As part of my astrology classes, I like to include a segment in which I sing original songs (got to keep my singer-songwriter self happy) that are relevant to whatever the theme of that class is. Yesterday (because it’s the last class of the year) featured Winter Solstice, which is the Sun’s ingress into Capricorn.

I sang a couple of Christmas songs, including this one. It’s a dark look at Christmas (the first line is, ‘It’s the season of sentiment and suicide’), and it’s oh so satisfying to sing.

Enjoy, and have a happy, sad, scared, mad holiday season.

Lyrics:

Christmas Presence

It is the season of sentiment and suicide
A time for treasure and trauma with no place to hide
from the trumped up cheer and the canned caroling
have we forgotten the reason for Christmas
or lost it in packaging and glitter
(more…)

As promised, I made a vlog for Blog Action Day. And as usual, I’m uncomfortable with how it came out. I want to rebut myself, add points I missed, edit, change, do a sequel. Put on a costume, makeup. Tell funny stories.

Bah. This is just me, plain and simple.

It occurred to me, not for the first time, that now that I have a webcam I could start video blogging, aka vlogging. So, here I am, doing it.

Today (when I made this post; had problems so it was delayed) is Canadian Thanksgiving, and I’m looking back with gratitude at the so-called bombing of the Moon, President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize and Guy Laliberte’s Poetic Social Mission (http://broadcast.onedrop.org/). What a day that was! It changed me, and I think it changed the world.

This is my first video blog, but it won’t be my last. It’s so much easier than typing everything out one letter at a time. On the down side, I’m stuck with the words as they came out of my mouth, painful for nitpicky me. Still, the spontaneity of the thing is part of the charm. I hope.

It’s in two parts, since Youtube won’t accept videos longer than ten minutes, though in total it was under twelve. Picky, picky.

Mom, I guess you’re going to have to get high speed internet or watch at the library. Sorry.

part 1:

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part 2:

I can’t remember if I’ve posted these here or not, but here they are again:

This is my set at the Gong Show (Sungoma, near Duncan) in June …

And this is from March, at “Folk, Yeah!” open mic on Hornby, the first of my vids…

Enjoy, oh, do! And let me know if you saw it, and did you like it, and all that. Thanks, ever’bunny…

Here it is! Video from my set at the Cirque du Cabaret last Saturday night. What a wild and beautiful night that was. My character in the circus was introduced as ‘a fortuneteller / soothsayer raised in the North by wolves,’ which actually isn’t far from the truth at all, as regular readers of this blog will no doubt realize.

I do hope you enjoy it–I certainly did! I would do this sort of thing every single day of my life, happily, if I could get away with it!