2025-12-08 08:20:29
"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success."
Alexander Graham Bell
"Now, what's this meeting supposed to be about, exactly?"
Me
#Monday
"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success."
Alexander Graham Bell
"Now, what's this meeting supposed to be about, exactly?"
Me
#Monday
It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"Luna rises under no debt to her brother's rays."
Virgil, Georgics 1.395
🏛️ #Luna, Roman statuette
#antiquidons
It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"Unwearied Helios and Selene at her full and all the signs with which heaven is crowned. Greetings, all you immortal gods everlasting and immortal goddesses!"
Greek Lyric V Anonymous, Fragments 937
🏛️ Red figure pyxis, after 5th century BCE artwork
Not 9 tracks, not 11, but 10. On a Monday. Because Monday. At Random. It's #MondayRandom10, yeah?
1. The Gladiators, “Mix Up”
2. Ministry, “Just One Fix”
3. Public Enemy, “Don't Believe the Hype"
4. Hole, “Violet”
5. The Bees, "A Minha Menina”
6. Le Tigre, “Deceptacon”
7. Woods of Birnam (ft Tobias Morgenstern), “Du Bist Alles”
8. Monst…
It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"The Latmian hunter [Endymion], while his comrades are yet scattered in troops about the glens, rests in the summer shade, fit lover for a goddess, and soon Luna [Selene] comes with veiled horns."
Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 8. 28
🏛️ #Fresco
From a selection of 2099 tracks, this is my week's #MondayRandom10:
1. The Smashing Pumpkins, “Lily (My One and Only)”
2. Goldie, "Inner City Life”
3. Qoiet, “cursedOBJECT”
4. Pop Will Eat Itself, “RSVP”
5. Rocky Leon, “Billionaire”
6. Ronnie James Dio, “Love is All”
7. Frankie Goes to Hollywood, “Relax”
8 Robert Palmer, “Simply Irresistible”
It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"Through the blue-black vault of the stars and of Selana (Selene the Moon) who gives swift childbirth."
Timotheus, Frag 803
🏛️ Selene, 1st century CE, Musei Capitolini: Palazzo Nuovo, Rome
#antiquidons
It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"For Hyperion wedded glorious Euryphaessa, his own sister, who bare him lovely children, rosy-armed Eos (Dawn) and rich-tressed Selene (the Moon)."
Homeric Hymn 31 to Helios
🏛️ Selene and Eos or Nyx, Attic red-figure pyxis, 430-410 BCE
It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"Three nights remained before Luna's bright horns would meet and form her orb; then she shone in fullest radiance and with form complete gazed down upon the sleeping lands below."
Ovid, Metamorphoses 7. 179
🏛️ Selene figurine, 2nd - 3rd century CE, private collection