#talent shows

[azrail-has-a-vendetta]

bro let’s hype up my sibling for their talent show on Friday! They’re beat boxing and despite being 100% self taught they are INSANELY good. @lakeside-oranges let’s go!!!!!

[a-timely-problem]

what I really love about talent shows, is that you have people who are really talented and then you have people where you're constantly wondering if they've killed someone before

[zippocreed501]

FRIDAY NIGHT SPECIAL

The Jonson Sisters (1971)

Opportunity Knocks was a tv talent show that ran from 1949 to 1990. It spawned many successful comedians, musicians and variety acts. (We'll go into the show and the reputation of its original host Hughie Greene in the future).

I don't like talent shows, (well except for The Gong Show or Novelty Island!) To me, the acts are not as much produced, more vacuum-packed. Oh they have talent, but why sell it cheap? Something is lost when a performer is given a song that a committee hopes the punters will like and then a sob story to tug at the nation's collective heartstrings. I'd rather listen to a band in some lowlife boozer, where the only tears shed are your own when it's your round.

[wanderingmind867]

A half memory I have is my dad describing a one season show he saw years ago (a year before I was born) where a show tried to find the worst singer. I think I found the shows wikipedia page. It sounds funny, kind of mean-spirited, but also kind of refreshing in this world of nonstop talent shows. Mind you, my opinion is based only on the show's synopsis and not on footage itself. I doubt it should be made again, but it's interesting to look back on in this of world of american idols and voices. I'll link the wikipedia page. Maybe they should never do this type of thing again, but I do thing some more variety in these types of talent shows would be refreshing. Hell, I'd take a return to the old variety shows of the 60s and 70s! Now I'm going on too many tangents, so let's end it here. Here's that link I promised:

[trooperst-3v3]

I kind of miss when I recorded “Jazzma,” and I miss our talent shows. Let’s revive those, shall we?

Sounds good to me.

I think Mitaka usually organizes those, but I'm happy to help.

Teaching my engineering students to build and program some lighting and sound boards could be a fun project and make the shows really pop.

[sarahmackattack]

One last talent show to save the rec center

Ok everybody here's the deal.

My science education nonprofit, Skype a Scientist (you might know her, creator of the squid facts hotline and matcher of classrooms + scientists) has secured absolutely no grants to support general operations for 2025. But! We're selling advent calendars to fund our program! They absolutely rule. They can save our nonprofit asses. If we sell 5000, which I realize, is so many, we can fund our program for 2025. Then I can offer a bunch of programming for free. Running a nonprofit is a weird job.

Every day, counting down to frankly whatever you want (it's usually Christmas, but man, maybe you want to count down to Halloween, that's fine by me) scratch off the sparkly sparkly iridescence and reveal a fact about frogs! We have 24 top-notch frog facts here.

You should get one for every kid in your life, then get one for all the adults who still let themselves access joy in critters.

Get 'em here: https://squidfacts.bigcartel.com/

[t0rschlusspan1k]

I'm trying to watch a playlist of Nikki McKibbin's story on American Idol because I wanted to know more about her, and I can't understand how so many people can be so captivated by this type of show. Everything, everything is so evidently fake, and I can't see what's so genuine (according to the fans) about it. It's all fake... and also so badly done. I just don't understand talent/reality shows in general, I guess. It's so empty and scripted (my god, her audition was so evidently scripted) and devoid of any real emotions. It's all scripted. All fake. It's so boring.

The early 2000s were really something else anyway.

[hadnewscom]

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[travsd]

Showville

One glaring omission you may notice on this blog (which concentrates so heavily on the variety arts) is an absence of coverage of contemporary television talent shows, though they are the closest thing we have nowadays to televised variety shows (talk shows and sketch comedy shows are quite different beasts entirely). This is because I HATE them, at least the existing ones. I’ve always…

[goryfluff]

Nautilus expedition live streams (+ their commentary) 2020 / 2021 / 2022

[sirgavvainet]

I just needed to draw him baby 🥺🤲

[sidras-tak]

I went to a high school performance of Hadestown this weekend (it was fantastic btw, so polished and professional and all the actors, pit, and tech did a marvelous job). The audience was great too, full of applause and enthusiasm after every song. But one of my favorite moments was at the end, when Orpheus turned around. You could hear audible gasps from the audience, and then there was perfect silence for a full minute while the actors transitioned to Road to Hell (Reprise). No scattered applause as sometimes happens when a song ends and the next scene doesn’t immediately begin. No murmurs or whispers. Just silence. And Hermes’ actress milked that silence for all it was worth. She had total control of that silence. It was glorious. I’m sure many people in that auditorium— parents, teachers, supportive community members— showed up that night, not knowing the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. My mother-in-law certainly didn’t, sitting just a few seats down from me. And that collective gasp, followed by heavy silence is exactly what it’s all about. That’s the whole point— it’s a sad song. It’s a sad tale, it’s a tragedy. But we sing it anyway.

[egophiliac]

A guy who just wake up from a coma -> what did i miss?

Pomefiore was the last plot i follow before real life made me forget about our silly boys. How bad has the plot become now for our gang? Also who is that Gojo looking guy?

anon, I am so sorry and I mean this in the best way, but I do think episode 5 is the absolute funniest place to have stopped following Twst because shit starts escalating SO fast after that. episode 6 literally starts with a secret government shadow agency breaking down our doors and kidnapping students. zero to a million instantly.

and like...that's not even the zaniest thing so far? Ortho's hacked into the collective human unconscious. there's time travel (sort of). "Crowley might be Malleus' long-lost father" is a serious theory. if you'd told me any of this back pre-episode 6, I would have asked for the link to this unbelievable but highly intriguing fanfic.

also, episode 7 gave us (and then immediately took away 😔) the best character in the whole story:

[dclovesdanny]

DcxDp prompts

Dan/Danny/Dani additions 1/5

Danny is adoption bait to the Gotham rogues.

Danny only went to Gotham university because it had a lot of ambient ectoplasm and he could fast track to the arrow space department in Wayne enterprises if he worked hard enough. He didn’t need adopting, he was already 19 years old and had a (strained, very distant) relationship with his parents. When he moved to Gotham, he expected to have to deal with people wanting to make him a new Wayne, not with all of the Gotham rogues immediately trying to adopt him.

So what if he defended Killer Croc from some asshole cops, accidentally exposing his fangs and had a conversation about being dehumanized with him that led to them having dinner on Wednesdays?

So what if he got into a serious conversation about the green gas effect and pollution (Sam had taught him well) with Poison Ivy that result in him coming over for dinner and Harley Quinn declaring him a ‘sweetheart’?

So what if he directed Frostbitw to help Mr. Freeze and now Nora invited him over for brunch on Sundays?

So what if he had a wonderful conversation with the Riddler in which they traded space themed riddles which lead to Riddler seeking him out sometimes for a game?

So what if he helped Mr. cobble pot by making him intangible when some people were driving by in about splash mud on him and he now had a part time job there as a bouncer?

So what if Grundy played tag with him every other Thursday and called him Little Death and offered to eat his chemical engineering teacher who gave him a low grade because he didn’t follow safety precautions?

This didn’t mean he was adoption bait. Shut up Sam.