I am a lass who alas loves a lad who alas has a lass loves another lad who once I had in Canterbury

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Yesterday I did almost nothing at all, which considering how much interaction my last four to six days involved (my God, it's like a social life) was actually fine. I had a voice lesson. I watched some Caprica (2010). I got paid for a poem. I proofread a book.

Today was also quiet: I met Matthew Timmins in Porter Square and we got lunch in the form of sushi from Miso Market (very tasty, befitting their nice writeup in the Boston Globe) and talked for hours about a variety of things not limited to alternate histories or umbrellas and including his unpublished, terrific novel, which took off the top of my head over the weekend. rushthatspeaks called while we were discussing either family geographies or Paranoia, but I called them back on the bus.

I came home and seem to have celebrated this year's Valentine's Day by watching The Ladykillers (1955) and eating pizza. I can't tell what conclusions to draw from that, except that Criterion should put out a box set of Sandy Mackendrick. Alec Guinness plays a wonderful Alastair Sim.

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[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Hurrah for pay for poetry!

I'm glad you've had pleasant-sounding quiet days.

I came home and seem to have celebrated this year's Valentine's Day by watching The Ladykillers (1955) and eating pizza.

Sounds appropriate enough.

I apparently celebrated SS. Cyril and Methodius Day by sessioning in Hamden. I had a terrible time getting into a parking space because people can't park properly in that perdition of a parking lot and wound up sitting in an awkward place due to lack of chairs; it actually proved to be a fairly comfortable seat, other than getting poked in the knee with a flute every so often, and once the V-day dining crowd left the place proved quiet enough that I could sing "The Errant Apprentice"* without pushing my voice to the point of making myself cough.

*I was on the point of singing Brian McNeil's "The Devil's Only Daughter" ("Now I've had a drink or two, just enough to tell you true/If you'll keep frae interrupting me again./You're quarter saint and quarter witch...") but a friend asked me for the other one and I saw it was a better choice besides.

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Hurrah for pay for poetry!

I'm always happy!

Brian McNeil's "The Devil's Only Daughter" ("Now I've had a drink or two, just enough to tell you true/If you'll keep frae interrupting me again./You're quarter saint and quarter witch...")

I don't know that one!

"The Errant Apprentice" is a good song for Valentine's Day, though.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

I don't know that one!

It's a great favourite of mine for certain situations, such as singing sessions where three people in a row have sung utter sentimental rubbish.
Here you be:

Brian McNeill: "The Devil's Only Daughter" (from: The Busker and the Devil's Only Daughter (1990))

And, whiles we're at it, another of his off the same record:
Brian McNeill: "The Busker" (from: The Busker and the Devil's Only Daughter (1990))

"The Errant Apprentice" is a good song for Valentine's Day, though.

I'd like to think so. It's got a comforting touch of cynicism without being a full-bore blast of loathing.

Bill Watkins, who wrote it, actually turns out to be a friend of a friend. Small world, and all of that.

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Here you be

Thank you!

Bill Watkins, who wrote it, actually turns out to be a friend of a friend. Small world, and all of that.

Hey, you can tell him in person about the suitability of his songs.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

Most welcome!

Hey, you can tell him in person about the suitability of his songs.

I'd have to go to Minneapolis to do it in person, unfortunately.* But I suppose I could ask her to pass it on to him. Maybe, if I said it on her FB, he'd even see it; I'm thinking he might be on there.

*No immediate plans to do that, but if I ever do I'm hoping we'll be introduces.