#and it’s a mandolin

[gossip-girl-of-middleearth]

Serenading people with lutes is not all it’s cracked up to be, and let me tell you why

It’s my coworker’s birthday tonight and she wrote ME a really lovely card detailing everything SHE loved about ME (my coworker is a sweetie, in case it wasn’t obvious — also, the whole card was about her thinking I’m hilarious and loving my one liners, told you guys I’m funny)

Anywho, I have little-to-no time to write her a card for her dinner tonight, so bring my lute to play her Happy Birthday instead

It’s a hoot, I’m a hoot, people loved it

There’s a cute blonde boy there who’s really intrigued in my lute so I start teaching him the diatonic scale, and halfway through he just starts tuning the lute like a guitar and I just—

p a i n

[switchscene]

A punk house is a magical place. Like, no really it is. The one I spend time at, it's down in Florida and it's one of the only music venues in the city that's not centered around sex or drinking. It's run by local queer punks, there's a "dorm" where you can sleep if you're having a a bad time at home, there's space for traveling bands to spend the night after a show, there's a community garden and a pop up shop and once it's autumn there's a bonfire most nights. We see so many shows there, and hang out and do art together, and recently we had a big fundraiser to keep it there another year. It was my band's biggest show we've ever played and it was the best time ever <3

Here's us closing our set with To Risk To Live by Days N Daze, follow us (Twig and Leaf) on Instagram and if you're ever in South Georgia or North Florida, hit us up and we can jam together.

[capy-123rs]

Me and bro in another universe(s)

They remind me of this song, but that might just be because it’s my favorite song and there my favorite characters lol

[mattastr0phic]

Daffodil - SCP

The daffodil often symbolizes rebirth and new beginnings. Dear, we've had a lot of those. And we'll see them for eternity, hand in hand. I'd have no one else.

Song: Daffodil by Florence and The Machine

(YT vers for frames under cut)

[copperbadge]

I took a survey when I left the Country Music Hall of Fame that asked me about "artifacts" in the collection, which isn't wrong but did crack me up as a term to use, so here are two of my favorite weird artifacts:

The photo of the front seat of the car is just so unhinged. I'm going to do the description of it here because I want to make sure you guys notice that this is a white open-top car with front hybrid bench-bucket seats upholstered in leather, but that is where the normalcy ends. The door handles on both outside and inside are made of SIX SHOOTERS with mother-of-pearl grips, the sun shades are embossed leather flaps like cowboy boots might look if you flattened them, and between the two front seats where the gearshift normally goes is a large saddle covered in silver dollars. The horn of the western-style saddle might be the gearshift, it's tough to say. According to a placard nearby, this is the Nudie Mobile, so called because it was customized by "Nudie's Rodeo Tailors" which did a lot of early costume design for country performers.

This image looks more normal but I promise you it is not.

This is a Gibson F-5 mandolin, billed in the placard as the most famous mandolin in American music history, which seems like a low bar to clear, but I'm not a mandolin aficionado. Again, for an image ID, it is an extremely worn-looking eight-string instrument, a fairly standard modern mandolin. It has a number of bare patches and scratches on the soundboard. Wanna know why?

It's because this famous mandolin belonged to Bill Monroe, who bought it from a barbershop (how a Gibson made by Lloyd Loar got into a barbershop is a mystery) in the 40s. He played it for decades until 1985, when an intruder broke in and beat the mandolin to pieces with a fireplace poker. So what you're seeing in that image is the original Gibson -- reassembled from about 150 splintered pieces by Gibson company. Monroe kept playing it, including in recordings, until he died in 1996.

I have to say, I spent maybe five, ten minutes standing in front of it, leaning this way and that, looking like an idiot I'm sure as I tried to detect seams and cracks where it was reassembled, and whoever at Gibson put this back together did a spectacular job. For all it looks kicked to shit in this picture, it looks fantastic in person.

[vintagehomecollection]

In an Irish House, 1988

[kdo-three]

Musician Michelle is Mad About Her Mandolin Michelle Angelo c.1960s

[kamodofilez]

When the lamb was younger, their father would play the mandolin often, especially when they would rest under tree shades on a nice sunny afternoon, where the breeze felt just right and the crops were starting to show promise. Days where the lamb could forget of all their problems and just listen to the soothing notes of the mandolin play.

And then they woke up.

Maybe some time after their resurrection, they would pick up the mandolin and practice, trying to remember how their father would’ve played it. They figure it out… eventually.

They never really have time to play it, being a cult leader and all (and then becoming a god too), but eventually they find a reason to take a break every so often, and bring out that old mandolin once more. And although they’ll never be able to truly play in the same way their father would’ve, they’d like to think they play well enough.

The kids don’t seem to mind it.

[thatsbelievable]

[r-aindr0p]

Ye olden French

It was at that moment that Frederic started to question the age and sanity of Lilia

Used a french medieval literature text from 1530~ (Pantagruel ) as a quotation for Lilia and I believe the exact sentence is about a character complaining to Death about the passing of his wife after she gave birth to their son. I just took something randomly in the text that didn’t sound too weird either because that book is rather stange…

Alright little bonus here because medieval Lilia popped up in my mind

[moonlight]

Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001) dir. John Madden

[jouyato]

À la fenêtre recélant Le santal vieux qui se dédore

[electrozeistyking]

@k1k0oftheworld accidentally gave me an idea. I couldn’t rest until I drew it, so here it is: these funny guys as disassembly drones.

[fine-arts-gallery]

The Mandolin (1866) by James Smetham.

[acrosscenturiesandgenerations]

▪︎ Arch-top guitar (style O Artist).

Maker: Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Company

Date: ca. 1918

Place of origin: Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States

Medium: Birch, spruce, mahogany, ebony, ivory, mother-of-pearl, plastic, steel, copper, nickel silver