Venusians Go Home!

I've gotten to the point in my beginning book on guitar chords where it talks about the syncopated strum. It strikes me as awfully complicated. I'm really not very good at playing chords in general. It takes me too long to switch from one to the other, and my finger positioning could be much better. I do think the up-down strum is more fun than simply strumming down on each beat, though. I guess I'll get better if I keep practicing, but, while I try to practice every day, I don't always succeed.

I've been doing more casual research on mythological matters, especially the connection between the planets and the days of the week, and of the planet Venus to a fallen angel. It's well-known that "Lucifer," the Latin name for the morning star (i.e., Venus), is often used as another name for Satan, but I also found a mention that the Hebrew name for the planet was "Khazazel," a name closely resembling that of Azazel, a fallen angel mentioned in the Book of Enoch (which I read back when I was taking an Apocalyptic Literature course in college), and mentioned somewhere in the Torah in conjunction with sacrificing goats (the "azaz" part presumably means "goat"). A Google search for "Khazazel" results in so few results that I'm not sure how true that part is. I guess it requires more research.

According to this forum, Scott McCaughey, Carolyn Mark, and Jon Langford played some shows together in the Pacific Northwest recently. I know nothing about Langford, but it would be really cool to see both of those other people in the same night. I guess it's not too surprising that they know each other, since Scott mixed the Corn Sisters' record.