To what are you currently listening?

[LausTibiChriste]

The vernacular isn't all bad 

[Gardener]

Looking into one of these Gene Milligan whistles... but they are spendy so I'm doing a lot of comparative research. Man, what SOUND. I've had my lips to one in person and aside from the slight bit of reverb on the recordings, the tone is JUST THAT GOOD. Gah.

[erin is nice]

I listened to Elliott Smith for almost five hours today...

[Chestertonian]

I listened to Elliott Smith for almost five hours today...

are you feeling ok

[LouisIX]

You are Sufjan Stevens.

That's the worst insult I've ever received.

That's a silly thing to say.

I've seriously never been so insulted in my life.  But I'm from New Jersey.  I can roll with the punches.

Louis, who's this fellow in your new avatar?  My first guess was that it might be some handsome actor playing Nietzsche, but then I remembered that Nietzsche never smoked (or even drank coffee; he led an ascetic lifestyle).  The cigarette more or less rules that possibility out.  (Or is it more grammatically correct to say "rules out that possibility?"  Jayne would know).  Anyway the hair and the mustache and the penetrating stare are positively Nietzschean.  So who is it?

Francois Verkerk, a model.  I do not particularly care about modeling, nor do I know anything about the man other than his name.  The picture, nonetheless, represents a certain masculine je ne sais quoi which is sorely needed in our current age.  I couldn't resist making it my avatar.

[Sbyvl36]

It is very masculine indeed.

[Archer]

Francois Verkerk, a model.  I do not particularly care about modeling, nor do I know anything about the man other than his name.  The picture, nonetheless, represents a certain masculine je ne sais quoi which is sorely needed in our current age.  I couldn't resist making it my avatar.

I'll see your model and raise you an outlaw....errr....actor.

[Rose]

Show of Hands, the Best Of album. Anyone else heard of them? They're English modern folk, not manglewurzzle types.

[Maximilian]

Show of Hands, the Best Of album. Anyone else heard of them? They're English modern folk, not manglewurzzle types.

[Maximilian]

[Maximilian]

[J. Austin]

The vernacular isn't all bad 

That was really good! Pity Fifty Shades of Grey came up in the related videos though!

[Chestertonian]

Show of Hands, the Best Of album. Anyone else heard of them? They're English modern folk, not manglewurzzle types.

waht i s a a anglewzuzzle

[Rose]

Show of Hands, the Best Of album. Anyone else heard of them? They're English modern folk, not manglewurzzle types.

waht i s a a anglewzuzzle

It's a bit like a turnip, used to feed livestock, and a sort of tongue in cheek byword for "country bumpkin". Some English folk music is very consciously uber-rural, nothing wrong with that of course,  but it doesn't make the music that great.

I love SOH, but can't vouch for all their songs or music videos  they sometimes have some immodesty in the vids as a warning. Steve Knightly, the lead singer, also has a solo career-in fact i think they both do-and his stuff is pretty good too.

Thanks for posting the vids, Maximillian!

[AngloFalcon]