Mystery Saint meets the Marassa

Mystery Saint Magical Diary Post 12_7_10

Have had a number of TWIN synchronicities lately which combined with my new passion for maya Deren led me to think I should reach out to the Marassa of the Loa
(I've also seen it spelt Lwa)...

Not that I know anything about Voodoo
(I've also seen it spelt Voudon)

So after the latest twin synchronicity at Yoga in the Runyon Canyon I decided to take all that Namaste energy and send it to the Marassa

I set up a simple altar on a wood table
Old but clean white cotton tablecloth
Appropriate Twin ritual decorations
Offering of food and water

The drumming came easily
The spaces in between beats; the shadow choir
Pape Legba limped in with charming asides

Here is where it started to get weird, I got off my chair from in front of the table/altar and playfully got down prostrate before the altar
No thoughts in my mind and a prickly heat
The veve seemed to draw itself really (and I mean I am not good at drawing)
The motions I took to draw it seemed purposeful and instinctual

I got up and danced backwards twice around the veve
scared myself a little

Here is where it got weird again, dancing, body was writhing happily on the wood floor in front of this veve drawing
once I began to calm, I reached down and took some of the sweat from my body and wiped it across the veve wiping it out and then I wiped some of the stain from the veve on my face

Got up and danced for a while to Exuma, I don't know the name of the track but it
is just drums and percussion instruments
Again I scared myself a little

Powerful

Thanks for inspiration to the Waters of Return by Louis Martinie
And thanks to Exuma

the mystery saint and eno in a small craft on a milk sea

Eno the Stranger in a Strange Land-
returned
in a small craft on a milk sea
to bring us new sound paintings to grok in exchange for water. Will you share water? May you never thirst!

Eno's packaging is tasteful as always: moody-sea-scape exterior
hologrammatic-rainbow-strip interior

I scan the composition titles and notice the Taoist "Complex Heaven" and "Lesser Heaven" We here on Earth live in the square world of the Lesser Heaven, we're just a bit off, removed from the circular paradise of Heaven...

Some of the other song titles are sciency, what a nerd Brian Eno is...
"Late Anthropocene"? I want to ROCK, not do HOMEWORK

Eno; The-Long-Mover, The-Windy-Man

The Man from Mars who Moves things with his Mind!

I look at the packaging again

Outside is the Abysmal/Water
Inside is the Clinging/Fire

Each snowflake's individuality shows WATER to be ALIVE and
imprintable by CONSCIOUSNESS

The Clinging/Fire burns inside the cells of water
Burning towards INDIVIDUALITY

spirit consuming matter consuming spirit

passing it back and forth

the hologrammatic universe fornicates at the cellular level constantly
else nothing would be at all

Now for the music

Emeralds and Lime-

Eno the Wise Laughing Boy
I'd like to think he grows each composition like a flower
He's an Audio-Horticulturalist
allowing the cosmos and the chaos and the movements of Heaven
to create his designs and not his clever mind
This track eases in slowly: soothing piano chords, gentle rythmic waves
a dry martini

Complex Heaven-

The Rustic scrape of strings on bone
Grey scratchy guitars and synthesizer-foam

Small Craft on a Milk Sea-

The melody rides precariously on an ominous low undertone
Ask not for whom the TIDE comes
It COMES for THEE

Flint March-

Sharpened knives out
The WIND picks up
The FOG clears and we are in Miles-Davis-PANGEA
Goaded and driven by the rythm of fractalated ghost hands
slapping grey envelope-skins

Horse-

A Black Beast with Fiery Eyes
I am the only one
can ride that Horse yonder
The ghost drums are back and they brought buzzing-hi-hat BEES in TOW
The BEES swarm over the paths of ULTRA-VIOLET light
I hear some rowdy electric guitars and I am glad
Eno invited the rowdy electric guitars back to the PARTY
Idiot Energy

2 Forms of Anger-

The drums have been run through a million rusty pipes
Robots bang on BUCKETS while a
UFO lands on my LAWN
A razor guitar noodles around and makes with a chord
WOW Bob WOW!!!!!
Someone flails at the guitar and then chokes it off
A last effluvium glides through the air

Bone Jump-

My Life in the Bush of Ghosts after the Shit Goes Down?
Los Angeles Apocalypse-Bunker Music
The last DJ with the last creaky 8-bit and Keyboard
a bouncy-echo guitar comes in as
Dario Argento kerboards
Cover my exit

Dust Shuffle-

Pixelated snare and
Strangled Piano
Like being chased by coat hangers over
Hard-wood floors

Paleolithic-

Bedrock Guitar slabs
Radio static morphing into E string drone
The guitar speaks in tongues
a new language with no consonants and
Infinite Vowel Glossolalia
The Strangled Piano sneaks back into the room
Or is DRAGGED

Slow Ice Old Moon-

Sounds like the Yi Jing
Like a Paper-Fire
An Organ-Snowstorm
An Ash-Blizzard
White-Out
Drowning in the Milk Sea

Lesser Heaven-

Need not Be; Does Not Matter
Love is the Law
Bells wrung into infinite HARMONY
Ma Gu Xian Shu
Ma Gu Xian Shu
Ma Gu Xian Shu

Calcium Needles-

Broken Bones
Pinned in Place
Bruce Lee in the Iron Lung
SUSPENDED

Emerald and Stone-

Mineral piano trickles down to the ocean
Weary deposits

Written, forgotten-

The drummer strokes his cymbal stand
The old guitar player coaxes a few more weary notes from the strings
His fingers flash a mudra

Late Anthropocene-

seashell scales from octave to octave
the waves break soft on the
edge of the milk sea
once more
infinite SUSTAIN
infinite TRANSFORMATION

A great journey, beginning-middle-end
well done thou good and faithful servant

Mystery Saint Vs. U2 Part 1 (The last shall be first) "From Zoo TV to Zooropa"

Zooropa's glorious promise of the new Man, in sever shades, as confident and cunning in Science as Poetry, Better by Design. U2 have been there and they know.

U2 is fresh off it's triumph of having resurrected Berlin, tossing off their rough treatment at the hands of America and the bitch called the Blues, that Angel of Harlem. The Rattle and Hum has given way to a Computer Screen Glow. The inheritance of Europe's Doom.

There were Nazi prophecies in the Bible and Nostradamus and Helene Blavatsky.

Side One begins with ...

Zooropa- ambient opening with piano chords, The Edge comes in with a guitar sound that bounces and skips like a digital stone across a neon pond

Horoscope to Spectrescope

Drug Addicts and Poets- Business Men and Button Pushers

Zooropa- All Strife's Quelled! Entertainment, Shopping, Food!

Zooropa- Don't Fight, Just Shop!

Zooropa- But Hitler's Personal Clairvoyant was an Eastern European Jew!

Zooropa- America, Just Stay OUT of It!

Zooropa- Now Hitler travels in UFO's through the center of the Hollow Earth. He was known to have many doubles.

Zooropa- Coming back from the far side of the moon

Zooropa- Television and Flying Saucers. We sent a Rocket into Space!

Zooropa- End of the World Gospel (Further elaborated in Closing Theme; Johnny's Cash's "The Wanderer"

Zooropa- It's that time of Day (When people don't go Outside anymore...)

Babyface- Neon brush and bass-pedal soft-core

Numb- Touring Musician retreats into Valium and Computer Game inspired Coma and then tries to mumble his way out of a Paper Bag

Bono does Drag Queen Falsetto

Bono does Drag Queen Falsetto

Lemon

Bono does Drag Queen Falsetto

Lemon (Continued)
In the future most people have tried a Lemon once or twice, the citric acid burn on the tongue a fond memory. Flora and fauna have been driven from Mother Earth and the Human Race drags it's knuckles and curses.

Stay-

Just the bang and the clatter as an angel hits the ground

Mystery Saint Vs. U2 Part 3 "From Zoo TV to Zooropa"

Part 3 of the Happy Uniform Mystery Saint prickly heat telethon of Love, being principally the rest of side 2


Some days

you're quick

(or SPEEDY? "It's for my allergies!")

there's definitely something rackety and speedy about this song too

in the bed of the ARMY
in the bed of the ENEMY
ditto Jesus and His Mother
trying to make sense of what she said

The next song is The First Time, it's the usual U2 chord progression (Running to Stand Still, do I got to name more?) but I like this song's droning texture

and I feel myself going down

Bono does Drag Queen Falsetto and tells us his Father is a Rich Man

then why do you sing like a Hustler, why did you give up the Dream-Mansion?

Bono does Drag Queen Falsetto over the only two piano chords The Edge seems to know ("That's a guy's name")

Another song with the word Day in the title, this one's been "Dirty" so far

where ya aim ya just might hit, so not so tight

Bono does Drag Queen Falsetto about how "that's not how it used to be"

and the Edge makes a Heavenly Racket with his Rowdy-Guitar-Army

Father to Son, the Blood goes on, you can't raise a Cain

(I sometimes hit the skip button on this one)

And lastly Johnny Cash's Apocalyptic "The Wanderer" with it's eerie Synthesizer foam and Violin saw shriek

Yeah I went with nothing

Johnny Cash dining on molecular gastronomy at a Venusian Space Station where they
want the Kingdom but they don't want God in it

I went with nothing but the thought you'd be there too

This has been U2's Esoteric Masterpiece "Zooropa" Lovingly Explained

(the Word of God lay heavy on my heart)

Bono does Drag Queen Falsetto

brought to you by
The Mystery Saint's Sugar-Bowl-of-Infinite-Forgiveness

(strange car alarm beeping and that's all she wrote... power down...)