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[sebastienne]

While I'm feeling a certain gaping void where Wyrd Sisters should be, I'm also feeling - don't laugh at me here but the best word to describe it really is idyllic. I don't care that it's not really an emotion-word. It's how I'm feeling. like I've achieved something worthwhile. 6 months since I started my most recent paper-journal (in the Narnia notebook Laurie gave me in which to plan my quest) and I feel that the angst I poured out in that first entry has entirely lifted. Back then I was angsting about having no adventure. That I would never do or create anything worthwhile.

I began the diary at the beginning of December. Since then I've fallen into whatever this is with Ashley and James (perfectly pansexual polyamory? I feel we should alliterate, somehow), I've played a major role in a sell-out show, I've taken a load of finals, and despite being so ill I had to go home and be bed-bound for two weeks, I can still honestly say, "I haven't come down since December".

Alia and Sebastienne have never been so in tune, and if you don't know who they are, you probably don't want to.

Reccomend me folk music. Upload me folk music! I want memorable melodies and beautiful harmonies. I want stories in song form.

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[steerpikelet.livejournal.com]

Love you. both of you. lots.

I am loving, loving Regina Spektor at the moment, unfortunately I can't send you any, but apparently it's 'anti-folk'. Other than that, songs with stories...how's your dylan?

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

Dylan, I am ashamed to admit - especially given that I like Leonard Cohen - I can't get into. I'm sure he's an amazing songwriter but his voice rubs me up the wrong way somehow. I am aware that many people will wish damnation on me for having said this.

Regina Spektor I have been told I would adore, but I don't know her at all. Anti-folk, like Jeffrey Lewis, The Chelsea Hotel Oral Sex Song? My favourite example of modern oral poetry? Joy!

[stronglight.livejournal.com]

No, no, no love, you aren't wrong, you've simply missed the point slightly.

Uncle Bob (as he is known among my friends) has a really rather bad voice. Quite terrible. The point is that his lyrics are amazing and beautiful, and not even stories really but poetry because they don't make enough sense to be stories, they're just handfuls of gorgeous words.

Being distinctly un-musical, I tend to like songs almost entirely for their lyrics, so this might not work for you, but why not read some of his lyrics written down and see if they appeal more that way? Here is my favourite...
http://orad.dent.kyushu-u.ac.jp/dylan/queenjan.html

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

you see, that's why i admit it with shame - leonard cohen has a horrible, scratchy voice, but i love to listen to him anyway because his lyrics are like poetry. i don't feel the same about bob dylan... while the lyrics you linked me to are pretty, i'm not feeling moved by them, like i think i want to be by whatever this music i'm looking for right now turns out to be.

if that hideously convoluted sentence made any sense at all.

see you in the lecture this afternoon...

[stronglight.livejournal.com]

hopefully anyway. This is my first lecture of term and I keep forgetting it. Hope I remember to go...!

[jacinthsong.livejournal.com]

I don't know how Regina compares to the rest of the anti-folk scene (would you upload that Jeffrey Lewis song for me? /curious), but I adore her beyond belief. Here be (http://www.sendspace.com/file/3kcg9g) some of my favourites.

(If you're into traditional melodies as well as modern folk, the Wicker Man soundtrack is among my most played albums just now...)

Folk music?

[libellum.livejournal.com]

Storytellers? Cara Dillon. Karine Polwart. Dar Williams. The Silly Sisters. June Tabor. Steeleye Span, and Maddy Prior's solo stuff. Eliza Carthy. Fairport Convention, and Richard Thompson. Show of Hands. Great Big Sea. The Men They Couldn't Hang. Dispatch. I can't upload anything at the moment because I'm at my boyfriend's, although I've posted quite a few mp3s in my journal recently if you fancy hunting back for them :) Get Helen to burn you a CD, perhaps?

[mundi-gaudium.livejournal.com]

Would you like some pretty Australian folk music (http://www.thewaifs.com.au/Waifs.htm)? Gorgeous little West Australian people who sing gorgeous songs about, among other things, their crappy part-time jobs, busking in Cairns, their gay childhood best friends, and their grandmothers.

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

ooh, sounds like fun!

you don't use that msn messenger programme, by any chance, do you?

[mundi-gaudium.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid I do not. Mostly out of fear that it would make me a worse procrastinator than I already am, if such a thing were possible by art or nature...

[anotherusedpage.livejournal.com]

Hmm, having the urge to cheat and link you to the ones Helen linked me to earlier, but not sure about bandwidth and stuff, so I'll let her do it. :)

[opportunemoment.livejournal.com]

Closest I've got to folk music at the moment is Liege And Lief (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=05D3081D387213B2), a Fairport Convention album.

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

ooh, thankee!!

[queerpup.livejournal.com]

A bit different, but I think you would like is English Rebel Songs by Chumbawumba.

Lyrics are here: http://www.chumba.com/ChumbawambaREBELTEXTS1.html

It tends to be minimally accompanied, and they have nice harmonies and stuff.

[threadbarewolf.livejournal.com]

le folk = le sex

you WANT a little man named Jens Lekman. Especially "Put your arms around me" (one of the best songs i've heard in YEARS) and "I met her at the anti-war march" (fairly sure that's the title).

you also want but probably already have Joanna Newsom and Devendra Banhart, king and queen of the new folk movement. TELL THEM STORIES.

you will LOVE Regina Spektor, well done that man.

(also if you want to hear Dylan lyrics sung by sexy sexy continental cabaret singers, check Barb Junger, who has a whole album of it, and Camille O'Sullivan, who is sex personified and also sings Jacques Brel)

LOVELY to hear the happy too. Now I shall go back to shaking my spear...