I seem to only ever post about music and movies these days. The original goal of the blog was to provide an outlet for dissertation research. More of that later.
But for now I want to think of Lord Franklin.
The grotesque images delighted me as a child. The knowledge that my suspicions were right, that despite the implicit assurances otherwise, the damned cold could kill you, and worse, could preserve your body as a horrifying reminder of your miserable demise, has led to a preference for fire over ice, a preference that has no real rational basis but that I won't dismiss as mere sentiment. From what I've tasted of desire..., and all that. (Also, this. Or, the opening sentence from this. My childhood had a theme.)
And then there was this:
As I understand it, this was the version of the song that inspired "Bob Dylan's Dream." I prefer this. When I first heard it I believed it to be sung by an old man. I also preferred that. But I'm okay with any song from a second album entitled "Second Album." Gets to the point.
Update: Comment: "For Dylan to have been inspired by Martin Carthy’s version (which appeared on Carthy’s Second Album – I also like the title – in 1966), he would have had to have heard it Live by 1963 at the latest as that’s when “Bob Dylan’s Dream” appeared on The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan). This is very possible. All Music guide lists many versions, mostly British and Irish." Yes. But Carthy was playing this prior to 1966, and it seems likely that Dylan learned the song from Carthy when they met in London in December 1962. Or, from Paul Clayton, who had recorded the song for his 1957 album Whaling and Sailing Songs: From the Days of Moby Dick. This is all from Wikipedia though, so hardly definitive.
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