Spirits make laugh at us lots.

[kiya]

Right. Spent chunks of the evening seriously overloading my cope. At one point, in the middle of a round of manic pacing, I threw the thought at the music list, "Okay, now what?" It responded by playing "Ground". Er, right, that would be a good idea. So I sat. ("Be still, though chaos reigns around you now".) And I did Ha prayer. ("Close your eyes. Try to breathe.") And I laughed at myself a bit.

Verdict on Nuit oil: It makes me smell like a girl. We are not certain about this. However, the mindwrench that it inflicts on me as a result of this is amusing to play with.

Meanwhile, commentary on the date, though not the day as I have not yet slept:

Then Bridget she declared
That she was not prepared
To watch us dance to the tune of Elsie Marley
She said I'll sing you all a song
And you'll want to sing along
If you listen to the wind that shakes the barley

And the song that she sang
Could be heard for miles around
The air was full of harmony
You should have heard the sound
As we gathered up our differences
And threw them in the air
And gave them to the wind that shakes the barley

--"Harvest of the Moon", Steeleye Span

Comments

[brooksmoses]

I've heard of them! I found a CD of theirs ("Come Away to the Hills") at a library booksale around here, and bought it because it looked interesting.

[davidgoldfarb.livejournal.com]

In fact Come Away to the Hills is the album that has the very song I mentioned.

I think that the Good Parts Version of it is a really great folk-rock album. Said GPV is the album itself minus "Welcome in the May" (which I find somehow a little too tittersome), the title track aka "The Bard's Exhortation to the Salaryman" (ironically enough...but it's too smug), and "Sunday Afternoon in Upper Wallop" (what were they thinking on that one??).

[brooksmoses]

Ah, it is indeed. I actually like the title track, because despite the smugness there are times when I get stuck in trying to do work all the time (the perils of blending home and workplace too much) and it does speak to that for me -- even if half my emotional reaction is "I don't have time to drop everything right now," it's good to have the urge reawakened. Or something.

I haven't a clue what they were thinking on "Sunday Afternoon", either, yeah....