icarus.

cleaned this up from an old entry from about a month or so ago that i’ve been adding bits and pieces on for a while before then… just because i’ve got this song on my mind again… it comes and goes.
just made this a bit more coherent, i guess… and i guess you should know that i’m coming from a bastardized queer feminist perspective… and that really creeps its way into any thought i ever do…. so excuse me for that, if it becomes really incoherent. haha

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YZVAeXy7ig

This song has been HAUNTING me all day… Sometimes I have days when a song is the difference between it being a complete pile of shit and somewhat bareable. Today, it was “Icarus”…. an earlier Enter the Haggis song.
Mostly because this song is influenced by a mythology aspect… Most people do not know that I really enjoy reading and studying religious texts (mythology included, althought it is not something I care for the most)… It has been a hobby of mine for YEARS…. and, perhaps ironically, I consider myself an agnostic with very strong atheistic leanings. I generally do not believe in a ‘divine’ being… a god, if you wish… but I honestly don’t care enough to spend my life searching for this ‘god’ that I could care less about and don’t believe in. I guess you could say that I am faithless, yet my lack of belief is faith in itself. (faith as in, belief that is not based in proof. in this case, because there is no proof in either direction. Gosh I love language… despite that this one is not the one I usually think in…)
Jon jokes that this is the source of my excessive drinking, but I beg to differ.
It is the institution that I am completely against.
Organized religion kills like nothing else does. It does what it preaches against… It hates…. It kills. And I am a pacifist. Organized religion is the death and hurt that I am opposed to. (And I am the ignorant one?)
Yet, I am no less fascinated by these texts, despite this ‘lack of belief’.
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Tags: enter the haggis, icarus, music, rambling