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you all must know his performance of O Death, which the Coens put into O Brother Where Art Thou?

Ralph Stanley was one of the greatest voices, if not The voice of Bluegrass.    So many great songs for so many years. 

So many of our great masters are passing, but at least with Ralph Stanley he made it a good long life.  Thank you, sir, for being the height to which I aspire in traditional music.    His voice is singing in the deepest soundtrack of my heart.  Bless Ralph Stanley for making mountain music and getting it the respect it so richly deserves.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/ralph-stanley-his-10-greatest-performances-20160624


it's the middle of the day, but I think I need to spill a drop of whiskey howsomever.

I'm so proud of my new icon.  I painted it myself as a hex for my new porch.  It uses traditional Pennsylvania Dutch design elements. I'm of that ethnicity, except the West Virginia variant.  :)
The Blue Eight-pointed Star signifies Hospitality.
The Green Rosette is good fortune.
The four hearts, I think of as the Four Minds of Love: Loving Kindness, Compassion, Joy and Equanimity.  I am learning about Godly Love  from the Buddhist perspective of living saint, Thich Nhat Hanh.  :)
The sheaves of Wheat represent abundance, also Bread and Beer, since the porch is a place of welcoming guests. :)
The border is a rainbow of brown, red, yellow and green.  Usually an Amish border is plain brown, signifiying the bounds of earth, but I'm always more rainbow than that, and this has a bit of a Navaho, four directions type meaning -- so that hopefully the harmony will not just be on the porch but throughout the house, grounds, neighborhood, and near universe :)

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Thanks so much everyone for your Fae-themed reccs yesterday.  I love new music.   I always lean toward music that is atmospheric, weird, gloomy, foreboding, magickal, which is why I'm a bit of a heavy metal fan.  :)

Here are some old favorites from my Fae playlist:
( playlist )


So yay, my NaNo is developing a plot as a Quest. Quests work for me.  :D

Drafted my Rose meets Two fic quite suddenly last night!  thanks to Dev for the encouragement! :)

Several spn ficlets are percolating, yay!!

No, it isn't really Sherlock, but it's one of the pieces I very strongly associate with him.

I'm a busker, so let's just say: $32 over the course of two pieces is not bad at all for less than an hour's work. Still he could have tripled his take by choosing a better piece. He's playing Partita No. 2 in D Minor for Solo Violin, BWV 1004: Chaconne, one of my absolute favorites, but it's slow, dissonant and sad,  a terrible choice for busking.  He should have done Flight of the Bumblebee, and then you would see the money flying into his case!!    Or a really good choice would be Suite No. 1 in G Major for Solo Cello, BWV 1007: I. Prelude -- do violinists ever do that one?  Whatever is fast earns the most money -- one of my good friends busked her way around Europe on fast tunes.

Also, Washington DC is very cold to buskers, which is strange considering how it's loaded with tourists.  I think, for example, that busking is forbidden on the National Mall where all the museums are, because it's federal property -- as is much of the City.  So I'm not surprised he didn't make a lot.  I busk at a Farmer's Market, and I live in the suburbs, so that's how I do it.

I'm in the process of ripping my hundreds of CDs... so I was worried the random would be stuff I never listen to.  But it turns out to be a fair cop!  The name of this random mix is 11-11-11 !!!
Wolf Like Me by Lera Lynn (this is that awesome song off a recent Doctor playlist!)
3 am by Matchbox Twenty (I freely admit that I have a weird weakness for Rob Thomas, tho my favorites are Push and Smooth)
Lay Your Hands on Me by Thompson Twins (I del'd this to burn a CD... my fave Thompson Twins song, natch, is Hold Me Now)
Jack O'Diamonds by Odetta (MY IDOL, THE GREAT ODETTA)
Nothing Else Matters by Apocalyptica (MASTERPIECE ON SO MANY LEVELS!!)
Somebody Knocking by Robert Plant (from Mighty Rearranger) (I del'd this in favor of the other Robert song)
O Pato  by Coleman Hawkins (from Next Stop Wonderland) (I don't actually speak Portuguese but we love Brasil and the music)
Run to the Hills by Iron Maiden (Yes, I am a Metalhed)
Bye Bye Bird by Sonny Boy Williamson (.... and a blues fan)
All this and Nothing by Sponge (from The Craft)  (I buy cheap soundtracks at the used CD store)
Ant by French Silk (from We Might be Giant Too!) (I had to del this,  these covers are wack!)
Time after Time, by John Barrowman (from Another Side)  (this is one of JB's best covers in my humble opinion)
E Preciso Muito Amor by Chico Da Silva  (another great Bossa Nova)
My Girl by the Temptations (the old classic)
Who's that Girl by Eurhythmics  (I LOVE ANNIE LENNOX)
I Was Made to Love Her by Stevie Wonder  (a great old classic)
Rewind by Paolo Nutini  (weakness for dark eyed boys with Scottish accents)
Heroes by David + David  (one of my favorite albums of all time)
Hey Joy by Body Count (from Stone Free: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix) (this is a great tribute album with so many great covers on it)
Meanwhile Rick James by Cake (I LOVE CAKE)
Aguas de Marco by Antonio Carlos Jobim  (one of my favorite songs of this year, esp. the cover by Anya Marina)
Argentina by Corina Nolting (I del'd this, tho it is a very pretty lullaby)
St. Andrew (This Battle Is In the Air)  by The White Stripes  (a wacky song my husband loves)
Morning Dew by Robert Plant, from Dreamland (I kept this, it's very pretty)
Anxiety by The Black Eyed Peas  (fun)
One Step Over the Line by King Swamp (I LOVE THIS BAND NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD OF -- featuring Dominic Miller, Dave Allen, and singer Walter Wray)