#carolan's dream

[jennathearcher]

I posted 15,116 times in 2022

That's 9,814 more posts than 2021!

185 posts created (1%)

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I tagged 6,754 of my posts in 2022

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Longest Tag: 137 characters

#one of those sets of brass knuckles with lil blades on them sort of like a dyi wolverine thing just with shorter blades for sneak attacks

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

tap on my window, knock on my door (even if saving you sends me to heaven): a ship playlist for eddie munson and chrissy cunningham from stranger things

1. starving - hailee steinfeld & grey ft. zedd 2. lil red riding hood - bowling for soup 3. treat you better - shawn mendes 4. rock god - selena gomez & the scene 5. just so you know - jesse mccartney 6. king of my heart - taylor swift 7. she will be loved - maroon 5 8. hold on to my heart - w.a.s.p. 9. sex on fire - kings of leon 10. this side of paradise - coyote theory 11. your guardian angel - the red jumpsuit apparatus 12. better than drugs - skillet 13. you belong with me (taylor’s version) - taylor swift 14. the middle - jimmy eat world 15. craw-fever - elvis presley 16. telescope eyes (original version) - eisley 17. you’re beautiful - james blunt 18. scotty doesn’t know - lustra 19. what the hell - avril lavigne 20. i want to know what love is - foreigner 21. little talks - of monsters and men 22. crush - david archuleta 23. nothing else matters - metallica 24. hold my beer - aaron pritchett 25. good girls go bad - cobra starship ft. leighton meester 26. eighteen - anarbor 27. eddie my love - the teen queens 28. in the air tonight - phil collins 29. broken smile (my all) - lil peep 30. this is what you came for - calvin harris ft. rihanna

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#4

more than death or mortal strife: a playlist inspired by the locked tomb book series by tamsyn muir

1. reborn - colin stetson 2. fire temple - bobby krlic 3. let me hear you scream - ozzy osbourne 4. everybody’s fool - evanescence 5. dear john - taylor swift 6. ribcage - andy black 7. battlefield - jordin sparks 8. dead is the new alive - emilie autumn 9. paul’s dream - hans zimmer 10. the king - robin carolan & sebastian gainsborough 11. where is my mind? - yoav 12. my beloved monster - eels 13. virgin state of mind - k’s choice 14. i love you - woodkid 15. unholy - sam smith & kim petras 16. body - mother mother 17. kiss with a fist - florence + the machine 18. just as much - delaney jane ft. virginia to vegas 19. organs - of monsters and men 20. baroquetech - saunder jurriaans & danny bensi 21. skeletons - brothers osborne 22. the sound of silence - disturbed 23. emo girl - machine gun kelly & willow 24. nothing else matters - ramin djawadi 25. yellow flicker beat - lorde 26. i’ll sleep when i’m dead - set it off 27. god ends here - abel korzeniowski 28. hand of sorrow - within temptation 29. abracadavre - treyarch ft. elena siegman 30. i will follow you into the dark - death cab for cutie 31. don’t fear the reaper - gus black

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#3

sentence starters inspired by bdylanhollis on tiktok (part two)

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#2

“You don’t think I’m a bad person?”

“All I think is that I love you.”

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My #1 post of 2022

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[sweetweddedbliss]

Handfasting is a lovely tradition, deeply steeped in Irish history that could hold pride of place in your dream Irish wedding. A remarkably romantic enhancement. For those couples looking to incorporate something traditionally Irish and romantic, this is a lovely enhancement to consider for your wedding ceremony.

History

Dating back to ancient Celtic times, Handfasting was, in the simplest of terms, the official wedding of the ancient Celts. Dating back far beyond 7000 B.C. in ancient Ireland, two people who chose to be married were brought together, often on a feast day such as Beltane, and faced each other. With arms extended, they clasped hands and a braided cord or ribbon was wrapped and tied around their hands. The Druid priest proclaimed that the two persons as engaged to be married. This period of engagement was typically a full year, and a day, during which, the couple were encouraged to cohabitate together (and consummate the relationship). It was a public declaration of intent to marry, signaling to potential suitors that the woman was intended to be her betrothed. When the period of a year was over, the engaged couple returned to the priest and declared their intent to be married. The wedding would follow, a short time later. If they decided they were not a good match, the couple were allowed to dissolve their hand-fast and be free to choose another suitor and bride. ‍

Interweave a Handfasting ritual seamlessly into your ceremony.

‍Tabhair dom do lámh - Give me your hand. Have you ever thought about how you, as a couple hold hands? Can you describe it without actually holding hands? Try it now! No cheating! (OK, you can hold hands now - there is so much power in that simple gesture). ‍ Perhaps, it's with interlocked fingers, or one hand inside the others in a loose clasp. There are many ways to hold hands, and yours will be unique to you. Whatever hand holding style comes naturally to you, it is an expression of closeness and affection. When we hold the tiny hand of a child in ours, to guide and protect them, they trust us completely. Hand holding is an intimate gesture. When you and your loved one interlink your hands, it's a symbol of your connection, and an expression to the world that you are a team. As you hold both of your hands with your beloved in preparation for your Handfasting ceremony, you are connecting with the hands of your best friend, your lover, the one you trust, the person you give your heart to be held in theirs for all of your days. Like a small child, you put your trust in the love you share, knowing that you will guide and support each other in the union of your marriage. All your energy and devotion to each other are symbolised by this simple act. You are literally giving your hand in marriage. ‍

Music for your Handfasting ritual.

Of course, it is your decision whether to have music as part of your Handfasting, or not. We would like to share our favourite for this special bonding time, steeped in history and folklore, yet as meaningful today as it was centuries ago. There is a beautiful tune attributed to an Irish harper, Ruairi Dall O Cahain, c.1570-1650. If you are interested in history or storytelling, you will enjoy this tale. In the book "Carolan: The Life Times and Music of an Irish Harper" by Donal O’Sullivan (new edition, 2001, Ossian Publications Ltd., Cork Ireland). Arthur O’Neill tells this story about Rory Dall O Cathain (Blind Roger O’Keane). "He [Rory Dall] took a fancy to visit Scotland, where there were great harpers. He took his retinue (or suite) with him. Amongst other visits in the style of an Irish chieftain he paid one to a Lady Eglinton, and she (not knowing his rank) in a peremptory manner demanded a tune, which he declined as he only came to play to amuse her, and in an irritable manner left the house. However, when she was informed of his consequence she eagerly contrived a reconciliation and made an apology, and the result was that he composed a tune for her ladyship, the handsome tune of ‘Da mihi manum’ (‘Give me your hand’), for which his fame reached through Scotland and came to the ears of the Gunpowder Plot prophet James the First of England (then the Sixth of Scotland).” ‍ The tune was revived in the 1960’s in Ireland by the great Sean O Riada.

Chieftans version

The cords that bind you in love.

It's common in Ireland that when a deal of any sort is made between two people, they “shake hands on it” - thereby giving their word to the arrangement. It may be that this custom came from the ancient Handfasting rituals, where the arrangement was between a couple to be bound together by the promises they made. There is a strong symbolic element to the binding of hands during your wedding ceremony. In the binding, and the tying of the binding ribbons or cord, you publicly demonstrate your commitment to your marriage. As your Reverend/celebrant, or family member ties the cords, there is a pause, when you feel the strength and warmth of your partner's hands, and a sense of deep security when both pairs of hands are as one. Your eyes gaze from the hands to the eyes of your beloved, and you see the spark of their love for you reflected therein. Why don’t you try this out at home, and see if this feels right for you? It’s guaranteed to bring a smile!‍

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Invocation or blessing - even an ancient lorica.

As the Handfasting ritual concludes you may choose to have a reading read aloud by your Reverend/celebrant or a guest, on behalf of your gathering. This can be any reading you choose or write yourself. We love this one, an excerpt from St. Patrick's breastplate.

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May your marriage be blessed with the strength of the heavens the light of the sun the radiance of the moon the splendour of fire the speed of lightning the swiftness of wind the depth of the sea the stability of the earth and the firmness of rock, for all of your days.

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Choosing your cords:

Couples choose colours for Handfasting based on their preferred colours. For some, a colour has an attached symbolism or special meaning to them. They may choose as many colours as they like. Couples love the visual representation that Handfasting provides. It is literally “tying the knot“ right in the company of your friends and family. Add your creative touch to the Handfasting cords, as a meaningful keepsake family heirloom. Photographers are happy snappy taking those Handfasting shots too!

Below are the 13 colours used in Handfasting and their symbolism:

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Brigid Mae Power — Dream from the Deep Well (Fire)

Photo by Eva Carolan

Dream from the Deep Well by Brigid Mae Power

Brigid Mae Power sings like a phosphorescent flame, her tones flickering, swelling and subsiding, slipping effortlessly over shifting notes and stretching single syllables over fluttering melodic phrases. Her voice, pure and high with a lemon-y sharp tang, is a mesmerizing thing, all on its own, and more than a conduit for the traditional and original songs she delivers here.

Consider, for instance, her opening salvo, a ghostly tracery of the Clancy Brothers’ classic, “I Know Who Is Sick.” But while the Irish traditionalists take this melody at a skiffle-y trot, Power elongates it and elaborates on its slippery curves, seeking out the hurt and uncertainty in every syllable. Her interstitial “ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah” crooning could hardly be different from the original’s trad Irish “touralourah,” substituting water pure melancholy for giddy cliché.

Another cover makes more sense on the surface, since Tim Buckley, like Power, takes the tune as a suggestion rather than an order, embellishing folk styles with jazzy slides and bent notes. But even so, Mae’s take on “I Must Have Been Blind” is a revelation, her voice as transparent as glass but full of freedom, as it crests a pensive arrangement of piano and cello.

The originals are good, too, especially pellucid “Counting Down,” which rattles and rambles in loose country folk style, drums pounding, piano chiming and that extraordinary voice narrating ordinary events—taking her son to swimming lessons, coming home, playing music. “The Waterford Song” tilts its jangling guitar sideways with eerie trills of organ, and again, Power’s unearthly voice keening and swelling. The song is about Power’s ancestral connections to Ireland, and it blends the real and the spiritual in a mist-shrouded mystery.

Power ends her album with another song linked to her homeland, the rebel ballad “Down by the Glenside” written during the uprising and studded with archaic language. The cut has an archival quality—and how could it not—with the sound fading in and out like a cracked 78 and Power singing simply, sadly and with a pronounced Irish lilt. Yet even here, she sounds freer and more self-determined than the material itself. Her voice wanders delicately where it will, putting the spirit in an old song so that it flutters to life.

Jennifer Kelly

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Ice Dance Programs 2023-24

Misato Komatsubara/Tim Koleto 🇯🇵JPN RD: Ghostbusters FD: Loving You (from Passion) Barbara Streisand & Patrick Wilson; Love Grows (from Final Fantasy VIII) Nobuo Uematsu (choreo: Romain Haguenauer)

Azusa Tanaka/Shingo Nishiyama 🇯🇵JPN FD: choreo Romain Haguenauer

Nadiia Bashynska/Peter Beaumont 🇨🇦CAN RD: INXS, Never Tear Us Apart; Duran Duran, Wild Boys

Miku Makita/Tyler Gunara 🇨🇦CAN FD: choreo by Matthew Gates

Alicia Fabbri/Paul Ayer 🇨🇦CAN RD: AC/DC, choreo Zach Donohue FD: Lewis Capaldi, Someone You Loved

Sandrine Gauthier/Quentin Thieren 🇨🇦CAN RD: Joan Jett, I Love Rock n Roll

Emma Goodstadt/Christian Bennett 🇨🇦CAN (Jrs) RD: B-52’s, Love Shack

Hannah Lim/Ye Quan 🇰🇷KOR RD: Prince, When Doves Cry, Let's Go Crazy FD: Umbrellas of Cherbourg

Emilea Zingas/Vadym Kolesnik 🇺🇸USA RD and FD choreo: Benoit Richaud

Emily Bratti/Ian Somerville 🇺🇸USA RD: Prince, When Doves Cry, Let’s Go Crazy FD: Celine Dion, Ne Me Quitte Pas choreo by Greg Zuerlein, Charlie White, Tanith White

Eva Pate/Logan Bye 🇺🇸USA RD: Bobby Brown, My Prerogative; Run-DMC (feat. Aerosmith) Walk This Way

Katarina Wolfkostin/Dimitry Tsarevski 🇺🇸USA RD: When in Rome, The Promise; Blondie, Call Me

Isabella Flores/Ivan Desyatov 🇺🇸USA RD: Prince, When Doves Cry; Def Leppard, Pour Some Sugar on Me, choreo Massimo Scali FD: West Side Story, choreo Kaitlyn Weaver

Angela Ling/Caleb Wein 🇺🇸USA RD: Aretha Franklin, Hold on I'm Coming

Raffaella Koncius/Alexey Shchepetov 🇺🇸USA RD: Stray Cats, Rock this Town, Stray Cat Strut

Klara Kowar/Thomas Schwappach 🇺🇸USA RD: INXS, Never Tear Us Apart, What You Need FD: James Bond

Leah Neset/Artem Markelov 🇺🇸USA (jrs) RD: Scorpions, Still Loving You; Joan Jett, Hate Myself for Loving You. choreo Kaitlyn Weaver FD: choreo Nikolai Morozov

Eliana Peal/Ethan Peal 🇺🇸USA (jrs) RD: Janet Jackson, What Have You Done For Me Lately, Rhythm Nation FD: Lord of the Rings

Jenna Hauer/Benjaming Starr 🇺🇸USA (jrs) RD: Tina Turner, Simply the Best (?)

Caroline Mullen/Brendan Mullen 🇺🇸USA (jrs) RD: Wham!, Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go; George Michael, Father Figure (?)

Yahli Pederson/Jeffrey Chen 🇺🇸USA (jrs) RD: Queen, Kind of Magic; Queen w David Bowie, Under Pressure (?)

Evgeniia Lopareva/Geoffrey Brissaud 🇫🇷FRA FD: choreo Guillaume Cizeron

Holly Harris/Jason Chan 🇦🇺AUS RD: Madonna (Material Girl, Express Yourself?), choreo: Marie-France Dubreuil FD: choreo Marie-France Dubreuil

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Phebe Bekker/James Hernandez 🇬🇧GBR RD: Prince FD: Muse

Layla Karnes/Liam Carr 🇬🇧GBR RD: Sweet Dreams, medley, Eurhythmics FD: Hit the Road Jack, 2WEI

Shira Ichilov/Dmitriy Kravchenko 🇮🇱ISR RD: Get Down on It, Yesterday, It's Raining Men FD: ("to a singer from Montreal") choreo: Pasquale Camerlengo, Igor Shpilband

Mariia Nosovitskaya/Misha Nosovytskyi 🇮🇱ISR RD: FD: Gladiator choreo: Pasquale Camerlengo, Igor Shpilband

Elizabeth Tkachenko/Alexei Kiliakov 🇮🇱ISR RD: Yello, Oh Yeah, Desire, The Race FD: Incantation, Ojo Azules; Inca the Peruvian Ensemble, Danzante Vasija del Barro; Inti-IllMani, Sikuriadas choreo: Elena Novak, Jimmie Manners

Yuka Orihara/Juho Pirinen 🇫🇮 FIN RD: choreo Luca Lanotte FD: music from Chicago choreo Massimo Scali

Carolane Soucisse/Shane Firus 🇮🇪IRL RD: Rick James, Super Freak, Give It To Me Baby, Mary Jane

Mariia Holubtsova/Kyryl Bielobrov 🇺🇦UKR RD: Bonnie Tyler, Holding Out For A Hero; Bonnie Tyler & Bryan Adams, Straight From the Heart; Bonnie Tyler & Desmond Child, If You Were a Woman (And I Was a Man) FD: Joe Hisaishi, Merry Go Round of Life, Fragile Dream, A Walk in the Skies choreo: Romain Haguenauer, Pascal Denis, Sam Chouinard

Zoe Larson/Andrii Kapran 🇺🇦UKR RD: Pointer Sisters, I'm So Excited; Grover Washington/Bill Withers, Just the Two of Us; The Weather Girls, It's Raining Men (?)

Adrienne Carhart/Oleksandr Kolosovskyi 🇦🇿AZE RD: Billy Ocean, Caribbean Queen

Maria Kazakova & Georgy Reviya 🇬🇪GEO RD: Queen, A Kind of Magic, Save Me, I Want To Break Free, Need Your Loving Tonight FD: Schindler's List choreo by Matteo Zanni

Natalie Taschlerova & Filip Taschler 🇨��CZE RD: Janet Jackson, The Knowledge; James Mtume, Juicy Fruit; The Pointer Sisters, Serious Slammin' FD: Negramaro, Bluecobalto; Havasi, Terra Rosa; Giuliano Sangiorgi, Son Felice choreo by Matteo Zanni

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🎶✨when you get this you have to put 5 songs u actually listen to, publicly. then, send this ask to 10 of your favorite followers (non-negotiable, positivity is cool) 🎶✨

omg this is so old too.. but thank you darling 🖤✨

roof on fire by victoria song

gaddi red challenger by babbulicious

carolan’s dream by turlough o’carolan (literally any arrangement)

northern sky by eydís evensen

silfurskin by árstíðir

[redowlkitchen]

Carolan’s Dream- July 2021

[gwydionmisha]

Patrick Ball   Carolan's Dream

[arlenianchronicles]

Nolofinwë and Findekáno falling asleep on the grass. Why hang out with your rowdy, unpleasant cousins when you could have some quality bonding time with Atto?

This was originally a sketch for my other Nolofinwë and Findekáno painting, but I abandoned it in favour of a different composition. Now I’ve come back to it! I’m sure I can never get tired with content of Fingon and his immediate family XDD For this scene, I imagine them to either be in the gardens of Nolofinwë’s estate in Valinor, or perhaps in a wide field or forest outside of Tirion (maybe they were doing a little adventuring together?).

I’m not completely happy with Findekáno’s pose here loll The arm behind his head kind of tripped me up, not to mention child body proportions, but I think I can leave it for now XDD

Here’s some of the music I listened to while drawing this, if y’all are interested! They helped me set the tone of the piece (and I feel that they fit my version of the Nolofinwëans quite well!):

Captain O’kane

Carolan’s Dream

Death Stranding OST - John and Lou

Gris OST - Mae and Descent

[jennathearcher]

more than death or mortal strife: a playlist inspired by the locked tomb book series by tamsyn muir

1. reborn - colin stetson 2. fire temple - bobby krlic 3. let me hear you scream - ozzy osbourne 4. everybody’s fool - evanescence 5. dear john - taylor swift 6. ribcage - andy black 7. battlefield - jordin sparks 8. dead is the new alive - emilie autumn 9. paul’s dream - hans zimmer 10. the king - robin carolan & sebastian gainsborough 11. where is my mind? - yoav 12. my beloved monster - eels 13. virgin state of mind - k’s choice 14. i love you - woodkid 15. unholy - sam smith & kim petras 16. body - mother mother 17. kiss with a fist - florence + the machine 18. just as much - delaney jane ft. virginia to vegas 19. organs - of monsters and men 20. baroquetech - saunder jurriaans & danny bensi 21. skeletons - brothers osborne 22. the sound of silence - disturbed 23. emo girl - machine gun kelly & willow 24. nothing else matters - ramin djawadi 25. yellow flicker beat - lorde 26. i’ll sleep when i’m dead - set it off 27. god ends here - abel korzeniowski 28. hand of sorrow - within temptation 29. abracadavre - treyarch ft. elena siegman 30. i will follow you into the dark - death cab for cutie 31. don’t fear the reaper - gus black

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More 2021 - 22 Olympic Season Programs

Men

Kao Miura (JPN) - SP: Four Seasons by Vivaldi

Mikhail Kolyada (RUS) - SP: The Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky; FP: “Schindler’s List”

Dennis Vasiljevs (LAT) - SP: Princess Mononoke; FS: Romeo and Juliet

Shun Sato (JPN) - SP: Summer by Vlvaldi

Yuma Kagiyama (JPN) - SP: When You’re Smiling by Michael Bublé

Keiji Tanaka (JPN) - SP: Paris (Shin Evangelion Theatrical Version)

Kazuki Tomono (JPN) - SP: Love Theme (Cinema Paradiso)

Alexander Samarin (RUS) SP: The Matrix soundtrack; FP: ‘Lord & Master’ by Apache, ‘Save Us’ and ‘La terre vue du ciel’ by Armand Amar

Keegan Messing (CAN) -  SP: "Never Tear Us Apart" performed by Joe Cocker; FS: "Home" by Phillip Phillips; Choreography by Lance Vipond

Daniel Grassl (ITA) - SP:  Nureyev - The White Crow, coreography by Benoit Richaud

Matteo Rizzo (ITA) - SP: Hurt by Johnny Cash, choreography by Benoit Richaud; FP: Two men in love, choreophy by Massimo Scali

Petr Gumenik (RUS) - SP: Leave a Light On by Tom Walker

Ladies

Alina Urushadze (GEO) - SP: Creep (Contortion)” by Les 7 Doights

Rion Sumiyoshi (JPN) -  SP: Je suis malade by Serge Lama; FS: Mulan Soundtrack

Young You (KOR) - "The Leftovers" soundtrack; FP: Les Miserables

Mai Mihara (JPN) - SP: I Dreamed a Dream from Les Miserables

Kaori Sakamoto (JPN) - SP: Gladiator Soundtrack

Satoko Miyahara (JPN) - SP: Lyra Angelica

Mana Kawabe (JPN) - SP: Winter by Vlvaldi

Rika Kihira (JPN) - FP: Titanic

Yuhana Yokoi (JPN) - FP: Fat-bottomed Girls/We Will Rock You/We Are the Champions medley by Queen

Bradie Tennell (USA) - SP: "Restrictus" by Mario Batkovic, choreography by Benoit Richaud

Stanislava Konstantinova (RUS) - SP: Gypsy Dance from Don Quixote

Loena Hendrick (BEL) -  SP: “Caruso” performed by Lara Fabian, choreography by Adam Solya; FP: "The Mystic’s Dream" by Loreena Mckennitt, "Spirits" by Chronis Taxidis, "Enta Omri" by Achraf Kallel

Gracie Gold (USA) - SP: East of Eden; FS: Daphnis et Chloe

Wakaba Higuchi (JPN) - SP: Your Song by Ellie Goulding

Eva-Lotte Kiibus (EST) - SP: Barbatuques by Baiana, choreography by Benoít Richaud

Pairs

Anastasia Mukhortova / Dmitry Evgenyev (RUS) -  SP: "El Choclo" by Ángel Villoldo

Greta Crafoord / John Crafoord (SWE) - SP: Twilight Saga Soundtracks

Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov (RUS) - SP: Claire de Lune by Debussy

Jessica Calalang / Brian Johnson (USA) - SP: “Come Together” cover by Gary Clark Jr; FP: “Never Break” by John Legend

Riku Miura / Ryuichi Kihara (JPN) - SP: Hallelujah by K.D. Lang

Aleksandra Boikova / Dmitri Kozlovskii (RUS) SP: Swan Lake, choreography by Nikolai Morozov

Alexa Knierim / Brandon Frazier (USA) - SP: House of the Rising Sun, choreography Shae-Lynn Bourne; FP: Fix You by Coldplay, choreography Renée Roca

Ice Dance

Oona Brown / Gage Brown (USA) - RD: "How Ya Like Me Now” by Kool Moe Dee and “I Got The” by Labi Siffre; FD: "Exogenesis Part 1" and "I Belong to You" by Muse

Carolane Souscisse / Shane Firus (CAN) -  Tina Turner/Donna Summer/Barbara Streisand medley; FD: Music by Charles Aznavour

Anastasia Skoptsova / Kirill Aleshin (RUS) - FD: Romeo and Juliet soundtrack

Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha (CAN) will be keeping their Rhythm Dance from the previous season.

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Three characters who live in your head rent free and why?

Thanks @badsext, and now I have to think about it. Some of them are immediate. One has been lifelong

Selina Kyle: There's just something about her. The way she carries herself. Her confidence and sarcasm and inability to stump the Greatest Detective in The World. Her fierce love, loyalty and protective nature and desire to shake the system. It's who inspired me to create Honey, and she's influenced some of who I am today

Darren Treacy: I love a good anti-hero. Although Darren may hinge more on Chaotic Neutral than True Neutral. He's done some bad things for the wrong reason, and some for the right. I love characters with a hidden complexity who deserve redemption. Steve Carolan saw fit that Darren deserved four bullets to the back of his head instead. 👀 (Yall hate Overman so much, at least Nathan lives. So much living). I've just spent three days trying to come up with a way to save Darren's life which includes: time travel, magic portals, Billy Delaney, Saint Patrick's Day and The Butterfly Effect. 😩

Wanda Maximoff: Long has she been one of my favorite mutants (tied with Rogue and Wolverine.) She's literally Earth's Mightiest Hero (Carol Danvers too!) Watching her best storyline unfold weekly in only a way MCU can give us has been a lifelong dream of mine. And Elizabeth's portrayal is just 🤌🏻💋

Ok @neuroticpuppy @frogs--are--bitches @slutforrobbiebro Youre next?

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Watch "Maitreyi Ramakrishnan and Cameron Carolan Corduroy Dreams Cover Rex Orange County" on YouTube

devi should add singing to her numerous extracurriculars so we can hear more of this lovely voice !!

[carolandschateau]

⚜🇺🇸🏰 America's Castles: "CAROLANDS"

⚜ Circa 1922 photos of the 98-room Beaux-Arts French Château built in 1916 by Pullman Luxury Railway Car heiress, Harriett Pullman Carolan just south of San Francisco, California.

🇨🇵 Harriett Pullman Carolan was a lifelong Francophile who wanted to build Carolands as her own authentically French Château in the San Francisco Bay Area. She chose the most important French architect, Ernest Sanson and Landscape-architect, Achillès Duchêne, to execute her dream house on 554 acres of pristine suburban woodlands.

↪ 💻 CAROLANDS.ORG to follow the history or to get more info and ordering books/dvds of the Gilded Age Château from its construction between 1914 through today.

[fragmentedfaerie]

Hullo! I had a few questions about the ol' harp if you don't mind - I also play, but I'm rubbish at arranging and know nothing of recording. What is your recording setup like? Your videos look and sound so beautiful! I also have a rental Ravenna (26 string) to go along with my larger, less portable harp, and you get such a lovely full sound out of yours. What is your secret?? (1/3)

Also, any tips for singing with the harp? I'm a fairly experienced singer but as soon as I sit at the harp all my good tone and control seems to disappear! As for arranging - are you still taking commissions? I would love to purchase your arrangement of Carolan's Dream, and when you have time if you could help me with arrangements of "West Coast of Clare" and "As I Roved Out" by Andy Irvine (the band Planxty) and of the "Kid on the Mountain" slip jig that would be absolutely wonderful! (2/3)

If you're not up to commissions at the moment, could you share how you learned to arrange so beautifully? Any pointers, useful books or anything would be a huge help. Thank you so much for your time!! (3/3)

Hello,

Firstly, thank you so much for your compliments! I'm flattered that you think so highly of my videos, especially since I know they are hardly studio quality! As to your question about how I get that full sound out of my harp, well, I guess much of it is because it really does have such a magnificent sound. You say you have the Ravenna 26; mine is the 34 string model and consequently will have a larger body and thus a more resonant sound board, which will explain the fuller sound. Since my harp has a built-in pickup mic, I simply plug in my recording equipment, which is by no means fancy or expensive. I use PreSonus Studio One with the accompanying audio box to record my songs, then I mix and master the audio with Adobe Audition. It's the mastering which really makes the sound come alive, it sounds quite flat and dull before this stage. 

When it comes to singing with the harp, I agree it's super difficult to sing and play at the same time! I do struggle with it and it takes a ton of practice to do both at once. The key I think is to really know the harp part really well by heart so that you can leave that part up to muscle memory (let your hands do their thing without having to focus on them) and concentrate more on your singing. And also, make sure you pick songs that are in your optimal vocal range. Remember, I always record the harp and the vocals separately - by no means do I sing as well when it's all live. Some songs I truthfully can't sing live because it is too difficult to maintain control of both parts at the same time, so I only keep on my repertoire the songs that are comfortably within my vocal range. 

I'm not taking commissions at the moment due to time restraints, but I plan on opening up for commissions again this upcoming summer. If you'd like I can put you on my waiting list and contact you when I'm available! Just send me an e-mail at brannalaurelin@gmail com :) But when it comes to songs that I have already arranged and made into videos, such as Carolan's Dream, these are available at short notice and may be purchased by sending me an e-mail ^_^ See more info here: brannalaurelin.carrd.co

As to how I learned to arrange music, that’s something that I've taught myself through years of trial and error. I never read any books or watched any tutorials, I just tried things out and fiddled with music notation software until I figured things out. My preferred music notation software is Sibelius, and it's really easy to use :) Anyone can learn it! Like anything else, it's all in the amount of practice you put into it. I used to spend hours each week just arranging music, and it's still one of my favourite parts of the creative process when preparing for a new video. I put a lot of time into listening intently to the original song to find the exact tones used so that I can replicate them in my arrangements, and other times I just put in whatever I think sounds good on the harp! I also arrange many parts manually by experimenting on the harp and writing down notes in a little notebook with blank staves, then transferring and embellishing my notes in the notation software afterwards. 

I hope this was helpful to you! Good luck with everything, and please don't hesitate to contact me via e-mail for any further questions regarding commissions or purchasing sheet music ^_^

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The Wormholes interview (1997)

In June 1997 I interviewed Dave Carroll (1970-2019) of The Wormholes for a a one-off mail-order zine I produced for the band (cover above). I thought I’d transcribe the interview and publish it here as it hasn’t been online before. At this time they had released Scorpio:The Album (1997) so I asked Dave about recording it with Stano, other recent recordings with Stan Erraught (these would later be included on Parijuana in 1999), playing with The Fall in London (March ‘95) and their experience of touring in the UK (’95-’97). 

Q: Tell me about recording Scorpio:The Album.

A: We originally met Stano in town and went to Graham’s house that night with Shane and Francis (of Chunkin’ Bronchii). We didn’t know Stano or even really know him when he was leaving that day. He said nothing and just sat there at a four track. It was him who suggested to get us into a studio. He was good to work with, we’d record anything and everything we wanted and he wouldn’t say a word about it. He had maybe three or four mixes for each song. All the music was recorded in one day. The whole Pulse thing was two days and then the day we spent in Graham’s house. I mean I’m sure people will listen to it and go, ‘Yeah, I can gather it was done in 3 days.’ (laughs). It’s just the way we were heading, we knew we didn’t want to do another Chicks. Whether people like it or not, it is our second album. When you pick it up it may look like a mini album because there’s only so many songs, but when you think of it, ‘Kontinental Kop’ is 18 minutes long, ‘Bee Mee’ is 10 and ‘Freak Franco’ is almost 11 and that’s just three songs. We were surprised when we actually played ‘Kontinental Kop’ on the Play Station, it was like, wow, there’s a track on our CD almost 20 minutes long, I thought we’d knocked all that shit on the head. But then even on Parijuana, if that tape didn’t run out, I don’t know how long ‘Drive Dead Slow’ would have been. We were going at it full ahead from this sort of build up and Mark Carolan had to tell us the tape ran out.

Q: What about working with Stan Erraught (ex The Stars of Heaven and The Sewing Room)? These recordings with Stan at Sun Studios, plus other recordings would be used for Parijuana in 1999.

A:  When we heard Stan wanted to work with us we were blown away, we couldn’t get over it. This guy had done so much, I mean he was releasing records in the 80s. It must have been a really weird and difficult time to release anything, but this guy was doing it then when we were all still in school dreaming about what it would be like to own a guitar, let alone put out a poxy single. Same with Stano, he could have fobbed us off like, ‘Oh these little shits they think their doing something different, making a bit of a noise’ (laughs), but he just thought the way we done out stuff was right up his street.  

It was strange going into the same studio and the same desk as well but with totally different vibes. I hadn’t even talked to Stan or Mark (Carolan), I’d just walked in off the street and we did ‘Turkish Prison Dance’. We were just buzzin, the DAT was there, used just the one mic, Stan played the saz, Mark played guitar, Graham played drums, Anto just stood there and shook the maracas and I played the bongos. Everyone was jammed into this one room and we just banged it out there and then. None of us even realised when we were doing it, it was only after we thought, you know we didn’t play anything really, we just picked up some stuff and rattled it alongside what was being played and it was the first time we’d ever done that. When we heard it back none of us could even talk to each other, we were so chuffed with it. 

After that Mark finished putting up the mics and left. So we’d go in, start recording, Stan would be getting levels say and then he’d run in with his guitar and jump in with us, it was brilliant. We’d definitely work with him again. Stan just totally changed our whole outlook on what it’s like to work in the studio. He was giving us records by Faust and Can. I mean, these are records he’d bought 15, 16 years earlier when he was only a nipper. He told us a story about when he bought The Faust Tapes, it was on sale for 49p. He brought that particular record home when he was about 15 years old and he was eating his dinner with his Mum and Dad playing The Faust Tapes and them wondering what the hell he was listening to, they couldn’t get their head around this record that was chopped to bits.

Q: How has your experience of touring the UK been? First 1995 tour dates above (there was at least one that is not listed, Bristol’s Loco on 30th April with TW).

A: The first UK tour with Trumans Water was amazing, we only had to turn up and play, there was no pressure on us and any time we played with Cornershop it was the same deal. Even if there wasn’t many people we didn’t get so downhearted seeing as weren't the headline band.

On the second UK tour we tried to say to Roadrunner, it’s like this, putting us on a headliner is madness, try and get us on with not even a big band, just a band that 50 or 60 people will turn up to see. There were offers there to play with The Supreme Dicks but Roadrunner wouldn’t front us the money, they said it was pointless bringing us to London for 2 or 3 shows, but then they funded the British tour where we played to no-one for two weeks, apart from the Cornershop gigs. Cornershop were saying it was a bad time of year to tour as students were on holidays. 

We went to Hull and played with Trumans and it was amazing, the audience were animals, just wrecking the place. We go there two months later and its dead, drive into town and it’s a ghost-town. I’m not making that as an excuse because even if the town was all hustle and bustle we still would have only got about 20 people cause no-one knew us. 

At least when we went back the second time, even to have three new songs to bring back to England, we had ‘Marshmallow’, we had ‘Riotman’ and ‘Hotel Cash’. To us that was like bringing gold in your pocket, these aren't off Chicks, these are just new songs. 

The second 1995 UK tour dates.

Q: Tell me more about playing with The Fall in London.

A: In March 1995 we played a beautiful little gig (The Forum) supporting Mr. Mark E. Smith and The Fall on his request or so we were led to believe and we were honoured. That was like the icing on the cake for us and when they came to Dublin (Mean Fiddler) in December they asked for us again. I mean what can we say. We were all too chicken to speak to him. We all had this idea that he was the most arrogant, most unbelievably difficult person to even get two words out of and that’s what scared us off.  We were like we wanted to say hello and I wanted to tell him I though This Nation is one of the best records I’ve heard from any British band. That’s the sort of stuff I wanted to say to the guy but when I approached him I think I mumbled, ‘How-a-yi’ in my worst Dublin accent and scurried up the stairs, hoping he wouldn’t say something sarcastic. When I caught up with Anto and Graham I was hanging out of them saying I’d just met Jesus Christ, like I’d had tea with John Lennon or something. Mark E. Smith said hello to me was my claim to fame for the rest of the day. The gig was great. We were real nervous before. If there’s any band you need as role models it’s The Fall, keep their ethics.

Q: Talk about your UK dates with Scotland’s Pilotcan in Jan/Feb 1997. Pic from Scotland above, by Kieron Mellotte.

We played 6 gigs in 11 days. The better shows were in Edinburgh and London (Camden Falcon). We’ve never really been able to get it together in Scotland, the gigs we played there in ‘95 were bad, both tours. We played with Pilotcan, we knew them from the first tour when we slept on Keiron, from the bands, floor. He puts on gigs, we slept on the same floor as Jon Spencer. He was telling us that Deus had stayed in his flat before us and that they were mad. They were all real quiet, if they weren’t out drinking they’d just be sitting around or you’d find them reading a book. They all kept talking their own language and then laughing. Kieron and all his mates would  be sitting there freaked, up the wall, he’s got  a bunch of Belgians having their own private jokes in his flat (laughs).

Stuart from Mogwai got up at the Attic in Edinburgh and played a Smog track, ‘I Break Horses’. He did it amazing, just him and guitar, he did one or two Mogwai tracks as well, the best thing that happened that night. That was the Pilotcan single launch, it was a mad night. We were all on magic mushrooms and we were going back the next day. We fell asleep listening to the Modern Lovers, amazing album, like the Velvets.

Live review from Melody Maker for first UK tour

A: Any more thoughts?

We never thought in a million years that Cornershop would work with us or even Lo Recordings wanting to put our stuff out on compilations and that. It’s staggering to us, it mightn't mean a great deal to a lot of people but it’s what we always wanted to do. Our aim is to bombard the planet with as much stuff as we can.

A few more live adverts

Wormhole and a few other Irish bands played at the 1995 Phoenix festival (get your glasses out to find them all!)

I travelled to see them play at The Garage and then joined them on the road for the next show the following night at Bristol’s Loco supporting Trumans Water. We travelled back the same night to the comforts of The Florence aka Hotel Cash in London’s King Cross.

Stephen Rennicks