My husband? I thought he was your husband!

Hay, anybody know what's up with elizardbits?
Journal emptied, tumblr down.

Are you ok?

Had a rough week, mentally. Just the usual (once-constant) apathy and anxiety.
Bit better now. Made some soaps, did some proofing, went outside and bought myself lunch. Feel less losery/empty/useless atm. Good.
Got new roomie, for at least next 3 months, possibly longer. Old friend of current roomie. Seems nice, gave me money.

Apparently, I am the only person who likes "Seasons in the Sun." Did not know 'twas originally a Jacques Brel song. Huh. Have found many other versions from around the world.

Swedish:

Finnish:


They basically sound EXACTLY like the Terry Jacks version I know. Kinda dull.
And then I found the Nirvana version (warning--will pull you into a swamp of despair):

Having a bit of a night--bit of a problem with the crying. Went for stuff to cheer me up, figured I'd post it up to share.
That cool end credits song from Thor:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBur0L-qgYA

And the song from Avengers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3ZNtOcY_1A


I'm really lonely tonight.

Great Big Sea, "Boston and St. John's"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdJII8qw6wA
Hey! More a capella! "Old Brown's Daughter"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a22WOpWJEtE

Really good Godspell medley on Letterman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEAomkDJqHI
(I've mentioned this before, but basically, the less I believe, the more I can sing and enjoy these songs)

Oh, oh, omg ... there was a song written just for the movie version of Godspell, which I never liked...and then, after 9/11, the songwriter made new lyrics for all of us...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXezjFLTl-c

Having one of those nights...was listening to Stan Rogers and picking songs for my funeral ("Mary Ellen Carter" barely edged out "Northwest Passage"); started thinking about the past.
I'm Yale class of '91. A cappella was very big in my years there.

Some more recent versions of my favorites:
This was THE signature song for Mixed Company in my day..."Zombie Jamboree"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8PSPir3Xnw
"Pretending to Care" (there was a lot of residual Rundgren during my time there):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzHgR2bnzBg *
...and "Hodja"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8d05N1kwAU
"Ghost" from '08
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXbXo5RQRKo
(All above are different incarnations of Mixed Company)
"Once I Had a Sweetheart"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-jgRxCEHB4
I remember Gretchen singing this...made me cry every time...
I think she also sang lead on "Honest Work." No recordings online of that time, but I love this recent version, where you can hear the lovely, painful harmony (not quite the same as my years'):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd-rXYDA3e0

Can't find a Yale recording, so here's a Dartmouth group singing "Up the Ladder to the Roof"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tRDbAvGwe

BTW, none of these hold a candle to the Mixed Company of MY day (okay, "Ghost" was after my time...). I have an excellent cassette album of them somewhere....

Damn. Can't find a clip of Something Extra's version of "Operator, Get Me Jesus on the Line."

Okay, here's the New Blue singing "Runs in the Family"...not as good as the arrangement from back when, but lovely
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MVoRDoshnc
(One Xmas, I played this song off its creaky cassette for grace at our family dinner)


*Ah, here's my favorite performance by Todd:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssr78EXeCQc
I mean, holy fuck, that hurts so good...

Okeydokey, gonna post now

An immediate response to Woody Allen's response to Dylan Farrow(TW abuse):
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2014/02/woody-allen-sex-abuse-10-facts

Thank you for posting this, typhonatemybaby
http://typhonatemybaby.tumblr.com/post/76098387408/jinyuzhuyi-enzuigiri-so-woody-allen-finally

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/10/why-so-many-icelanders-still-believe-in-invisible-elves/280783/

Excellent article. For once, read the comments. Starts off w/a fight about use of the Icelandic patronymic in English-language journalism, moves on to a discussion of how if Iceland is Western Europe's Alabama, then are the Faroe Islands Mississippi, and on into a rather Scandinavia and the World-style excerpt from a 70s Harvard Lampoon essay and some jokes that sound like they come from the Nordic version of a Borscht-belt routine, recommendation for an interesting-sounding Matthew Kneale novel where the Manx laugh at the English....

http://halfhardtorock.tumblr.com/post/75264615734/a-study-has-revealed-that-the-kind-of-face-a-woman

accurate.