So, Jenn's in labor.

[conuly]

Probably. I mean, it could be false labor, but that's looking doubtful. Going over to her house after Ana wakes up from her nap, will probaby stay overnight.

Friday we (by which I mean me and my mom, not me and Jenn) are going to see a performance of Tam Lin. My mother's worried, the way it's advertised, that there may be too many children.

I don't get it. This is a ballad about a girl who goes into the woods and either gets raped or not and so she ends up pregnant. Then she goes back into the woods to pick flowers either to call her babydaddy or to lose the baby, whatever, and he tells her that he's about to be murdered as a sacrifice to Hell by his kidnappers. And then she saves his life, while he turns into all manner of frightening things.

And it starts at 8pm.

Even I find it hard to see why this would be considered a children's performance in anybody's mind.

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[atalantapendrag.livejournal.com]

I've always adored that song (and I actually just finished rereading the Pamela Dean novel) but yes, it's pretty creepy, especially in the versions that strongly imply Janet was raped rather than seduced. I'd love to see a stage adaptation myself, but so very not a kid's story.


The band Three Weird Sisters (http://www.threeweirdsisters.com/) do a cool song called Discovery (http://s61.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1KNALW6ZPMQZZ0WW7CBJVZHL7D) that shows just what a scary manipulative guy Tam Lin really was.