Oh, my god, LMM is wearing a shirt that says "Look, I made a hat." He is such a Sondheim nerd.
I'd rather stay home and watch television. It's often funnier than killing stuff.
Anya ,'Dirty Girls'
Natter 74: Ready or Not
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Dana - Oct 21, 2016 4:06:34 pm PDT #29804 of 30003
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
askye - Oct 21, 2016 4:12:17 pm PDT #29805 of 30003
Thrive to spite them
He looks so much like his Dad.
askye - Oct 21, 2016 4:55:38 pm PDT #29806 of 30003
Thrive to spite them
I'm on the edge of my seat watching this and Mom lasted 10 minutes and just asked me to turn it down.
erin_obscure - Oct 21, 2016 5:00:05 pm PDT #29807 of 30003
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
Someone tell me that I shouldn't eat this entire bar of white chocolate with roses. I need to outsource my willpower right now.
Save some for tomorrow, it will be delicious and you will enjoy having some another day.
My workplace uses a web-based program (for accepting texts to 911) that can *only* be run on IE. But then we have another program (for Continuing Education Modules and ongoing training) that can only be run on Chrome. Both programs are mandatory usage. It's a major headache, especially since most people rotate positions every two hours and have to log onto 4 other programs each time we sit down. Such a time waster!
Laura - Oct 21, 2016 5:03:27 pm PDT #29808 of 30003
Our wings are not tired.
Oh, my god, LMM is wearing a shirt that says "Look, I made a hat." He is such a Sondheim nerd.
It is taunting me on my DVR.
Steph L. - Oct 21, 2016 5:42:16 pm PDT #29809 of 30003
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
He looks so much like his Dad.
I said the same thing!
Also, I was not aware that Leslie Odom Jr. had such nice arms. Welcome to the gun show, Mr. Burr, sir.
billytea - Oct 21, 2016 6:50:04 pm PDT #29810 of 30003
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Steph! Just in this last week or two, I finally decided to look up this Hamilton deal and see what the fuss was about. I've been playing it virtually non-stop (see what I did there?) on youtube ever since. It is just unbelievably good.
I've been thinking about this recently, the Buffistas have provided so many excellent recommendations for my pop culture needs. Aside from Hamilton, there's MCR's Danger Days, Leverage, Veronica Mars, Orphan Black. I'm currently watching Avatar: The Last Airbender with Ryan, and Justified on my own time. These are all things that I quite possibly would not have got to under my own steam. So, y'know, thanks for the recommendations (and to Trudy, erika, Jilli, Cass, Cindy, Jessica and many others.)
Biyi was initially unimpressed with Hamilton. The rapid-fire delivery isn't entirely congenial for a non-native speaker. I have brought her round by pulling up the lyrics so she could follow along, and playing Helpless and Satisfied for her.
As soon as I have the spare cash, the CD will be mine. (I'm assuming the liner notes include the lyrics?)
Steph L. - Oct 21, 2016 6:53:35 pm PDT #29811 of 30003
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
As soon as I have the spare cash, the CD will be mine. (I'm assuming the liner notes include the lyrics?)
I bought the album from iTunes, so I don't have physical liner notes. The best place for the lyrics is the Genius site [link] where, when you click on each song title, you get the lyrics, SUPER annotated with all manner of historical, musical, and pop-cultural info. It's fantastic. Is that what you pulled up for Biyi?
billytea - Oct 21, 2016 7:01:53 pm PDT #29812 of 30003
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I bought the album from iTunes, so I don't have physical liner notes. The best place for the lyrics is the Genius site [link], where, when you click on each song title, you get the lyrics, SUPER annotated with all manner of historical, musical, and pop-cultural info. It's fantastic.
Oh yes, I've checked that out for some of the songs. Notably The Room Where It Happens, which just demonstrates the genius detail that LMM put into it. (The wordplay around capital and banks is very clever, but beyond that, taking the audience out of Hamilton's heretofore transparent thought processes - and into Burr's heretofore opaque thought processes - is a deft and very effective move. All of which pales before my great joy that he brought a banjo into the orchestration. It supplants Swamp Thing as my favourite use of a banjo ever.)
Concerning liner notes, I'm thinking more for Biyi's benefit. (I mean, I'm getting it on CD anyway. Due to some pricing quirk, I can get the CD for about $3 less than if I bought it on iTunes. But hopefully it'll have the lyrics there too.)
SailAweigh - Oct 21, 2016 7:16:45 pm PDT #29813 of 30003
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
That was an excellent documentary. I haven't heard much of Hamilton, mainly because I wasn't sure I understood enough of the history to really grasp all the most important parts of the plot. I only knew there was a duel and Hamilton lost. (That, plus, my daughter's Hamilton cousins are somehow related.) Now, I'm really going to have to give the whole thing a listen. I loved Jefferson's passe jazz stylings.