Mariners; their Rimes and Revenge songs

I've finally got around to listening to the Decemberists properly; while I initially agreed that they sound a bit nasal, in the end I was won over by such wonderful songs as "The Mariner's revenge song". Alas, not available online, but I do recommend 16 Military wives.

At 8 minutes, 33 seconds long, "The Mariner's revenge song" is the second longest song about Mariners that I know. This is the longest, courtesy of the Maiden, at 13 and a half minutes. This is a video of the live* version. That means that people went to a concert, and they played it. Including the creaking ship sound effects and the Coleridge voiceover.

In other maiden news, apparently They did follow him to India, regardless of how "tired by the combat, pain and the glory they were.

People less concerned with dubious metal; and more with the semantics of classical proof theory will be glad to hear that the thesis proceeds apace...


P.S. By the way, did we really miss the song about Dune?:

"He is the Kwizatz Haderach.
He is born of Caladan
And will take the Gom Jabbar"

*I don't mean a live video feed, but a video recording of a live performance. When Bruce Dickinson has to perform any works live on the net to support his fencing habit, we'll know he's fallen on hard times, but the Rime live 24 hours a day? That would be one desperate man.

The Shining

As presented by Hollywood, today:
Shining Redux
(via Metafilter)

Ugh

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Originally uploaded by Omission.

A void musical...

I had a thought in't north, with Will, that a particular book of P*r*c's might form a good musical. Avoiding an obvious pitch would cast it in syzygy with said work's raison d'-- you know. Not that i know this work, but Tom and Richard say good things...

I don't know if any of you did try this at all , but it's bloody difficult.

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Tom has chastised me for keeping silent, so here is a cobbled together mid-thesis post:

Agony: Mrs. Omission brings home a notice she wrote for work and it was written in the forbidden typeface. I suitably chastised her.

Gypsy whimsy: Mrs. O. makes up for this with a great story about a gypsy who came to the door to try to sell "enchanted gyspy stones", which turned out to be marbles.

Organic goodness: Went to the Organic Food Festival in Bristol. Decided not to buy an Ox-tongue, purely because it was very hot that day and I doubted being able to get it home on time. Instead I bought lots of vegetables, including tomatillos (small green mexican tomatolike things of goodness).

Well, back to the grindstone. I should be able to post my progress so far in a couple of days --- I know how much you all enjoy reading my academic outpourings.

I am so Mathcore.