I should really stop blogging when I'm in the sort of mood where I take one look at Simon Baker (or something/someone equally alluring) and burst into tears. It's incredibly distracting - imagine you're a cat trying to lick yourself thoroughly, but this human insists on getting your attention with a laser pointer. I am the cat, and the alluring thing is the laser pointer - very irritating, but irresistible.
In other news, I've been listening to some Scottish/Irish/English folk music and I've found some particularly nice pieces off a particularly nice playlist (read: playlist that did not also include American folk music), one of which is now stuck in my head. Much to my parents' alarm, every now and then I go off singing the one line I know ("Napoleon Bonaparte is the cause of my woes") like a cat yelling for a mate. Sometimes it is followed with random yelling of the phrase, "My love, Anachie".
At the rate I'm going, tomorrow the front door of the house will be opened to find that the twenty-odd neighbourhood toms have sprayed their essence de masculinité all over our floor.
In other news, I've been listening to some Scottish/Irish/English folk music and I've found some particularly nice pieces off a particularly nice playlist (read: playlist that did not also include American folk music), one of which is now stuck in my head. Much to my parents' alarm, every now and then I go off singing the one line I know ("Napoleon Bonaparte is the cause of my woes") like a cat yelling for a mate. Sometimes it is followed with random yelling of the phrase, "My love, Anachie".
At the rate I'm going, tomorrow the front door of the house will be opened to find that the twenty-odd neighbourhood toms have sprayed their essence de masculinité all over our floor.
In OTHER, other news - I have joined a graphic designing course in which this fat dude in glasses teaches a housewife, a VisCom student, a fancy lady who looks like the women who smell nice and shop at the Hyatt exhibitions, a guy who looks like his name would be Babu (but whose name is actually something starting with 'J'?) and I, how to use Photoshop. And Illustrator. And some other thingamajiggle software (just found out, thingamajiggle software is InDesign).
I did a graphics course last year, it's really interesting and I hope you enjoy it!
ReplyDeleteAlso, being a Celt of Scotland (and half irish too*), may I direct you through the sewers of Scottish weeeeee'youuuuchs and offer up some ideas of scottish/irish folk music?
- Skerryvore: Scottish Folk-Rock band, and reaaaaally good!
- Sham Rock: Irish Folk Rock band, popular song 'Tell Me Ma' is one used frequently to 'mix things up a bit' at ceilidhs.
- the song 'caledonia'
- the soundtrack to 'Sunshine on Leith', a film based on the songs of the Proclaimers
- 'the wild mountain side'
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywX3vZaE7Hc&list=PLE1_DlmTP8fmZB_Hgre96Oo9C7YQ_eZ7W
- 'lord of the dance'
-'flower of scotland'
- 'auld lang syne'
if you need any more, or these aren't what you were looking for, let me know and i'll try think of something better
** i forgot to add the bands Runrig and Skipinnish
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