May Day

what's up my people happy may day

Arise ye workers from your slumbers

http://www.chicagomayday.com/

C U THURR!

happy may day 2009

yay happy may day

yay may day!

what am i doing at work
i should be dancing around a fire or something

I love May, May is my month! I'm going to be the most Laurel possible, this month, and take everything in stride and bend it to my purposes. And love myself. Until June, when it will be someone else's month.

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i made a bird for the parade!

Happy May 2011, best month of the year!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg4YrOlAkds

Actually prefer the Julie Andrews version, the Redgrave is too coy and pretend.

This is my favorite month!!

Love May.

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I love May, May is my month! I'm going to be the most Laurel possible, this month, and take everything in stride and bend it to my purposes. And love myself.

― But not someone who should be dead anyway (Laurel)

I was so right about this. Motto 4 lyfe.

http://www.trussel.com/hf/covers/mayday47.jpg

might pop next door to the teamsters temple in a bit, see what the big noise is about.

http://www.trussel.com/hf/covers/mayday1.jpg

http://www.opinionleader.co.uk/UserFiles/Image/cases/5352_MayDayCompanies_outlinedRGB_web(1).jpg

Oh, I like that one a lot.

Well

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Come, it is time to keep your appointment...to celebrate MAY DAY 2012 (it could be our last, after all)

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I will!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k_hT031N9g

LIKE

LIKE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsjMcEqjZ-c

it is here!!

how do you plan to celebrate?

well, i looked up some information, and it turns out that may has oft been a symbol of fertility. so i'm going to have a baby. haha not.

laurel
those dancers are so badass i can't even handle it

i have a book that tells me everything i need to build and properly honor a maypole (among other things) but it's REALLY complicated and i don't have a yard. i'm going to have a picnic, but it'll be contingent on weather. so i'm trying to think good thoughts.

picnic in a public park, that is

i think we might burn something if we can get away with it.

Maypoles are a giant pain in the neck. Try lifting some garlands instead!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v334/mrwuggs/National-Park-Seminary-May-Day-1907.jpg

maybe little tiny mini ones!

that looks so nice

I'm going to ponder my potential for fertility, because just because it isn't exercised doesn't mean the power isn't there. And think snakely thoughts of rebirth and renewal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR1jNb7pFNw

yaaaaaaaay!!!!!

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emil.y! i've never heard a version like that -- thank you! so sprightly but dignified.

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Lech, I first heard either that particular version or a very similar arrangement in the British Library - they had an exhibition on linguistic changes in English, and that audio exhibit sent a shiver up my spine. It actually took a while for me to cotton on that they'd used it in The Wicker Man, I thought the familiarity was some sort of pagan ancestral kinship...

That sounds like an extremely memorable exhibit. How lucky you were to have seen it! All I know about that song is that it's purportedly the first song written in English, thereby making it the oldest known English folk song. I don't know anything about how that came to be known or decided, though.

decided, more likely

I suppose there's a reasonable amount of historical detritus left from that period, so they'd have a good stab at being right. Though there's always a certain amount of elision and elitism - 'first' is accepted as 'first with a written record', which is obviously going to err towards the educated and the ability to create and keep such records.

Yeah, that's what I meant -- it's the Sharp approach, right? I'm trying to remember things I learned when I read Electric Eden but my brain doesn't retain information unless I use it immediately (and even then...), so I only vaguely remember that there was a Cecil Sharp, and he favored a very scholarly approach to folk music.

why is this not a public holiday?

That is a very good question. Drinking opportunities? Check. Parade opportunities, check. What more do they want?

the goal of peace and full employment is a perfect reason to take a break from said employment and enjoy some peace

We have a bank holiday around this time, though every year someone says that there are too many too close to the same time, and we should get rid of it. Funnily enough, it's always the one that's related to the workers' cause that they suggest scrapping.

Picnic today! Weather is bleak, but cooperative enough.

Missed the Green Man walking up the street today.

Happy May Day, ILX!

If you see an old man in a clay suit and he tries to approach you, do not engage him in conversation. He has nothing but bad news and this is a good day. Enjoy it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hjvu7oY_92g

Also enjoy your worker's rights today, pls.

http://griid.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/iww-may-day1.jpg

Even GRR has an IWW, bless them.

A tisket, a tasket, a green and yellow basket, I wrote a letter to my love, and on the way she ran into an old man in a clay suit.

I love May, May is my month! I'm going to be the most Laurel possible, this month, and take everything in stride and bend it to my purposes. And love myself.

― But not someone who should be dead anyway (Laurel)

Still true. Sniff. And a timely reminder, in all this upheaval.

Bumping both May Day threads because that is just how much I love this particular holiday. To rain, renewal, and ritual sacrifice -- happy May Day!

This is still one of my favorite songs of all time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snnT5hgegi0

Or this one obvs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbhQepfjBFI

so mad, I don't get to do my ritual sacrifice til after work today.

also yaaay for the Magnet soundtrack

Another May Day is here, proudly sing cuckoo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn_gzpuCpxU