Comments | mundungus42: Okay then.

mundungus42

Okay then.

Sep 20, 2018 14:53

I'm using my adorable Owly and Wormy icon because I need a bit of sweetness in my life right now, because the news has been abysmal this week.

Partially because of that, Mr. 42 and I finally started watching The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel last night, and it is absolutely brilliant: phenomenal writing, superb cast, sharp direction, sumptuous production ( Read more... )

singing, aspl, anniversary

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gelsey September 20 2018, 22:43:51 UTC

Hugs and love

mundungus42 September 20 2018, 22:44:28 UTC

Right back atcha! *smooch*

too_dle_oo September 21 2018, 03:22:29 UTC

Ooh! I haven't jumped aboard either the Mrs. Maisel or the Children of Blood and Bone trains yet, although I heard excellent things about them both. (To be fair, I've heard only glowing things about Maisel and a mix on Adeyemi, but I wasn't sure if complaints about her world-building were going to be answered in the next book, you know?)

I have, however, recently begun working through Bojack Horseman, and I can't believe how funny and dark and brilliant it is. It might be one of the best shows currently out there, and it's a cartoon.

I hope your choral rehearsal was as lovely as mine was! We worked through this gem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9zgq5qrNGw

mundungus42 September 21 2018, 16:27:26 UTC

Ooo, thank you for the Bojack Horseman rec--I'd been eyeing that with curiosity. Mrs. Maisel is AWESOME. It's rare that I rec something after only seeing a few episodes, but everything about it is top-notch. It's like intersectional feminist Mad Men, only hilarious instead of suburban gothic and about stand-up comedy in the instead of advertising. And with much NY Jewishness in absolutely glorious ways. I can't say enough great things about it, it's one of the best things I've seen since Breaking Bad.

OMG we are also doing Stanford's Beati, and I LOVE IT SO SO SO MUCH!! And that Voces8 recording is just glorious! Master Chorale did it a couple of seasons ago, so those of us who are/were in both choirs (six of us at last count), plus those who had sung it before, mean that it's progressing nicely.

Speaking of glorious anthems, I'm eyeing Harris's a cappella double-choir motet Faire is the Heaven, which my church's section leaders are singing with another church's section leaders on Michelmas, with some trepidation, as this is only ( ... )

too_dle_oo September 21 2018, 16:52:04 UTC

Full-on warning with Bojack Horseman: it's in a similar vein to Mad Men, and to a lesser extent, Breaking Bad. Just in an heightened world where animals and people coexist, but otherwise history is what history really is (i.e., there's a whole sequence about Secretariat and Nixon and Checkers but Checkers is a TALKING DOG). It's also rapid fire humor, quick verbal stuff, visual jokes, and a lot of horrible/delightful animal puns. When it gets dark, though, it gets really dark. It's also got the best cast of characters and voice actors I've ever seen (including many celebs playing versions of themselves, like "Character Actor Margo Martindale" who is batshit crazy in this show); it's deeply critical of Hollywood, fame, institutional problems; and it explores depression and self-sabotage in ways that, again, you'd never expect a cartoon to do. It's slow out of the gate, though, and the first season suffers a bit from world-building. (Rotten Tomatoes has the first five seasons at 67%, 100%, 100%, 98%, and 100 ( ... )

mundungus42 September 21 2018, 17:16:18 UTC

I'm down with any world where women actually have a voice!

Mrs. Maisel is literally all about a woman finding her voice. *rubs hands together gleefully* I think you're going to enjoy it as much as I am.

I don't mind dark, but it does need lightness for contrast, and it sounds like Bojack Horseman has plenty of that. Noted that the first season is slow to start. <3 ( ... )