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42 the ultimate ramblings about the ultimate questions of my life the universe and everything 42 the ultimate ramblings about the ultimate questions of my life the universe and everything ch ch ch ch changes monday may 5 2008 3 comments guess what i ve finally moved come to geekland and the new 42 at 42 gibkeeg com join me and david bowie at my new home for music monday posted in blog stuff flashback friday magdalen bridge friday may 2 2008 14 comments sadly i have none of my own pictures for this post trust me i wish i did when i was in college i did a junior year abroad i went to st anne s college oxford university to study british history and literature it was an incredible experience and there are many aspects of that trip that i will discuss in future flashback friday posts today the day after may day i want to talk about the traditional oxford may day celebrations i say traditional in inverted commas because there is a bit of doubt about this fact while some claim the magdalen bridge jump is a tradition others vehemently claim it began only as recently as the 1960s but first let s take a look at the may day holiday because i m a hopeless pedant that s why may day is traditionally marked as may 1st and is the half way point between the equinox and the solstice many countries have some form of may day celebration france celebrates may 1st with a tradition of presenting people with lilies of the valley as a sign of spring it is believed that this tradition began with charles ix in the mid 16th century in germany walpurgisnacht is a a celebration on the night before may day that includes dancing around a may pole and lighting bonfires hawaii has its own version of may day called lei day on which traditional island culture and cultural rites are celebrated ireland and by gaelic extension scotland wales cornwall brittany and the isle of man also has a may day celebration it is called beltane beltane marks the beginning of the planting season and marks the opposite end of the ancient celtic calendar the fall being marked by samhain while the custom of celebrating beltane has largely fallen out of practice one can still see windowsills and doors decorated with may boughs it is also still possible to spend an evening by the beltane fire or decorating the rowan or hawthorn bush and of course no beltane night is complete without some drunken revelry and yes i promise that i will soon talk about my years in ireland during my flashback friday ramblings back to oxford oxford england has had a custom of celebrating may morning for years of course the night before may morning is spent at least by the people i know drinking in the long hours before sunrise at a pub lock in this admittedly was a tradition i was more than willing to play along with as it extended my birthday revelries as the sun comes up hung over still drunk or as sober as monks throngs of people gather on the high street and the magdalen bridge to hear the magdalen college choir sing the hymnus eucharisticus it is a beautiful sound as it should be the magdalen choir has been singing the in celebration of may day for over 500 years obviously not with the same choir members what is really amazing is the vast differences in types of people standing on the bridge listening in near silence to the music shoulder to shoulder you can find monks punks towns and gowns terms used to refer to the rivalry between attendees of the university and the local population people in faerie costumes or togas women in formal gowns and men in tuxedos and people of both sexes in pajamas but of course that s not the exciting part although the bridge jumping escapades may be fairly new in their execution while i was living in oxford in 94 95 they were in full force let me tell you the river is not deep but it sure as hell isn t warm either after a raucous night of drinking heavily i found myself amidst a crush of friends on the bridge neither seeing nor thinking clearly sure sounds like a great idea photo courtesy of bbc news only one other time in my life was a shocked back into sobriety as quickly and that was also due to hitting icy cold water from a height of several meters but that s a story about ireland and for another time the rest of the day was spent with the hair of the dog at various pubs around town once we had all gone home to change into something a little less wet and cold followed by a long nap on the college green want to play along flashback friday posts can be any medium you choose photographic video music or just a story share your flashback on fridays and link back to me visit other participants and get some dirt on your fellow bloggers posted in flashback friday history traveling this post is brought to you by the number tuesday april 29 2008 29 comments 33 posted in uncategorized we re in this together monday april 28 2008 14 comments i mentioned on friday that nine inch nails is my favorite band oddly enough i haven t yet featured nin on a music monday post i don t know what s come over me today i will rectify that error in judgment nine inch nails released their first album pretty hate machine which started out as a series of solo demos in 1989 since then trent has released with the assistance of various musicians but rarely keeping the same artists from album to album 8 major albums and many singles and remixes in fact it is for his remixes that trent is probably best well known his singles and his willingness to have his fans play with his music trent has released his music into the wild and encourages his fans to work on it and release it back his latest album was available for free download and he has asked his fans to create a body of video art to go along with it i like to call him an open source musician he even encourages his fans to stick it to the record labels and go out create bootlegs and illegal copies of his work now how can you not think that s cool fuck the riaa however today is a very special monday since it is cabledad s 40th birthday no we are not having a party what s the point he s not 42 yet but in light of cabledad s special day i wanted to dedicate a song to him perhaps it might seem a bit odd that i d choose a nin song for cabledad s birthday after all i ve already mentioned that i have a not so secret lust for trent reznor not to mention the fact that trent s music is the epitome of angst ridden computerized industrial metal not exactly what most people might consider romantic ok i m not most people but even i will admit that most of nin isn t the best wedding party music i m drunk and right now i m so in love with you a nd i don t want to think too much about what we should or shouldn t do lay my hands on heaven and the sun and the moon and the stars while the devil wants to fuck me in the back of his car nothing quite like the feel of something new that said there is one song in particular that i think is perfectly fit for such an occasion as much as he drives me crazy as much as he makes me want to rip my hair out sometimes as angry and frustrated as he can make me on occasion i love my cabledad i might want to kill him sometimes but i love him to pieces i committed myself to him seven years ago and i m not going anywhere we re in this together now i mean that s downright warm and fuzzy for trent posted in fantasizing music video after a particularly rough sparring session at kung fu i am saturday april 26 2008 14 comments bruised posted in singular saturday previous entries midday in the garden of good and evil quote of the day that which is not good for the bee hive cannot be good for the bees marcus aurelius meditations vi 49 other sides of 42 books video clips why 42 i ll tell you do you twitter follow cablegirl at http twitter com rececnt ramblings ch ch ch ch changes flashback friday magdalen bridge this post is brought to you by the number we re in this together after a particularly rough sparring session at kung fu i am flashback friday nine inch 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