What are you watching?

[Erestor Arcamen]

TCM has classic horror movies playing all day so I'll be on that all night after work :-D

 

[Olorgando]

Ahem -- speaking of which, Queendom final results:

Congratulations to the girls -- especially to "mai waifu", Hwasa! 😍

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I actually understood one phrase in the acceptance speeches - "kamsa hamnida", or thank you.

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Their performance:

The radish field is happy!

I think you may have mentioned radishes or radish fields before - but understanding continues to elude me … 🤔

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

"Moo" is Korean for a kind of radish; Mamamoo fans call themselves "moomoos" -- hence, "radishes".

In fact, before Mamamoo got their own lightsticks, moomoos started bringing actual radishes to their performances.

(You can see the lightsticks in the audience).

 

[Olorgando]

"Moo" is Korean for a kind of radish; Mamamoo fans call themselves "moomoos" -- hence, "radishes".

In fact, before Mamamoo got their own lightsticks, moomoos started bringing actual radishes to their performances.

(You can see the lightsticks in the audience).

Actually I did notice the lightsticks, and got a vague suspicion about their shape having something to do with radishes ...
And that kind of light was once provided by cigarette lighters held aloft (done in by safety regulations, most likely, certainly indoors).
Though at some concerts, one could safely guess that they weren't used to light Marlboros or Camels … 🤪

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

You can see more at the MAMA concert I posted on the previous page.

Closeup:

Version 1 was green and white only, like the radish; they've gotten more complex (this is version 2.5, I believe).

 

[Starbrow]

There's always Simpson's Treehouse of Horror

 

[Miguel]

Gríma Wormtongue chief scientist

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Agent Mulder Gandalf

 

[Miguel]

This is totally Moringotho, i guess they must have read some TS before doing this.

 

[Olorgando]

Gríma Wormtongue chief scientist

I have the quadrilogy starring Sigourney Weaver, the first four films, on DVD. 🤩

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

 

[Olorgando]

OT, but I've just noticed that my Windows task manager goes bananas in CPU and memory load values whenever I open a thread with many YouTube links.
This thread is pretty heavy, but the music one really makes my notebook oldie wheeze and gasp (and reaction time head for the pits).
Good thing I had my somewhat aged notebook cleaned a short while ago, otherwise it might be resorting to safety shutdowns like it did with that big Windows update.
The people at my computer store did tell me, though, that those big updates send every computer up against the performance wall, no matter how powerful. Meh! 🤢

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

That's "civilization" for you.

 

[Halasían]

Re-watching the 'Das Boot' TV series. No it doesn't even pretend to be the great namesake movie, but serves as a sequel since the movie ended in December 1941. This TV series is based in mid-1942 and also uses Lothar-Günther Buchheim's sequel book Die Festung as its inspiration. Quite enjoyable!

 

[Olorgando]

Re-watching the 'Das Boot' TV series. No it doesn't even pretend to be the great namesake movie, but serves as a sequel since the movie ended in December 1941. This TV series is based in mid-1942 and also uses Lothar-Günther Buchheim's sequel book Die Festung as its inspiration. Quite enjoyable!

I saw the film with my father. Having been born in 1924, he saw action in WW II (probably earliest late 1943 or 1944), and he was on a U-boat (as chief officer (candidate) engineer - they were getting desparate by then). He didn't say much about the film, but then Buchheim, having served as a "war reporter" on the mission shown, commented, often acerbically, on what went into the film in a book about the filmmaking (and the "Extended Edition" that ended up being the TV series - that really got the buzz-saw). I also own and have read his brick of a book "Die Festung", follow-up to "Das Boot". Lots of people here in Germany need to read this stuff, maybe even forced to read it …

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Who needs twerking, when you've got the Black Bottom?

For anyone wondering, that's a bass sax on the left at 0:17.

 

[Olorgando]

For anyone wondering, that's a bass sax on the left at 0:17.

Uh-huh. I can imagine that this instrument would have a very low popularity with touring bands of the time.
On the other hand, some bands traveled with a (double) bass - think of Jack Lemmon's character in "Some Like It Hot" from 1959 - the biggest string instrument.
And some bass guitars, especially with heavy-duty protective traveling cases, were unwieldy, too …

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

I believe the bass sax was more popular in the 20's and 30's for dance bands. The Bonzos used one occasionally -- along with bass clarinet -- in their reconstructions during the 60's. I've played saxes from sopranos down to baritones, but unfortunately never had the opportunity to try a bass. They're fairly rare, not to mention expensive, costing up to $20,000.

They are around, though -- here's a Dixieland band featuring three:

There's even a bass sax quartet:

(Is that last the true "Tatort Cologne"? )

And yes, they're big, but not as unwieldy as the contrabass:

Or the subcontrabass!

 

[Olorgando]

I believe the bass sax was more popular in the 20's and 30's for dance bands. The Bonzos used one occasionally -- along with bass clarinet -- in their reconstructions during the 60's. I've played saxes from sopranos down to baritones, but unfortunately never had the opportunity to try a bass. They're fairly rare, not to mention expensive, costing up to $20,000.

They are around, though -- here's a Dixieland band featuring three:

There's even a bass sax quartet:

(Is that last the true "Tatort Cologne"? )

And yes, they're big, but not as unwieldy as the contrabass:
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Or the subcontrabass!
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Those last two monster started reminding me of the monster horn that Gimli blew at Helms Deep in TTT. Except that the analogy breaks down as that had a brass instrument mouthpiece (trumpet, trombone & Co.) rather than a reed instrument mouthpiece.

Can the lowest notes on these monsters be reproduced by a stereo system to be bought (at reasonable prices, anyway) for private use?
I believe that the lowest pipes on some really big church organs are felt rather than heard … 🥴

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

There are arguments that the lowest tones on those instruments are too low for the human ear -- or brain -- to register fully, making them essentially useless. Never having heard one "live", I'm not in a position to hold an opinion.

I do wish you hadn't brought up that sequence in the movie!