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If you recognized the debit card reference, pin a rose on your nose. If not, go here and scroll in 1:35.

If you recognized “pin a rose on your nose,” kick yourself in the nuts. Loser.

Of course, what The Weasel doesn’t know is that we got together in the pub, back in September, and just made a whole load of this crap up to ‘impress the furriner’.

Apple wassailing, eh? Does that draw in the ‘huggers and hippies?

In fact in early New England wassailing was associated with rowdy bands of young men who would enter the homes of wealthy neighbors and demand free food and drink in a trick-or-treat fashion. If the householder refused, he was usually cursed, and occasionally his house was vandalized.

Ahhh…a predecessor of the modern day lib dem.

What?

You can’t fool me. That can’t be real. It was that “fire off shotguns” that gave your game away. Everyone knows that firearms have been banished from the British Isles and replaced by gooseberries. Whatever the hell those are. (I always envision feather-covered fruits with little beaks poking out of the end.)

Not to go all Clavin on you, Andrea, but gooseberries are like currants; they grow on bushes. That and scrub pines are the only foliage that grows on my place.

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Interesting. I just googled gooseberry, and it appears my ranch is in either Europe, Asia, or Africa. No wonder I can’t get the county to plow my driveway.

I saw this on tee-vee over Christmas on a cookery program so I know it exists. They all got shitfaced on scrumpy and then went out with torches and poured cider on the roots of trees and drunkenly danced around. They didn’t have any firearms, but it was still a very weird scene. Southerners.

In fact in early New England wassailing was associated with rowdy bands of young men who would enter the homes of wealthy neighbors and demand free food and drink in a trick-or-treat fashion. If the householder refused, he was usually cursed, and occasionally his house was vandalized.

Ahhh…a predecessor of the modern day lib dem.

Lovely. Another holiday tradition ruined by Liberals… well, in this case, an Xmas carol ruined by Liberal history. Oh joy.

This is one of those “knowledge is power, ignorance is bliss” moments, ain’t it.

“No wonder I can’t get the county to plow my driveway”…

LOL

God bless those pagans and their quaint heathen rituals.

Were the mummers mum, Or did they talk?

We’ve been rambling all the night, And some time of this day
Now returning back again, We bring a garland gay

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B7sH5QLyXY

Oooo, Loreena McKennitt. I do love and have a lot of her music even though she is a bit moonbatty.

“Nor have I ceased to hope that in striving toward harmonious, integrated diversity, we will be guided by collective beliefs that will be life affirming at their core. – LM from her ‘An Ancient Muse’ insert.

Right, stick to the music Loreena, many folks, cultures, ideologies do not have that same vision.

Mummers dance is on ‘The Book of Secrets’

http ://www.quinlanroad.com/explorethemusic/bookofsecrets.asp
(mind the gap and enjoy the other selections)

Anyway, love the instruments, love her search for the Celtic influences, love her choices of interpretation/song…for example…’The Bonny Swans’ (at McGoo’s link, scroll down on the right for that one), Tennyson’s ‘The Lady of Shalott’, ‘The Highwayman’..which is rather a depressing poem, or ‘Dante’s Prayer’.

Prospero’s Speech, from ‘Mask and a Mirror’
http ://www.quinlanroad.com/explorethemusic/maskandmirror.asp

I liked what she did to The Highwayman, too.

…and I didn’t see your reference to it. But I like the poem.

The Bonny Swans always reminds me that if those 3 sisters were me and mine…I would be the one pushed into the water. But…I would return, some way, some how, VENGEANCE would be mine…oh, yes, it would.

‘All Souls Night’ is a good one too and sorta goes with the post..

http ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qQHlWkSM_o&feature=related

What is funny about Loreena-type moonbattery is her exploration of ancient – quite violent – cultures, with a desire for diversity and understanding and whatnot, that would have gotten her roasted as a shishkabob back in the ancient day.
I still have the old Germanic tribal thing coursing through my veins. *strikes a ninja pose*

He, whose name must not be spoken: The Sacred Bear. We Finns take our paganism seriously. Sky god, water/stone god, forest god.

What did you expect? Anyone who believes getting naked out of a smoking hot sauna should be followed with a roll in the snow has to be a little off.

It is invigorating though. My sauna has rocks pulled from Lake Inari for heating. Should I even talk about what that means? Spirits baby.

I have to admit, while Enya is more original with her music, Loreena McKinnett easily has the mark for vocal ability.

I have both in my collection.

I still have the old Germanic tribal thing coursing through my veins. *strikes a ninja pose*

The combination of these two things amuses me to no end.

I’ve always been fond of McKennit’s music, but I kind of make a point not to bother learning about my favorite artists’ political views… too many times I’ve learned they’re all raving Libs and been sorely disappointed. So I enjoy their product (and yeah, no complaints about how much money THEY’RE making, and who else but the raving-Lib musicians were the first to scream bloody murder at the whole Napster ordeal? Not that they aren’t right, but it’s rather hypocritical old chap) and ignore pretty much anything else they have to say.

Ironically, I’m listening to “March of Cambreadth” by Heather Alexander at the time of this post. How can anyone with an interest in anything of this sort not like a song whose main chorus line is “How many of them can we make die?”?

😆

I’m long inured to celebrities whose work I appreciate being complete leftards in real life. Alec Baldwin, a fine comedic talent, is a prime example. The Dixie Chicks, another. k.d. lang, yet another.

Every time I discover someone new whose work I like, I mentally crouch down, awaiting the inevitable stupidities.

NtS:

Man, I’d never heard of Heather Alexander, but that chorus line intrigued me, so I’m listening to it now. Wow!

Nicholas, I don’t want to know any artist’s political views either, but they tend to like to let them be known.

Loreena’s last CD came out a couple of years ago and the insert took an obvious ‘tone’.

Man, I’d never heard of Heather Alexander, but that chorus line intrigued me, so I’m listening to it now. Wow!

It is quite one of my favorites… managed to catch a performance at a RenFest not too long ago. 😀

Nicholas, I don’t want to know any artist’s political views either, but they tend to like to let them be known.

Loreena’s last CD came out a couple of years ago and the insert took an obvious ‘tone’.

I tend to get much of my music secondhand, or through non-physical means (purchase online and DL, etc.), so I tend not to get many of the inserts. The few I do have end up lost pretty quick… although in the case of one like that it might have just found its way to the nearest disposal unit.

I should probably clarify… the performance at the RenFest was not Alexander herself, but someone else performing her song. I discovered Alexander when I got home and went looking for the lyrics and a possible MP3 version for home listening.