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After hhimring told me that it should be possible to embed video here I tried again and have managed it - so this is the video mentioned in the previous post, of Ruth Keggin and Rachel Hare, that I posted to my LJ -
Concert on Saturday
17 Feb 2014 10:15 pmOn Saturday my daughter and I went to a concert by a young lady called Ruth Keggin. Ruth is a friend of D-d, and they were actually at York uni at the same time.
She sings much of her repertoire in Manx - here is a track that she sang on Saturday. I wonder if any of you, who know the music of Capercaillie, agree with me that Ruth's voice is reminiscent of Karen Matheson?
What is the song about? You may well ask. This is it more or less in a nutshell;
Fin and Oshin are Irish heroes of the mythic variety. They go off hunting leaving Young Orry to care for their horses (I think) - but the daughters of the two heroes sweet talk him and then tie him up and set fire to his hair (whatever turns you on, I guess!).
Young Orry escapes, sets fire to their houses in revenge - but the heroes return at that stage and, when the daughters say Young Orry did it, they pull him in two with their horses.
She sings much of her repertoire in Manx - here is a track that she sang on Saturday. I wonder if any of you, who know the music of Capercaillie, agree with me that Ruth's voice is reminiscent of Karen Matheson?
What is the song about? You may well ask. This is it more or less in a nutshell;
Fin and Oshin are Irish heroes of the mythic variety. They go off hunting leaving Young Orry to care for their horses (I think) - but the daughters of the two heroes sweet talk him and then tie him up and set fire to his hair (whatever turns you on, I guess!).
Young Orry escapes, sets fire to their houses in revenge - but the heroes return at that stage and, when the daughters say Young Orry did it, they pull him in two with their horses.
Dancing in the Dark....
20 Oct 2013 10:49 pmI don't watch The Voice. So I really had little idea of who had won it, although I vaguely remember that the winner wasn't the one who was expected to win. So when they said that the winner would be performing on Strictly Come Dancing tonight I was quite prepared to go and make coffee or something - until the opening bar of her performance when I recognised the intro. (Which, sadly, is missing on the video - it goes straight to the opening words.)
The Bruce Springsteen original of this was one of S2C and my favourite songs back in our early days - and I was prepared to be shocked and appalled by this - until about 6 bars in, when I was a convert!
So - Andrea Begley's version of Dancing in the Dark -
I think this might be my new favourite piece of music. Although goodness knows what the husband thinks of it! I guess he'll tell me when he gets home from work.
And yes, she is almost completely blind - although I do think she could find glasses that would look better than those ones!
The Bruce Springsteen original of this was one of S2C and my favourite songs back in our early days - and I was prepared to be shocked and appalled by this - until about 6 bars in, when I was a convert!
So - Andrea Begley's version of Dancing in the Dark -
I think this might be my new favourite piece of music. Although goodness knows what the husband thinks of it! I guess he'll tell me when he gets home from work.
And yes, she is almost completely blind - although I do think she could find glasses that would look better than those ones!
Shakespeare Meme
21 Aug 2013 01:24 pmSeen on ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pellegrina's journal -
When you see this on your flist, quote some Shakespeare on your LJ.
So - Shakespeare’s Sonnet No. 52
So am I as the rich, whose blessed key
Can bring him to his sweet up-locked treasure,
The which he will not every hour survey,
For blunting the fine point of seldom pleasure.
Therefore are feasts so solemn and so rare,
Since, seldom coming, in the long year set,
Like stones of worth they thinly placed are,
Or captain jewels in the carcanet.
So is the time that keeps you as my chest,
Or as the wardrobe which the robe doth hide,
To make some special instant special blest,
By new unfolding his imprison'd pride.
Blessed are you, whose worthiness gives scope,
Being had, to triumph, being lack'd, to hope.
...........
Which has special meaning to Tindómë and Rumil in The Winter Tale.
And here is an added bonus because the meme reminded me of it; the hauntingly beautiful sung version of Prospero's Speech;
pellegrina's journal - When you see this on your flist, quote some Shakespeare on your LJ.
So - Shakespeare’s Sonnet No. 52
So am I as the rich, whose blessed key
Can bring him to his sweet up-locked treasure,
The which he will not every hour survey,
For blunting the fine point of seldom pleasure.
Therefore are feasts so solemn and so rare,
Since, seldom coming, in the long year set,
Like stones of worth they thinly placed are,
Or captain jewels in the carcanet.
So is the time that keeps you as my chest,
Or as the wardrobe which the robe doth hide,
To make some special instant special blest,
By new unfolding his imprison'd pride.
Blessed are you, whose worthiness gives scope,
Being had, to triumph, being lack'd, to hope.
...........
Which has special meaning to Tindómë and Rumil in The Winter Tale.
And here is an added bonus because the meme reminded me of it; the hauntingly beautiful sung version of Prospero's Speech;
I mentioned my fic Pure Morning in an e-mail at breakfast time today, and I've been going around singing the Placebo song that gave it its title ever since.
Except I've been singing the Rohirric version - my brain keeps changing the words to
"A friend in need's a friend indeed, a friend with mead is better."
For those who have never quite worked out what this has to do with my story, here are the full lyrics, with the relevant lines in italics...( under the cut to save space on your FList )
Except I've been singing the Rohirric version - my brain keeps changing the words to
"A friend in need's a friend indeed, a friend with mead is better."
For those who have never quite worked out what this has to do with my story, here are the full lyrics, with the relevant lines in italics...( under the cut to save space on your FList )
Of MCE and men and more music...
7 May 2012 12:06 pmWhenever I see 'use Tiny MCE' as an option when uploading to archives I have a mental image of my every word being entered on tiny keyboards by tiny mice. Now we have the MCE British Superbikes on TV - and again my brain has inserted an 'I'. So I see mice on bikes.
S2C, about to go to bed, suggests having both together Tiny Mice riding Superbikes. They would need string attached to the handlebars, he thinks - but would have trouble leaning into corners. 'More bits of string attached to weights and pulleys' I suggest.
Of course it made me think of Biker Mice from Mars - and ThisMaz and TalesofSnape will understand why I wanted them to be Byker Mice - with proper Byker accents.
So now I have Byker mice riding superbikes with the aid of weights, pulleys, and bits of string...
Almost as surreal as my brain - I said in comments to my post yesterday that as so many people seemed rather taken with Albannach I would post my very favourite clip of them from You Tube. I had thought it might be a bit long, but as so many of you agree with me that it is a wonderful sound, here they are busking under the Scott Monument in Edinburgh.
When S2C and I first visited Edinburgh together we had not long seen a TV documentary about Mad King Ludwig and his tastes in architecture. We came to the conclusion that the Scott Monument was actually built as a Zeppelin defence for Princes Street, in the style of MKL.
So, here we have something harking back to wild Highland Celtic traditions, underneath the epitome of Lowland Scots romanticism, packaged for the English in the style of Mad King Ludwig...
If you want to hear Albannach live you have a much better chance of doing so if you live in the USA - here is their tour schedule for the year.
Oh, and Aya, the young man on the right, dances exactly how I would to this music - exactly how I did to anything similar when I was his age, too.
S2C, about to go to bed, suggests having both together Tiny Mice riding Superbikes. They would need string attached to the handlebars, he thinks - but would have trouble leaning into corners. 'More bits of string attached to weights and pulleys' I suggest.
Of course it made me think of Biker Mice from Mars - and ThisMaz and TalesofSnape will understand why I wanted them to be Byker Mice - with proper Byker accents.
So now I have Byker mice riding superbikes with the aid of weights, pulleys, and bits of string...
Almost as surreal as my brain - I said in comments to my post yesterday that as so many people seemed rather taken with Albannach I would post my very favourite clip of them from You Tube. I had thought it might be a bit long, but as so many of you agree with me that it is a wonderful sound, here they are busking under the Scott Monument in Edinburgh.
When S2C and I first visited Edinburgh together we had not long seen a TV documentary about Mad King Ludwig and his tastes in architecture. We came to the conclusion that the Scott Monument was actually built as a Zeppelin defence for Princes Street, in the style of MKL.
So, here we have something harking back to wild Highland Celtic traditions, underneath the epitome of Lowland Scots romanticism, packaged for the English in the style of Mad King Ludwig...
If you want to hear Albannach live you have a much better chance of doing so if you live in the USA - here is their tour schedule for the year.
Oh, and Aya, the young man on the right, dances exactly how I would to this music - exactly how I did to anything similar when I was his age, too.
I was looking on YouTube for Kathryn Tickell as I wanted some Northumbrian pipe music, as you do. Then I found this, and watching Alistair Anderson immediately had me back, in the company of dougalsservant, in the 1970s at the High Level Folk Club on the banks of the Tyne where, as one of the High Level Ranters, he was a regular.
Here is a man who puts both body and soul into playing his concertina - and he's wearing rather well, too - this was filmed at the concert for his 60th birthday.
What's more - you get Kathryn Tickell, as originally sought, Alistair also playing the small pipes - and Richard Thompson. What could be better?
And - as a second course, very, very, different, here are Albannach playing at the Millport Maritime Festival on the island of Cumbrae.
What I really would like is someone playing Northumbrian pipes to those drums.... but that track is pretty close to what I am trying to imagine. And yes, Elves, Solstice, and Dancing might have been in my mind...
dougalsservant, in the 1970s at the High Level Folk Club on the banks of the Tyne where, as one of the High Level Ranters, he was a regular. Here is a man who puts both body and soul into playing his concertina - and he's wearing rather well, too - this was filmed at the concert for his 60th birthday.
What's more - you get Kathryn Tickell, as originally sought, Alistair also playing the small pipes - and Richard Thompson. What could be better?
And - as a second course, very, very, different, here are Albannach playing at the Millport Maritime Festival on the island of Cumbrae.
What I really would like is someone playing Northumbrian pipes to those drums.... but that track is pretty close to what I am trying to imagine. And yes, Elves, Solstice, and Dancing might have been in my mind...
In Lieu of content...
8 Apr 2012 10:24 pmI hope all those who celebrate this weekend have had the weekend you would have wished for yourselves.
I attended church on Maundy Thursday, D-d went to church on Good Friday, but I have to admit to being tardy that morning, but she and I went out for lunch and spent the rest of the day together. Saturday was a Saturday, and church this morning was full, joyous and, because of my involvement with the children, also included celebratory iced shortbread and some chocolate.
D-d came up home for her Easter Dinner - and I roasted a very nice leg of pork and opened a bottle of wine - there will be cold pork aplenty tomorrow as well.
I have two very nice Easter Eggs - and that is about it.
Except that D-d pointed out this advert to me, and even though it is 2 years old, how can you go wrong with Football, Messi, and meerkats?
I attended church on Maundy Thursday, D-d went to church on Good Friday, but I have to admit to being tardy that morning, but she and I went out for lunch and spent the rest of the day together. Saturday was a Saturday, and church this morning was full, joyous and, because of my involvement with the children, also included celebratory iced shortbread and some chocolate.
D-d came up home for her Easter Dinner - and I roasted a very nice leg of pork and opened a bottle of wine - there will be cold pork aplenty tomorrow as well.
I have two very nice Easter Eggs - and that is about it.
Except that D-d pointed out this advert to me, and even though it is 2 years old, how can you go wrong with Football, Messi, and meerkats?
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16 Dec 2011 10:27 pmWhere's the week gone? I was going to post mid-week but somehow... didn't.
This is just to share a song that I had almost forgotten, until I heard a tiny clip on TV at breakfast time today, and had to find it to listen properly.
I probably shouldn't post it as it is likely to make my husband home-sick.
This is Jimmy Nail singing Big River. And yes - the guitar work is Mark Knopfler - he's a Geordie too, so it's his river as well. (My husband is not Manx born like me, he is a Geordie, a Tynesider, I met him when I went to Newcastle to university and stayed for 15 years! This song makes me homesick for the Tyne, let alone him!)
It occurs to me that many of you will live in places where these sentiments will resonate with you - I am thinking ofpetzipellepingo in particular - there is something about both video and song that makes me think of your lakes.
This is just to share a song that I had almost forgotten, until I heard a tiny clip on TV at breakfast time today, and had to find it to listen properly.
I probably shouldn't post it as it is likely to make my husband home-sick.
This is Jimmy Nail singing Big River. And yes - the guitar work is Mark Knopfler - he's a Geordie too, so it's his river as well. (My husband is not Manx born like me, he is a Geordie, a Tynesider, I met him when I went to Newcastle to university and stayed for 15 years! This song makes me homesick for the Tyne, let alone him!)
It occurs to me that many of you will live in places where these sentiments will resonate with you - I am thinking of
petzipellepingo in particular - there is something about both video and song that makes me think of your lakes.
Work and Pirates...
17 Mar 2011 07:44 pmWork has been hectic since I went back on Monday.
I walked into my office and went "That's not my computer!"
My black laptop had been replaced by a shiny silver one... "Ah," said office-mate, "we've been upgraded to Windows 7 whilst you were off."
And it seem the person from the tech dept thought the easiest way to do me was just to give me a new Windows 7 laptop - except that they didn't do anything about transferring links, icons, programmes... I switched it on and once logged in to the intranet there was a screen with nothing on but the recycle bin - my links to my diary, patient notes, etc. etc. are all missing.
So it took until about 10.00 a.m to get some of that restored - then they discover that they needed to make a programming change in the data base that covers a lot of the delivery of equipment to patients to make it compatible - and they hadn't done it. That took until Wednesday.
That was on top of the usual pile of letters and the 20+ messages on the messaging service - oh, and those included a message to say the messaging service would also be updated in the next week or so, sometime, and all our outgoing messages would be wiped... whenever they did it... sometime. Yeah - thanks!
In the middle of all this, of course, I had clinics to run, home visits to do... I think I need a week off to recover!
You might have thought it would figure in my nightmares, wouldn't you? Seems not. I woke up before the alarm this morning with a song in my head and I've been singing it all day. I came down and told S2C what I woke up singing, and he thought it really funny that, clearly, I had been dreaming about Gay Pirates.
I was humming it when I went up to 'head office' this afternoon and kindly shared it, via Youtube, with a couple of the main office staff - who fell around laughing, said they may never look at me the same way again, and were humming even as I left.
I think you should all share with me - so here is Cosmo Jarvis -
Yo! Ho! Sebastian!
Fans of Tolkien may never think of the Corsairs of Umbar in the same way ever again.
Come to think of it - Orlando Bloom, Pirates of the Caribbean, um - you might not see Legolas without thinking Yo! Ho! Sebastian either.
I walked into my office and went "That's not my computer!"
My black laptop had been replaced by a shiny silver one... "Ah," said office-mate, "we've been upgraded to Windows 7 whilst you were off."
And it seem the person from the tech dept thought the easiest way to do me was just to give me a new Windows 7 laptop - except that they didn't do anything about transferring links, icons, programmes... I switched it on and once logged in to the intranet there was a screen with nothing on but the recycle bin - my links to my diary, patient notes, etc. etc. are all missing.
So it took until about 10.00 a.m to get some of that restored - then they discover that they needed to make a programming change in the data base that covers a lot of the delivery of equipment to patients to make it compatible - and they hadn't done it. That took until Wednesday.
That was on top of the usual pile of letters and the 20+ messages on the messaging service - oh, and those included a message to say the messaging service would also be updated in the next week or so, sometime, and all our outgoing messages would be wiped... whenever they did it... sometime. Yeah - thanks!
In the middle of all this, of course, I had clinics to run, home visits to do... I think I need a week off to recover!
You might have thought it would figure in my nightmares, wouldn't you? Seems not. I woke up before the alarm this morning with a song in my head and I've been singing it all day. I came down and told S2C what I woke up singing, and he thought it really funny that, clearly, I had been dreaming about Gay Pirates.
I was humming it when I went up to 'head office' this afternoon and kindly shared it, via Youtube, with a couple of the main office staff - who fell around laughing, said they may never look at me the same way again, and were humming even as I left.
I think you should all share with me - so here is Cosmo Jarvis -
Yo! Ho! Sebastian!
Fans of Tolkien may never think of the Corsairs of Umbar in the same way ever again.
Come to think of it - Orlando Bloom, Pirates of the Caribbean, um - you might not see Legolas without thinking Yo! Ho! Sebastian either.
Tolkien meets the World Cup.
20 Jun 2010 12:06 pmI might end up spamming today - I have lots of pics to post.
But I saw this onzanthinegirl's journal and I just have to share it! Especially in light of my last post, on the subject of the vuvuzela....
How awesome is that?
But I saw this on
zanthinegirl's journal and I just have to share it! Especially in light of my last post, on the subject of the vuvuzela....How awesome is that?
In my earlier post I mentioned the rugby.
I found this clip on You-tube and am posting it to brighten up the day of those whose sides lost... and even those whose sides won.
The Irish amongst my FL may have seen it before.
For the Tolkien-verse friends, even if you have no idea what Rugby is, do watch - I can only describe this Guinness ad as 'Ents play Rugby'!! (Although perhaps rather hasty ents...!)
I found this clip on You-tube and am posting it to brighten up the day of those whose sides lost... and even those whose sides won.
The Irish amongst my FL may have seen it before.
For the Tolkien-verse friends, even if you have no idea what Rugby is, do watch - I can only describe this Guinness ad as 'Ents play Rugby'!! (Although perhaps rather hasty ents...!)
Have a nice St Patrick's Day...
17 Mar 2009 06:40 pmHappy St Patrick's Day to all my American friends - and to Sammy amd Myles - I guess it might have got a mention or two in your part of the world...
So - here is a picture of St Patrick's Isle - which is here, attached to the Isle-of-Man by a narrow strip of road -
And here is a favourite piece of music - The Saw Doctors sing The Green and Red of Mayo -
So - here is a picture of St Patrick's Isle - which is here, attached to the Isle-of-Man by a narrow strip of road -
And here is a favourite piece of music - The Saw Doctors sing The Green and Red of Mayo -
Gingerbread Haka
13 Aug 2008 08:27 amMy daughter just passed this on to me -
I am sharing it especially for Kes, to remind her that it will soon be rugby season!
I am sharing it especially for Kes, to remind her that it will soon be rugby season!
Composting!
16 Apr 2007 04:45 pmYesterday D-d and I went to the garden centre and bought a compost bin. I know lots of you people with proper gardens will have compost heaps - but we garden in pots on paving stones, yet got annoyed by having to throw away stuff we could re-cycle into compost.
So - we now have a big black compost bin, and put lots of the dead leaves from last autumn(!) and dead plants, old compost etc. into it, complete with some worms that were already in the dead leaves which had avoided the wind and been quietly composting in the corner behind the oil tank. And we have sorted out a small tub in the kitchen for food waste to then be emptied into the big bin - so we feel all organised now, and quite proud of ourselves!
So in honour I bring you this wonderfully silly musical link Marvellous Compost Bin" which as it is not on U-tube doesn't seem to be embedable - but go and enjoy!
So - we now have a big black compost bin, and put lots of the dead leaves from last autumn(!) and dead plants, old compost etc. into it, complete with some worms that were already in the dead leaves which had avoided the wind and been quietly composting in the corner behind the oil tank. And we have sorted out a small tub in the kitchen for food waste to then be emptied into the big bin - so we feel all organised now, and quite proud of ourselves!
So in honour I bring you this wonderfully silly musical link Marvellous Compost Bin" which as it is not on U-tube doesn't seem to be embedable - but go and enjoy!
Music for St. Paddy.
17 Mar 2007 05:35 pmHappy Saint Day to all my Irish friends - and also to my friends in America where it seems to be celebrated even more enthusiastically than in Ireland.
I was going to bring for your dilectation two pieces of music you may not have come across before - the first one is suitable not only to celebrate Saint Patrick's Day, but also the 200th anniversary of the abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire!
I played this for S2C this morning and he was very, very taken with it -
That is Ziggy Marley and The Chieftains, playing 'Redemption Song', and it is quite beautiful.
I also had a link to The Saw Doctors singing 'The Green and Red of Mayo' with a beautiful video to go with it - but it seems to have stopped working - not my link, but the actual You-tube thing itself - sad, but maybe I'll link to it some other time.
In the meantime, enjoy Ziggy and the Chieftains!
Also, I'm sure Kes will understand - my Scottish blood is grovelling to my Irish blood just at the moment - it's a little matter of rugby. :~(
I was going to bring for your dilectation two pieces of music you may not have come across before - the first one is suitable not only to celebrate Saint Patrick's Day, but also the 200th anniversary of the abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire!
I played this for S2C this morning and he was very, very taken with it -
That is Ziggy Marley and The Chieftains, playing 'Redemption Song', and it is quite beautiful.
I also had a link to The Saw Doctors singing 'The Green and Red of Mayo' with a beautiful video to go with it - but it seems to have stopped working - not my link, but the actual You-tube thing itself - sad, but maybe I'll link to it some other time.
In the meantime, enjoy Ziggy and the Chieftains!
Also, I'm sure Kes will understand - my Scottish blood is grovelling to my Irish blood just at the moment - it's a little matter of rugby. :~(
