#I am a music nerd
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I feel like it is extremely important to realise that the piece that they play when Princess Carolyn having her painting fantasy is from Pictures At An Exhibition. And it's from the first movement, which is called Prominade. It's an amazing pun and it literally could not be more perfect for this scene like I don't think you underSTAND.
#I am a music nerd#and apparently someone on the bjhm crew is too#and y'all should also be music nerds!#princess carolyn#bojack horseman#bjhm#the shot bjhm#modest mussorgsky#pictures at an exhibition#pictures at an exhibition prominade
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#and hes not even CLOSE to home!!!!!#epic the musical#the odyssey#i actually did the math of how long the whole thing is minus muted!Jorge and the tech trouble but adding in the rest of the Wisdom Saga#and its basically the same as the video run time lol (1 45 38) so i didnt include that in the main post#but just know. that i am a nerd
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When Wolverine shows up again, I want him to have an identity crisis about his hero identity, resulting in him singing a song about it, ending with "Who am I? Who am I? I'm Wolverine!"
Deadpool, is, of course, waving a torn up Canadian flag in the corner
#deadpool and wolverine#les mis#les miserables#hugh jackman#who am i#24601#poolverine#wolverine#til he's 90#let logan have an identity crisis#he remembers his whole backstory#is he james howlett#is he logan#who is heeee#i just want him to sing a compilation from the music man les mis and the greatest showman#is that too much to ask#my introduction to hugh jackman was not the x men#it was les mis#bring him back to sing like the theatre nerd kid he really is
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"Let him feel the pain that his mother felt and rot."
Listen, do I know that I'm supposed to want Odysseus freed? Yes, I do know this but also! She kinda ate with that.
#listen#you can't put Aphrodite in any piece of media and expect me to root against her#that's not how this works#I will simply go “yeah and he derseves it too”#I love Aphrodite more than anything and I felt the strong urge to design her after listening to God games#epic the musical#epic god games#epic aphrodite#aphrodite#greek mythology#greek myth art#greek mythology art#character design#epic the musical fanart#epic the musical fandom#outing myself as a greek mythology nerd and one who has been quietly listening to Epic the Musical for a while now#i just think I should be allowed to have a treat and design Aphrodite with the intent of her being beautiful and ready to throw hands#i am simply compelled to do so#digital art#fan art#mr. laveau's art gallery#artists on tumblr#artist of tumblr#art#cw: partial nudity#like not much but you're seeing skin
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I was pleasantly surprised by the good defibrillator usage in the Taste music video
Here is Jenna's character spreading conductive gel between the paddles
We can even see the gel on the paddles
The actual defibrillation wouldn't work properly because she uses it through clothes a few times, she would get burned but I am just glad that the paddles don't look dry.
#jenna ortega#sabrina carpenter taste#taste music video#yeehaw#i am very normal about defibrillators#medical equipment nerd
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I get to do a Greek myth presentation for my exam. Hahah..Fear me. I wrote the whole thing down in a single lesson (This project was meant to take 4 lessons in total)
The whole time I don’t think I blinked
Only Zeus himself can smite me down. I call it ‘Godly hyperfixation’ others call it ‘Diagnosed Autism’
#ancient greek#percy jackson#epic the musical#greek gods#percy jackon and the olympians#pjo hoo toa#greek myths#literature#yes i am a nerd#do I get bitches? no#hyperfixation go brrr
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One thing I haven’t really seen talked about is how gorgeous the Rings of Power soundtrack is. The music of LotR is so iconic, I can’t imagine having to try and follow after Howard Shore but Bear McCreary has done such a phenomenal job!
#rings of power#rop#sorry I was a band nerd in high school and still am 😅#we got to pick our music for the senior pops concert and I wish I would’ve fought for lotr#this was shortly after guardians of the galaxy came out so we played a medley of that instead#which was super fun don’t regret it#but ugh I would love to play something from lord of the rings it would be so fun
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Fantober day 31!! A free day again.
Recently gotten into HADES, and I think about them a normal amount (lie)
#THEM. THEM. *SHAKES HANDS IN AIR* THEEEEEEEMMM#Honestly it’s surprising I havent gotten into the fandom sooner I mean I have been a mythology nerd since??? Uhhh#idk. But every week I see a notif from OSP and jump around in my room because YEAAAHHHH HYSTORY MYTHOS AND TROPES YEAHHHHH#And greek mythology is where the interest began so why am I only NOW getting onto the Hades train only god knows. Maybe multiple. They got#a whole pantheon so idk maybe multiple ON THE OTHER HAND they didn’t know about their own relative OR who his mom is so maybe I give them#too much credit#jkjk jk Zeus dont smite me I listen to ‘’Thunder bringer’’ a lot plz#speaking of epic the musical thats what I wanted to draw originality because HAVE YOU BEEN ON THE LIVESTREAM YESTERDAY?#THE ANIMATICSSSS THE ANIMATICCCSSS THE 3D CAUGHT ME OFF GUARD. ODYSSEUS CASUALLY GETTING A JETPACK 💀 okay go off king /gen#HE GOTTA BE DANGEROUS MY FRIENDS GOTTA USE ALL HIS TRICKS IN HIS DOMAIN FOR THIS OH YEAH YOU CANNOT GET AWAY WITH PLAYING- okay I’ll stop#but we need a Hermes saga Im just saying. I love he. He’s such a dawling#…Also not me healing the ivantill trauma with a different silverhair+blackhair duo huh.#They bring me comfort I love my silly goofy god of nothing/blood and his boyfriend THE GRIM REAPER#my art#thanzag#they make me insane but in a good way#oh to be a guy trying to escape his dads house and then die to a butterfly and hopefully see death himself because he’s cute#hades game#hades fanart#hades zagreus#hades thanatos
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we don’t talk enough about that joel is a drummer. and used to be in a band.
why is no one incorporating that into fics?
pls
#isopod talks#but like#boat boys#drummer joel nerd etho#in a college or high school au#is there not the hype for drummers like there used to be?#idk i haven’t been in a fandom space in a WHILE#if no one writes a fic about this#i will#and no one wants that bc i am not musically or literally gifted#smallishbeans#joel beans
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“And all of this is captured by the greedy eyed photographer who stalks me like a vulture!” -Nick Carraway, The Met
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Back to our regularly scheduled Gatsby Posting as of late. This time the song of inspiration is The Met from The Great Gatsby Musical! I would be a lying fool if I said the symbolism in this song has not had an iron grip on my writer brain from the very start. I adore the blatant spotlight it places on Nick and his constant being overshadowed and almost hunted by those around him throughout the story. Seriously, whoever wrote these lyrics, you are great. Also Noah J Ricketts an absolutely amazing Nick I just have to say that. I will absolutely be continuing to loop this soundtrack and am actively trying to plan a trip to NY to see the show live because if I don’t my sorry English nerd self will perish. Until my next post!
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#the great gatsby#the great gatsby musical#the great gatsby fanart#the great gatsby art#my art#back on my bullshit#yall already know I had to draw this song#the symbolism made my brain go BRRR and a week later here we are#second song I’ve done that with now#a pattern? me? maybe.#I am a nerd and I’m so sorry#yall have to deal with my Gatsby bullshit#woe! Nick be upon Yee!
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Shostakovich and Aziraphale
I was thinking (and talking to @balance-of-probability endlessly) about the choice to have Shostakovich's fifth symphony feature so heavily in S2 ep 1, and how it struck me as a little odd as there are a bunch of composers Aziraphale loves mentioned in the book and Shostakovich isn't amongst them.
Backstory: In 1934, Shostakovich’s opera Lady Macbeth of Mtensk premiered to huge popular acclaim, which was very briskly walked back in 1936 after the Stalinist newspaper Pravda published an article denouncing it.
Actually more than denouncing it, condemning it. It wasn’t credited but was authored by a guy called David Zaslavsky who was almost definitely scribing for Stalin himself. Lady Macbeth was banned in the USSR until 1961.
Anyway by 1936 Shostakovich had written his fourth symphony, which he withdrew from public performance until 1961 because it was more of the same thing that had made the Soviet leadership cancel Lady Macbeth – it was unconventional, anti-patriotic, and indicated that Shostakovich was a “bourgeois formalist”.
So he shelved it and started working on Symphony No. 5 which is, on the surface at least, Soviet as fuck. And that’s what we hear Aziraphale listening to in S2E1.
(Sidebar this story is told in Julian Barnes’ The Noise of Time which is either a literary wank soup or a masterpiece depending on how cranky you are when you first read it)
So basically what Dmitri Shostakovich did in those years between the fourth and fifth symphonies was something that might be familiar to S2E6 enjoyers/agonisers: he decided to toe the party line.
Kind of.
Listening to the finale of the fifth symphony (and if you want to listen along it’s the recording of Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic, it’ll be called something like Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47; iv. Allegro non troppo) without the context of the rest of the symphony or in fact Shostakovich’s life is like ah yes that’s a bit of a Soviet battle anthem let’s march into Leningrad or whatever.
But it is, as critics have increasingly understood in the years since Shostakovich demurely described it as “a Soviet artist's no-nonsense response to fair criticism”, dripping with irony. This man reviled the Stalinist line on art and life – he takes the Soviet anthem and turns it into a sort of fucked up evil clown march. The whole thing gives me this vibe:
(gif from @goodomensedit)
There’s a lot of stuff about that time in Shostakovich’s life that is extremely hard to verify. There’s a “memoir” which is for sure at least partially fabricated called Testimony in which there’s an alleged quote from our man saying that final movement is a parody, that “it's as if someone were beating you with a stick and saying, "Your business is rejoicing, your business is rejoicing", and you rise, shaky, and go marching off, muttering, "Our business is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing"."
Whether or not Shostakovich said that (some of his friends who outlived him support that reading, including Rostropovich who conducted a bunch of his work) you can definitely hear it in the piece and you can definitely see how it gives us a clue into the decision Aziraphale makes at the end of the season.
What Shostakovich had to decide back in the 1930s was whether he would a) flee to somewhere like the US, where many other artists targeted by Stalin went; b) stay and become a public nuisance, leading almost definitely to an off-the-books execution; or c) become a party-approved Soviet Artist and hope for change. Even nudge it along in a subtle way. Even get on the inside and work to bring it down. We don’t know how true that was for old mate Dmitri and we don’t yet know exactly what Aziraphale has planned. But yeah:
tl;dr: Shostakovich 🤝 Aziraphale
Staying inside a rancid and destructive militarised culture in the hope that it can change
#aziraphale#go2#good omens#good omens spoilers#ineffable husbands#azicrow#source: I am a radio producer who makes classical music documentaries and also a gay nerd
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Just saw Les Mis for the first time (also the first time I heard it) and. My life is changed
#i have no words#jean valjean#les miserables#les mis#kay is a classical literature nerd#kay is a musical theater nerd#i literally. what. am. what#may have more coherent things to say tomorrow but maybe not#i've always known that i projected onto valjean but holy smokes this made it even stronger#kay can i just catch my breath for a second
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So I have a lot of toughts about the Vengance saga. (English isn't my first language and I am writing in a phone)
So, one of the things that jumped to me (and saw that a few people didn't like) is the fact that Odysseus beat Poseidon in a fight in 600 strike, mainly because of the great deviation from the source material and also generally the conventions of greek mythology.
The thing is, for me, it makes scence in terms of the narrative Epic is going for.
Poseidon has been the main antagonistic force of the story and arguably, the character that influences odysseus development the most.
Poseidon is the character that first championed the philosophy of ruthlessness, the one that slaughtered the fleet, the one big obstacle in odysseus way, and the one who's philosophy pushes him into becoming a monster, doing more and more brutal things just to get home.
Poseidon pushed Odysseus to the brink, and now, those very same actions came back to haunt him.
The roles are reversed. Odysseus didn't kill the cyclops, and when Poseidon came for revenge, his pleas for mercy where rejected
Now, Poseidon didn't kill Odysseus, and when Ody came for revenge, his please for mercy were rejected.
Personally, I am not bothered by the changes.
Epic is, honestly, it's own thing besides the odyssey, so in the context of it's own world, I am willing to buy the whole beating the shit out of poseidon, as well as some other silly things.
Besides, it's clearly inspired in RPGs and in those you fight gods or capital G God every time, and I honestly love it
On that note, maybe I will write sometime about why those kinda batshit in Epic elements such as the Windbag JetPack, Disco Hera, and the like are part of it's charm, but I need to sleep first
#epic the musical#epic odysseus#epic the vengeance saga#epic the vengance saga spoilers#text#you can dislike the thing but honestly i am living for it#im an rpg nerd I can forgive a ton#epic the musical poseidon
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Listening to far away from tulsa makes me wanna sob it’s like I can hear the wind in the piano and the violin. I can hear the wood of their home in the guitar. It feels like standing on top of a hill and feeling the sun beat down on you like this distinct memory I have from when I was a kid in the springtime laying in the grass. It’s almost overwhelming in how peaceful it is and how it makes me ache and long like them so deeply, how it feels like you can hear the rain gentle on a window pane, the breeze in the trees and bringing leaves down with it. I’ve never listened to a song that feels so deeply in the instrumentation like poetry it makes me wanna cry with them and for them and imagine everything they had and could never have and always wanted in spite of everything. Every time I listen to it I’m struck so deeply with the thought of “I can hear the wind in the air and on my body in this song”
#it’s 3 am and I’m having shrimp emotions#sorry guys#the outsiders#the outsiders musical#pb&j#ponyboy curtis#johnny cade#far away from Tulsa#I could talk for so long about the instrumentation in this song#it makes me feel things so deeply I didn’t know were possible#and I’m literally a music nerd who does this for a living
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Hey lovely whovians,
I just wanted to ask, are we all aware that Rogue, the guy whomst the Doctor fell hard for and when panicked and having to improv literally proposes played King George III in Hamilton?
Not sure what to do with this information but I felt it had to be shared!
#doctor who#rogue doctor who#king george iii#hamilton musical#the doctor and rogue#15th doctor#rogue#This has amused me and I'm surprised I havent seen someone else comment before this!#He plays both so well#and I am amused at the range of absolute ostentatious nonsense vs stammering nerd
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destiny intersects with the ruined reactor...
little details!
#here i go establishing new questionable habits...#'oh yeah lemme just uhhh create an entire soundtrack to accompany my art! lmao no biggie'#but DUDE masashi hamauzu is a legend and his music sounds SO good in the ffvii soundfont ok#it's irresistable. i don't have a say in the matter. my brain says 'ok music time' and i am at its mercy like cloud giving in to jenova.#ALSO i learned so much about the soundfont while recreating the reactor section!!#you know that subtle triplet beat 'train chugging' sorta sound in the mako reactor theme?#it's actually acoustic bass plucks getting cut off SUPER short in rapid succession!#the same track uses a very deep pitched reverse cymbal sample as a spooky atmospheric 'breathing' noise.#idk man i just admire how creative og ffvii is in general with its limited tools.#ok the nerd urge has passed i'm good now#just kidding. gongaga has me in a chokehold. i'm obsessed with this place. do not talk to me about it because i will not shut up.#ffvii#ff7#ffvii rebirth#cloud strife#my art <3#my music <3
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