I might fail math if you don't move your shoulder

[sovay]

Today I have slept less than three hours for the second day in a row and the afternoon just clouded over. Have a couple of links.

1. I can't tell if the BLO's Daughter of the Regiment will be queer enough for its invocation of Deborah Sampson, but then I was distracted by discovering Alex Myers. I blame it on plague that I missed the queer Arthuriana of The Story of Silence (2020).

2. I had an excuse to link Bradley Kincaid's "The Two Sisters" (1928), the oldest version of the ballad I have heard recorded as opposed to seen written down. I used to sing its bleaker descendant by Roger Wilson. Tom Waits does a pretty straight one.

3. Hen Ogledd's "The Loch Ness Monster's Song" (2020) is a setting of Edwin Morgan. It may be the most zaum thing I have encountered since Victory Over the Sun (1913).

For the first time in this apartment, there was an Interloper Cat. Collared and silver-tagged, on the doorless back porch, a substantial ginger and white presence had seated itself in one of the windows with its evident object of a robin in the other. It stared directly through the back door. Hestia was wild. The bird was motionless. I did not let her out and the next time I looked, both bird and interloper had gone.

Comments

[asakiyume]

but then I was distracted by discovering Alex Myers. --They seem like a good person to have in the world, advocating!

Interesting how quick the tempo is in Bradley Kincaid's version of "The Two Sisters." I like it! (I like all three versions, and other versions as well.)

What does zaum mean? (And in what language?)

I did not let her out and the next time I looked, both bird and interloper had gone. --Maybe antimatter or doppelgangers were involved?

[jesse_the_k]

May your sleep return!

[sabotabby]

2. I had an excuse to link Bradley Kincaid's "The Two Sisters" (1928), the oldest version of the ballad I have heard recorded as opposed to seen written down. I used to sing its bleaker descendant by Roger Wilson. Tom Waits does a pretty straight one.

These versions are all new to me, though I must have heard the Tom Waits one at some point!

[gwynnega]

Interloper Cat!

[sholio]

I hope very much that well-deserved sleep will come soon!

As a possible distraction, I continue to post random thoughts about Babylon 5 on Tumblr.

[skygiants]

I was also deeply intrigued by the BLO's invocation of Deborah Sampson and as you may guess all the rest of that bullet point is highly relevant to my interests.

(& I hope you also soon get some better sleep!)