In the last week or so, I've become infatuated with a number of fabulous things that are just too good to keep to oneself. Enjoy.

The High Kings
Irish folk songs sung by a lovely male quartet. Simply magic. There's a lot of their stuff on You Tube and they have one CD already out, with another due on 3/8/11. The first is on its way to me and I ( Read more... )

Well, in sum it was a good weekend, if not entirely according to plan.

Thursday, I stayed home from work because I was planning on going to Ides of March, an eight hour drive from Madison, and I was miserably stuffed up from a cold again. (I swear, I don't know what has been up this winter - I have been more consistently ill with stoopid viruses ( Read more... )

I was organizing some of my notes from my trip out East and ran across my notes for my discussion with Cariadoc of the Bow. The notes included, in part, some information about Anglo-Saxon lyres. Since I know that
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It was, as anticipated, a lot of silly fun. And I got to torture ( Read more... )

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So much of the music being produced these days is utter crap. I don't know when modern society decided perky 14 year olds or strings of obscenities could replace a solid melody and good lyrics. While I initially heard it in an ipod ad, I really like the new Paul McCartney song. Bouncy, fun and happy - and he's playing a sweet little mandolin!

Shava has posted her pictures from the fools' moot on the NS Unofficial Gallery as usual. However, this time there is a bonus - she took some video too, including my favorite song that the choir performs. It is a song supposedly sung by a German mercenary trying to court an Italian lady... except that his Italian is poor and he's a little desperate ( Read more... )

Sometimes, you need not write something anew, someone has written it first, and perfectly.

Anthem 
Leonard Cohen

The birds they sang
at the break of day
Start again
I heard them say
Don't dwell on what
has passed away
or what is yet to be.

Ah the wars they will
be fought again
The holy dove
She will be caught again
bought and sold
and bought again
the dove is ( Read more... )