So, ever since my friend David Biedny died he's actually been highly active in my life, and music comes my way in a MASSIVE WAY... I could write A LOT ABOUT THIS, and I've blogged about it elsewhere. But, 1 such track was called "Tattoo" by Loreen, who's 1 of the very few singers to win Eurovision twice.
I generally don't follow Eurovision, unless someone I was "flowing" or was friends with mentions a track from 1 of the Eurovision competitions, and I check it out, and like it.
I was scrolling through YouTube, when this image of the thumbnail of this video kept popping up, on every single video, and each time I came to YouTube.
Then when I noticed the TITLE of this song was "TATTOO" immediately I was like: DAVID!!!
1 of David's Tattoos! THE MAIN ONE I've been working on decoding the meanings of... and possibly cracking this code:
So, I watched the video, n I was STRUCK by JUST HOW MUCH SHE LOOKED SO SIMILARLY to my O.C. Djehkäujaa that it FREAKED ME OUT!!!!
Then, I fell down the rabbit hole of Loreen... Parts of this song, were Arabic orchestral, and in the Live performance I saw she'd inserted various Scandinavian Runes & Staves, whcih are thing whcih KEEP on popping up in my life since David died.
Other things which kept showing up in Loreen's videos and stage performances, and lyrics, would either remind me of my beloved friend, David, or even answered my questions, but many of the intentional choices she made for things, like mountains, symbols, words, would remind me of Djehkäujaa whom I started creating back in 1997, then started evolving and really taking shape in summer 1998 and then early on in 1999.
I don't know. But, the experience of all of this is QUITE INTERESTING!
And, even Loreen has videos of herself standing on a Mountain, whcih is like the dream of had, of a figure, whom turned out to be David Biedny, with me, atop a unique mountain in the Himalayas, whcih took a long time to figure out was "Mount Meru" which is literally Mount Kailash in Tibet.
So, I've played several tracks by Loreen since I'd 1st come across that video with that song!
Not long after I heard Loreen's track "Feel's Like Heaven" I found a similar sounding song, tho also different, by a band called "Dead Can Dance" (the name says it all!) called "Opium" which has these melancholy lyrics in it, that remind me of David before he passed away.
We'd had various exchanges, but he'd often pull away from me, tho' he was my favorite, and he was very moody. He'd tell me about how he was a recluse, and wanted to be away from people... which was odd for such a social person. I KNEW that something was wrong w him, but I didn't know what. He's sometimes tell me some things, and it was very personal, like he told me his recent ex girlfriend at that time was abusing him.
Since David passed away, I learned A LOT of things, and he was a teacher at Yale University, so I guess this figures! I learned about a lot of things he'd never told me when he was alive, but also the things he had told me, but were somehow blocked from my memories.
Anyways...
I'd also taken my old songs I made from about 10 years ago, or longer, and started re-working them again.
