Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

It is a very little known fact that Kep Ra Thoth and I are making music together.  Naturally, we have been toying with the idea for some years now.  Well, both of us are ready to devote serious time and energy to making what we call “Blue and Gold Metal,” a distinct and variation (in my mind) of “Black Metal” minus the typical anti-christian/satanic and misanthropic themes common to that style.  Hell, even the name of our band reflects this: “Black to the Blind” which means only those who are “of us” or potentially “of us” will feel the Blue and Gold of the Goddess pulsing through our music.

Well, that aside, I coming along with our version of Gustav Holst’s “Mars” from “The Planets” which we are calling “Ra Hoor, Bringer of War” in honor of the Lord of the Aeon.  Just a few moments ago I mixed down a version and sent it to iTunes and I have to say, it sounds amazing!  There are still some things to add, some engineering to attend to and some adjustments to make.  Overall, though, I am quite pleased with the project so far.

Personally, I have always been inspired by Black Metal, especially of the Nordic variety.  Not surprisingly, I have started working on a cover of “Mother North” by Satyricon.  This, too, will be on the first album tentatively called “Delight to Slay” in honor of Liber AL vel Legis and the Lord of the Aeon.  (In case you haven’t figured out by now, KRT and I are called Thelemites.)

In the near future, I will make a new MySpace page in addition to a page on Reverb Nation.  I am confident that our music will fill a niche for those fans of extreme music who have outgrown much of the imagery and motifs of modern and classic Black Metal; especially the satanic imagery.  After all, you can’t be a Satanist unless deep down inside you’re just a naughty Christian seeking to rebel.

We are neither.

Love is the law, love under will.

~Horrificus

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

I have resolved my installation issues with OpenOffice.Org 3.  I have also resolved my issues with KDE.  However, I have been using GNOME and Xfce a bit and I will probably stick with KDE for now.  I now have some new things to figure out.  I am now have having a slightly annoying configuration issue with Synaptic Package Manager – it won’t authenticate packages and reports that it is unable to download the authentication keys from the Debian repositories.  I have checked the URLs and they are valid.  The packages will still install.   However, I prefer them to be authenticated!

Love is the law, love under will.

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

There are some slight issues with the NOXboard forum template.  There are some issues to be worked out in terms of making sure all of the form elements have the same look.  Some buttons, check boxes, and text boxes are not configured in the FireBoard CSS file.

Once these bugs are worked out, the forums will look even better.  As they are now, the various forums are fully functional and practically all of the design elements conform to the site theme.

Love is the law, love under will.

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

Yesterday, November 9, CV (2008 e.v.), I celebrated my 24th Feast of Life.  This year, I kept forgetting all about my birthday.  It just hasn’t been a priority of mine.  It was a fine evening.  I went to the Smiling Moose for a few drinks with some friends.

It’s 3:37 am – time to work on developing NightOfPan.Com.

Love is the law, love under will.