Yuletide nominations!!!

[osprey_archer]

At the Yuletide nominations post, someone mentioned that they're nominating this music video, so I clicked through, and...I just had to share. "I got haloes made of summer, ribbons made of spring..."

There's an animated section. With a narwhal! A narwhal, you guys!

I have no idea how one would write fic for this, but I approve mightily of its existence.

***

Also, for my reference, I'm nominating:

Baby-Sitters Club
Claudia Kishi
Ashley Wyeth
Mary Anne Speare
Kristy Thomas

Queen's Thief - Megan Whelan Turner
Eugenides
Attolia
Costis
Eddis

Rome
Vorenus
Marc Antony
Cleopatra
Pullo

No one else seemed to be stepping up to nom either Queen's Thief or Rome, and the idea of a Yuletide without them just seemed past bearing. And I've already told you about my lust for an Ashley/Claudia fic...you know, I started one before last Yuletide, maybe I should dust it off and finish it.

Comments

[goldjadeocean.livejournal.com]

I know the person who's nominating this! (Or, I do unless there are TWO music videos with narwhals in them.)

It's a catchy song!

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

Maybe narwhals are the hot new thing in music videos!

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

ROOOOOME!

I'm thinking of nominating (and requesting) it for festivids. Hmm, I wonder if there are any Rome vids out there already?

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

I think there must be, but I have no idea where they might be. Vids seem to disappear a lot.

[ladyherenya]

I thought "Something in the Water" was seriously annoying until I saw the music video. The combination of the visuals with the music made me change my mind - made it seem less cheesy or something.

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

I can see the song seeming repetitive without the animated narwhals.

You listen to folk music, don't you? What are a couple of your favorite songs? I've been thinking of broadening my musical horizons.

[ladyherenya]

Some of these might be more on the borders of folk music...

Angus & Julia Stone - "Paper Aeroplane", "Little Bird", "Babylon".

The Civil Wars - "Poison and Wine", "20 Years", "My Father's Father".

Nick Drake - "Northern Sky", "River Man", "Saturday Sun".

Nickel Creek - "Out of the Woods", "When You Come Back Down", "Jealous of the Moon".

Vienna Teng - everything! Especially "Antebellum", "Recessional", "Blue Caravan".

The Weepies - also everything, but particularly "World Spins Madly On", "Riga Girls", "Keep It There".

"Spanish Lady" by Maighread & Triona Ni Dhomhnaill, or Paddy Reilly.

I've just realised that doesn't really include any Celtic music, which could be classified as folk, but you asked for a couple of favourites and I've given you a list! Anyway, let me know if you want more Celtic-folk.

Or older folk music - my current favourites are more recent stuff, so I haven't mentioned Simon & Garfunkel, Don McLean, and so on...