RTP-area local music and culture

[starchild AT mutualaid.org (Agent Starchild)]

Well I don't care about Epiglotamus and whoever wrote whatever in
ancient Greece.  I like pronouncing chthonic kah-tah-nic 'cause it's
easier and cha-thong-nic sounds dorky like the Transformers or
something.  And the word is as sacred to me as the incantation of the
Mayan creator god in the Popol Vuh that I recite at the beginning of
every show.  And I like calling myself the son/lover/champion of the
goddess Hecate because I read in some obscure anthology somewhere deep
in the UVA library 4 years ago that she mothered Dionysus.

It's all about creating myths that satisfy you.  That's what religion
is, isn't it?  A bunch of people bastardizing texts that were
bastardized by people before them.  There's no such thing as the
unmodified pure text.  That's a modernist construct.  Even the
original carries with it for us linguistic implications superimposed
by our subconscious life-experience-based associations with the words
used that were not intended by the original author.

So make your own myth.  May it make you happy and productive.  If it's
an I get to sit on my ass myth, it's bad.  Nothing dangerous about
mythmaking unless you use your myth to justify genocide.  Then you've
got a problem.

Love,
Starchild
www.chthonic-arts.com