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Sabbats, etc.

Mabon 2024

Happy Fall to Everyone in the Northern Hemisphere and Happy Spring to Everyone in the Southern Hemisphere!

Happy Mabon to all who celebrate! Happy Autumnal Equinox to people of the Northern Hemisphere! (Happy Spring to the Southern Hemisphere people!)

We read fall poems and sang fall songs at Bell Street Chapel to mark the occasion. I have joined the choir, plus I suggested a couple of the poems to read, so I ended up getting up 6 times during the service. Busy, but very fun!

Then MumBetty & I got crepes and tea from Schasteâ. I tried a new-to-me delicious Pu-erh Tuo Cha Tea, and the Eggs and Tapenade Savory Crepe. Delicious!

Next the Boston Austen Book Club had our Summer meeting (one day after summer). As noted, it was an “easy one,” where we just discussed screen adaptations of Austen. I still haven’t watched Fire Island. I have to get on that! Next month for the Fall 2024 meeting, we’re discussing a murder mystery, just in time for spooky season, with Halloween and Samhain coming up. The titled is “The Murder of Mr. Wickham” by Claudia Gray. I’ll have an event page up soon!

And finally Betty and I watched football, and I helped her with her chores. I bribed Baby with a bunch of Greenies and peanut butter, and was able to do a dry shampoo, tail hair clipping, dingleberry removal (gag), and a thorough eye gunk wiping (also gag but not as bad).

Additionally I made a seasonal playlist of fall-ish feeling Tori Amos songs. You can find the playlist on my YouTube Channel, and the playlist is called “A mos, Tori for Fall.”

(YouTube Music only sorts alphabetically or by recently saved and you can’t choose the letter you want to go to from the list, you just have to scroll. Since I listen to Tori so much, I manipulated the listing for her so it would appear at the top by using her last name with a space after it. Silly but it works!)

And I mixed some of my body oils to create two new, lush scents for Fall: Vetiver, lavender, and patchouli for one; and rose, patchouli, and amber for the other.

And you bet I am well stocked on Pumpkin Spice flavored things for my coffee, because I am a Pumpkin Spice kinda witch. Heh heh heh.

I also made these graphics on time-ish, for a change!

Including this one to use as a YouTube banner…

A very busy sabbat!

Have a Happy Fall, Y’all!

Categories
Notebook Witchery

The Pumped Up Cabaret

The Most Epic Playlist Featuring All Up-Tempo Music

Songs from Around the Globe in Multiple Genres Featuring Popular Music from 1940s to Present Day

Please note: this playlist has content that is marked with the naughty [E] so it has some swears

Public Playlist Link on YouTube Music Streaming:

https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7oN6qUdxYpP0EsFV-giF4Vq0o06yXh1z&si=KrK6L79_7MietFOs

With these four hundred and fifty-nine songs from around the globe and from the past 75+ years, it feels like I have weaved a spell of sorts. A spell of energizing sounds to motivate me to power through the drudgery of work-a-day life.. The music has kept me energized during arduous days at the library. (As tends to be the case for me at the end of every semester at the college where I work, since I am in charge of course evaluations, which occur at the end, naturally.)

Why 459 Songs?

Nine is my favorite number. This list kept growing. And so I decided to stop at 459 since is a very 9-y number. That’s why.

How Did I Find All These Songs?

That’s the other excellent part of compiling this playlist: gathering suggestions. I have many stories to share. I think I’ll be adding those stories in the future, when I do my deeper commentary on each “act” of the playlist.

This Playlist Is Organized by Theme – I Call Them “Acts”

Of course, anyone is welcome to put this thing on shuffle, but I have put a silly amount of time making this playlist into a kind of caberet show with mulitple acts. (Speaking of Caberet, I did try to add some from that musical, as well as Fiddler on the Roof, but songs from musicals just didn’t fit well in the mix. Alas.)

The Pumped Up Caberet – An Epic Playlist in Multiple Acts

This section is “under construction” and I’ll be adding more in the future.

Here are the “acts” of The Pumped Up Caberet:

  1. Dinner and a Show
  2. Cuckoo Time
  3. Directions for You
  4. Land of a 1000 Dances
    • Na Na Na Ja Ya Ya
    • Genres
    • Dance on Film
    • Just Dance
  5. When?
    • Day
    • Night
    • It’s Gonna Be MAY
    • Time
    • Evening
  6. Wanna
  7. Lurrrrrve
  8. Around the World Around the World Around the World Around the World
    • International
    • Murica
    • Tear the Fascists Down
    • Freedom
    • International Instrumental Interlude
    • Travel
    • Outta This World
  9. Pronouns
    • I Demand Satisfaction
  10. Late Stage Capitalism
  11. Body Parts
    • Hands, Arms, Feet
    • Follower of Fashion
    • To the Eyes
    • To the Lips
    • Internal stuff (heart, DNA)
    • Hair
    • Hips
    • Bums
    • Erm…”snakes”
  12. The Menagerie
  13. THE TRIANGLE
    • The Other Woman
    • Moving On
    • The Newly Single Lady’s Rumshpringa
    • So Hot
    • Reveling in the Power of Exorcising Fools
  14. Everybody Chill Out
  15. Women, Men, and Other Gender Expressions
    • Dream Interlude
    • Mums Rule
  16. Title Town
  17. CRASH BANG BOOM
  18. Brown Chicken Brown Cow (Ssssssssssssexy Tihhhhme)
  19. Higher and Higher
  20. Easter Eggs
    • Here is where I really hit you over the head with all the songs from Ted Lasso episodes that have been sprinkled throughout this playlist up to now
  21. Finale
    • No Regerts
    • This Isn’t the Final Song
    • PUMP IT UP – my favorite up-tempo song ever, by Elvis Costello
a clearly photoshopped picture of Denzel Washington's face, wearing a skeptical expression, over the body of Arnold Schwarzeneggar posing as Conan the Barbarian. This body like Arnold with the Denzel face is in the foreground of a sidwalk on Venice Beach. In the background is another clearly photoshopped image of the three members of Salt N Pepa in mid 90s fashion in various poses, and they seem to be "checking out" the Arnold-Denzel amalgam.
“A body like Arnold with a Denzel face”
-Salt N Pepa
Categories
Things To Do

Tori Amos Boston Concert Pre-Show Meetup

Tori Amos Boston Concert Pre-Show Meetup at 4pm, Sat July 1 at the Lord Hobo Patio, 2 Drydock Ave, Boston

Please RSVP at the Facebook Event Page, or email me at TheNotebookWitch@gmail.com, subject: Tori Meetup and let me know how many people are planning to come

It is a truth universally acknowledged that if one is in that rare Venn Diagram overlap of “Devout Tori Amos Fan” and “Totally an Extrovert” it is practically one’s duty to organize a pre-show EWF meetup (& I’m quite sure I’m in quoting the from the wrong fandom…) 😆

Therefore, I have organized one again for this year, starting at 4pm. The venue for meetup is the patio at Lord Hobo, 2 Drydock Ave, Boston. I have reserved the patio of Lord Hobo for 20, but they want me to call if we will be a bigger group than that, so please make sure to RSVP on the Facebook Event page or by emailing me.

I organized a pre-show meet up for Tori Amos’s Boston last year, and it was so much fun nerding out with my fellow Ears With Feet (nickname for Tori fans) 🤓🥰🎹

See you all soon!!! 💙💙💙

PS I’m crossposting this all around so you might see it a bunch ☺️