Saturday, June 6, 2009 at 10:31AM I went to see The Handsome Family last night in Belfast's Errigle Inn. They were great. And this is, I think, my new favourite song: "The Loneliness of Magnets".
Music in Lubberland TV Thursday, June 4, 2009 at 02:44PM A great little video on the topic of 'Home', from Lonely Planet.
Home in Lubberland TV Tuesday, June 2, 2009 at 09:52AM The name for this blog - Adventures in Lubberland - is inspired by an English folk ballad called 'An Invitation to Lubberland', first published in 1685, which later inspired the classic Harry McClintock hobo song, the 'Big Rock Candy Mountain'. It's quite long, but for the sake of brevity, here's my own truncated version which serves as the inspiration for the title of this blog:
There is a ship, we understand,
Now riding in the river
Tis newly come from Lubberland
The like I think was never;
You that a lazy life do love
I'd have you go now over,
They say the land is not above
Two thousand leagues from Dover...
There's nothing there but holy-days
With music out of measure;
Who can forebear to speak the praise
Of such a land of pleasure?
There may you lead a lazy life
Free from all kinds of labours:
And he that is without a wife,
May borrow from his neighbour.
Based on the medieval European myth about the land of 'Cockaigne', 'Lubberland' is essentially the name given to the medieval peasant's bawdy vision of a leisureful, pleasureful paradise.
For the purposes of this blog, though, 'Lubberland' represents my own (occasionally bawdy) vision of a leisureful, pleasureful paradise. Adventures in Lubberland is, I suppose, a record of my moments of idleness, adventurousness, and creativity; a log of my own little trips to Lubberland, ill-fated or otherwise.
I hope you enjoy it.
