The song was "It's All Coming Back To Me Now".

[kiya]

Heh. I remember that Celine Dion cover from when it came out, I think.

Hm. Wikipedia says Pandora's Box was put together by Steinman in '89 and only released the one album; 'Welcome to the Neighborhood' is '95; The Shadow is '94. So it is, in fact, the original release of the song.

[arianadawnhawk.livejournal.com]

Ah, "Little Gidding". Gives me shivers every time. I used some of it when I was investigating connections of Fire and Spirit.

I've had "nebulous yearnings" a bunch lately. Generally I call it restlessness. I used to be really restless, and it went away mostly when I came back to magic. Now that I'm back, with a year under my belt and some possible directions, I'm getting antsy again. Or maybe it's just spring. :) (I think it's both, because that's how it's always worked for me.)