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lenora_roseWhee! I got in some writing tonight! Half a scene, leading up to a letter which will be important, awkward, and damned hard to rewrite.
And I shopped with my brother, who prefers to go together to buy for mom. Well, he shopped. I didn't spend money, I just suggested a couple of the things. His idea for Colin was better than I could have come up with, though, I think.
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Well, brannie_Bird never did give me her answers, but here's the music meme solutions, and more commentary.
1) If we turned the table upside-down and sailed around the bed/clamped knives between our teeth and wrapped bandannas 'round our head/ with the wainscot our horizon and the ceiling as the sky --
The Pogues, Drunken boat
Post Shane McGowan but as vicious as anything he did, I think. The next line is "You'd not expect that anyone would go and f***ing die."
2) And when the maid her money got, she put it all in her purse/then clapped her hand on the cellar door, and said it was none the worse.
June Tabor, The Fair Maid of Islington. Sung to the tune of Sellenger's Round, but with different repetitions than when it's danced. And not the best thing to have in your head when dancing innocuously. Let's just say the "cellar door" above is a euphemism.
3) it's not your brain, it's just the flame/That burns your change to keep you in...sane David Bowie - Fame. Credit to Jeff.
4) But then John Deere comes by with his newfangled wheels/ leaves you with the children in the morning.
Boiled in lead, Robin's Complaint Mom and Jeff at least have definitely heard this album, but it's not the most memorable of their songs.
5) They say the devil is a charming man/and just like you I bet he can dance. Kate Bush, Heads we're Dancing (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jeffheikkinen)
6) Well you know that I once had a unicorn for a friend/ one time a long time ago.
Michael Longcor, The Unicorn song. Unless musicmutt had opted to actually post, i doubted anyone would get this at all. it's a very light filksong.
7) She walks along the edge of where the ocean meets the land /Just like she's walking on a wire in the circus Round Here, Counting Crows - thanks, forodwaith
8) These tears you cry/have come too late/take back the lies/the hurt, the blame!
Emmiliana Torrini, Gollum's Song, from the Two Towers Soundtrack. My hint for this was (this is the one I mention above as the only song in English on the album.) Whichw as unfair and mean to those who know how much music I have from Scandinavia, India, etc...
9) Faith can't fill the dance hall/'cause her powers have declined/but at the beauty pageant/she will always takes the prize.
Sarah Slean, Lucky Me I think part of her appeal to me is how much I like her lyrics.
10) And the man holds a bread-knife/ up to your throat, is four feet wide/and he's anxious just to show you what it's for.
Richard and Linda Thompson, The End of the Rainbow the most depressing song Richard wrote. I guess this was a bit of an unlikely pick; the ones of his I've foisted on other people are his solo work, and I don't think he did this either time at the Folk Fest.
11) And there up ahead, I saw a six-foot rack spread/and I could smell testosterone on the breeze. musicmutt's A Well Earned Vacation - bodi_kat beat him to it.
12) 'Cause I'm the one that said I'd never care for someone like you/now I'm the one that lacks the eloquence to say... Corey Hart, Eurasian Eyes. jeff mostly got it, so i'll give him the credit.
13) Is that a dagger or a crucifix I see/you hold so tightly in your hand? Peter Gabriel - Blood of Eden. Jeff again.
14) I am standing in the shadows of the Garden/confessing to the pale moon above
Julian Lennon, Take me Home. This album (Help Yourself) got severe overplay in my later teens. It's still the only work of his I think really hit full potential.
15) They say a city in the desert lies/the vanity of an ancient king/but the city lies in broken pieces/where the wind howls and the vultures sing
Sting, Mad About You
16) You try to draw me in, but still deny the net
Heather Dale, Exile If this isn't one of the ones Brannie thought she got, I'll eat my hat. If I owned a hat. And it was made of something edible.
17) It was later that morning Willy's sister arose/and into their mother's bedchamber she goes/saying mother dearest mother I have had a strange dream/young Willy lies floating in a watery stream.
Oysterband, or rather at the time, The Oyster Band, Lakes of Cool Flynn.
18) I've been willing and strong all along/ through chilling times/in a sea of heartbreak
Clannad, Something to Believe in. Off sirius, the album I've been overplaying since junior high, and the track with Bruce Hornsby, at the time better known, as guest artist.
19) Drank with all the Chinamen/walked the sewers of Paris Tom Waits, Singapore. Colin
20) Still I'll sing and I'll be merry for twelvemonth and a day/and if he's not returning, then to anther I will stray.
The Mollys, All Around My Hat I call it version 2.0, as the lyrics have a very different message from Steeleye Span's hit of the same name and tune.
21) I could tell you that the grass is really greener on the other side of the hill/ but I can't communicate with you and I guess I never will.
Sandy Denny, Solo
22) ...Where a cloud and a cloud go by/silently rocking and rocking...
Loreena McKennitt, Mooncradle Honestly, **I** wouldn't have got this one using any of the lyrics without the title in them. But it's the song the dice came up with, and I decided to give it a try.
23) The drummer boy from Illinois went crash, boom, bang,/ the whole rhythm section was the Purple Gang. Elvis Presley, Jailhouse Rock. forodwaith.
24) -- to the beautiful and the wise/the mirror always lies Rush, War Paint. Jeff got it.
25) He looked beneath his shirt today/ there was a wound in his flesh so deep and wide/From the wound a lovely flower grew/from somewhere deep inside
Sting, the Lazarus Heart Truly, Sting is not the person I'd have expected to get a double shot on a list like this. But "Mad About You" I'd have probably got on anther list; this one I don't know if I would have.
26) I could never count the hours of patience/ nor how many times I've turned away Gowan - Dedication. Bodi_kat again.
27) A small town hero never dies/he fades a bit and then he slips/ down into the blast furnace/in the heat of the open hearth...
Emmylou Harris, Blackhawk
28) Well I got a job and tried to put my money away / But I got debts that no honest man can pay Bruce Springsteen, Atlantic City. Thanks, forodwaith.
29) Death (that creep, that crooked jerk)/ he comes, he comes walking, he comes sneaking/ down that long, irreversible, hallway.Laurie Anderson, Slip Away. Colin got it. I tend to think of it as Djelibhien's song, as it was less than two weeks after her death that i first heard it.
30) So does she not take wing like a living thing / child of the moving tide
Stan Rogers, Bluenose. if you haven't heard this song, go find someone who has it and listen. Even for Stan, it's a good 'un.
And I shopped with my brother, who prefers to go together to buy for mom. Well, he shopped. I didn't spend money, I just suggested a couple of the things. His idea for Colin was better than I could have come up with, though, I think.
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Well, brannie_Bird never did give me her answers, but here's the music meme solutions, and more commentary.
1) If we turned the table upside-down and sailed around the bed/clamped knives between our teeth and wrapped bandannas 'round our head/ with the wainscot our horizon and the ceiling as the sky --
The Pogues, Drunken boat
Post Shane McGowan but as vicious as anything he did, I think. The next line is "You'd not expect that anyone would go and f***ing die."
2) And when the maid her money got, she put it all in her purse/then clapped her hand on the cellar door, and said it was none the worse.
June Tabor, The Fair Maid of Islington. Sung to the tune of Sellenger's Round, but with different repetitions than when it's danced. And not the best thing to have in your head when dancing innocuously. Let's just say the "cellar door" above is a euphemism.
4) But then John Deere comes by with his newfangled wheels/ leaves you with the children in the morning.
Boiled in lead, Robin's Complaint Mom and Jeff at least have definitely heard this album, but it's not the most memorable of their songs.
jeffheikkinen)6) Well you know that I once had a unicorn for a friend/ one time a long time ago.
Michael Longcor, The Unicorn song. Unless musicmutt had opted to actually post, i doubted anyone would get this at all. it's a very light filksong.
forodwaith8) These tears you cry/have come too late/take back the lies/the hurt, the blame!
Emmiliana Torrini, Gollum's Song, from the Two Towers Soundtrack. My hint for this was (this is the one I mention above as the only song in English on the album.) Whichw as unfair and mean to those who know how much music I have from Scandinavia, India, etc...
9) Faith can't fill the dance hall/'cause her powers have declined/but at the beauty pageant/she will always takes the prize.
Sarah Slean, Lucky Me I think part of her appeal to me is how much I like her lyrics.
10) And the man holds a bread-knife/ up to your throat, is four feet wide/and he's anxious just to show you what it's for.
Richard and Linda Thompson, The End of the Rainbow the most depressing song Richard wrote. I guess this was a bit of an unlikely pick; the ones of his I've foisted on other people are his solo work, and I don't think he did this either time at the Folk Fest.
musicmutt's A Well Earned Vacation - bodi_kat beat him to it.14) I am standing in the shadows of the Garden/confessing to the pale moon above
Julian Lennon, Take me Home. This album (Help Yourself) got severe overplay in my later teens. It's still the only work of his I think really hit full potential.
15) They say a city in the desert lies/the vanity of an ancient king/but the city lies in broken pieces/where the wind howls and the vultures sing
Sting, Mad About You
16) You try to draw me in, but still deny the net
Heather Dale, Exile If this isn't one of the ones Brannie thought she got, I'll eat my hat. If I owned a hat. And it was made of something edible.
17) It was later that morning Willy's sister arose/and into their mother's bedchamber she goes/saying mother dearest mother I have had a strange dream/young Willy lies floating in a watery stream.
Oysterband, or rather at the time, The Oyster Band, Lakes of Cool Flynn.
18) I've been willing and strong all along/ through chilling times/in a sea of heartbreak
Clannad, Something to Believe in. Off sirius, the album I've been overplaying since junior high, and the track with Bruce Hornsby, at the time better known, as guest artist.
20) Still I'll sing and I'll be merry for twelvemonth and a day/and if he's not returning, then to anther I will stray.
The Mollys, All Around My Hat I call it version 2.0, as the lyrics have a very different message from Steeleye Span's hit of the same name and tune.
21) I could tell you that the grass is really greener on the other side of the hill/ but I can't communicate with you and I guess I never will.
Sandy Denny, Solo
22) ...Where a cloud and a cloud go by/silently rocking and rocking...
Loreena McKennitt, Mooncradle Honestly, **I** wouldn't have got this one using any of the lyrics without the title in them. But it's the song the dice came up with, and I decided to give it a try.
25) He looked beneath his shirt today/ there was a wound in his flesh so deep and wide/From the wound a lovely flower grew/from somewhere deep inside
Sting, the Lazarus Heart Truly, Sting is not the person I'd have expected to get a double shot on a list like this. But "Mad About You" I'd have probably got on anther list; this one I don't know if I would have.
27) A small town hero never dies/he fades a bit and then he slips/ down into the blast furnace/in the heat of the open hearth...
Emmylou Harris, Blackhawk
30) So does she not take wing like a living thing / child of the moving tide
Stan Rogers, Bluenose. if you haven't heard this song, go find someone who has it and listen. Even for Stan, it's a good 'un.
