You couldn't make it up dept. no.66: sure, they love him in Peshawar

The context is scary. The situation is potentially deadly, and will inevitably grow worse. But what seems to have led up to it is simply too hysterical for words:
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One of my first pieces when I started this blog four years ago was about the ludicrous incompetence of the British ruling class. It was not welcomed then - http://fpb.livejournal.com/4790.html. I rest my case now.

I was tagged by soavezefiretto

List seven songs you are into right now, no matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your LiveJournal along with your seven songs. Then tag seven other people to see what they're listening to.

Umm, it'll have to be "seven pieces of music." All right then -
- Wagner, the entry of the Gods into Valhalla. Oddly enough, I associate this in my mind with a story of childbirth and parenthood.
- House of the Rising Sun. I just got hold of a CD someone made, which has a list of all the versions of this song - Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, the Animals, Joan Baez, etc. Most of them are good - I guess good material just carries.
- I put a spell on you. The same goes for this one: I have it by Alan Price, Nina Simone and someone else, and all three versions are excellent.
- Marie Laveau. Old jazzy folksong about the nineteenth-century voodoo queen, which unfortunately I cannot seem to find in the version I heard long ago.
- Tum Balalaika. Part of a recent obsession of mine with Jewish music.
- Schubert, Singing over the Waters. One of the three or four greatest songs ever written.
- Nessun Dorma, just because Paul Potts blew me and everyone else away on that recent TV program.

As for tagging, I feel lazy tonight. I tag anyone who wants to do this.