Hey, kid, it's secret history

[sovay]

I meant to post this days ago, and forgot: "On Crete, New Evidence of Very Ancient Mariners."

Crete has been an island for more than five million years, meaning that the toolmakers must have arrived by boat. So this seems to push the history of Mediterranean voyaging back more than 100,000 years, specialists in Stone Age archaeology say. Previous artifact discoveries had shown people reaching Cyprus, a few other Greek islands and possibly Sardinia no earlier than 10,000 to 12,000 years ago.

I dreamed last night about centaurs, reporters, blackmail, and murder. It was like Dexter meets the south metopes of the Parthenon.

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[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Very cool!

Is The Owl Service a band, or is that the track by Pram?

[sovay]

Is The Owl Service a band, or is that the track by Pram?

Band; they seem to take much of their repertoire from the Watersons, Martin Carthy, Peter Bellamy and their sound from Sandy Denny and Fairport Convention. Frustratingly, most of their releases have been limited-edition EPs, which means that I can't get my hands on such promising-sounding songs as "Saturnalia Song" and "The Bear Ghost," not to mention their covers of "Fine Horseman" (aside from MySpace) and "Searching for Rowan." I don't know from Pram.

There's "The Owl Service" (a name that seems inspired by the Harry Potter books)

*headdesk*

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

My head went right through the desk, karate style!