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.
So Frize is a homophone of Freeze, as in Frozen?
My mention of "Beat" above took me further down a mental path after I left the comment. In my dream, after it was resolved to makes this golden clothing for the army, I asked how we can win. The answer was "Use your mastery of percolation".
As I mentioned, I looked up the definition of percolate as "the act of straining or filtering through some porous material". I followed up more on Filter, and discovered that it the word originally applied to a piece of felt through which liquid is strained (thus filter from felt). Felt, in turn, comes from the word which means "to beat", strangely.
To round that off, beat itself has multiple meanings, one which means "to escape, evade, go away". And tied to this, at least in the symbols I see, is that beat also means "a track made by animals... the sense of the beat of the feet on the ground", and broadly refers to a path or route travelled.
And, of course, my mind went back again to Michael Jackson's "Beat it" as a result of all of this.
Well, apparently it rhymed with despise, though I'm not sure which of the two was pronounced differently from today. The Great Vowel Shift was ongoing at the time. Good link to freeze, though. I hadn't noticed that.
Oh yeah - it's pronunciation should have been obvious from the rhyme. Missed that - when I saw it, I just thought Freeze.
In looking up Freeze, though, even if it's not a homonym with Frize, an alteration of it, per etymonline, lines up with Frize, or the variant you listed of Frieze. Another form of Freeze is Friese. Same word to read, at least, if you didn't know how to pronounce it (like didn't have an obvious clue of "despise", for example...).
And actually, looking more into it right now, Frieze not only refers to a cloth, but also to a decorative band that runs along the top of a wall, and that is definitely pronounced like Freeze. So, it can work pretty well after all.
I did think it was interesting that this other meaning of Freize/ Freeze was about something at the top of a wall - just like Humpty Dumpty (and Jack Nicholson's Colonel Jessup - "You want me on that wall. You need me on that wall.")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq0H1p2zejg
The mention of walls again just stood out to me because just this morning, I had another one of those dream dialogues listening in on two voices, with the first one mentioning something about "Wallers":
V1: He's done with wallers
V2: He's just done with this game
This dialogue followed a dream which I think likely involved the Rose Stone in the form of a table which also turned out to be a filing cabinet on wheels (the wheels allowed the table/cabinet to roll, and thus symbol of the rolling stone). It turned into a bit of a nightmare at the end, unfortunately, but I think it represented some time far back in history, is my guess - maybe something about how the Stone came to be on this world. I don't know, though.
In the Boster stories, Boster's sidekick is a wizard called Scont Biller Waller.
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