Cloak and Candle: Child Ballads

(no, not Children's ballads, the guy who composed them, his last name was child)

A list of some of my favourites:

The Outlandish Knight (Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight)

The Cruel Sister

Twa Corbies

Tam Lin

Sir Patrick Spence

Matty Groves

Favourites

Favourite Novels: The Secret Garden, Death's Master, Sushi for Beginners, Howl's Moving Castle, The Italian, Far from the Madding Crowd.

Favourite Graphic Novels: Tale of the Moon, Queen's Knight, Operation Liberate Men, Crazy Girl Shin Bia, Daughter of the Nile.

Favourite Anime: Berserk, Saint Seiya, Revolutionary Girl Utena, Blue Submarine No. 6, Maria Watches Over Us.

Favourite Band: Steeleye Span

Other bands/singers I like: Fairport Convention, Martin Carthy, Le Vent Du Nord, Loreena McKennit, The Unthank Sisters, John Renbourne, Show of Hands, Karine Polwart, Clannad, The Decemberists, Blind Guardian, Sonata Artica.

Songs I love: Steeleye: Female Drummer, Lowlands of Holland, Boys of Bedlam, King Henry, Sheep-crook and Black Dog, The Blacksmith (both fast and slow versions), Royal Forrester, Lady Diamond. Fairport/Sandy: Sir Patrick Spens, Crazy Man Michael, Matty Groves, Tam Lin, Banks of the Nile.

Favourite TV Shows: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Frasier, Aircrash Investigations, 30 Rock, (early) Futurama, Whose Line is it Anyway?, Less than Perfect, The Simpsons, The IT crowd, Father Ted, Beauty and the Beast, Meerkat Manor.

Favourite Movies: Disney films: Mulan, Beauty and the Beast, The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Others: Om Shanti Om, Oh! Mr. Porter, Goldiggers of the 1930s, 42nd Street, Like the Clouds Like the Wind, Hot Fuzz.

Favourite Fairytales: The Firebird and Six Swans.

My specialist historical period: Crusades, First to Third.

Game Series I follow: Bioware (KOTOR, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, NWN), Harvest Moon Games, Elder Scrolls (Oblivion/Morrowind) Heroes of Might and Magic, The Sims.

Quotes

"The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears them; he delivers them from all their troubles. The LORD is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit."
-Psalm 34:17-18

"He takes loyalty and good faith as his first principles, and has no friends who are not up to his own standard."
-Analects, Book 1, Confucius

"Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

A wretched soul, bruised with adversity,
We bid be quiet when we hear it cry;
But were we burdened with like weight of pain,
As much or more we should ourselves complain.
- William Shakespeare

"The young do not love, though they think they do."
- Andreas the Chaplain

"This shows that women do better than men. They go to
hell they get sent back again"
- Folk saying

"A subculture of hard-nosed realism and hyper-rationality, in a world that claims as part of it's superiority its vigilant purging of all nonrational elements, and in which people carefully excise from their discourse every possible trace of soft sentimentality, as if purging dangerous nonsterile elements from a lab"
-Cohn, Defence Intellectuals.

"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently"
-Nietzsche

Cloak and Candle

Monday 19 April 2010

Child Ballads

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