Happy Late Night, Sweet Baby,
I am glad to see you back! Today I see that you were working on a video, presumably, as Sarah and Steve's posts seem to indicate. That would mean that you are not in Arizona as I guessed yesterday, but it's all good as they say, because you are Doing What You Do. :) I like the "gauzy" look of the diffused white light in the stills S & S posted. Dunno if that look is part of the video, but it's a neat effect I think.
Good singing in church this morn & worked on new stuff at practice. During the past week I was Youtubing videos of "how to hit a High C". I can do it, but not yet as smoothly as I would like in a rising progression of the scale. The hard part is to transition from "chest voice" to "head voice", which you probably know the meaning of, having been in a choir yourself.
Tonight's movie was "Black Mass". Really good, like the old Mafia movies of Scorsese, and even better than "The Departed", which was also about Whitey Bulger but had that horrible song playing over the closing credits.......
You know which song I mean....... ( *cough* - "Shipping Up To Boston" - *cough*)
But even if you took away the song, "Black Mass" is better because of the cast, and specifically Johnny Depp, who really conveys the iciness and unpredictable nature of a psychopath like Bulger. It's not quite a lead role in the sense of him being in every scene, because he isn't - it's an ensemble cast and Joel Edgerton (from "The Gift") is also a featured performer - but Depp still gives one of the greatest performances in the history of crime movies, and I'd really like to see him show more of his acting chops in realistic films. He has mostly played fantasy characters, but in this role he is very real and scary. "Black Mass" is a great movie, but not for the squeamish of course.
I am reading about the influence of Hermeticism in Shakespeare's plays (in the Joe Farrell book). Much has been speculated about the true authorship of those works, which according to many scholars, including Dr. Joe, exhibit clues of Hermetic influence and philosophy. Even the design of the Old Globe Theater was supposedly drawn and constructed according to geometric and astrological/astromonical principles that would reflect the mathematics of The Universe literally and in the physical sense (which is why it was called The Old Globe), and thus when the actors would play on stage, the result - as per the Hermetic influence - would be an acting out, dramatically and physically (due to the mathematics invloved in the theater's construction), of the magical directives of Hermeticism, which strove to ascend the Ladder of Creation, or Being........from Matter to Spirit to Essence (nothingness).
This is the influence of the Renaissance, which was centered on Magical Thought, and which also had a focus on High Mathematics and Astronomy and Astrology. Also there was a strong focus on God and how to attain that Height, in the spacial context of the physical Universe. The idea back then, was that The Ladder could be ascended, literally (that a person could become pure spirit while still In Body), through the art forms of theater as combined with mathematics-of-design, and of incidentals like voice resonance throughout the venue, and the acting out of the play itself, with all of it's Shakespearean dialogue and metaphor.
Shakespeare said "The Play's The Thing" and in those days the artists (or alchemists) wished to attain Heights of a Universal nature, and they did it through highly focused knowledge of the human mind.
I think it's similar to the smooth transition between "chest voice", which is very physical, and "head voice", which is higher and ethereal.
How do you transition from being human to a higher, or The Highest Plane? Or better yet, how do you live in both places simultaneously, while you are here on Earth, in your physical body?
That is what the Hermeticists wanted to know : how to bring Heaven down here to Earth and to live in the physical and Spiritual at once, and next to God, thus completing the Trinity.
It's mindblowing stuff, the height of Renaissance influence, the culture of Magical Science.
That's all I know for tonight.
I Love You! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
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