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My favourite interpretation of the Tam Lin story is "Tam Lin" by Tricky Pixie (lyrics at the link).

(2 in French my Belgians, one in Brezhoneg by French nationals)

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( Stromae )

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I recently discovered Angèle's Plus de sens and the lines "Et j'ai essayé de tenir / Oublier que j'ai peur de l'avenir / C'est pas toujours parfait / J'ai parfois des regrets" ("And I tried holding on / Forget I'm afraid of the future / It's not always perfect / I sometimes have regrets") keep popping up in my head.

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FRANCE IS SENDING A SONG IN BREZHONEG TO EUROVISION :D
(This is where I'd put an emoji of the Gwenn ha du ("white and black"), the Breton flag, but there isn't one. Please consider signing this petition to change this.)

( Breizh )


No thoughts, head empty, only happy-making noises.

Has anyone ever done a dueSouth vid to gunnarolla & Julia Bentley's "Canadian, Please"?

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If yes, can I have a link and if no, WHY NOT

And the question is: how many 25m pool lengths did I swim today? And, having swum those 1050m, I have swam more than the 16km that crossing the Strait of Gibraltar would take! And though the Strait of Gibraltar and its 16km/10 miles are the shortest, they are still part of Oceans Seven. open water swimming themed heist when

When I swim, I tend to recite the following song to myself:

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1. I saw the Toutankhamon touring exhibit. I loved it! I mean, I am exactly the kind of nerd who would love something like this, but I still thought it was very well done. The more I think about it, the more I realise it's the smaller everyday objects I loved the most. Yes, the statues were impressive, but there's a 3000 years old pair of linen gloves! Yes, the jewelry is magnificent (and I never noticed before, but he had pierced ears, as depicted in representations of him) but the miniature boardgame is the cutest, bestest thing! It's also a box to hold the game pieces! It's reversible! With a different game on each side! I WANT ONE.

2. After tomorrow I get back to working in the office, which means I no longer will have to commute with my laptop on my back like a digital age turtle. My shoulder will thank me. Three more commutes! I can do this.

3. Did a few art pieces with entirely free/promotional materials (notebook, pencil, ballpoint). They turned out pretty good, I think. Idk I feel like the complete lack of pressure to ~live up to the medium~ helped me relax? Pretty stressed and uncreative lately.

4. fandomgiftbox is running again! Yay!

5. I love Taylor Swift's latest.

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I think this is going to be one of those songs I get ood mental health mileage out of. (Taylor Swift is very good at those, for me, idk why.)

So today wasn't a great day and I basically did fuckall except listen to the 10th anniversary album of My Chemical Romance's The Black Parade, The Black Parade/Living With Ghosts, on repeat. And then it was basically just "Welcome to the Black Parade" on repeat.

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Listen, I hear those opening notes and suddenly I'm back in time -- not that ten years ago was necessarily a good time for me to be, but it was ten years ago and I'm still here, so that's something.

So I've been listening to Mika pretty much on repeat for the past couple of days. At some point, I realised that all the songs of his I had on my MP3 player were from either Life in Cartoon Motion (2007) or The Boy Who Knew Too Much (2009) and I asked myself, "What's Mika done since then?" Because I'd kind of lost track of what he'd been doing, aside from him coming out as gay at some point in the last five years. (Wow. Already?)

This is what he's been doing since then:

"MIKA - Boum Boum Boum" (Watch on YouTube)

So apparently Mika sings in French now? (I am impressed by his lack of accent. He even does the "r"s and the "u"s properly!)

I have to admit that I started to laugh at "les bourgeois du 16eme" and kind of haven't stopped since. He's a cowboy! He's James Bond! He's in a noir movie! He's Lawrence of Arabia! Everyone's having gunfights! I have no idea what's happening!

I have no idea why Mika is singing in French, or what's going on in that video (the lyrics, on the other hand, are very explicit), but I really don't care.  It's making me laugh and making me happy the way Mika's songs always do.

Rock on, Mika. Rock on.