One More Time at Midnight Near the wall...

[midnightnearthewall]

Everyone says this is very John Prine and Iris DeMent.

I won’t argue with that.

If you like it, share the love!

[midnightnearthewall]

What a glowing review for my favourite album in the recent years.

Compared to Jason Isbell, Jon Moreland and Joey Kneiser. I sincerely love those guys, but in the lyics department, Robert Chaney blows them all out of the water.

Essential Listening is right!

[midnightnearthewall]

Little spontaneous late night duet with Robert Chaney.

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[midnightnearthewall]

Vladimir Nabokov

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[loverofbeauty]

Charles Baudelaire:  ”Les Fleurs du Mal” with author’s notes.

[isilence-blog1]

girls who pretend to act stupid because they think it’s cute need to be slapped in the face with a brick

[iloverumi1998]

girls who pretend to act stupid because they think it’s cute need to be taught that their thoughts and opinions matter. so many girls are taught that being smart and capable is threatening to boys and will scare them away. please don’t hit these girls with bricks thanks

[robertjchaney]

Produced and recorded by Crowheart Boy

[midnightnearthewall]

This is just casually one of my favourite songs in recent times.

Great performance, beautiful country tune, bittersweet and clever lyrics, some heartbreaking slide.. not sure what else you would want.

Pretty sure he'll be the next big thing in Americana songwriting. (He already is in my book)

[beneta]

Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell and Roger McGuinn with Gordon Lightfoot as his home in Toronto. November 30, 1975. 

[working-on-it]

Xoxox

[midnightnearthewall]

Germans try to get their tongues around gender-neutral language

Justice ministry's edict that state institutions must use 'gender-neutral' language is forcing the country to confront change

'Many linguists question whether language can be changed through human will. "It's hard to transform grammar through legislation, and even if so, such changes often happen over centuries," said Anatol Stefanowitsch, a linguist at Berlin's Free University.' -

While language is not changed through human will, it is shaped by the reality of language, written and spoken. Language works as a contract between the participants of a language community, but one that can also be influenced by the individual speakers. So, the more people use a gender neutral language, the more commonplace it would get. I don't know whether the change has to be as radical as losing all gendered articles, nor whether it's going to take centuries. I think a first step would be a general awareness of how gendered the German language is and how this affects how we perceive the world.

On the other hand, I'm also wondering what such a potentially drastic change would mean for the reception of works of literature. After all, the language of great classical works of art still influences the way we speak and write today. 

[midnightnearthewall]

My latest song.

It steals a line from Warren Zevon and a rhyme from Bob Dylan. 

[midnightnearthewall]

Let's Begin (Jim Webb), 1981

Some really excellent hand gestures here. 

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[midnightnearthewall]

Hey boy, we'll be spending lots of time together, come the start of my PhD in January! *wink wink*

[midnightnearthewall]

New song.

[midnightnearthewall]

Love or Fire - Gabriel Moreno

Whoa, here's a song by my friend Gabriel Moreno with loads of my backing vocals.

I really love this song, we tried to give it a kind of 80s Leonard Cohen vibe. I'm proud of this.

It's just been released on iTunes, so if you like it and feel that way inclined, please consider buying it. If we see any money, we use it to have dinner and get drunk. Isn't that something you want to support?

Here's the iTunes link:

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/love-or-fie-single/id751931706

(Yeah, they misspelled the title. Geniuses.)

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[beneta]

Presentation “demo” of Bringing It All Back Home, the album cover inscribed in the upper left corner by Dylan, “Hope (and pray) this isn’t too much but you can always throw the jacket away.” Then, additionally signed and inscribed by him 4 times, in 4 different places, in 4 different personas, with 4 different signatures (Robert, Bobby, Dylan, and Bob). 87 words total, in black ink, all in Dylan’s handwriting. 12 1/2” X 12 1/2” light wear at the edges, some rubs, else very good, never repaired, cleaned, or touched–up. Complete with both sleeves and the record.

 “Here Katy, Here’s a record for you, you have a great walk and a great manner and helped turn the precious moments into days–see you along the road. Yours Robert.”

“Dear Katy, They never received that telegram but that’s ok, maybe better. Love Bob.”

“Katy! May you always be as you always are, Beautiful. Love Dylan.”

“To Katy With Love Bobby!”

And there’s more. In the lower left corner, Dylan references the 4 different identities in which he has inscribed, with a quotation from Sam Peckinpah: “There are many different people inside of us, Sam P.”

The presentation inscriptions are to, and the item is, ex–Katherine Haber, MBE, at the time, a production staffer on the MGM film, Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid, in which Dylan acted, and for which he wrote and performed his Billy 1, 4, and 7, as well as Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door. And it is the film’s director, Sam Peckinpah, whom Dylan quotes in the lower left corner of the cover

For Sale

[midnightnearthewall]

John Murry - Southern Sky