I saw a cat sit on a mousetrap which now that I think about it was very large compared to the cat that sat in it either these cats are very small or that world has mice roughly the size of cats and boy that ain't gonna improve the cat infant mortality rate
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Phantom of the Opera is only worthwhile because it lead to the existence of Phantom of the Paradise and now Phantom of the Opera can stop existing it has fulfilled its only purpose.
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Speaking of hearing riffs of other tunes. There was a musical cue that pops up a couple times in Godzilla that brought back memories of me humming the tune A LOT as a kid. And the last month or so had me utterly losing my mind trying to figure out what movie it was from.
Anyways I watched Ang Lee’s the Hulk and boom. It was the Danny’s Elfman Hulk theme it kept mentally evoking
Thinking about it, I think I would declare Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat as his overall strongest work. The highs might not reach quite as high as some of the stuff from Cats or Phantom, but everything is just on a higher average level. The story is well-known and simple enough. It doesn't rely on the production spectacle as much so you don't lose out as much on the experience by just listening to the songs.
I am basically immune to musicals as a concept since I don't listen to lyrics and I'm very glad of this fact tbh
How do you do this, surely you must absorb the contents of words in the English language by accident
I know multiple people who don't hear the words when they listen to songs and it blows my mind.
Fortunately I can blow them right back just by explaining what the song is about.
One of my friends loves Josh Ritter but had no idea that The Curse is about mummies.
(As far as lyrics to songs go, I often don't pay attention to them until the third or fourth listen, because my ear is always picking apart the instrumentation first.)
Speaking of hearing riffs of other tunes. There was a musical cue that pops up a couple times in Godzilla that brought back memories of me humming the tune A LOT as a kid. And the last month or so had me utterly losing my mind trying to figure out what movie it was from.
Anyways I watched Ang Lee’s the Hulk and boom. It was the Danny’s Elfman Hulk theme it kept mentally evoking
There were a lot of classic Godzilla music cues included in there, was it just one you didn't recognize?
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I am basically immune to musicals as a concept since I don't listen to lyrics and I'm very glad of this fact tbh
How do you do this, surely you must absorb the contents of words in the English language by accident
rough estimate, about 75% of singing I find to be genuinely unintelligible unless I sit and really focus on it, which would bring that number down to...oh, 40%, maybe?
the rest is usually too poetic and abstract for me to extract any meaning from, which means I usually hear it, understand it, and then immediately forget it
I don't know the lyrics to most of my favorite songs
I do know some lyrics, and typically they're by artists who write strong narrative structures and sing really clearly, i.e. Dolly Parton, Harvey Danger
and nearly all rap is just right the fuck out, I'm literally too stupid for anyone faster than MF Doom
it wouldn't shock me to find out that I have some weird processing problem, frankly
Andrew Lloyd Webber is member of the House of Lords and has voted fuck all times there, like 19 times since 1997
He notably did however fly over from New York as his own expense to vote in favour of the Tory government's tax credit cuts
Every now and then the Lords do something useful and I think "huh maybe as an institute it does have some merits" and then I remember people get there literally for being famous or wealthy and it's packed to the brim with loony assholes.
Beetlejuice the musical. There's a fuckin thing we saw in NY. It was crazy good. The kid playing Lydia is 17 and has more talent in her pinky than I could hope to have in my life.
Andrew Lloyd Webber is member of the House of Lords and has voted fuck all times there, like 19 times since 1997
He notably did however fly over from New York as his own expense to vote in favour of the Tory government's tax credit cuts
Every now and then the Lords do something useful and I think "huh maybe as an institute it does have some merits" and then I remember people get there literally for being famous or wealthy and it's packed to the brim with loony assholes.
It's a bizarrely functional place in many ways. Ostensibly and idealogically completely contemptible but weirdly effective in practice. That bill failed, for example, the government lost in the Lords over it, and Cameron/Osbourne were forced to drop the plans it was so controversial
It does absolutely have its fair share of nutcases though. And we have guys like ALW voting on things if they want to? What? Why?
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Speaking of hearing riffs of other tunes. There was a musical cue that pops up a couple times in Godzilla that brought back memories of me humming the tune A LOT as a kid. And the last month or so had me utterly losing my mind trying to figure out what movie it was from.
Anyways I watched Ang Lee’s the Hulk and boom. It was the Danny’s Elfman Hulk theme it kept mentally evoking
There were a lot of classic Godzilla music cues included in there, was it just one you didn't recognize?
Oh yeah I knew the classics. Lost my god damn mind at the new Mothra arrangement. This is just a very brief little cue used a couple of times that was driving me up the wall because I couldn't place it.
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Andrew Lloyd Webber is member of the House of Lords and has voted fuck all times there, like 19 times since 1997
He notably did however fly over from New York as his own expense to vote in favour of the Tory government's tax credit cuts
Every now and then the Lords do something useful and I think "huh maybe as an institute it does have some merits" and then I remember people get there literally for being famous or wealthy and it's packed to the brim with loony assholes.
It's a bizarrely functional place in many ways. Ostensibly and idealogically completely contemptible but weirdly effective in practice. That bill failed, for example, the government lost in the Lords over it, and Cameron/Osbourne were forced to drop the plans it was so controversial
It does absolutely have its fair share of nutcases though. And we have guys like ALW voting on things if they want to? What? Why?
I think there's something to be said for having sections of the legislative branch that both have decision-making power and are specifically selected for their expertise in certain areas, and the Lords can more easily fulfill this function since they don't have to be career politicians.
Now I've got a fantasy UK going in my head where institutions like the Royal Society get a quota of seats in the upper house. That'd be interesting.
Andrew Lloyd Webber is member of the House of Lords and has voted fuck all times there, like 19 times since 1997
He notably did however fly over from New York as his own expense to vote in favour of the Tory government's tax credit cuts
Every now and then the Lords do something useful and I think "huh maybe as an institute it does have some merits" and then I remember people get there literally for being famous or wealthy and it's packed to the brim with loony assholes.
It's a bizarrely functional place in many ways. Ostensibly and idealogically completely contemptible but weirdly effective in practice. That bill failed, for example, the government lost in the Lords over it, and Cameron/Osbourne were forced to drop the plans it was so controversial
It does absolutely have its fair share of nutcases though. And we have guys like ALW voting on things if they want to? What? Why?
I think there's something to be said for having sections of the legislative branch that both have decision-making power and are specifically selected for their expertise in certain areas, and the Lords can more easily fulfill this function since they don't have to be career politicians.
Now I've got a fantasy UK going in my head where institutions like the Royal Society get a quota of seats in the upper house. That'd be interesting.
A long suggested idea for reform is that Royally Chartered Institutes get seats that means the various artistic, cultural, journalistic, professional etc professions and institutions are all represented by experts that can provide experience and practical knowledge in the field of whatever. So policy gets proper scrutiny etc.
Since they (mostly) got rid of the hereditary peers and the rest will be gone soon I think it is halfway there in some ways anyway. It is, like I said, bizarrely effective. Probably because unlike the Commons its not filled with career politicians concerned bu reelection. It has been considerably more progressive than the Tory dominated Commons recently I'd say.
I actually listened to the lyrics to a RHCPs record once and I was like "this literally makes zero sense Anthony"
Take the Mansun approach: https://youtu.be/y10Jk58zFa0
The lyrics aren't supposed to mean that much
They're just a vehicle for a lovely voice
They aren't supposed to mean that much
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Finally, I've been waiting to pull this giant lever
I wanna hear an orchestra recreate the "whale song" section
It rules and also I wouldn't have ever gotten into musicals without it
But ALW is still a garbage person
There's goes, "Ding ding dingding diggidingding" and mine goes, "Ding ding dingding diGGIdingding"
It's not the same.
that definitely checks out
I, too, don't like most of the rest of Phantom's soundtrack
Maybe it was a rat trap
But for the better?
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Music of the night is a fucking banger
Phantom of the opera is a fucking banger
Herod’s song is a fucking banger
Most of Joseph bangs
There’s a reason people put up with his turgid dreck
You can only stoke what is already burning.
How do you do this, surely you must absorb the contents of words in the English language by accident
Anyways I watched Ang Lee’s the Hulk and boom. It was the Danny’s Elfman Hulk theme it kept mentally evoking
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I know multiple people who don't hear the words when they listen to songs and it blows my mind.
Fortunately I can blow them right back just by explaining what the song is about.
One of my friends loves Josh Ritter but had no idea that The Curse is about mummies.
(As far as lyrics to songs go, I often don't pay attention to them until the third or fourth listen, because my ear is always picking apart the instrumentation first.)
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Music Of The Night might be in my top ten songs of all time
It is fucking GOOD
He notably did however fly over from New York as his own expense to vote in favour of the Tory government's tax credit cuts
There were a lot of classic Godzilla music cues included in there, was it just one you didn't recognize?
E:Woop didn't read to the end of the post ignore me
rough estimate, about 75% of singing I find to be genuinely unintelligible unless I sit and really focus on it, which would bring that number down to...oh, 40%, maybe?
the rest is usually too poetic and abstract for me to extract any meaning from, which means I usually hear it, understand it, and then immediately forget it
I don't know the lyrics to most of my favorite songs
I do know some lyrics, and typically they're by artists who write strong narrative structures and sing really clearly, i.e. Dolly Parton, Harvey Danger
and nearly all rap is just right the fuck out, I'm literally too stupid for anyone faster than MF Doom
it wouldn't shock me to find out that I have some weird processing problem, frankly
Every now and then the Lords do something useful and I think "huh maybe as an institute it does have some merits" and then I remember people get there literally for being famous or wealthy and it's packed to the brim with loony assholes.
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It's a bizarrely functional place in many ways. Ostensibly and idealogically completely contemptible but weirdly effective in practice. That bill failed, for example, the government lost in the Lords over it, and Cameron/Osbourne were forced to drop the plans it was so controversial
It does absolutely have its fair share of nutcases though. And we have guys like ALW voting on things if they want to? What? Why?
Oh yeah I knew the classics. Lost my god damn mind at the new Mothra arrangement. This is just a very brief little cue used a couple of times that was driving me up the wall because I couldn't place it.
You have to be from California to get it.
I think there's something to be said for having sections of the legislative branch that both have decision-making power and are specifically selected for their expertise in certain areas, and the Lords can more easily fulfill this function since they don't have to be career politicians.
Now I've got a fantasy UK going in my head where institutions like the Royal Society get a quota of seats in the upper house. That'd be interesting.
A long suggested idea for reform is that Royally Chartered Institutes get seats that means the various artistic, cultural, journalistic, professional etc professions and institutions are all represented by experts that can provide experience and practical knowledge in the field of whatever. So policy gets proper scrutiny etc.
Since they (mostly) got rid of the hereditary peers and the rest will be gone soon I think it is halfway there in some ways anyway. It is, like I said, bizarrely effective. Probably because unlike the Commons its not filled with career politicians concerned bu reelection. It has been considerably more progressive than the Tory dominated Commons recently I'd say.
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Take the Mansun approach:
The lyrics aren't supposed to mean that much
They're just a vehicle for a lovely voice
They aren't supposed to mean that much
I want this to be true but the movie fucks up the ending and I don't know if I can forgive that
And on lots of drugs, probably