#Alex Boruff

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The Tough Lemonade: My Co-host's Cabaret

The Tough Lemonade: My Co-host's Cabaret

Folks, As we begin the autumn series of the Green Pill Secret, we welcome my good and dear friend Cat back onto the podcast, I was reminded of a wonderful cabaret Cat shared, which we discussed on the podcast in the episode coming out this Sunday. On the Cabaret we have Cat performing a number of wonderful pieces, including a shout-out to use Baritones what never get no love from the Tennors of…

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1, 17 and 23 for the music asks? Let's see if they're actually hard

Hey, thank you so much for the ask! This has led me down a very lovely path this morning before passing out

A song you like with a color in the title

This made me realise I know a lot of great songs with colours, so there will be an 'honourable mentions' to follow. But I am going with Lila Wolken by MARTERIA for nostalgic reasons.

No idea whether you know it, it was super big in Germany in the... 2010's I think? It's about purple haze (weed) - which I didn't know until today - but also about partying with friends and staying up all night in the city. It has very nice feelings associated with it of Berlin in a summer night and being young and not knowing what you want from life and how close that is to what you'll get. A little bit nostalgic, a little bit tired, a little bit sad, a little bit hopeful, a little bit aware of just being a party song in the end. I loved singing it with my sister and cousin back when it was popular. Have a listen! (the video is a bit nsfw, you can definitely find a version without images on yt though)

Honourable mentions (in no particular order) :

Purple Hearts (Jeremy Messersmith)

Green (Cavetown)

Yellow (Coldplay Jodie Whittaker)

Lavender's Blue (folk song)

17: A song that you would sing a duet with on karaoke

I love musicals so there are many options. I'd sing any Hadestown duet that would seem more or less doable. For example Promises as either Orpheus or Euridice, I don't particularly care which one.

But if I thought I could pull it off, I would actually go for the dw parody of You and me but mostly me from Book of Mormon. It is one of my favourite videos on yt and has only a little over a hundred views. Here, I would really want to be 13 though rather than Chibnall.

23: A song that you think everybody should listen to

There are many political songs that come to mind for their message but I don't want to go down that route. So we will go with Muusika by Pärt Uusberg as performed at Laulupidu 2014.

I think everybody should be aware of laulupidu itself because it is an extremely impressive choir festival. You have between 20k and 30k (I think) singers and a band on stage for the performances, they last at least a day and for the big songs the audience sings along, too. The event is auditioned and rehearsed for over the course of a year and then you have 4 years to plan the next set. It's also all in Estonian. It's a lot of fun and there is also a historical importance linked to the Singing Revolution of the Baltics and similar events in Latvia and Lithuania. Definitely an interesting Wikipedia deep dive I would say if you're up for it <3

As comes with the genre, the general ambience and most songs are very patriotic. That doesn't sit completely well with me even though I understand the reasons. It's probably why songs like Muusika are my favourites. Muusika is not about love for your country but about love for music and the question where music might have originated. It's a little spiritual and magical and with very pretty images. I translated it once for a seminar so could probably do that for you too, if you like. The song is just very musically pleasing without understanding the lyrics as well, though. Uusberg reminds me a little of Pärt and Gjeilo in his style, it's very pretty in its simplicity somehow and a little floaty. There are some other songs of his I also greatly enjoy, if you want more suggestions

The following is the recording I would recommend watching. The video is very long though because it's a whole day of the festival. So, the song in question is at 4:59:13. After it finishes, the composer is called to the stage and everybody is shouting for a repeat performance (korrata). Unfortunately, the one he conducts then is cut short. But I encourage you to watch him a little, too, because it's a joy to see a composer getting to conduct their song on such a stage

If you'd rather just listen to the song without the festival, here is a video that only shows that one song with a regular choir:

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Chicagoland Soccer Illinois All-State Team

Chicagoland Soccer Illinois All-State Team

A 3-1 win, and a Ben Koenig brace, in Southwestern Conference action on September 5, 2019

Chicagoland Soccer recognizes individual and team accomplishment from the 2019 boys season with the publication’s fourth annual all-state team. The players are listed alphabetically by position. Chicagoland Soccer Illinois All-State Team

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The Green Pill Secret: Convention Roundtable, Part 1

In the first episode of our Autumn series, I bring you the best I could do with the difficult recording I made at the L.I. Who convention on 25 August, 2024. When I recorded the episode, about half-way through, I noticed that the pickup mic wasn’t on and so the only audio being recorded was from the microphone next to Cat and myself. Consequently, the raw recording has Lawrence Neals, returning…