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On February 25 2014 05:42 WaveofShadow wrote:
Cheep I'm pretty sure you said you didn't approve of 'Les Mis' earlier last week or something, but as far as it goes, how many people in here could name/sing songs from it or is at least familiar with the musical in some way?
(And on another note do/did you enjoy it)
Hi Wave I know literally the entire musical by heart.
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On February 25 2014 04:38 mordek wrote:
I haven't met any TLers in real life. I have a suspicion red and I grew up near each other but I haven't found an opportunity to bring it up in a non-creepy way....
I was under the impression that OWB was the only TLer(that I know of) that is anywhere near me, but fwiw I grew up in Chardon, which is a little south of Mentor, and if that's meaningless to you then you didn't grow up near me =p.
I'm pretty sure NE Ohio is like a dead gaming area. I remember when TBC launched, I didn't pre-order it, I literally showed up to the mall at midnight and was one of only like 6 people, so I just walked up and got a copy for what I think was at the time the largest game launch in history. The Cleveland barcrafts that tried to get going had very little response(I followed the thread to see if it would be worth attending), there's like no local LAN scene. It would probably be different if I grew up in Columbus instead.
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On February 25 2014 05:49 WaveofShadow wrote:Show nested quote +On February 25 2014 05:45 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:On February 25 2014 05:42 WaveofShadow wrote:
Cheep I'm pretty sure you said you didn't approve of 'Les Mis' earlier last week or something, but as far as it goes, how many people in here could name/sing songs from it or is at least familiar with the musical in some way?
(And on another note do/did you enjoy it) The only actual exposure I've had to Les Mis is watching the film adaptation lol. It was fine but it's not something I would go out of my way to see again. How musically oriented are you? I'm curious. (I feel silly asking an asian this question) Same question to those who answer the earlier question I guess.
my family has a long history of going to see musicals
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does your family have a long history of homosexuality
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On February 25 2014 05:55 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:Show nested quote +On February 25 2014 05:49 WaveofShadow wrote:On February 25 2014 05:45 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:On February 25 2014 05:42 WaveofShadow wrote:
Cheep I'm pretty sure you said you didn't approve of 'Les Mis' earlier last week or something, but as far as it goes, how many people in here could name/sing songs from it or is at least familiar with the musical in some way?
(And on another note do/did you enjoy it) The only actual exposure I've had to Les Mis is watching the film adaptation lol. It was fine but it's not something I would go out of my way to see again. How musically oriented are you? I'm curious. (I feel silly asking an asian this question) Same question to those who answer the earlier question I guess. Really hard question to answer. I played piano (poorly) and violin (mehly), as well as a stint with a clarinet and an oboe that might as well have not existed. I'm an awful singer and practically tone deaf. I never really put the effort into learning music theory (again, related to my terrible pitch and tone abilities), but I'm very familiar with western classical (art) music traditions from an "academic" perspective, and extremely familiar from a music history perspective. For example, I can discuss in great length and detail on the significance of Beethoven's Third Symphony and how the Romantic period practically began with the C-sharp in the seventh measure, but god help me if I need to identify a C-sharp by ear. So I'm simultaneously really good and really bad at music if that makes any sense.
It makes perfect sense, though I wonder if your 'poorly' and 'mehly' are false modesty. What is your point of comparison? Like...what level did you reach in piano or what was the most complicated piece you're capable of playing?
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On February 25 2014 05:49 WaveofShadow wrote:Show nested quote +On February 25 2014 05:45 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:On February 25 2014 05:42 WaveofShadow wrote:
Cheep I'm pretty sure you said you didn't approve of 'Les Mis' earlier last week or something, but as far as it goes, how many people in here could name/sing songs from it or is at least familiar with the musical in some way?
(And on another note do/did you enjoy it) The only actual exposure I've had to Les Mis is watching the film adaptation lol. It was fine but it's not something I would go out of my way to see again. How musically oriented are you? I'm curious. (I feel silly asking an asian this question) Same question to those who answer the earlier question I guess.
I'm incredibly musically oriented, despite the fact that I have absolutely no talent. I sing everything ever at all points in the day and I've played Alto Saxophone for ~5 years now
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Essentially the reason I ask is because our program has a yearly "Skit night' in which each year has 45 minutes to do a variety show of sorts to make fun of profs, show off talents and whatnot.
I wrote a bunch of songs with optometry-related lyrics to Les Mis songs (and not bragging here, but they're pretty awesome) and I'm getting way more resistance to the idea than I expected because apparently people don't know the songs and can't identify with them. (It honestly shouldn't matter much but bleh)
I find it really difficult to believe that so many people in my class don't know the musical at all.
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On February 25 2014 06:02 WaveofShadow wrote:
Essentially the reason I ask is because our program has a yearly "Skit night' in which each year has 45 minutes to do a variety show of sorts to make fun of profs, show off talents and whatnot.
I wrote a bunch of songs with optometry-related lyrics to Les Mis songs (and not bragging here, but they're pretty awesome) and I'm getting way more resistance to the idea than I expected because apparently people don't know the songs and can't identify with them. (It honestly shouldn't matter much but bleh)
I find it really difficult to believe that so many people in my class don't know the musical at all.
that's because musicals are for girls
and dudes that would like to be girls
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On February 25 2014 06:00 GhandiEAGLE wrote:Show nested quote +On February 25 2014 05:49 WaveofShadow wrote:On February 25 2014 05:45 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:On February 25 2014 05:42 WaveofShadow wrote:
Cheep I'm pretty sure you said you didn't approve of 'Les Mis' earlier last week or something, but as far as it goes, how many people in here could name/sing songs from it or is at least familiar with the musical in some way?
(And on another note do/did you enjoy it) The only actual exposure I've had to Les Mis is watching the film adaptation lol. It was fine but it's not something I would go out of my way to see again. How musically oriented are you? I'm curious. (I feel silly asking an asian this question) Same question to those who answer the earlier question I guess. I'm incredibly musically oriented, despite the fact that I have absolutely no talent. I sing everything ever at all points in the day and I've played Alto Saxophone for ~5 years now
I don't if know the juxtaposition of your first and second sentences makes sense. Can you be musically oriented, sing and play alto sax and profess to have no talent? It's kinda similar to what I asked Cheep.
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On February 25 2014 03:26 jcarlsoniv wrote:Show nested quote +On February 25 2014 03:24 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:
5%? of like a ~2500 people school. Seeing numbers like this is just so foreign to me. My high school was ~200 people. My graduating class was 53 people T_T
Wuht. My homeroom was almost as big as your graduating class. 0.o
On February 25 2014 03:35 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:Show nested quote +On February 25 2014 03:30 wei2coolman wrote:On February 25 2014 03:24 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:
5%? of like a ~2500 people school. Then Asian is pretty distinguishing. I was like one of 5 Han Asian at my high school. It didn't feel that distinguishing and it might've been a bit higher than 5%. Definitely under 10% though. Maybe like 7-8. Show nested quote +On February 25 2014 03:29 Nos- wrote:On February 25 2014 03:24 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:
5%? of like a ~2500 people school. Damn my HS had like 2000 people and the percentage was probably close to 70% I was in Boulder, Colorado which is like super white.
Boulder is fucking beautiful.
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On February 25 2014 06:02 Dandel Ion wrote:Show nested quote +On February 25 2014 06:02 WaveofShadow wrote:
Essentially the reason I ask is because our program has a yearly "Skit night' in which each year has 45 minutes to do a variety show of sorts to make fun of profs, show off talents and whatnot.
I wrote a bunch of songs with optometry-related lyrics to Les Mis songs (and not bragging here, but they're pretty awesome) and I'm getting way more resistance to the idea than I expected because apparently people don't know the songs and can't identify with them. (It honestly shouldn't matter much but bleh)
I find it really difficult to believe that so many people in my class don't know the musical at all. that's because musicals are for girls and dudes that would like to be girls
Come at me Johannes.
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On February 25 2014 06:03 WaveofShadow wrote:Show nested quote +On February 25 2014 06:02 Dandel Ion wrote:On February 25 2014 06:02 WaveofShadow wrote:
Essentially the reason I ask is because our program has a yearly "Skit night' in which each year has 45 minutes to do a variety show of sorts to make fun of profs, show off talents and whatnot.
I wrote a bunch of songs with optometry-related lyrics to Les Mis songs (and not bragging here, but they're pretty awesome) and I'm getting way more resistance to the idea than I expected because apparently people don't know the songs and can't identify with them. (It honestly shouldn't matter much but bleh)
I find it really difficult to believe that so many people in my class don't know the musical at all. that's because musicals are for girls and dudes that would like to be girls Come at me Johannes.
says the red-head called ruby
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On February 25 2014 05:42 WaveofShadow wrote:
Cheep I'm pretty sure you said you didn't approve of 'Les Mis' earlier last week or something, but as far as it goes, how many people in here could name/sing songs from it or is at least familiar with the musical in some way?
(And on another note do/did you enjoy it)
I've performed them before. I disliked many aspects of the movie but Russell Crowe's rendition of Stars was perhaps the worst part.
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On February 25 2014 06:03 Gahlo wrote:Show nested quote +On February 25 2014 03:26 jcarlsoniv wrote:On February 25 2014 03:24 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:
5%? of like a ~2500 people school. Seeing numbers like this is just so foreign to me. My high school was ~200 people. My graduating class was 53 people T_T Wuht. My homeroom was almost as big as your graduating class. 0.o
private school
Show nested quote +On February 25 2014 03:35 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:On February 25 2014 03:30 wei2coolman wrote:On February 25 2014 03:24 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:
5%? of like a ~2500 people school. Then Asian is pretty distinguishing. I was like one of 5 Han Asian at my high school. It didn't feel that distinguishing and it might've been a bit higher than 5%. Definitely under 10% though. Maybe like 7-8. On February 25 2014 03:29 Nos- wrote:On February 25 2014 03:24 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:
5%? of like a ~2500 people school. Damn my HS had like 2000 people and the percentage was probably close to 70% I was in Boulder, Colorado which is like super white. Boulder is fucking beautiful.
Confirmed, I was there a couple years ago for a gymnastics meet at Airforce
On February 25 2014 06:02 WaveofShadow wrote:
Essentially the reason I ask is because our program has a yearly "Skit night' in which each year has 45 minutes to do a variety show of sorts to make fun of profs, show off talents and whatnot.
I wrote a bunch of songs with optometry-related lyrics to Les Mis songs (and not bragging here, but they're pretty awesome) and I'm getting way more resistance to the idea than I expected because apparently people don't know the songs and can't identify with them. (It honestly shouldn't matter much but bleh)
I find it really difficult to believe that so many people in my class don't know the musical at all.
*shrug* I've never done theatre, but all 3 of my biological siblings have. It is surprising how few people are familiar with much of the theatre world though.
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On February 25 2014 06:06 MoonBear wrote:Show nested quote +On February 25 2014 05:42 WaveofShadow wrote:
Cheep I'm pretty sure you said you didn't approve of 'Les Mis' earlier last week or something, but as far as it goes, how many people in here could name/sing songs from it or is at least familiar with the musical in some way?
(And on another note do/did you enjoy it) I've performed them before. I disliked many aspects of the movie but Russell Crowe's rendition of Stars was perhaps the worst part.
Please don't remind me of that.
I'm not necessarily referring to the movie when I talk about it, btw, it may just be people's main exposure to the musical. (Jackman did a pretty damn good job imo but nobody compares to Colm Wilkinson)
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Baa?21244 Posts
On February 25 2014 06:00 WaveofShadow wrote:Show nested quote +On February 25 2014 05:55 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:On February 25 2014 05:49 WaveofShadow wrote:On February 25 2014 05:45 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:On February 25 2014 05:42 WaveofShadow wrote:
Cheep I'm pretty sure you said you didn't approve of 'Les Mis' earlier last week or something, but as far as it goes, how many people in here could name/sing songs from it or is at least familiar with the musical in some way?
(And on another note do/did you enjoy it) The only actual exposure I've had to Les Mis is watching the film adaptation lol. It was fine but it's not something I would go out of my way to see again. How musically oriented are you? I'm curious. (I feel silly asking an asian this question) Same question to those who answer the earlier question I guess. Really hard question to answer. I played piano (poorly) and violin (mehly), as well as a stint with a clarinet and an oboe that might as well have not existed. I'm an awful singer and practically tone deaf. I never really put the effort into learning music theory (again, related to my terrible pitch and tone abilities), but I'm very familiar with western classical (art) music traditions from an "academic" perspective, and extremely familiar from a music history perspective. For example, I can discuss in great length and detail on the significance of Beethoven's Third Symphony and how the Romantic period practically began with the C-sharp in the seventh measure, but god help me if I need to identify a C-sharp by ear. So I'm simultaneously really good and really bad at music if that makes any sense. It makes perfect sense, though I wonder if your 'poorly' and 'mehly' are false modesty. What is your point of comparison? Like...what level did you reach in piano or what was the most complicated piece you're capable of playing?
It's not false modesty. I gave up on piano pretty early when I was kid (something I regret). I don't know what level it corresponds to/what system of levels we're talking about (most of the classifications are super silly anyways...), and there's certainly a difference between playing and playing well. I wouldn't say I played any piece well, but to an untrained ear I could reasonably fraud something like most of Pathetique.To a trained ear my Fur Elise still sounds like shit so ~_~
I reached a notably higher level with violin, but I was also very preoccupied with other things while I played and never really committed to it (I also didn't like (still don't) the violin repertoire as much as I liked the piano repertoire), and that notably higher level is only in relation to my abysmal piano, so it doesn't account for much.
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On February 25 2014 06:03 WaveofShadow wrote:Show nested quote +On February 25 2014 06:00 GhandiEAGLE wrote:On February 25 2014 05:49 WaveofShadow wrote:On February 25 2014 05:45 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:On February 25 2014 05:42 WaveofShadow wrote:
Cheep I'm pretty sure you said you didn't approve of 'Les Mis' earlier last week or something, but as far as it goes, how many people in here could name/sing songs from it or is at least familiar with the musical in some way?
(And on another note do/did you enjoy it) The only actual exposure I've had to Les Mis is watching the film adaptation lol. It was fine but it's not something I would go out of my way to see again. How musically oriented are you? I'm curious. (I feel silly asking an asian this question) Same question to those who answer the earlier question I guess. I'm incredibly musically oriented, despite the fact that I have absolutely no talent. I sing everything ever at all points in the day and I've played Alto Saxophone for ~5 years now I don't if know the juxtaposition of your first and second sentences makes sense. Can you be musically oriented, sing and play alto sax and profess to have no talent? It's kinda similar to what I asked Cheep.
Of course I can. I'm using the term "musically oriented" to show that I have a really big passion for it. In the sense that I naturally have aptitude for it, in some areas I really do but in most places, I'm total shit. I'm really good at identifying notes from any instrument and playing them back (transposing, etc. etc.) but my reading and tonal shit hasn't gotten much better in five years.
On February 25 2014 06:08 WaveofShadow wrote:Show nested quote +On February 25 2014 06:06 MoonBear wrote:On February 25 2014 05:42 WaveofShadow wrote:
Cheep I'm pretty sure you said you didn't approve of 'Les Mis' earlier last week or something, but as far as it goes, how many people in here could name/sing songs from it or is at least familiar with the musical in some way?
(And on another note do/did you enjoy it) I've performed them before. I disliked many aspects of the movie but Russell Crowe's rendition of Stars was perhaps the worst part. Please don't remind me of that. I'm not necessarily referring to the movie when I talk about it, btw, it may just be people's main exposure to the musical. (Jackman did a pretty damn good job imo but nobody compares to Colm Wilkinson)
10th Anniversary is undisputably the best performance of Les Miserables, but I think Russel Crowe got a really bad rap, more so than he deserved. Stars wasn't sung unbearably poorly, but it was still awful because he was just singing lyrics instead of really capturing the moral transformation that Javert goes through (something Phillip Quast does beatifully). Other than that though, Russel Crowe is by far the best person to ever act the part of Javert (and I've seen quite a few), and I'd seen the musical enough times to want something different in the movie, which they offered by mostly declining the beautiful melodic tones of Les Mis in favor of a more "unclean" musical performance carried by the acting. That was the job of the movie, and it did it well. Besides, we can't all have a 100 person orchestra and a 150 person chorus behind us in the acoustics of Royal Albert Hall. Just my two cents on that.
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so musicals = gay = girl = bad
but i like girls... and i like gay girls... and musicals...
why are those things bad?
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On February 25 2014 06:09 ComaDose wrote:
so musicals = gay = girl = bad
but i like girls... and i like gay girls... and musicals...
why are those things bad?
It's like Michael Bublé. You don't like Bublé, but the ladies like Bublé. Therefore, you like Bublé.
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On an equally boring topic, has anybody here played Strife the new boba?
If so let's talk about how trash it its
On February 25 2014 06:09 ComaDose wrote:
so musicals = gay = girl = bad
but i like girls... and i like gay girls... and musicals...
why are those things bad?
I follow that exactly until it gets to musicals
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