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KILL THE WHALE (LYRICS AND COMMENTARY)
HELLO! Over the past couple of months I have been making it a personal project to transcribe and annotate the lyrics for Daniel Emond's musical adaptation of Moby Dick, called "Kill The Whale".
For those unfamiliar with this album/adaptation, here is the official description of it right from Emond's website:
Kill the Whale is a concept album and live rock opera, built in the characters and waters of Melville's Moby Dick. When Ishmael, a young rocker with an unknown past falls in love with the hiphop harpooner Q, they join Peek-Wow, the Whaleship/Orchestra led by steel-eyed frontwoman Ahab, who sets her crew upon a course to kill the gigantic sperm whale that maimed her, a plan opposed by Ahab's first mate (and secret admirer), the devout and soulful Starbuck. Contending with face-melting squalls and mad mates, the hymnic wonder of whales nursing in the heart of the Ocean, and the poignant Gospel of the castaway cabin kid Pip, Peek-Wow embarks on a rock and roll quest for vengeance. Kill The Whale is memory manifested as a 1970's folk/hiphop/rock opera, that centers two queer romances, lifts voices of color, and re-casts authority roles as women.
The album was released on Spotify in April of this year, with two live performances at Joe's Pub taking place only a few days after it's release.
I have archived and noted the lyrics as they appear in the studio album, the live variation, and Daniel's "official" lyrics as posted to his personal Reddit, and the differences therein. I and my good Melville scholar friend and partner @pocketsizedquasar-2 have also left extensive commentary, notes of context, and criticisms of this album in the document. Please enjoy the fruit of much labor and insanity :)
#kill the whale#daniel emond#daniel henri emond#daniel emond kill the whale#moby dick#moby dick adaptation#album review#music review#mobydick#mossy speaks#mossy writes#the full lyrics are about 12k but our commentary is genuinely another 18k. we have so much to say lmao#norman sann#grace mclean#courtney bassett#jessie shelton#Camellia Hartman#jana djenne jackson#amber gray#danielle mcknight#kyle scatliffe
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Christophe Chabouté: Moby Dick
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I hate and love that my comic scratches the ultimate itch of the sort of narrative I want to consume because on the one hand, I love working on it and it is fully my Essence. But on the other hand, when I want to unwind and am craving a particular Type Of Story only to remember that it doesn't exist I'm just like......do I gotta do everything myself?
#it's not even that gtw is like.....particularly original#I guess melville just Won at the setting and everyone else was like 'okay we don't gotta do anymore'#that's why I read whaling journals IT IS ALL THAT WILL PARTIALLY SCRATCH THE ITCH#that isn't my own comic#all I've got is melville adaptations / things about the essex which are basically clinging to melville too#(don't get me wrong I love moby dick but...i want a new story!!)#aaaand the North Water which I just....didn't like at all lol. the book and the show#and the terror....the terror has similar vibes to what gtw will be but I can only rewatch the terror so often
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they knew they had to get Stubb out of the picture early because in the book his main personality trait and also coping mechanism was cracking a thousand jokes per minute and that wouldn’t have fit the atmosphere they were going for
#limbus company#canto v spoilers#project moon#moby dick#here’s one of the promised shitposts#i do have some actual thoughts on how lcb adapted stubb but i’m not writing em out today#me post
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I feel like now is a good time to post my Ishmael x Queequeg from Moby Dick fanvid
#people in the tags of my last post are assuming i don't like melville i need to make it very clear that cannot be further from the case#moby dick#moby dick 1998#i don't even like this adaptation but alas it's the closest one to the book. just pretend this is about the book
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[ID: A digitally drawn photo of Queequeg and Ishmael from Moby-Dick, kissing. Ishmael is a lean white man with short, wavy blond hair and sideburns. He is wearing gray pants and a gold wedding band. Queequeg is a muscular Māori person with warm brown skin, short, curly hair in a top knot style, and many intricate tattoos over his face and body. He is wearing dark pants and a gold wedding band. Both are shirtless.
Ishmael is sitting on Queequeg's lap, with a hand on his face and the other on his chest. while Queequeg holds him with one hand on his neck and the other on his back. They are kissing each other with lips parted in tender smiles. End ID.]
sooooo this was partially inspired by finding an adaptation of MobyDick that refered to these two as friends rather than a canonically married couple lmfao and I Needed to draw them being gay about it. congrats to the canon homosexuals in mobydick
anyways. this is what friends are for 😍🙏🕊✝️💖😍🙏🕊✝️💖😍🙏🕊✝️💖amen
#moby dick#mobydick#queequeg#quishmael#ishmael#queeshmael#ishmael mobydick#Ishmael moby dick#queequeg mobydick#queequeg moby dick#mossy art#accessible art#if anyone knows the adaptation im referring to i ADORE that adaptation with my entire heart but this line made me cackle#but everything else hayashida does in that album is a masterpiece#whale weekly
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woah moby dick 2011 has quite the cast
#might watch it....#alex’s inane ramblings#i know it’s not a necessarily good adaptation but there is yet to be a good adaptation of moby dick as far as i know
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what the tags to my posts have taught me is that the wurthering heights stans are eating devouring enjoying while im locked in Moby Dick Jail with the ahab starbuck emotionally draining yuri that lives only in my mind-
#me staring at the direction that they decided to take starbuck's character#LOOK WHAT THEY DID TO MY BOY#also sometimes i get annoyed about the way that pip and ahab's interactions were adapted#like if anyone could have dragged ahab's ass back from the edge. ranked. 1. pip and 2. MAYBE starbuck had a small chance but like#not really#pip and starbuck are like....... two examples of how ahab's damage couldve been averted#pip and ahab are SUCH an important relationship that got kinda lost#bc it shows that ahab COULDVE walked back his ego for human connection. he and pip wind up kinda getting each other in a weird way#pip in moby dick is like. if apollo was the ocean pip would be cassandra. do you understand.#pip and ahab know how each other tick in the book.#they were like each other's One Chances bc ahab couldve left his ego and done the one damn thing which would've REALLY saved#the one goddamn person who he's come to genuinely care about#and pip gave ahab the chance to have someone sort of get how actually scared ahab is of the ocean and how that fear was the biggest#damn insult a dude like that could have. bc if you read the book and how ahab was treated directly after losing his leg.#it wasnt JUST moby dick it was the way his ship treated him. you understand why he's Like That.#the ocean AND the whaling crew fucked them both over.#uhhh meanwhile starbuck Thought that he could walk ahab's ego back from the edge!#but in reality the way that starbuck was ahab's One Chance at not killing everyone on that ship is if starbuck had shot his ass in the cabi#limbus company#IM GLAD THE WURTHERING HEIGHTS FANS ARE HAVING FUN THOUGH IM GL
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Last night, I decided I was going to watch In The Heart Of The Sea. I'm fully aware that it's a terrible movie, but I know I'll end up watching it eventually. My interest in boat cannibalism demands it.
However, when I typed the film's title into the Apple TV search bar, In The Heart Of The Sea came up... as did Moby-Dick and Life Of Pi. It was as if Apple TV was telling me, "hey, would you like to watch something that has similar themes, but doesn't suck?"
#I watched Life of Pi if you were wondering#incredible book-to-movie adaptation#never seen anything like it#in the heart of the sea#moby dick#life of pi#boat media#boat stories#shipwreck#sea stories#nautical#maritime#maritime fiction#maritime disasters#survival cannibalism#cannibalism#eating people on a boat doesn't make you a bad person
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god help me, through the power of joan bennett's wiki page i remembered the 1930 Moby Dick with barrymore existed, and the whole thing is, i'm happy to report on youtube. none of the words in the synopsis are in the book. let's do it for joan.
#but tortie; you might say; are you watching a film version of a book you know is going to be terrible simply for joan b?#yeah i am. next question.#what ds and loving terrible adaptions of moby dick does to someone who is. admittedly. snowed-in and bored.#polkaknox talks
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Sorta continuation of this, here's some observations on how the bsd anime adaptation rate (average of number of chapters adapted per episode) changed every season:
Season 1: 10 plot episodes + 2 ln adaptation. Adapts up to chapter 16. Average of chapters adapted per episode: 1.60
Season 2: 8 plot episodes + 4 ln adaptation. Adapts chapters 17-37 (21 chapters). Average of chapters adapted per episode: 2.63 (+1.03)
Season 3: 9 plot episodes + 3 ln adaptation. Adapts chapters 38-39 & 41-53 (15 chapters). Average of chapters adapted per episode: 1.67 (-0.96)
Season 4: 10 plot episodes + 3 ln adaptation. Adapts chapters 54-77 (24 chapters). Average of chapters adapted per episode: 2.40 (+0.73)
※ I opted out of counting the Hitori Ayumi OVA this time around, reasoning that the factors that play into conditioning the season episodes adaptation rate wouldn't have influenced the OVA given its nature of stand-alone episode.
Seasons 1-3 adaptation rate: 27 plot episodes, 52 adapted chapters. Average of chapters adapted per episode: 1.93
Season 4 adaptation rate compared to the average of all the previous seasons: 2.40 (+0.47)
Seasons 1-4 overall adaptation rate: 37 plot episodes, 76 adapted chapters. Total average of chapters adapted per episode: 2.05
That being said, let's try to guess how season 5 might play out taking in the previous four seasons adaptation rate of 2.05 as standard. Here's the fun thing: if season 5 is just 12 / 13 episodes of plot adaptation, that would mean adapting up to chapter 102 / 104. Coincidentally, chapter 104 (fukufuku flashback) is also the furthest in the manga plot that was shown in the last season 5 trailer. Feel free to draw your own conclusions, but as of now a new light novel adaptation seems positively unlikely and a Stormbringer adpatation basically impossible to make fit.
#bsd#bungou stray dogs#bsd s5#bsd season 5#mine#Just sorta pissed because it doesn't seem likely they'll dedicate the sskk fight the space they deserve...#The sskk vs. Fitzgerald fight and the sskk vs. Fukuchi fight have the exact amount of pages - I counted#(123‚ cutting chapter 36 when Fitzgerald falls down from the Moby Dick)#So it is ONLY fair chapters 84-88 also get *checks* one episode 4 minutes 36 seconds of adaptation!!!#But when you think about it it's likely they'll make a cut of the kind: *episode x ends with Akutagawa's glorious comeback*#*episode x+1 starts with Akutagawa joining Atsushi and Fukuchi on the ship and ends with Akutagawa's throat being slashed*#*episode x+2 starts with “you damn fool / hurry up and go” etc etc*#Sigh. I need more time. /They/ need more time. They need at least a lil kiss additional scene. Or a kabedon#Akuatagawa really is going to come in after a whole season say “I'm not here to reveal your identity.–#I'll chop you up and scatter you across the sea” And then die in the same episode. You go king give us nothing 😭😭😭
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NATIONAL HOLIDAY TODAY BTW
[ID: An edited screenshot of a Tumblr post. The first part reads: "people who celebrate album birthdays are annoying pass it on." The second part reads: "FUCK this post and happy birthday Moby Dick or The Whale by Caleb Hayashida." End ID]
#caleb hayashida#moby dick#HAPPY TWO YEARS TO THE BEST MUSICAL MOBYDICK ADAPTATION 💙💙💙#described#moby dick or the whale#music#album recommendation#mossy speaks#listen to it rn. it will change you#whale weekly
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253 - Moby Dick (with Emily St. James!)
We're going back further than ever before this episode and we've got writer/critic/author Emily St. James along for the ride! After a consecutive run as an Oscar favorite in the late 1940s to early 1950s, director John Huston gave us 1956's Moby Dick, an adaptation of perhaps the greatest novel of all time and often seen as unadaptable. With Gregory Peck as Captain Ahab and a cameo performance by Orson Welles, the film earned Huston favor at the DGA Awards, but even with its (then) technical feats, the film did not continue Huston's Oscar streak.
This episode, we talk about the impossible task of bringing Herman Melville's novel to the screen and the perception of Peck as miscast. We also discuss the 1956 Oscars, Peck's run as Academy president, and outrage over Home Alone's underwhelming Oscar nomination tally.
Topics also include the Grumpy Old Men blooper reel, Reba McEntire as Trish, and we also announce the return of Vulture's Movies Fantasy League! Join the rest of the Garys with league name AllOfUsGarys!
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(Making a second poll with more characters)
#jurassic park daily#ian malcolm#ellie sattler#lewis Dodgson#jurassic world dominion#tell me why if you feel like it#in a draucla daily poll the answer would be:#everyone#jonathan quincey etc....#actually I should make a poll for that if that doesn't exist already#i feel like i've seen van helsing having similarities to himself once in a blue moon#frankenstein and moby dick should also have a poll like this#until i joined moby dick weekly i didn't even know who the main character was because my adaption cut him#made it only about ahab and the whale#same goes for jekyll and hyde i thought jekyll was the main guy 😭#the only good frankenstein adaption is junji ito's
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💕 Charlie Cox as Ishmael 💕
Moby Dick (2011) Pt II ~
“I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts. Not ignoring what is good, I am quick to perceive a horror, and could still be social with it -- would they let me -- since it is but well to be on friendly terms with all the inmates of the place one lodges in.”
#Ishmael and Pip's friendship is so cute 🥰#love that this adaptation gave it to us...even though it makes the tragic ending all the sadder T_T#Ishmael#Pip#stubb#charlie cox#daniyah ysrayl#eddie marsan#glen matthews#moby dick 2011#moby dick#herman melville#whale weekly#screencaps#baby charlie
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hi anna i just got back from seeing preludes!! sent you that ask a while ago thank you so much for your response it was absolutely wonderful. not at all what i was expecting from the little i knew going in but i could absolutely feel dave malloy in it. rach was such a modern feeling and relatable character in a way that i don’t feel exists in any of his other work and i loved it. i did end up bringing the person i was unsure about and, while i do think i was able to follow the story a bit better, he loved it as well. dave malloy king of musicals that make me want to stand up in my seat and start screaming at various points. also going to go spend the rest of my night reading about rachmaninoff
this ask is from a MONTH ago and I haven't replied because I'm terribly jealous but also because I was so anxiously awaiting your answer that I got too giddy to even read it fully. I am so delighted you went (objectively the correct move of course, I am just the messenger)! Dave Malloy king of musicals in general, end of sentence! I find Preludes so so upsetting and excellent and I am glad you found something in Rach; I find Rach to be, in simplest terms, Malloy's rawest fucking protag. and of course, he is not Malloy's invention, but what strikes me so much about Preludes and Great Comet is his way of pulling out these absolutely killer emotions and concepts from pre-existing characters or people that are not even his creation. like man, why did you come up with something like "Why am I screaming? / Why am I shaking? / Oh God, was there something that I missed? / Did I squander my divinity? / Was happiness within me the whole time?" for the author's self-insert in War and Peace? did you seriously have to do that to me at age 16? if someone let me get my hands on Moby Dick I'm sure I'd be completely losing it right now. but anyhow, again I repeat that I am jealous and that I am glad you had a wonderful time watching it (I wonder if it was less frightening than the recording? 'frightening' may be wrong; ominous? upsetting? again that sound design just truly shakes me to my core). anyhow I hope you listen to the recording too, if not to be frightened but to hear Gabriel Ebert's Rach and Nikki M. James' Natalya. insane stuff on that tiny little cast recording that they inexplicably made for Preludes!
#no seriously everyone is so lucky I have no way of consuming Moby Dick.#anonymous#ask#all this to say I think Malloy is probably one of the few musicians alive who has a real talent at adaptation#LMM found something brilliant in Hamilton but he doesn't actually LIKE adaptation I don't think. whereas Malloy LOVES IT.#Ghost Quartet is an exercise in adaptation that would make anyone miserable except for him. truly!
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