#henry octet

[malloy-character-death-battle]

Death Battle Round 1

Mr Stringer:

Runs the Hotel Magnificent. A silly, soggy owl of a man who is prime brain-rotating material. He is deeply strict about keeping his hotel tidy and clean and free of mice. As the shenanigans at the hotel escelate throughout the show, Stringer becomes increasingly unhinged and frequently appears deluded to his clientele. He has a vaguely homoerotic relationship with an "over-familiar" belhop and we stan LGBTQ+ business owners. As the hotel becomes overrun with witches-turned-mice at the end of the show, Stringer goes down with his ship and his fate is left unknown. He's not exactly good at much outside of micro-management and sheer theatricality but he'd probably end up on the winning side by sheer accident.

The hotel manager of the Hotel Magnificent! Runs a very tight ship and has an army of hotel staff who work for him. Intimidation 100. Hates mice. Falls in love with the most evil woman we love that for him.

Henry:

Do you know how much mathematics you can get involved in the games he plays? The guy knows his stuff

[kosmik-signals]

David Murray

[this-is-a-dystopian-parable]

Can I just mention how the Eight Principles they're asked to read between Forrest and Refresh are so tied to each character? Octet never rests.

PAULA: 1. There is a deep emptiness.

HENRY: 2. When deep emptiness is covered with dispassionate noise, healing is blocked.

KARLY: 3. Creation and consumption are inbersely (inversely) proportional.

TOBY: 4. Content is not connection is not consensus is not conformity is not contentment.

MARVIN: 5. The brain is plastic and chemical; repetitive stimulus creates quantifiable changes to its makeup. When the brain is trained to favor rapid, shallow, multi-tasked thinking, this stunts its ability to connect, focus, create, and feel.

ED: 6. Anxiety with others starts with anxiety with the self.

JESSICA: 7. Fantasy takes many forms.

VELMA: 8. Every second I am unaware of time is a second that I am giving over to death.

[garyjugert]

Saturday, May 25, 2024

Uniclues by Gary Jugert:

1 Snakes on retainer.

2 Lizard knocker.

3 Climbs up the wall trellis.

4 Antony and Cleopatra, Diana and Charles, Henry VIII and The Six, and, of course, me and my wife.

5 Banana splits times 2.666667.

6 Warming the bench after the plastic bat incident.

7 Haters referencing your mom's weight.

8 One who never listens listening.

***

1 WAMPUM MAMBAS

2 IGUANA'S AREOLA

3 HACKS ROMEO GAP

4 EPOCHAL UNIONS (~)

5 SUNDAE OCTETS

6 WIFFLE HIATUS

7 GAUCHE BOO BIRDS (~)

8 ALL EARS ASSHAT

[bwaywingdingsnthings]

Octet

Jessica: I am on the receiving end of cancel culture and it's extremely damaging

Henry: I'm addicted to games and I feel like my life is worthless

Paula: My husband and I aren't the way we used to be

Karly: I lack genuine love in my life

Ed: Porn addiction is real and has traumatic effects on the human psyche

Toby: I want to change the world but I'm stuck in the online universe

Velma: Bad social communites have dire effects on your mental health, but the internet can also be a good tool

Marvin: I met god and she told me to fuck off

[petulant-poet]

🦄 octet!

alright I KNOW it’s taken me forever to do this but I will do this now for you Berry ❤

Jessica: @rated-r-for-grantaire, I’ve heard your Refresh cover and think you’d be PERFECT for the part

Henry: @ratcarney, you’ve got the bubbly peppy voice to fit Henry, and I wanna hear your voice more tbh

Paula: @daughter-of-prospero, not sure if we count as mutuals yet, but you’ve got the voice of an angel and one that fits Paula to a scary degree almost

Karly: @deniem-supreme, you’ve got the excitable and emotional range that makes you my candidate for Karly

Ed: @atarev, you’ve literally got the lowest voice of anyone I know, no one else’s voice slaps those low notes quite like you!

Toby: @starryxeyedxdyke, you, you, you. Your voice is beautiful and melodious, but I know that it can get raw and powerful when needed. You’ve got the range, darling!

Marvin: @appleflavoredkitkats, I haven’t gotten the fortune of hearing your singing voice, but your voice on its own is surely enough to carry the pain, comedy and struggle of Marvin

Velma: @the-color-of-an-ordinary-day. Berry, I’m really gonna miss you. I know you love this musical and as such I think I’d cast you as the closest thing it has to a main character! I hope you like! 

and that’s all of them!

[8tet]

Octet Characters As Things I've Said To My Internet Friends

Jessica: You can't CANCEL ME! I'll cancel you for cancelling me!

Henry: I'll cook for myself later, I'm too busy cooking FAKE FOOD for FAKE PEOPLE right now!

Paula: Stop watching vines and just fall asleep already.

Karly: JERK OFF! Wait, no, don't, I didn't mean to say that, I meant to say, "Fuck off, jerk!"

Ed: No one in real life ever hugs me.

Toby: Oh hell yes, it is online debate time.

Marvin: God is definitely nerfing me right now but I don't care.

Velma: Sephora witch kits are the only thing to make me laugh anymore.

Saul: I am the god of this discord server.

[malloy-character-death-battle]

Death Battle Round 2

The Dragon

Listen to "Olde English" and tell me why she shouldn't win. She's a venomous dragon AND a scholar and was able to kill Beowulf. Queen behavior honestly

Mr Stringer:

Runs the Hotel Magnificent. A silly, soggy owl of a man who is prime brain-rotating material. He is deeply strict about keeping his hotel tidy and clean and free of mice. As the shenanigans at the hotel escelate throughout the show, Stringer becomes increasingly unhinged and frequently appears deluded to his clientele. He has a vaguely homoerotic relationship with an "over-familiar" belhop and we stan LGBTQ+ business owners. As the hotel becomes overrun with witches-turned-mice at the end of the show, Stringer goes down with his ship and his fate is left unknown. He's not exactly good at much outside of micro-management and sheer theatricality but he'd probably end up on the winning side by sheer accident.

The hotel manager of the Hotel Magnificent! Runs a very tight ship and has an army of hotel staff who work for him. Intimidation 100. Hates mice. Falls in love with the most evil woman we love that for him.

Henry:

Do you know how much mathematics you can get involved in the games he plays? The guy knows his stuff

[prinsesa-ng-musika]

[the-color-of-an-ordinary-day]

Octet Characters as Ordinary Days Lyrics

did you really think I wouldn’t make this-

Jessica: “Trust me, I’m not crazy, I can see you making faces in the rearview mirror”

Henry: “I wish that I could make the people disappear”

Paula: “Because I’ll be here, right beside you as long as you want me to be”

Karly: “Well ya should’ve heard my mom when I dropped le bomb and said, ‘I don’t wanna be here’.”

Ed: “Sitting here at Starbucks drinking coffee with a professional cat-sitter is all my life is going to amount to”

Toby: “It makes me wanna scream, or write a manifesto that declares the city void of any soul”

Marvin: “and I think ‘what the heck’”

Velma: “Beautiful takes a person who makes a connection”

[this-is-a-dystopian-parable]

what’s your ranking of the octet characters?

Okay this is hard because there's so many factors to consider, but this is how much I like them as characters and as stories, not how much I'd like them in person.

Like I mentioned, Ed. So beautifully portrayed. Also a very unconventional story you don't see humanized very often, and the little details of Adam's performance kill me every time. Plus he gets "I've got the best format for an opinion" and "I've got a black jpeg" he's got half of the best Fugue State bits.

2. Toby. See above and everything in my last post about Actually. "I don't trust myself anymore, and I don't love- fuck it." aaaah "I'm not completely here right now" yeah I love him.

3. Velma. Though just as much for her break time monologue than for Beautiful. I also "just want something that is pure and good" and to live in a world where things can be appreciated without having to constantly worry and deal with toxic communities. And I also infodump on whatever poor soul dares to ask. And of course everything in Beautiful.

3. Marvin. Also see my last post about Little God.

4. Henry. Besides Velma the only other one I would probably be friends with, if this guy plays board games (I feel like he could easily get sucked into MTG). The most comedic song but equally as heartbreaking.

6. Paula. I love her and I love Starr. I don't think I'd like her irl she's intimidating.

7. Karly. I really don't know that much about her!!! Idk I just don't feel like I know her like I know the rest of the crew.

8. Jessica. I'm sorry. But there's only 8 lol someone has to be last.

[jbgravereaux]

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[voguingtodanzig]

THE CELESTIAL JUKEBOX, PRESENT TENSE - 250 SONGS

Again, some of this is personal and sentimental, linked to time and place and experience.

50 Cent, “Many Men (Wish Death)”

100 gecs, “800db cloud”

10,000 Maniacs, “Candy Everybody Wants”

Bryan Adams, “Everything I Do”

Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass, “Spanish Flea”

America, “Sister Golden Hair”

Julie Andrews, “My ​​Favorite Things”

Animal Collective, “Brother Sport”

Aphex Twin, “Tha”

Fiona Apple, “Extraordinary Machine”

Louis Armstrong, “What a Wonderful World”

Ash, “Shining Light”

Atlantic Starr, “Always”

Atlas Sound, “Washington School”

Autechre, “Vose In”

The B-52s, “Deadbeat Club”

Bananarama, “Cruel Summer”

The Beatles, “All My Loving”

Beck, “Girl”

Belle & Sebastian, “Seymour Stein”

Benoit & Sergio, “Boy Trouble”

Beyoncé, “Countdown”

Bikini Kill, “Alien She”

Bilal, “West Side Girl”

Bjork, “It’s Oh So Quiet”

Black Dice, “Pigs”

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, “Stop”

The Black-Eyed Peas, “Imma Be”

Blast Off Country Style, “Cutie Pie”

Blondie, “Heart of Glass”

The Bloodhound Gang, “Your Only Friends Are Make-Believe”

The Box Tops, “The Letter”

Brainiac, “I Am A Cracked Machine”

Michelle Branch, “Everywhere”

Laura Branigan, “Gloria”

The Breeders, “Off You”

Danny Brown, “Gremlins”

James Brown, “Get Up I Feel Like Being a Sex Machine”

Jackson Browne, “Somebody’s Baby”

Vanessa Carlton, “A Thousand Miles”

Harry Chapin, “Cat’s in the Cradle”

Tracy Chapman, “Fast Car”

The Carpenters, “Yesterday Once More”

Julian Casablancas and the Voidz, “Human Sadness”

The Chemical Brothers, “Free Yourself”

Chixdiggit!, “My Restaurant”

Cibo Matto, “Sunday, Pt. 1”

Ciara feat. Missy Elliott, “One, Two Step”

Clipse, “Dirty Money”

Jim Croce, “Operator”

Crosby, Stills, and Nash, “You Don’t Have To Cry”

Christopher Cross, “Ride Like the Wind”

Cryptacize, “Mythomania”

Crystal Castles, “Air War”

Culture Club, “Karma Chameleon”

Terrence Trent D’Arby, “Sign Your Name”

Daft Punk, “Around the World”

Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich, “Hold Tight”

Dead Kennedys, “Kill the Poor”

DeBarge, “The Rhythm of the Night”

Deerhoof, “+81”

Deerhunter, “Octet”

Depeche Mode, “Personal Jesus”

Dial, “Helium”

The Diplomats, “Dipset Anthem”

DMX, “Stop Being Greedy”

The Doobie Brothers, “Black Water”

Dr. Dre feat. Snoop Dogg, “Nuthin’ But a G Thang”

The-Dream, “Love King”

Duran Duran, “Hungry Like The Wolf”

Bob Dylan, “Positively 4th Street”

The Eagles, “Lyin’ Eyes”

Eat Skull, “Cooking a Way to be Happy”

Elastica, “Connection”

The Everly Brothers, “All I Have to Do is Dream”

The Ben Folds Five, “The Battle of Who Could Care Less”

Eleanor Friedberger, “Stare at the Sun”

Eminem feat. Dido, “Stan”

Brian Eno, “Cindy Tells Me”

Eurythmics, “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)”

Extreme, “More Than Words”

The Fall, “Glam-Racket”

Roberta Flack, “Killing Me Softly With His Song”

Flipper, “Ha Ha Ha”

Dan Fogelberg, “Longer”

The Free Design, “The Proper Ornaments”

Fur, “Devil to the Lamb”

Garbage, “Only Happy When It Rains”

Judy Garland, “Over the Rainbow”

Kevin Gates, “Paper Chasers”

Ghostface Killah, “Shakey Dog”

Freddie Gibbs, “20 Karat Jesus”

Godspeed You! Black Emperor, “The Dead Flag Blues”

Gorillaz feat. De La Soul, “Feel Good Inc.”

Go Sailor, “I’m Still Crying”

Granddaddy, “A.M. 180”

Colleen Green, “I Want to Grow Up”

Green Day, “Basket Case”

Grimes, “REALITi”

Gucci Mane, “Break Ya Self (Brrrussia version)”

Guided By Voices, “Teenage FBI”

Harvey Danger, “Flagpole Sitta”

Helium, “XXX”

Keri Hilson, “Pretty Girl Rock”

Hole, “Malibu”

The Hollies, “All I Need Is The Air That I Breathe”

Michael Jackson, “Rock With You”

Jay-Z, “Hard Knock Life”

Henry Jacobs, “Guitar Lesson”

Jawbreaker, “Fireman”

Jeremih, “Oui”

Jewel, “Standing Still”

Jimmy Eat World, “Sweetness”

Billy Joel, “Uptown Girl”

Scott Joplin, “The Entertainer”

Journey, “Don’t Stop Believin’”

Juelz Santana, “Mixin’ up the Medicine”

R. Kelly feat. T.I. & T-Pain, “I’m a Flirt (Remix)”

Kool and the Gang, “Celebration”

Lana Del Rey, “Off to the Races”

Lagwagon, “May 16”

The Libertines, “Horror Show”

Limp Bizkit, “Re-Arranged”

Lindstrom, “Where You Go I Go Too”

Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam, “Lost in Emotion”

Lit, “My Own Worst Enemy”

The Lonely Island feat. T-Pain, “I’m on a Boat”

Lotus Plaza, “What Grows?”

Lower Dens, “Candy”

Courtney Love, “I’ll Do Anything”

Love As Laughter, “Idol Worship”

M.I.A, “Bamboo Banga”

Madonna, “Hung Up”

Madlib, “Mystic Bounce”

Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, “Ramp of Death”

The Mamas and the Papas, “California Dreamin’”

John Mayer, “New Light”

Meek Mill, “Dreams and Nightmares Intro”

Men at Work, “Safety Dance”

George Michael, “Faith”

The Modern Lovers, “I’m Straight”

Modest Mouse, “Heart Cooks Brain”

The Moldy Peaches, “Nothing Came Out”

Chris Montez, “The More I See You”

Alanis Morissette, “Head Over Feet”

Jason Mraz and Colbie Caillat, “Lucky”

MXPX, “Party, My House, Be There”

My Bloody Valentine, “You Never Should”

Nas, “The World Is Yours”

Johnny Nash, “I Can See Clearly Now”

Neu!, “Hallogallo”

New Order, “Subculture”

New Pornographers, “The Laws Have Changed”

Wayne Newton, “Danke Schoen”

Harry Nilsson, “Jump into the Fire”

Nine Inch Nails, “Wish”

Nirvana, “About a Girl”

The Notorious B.I.G., “Warning”

Maura O’Connell, “Summerfly”

The Orb, “Little Fluffy Clouds”

Panda Bear, “Mr Noah”

Pavement, “Harness Your Hopes (BBC Evening Session)”

Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, “They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)”

Liz Phair, “Shane”

Pinhead Gunpowder, “I Am An Elephant”

The Platters, “Only You (And You Alone)”

The Pointer Sisters, “Jump”

Michael Praetorius, “Es ist ein Ros entsprungen”

Elvis Presley, “A Little Less Conversation”

Primal Scream, “Keep Your Dreams”

The Prodigy, “Breathe”

Propaghandi, “Anti-Manifesto”

Brian Protheroe, “Pinball”

Psychic Graveyard, “No”

Public Enemy, “Fight The Power”

Aileen Quinn, “Tomorrow”

Radiohead, “A Wolf at the Door”

Gerry Rafferty, “Right Down the Line”

Bonnie Raitt, “Something to Talk About”

The Ramones, “Chain Saw”

Otis Redding, “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay”

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, “In Motion”

Lou Reed and Metallica, “Junior Dad”

Rihanna feat. Jay-Z, “Umbrella”

Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton, “Islands in the Stream”

The Rolling Stones, “Sympathy for the Devil”

Linda Ronstadt and James Ingram, “Somewhere Out There”

Rosemary Krust, “Private Amber”

Diana Ross, “Theme From Mahogany”

Roxy Music, “More Than This”

A Savage, “Eyeballs”

The Shangri-Las, “Leader of the Pack”

Shanice, “I Love Your Smile”

Ed Sheeran, “Thinking Out Loud”

Sightings, “Yellow”

The Silver Jews, “Blue Arrangements”

Alan Silvestri, “The Back to the Future theme”

Paul Simon, “Kodachrome”

Ashlee Simpson, “Pieces of Me”

Slade, “Cum On Feel the Noize”

The Smashing Pumpkins, “Here’s to the Atom Bomb (New Wave version)”

The Soft Pink Truth, “Do They Owe Us A Living?”

Sonic Youth, “Jams Run Free”

Jordan Sparks and Chris Brown, “No Air”

Spoon, “The Mystery Zone”

Starving Weirdos, “Land Lines”

Stereolab, “Plastic Mile”

The Strokes, “12:51”

Swell Maps, “Let’s Build A Car”

Taylor Swift, “Style”

Stylophonic, “R U Experienced”

Jazmine Sullivan, “Mascara”

Suicidal Tendencies, “Institutionalized”

Taco, “Puttin’ on the Ritz”

James Taylor, “You’ve Got a Friend”

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy”

Throwing Muses, “Not Too Soon”

TLC, “Baby-Baby-Baby”

Tortoise, “Djed”

The Toys, “A Lover’s Concerto”

John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, “Summer Nights”

A Tribe Called Quest, “Can I Kick It?”

UB40, “Red Red Wine”

Joe Walsh, “Life’s Been Good”

Scott Weiland, “Paralysis”

Steely Dan, “Do It Again”

Stiff Little Fingers, “Suspect Device”

Stylophonic, “RU Experienced?”

T.I., “What You Know”

Mary Timony, “Blood Tree”

that dog., “I’m Gonna See You”

The Tymes, “So Much In Love”

Ultimate Painting, “Out in the Cold”

The Unicorns, “Child Star”

The Velvet Underground, “The Gift”

Waka Flocka Flame, “Hard in da Paint”

Ween, “Even If You Don’t”

Weezer, “Endless Bummer”

Kanye West, “Devil in a New Dress (G.O.O.D. Fridays version)”

WHAM!, “Wake Me Up (Before You Go-Go)”

White Hassle, “Oh, What a Feeling”

Matthew Wilder, “Break My Stride”

Bill Withers, “Lean on Me”

Wolf Eyes, “Human Animal”

Stevie Wonder, “My Cherie Amour”

Wye Oak, “Siamese”

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, “Maps”

Yo La Tengo, “My Heart’s Reflection”

Zaimph, “Removing Bits of History”

The Zombies, “Time of the Season”

[ta-ether]

musicals actively weirder than “an actor and musical fall in love” (la la land)

(also im trying to keep this to either weird ideas or adaptations that are unexpected, so shrek (based on a wildly popular film despite being an odd concept) or similar adaptations are not included)

about 70 pages from the middle of war and peace (natasha, pierre, and the great comet of 1812)

the trial of leo frank (parade)

the stories of the assassins and would be assassins of american presidents, also set kind of at a carnival? also its written by sondheim? (assassins)

an adaptation of the frogs by aristophanes, also by sondheim (the frogs)

a modern adaptation of lysistrada, in which women withhold sex to get their men to make peace, or in this case, win the big game (lysistrada jones)

a jutebox musical using the songs of jim steinmen popularized by meatloaf that’s also a loose retelling of peter pan (bat out of hell)

a couple’s car breaks down on the way to visit an old teacher, a doctor creates a sexy man, there are aliens? i suppose it’s a loose retelling of frankenstein. (rocky horror show)

look, i have to include hamilton because it is a weird musical idea

a young man plays the role of one of charlemagne’s sons, almost is convinced to self-immolate himself at the end (pippin)

a spelling bee (25th annual putnam spelling bee)

world chess competitions during the cold war (chess)

cats get up to wacky hyjinks (cats)

thomas the tank engine falls in love, also its an adaptation of the story of john henry (starlight express)

a retelling of sir philip sidney’s arcadia using the music of the go-gos (and belinda carlisle) and also it’s very queer (head over heels) 

acapella internet addicts anonymous (octet)

[one-time-i-jumped-off-a-cliff]

Got any random musical recommendations? I need something new to listen to haha

yes i have many !!! these are mostly ones i don’t talk about a lot bc if you’re here you probably know about like. we are the tigers or six. but in no particular order:

everybody’s talking about jamie: PLEASE it’s so good the soundtrack is original and it SLAPS and i’m gonna go put it on right now. there’s a proshot and apparently a movie in production ??? idk but it’s about a british kid named jamie who wants to be a drag queen and if you’re a fan of six the proshot has courtney bowman and cherelle jay was in a later cast !!!

bring it on: 👌👌👌👌 a+++ obc, ariana debose, kate rockwell, taylor louderman, elle mclemore, ryann redmond (and janet krupin for all the watt in concert peeps), killer instinct is one of the most fun villain songs ever

alice by heart: GOD I LOVE THIS SHOW. it’s a little hard to follow so probably should be reserved for when you have some time to rewatch/rewind every once in a while but it’s so worth it. the score is beautiful and there isn’t a single skip on the album (side note bc i cant not say it: kim blanck loml <33) and it’s just such a beautiful show. it’s by the same guys that did spring awakening so if you like that all the more reason to watch this !!!!

octet: speaking of kim blanck! it’s a dave malloy show so if you like ghost quartet/great comet definitely check this one out it’s acappella and about like tech and it’s not entirely focused on that but it’s so good???? this is the only one i don’t have a boot of so i don’t actually know the entire plot (if anyone does have one PLEASE hmu) but beautiful lives in my mind rent free and little god is a thirteen minute trip and a half

36 questions: podcast musical featuring jonathan groff and jessie shelton !!! it’s about a couple who try to repair their marriage using the 36 question experiment. if you still need convincing it also features a duck named henry who has impeccable comedic timing and loves cheerios.

the mad ones: this show makes me want to turn the radio fully up and drive through nevada all night with the windows open. follows samantha brown as she grieves her best friend kelly manning and tries to sort out what she wants for her future against other people’s expectations. plus the off bway soundtrack has krystina alabado, emma hunton, and ben fankhauser so what’s not to love

random ones i don’t feel like going into but are worth mentioning: willow, love in hate nation, 35mm, waitress, hadestown, legally blonde

[bwaywingdingsnthings]

When someone sits in your unassigned seat