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So one of the librarians here contacted me while I was away asking for my help editing the memoirs of an old cowboy friend, originally from southern Alberta. He grew up with a way of life that is all but lost now; it's one thing to read about a general overview of what life was like in the early 20th century, quite another to actually be reading it. I'm not sure how good his memory actually is, but there are details in the text that make some of his anecdotes really vivid. We're trying to preserve sentence structure and word usage - to some degree grammar as well - because he wrote it as though he were speaking it, and therefore the text is very much his voice. I'd like to hear the recording of him reading it aloud before I go making any changes, but I'm excited about making this a side-project and getting this going again.
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COMPLETELY IRRELEVANT EDIT --> Am tired of all the music I have on my flash drive so am spending the day listening to whatever I can pull up on YouTube of favourite bands/musicians/songs. And I realize
soarer_visions has already beaten this horse to death (we love you for it though =D), but OMFG ROY. Live Kamelot performances. ASDFHJKL.
And I also realize that secondary sources rarely do justice to personal experience, so guess which of the concerts-I-badly-want-to-see just jumped up to wrestle for first place. It is a fairly epic struggle, I have to admit, but it's all fun and games until someone gets a tin whistle in the eye or an electric guitar to the face.
EDIT RELEVANT ONLY TO THE PREVIOUS, COMPLETELY RELEVANT EDIT --> It's nice to have your instincts proven right. Check this out biotches: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o30H3R-gwQg. Listen specifically to what he says before he starts the song. I had a feeling it was a deliberate thing that the melody sounds so much like a pumped-up rocked-out version of Grieg's lovely Solveig's Song. I didn't think Kamelot was the sort of band that would miss out on that connection. And so, HURRAY for connecting metal to opera.
Random cool facts are random and cool.
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COMPLETELY IRRELEVANT EDIT --> Am tired of all the music I have on my flash drive so am spending the day listening to whatever I can pull up on YouTube of favourite bands/musicians/songs. And I realize
soarer_visions has already beaten this horse to death (we love you for it though =D), but OMFG ROY. Live Kamelot performances. ASDFHJKL.
And I also realize that secondary sources rarely do justice to personal experience, so guess which of the concerts-I-badly-want-to-see just jumped up to wrestle for first place. It is a fairly epic struggle, I have to admit, but it's all fun and games until someone gets a tin whistle in the eye or an electric guitar to the face.
EDIT RELEVANT ONLY TO THE PREVIOUS, COMPLETELY RELEVANT EDIT --> It's nice to have your instincts proven right. Check this out biotches: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o30H3R-gwQg. Listen specifically to what he says before he starts the song. I had a feeling it was a deliberate thing that the melody sounds so much like a pumped-up rocked-out version of Grieg's lovely Solveig's Song. I didn't think Kamelot was the sort of band that would miss out on that connection. And so, HURRAY for connecting metal to opera.
Random cool facts are random and cool.