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Post by Subtext Mining on Jan 10, 2020 16:44:48 GMT
I love this guy's videos on how musicians create the tonic moods in their pieces.
Here's one on a few Star Wars themes by the great Sir John Williams.
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Post by Subtext Mining on Feb 1, 2020 23:02:29 GMT
Today I learned George Lucas had a cameo in Beverly Hills Cop 3.
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Post by stampidhd280pro on Feb 2, 2020 2:09:22 GMT
I love this guy's videos on how musicians create the tonic moods in their pieces. Here's one on a few Star Wars themes by the great Sir John Williams. m.youtube.com/watch?v=RD6bY7WZVxgi generally hate youtubers and have jealousy for them, but this guy never talks down to me or makes me feel like a teacher getting hot air blown up my ass. |
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Post by Ingram on Feb 2, 2020 2:24:20 GMT
Yeah. I've been memeing 'Piggly Wiggly' George Lucas for years now. I mean, between he and Spielberg, the latter definitely got the better cameo deal in Landis' The Blues Brothers. Still, George seems to be making the most of his opportunity. I can really feel the indignation of the character here; there's a real pathos to consider whenever someone cuts in front of you at an amusement park ride.
"Hey!"
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Post by stampidhd280pro on Feb 2, 2020 2:26:26 GMT
This could get globbed onto the TROS topic. Hehe. Just being cheeky.
Yoda's theme is my favorite right below the Yavin throne room theme at the end of ANH, but Rey's theme is easily the most interesting to me. It goes through a range of emotions and depths of magic. Overall, John Williams's score is best in the OT, then in the PT, and least in the ST, but Rey's theme really adds something that satisfies my wonder at it all.
And PS: The love theme in SOLO ain't half bad either.
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Post by Subtext Mining on Feb 2, 2020 6:44:57 GMT
Yes, this musician kid is one of my all-time favorite Youtubers. I posted another one of his videos here on The Beatles awhile back. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik5Bq0jgcFcI wish I could hire him follow me around in my daily life and explain how the music I like works. Most of you are thinking "wouldn't that ruin the enjoyment?" Not the way this kid does it. At least not for me. I'm the kind of person that likes to know how things work, even (and especially) great works of art. Maybe it also has something to do with how I don't mind spoilers. I'm a freak. |
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Post by Subtext Mining on Feb 21, 2020 13:50:52 GMT
Today I learned of the Celtic/Scottish mythological folklore of the Cat Sith. A feline being who can steal the souls of the recently departed. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_sìth |
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Post by Subtext Mining on Feb 29, 2020 15:41:33 GMT
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Post by ArchdukeOfNaboo on Mar 2, 2020 9:36:54 GMT
I think I'll park this here:
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Post by Subtext Mining on Mar 7, 2020 14:03:48 GMT
Today I learned during World War I the Allied Forced referred to Germany in thier propaganda as "The Hun Menace".  |
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Post by Cryogenic on Mar 15, 2020 3:51:32 GMT
Simple and elegant compilation of various times Darth Vader's theme is played in the films, I to VI:
Oh, how I love this saga!
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Post by ArchdukeOfNaboo on Mar 15, 2020 18:04:12 GMT
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Post by Subtext Mining on Apr 3, 2020 16:22:00 GMT
Last week I learned that King Louis XIV proclaimed "I am the State."
Whether or not he actually said it is debated, but it's still an interesting anecdote.
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Post by Subtext Mining on Apr 18, 2020 17:12:33 GMT
One of my favorite channels (which focuses on microbiology) made a video on Midichlorians.
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Post by Subtext Mining on May 2, 2020 19:15:41 GMT
While reading through Carl Jung's book Aion: Researches Into the Phenomonolgy of the Self, I came across this interesting passage in which Jung quotes from the Alchemical text Rosinus Sarratantam Episcopum:
The [Philosopher's] Stone is below thee as to obedience, above thee as to domain.
Therefore from thee as to knowledge, about thee as to equals.
Jung then goes to explain this passage thusly: The Stone stands in undoubted psychic relrelationship to man, fitting the paradoxical situation of the Self. The adept can expect obedience from it, but on the other hand the Stone exercises dominion over him. Since the Stone is a matter of "knowledge" or science, it springs from man. But it's outside him in his surroundings, among his "equals", i.e. those of likemind.
Needless to say this reminds me of how Obi-Wan disusses the Force with Luke; it controlling your actions, but also obeying your commands. And also how it surrounds us and binds us together.
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Post by Subtext Mining on May 29, 2020 11:51:58 GMT
Is this a Sami song about Jar Jar?
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Post by Subtext Mining on Aug 11, 2020 6:30:46 GMT
Someone posted these in a film discussion group I belong to and of course I thought "Oh, if only Pyrogenic were here."   |
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Post by Pyrogenic on Aug 15, 2020 21:55:23 GMT
Someone posted these in a film discussion group I belong to and of course I thought "Oh, if only Pyrogenic were here." It's funny because as much as I suggest it as obvious (with no need to explain), I have still to this day yet to see anyone online take my word for it and actually try watching them this way. |
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Post by Subtext Mining on Aug 16, 2020 18:06:42 GMT
I came across this while wandering around Prague.  His legs and protruding eye lens are gone, but still cool. It's the ventilation shaft to a cold war era nuclear bomb shelter bunker. |
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Post by Subtext Mining on Sept 21, 2020 14:28:42 GMT
A writer and artist (Larry Hama) I've admired since I was a child recently said this:
"If you don't conquer your fear, you will soon lose your moral center, and then, your rationality."
Which couldn't help but remind me of Anakin.
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