snuh ([info]snuh) wrote,
@ 2008-09-09 05:29:00
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ode to autumn

Yesterday, as a cool Autumn-like breeze blew across my face, I caught the first hint of Fall's arrival. It brought back a conversation from a few years back where I'd discussed how much I loved the season. My acquaintance replied that it was most likely due to the allegorical nature of Fall, it was time to reap the harvest of seeds we'd planted in our lives. I enjoyed her poetic take, it sure beats worrying about sweeping leaves. It's just about time to celebrate the coming of harvest, here's something to help the mood.


"For man, Autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad." - Edwin Way Teale

"Delicious Autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive Autumns." - George Eliot

"I prefer Winter and Fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of Winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show." - Andrew Wyeth

"My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of Autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane." - Robert Frost

"The teeming Autumn big with rich increase, bearing the wanton burden of the prime like widowed wombs after their lords decease." - William Shakespeare

"But I remember more dearly Autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees." - C.S. Lewis

"Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile." - William Cullen Bryant

The Band: King Harvest (Has Surely Come) - 6MB

Yo La Tengo: Autumn Sweater - 8MB

Lou Reed: September Song - 11MB

Big Country: Harvest Home - 7MB

The Smashing Pumpkins: Autumn Nocturne - 3MB

Clinic: Harvest (Within You) - 5MB

XTC: Harvest Festival - 5MB

Neil Young: Harvest - 5MB

Kinks: Autumn Almanac - 5MBweb hit counter

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[info]presentpossible
2008-09-09 12:45 pm UTC (link)
yes yes yes
the kinks
thank you

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[info]snuh
2008-09-09 12:48 pm UTC (link)
That's my favorite, as well. I forgot all about September Song, just about to add it.

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[info]carless_sam
2008-09-09 04:05 pm UTC (link)
Mmmm, nice set. We don't really get much of autumn in the North East any more, just a couple weeks of mellow weather between summer and pseudo-winter. Ah, well.

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The Meaning Of Life - The Autumn Years
[info]snuh
2008-09-09 08:47 pm UTC (link)

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[info]carless_sam
2008-09-09 11:40 pm UTC (link)
Well, hopefully not like that...

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Re: The Meaning Of Life - The Autumn Years
[info]snuh
2008-09-10 12:44 am UTC (link)
Here's some more songs:

Leon Redbone: Shine On Harvest Moon - 5MB

Hall & Oates: Fall In Philadelphia - 6MB

The Flaming Lips: My Cosmic Autumn Rebellion - 8MB

Robyn Hitchcock: Autumn Is Your Last Chance - 5MB

The Isley Brothers: Harvest For The World - 7MB

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Re: The Meaning Of Life - The Autumn Years
[info]snuh
2008-09-10 01:34 am UTC (link)
The Ink Spots: When The Swallows Come Back To Capistrano - 3MB

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[info]carless_sam
2008-09-10 02:34 am UTC (link)
i'd settle for a nice New England leaf display...

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New England Leafs display
[info]snuh
2008-09-10 02:43 am UTC (link)


Toronto Maple Leafs forward Tucker and Toronto Maple Leafs forward Wellwood celebrate after Wellwood scored a goal in Boston

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Re: New England Leafs display
[info]carless_sam
2008-09-10 04:12 am UTC (link)
Not quite...

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Re: New England Leafs display
[info]snuh
2008-09-10 04:20 am UTC (link)
You just wanted one Leaf displayed?

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Re: New England Leafs display
[info]carless_sam
2008-09-10 07:16 pm UTC (link)
<img="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/ce/leif-ericson-20050724.jpg/180px-leif-ericson-20050724.jpg">

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New England Leaf display
[info]snuh
2008-09-10 02:44 am UTC (link)

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[info]clamnebula
2008-09-09 05:36 pm UTC (link)
It was a very good year... but this is a very bad version of it!

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[info]snuh
2008-09-09 09:05 pm UTC (link)

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[info]firefred
2008-09-09 11:59 pm UTC (link)
Amused: I kind of expected you to post something about autumn and also that Neil Young and the Kinks would be in it. It also reminded me of the infamous Foetus Song in which he says" Today is the first of September ... I'll meet you in Poland baby" - which was about the Nazis invading Poland in the fall of 1939. Can't have been a nive autumn for the Polish!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDre17rNvV0
was trying to find a downloadable file for you, but I told you I'm technically challenged :(
so how about this one (Autumn in New York, Billie Holliday)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsODsSfgo2k

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[info]snuh
2008-09-10 12:45 am UTC (link)
Billie Holiday: Autumn In New York - 3MB

Foetus: I'll Meet You in Poland Baby - 4MB


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faLL
[info]hardy_b
2008-09-10 02:52 am UTC (link)
Hey the first song is sweeeetah! I wish a cool breeze would come across my face, liking the intro SnuH!
Sup man remember me...

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Re: faLL
[info]snuh
2008-09-10 04:11 am UTC (link)

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But Seriously, Folks...
[info]flaregun
2008-09-10 04:33 am UTC (link)
I can think of nowhere else where I can enjoy the Kinks, Isleys, Captain Kirk and jackboot Nazi's all in one place except here. I am not ready to give in to Autumnal bliss - I for one am all about celebrating Indian Summer (Joe Walsh, Doors, Manic Street Preachers), where the sun never sets. Thanks for another stunning set Senor Snuh.

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Re: But Seriously, Folks...
[info]snuh
2008-09-10 05:06 am UTC (link)
Glad you enjoyed it! It can get pretty diverse around here, expect some Tuvan Hip-Hop soon. I see no reason why one shouldn't pine for Summer and stretch it out every inch they can.

Manic Street Preachers: Indian Summer - 7MB


You can never have enough Nazis (though it's the wrong season):



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[info]girl_in_blue
2008-09-11 09:08 pm UTC (link)
don't forget my favourite characterisation of autumn - "season of mists and mellow fruitfulness" john keats.

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[info]snuh
2008-09-12 11:11 am UTC (link)
The whole poem is great:

To Autumn
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness!
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For Summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells.

Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?
Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find
Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,
Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;
Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep,
Drowsed with the fume of poppies, while thy hook
Spares the next swath and all its twinèd flowers;
And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep
Steady thy laden head across a brook;
Or by a cider-press, with patient look,
Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours.

Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,—
While barrèd clouds bloom the soft-dying day,
And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue;
Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn
Among the river sallows, borne aloft
Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;
Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft;
And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.


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have you lost that lovin' feelin'? well?!
[info]babooinoshido
2008-09-12 06:41 am UTC (link)
It's September -- Johnnie Taylor

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[info]snuh
2008-09-12 11:08 am UTC (link)
Thankee!

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Re: have you lost that lovin' feelin'? well?!
(Anonymous)
2008-09-17 08:58 pm UTC (link)
Van Morrison - Autumn Song (from Hard nose the highway)

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Re: have you lost that lovin' feelin'? well?!
[info]snuh
2008-09-18 01:43 am UTC (link)
I no longer promote Morrison's music after a run-in with his representatives, Exile Productions.

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Re: have you lost that lovin' feelin'? well?!
(Anonymous)
2008-09-18 03:28 pm UTC (link)
Fuck him, then. And them. Though, that is a gorgeous song, just perfect for Fall.

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Re: have you lost that lovin' feelin'? well?!
[info]snuh
2008-09-18 08:37 pm UTC (link)
I'm doing him a favor. The extra $10 in royalties would've gone to supporting his alcoholism - I'd hate being an enabler!

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gotta love it
[info]snuh
2008-09-19 02:15 am UTC (link)
Van The Man Bans Booze At Gigs
- 18/09/2008
Van Morrison has imposed a ban on alcohol at venues on his forthcoming UK tour - he finds it "off-putting" when fans pop to the bar mid-set.

Concert promoter Danny Betesh has insisted the ban is not related to Morrison's past battle with alcohol addiction.

"We have had a policy of no drinks being taken into the hall because certain artists find it off-putting to have the audience moving around," said Betesh.

A spokesperson for the first venue of the tour, the Brighton Dome, told the Telegraph newspaper that the 67-year-old singer's request was "not hugely common".

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