Mittelalter-Rock

Before I get to the Video Find of the Day, I want to talk about how much I love Richka. Richka is a website I discovered years ago which features a ton of music of the former Soviet Republics and links to a Renaissance period music site and an Andes music site. Most of the music is in the Real Audio format, so it stays on the site, but with an internet connection you can access it on demand.

Here are some of my favorite RAM files on Richka and sister sites:

From Richka itself:
Kalinka (Red Army Chorus)
Polyushka Polye(Song of the Plains)
Song of the Volga Boatmen
Unharness the Horses, Lads

From the Andean music site:
El Condor Pasa
Bayon de Madrid (not really Andean -- from Paraguay!)

From the Renaissance music site:
E La Don Don
Vésame y abràcame
An Italian Rant

My favorite of all:
J'ai vu le loup (I Saw the Wolf)

Which brings us to the Daily Video Find. You start with a beautiful devotional, pious, Renaissance Christian song, and this is what happens when you release a German metal band on it. "I Saw Da Wolf" Mittelalter-Rockischer style.

In Extremo -07- Ai Vis A Lo Lop (Live)

Low-Impact Dance

Video Find of the Day

The past 8 months I've been dealing with the onset of osteoarthritis. It was totally expected since my Mother had it. It really has been annoying, because I like to dance. I'm not a great dancer, but I make up for my lack of talent by means of an extraordinary disregard for the need of it. Still, even when dancing badly, it helps to not hurt.

One solution I am working on is testing the 1949 work of William Kaufman, MD. He discovered that taking megadoses of niacinimide helps some kinds of arthritis. He recommended spread out doses adding up to as much as 4000 mgs per day. I've been trying it. Even at only 1000 mg per day I've had incredible relief. It took two weeks. I'm now able to get out of a chair by my legs alone, without assist from my arms, something I couldn't do a month ago.

The other solution I'm looking into is low-impact dancing. I found these two examples, which feature the same dancers.

Renaissance Dance - Branle du Chandelier



Renaissance Dance - Parsons Farewell



Ha! I could do that!