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Merlin Ravensong


Last Updated: 11/2/2009

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Gender: Male
Status: Single
Age: 100
Sign: Libra

City: Metro Detroit (The Murder City)
State: Michigan
Country: US
Signup Date: 4/7/2005

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October 29, 2009 - Thursday 

Current mood:  chipper
Category: News and Politics
My hat goes off to Venger Satanis and the Cult of Cthulhu. They are now an official religion in the U.S. I think it is high time for FMC to do the same.

-Merlin  

Finally, after almost a year of waiting... the Cult of Cthulhu has been officially recognized by the U.S. government as tax exempt just like all the white light religions out there. Well, we've got our own ichorous green light shining up from the depths of R'lyeh. Time to start building temples... because we are a real religion.

Hail Dread Cthulhu!

Now is the time to join the Left Hand Path's answer to the question: where do we go from here? Ia Ia Cthulhu Cult. Please visit our website for additional information: www.CultofCthulhu.net

And as always, tune in to The Ooze, eldritch talk radio. It's OK to drink the Koolaid: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/theooze


Venger As'Nas Satanis
Cult of Cthulhu High Priest

Currently reading:
The Best of H. P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre
By H.P. Lovecraft
Release date: 1987-05-12
October 1, 2009 - Thursday 

Current mood:  rockin
Category: Blogging


Alice Cooper Delivers a Timeless Halloween Anthem For all ages. This PSA was recorded by Alice to promote his new single 'Keepin' Halloween Alive" (available on ITUNES worldwide) Pictures were donated by the best fans in the word!
September 29, 2009 - Tuesday 

Current mood:  geeky
Category: Dreams and the Supernatural






This is a short video showing everyone some of the Tarot decks I use when I do readings for people. I didn't feature the more well known decks in this video because most people have seen those already. If anyone wants to have a Tarot reading from me you can contact me here or at Tarot.MerlinRavenSong.com
September 18, 2009 - Friday 

Current mood:  tired
Category: Goals, Plans, Hopes



Since FMC is no longer officially part of WSU we need to get creative about getting new members to join our organization. Our online membership has grown a lot more than I ever expected it to grow. My website, youtube page and myspace page brought in a lot of new members from around the globe. Most of these members will never be able to physically attend our meetings so the cyberspace membership works out well for them. However I don't want FMC to just be a cyberbased organization I want us to reach out to the community as well.

One way I plan on getting new members is to attend some of the local meetups in our area. I have a few in mind but if anyone knows of any occult oriented meetups in the metro Detroit area let me know so that we can began networking with these groups. As far as making a page on Meetup.com I'm considering it but like every good thing in life it costs money to have a site at Meetup. I want to keep FMC free but if I start a meetup page we will have to start taking donations and that's why I've been avoiding starting a FMC website there. Meetup may be the best way for us to attract new members so I'm seriously considering starting a page there.

As far as places for FMC members to meet I think the basement of the Student Center Building will work best for the time being. We will eventually move somewhere else but until then that's where we will meet. FMC will no longer meet every week like we use to. Since we are basically starting over again we will began meeting just two days a month but as our membership grows we will add more days. The days and times will be announced here and on my other websites and social networks.

I know that rebuilding FMC without the help of WSU will be a bit of a challenge but I feel that if we put our minds to it we will be able to pull this off.

Love is the Law: MerlinRavenSong
Currently listening:
Secret Voyage
By Blackmore's Night
Release date: 2008-07-15
September 16, 2009 - Wednesday 

Current mood:  optimistic
Category: Life
Those of you who know me know that at one time I was a vegetarian. After a short discussion with the Motor City Madman (Ted Nugent) all that changed. I actually recorded the conversation I had with him over the radio years ago in regards to eating meat and hunting, and one day I will post it on YouTube. Anyway in the meantime I hope you guys like this video.

Enjoy: MerlinRavenSong


September 15, 2009 - Tuesday 

Current mood:  angry
Category: Life


Sign the Petition against the deportation of Hussain Muradi :
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/muradi/...

There is no more need to send the e-mail to his MP but please keep on signing the petition to assude Hussain asylum !

More about Hussain Muradi :
http://www.faithfreedom.org/2009/09/1...

Check out the Council of Ex Muslims site :
http://www.ex-muslim.org.uk/

And their forum :
http://www.councilofexmuslims.com/ind...

Please check out Hassan's channel, he is also an ex-Muslim :
http://www.youtube.com/discussislam

September 13, 2009 - Sunday 

Current mood:  anxious
Category: Goals, Plans, Hopes



I will be on the campus of WSU September 14th in the Student Center Building of WSU from 1:00 to 2:00



September 11, 2009 - Friday 

Current mood:  amused
Category: Goals, Plans, Hopes



I will not be attending WSU this fall but I will be on campus this Monday. Over the years FMC has grown from being more than just a student group we have grown as an organization that reaches people from across the globe. Part of the reason I haven't posted here in awhile is because of all the e-mails I've been getting from members who are interested in joining FMC or from members wanting Tarot readings or metaphysical advise from me and other members. Now that things have settled down a bit I will began posting here again.

This Monday there will be an informal meeting for FMC in the basement of the Student Center Building at WSU. We will be meeting by the coffee shop in the basement next to were they have the TV's and the radio station. This meeting will began at 1:00 and will end at 2:00. We will be discussing possibly doing a Meetup at (meetup.com) or just holding meetings on our own without using that service. Those of you who are interested in this are welcome to attend. If you have friends who are interested in FMC and plan to attend our meetings and rituals send them a link to this website so that they can keep updated with our meeting schedule.

FYI: FMC will not be at Student Organization Day since we are no longer affiliated with WSU.

Love is the Law: MerlinRavenSong
September 2, 2009 - Wednesday 

Current mood:  chipper
Category: Blogging



I will be attending the Michigan Renaissance Festival on Labor Day. If you happen to see me during Ren Fest don't be afraid to introduce yourself and say hi.

Love is the Law: Merlin


August 14, 2009 - Friday 

Current mood:  frisky
Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities








Angel Heart
is a 1987 mystery-thriller film written and directed by Alan Parker, and starring Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro and Lisa Bonet. The film is adapted from the novel Falling Angel by William Hjortsberg, and is generally faithful to the novel with the exceptions being the introduction of a child of Epiphany Proudfoot conceived at a voodoo ceremony by "a devil", and that the novel never leaves New York City, whereas the film opts for a New Orleans ending, and has a more somber tone.
A highly atmospheric film, Angel Heart combines elements of film noir, hard-boiled detective stories and horror.

The movie opens in January 1955. Mickey Rourke plays Harry Angel, a seedy private investigator in New York City. Louis Cyphre (De Niro) hires Angel to locate Johnny Favorite, a popular big band crooner who was severely injured in World War II and hospitalized with profound neurological trauma. Cyphre has discovered that the hospital may have falsified Favorite's records and wants Angel to find out what happened, as Favorite owed a debt to Cyphre.

But there's more to the case than initially appears, as the doctor who treated Johnny at the hospital is soon found murdered after Harry questions him. The detective also has some serious reservations about the enigmatic Mr. Cyphre, who is vague about the "debt" that Favorite owes to him. At the same time Angel begins to detect hints of bizarre religious underpinnings to the case. Despite his misgivings, Harry accepts Cyphre's offer of $5,000 to continue with his investigations.

Angel travels to New Orleans as he digs deeper into the case, delving into a world of voodoo and Satanism and growing increasingly worried for his own safety. One informant after another that he speaks to turns up dead. Angel fears becoming a suspect in their murders and he begins experiencing terrifying dreams. One contact, Epiphany Proudfoot (Lisa Bonet), the beautiful 17-year-old daughter of a deceased voodoo priestess and, she eventually admits, Favorite's daughter, becomes his lover. In the film's infamous twist ending, Angel is faced with the fact that he is Johnny Favorite himself, having attempted to escape the selling of his soul to the Devil by taking the place and identity of the original Harry Angel, a soldier returning from the war whom Favorite had abducted, ritually killed, and cannibalized. Angel's conviction that he is simply being framed for the bloody murders is shown to be wrong. It does not help that he eventually realizes that Epiphany is not only his lover, but also his daughter. Acting under the influence of Cyphre, who is ultimately revealed to be the Devil himself (his name, Louis Cyphre, is a play on the name Lucifer), he has committed and suppressed the memory of each of the murders, the last being that of Epiphany, murdered with a pistol shot in her vagina. With Johnny finally remembering the truth, and since he will be executed for the murders, Cyphre can at last claim what is his: Favorite's immortal soul. Over the end credits, there is a lengthy sequence of a silhouetted Angel descending in an ancient iron Otis elevator cage, apparently on his way to Hell.



Currently watching:
Angel Heart (Special Edition)
Release date: 2004-05-18
August 10, 2009 - Monday 

Current mood:  artistic
Category: Music


Emily Remler
(September 18, 1957May 4, 1990) was an American jazz guitarist who rose to prominence in the 1980s. She recorded seven albums of hard bop, jazz standards and fusion guitar before dying of heart failure at the age of 32 at the Connells Point home of musician Ed Gaston, while on tour in Australia. While women thrive in the field of classical music, there have been very few great female jazz or rock guitarists; throughout a tragically brief career Remler constantly proved herself a notable exception.

Career

Born in New York City, Emily began to play the guitar at the age of ten. Initially inspired by hard rock and other popular styles of music, she experienced a musical epiphany during her studies, from 1976 to 1979, at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. She began to listen to such legendary jazz greats as Wes Montgomery, Miles Davis and John Coltrane. She took up jazz with a ferocious intensity, practising almost constantly, and never looked back. After leaving Berklee, she performed in blues and jazz clubs in New Orleans, working with bands such as FourPlay and Little Queenie and the Percolators before beginning her recording career in 1981. She was championed by guitar great Herb Ellis, who referred to her as "the new superstar of guitar".

In an interview with People magazine, she once said of herself: "I may look like a nice Jewish girl from New Jersey, but inside I’m a 50-year-old, heavyset black man with a big thumb, like Wes Montgomery." ~People Mag. 1982~ Recorded for the famous Concord label, Emily's albums showcase the diverse influences of a fast developing artist who quickly developed a distinctive style through versions of standard tunes and genres. Her first album as a band leader Firefly won immediate acclaim and her bop guitar on the follow up Take Two was equally well received. Transitions and Catwalk traced the emergence of a more individual voice, with many striking original tunes, while her love of Wes Montgomery shone through on the stylish East to Wes.
When the rhythm section is floating, I'll float too, and I'll get a wonderful feeling in my stomach. If the rhythm section is really swinging, it's such a great feeling, you just want to laugh —Emily Remler
In addition to her recording career as a band leader and composer, Emily played in blues groups, on Broadway and with artists as diverse as Larry Coryell, with whom she recorded an album entitled Together, and the singer Rosemary Clooney. She played for the Los Angeles version of the show 'Sophisticated Ladies' from 1981 to 1982 and produced two popular guitar instruction videos. She also worked as guitarist for Astrud Gilberto. In 1985 she won the ‘Guitarist Of The Year’ award in DownBeat Jazz Magazine’s international poll. In 1988 she was 'Artist in Residence' at Duquesne University and in 1989 received Berklee's Distinguished Alumni award.
She married Jamaican jazz pianist Monty Alexander in 1981, the marriage ending in 1984.

Her first guitar was her elder brother's Gibson ES-330 while her Borys B120 HollowBody Electric featured heavily towards the end of the eighties. Her acoustic guitars included a 1984 Collectors Series Ovation and a nylon string Korocusci Classical Guitar for Bossa Nova.
When asked how she wanted to be remembered she remarked:
"Good compositions, memorable guitar playing and my contributions as a woman in music…. but the music is everything, and it has nothing to do with politics or the women’s liberation movement."

Two tribute albums were recorded after her untimely death, Just Friends volume one and two, featuring contributions from Herb Ellis, David Benoit, Bill O’Connell and David Beberg among many others. In 2006 the Skip Heller Quartet recorded a song called "Emily Remler" in her memory.

Wickipedia.org Emiy Remler
Currently listening:
East to Wes
By Emily Remler
Release date: 1990-10-25
August 9, 2009 - Sunday 

Current mood:  annoyed
Category: Life





I'm having some technical issues in regards to uploading videos here on youtube. As soon as I' m able to record again I will post some new videos.

Visit me on YouTube
Currently watching:
Sin City (Two-Disc Theatrical & Uncut, Extended, and Unrated Verisons) [Blu-ray]
Release date: 2009-04-21
July 28, 2009 - Tuesday 

Current mood:  artistic
Category: Music



I haven't really given this song a name yet but this is the song I wrote years ago when I was initiated into the first degree of my coven. I recorded it on YouTube. The sound quality is not that great because I have a cheap webcam but at least you can get an idea of what it sounds like.

Enjoy: Merlin



Here's a video of me showing off my guitars.



Visit my YouTube channel
Currently listening:
Villa-Lobos: Guitar Concerto; Preludes; Etudes
Release date: 1993-11-08
July 19, 2009 - Sunday 

Current mood:  sassy
Category: Blogging



I just posted some new videos on YouTube for those of you who are interested. The first one deals with my love for chick publications. Yea I know I'm not suppose to like chick publications but I do even though there geared toward converting people. The next one is more educational and is about the Witches Pyramid.

Enjoy: Merlin




Currently reading:
The Authorized King James Version of the Holy Bible (Old and New Testament)
Release date: 2008-01-01
July 14, 2009 - Tuesday 

Current mood:  annoyed
Category: Life




I was about to post a really cool video on youtube but I was interrupted by my crazy dead ex-girl friend.

Will she ever leave me alone????


Currently reading:
Michigan Haunts and Hauntings
By Marion Kuclo: The Green Witch Gundella