Title: St. James’ Infirmary Blues
Artist: Cab Calloway (as Koko The Clown)

// Folk Ballad Cycle - Post #2

/ One of The Unfortunate Rake folksong cycle’s most well-known splinters, the jazz/blues standard ‘St James’ Infirmary’. Recorded in this instance for the Fleischer Brothers 1933 animated short, Snow White.

#The Unfortunate Rake  #Folk Ballad Cycle  #St. James' Hospital  #Cab Calloway  #Fleischer Brothers  #Betty Boop  #Race To The Bottom  
∞  May 01, 2013
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Title: I Won't Hurt You Artist: The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band
#The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band  
∞  May 01, 2013
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Title: One Morning in May Artist: Hally Wood

// Folk Ballad Cycle - Post #1

/ The Unfortunate Rake folksong cycle exists in various writings as far back as 1790, but is thought to have been part of an oral tradition that reaches back much further.

/ At some point in history, the story and its protagonists splinter: some are female, some are male; some fall victim to their own vices, some become the victims of others. But at all stages of the song’s evolution, it’s a funereal dirge - a moralistic lament for sinners and the sinned upon.

#The Unfortunate Rake  #Folk Ballad Cycle  #Hally Wood  #St. James' Hospital  #Smithsonian Folkways Records  #Race To The Bottom  
∞  April 30, 2013
// Eilish Macintosh, Collection #1 [detail]   Central St. Martins M.A., 2013

// Eilish Macintosh, Collection #1 [detail]
   Central St. Martins M.A., 2013

#Eilish Macintosh  #Race To The Bottom  
∞  April 23, 2013
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// Dear Rufus Jones,

/ So. [gumby pause]
I see that you happen to possess Austen/Du Maurier satire powers…

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/ …which have been endorsed/furthered by The Queen (All Hail Julia Davis).

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/ It also appears that - upon occasion - you make a pretty wonderful woman. (Also: a pretty wonderful ‘Terry-Jones-as-woman’.)

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/ And it has not escaped notice that you are also [deep breath] a puppet fox on a programme that once pitched itself based upon ‘The Muppet Show’.

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/ CUT IT OUT. I’M DYING OVER HERE.

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// Yours sincerely, Lamest-Girl-Alive

#Rufus Jones  #Hunderby  #Julia Davis  #HGGNNFF  
∞  April 04, 2013

// Class Act
Dan Fox on Pretension, Frieze [2009]

/ Includes and muses upon Brian Eno’s (simplistic?) take on the matter, from A Year with Swollen Appendices [1996]:

// I decided to turn the word ‘pretentious’ into a compliment. The common assumption is that there are ‘real’ people and there are others who are pretending to be something they’re not. There is also an assumption that there’s something morally wrong with pretending. My assumptions about culture as a place where you can take psychological risks without incurring physical penalties make me think that pretending is the most important thing we do. It’s the way we make our thought experiments, find out what it would be like to be otherwise.

#Brian Eno  #Dan Fox  #Frieze  #Pretension  
∞  April 02, 2013
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#Hunderby  #Julia Davis  #Rufus Jones  #Alexandra Roach  
∞  March 25, 2013
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via ham-solo
#Black Books  #None Of That  #Or Any Of The Others  #Dylan Moran  #Bill Bailey  
∞  January 31, 2013
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via golden-brown
You’re a wizard, Dimitri. F’real.

You’re a wizard, Dimitri. F’real.

#Shostakovich  #Symphony No. 5 in D minor Op. 47  
∞  December 12, 2012
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// If all you want to do is put everything behind you, why don’t you go to sleep?
You know? Maybe they want it all too quickly. Maybe they feel that if they bang this stuff back into their head, it’s going to give them some sort of experience that is needed. […]
Let’s rehearse, let’s have a drink, let’s have another go at it, let’s blast our way through into another area, let’s find something new.

John Hurt [on substances and their use/abuse]
BBC6 Music, 21st March 2010

#John Hurt  #Race To The Bottom  
∞  December 05, 2012