Menuo Juodaragis: Kernave, Lithuania

Note: the links are mostly to pic­tures I took at the festival… Black horned moon. The symbol of the fest­ival is a com­plex of runic let­ters topped with a cres­cent moon and a leap­ing stag. The site is Kernave, Lithuania, in the middle of the...

Ahhhhhhh.….

*That* was superb. Too tired to give you the full detail now, but Lithuanian folk music, mid­night drum­ming ritual with impro­vised har­mon­ies from most of the women there includ­ing me, dawn ritual by the river with Lithuanian folk sing­ers doing tra­di­tional...

The life update bit

Went out last night with other people from the hostel to a fant­astic club called Nobody Writes to the Col­onel which played hiphop upstairs and chill funk down­stairs which was dec­or­ated like Austin Powers’ den with big yellow dais­ies and red furry ovals on...

Occupation/identity/language

Went to the museum of the occu­pa­tion of Latvia today. Very confronting. Latvia has been occu­pied by both Ger­many and Russia con­tinu­ously from 1939, first one, then the other, then back to the Red Army. In the pro­cess, a third of all Latvi­ans were killed....

Omigod I want to go to Lithuania

So I picked up a flyer at the goth club (good band play­ing from Sweden, by the way. In Grey, if any­one’s interested). The flyer is for an event in Lithuania that sounds AMAZING. I transcribe: :::::::::::::::::::::::Black Horned...