it is freaking cold
So, there’s this medieval song called “Sumer is icumen in,” which is the oldest existing example of a round (think “Row, Row, Row Your Boat”). Listen to it here. It’s kind of meh; any awesomeness it has comes from its historical value, the fact that one of the lyrics talks about a stag farting, and its use at the end of the 1973 British cult horror film The Wicker Man while the protagonist is burned alive (that link is tamer than you may imagine but still possibly not work-safe).
I mention it mostly because Ezra Pound wrote a parody that is pretty funny. Pound was a fascist dick, but in this case he speaks the truth.
December 23rd, 2008 at 11:09 pm
The end of the Wicker Man totally creeps me out! I was just thinking about it recently. Pretty scary, methinks.
December 24th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
Yeah, it’s pretty fucked up (although I haven’t seen the whole movie. Perhaps a showing is in order???)
December 30th, 2008 at 10:29 am
I loved “The Wicker Man”! Nobody does villains like Christopher Lee anymore.
December 30th, 2008 at 10:38 am
I can’t get over how young he looks. He wasn’t always 14,000 years old?!?