#bottletrees

[dogsaver-blog]

Brachychiton discolor by Linda De Volder Via Flickr: Tenerife. Costa del Silencio. Brachychiton discolor is a rainforest tree of eastern Australia. It grows in drier rainforest areas. Common names include lacebark tree, lace kurrajong, pink kurrajong, scrub bottle tree, white kurrajong, hat tree and sycamore. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachychiton_discolor

[almostasenior]

Folklore And Tradition Come Together In The Garden

Fork lore and culture come together in the garden

Honey Horn Garden-Hilton Head Island, South Carolina Planting a garden of your favorite greens is a relaxing hobby and provides healthy foods to support your well being. Eating a salad before the main course of your meal aids in digestion, provides your body with plenty of nutrients, and adds fiber to your diet. Mustard greens are a great source of calcium, vitamins A, B, C, and D and are…

[jennyfromthebes]

2013-06-22 at Bottletree, Birmingham AL, taped by ezralite23

Selected from the 2013 Peter+John duo tour; for reasons that are probably obvious in current context. This entire show is fantastic, I've never been very good at actually hearing the bass in recordings, but especially on the piano songs it's impossible to deny just how vital a presence it is. Thank you to Peter Hughes for all the many storied years and uncountable kickass live shows, and cheers to whatever the future's got in store.

The Mountain Goats collection on the Live Music Archive has 450+ live recordings and spans from 1992 to present day! Live Tapes Tuesday is a weekly post aiming to bring attention to the diligent taping efforts of the tMG community by spotlighting a different tape every week. // What’s the Live Music Archive?

[whiteshipnightjar]

it was in fact the bottle tree performance, https://youtu.be/BEIH7FUwbfE?si=64ZjkgnrFc3vzMes&t=3589. According to this, it's either Neal Morgan or Dan Cantrell, https://rateyourmusic.com/release/unauth/joanna-newsom/live-at-bottletree-in-birmingham-11_25_2006/

Woohoo! Thanks for the update haha I love Joanna and Neal’s harmonies, their voice timbres sounds so lovely together.

[femmeterypolka]

i likethe van dyke parks arrangement of course, but whenever i listen to live at the bottletree i wish this is what ys the album sounded like . if it did sound like that it might be my favorite jnew album

[lancenobleblackwick]

monkey and the bear live at the bottletree cafe incident, 13 injured, six dead

[serjaimelannister]

you know how medieval peasants became afflicted by that sickness where they would keep up their mass frenzied dancing to the point of injury and death. well that’s what would happen to me if i were alive in 1402 and heard 7:22 onwards of monkey & bear (live at bottletree 2006)

[stewy]

I SAW THE SAWDUST AND DIAMONDS VISION. i was going through genius and reading her lyrics and literally half an hour after i sent that ask i was like holy jesus sawdust and diamonds is SOOO hameron. proceeded to get the bottletree version on the aux and cried myself to sleep <3

[itdoesnotsuffice]

last 3 minutes of Only Skin Joanna Newsom Live at the Bottletree Cafe save me.................

[zhanteimi]

Joanna Newsom - Live at Bottletree in Birmingham

USA, 2006, singer-songwriter / chamber folk / progressive folk I can’t believe an audience* was so mean to beautiful Joanna that she walked off stage in the middle of her set! I bet the Twilight and the Mist indignantly followed her.*not the audience on this bootleg

[ajoytobeheld]

Stars and stripes

January 31st, 2009

So we’ve been in the mighty U S of A for nearly two weeks now and it feels like the time has come to update you guys on some Los Camp! touring antics…the crazy rock n’ roll lifestyle we lead…ahem. Also, today is one of the longest travel days of the tour and boredom inevitably leads to blogging (and daydreams about Marks and Spencers food at petrol stations, god you bastards are lucky). First of all we were going to do a completely hand-drawn picture blog, but we have a short attention span so we gave up, but one has made it in as proof of our good intentions. So going back to the beginning…

We flew into the bright lights of NYC to be greeted by our lovely tour manager Joe…complete with jaunty cap (oh how we’ve missed that cap), fancy tour itineraries and personalised baseball card laminates.

It has to be said, the initial delight of having a laminated baseball card with our names on it has kinda worn off - me and Ellen have had some pretty confused looks from bouncers when trying to get into our own shows by waving our laminates at them. I guess they kind of have a point.

But yeah, New York was awesome as always; we only got to spend a day there but we experienced some new places in Brooklyn:

Gareth got excited about some glorious vegan-friendly fudgy cake, me and Ellen got excited about the chance to raid through Beacon’s closet, everyone else was probably excited for some other reason…more importantly though, we went bowling.

And I’m not mature enough not to gloat about winning, so woohoo (I, Ellen, would like to now point out that I may have come last, but it was my choice to fail so dismally). I think the boys are recovering slowly but surely. We played an instore at Soundfix, and then raced across to Habouken where Titus Andronicus were playing with Vivian Girls. Sadly, our poor little jetlagged selves couldn’t handle a late night so we had to leave promising the Titus boys plenty of future partying on tour.

So the first proper show was at Baltimore…this is what it looked like from where Ellen was standing:

She drew it whilst playing bass and juggling with knives. It was our first chance to hang out a little with the Titus boys; the start of something beautiful.

In Carborro we celebrated Tom’s birthday:

there was cake, animal birthday candles, an on-stage birthday singalong…everything to make him feel every part the birthday boy. He loved it:

We played 3 shows in Florida, where the tour motto of Bromance was born after Titus and the boys shared a hotel room for the night. We can’t elaborate on what happened, but how about we just all let our imaginations do the work.

While we were in Tampa, Gareth spent the whole day on a mission to claim the top 3 places on “Puzzle Bobble” leader board, only to be creamed by a local after her first go on it.

The Bottletree in Birmingham was one of the prettiest venues we’ve ever played, and had an amazing array of things to keep us amused in the backstage area: rubiks cubes, massage chairs, Connect 4, ‘The Complete Guide to Erotic Cinema’, Rosie O’Donnell’s biography, Hulk boxing gloves, an ataris, some lint.

Then we played a show in Memphis where the crowd were probably the best we’ve ever had. That made us happy. The next day we realised two of our glock beaters had mysteriously disappeared…So we’re going to go ahead and throw it out there that perhaps they may be somewhere in Memphis… Of course it could just be that we lost them. We’re pretty scatty. Either way: Glock Beaters Number 11 and 12 (average lifespan is 3 months) we miss you.

We had some time off in New Orleans so we all got up to some interesting things:

Todge had a cheeseburger for breakfast. Ellen got her hair done so now she’s a bit ginger. I’m talking her through it. I went to a Voodoo temple and got some blessed “success” oil. Me and Ellen dabbed some on yesterday, so I’m sure success is imminent. Ollie and Tom sampled the local doughnuts, bought some postcards, did some laundry. Gareth found a vegan friendly cafe. Neil found a burger place. We all tried typical Creole cuisine which was yummy and then we might have had some group outings to establishments on Bourbon Street. We probably watched some Family Guy somewhere along the way.

[Your favourite bloggers on Bourbon Street]

To sum up we’ve learnt some important lessons so far:

1. Pickled products are the height of popularity…some “favourites” we’ve come across are pickled pigs feet/noses and pickled sausages

2. Eric from T.A. can solve any rubiks cube 3. Barely Legal>Big Daddies>Little Darlings 4. Which venues can cater for vegans. 5. No one leaves N.O.L.A. with any dollar bills left in their wallet. 6. I (Ellen) am fairly certain I am not a cylon. But I can’t be sure.

The audiences have been amazing throughout, thank you lovely people for coming and making us feel welcome and liked.

Lots of love, Aleks and Ellen xxx

p.s

somewhere along the way this happened...

[almostasenior]

Shell Circle

Coastal Discovery Garden-Hilton Head Island South Carolina. Part of an age old culture of capturing spirits or leaving an offering. Have a happy day 🙂 Alice One Word Sunday/Circle

[byeolsan-c]

槭葉蘋婆 | Flame Bottletree

[ghostbloggerghost]

Bottle Trees

in which I do research and am excited about future ghost hunting

11/10/2020

Welcome back once again, it’s been the longest week, but thankfully with at least a somewhat positive outcome. Hopefully this helps us to build speed toward a better future- not slow us down to complacency. 

As for Ghost Blogger news- this week I ended up doing a little research actually! The tree with bottles on it at Old Linda’s place has caught my eye a couple times. I ended up looking into it a bit more- “Bottle Trees” are a curious thing to find around New England, or at least not all that common. They tend to be found in southern parts of the US, though they have morphed into an almost common garden decoration, so they can be found throughout the US as well as other parts of the world now. Today, they can be used purely for decoration, but can also hold almost magic or spiritual properties. The intent is to either ward off, or trap, evil spirits or Imps inside the bottle at night. They become lost and can’t get out of the (often colored or painted) bottle, and so perish in the morning sunlight. 

It seems as though this modern interpretation isn’t too far off from some of its possible origins. Most seem to attribute bottle trees as originating around the 9th century in the Kingdom of Kongo in central Africa. They held a similar belief that bad or evil spirits could be trapped in bottles placed near or around one's house at night, and then destroyed the following day when the sun rose. One could also then cork the bottle and throw it into a river to wash away the evil spirit. They also held a tradition of honoring those who have passed away by surrounding the grave with sticks that had plates attached to them. Some combination of these things seems to have mixed with like minded traditions involving glass bottles across Europe, and then traveled to the Americas with enslaved peoples. So, like so much of American culture, this again seems to be a tradition that was re-created among enslaved peoples, before morphing, being appropriated, and being watered down into what it is today. I’ll put some links at the bottom of this post for where I found some of my reading in case any of you are curious. It was interesting, and I always enjoy learning things. This subject would probably be better researched utilizing your local library if it’s safe to do so where you live.

But regardless, it seems safe to say that the bottle tree in Old Linda’s yard is probably meant for protection in some way? Though it is possible she just thought it was pretty. I guess maybe the cat is drawn to it? Or it’s doing a bad job of keeping things away… Perhaps she would listen if I tried to tell her what I’ve seen? Not sure.

My buddy from work did end up lending me a bit of ghost hunting stuff. Including these like, sick night vision goggles. I guess him and his brother used to go exploring in woods and graveyards and stuff so he has a bit of stuff that they had pooled money to get. He says I can use it, with the pandemic and it getting colder he probably won’t be needing it too soon. I have to be careful with this stuff though. Some of it looks really expensive. 

Him and his brother even have some footage of like, what could be a UFO, something that could be a Bigfoot (from around here!) and something he says could be a ghost or orb or something. (The last one honestly looks like dust or like a weird light thing. And the UFO honestly looks like…. a plane… but hopefully he isn’t reading this.) The Bigfoot one is definitely a weird “Something In The Woods” though. 

Tim, and I were checking out all the stuff in the living room, talking about things we could do, and maybe how to plan a short camping trip to catch something on footage. My gf wanders through and rolls her eyes. She doesn’t really believe in this stuff the way my roommate, my co-workers, and I do. She sometimes comes along, but I think she just likes getting outside. My roommate's partner, who got laid off because of the whole Pandemic thing, has been staying with us too. Which is obviously fine, shit’s tough. Honestly he is super chill and a great cook, BUT he sides with my gf. He really isn’t into ghosts and shit. He does like horror movies a ton though. I mean, He met my roommate because Tim works at the same horror themed pizza shop I do. Both of them will tag along sometimes but, again, they both just like hanging out and being outside anyway. Tim’s Partner, Andrew, has recently been trying to “be a streamer”? Like with video games online. I actually don’t see him around that much because I think he made his sleep schedule weird. 

So- more of a research and ‘what could come’ update but you know the drill. Stay Haunted!

https://www.appalachianhistory.net/2018/06/bottle-trees.html

https://www.route66news.com/2011/01/29/a-history-of-bottle-trees/

https://smithsoniangardens.wordpress.com/2013/02/28/the-american-bottle-tree/

NYT article

(I also used Wikipedia, unfortunately this seems to have been classed as an ‘academic’ subject. A lot is speculation or behind paywalls.)

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[neworleansvoudou]

Bottle tree in the Arizona sunset. #creolemoon #bottletrees #hoodoo #rootwork #conjurr #arizonasunset #arizona (at Saint Johns, Arizona) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfF4vYWgT8M/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[jackstar1973]

Tourist in Roma and shopping in the main streets. #roadtripqueensland #queensland #bottletrees #romamainstreet #roma (at Roma- Outback QLD) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQdOZqHrM6R/?utm_medium=tumblr