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It's honestly something beautiful ! Two legendary titles joined together in harmony ! 
"Star Wars" and "The Room" (oh hi mark 
ha ha ha) Behold ! :
"Star Wars" and "The Room" (oh hi mark ha ha ha) Behold ! :
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Also some reminiscent from the past (nostalgia) . Old games (for me at least) have that "special something" , which is so lacking in recent titles (or maybe I am just looking through some sort of pink glasses ?)
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That turned out to be pretty cool. I skipped ahead, liked the last third, so I started it from the beginning.
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A "What are you watching on YouTube" / "What music are you listening to?" crossover post, with a "Random rants" stinger at the end:
I've started watching these music analysis videos by a woman, Elizabeth Zharoff, whose background is in opera. She does videos on a variety of music, but last night I binged a number of her videos featuring Nightwish and Floor Jansen. She claims to have little-to-no previous experience with metal, but she takes to it like a fish to water. I'm not really an opera guy, but I do like some symphonic metal, which is a deliberate genre mashup with opera. I think Zharoff's commentary actually did enhance my appreciation of the music. Zharoff's great on camera (so is Jansen) and is a big music nerd. In subsequent videos about Nightwish, she's learned all of the musicians' names, including how to pronounce the European names, so she clearly does her homework. The tee-shirt she's wearing in the vid below is awesome, too, I want one for myself.
What I also didn't know is what a great live show Nightwish puts on. If you have some time, I recommend watching them. I think there's a 2-hour vid of an entire Nightwish show out there, which I haven't watched yet. Maybe next weekend.
I think I found the version of the performance Zharoff's watching, if you want to see it without the commentary. I watched Zharoff's video before I watched the Nightwish performance by itself, and I think it might have helped, but if you decide to go the other way and watch the performance first, I wouldn't think you were doing it wrong. (There aren't any spoilers below, I'm just using the drop-downs for the additional vids, since this post is book-length already.)
This is another version, I think of the same performance, that has the lyrics posted as well as the acts Zharoff mentions. I haven't watched this one yet, I still want to try to figure the song out for myself before I get the Cliff's Notes.
And, if you're a fan of Floor Jansen, or of musical theater, or just of good singing, Zharoff does another video of Jansen's performance of "The Phantom of the Opera" on what looks like a European television show. I liked it because it doesn't have any of the stage show or the other musicians from Nightwish, and you can really focus on Jansen's singing. I know bupkes about musical theater, but Zharoff says that (a) this song is notoriously difficult, even for theater pros, and (b) Jansen nails it.
Of course now YouTube is bombarding me with all of these other "music teacher/vocal coach reacts to ______" videos, which are definitely a better version of all the videos I was getting of someone who doesn't know anything about music just sitting and listening. The professionals frequently pause and rewind the playback to say something about what they're watching or hearing that actually illuminates something about the song or performance for the viewer - for me, at least - whereas the regular folk seem to just sit there making faces (which can be amusing, don't get me wrong).
One thing that's quickly aggravating me about these videos is that they all seem to do not just the same styles of music, or even just the same artists, but all the same songs. I think maybe what's happening is that they take requests from their viewers, and there's a cadre of people who all suggest the same songs. "Pisces" by Jinjer, for example, seems to be some kind of requirement or rite of passage. I mean, for gods' sake, it's just like those godsforsaken commercial radio stations I was complaining about over in the music thread, all playing the same songs over and over. Talk about a lost opportunity. Well, maybe if I keep following one or two of them, like Zharoff here, they'll get through all of the repetitive stuff and move on to new things. It seems like Zharoff has connected with Floor Jansen, so maybe she'll do more Nightwish. In one of the vids, Jansen does a duet with Simone Simons from Epica, and Zharoff mentions wanting to see more of that band.
p.s. Is anybody doing VR-enabled recordings of live stage performances yet? That would seem ready-made entertainment for this pandemic.
I've started watching these music analysis videos by a woman, Elizabeth Zharoff, whose background is in opera. She does videos on a variety of music, but last night I binged a number of her videos featuring Nightwish and Floor Jansen. She claims to have little-to-no previous experience with metal, but she takes to it like a fish to water. I'm not really an opera guy, but I do like some symphonic metal, which is a deliberate genre mashup with opera. I think Zharoff's commentary actually did enhance my appreciation of the music. Zharoff's great on camera (so is Jansen) and is a big music nerd. In subsequent videos about Nightwish, she's learned all of the musicians' names, including how to pronounce the European names, so she clearly does her homework. The tee-shirt she's wearing in the vid below is awesome, too, I want one for myself.
What I also didn't know is what a great live show Nightwish puts on. If you have some time, I recommend watching them. I think there's a 2-hour vid of an entire Nightwish show out there, which I haven't watched yet. Maybe next weekend.
I think I found the version of the performance Zharoff's watching, if you want to see it without the commentary. I watched Zharoff's video before I watched the Nightwish performance by itself, and I think it might have helped, but if you decide to go the other way and watch the performance first, I wouldn't think you were doing it wrong. (There aren't any spoilers below, I'm just using the drop-downs for the additional vids, since this post is book-length already.)
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One thing that's quickly aggravating me about these videos is that they all seem to do not just the same styles of music, or even just the same artists, but all the same songs. I think maybe what's happening is that they take requests from their viewers, and there's a cadre of people who all suggest the same songs. "Pisces" by Jinjer, for example, seems to be some kind of requirement or rite of passage. I mean, for gods' sake, it's just like those godsforsaken commercial radio stations I was complaining about over in the music thread, all playing the same songs over and over. Talk about a lost opportunity. Well, maybe if I keep following one or two of them, like Zharoff here, they'll get through all of the repetitive stuff and move on to new things. It seems like Zharoff has connected with Floor Jansen, so maybe she'll do more Nightwish. In one of the vids, Jansen does a duet with Simone Simons from Epica, and Zharoff mentions wanting to see more of that band.
p.s. Is anybody doing VR-enabled recordings of live stage performances yet? That would seem ready-made entertainment for this pandemic.
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Another scorcher. Another scorcher.
Another scorcher. Another scorcher.
Another scorcher. Another scorcher.
Another scorcher.
I’m not insane, this commercial just ran every five minutes on the stations I watched in the mid? Late? 1990’s.
Now with temperatures here in the high-30’s (I’m getting used to C!) daily, I was just reminded if this stupid Sears commercial.
Another scorcher. Another scorcher.
Another scorcher. Another scorcher.
Another scorcher.
I’m not insane, this commercial just ran every five minutes on the stations I watched in the mid? Late? 1990’s.
Now with temperatures here in the high-30’s (I’m getting used to C!) daily, I was just reminded if this stupid Sears commercial.
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