Would you turn me away if the walls were all I could see in your face?

[sovay]

I do somewhat resent that the first time I remember my dreams in weeks, they are nightmares about attending a convention, having to fight off a serial killer, and then contracting some kind of life-threatening alien infection, which is definitely way too high a ratio of pulp to anxiety if you ask me.

On the other hand, I spent much of the afternoon being interviewed by a grad student for her master's thesis in folklore: she is studying the music of Jewish partisans in WWII and the creation of liminal spaces through song and I felt like a one hundred and ten percent ringer and I had a wonderful time.

The recording I made for Jeannelle M. Ferreira can now be found with author's notes on her blog: "October Ghosts and Minor Resurrections: An Audio Excerpt."

The world continues fractured and frightening, but people build fires, and within the circle of the light, even if only for a little while, things may be all right.

Comments

[selkie]

There are a few of those, of varying production value! Excuse raw links, I’m on my tiny pocket computerphone:

https://www.amazon.com/Partisans-Vilna-Songs-Jewish-Resistance/dp/B001076Z1A But buy the DVD if you can find, it comes with a better copy

https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Fight-Songs-Jewish-Partisans/dp/B0027IC28G/ref=mp_s_a_1_6?dchild=1&keywords=partisan+songs&qid=1603165499&sr=8-6

And there are at least two more my internet searchery is failing me at, both newer!

[sovay]

Excuse raw links, I’m on my tiny pocket computerphone

I've been hunting the second of those unsuccessfully for years! Because Theodore Bikel. I . . . don't suppose you've got?

[selkie]

This is how you know I would walk through fire for you:



....
....I will ask Teddy.

[sovay]

....I will ask Teddy.

Oh, my God.