When I'd skimmed Baa, Baa Black Sheep recently one morning after catching a cold, I'd gone into it mocking Punch. Literally ingrained, to every companion's detriment. Hahahahah. Adversity may produce a phantasmagorical phenomena for all but that of our own individual inertia's sake. Certainly not to be ignored, for it cannot be avoided; Nietzsche, the current praise of those given to convention but an enlightening one indeed. The Gay Science, Book One - 26 and 27 and 56; Book Three - 19; Book Four - 341. A sobering muse, my dear friend! I bid you glad tidings, Eric - and hope your holiday season proves wondrous!

I made it. I've got a pretty similar artwork if you'd like me to email 'er. In any case, happy Sunday!

@@GhostontheMoor Just the auld bagpipe and guitar! I've been playing this country dance since my mid-teens.

@@mysterymichaelman It works really well. Tell me more about the bagpipes! (Here or in an email!)

Thank you kindly, my friend! The singer would be the late Peter Bellamy, an English folk singer from East Anglia. It is a great honour however, for my work to be confused with his talent. Hahahah! <3 Blessings and charms!

@@Orourkebanjo No, actually. Never learned to play good. Hahahah. Haven't heard from you in absolute eons. Hope yer well, pal!

@@mysterymichaelman I’m doing grand. I hope you’re well yourself. I’m glad to see you’re still making folk music. I’ve messed with a lot of Appalachian/old time music now I’m trying to learn more bluegrass stuff. I’m having a baby and I’m married now.

@@Orourkebanjo That's a huge step up from the place you were in last time we talked! I was probably still a teenager, turning 22 in a few days. I actually do have a clawhammer song on this channel somewhere - drinking myself to death but I'll get out of this rut. All the love in the world, friend. <3 Cheers, pal!

@@mysterymichaelman I drank a lot in my twenties, but for some reason I just grew out of it as soon as I turned 29. You will. You just need to find something you love more than drinking. It’s hard, but when it’s finally over it’s easy. Kind of a paradox like that. I wish you all the best. Happy birthday to you.

བྱིན་བརླབས! <333 All the love in the world! - Lemons

Oh, most definitely it is. My Appalachian great great-grandfather had to be tied to the bed by his wife in his drunk, lest he suffer night terrors and fight the air in his unconscious frenzy. Oh, I'd made it into a sort of hellish revision after the maddened visions of a handful of good friends. Terrible odes to Sodom and Sindhuist soliloquies ring the obscenity found and birthed by the likes of Kipling and Dickens! Listening to Gunga Din - what a sobering sorrow in providence and prejudice! Hope all is well. ❤️‍🔥

@@mysterymichaelman Thanks, Michael. All comparatively well here. Autumn is well underway in the world and it looks very beautiful.

@@eric-jr2nf I'd recorded a version of the Limerick Rake in such a setting. Clancy Brothers, goodness me, it's beautiful. From Saxon to Dane. All the English ale'd love in the world. ❤️‍🔥

Oh, weren't they?! I'll probably upload some interview clips of Bellamy pretty soon. :) Hope you're well, Nigel!

@@mysterymichaelman All well, thanks, and on holiday in Lincolnshire, where the poachers come from!

How are you doing?

@@GhostontheMoor D'ye ken John Peel? Hahahahah! Lincolnshire is beautiful, I'm sure of it. Their accent is quite striking and easily discerned. I'm going through a phase, oh goodness, my entire life's been a phase. Left this house for six months, it was paradise. Worst mistake was leaving Ohio, people begged me not to go back to those nutjobs, never knew what normal was until I lived on my own. Sure enough, within the month my mother has my father arrested. Should have stayed in the factory, I made a small sum but it was livable. Now I'm trapped again, drinking spirits most every day. I'll look back on all this indulgence and smile one day. I've been through half of this country, became a Freemason, met some pretty girls, treated my friends a bit and got to see a whole bunch of stuff. I'm content.

@@mysterymichaelman Wow! That sounds like the plot of a novel, or a very, very long ballad at the very least. Does this mean that you’re not planning to join the army now? I can’t remember which state you said you were in… Though I seem to recall that you’re somewhere in the SW of the US.

@@eric-jr2nf The Germanic condition, I tell you. Oh, I remember our endless discussions. Curious to hear your opinion on Anderson's recent scandals. I've been an atheist for years. Hahahahah.

​@@mysterymichaelman I just stumbled upon the Anderson scandal a few days ago. I'm still looking into it, listening to his adult kids' testimonies and waiting to see what will happen. I still believe most of Anderson's doctrines (not how he practices them though 😂), but it's closer to 80% of them I believe now, rather than 95%, lol. I'm sure I would be called a hellbound reprobate heretic by both the New and Old IFB, lol.

@@eric-jr2nf Here I am producing an album en dévouement a la Marquis de Sade, and those Andersons have more toys and whips and outfits in their possession than I'm able to admit! To think they made their children wash their impedimenta of libertine passions, to add! Ugh. What we would have given to have been raised in a secular and educated world. Pitiful, what insurmountable billions must live through. <3 Hope all is well.

​@@mysterymichaelman😂