The Harper and the Minstrel

I heard about The Harper and the Minstrel a few days ago on the Fae Nation newsfeed. Seems they play at the Southern California Ren Faire (among other places), although I never get down there. I was pretty impressed with the faery/elven themes in a lot of their music, and I like the sound of most of the samples (although their rendition of "King of the Fairies" is pretty sedate -- I prefer the live Tears for Beers cut that I have an mp3 of), so last night I bought "I Pray Thee Save the Trees... The Lament of the Last Elf" and "The Circle of Fae". Just passing on the recommendation as I think this might be the sort of thing some of you would like, too.

The Harper and the Minstrel

I heard about The Harper and the Minstrel a few days ago on the Fae Nation newsfeed. Seems they play at the Southern California Ren Faire (among other places), although I never get down there. I was pretty impressed with the faery/elven themes in a lot of their music, and I like the sound of most of the samples (although their rendition of "King of the Fairies" is pretty sedate -- I prefer the live Tears for Beers cut that I have an mp3 of), so last night I bought "I Pray Thee Save the Trees... The Lament of the Last Elf" and "The Circle of Fae". Just passing on the recommendation as I think this might be the sort of thing some of you would like, too.

time is an onion

I hate multi-layered deja vu. Or not hate, exactly, but it really feels like an extra helping of weird. I was just changing my MSN name when I got a serious bout of it, not just about the situation of changing my name to that name, with that icon, while a certain line from a certain episode of MST3K was playing on the TV, but about having the deja vu itself, and further, I know that this one has happened to me several times (i.e., I have already had deja vu about having deja vu about this setup). In fact I think it's at least three layers deep. I know this has happened to me at other times with other scenes, too. Do any of you ever get this kind of ... meta vu?

time is an onion

I hate multi-layered deja vu. Or not hate, exactly, but it really feels like an extra helping of weird. I was just changing my MSN name when I got a serious bout of it, not just about the situation of changing my name to that name, with that icon, while a certain line from a certain episode of MST3K was playing on the TV, but about having the deja vu itself, and further, I know that this one has happened to me several times (i.e., I have already had deja vu about having deja vu about this setup). In fact I think it's at least three layers deep. I know this has happened to me at other times with other scenes, too. Do any of you ever get this kind of ... meta vu?

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tree symbol thingy I scribbled this in among the notes I took on various workshops this past PantheaCon. It's somewhat similar to my "world layout" which has the Earth below and the Sun, Moon and Stars above (in the branches of the tree, or just above them), although I wouldn't use a spiral for the Sun usually, and I'm not sure why that appears here (perhaps it is not the Sun). *shrug* Just thought it might be interesting to see.

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Tree symbol thingy.



I scribbled this in among the notes I took on various workshops this past PantheaCon. It's somewhat similar to my "world layout" which has the Earth below and the Sun, Moon and Stars above (in the branches of the tree, or just above them), although I wouldn't use a spiral for the Sun usually, and I'm not sure why that appears here (perhaps it is not the Sun). *shrug* Just thought it might be interesting to see.