I love Halloween...
Oct. 27th, 2005 06:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amanuensis1You know what would be the coolest Halloween costume? You go as Janet from the "Tam Lin" ballad--since the key action takes place on Halloween--and you dress in a bodice-y gown but you dress pregnant and go carrying a stuffed dummy that's this sewn-together combo of lion/dragon/python/man, and make a point of not putting the dummy down all evening.
Damn, I'll never get that together by Monday.
Damn, I'll never get that together by Monday.
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Date: 2005-10-29 02:30 pm (UTC)HAVE YOU SEEN THIS CHILD?
(picture of girl)
Name: Persephone
Last seen with: Lord of Underworld
Distinguishing Characteristics: Likes Pomegranates
Info? Call 1-555-DEMETER
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Date: 2005-10-30 04:19 am (UTC)she's such a charmer, i had to have a picture of her dancing.
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Date: 2005-10-30 04:08 am (UTC)*nods* Perhaps grab some sort of ugly soft toy and dress it up. Because it is worth doing. Or find a perfect costume sometime for next year.
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Date: 2005-10-28 02:49 am (UTC)and
2) Why not? Go to Target or WalMart or something, buy some cheap plush animals, get out the scissors and thread... It could totally work.
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Date: 2005-10-29 02:15 pm (UTC)Okay, I'm a Tam Lin fanatic
Date: 2005-10-28 02:59 am (UTC)Don't forget the green mantle, and a blonde wig if possible. And two roses (fake?) in your hair!
Hey! You could use the fake pregnobelly as a place to carry all the critters you aren't currently using!
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Date: 2005-10-29 02:19 pm (UTC)Re: Okay, I'm a Tam Lin fanatic
Date: 2005-10-29 06:08 pm (UTC)Re: Okay, I'm a Tam Lin fanatic
Date: 2005-10-31 10:52 am (UTC)Les Barker, Current 93, Steeleye Span, Pyewaket, Rick Lee: Can't find in a downloadable (purchasable) format. Will keep looking!
Tempest: Oh! I forgot, I do know that one; just that I have it on cassette.
Three Weird Sisters: Found on iTunes! Ooh, I listened to the sample and that's neat. I may have to purchase that one.
Thank you so much for letting me know about these! I'll keep looking for more!
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Date: 2005-10-31 05:12 pm (UTC)IIRC the Pyewacket and Rick Lee are much like the Anne Briggs version.
Current 93 was a limited edition of about 500 copies, although it's possible they may have reprinted. It's very distinctive, being in a rather gothier style than most versions. I can send you the MP3 if you like.
The Les Barker one (actually recorded by the Mrs. Ackroyd Band) may or may not be in print, Amazon US doesn't have it but Amazon UK might. www.tam-lin.org has the lyrics, and if you can't find a copy I can send an MP3 of it as well. It's an utterly delightful parody that deserves hearing.
The Broadside Electric Band version is dissimilar to any other one I've heard. It's on the album Amplificata, and I was able to buy it off Amazon US a few months ago, although it was supposedly the last one they had in stock. Another "well worth it in general" album.
Oh! Medieval Baebes has a version on their latest, Mirabilis. Done in their usual "Enya does Gregorian Chants" style. Totally in print. iTunes probably has it, eMusic and Audio Lunchbox might as well.
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Date: 2005-10-28 03:15 am (UTC)That's just brilliant. Have you ever read...uh, memory's failing, but if I'm right...Pamela Dean's _Tam Lin_?
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Date: 2005-10-28 05:03 am (UTC)Great costume idea! But yeah, kinda hard to whip up by Monday.
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Date: 2005-10-29 06:42 pm (UTC)Damn sexy grown-up halloween costumes.
On the bright side, my boring old black concert pumps are now covered with red glitter.
Harry would make a fabulous Dorothy. And Lucius could be Glinda, and Snape the wicked witch of the west, and I KNOW this has been done before, but I keep picturing Harry in these glittery red platform mary janes I saw yesterday, and it's AMAZING.
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Date: 2005-10-28 06:35 am (UTC)For some bizarre reason, this reminds me that I had a fantastic idea for people dressing up for the GoF premiere. Everyone dresses in the frilly gown or bad tux of their dreams in honor of the movie's Yule Ball...
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Date: 2005-10-28 08:04 am (UTC)...even when someone sets it on fire.
He turns into a burning brand at one point, I thought.
*seconds the recommendation of
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Date: 2005-10-29 02:36 pm (UTC)You can probably guess what happened to me when I read Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond books for the first time. *g*
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Date: 2005-10-29 12:46 am (UTC)*sporfles tea*
*laughing for real*
(...or if you could just get your favorite person to dress in a lion/dragon/python/man costume, and then make a point of not letting go of him/her all evening...)
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Date: 2005-10-29 02:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-29 03:33 pm (UTC)(...a person might even end up having to follow him into the bathroom, just for the sake of authenticity, of course...)
(I am just bad.)(Somebody stop me...)
*slaps hand over mouth*