Tomorrow is Bloom's Day or Bloomsday and i was thinking of taking my bodhràn along to the celebrations at Nth. Gt. George's St. here in Dublin. i have, however, turned Ulysses upside down and inside out looking for some DIRECT references to the bodhràn.
Ne'er a one could I find. I'm beginning to suspect that old Joyce who was also a keen singer, guitarist and pianist may have been a member of the local sesh across in Trieste and over a few glasses of vino bianco and a few tunes gave the evil eye to straw hatted bodhràn players and their ilk of a Saturday night.
Maybe one of ye can dig be up a reference, however oblique, to Bloom's bodhràn or Bloomsbodhràn.
"Mr Leopold Bloom beat with relish the inner rhythms of jigs and reels. Most of all he liked polkas which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine."
I have been wondering how much of a cross-section there is between ITM nerds and Bloomheads. There are at least two of us. (Maybe only two of us?) Happy day-before-Bloomsday! Wish I was in Dublin.
Perhaps the biscuit tin hurled at Bloom by the citizen was in fact a bodhran. The sight of bodhrans sailing out of pub doors onto the street must have been a common occurence in Joyce's time as it is in ours, so maybe that at least inspired the episode.
anyway play along your piece of goatskin tomorrow night I think it fits perfectly well in the spirit of that 100th jubilee of a piece of hard to consume virtual reality...
by the way: what happens in your town on this bloomsday? the "Literaturhaus Munich" does a nicely screenplayed event for the joyce community which found a minor role for my actual band "craic".
Why Munich, you ask? Well, isn´t it well known for its famous Leopold Street?
For the uninitiated, i think Joyce's story "The Dead" from his first book Dubliners is a good place to start. It takes place partly at a house concert/dance, and gives a good feeling for the music of Dublin 100 years ago, as well as the characters, language, etc that the music we love comes from. Great stuff. And it's not very Joycean (in other words, it makes sense.)
Daniel
Yes because he never did a thing like that before as ask to get a reference to the fecking goatskin when he used to be pretending to be laid up with a sick voice doing his untimely to make himself interesting for that old faggot Mrs Lunny that he thought he had a great leg of and he never left us a farthing all for sessions and would he stop and play the fiddle or the pipes instead and then i asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would i say yes and yes i said yes i will Yes
the freeway sat at my feet and i continued to walk and the stuff undedrneath my feet caused a thirst to well up... so i did and saw many things...Nancy, Nancy,,, the question , I don't remember the question
Leopold Bloom on the bodhràn
Leopold Bloom on the bodhràn
Tomorrow is Bloom's Day or Bloomsday and i was thinking of taking my bodhràn along to the celebrations at Nth. Gt. George's St. here in Dublin. i have, however, turned Ulysses upside down and inside out looking for some DIRECT references to the bodhràn.
Ne'er a one could I find. I'm beginning to suspect that old Joyce who was also a keen singer, guitarist and pianist may have been a member of the local sesh across in Trieste and over a few glasses of vino bianco and a few tunes gave the evil eye to straw hatted bodhràn players and their ilk of a Saturday night.
Maybe one of ye can dig be up a reference, however oblique, to Bloom's bodhràn or Bloomsbodhràn.
HHMMmmmmmm.
Joe
# Posted on June 15th 2004 by Joe Quinn
Re: Leopold Bloom on the bodhràn
Hello Joe,
"Mr Leopold Bloom beat with relish the inner rhythms of jigs and reels. Most of all he liked polkas which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine."
I have been wondering how much of a cross-section there is between ITM nerds and Bloomheads. There are at least two of us. (Maybe only two of us?) Happy day-before-Bloomsday! Wish I was in Dublin.
Perhaps the biscuit tin hurled at Bloom by the citizen was in fact a bodhran. The sight of bodhrans sailing out of pub doors onto the street must have been a common occurence in Joyce's time as it is in ours, so maybe that at least inspired the episode.
Hmmmm....
Daniel
# Posted on June 15th 2004 by Daniel K
Re: Leopold Bloom on the bodhràn
Nice one, Daniel. Keep 'em rolling in.
Grin
Joe
# Posted on June 15th 2004 by Joe Quinn
Re: Leopold Bloom on the bodhràn
anyway play along your piece of goatskin tomorrow night I think it fits perfectly well in the spirit of that 100th jubilee of a piece of hard to consume virtual reality...
by the way: what happens in your town on this bloomsday? the "Literaturhaus Munich" does a nicely screenplayed event for the joyce community which found a minor role for my actual band "craic".
Why Munich, you ask? Well, isn´t it well known for its famous Leopold Street?
# Posted on June 15th 2004 by crannog
Re: Leopold Bloom on the bodhràn
Here's a list of a few San Francisco and misc events (anyone up for a 12 hour webcast, anyone?)
http://www.sfstation.com/literaryarts/archives/bloomsday.htm
For the uninitiated, i think Joyce's story "The Dead" from his first book Dubliners is a good place to start. It takes place partly at a house concert/dance, and gives a good feeling for the music of Dublin 100 years ago, as well as the characters, language, etc that the music we love comes from. Great stuff. And it's not very Joycean (in other words, it makes sense.)
Daniel
# Posted on June 15th 2004 by Daniel K
Re: Leopold Bloom on the bodhràn
Yes because he never did a thing like that before as ask to get a reference to the fecking goatskin when he used to be pretending to be laid up with a sick voice doing his untimely to make himself interesting for that old faggot Mrs Lunny that he thought he had a great leg of and he never left us a farthing all for sessions and would he stop and play the fiddle or the pipes instead and then i asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would i say yes and yes i said yes i will Yes
# Posted on June 15th 2004 by biggus dave
Re: Leopold Bloom on the bodhràn
the freeway sat at my feet and i continued to walk and the stuff undedrneath my feet caused a thirst to well up... so i did and saw many things...Nancy, Nancy,,, the question , I don't remember the question
big dave- not bad
# Posted on June 15th 2004 by I_Fel
Re: Leopold Bloom on the bodhràn
it's amazing what a gallon of cider can do to your head.and your insides.
# Posted on June 16th 2004 by biggus dave
Re: Leopold Bloom on the bodhràn
Yes.
# Posted on June 17th 2004 by Murph