I also rewatched the classic SNL sketch "More Cowbell," which is about the Blue Oyster Cult, so it was weird to see this shortly after that, in a comment from Bill about a dream he had had:
Right before I woke up, a sign or something was held up with the word "Cowbill", which I took as a play on words for Cowbell, just replacing Bill for Bell.
Later I was trying, still unsuccessfully, to find a recording of "The Orange Ocean" by Birdsongs of the Mesozoic. (See "A touch of Pixie dust.") This got me thinking about the yellow sea in "The Golden Age" and then about the Grateful Dead line "The sky was yellow, and the Sun was blue." That's from "Scarlet Begonias," a song I didn't really know very well, so I gave it a listen.
A few things caught my attention. The album is called From the Mars Hotel, and my last post was "Arizona and the murder of Mars." The closing line -- "Everyone's singing in the heart of gold band" -- also connects with syncs from last year, e.g. "I've been A minor for a heart of gold."
When I was searching for "Scarlet Begonias" on YouTube, I noticed that there's also a version by the ska punk band Sublime.
Sublime modified the lyrics quite a bit. Right off the bat, Grosvenor Square is changed to Rub-a-dub Square. "Rub-a-dub" appears to be some kind of reggae reference, the exact meaning of which depends on who you ask, but synchronistically it obviously connects to "Rub-a-dub-dub" and "The fourth Knave." There's also an entirely new rapped bit, which begins "It was the Summer of Love," thus tying it back to the Blue Oyster Cult and Agents of Fortune.
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I'd never seen the "More Cowbell" skit. That was funny.
The fact that it is Will Ferrell, going by the name of Gene (Eugene) Frenkle, playing the bell to "Don't Fear the Reaper" is pretty loaded.
And that this then led to a link involving "Heart of Gold", and a band, is pretty funny. Heart of Gold came up for me in that Donkey Kong game and song, with the phrase being so interesting because it is the translation of the Elvish name Inglor, which was Finarfin's "mother name" - Finarfin being tied to the same character we've symbolized by roles played by Will Ferrell and linked directly to the concept of The Reaper (Harvester) and characters named Gene/ Eugene (and Frank/ France/ Frenkle).
in that song, the reference to a "Beat", and this beat leading the way, is made. And here we have Ferrell using the cowbell to create the beat.
Christopher Walken's reference to "gold records" was interesting, as was the reference to "gold plated diapers" that he said the band would all be wearing before it was all over. Diapers in today's world means one thing, but originally it meant "costly silken fabric of one color having a repeated pattern of the same color woven into it; ornamental cloth; flowered, patterned silk cloth".
Basically, he says the band will all be wearing golden clothes. This made me think of my dream from yesterday (the same one which concluded with Cowbill), where "armor of light" was being made for that army, with the armor being some kind of woven or sewn fabric or cloth. Gold comes from a word which means "to shine", so in my mind gold-plated diapers is equivalent to armor of light.
Obviously a Pharazonic reference there as well with golden armor or clothes.
This was in my head when I woke up this morning:
Cloth of gold, do not despise,
Though thou be match'd with cloth of frize.
Cloth of frize, be not too bold,
Though thou be match'd with cloth of gold.
I read that ages ago in a biography of Henry VIII or Walter Raleigh or somebody like that. It was a sarcastic commentary on an aristocrat who was deemed to have married down. Frize (frise, frieze) was a cheap woolen fabric.
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