Thomas J. Webb’s Ecology Blog

Oh yeah, I was gonna tell y’all how cool Current 93 was. I was there both nights, but I tell you the first day was a little better. There were fewer people there (and fewer metalheads for, ugh, Om).

It was kinda funny. The first day before the concert, I approached some darkly clad people afore the concert hall and asked them if they were there to see Current 93. It was visibly pissed I didn’t know who they were Om. Hah!

The first night was awesome. David Tibet shaked like he was possessed for the long introductory part of “Judas as Black Moth.” It added a sort of beat to the violins and pianos. He has such a stage presense and I was right there in the front both nights. Well, my descriptions always manage to make the awesome sound tedious so I’ll stop.

Olfaction has always interested me. How neglected is this most primitive of senses!

This falls squarely in the category of nerdy waste of time, but I just whipped up an anglo-saxon futhoric keymap (for US PC keyboards) for X11/linux. Get it here, save it under “/etc/X11/xkb/symbols/pc” or the equivalent dir on your box. Then, add “en_futhark Old English Futhark” under the layout section in /etc/X11/xkb/rules/xfree86.lst or the equivalent file blah blah. Windows users, simply d/l and install the right file from here. Note that my keyboard is almost identical to their Runic_AS.

ᛁ ᚦᛁᛝᛣ ᚦᚫᛏ ᛁᛝᛄᛚᛁᛋᚳ ᛋᚳᛟᛞ ᛇᛋ ᚱᚢᚾᛋ

If you only see question marks above, download the font here. Unicode is cool. English should use the futhorc runes.

I shall see them this Friday and Saturday. If you haven’t heard of them, they epitomize and define apocalyptic, occult folk music. The central figure is David Tibet, a loony man who makes eerily beautiful lyrics. Anyway, this weekend, ostensibly, is their only US appearance this year and it’s in S-kewl ‘cisco. Good sourdough bread and Little Osaka, here I come.