What are you watching?

[Olorgando]

Good work!
Or -- you could have just gone back to his last post. 😂

What does EA's last post have to do with it? "Gimme Chocolate - Babymetal"?

Went back all the way to page 1, found another mention of Ghibli by EA, and perhaps one post by Halasían - and again tons of stuff by WtS-eS. 😜

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

What does EA's last post have to do with it? "Gimme Chocolate - Babymetal"?

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

turning Japanese

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

 

[Olorgando]

Oh great, now you're both getting threads mixed up. We do have a music thread ...
(Well, it is Friday morning here by now ... rough week? 😩 )

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

You could just turn the sound down. 😀

Anyway. . .
If the subtitles in the trailer for "Those Snow White Notes" posted above appear a little strange, I take it that the Crunchyroll people were attempting to approximate an English equivalent of a Japanese "provincial" dialect and accent.

Setsu is a "country boy", from the Tsugaru peninsula at the northern tip.of Honshu, where, in fact, the Tsugaru shamisen style originated in the 19th century. This style is more percussive than traditional shamisen, with the player often striking the skin of the instrument; it's also louder, and emphasizes improvisation more than the older styles. It is generally considered to have been started by blind street musicians, and as someone who grew up in the Blue Ridge Mountains, I can't help seeing parallels to the Bluegrass banjo, in both sound and style. If you've ever seen blind street musicians playing the banjo, you'll know what I mean.

In the series, Setsu is a teenage boy who lives for his grandfather's music, but after whose death, decides to drop out of high school and move away from the memories.

He nearly gives up the shamisen, but circumstances find him onstage, trying to entertain an audience of young people, until the rock musician they came to see recovers from a temper tantrum. Just imagine going to see your favourite fill-in-the-blank hot rockstar, and having a hillbilly banjo picker come out instead.

 

[Olorgando]

You could just turn the sound down. 😀

That would have been the case with my now-defunct notebook, with its "squeakers".
For my tower, I have external, own-power-source speakers which I explicitly have to power up to get sound. Default is a Simon and Garfunkel song. 😁

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

New Disney movie looks good

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Redirect Notice

 

[Þráinn Þórhallsson]

An 80's classic

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Another 80's classic:

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

Keeping up the theme for Mr. O, it's a music video so technically watching it 😀

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

In that case, this definitely belongs here!

 

[Olorgando]

Keeping up the theme for Mr. O, it's a music video so technically watching it 😀

In that case, this definitely belongs here!

Watching them both in pantomime mode (aka speakers off) had a charm all its own ... 🧐

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Okay. 😁

Meanwhile, I think this guy has the right idea. . .

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

New trailer for Dune. Looking forward to this one!

 

[Ealdwyn]

I caught the old Hammer movie of Hound of the Baskervilles on TV earlier this week. A classic from 1959, with Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee.
You can watch the full movie on youtube

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Blocked in the US. 😢

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

Blocked in the US. 😢

Whoops sorry I think that's the 1988 version.

Here it is:

 

[Olorgando]

Blocked in the US. 😢

Cuts both ways. While I have no problem with Ealdwyn's link, the first link in EA's post (the 1988 version?) is blocked for me.
But the "poster" or whatever in EA's second link sure is different from the picture shown in Ealdwyn's link ... 🤔