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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: I just wanna know.........
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on: September 01, 2018, 05:14:24 PM
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Scene setup in this clip shows they are really going for the correct look. I do think ‘Dennis’ will be little more than a bit player in the movie, but still worth seeing. https://youtu.be/N9V4ZGrvkzwThat's pretty cool. Recently I wondered if they could use actual footage of some city taken in the 60's or 70's or whatever era they want to set a movie in, and superimpose the actors into the footage using computer graphics? The video that gave me the idea was this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zk0eyKzp1cIt's such good quality footage it made me think you could use it (and I think it's public domain) and make a movie set in London in 1967, and simply superimpose the actors over that background.
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Mike Nesmith Reveals Quadruple-bypass Surgery - Still Plans to Tour In September
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on: August 01, 2018, 03:37:34 PM
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Come to think of it, Elton John recently announced he'd be retiring from touring after his last tour this year. But your "typical" person his age would have done that, like, at least 5 years ago, maybe 10. I think Paul Simon has said something similar. I can see somebody in their 60's doing some concerts, but unless you're in really good shape I'd think 70's is really stretching it. I can see doing some creative work at that age, but touring is pretty strenuous. Anyway, not to say these guys are crazy (though ... maybe they are ) and I wish them luck, but one can't help but wonder if touring while in your 70's might not be optimal for one's health?
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Non Smiley Smile Stuff / General Music Discussion / Re: I Hear A Symphony: A
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on: July 23, 2018, 03:41:08 PM
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I finally finished the last of them yesterday! As I said, they're all nice, but they're VERY repetitive. I suppose that's going to happen when you write 104 symphonies. Only about a dozen of them are worth listening to more than once. Also, you could tell in the last 10-20 of them he started getting a little more adventurous, and dabbling into some of the then-new Romanticism. But I am pretty sure if you asked him near the end of his life if he could remember every one of those symphonies, he would probably say no. At work, a big chunk of my job is to do this really tedious stuff processing real estate transfer deeds and as a result I can listen to A LOT of music while I do that. I've found that music with vocals is a bit distracting, but instrumental music, such as classical, is perfect.
Recently while doing this, I decided to listen to all 104 of Hayden's symphonies on Youtube. I started with #1 and am going in order. I just finished #51 (I think) today. Almost halfway through.
My review of them is, while they're all very nice, they all sound very similar - almost to the point where they're getting a bit tedious. But I'm going to insist to myself that I finish them all, just ... because. I can easily imagine Mr. Haydn, at the end of his career, likely unable to recall all of the symphonies he wrote, it almost seems like these authors who churn out volumes and volumes of pulp fiction stories to the point where they all seem to run into each other and you can't really tell them apart (even if they're entertaining).
Update to my comment about Hayden symphonies. As I said, due to what I do at work, I get to listen to A LOT of music. I've mostly been listening to Romantic-era symphonies, plus a bit of Baroque and Modern stuff. In the past few months I think I've listened to several dozen Romantic-era symphonies. And to expand upon what I said about Hayden, after you listen to a bunch of them, they all start to run into each other and sound about the same, even though they're different composers. It's made me start to ponder the nature of creativity, and art in general, and why artists move on to new stuff, to the point where they delve into increasingly marginal stuff (that is, stuff that's bound to be less popular and sound increasingly awkward). Today, after listening to the first 6 symphonies from ... I forget his name ... it made me wonder if someday art in general - at least the creation of new art - is someday going to "die" simply because it's become increasingly difficult to create things that doesn't sound like something that's already been written (actually, I've pondered that many times over the past several years, but I digress). Is art of all kinds someday going to be replaced by ... I don't know what? It's either that, or artists will increasingly be faced with the choice of creating things that are similar to stuff that's already been done, or do increasingly bizarre stuff that will have limited appeal. Merzbow becomes increasingly understandable. But then, what happens after several hundred artists have created Merzbow-style music? Probably off-topic, but a philosophical question to ponder. I think you have to listen to about 50 Romantic-era symphonies (or, 50 High-Classical era symphonies, or 50 ....) to really get what I'm saying. After a while the repetition becomes impossible to escape, even among artists who are "different" from one another.
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