Tying Viet-Nam and the Crimean war together, is a track on the eerie 1968 album balaklava by the American band Pearls before Swine. It is entitled Trumpeter Landfrey..., and purports to be a crackly recording of the last surviving member of the Charge of the Light Brigade. My copy of the album is an old junk shop find, and its songs represent the high point of a certain kind of baroque hippy language ('the translucent carriages are calling morning in'!), blended with period antiwar sentiment. It is dedicated to Pvt. Edward D. Slovik (US Army, deceased).
Oh Adam -- thanks so much for resurrecting that wonderful story about Dorothy, whom we still miss -- she was a legendary, Marlene- Dietrich sort of figure -- in our family. Gone for thirty years. That's a splendid blog post too!
"I've danced with a man, who's danced with a girl, who's danced with the Prince of Wales"... A ex-colleague of mine came from a family where the men married and had children very late in life. Born, like me, in 1954, his grandfather fought in The Crimean War.
Completely irrelevant, but you may enjoy / benefit from this discussion of "punctum" by one of my favourite photo-bloggers, Andrew Molitor:
Tying Viet-Nam and the Crimean war together, is a track on the eerie 1968 album balaklava by the American band Pearls before Swine. It is entitled Trumpeter Landfrey..., and purports to be a crackly recording of the last surviving member of the Charge of the Light Brigade. My copy of the album is an old junk shop find, and its songs represent the high point of a certain kind of baroque hippy language ('the translucent carriages are calling morning in'!), blended with period antiwar sentiment. It is dedicated to Pvt. Edward D. Slovik (US Army, deceased).
Oh Adam -- thanks so much for resurrecting that wonderful story about Dorothy, whom we still miss -- she was a legendary, Marlene- Dietrich sort of figure -- in our family. Gone for thirty years. That's a splendid blog post too!
Thank you Germaine! I was thinking of you as I wrote that section.
"I've danced with a man, who's danced with a girl, who's danced with the Prince of Wales"... A ex-colleague of mine came from a family where the men married and had children very late in life. Born, like me, in 1954, his grandfather fought in The Crimean War.
Completely irrelevant, but you may enjoy / benefit from this discussion of "punctum" by one of my favourite photo-bloggers, Andrew Molitor:
https://photothunk.blogspot.com/search?q=punctum
Mike
Thanks, Mike -- I'll check out that punctum piece.