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I need to get Glenn's copy of Photoshop again - I need to update my icons to better reflect my current interests. I need a Ds9 icon, a Babylon 5 one ... perhaps a general interest gay icon.
I also want to make a G'Kar/Narn-themed header, using lyrics to the traditional Irish song, "The Minstrel Boy". Particularly these:
"Land of song", said the warrior bard,
"Though all the world betrays thee,
one sword at least thy rights shall guard,
one faithful harp shall praise thee"
and maybe:
The minstrel fell, but the foreman's chains
could not bring his proud soul under.
I'm quite fond of this song, in and of itself, as well as because of the associations I have with it: the tune was used as the theme of "The Man Who Would Be King", which has the questionable imperialist attitude predictable from something adapted from Kipling, but I saw it so often as a kid, before I was really aware of those issues, that my main response to the movie is still love for the relationship between Michael Caine and Sean Connery's characters, and love for the movie itself. It's difficult to love it as whole-heartedly now that I'm old and educated enough to see the faily aspects of it ... but I still kinda do. Intellectually, I object to the idea that one's response to two Englishmen attempting to pose as gods and take over another nation should be pity for them in their failure and not for the people they were planning to control, but emotionally I'm still all, "dawww, Peachy and Daniel".
It also makes me think of Chief O'Brien, whom I have much less conflicting feelings about - i.e. yay, Chief O'Brien. Here's his version of the song:
(The guy they talk about singing that was some guy who apparently hung around O'Brien like a puppy and liked to sing with him ... I guess that kind of relationship just happens to him, cause - Bashir. Now, that song, I can't hear without thinking of the Monty Python episode where, for whatever reason, Eric Idle keeps popping up as a folk-singer performing it, with increasing numbers of girls dripping off him every time he appears).
I also want to make a G'Kar/Narn-themed header, using lyrics to the traditional Irish song, "The Minstrel Boy". Particularly these:
"Land of song", said the warrior bard,
"Though all the world betrays thee,
one sword at least thy rights shall guard,
one faithful harp shall praise thee"
and maybe:
The minstrel fell, but the foreman's chains
could not bring his proud soul under.
I'm quite fond of this song, in and of itself, as well as because of the associations I have with it: the tune was used as the theme of "The Man Who Would Be King", which has the questionable imperialist attitude predictable from something adapted from Kipling, but I saw it so often as a kid, before I was really aware of those issues, that my main response to the movie is still love for the relationship between Michael Caine and Sean Connery's characters, and love for the movie itself. It's difficult to love it as whole-heartedly now that I'm old and educated enough to see the faily aspects of it ... but I still kinda do. Intellectually, I object to the idea that one's response to two Englishmen attempting to pose as gods and take over another nation should be pity for them in their failure and not for the people they were planning to control, but emotionally I'm still all, "dawww, Peachy and Daniel".
It also makes me think of Chief O'Brien, whom I have much less conflicting feelings about - i.e. yay, Chief O'Brien. Here's his version of the song:
Click to view(The guy they talk about singing that was some guy who apparently hung around O'Brien like a puppy and liked to sing with him ... I guess that kind of relationship just happens to him, cause - Bashir. Now, that song, I can't hear without thinking of the Monty Python episode where, for whatever reason, Eric Idle keeps popping up as a folk-singer performing it, with increasing numbers of girls dripping off him every time he appears).