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LAUFEY. WHAT

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imagine you get autoplayed a video of an orchestra performing ein heldenleben and you play it, expecting it to be just another performance you can put on in the background while you wash dishes.

so it starts off normal, with the cursory tasteful close-ups of musicians and instruments. then they pull out to show the full orchestra:

but soft, what vision breaks in the upper right corner of the screen? it's a second orchestra, and soon it is joined by a third, until what looks like three alien ships are descending upon your screen:

and then there comes this. i don't even think i could describe it. here you go.

it continues in this vein, interspersing split-screen live conductor reactions:

THEN PERISH:

the first violins glowing, for whatever reason:

whatever this is:

and the camera operator not knowing what to focus on and settling on the warped reflection of a brass player in one of their colleagues' instruments:

at last, at the climax, the conductor appears in the sky like mufasa:

at the very last, the audience is left with this parting gift from the editor and cinematographer:

leaving you, your dishes totally forgotten, and your stomach aching from how hard you are laughing in your empty apartment.

bon appétit.

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do you ever find an orchestral recording on youtube that has so many odd choices in editing and cinematography that you forget all your dishes and laugh the hardest you ever have in weeks

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William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

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jumpscared some researchers in our collaborators’ lab when i told them i was a graduate student 😭 they fully thought i was an undergrad 😭😭

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yearning for tita conductor (she’s busy enough)(i have shit to do as well)(i don’t want to risk having emotions around her like i had in front of ate doctoraladvisor and ate dean)(but bestie is here for the first time in a month and the next time she’ll be here is in. another month.)

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thought ate doctoraladvisor wasn’t in her office yet bc i thought her light wasn’t on and was sort of waiting outside her door and suddenly i could hear her moving around inside. and just as i thought “she’s going to open the door directly on me and get startled” she opened the door with her tea infuser and little bowl in hand, saw me about to knock, jumped, and screamed

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too tired to eat but i know i have to put something in my stomach so here i have been for almost twenty minutes trying to summon the energy to put toppings on my leftover oatmeal and make my green tea

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tagged by @natural-blogarithm :))

last song: bakit labis kitang mahal (lea salonga version)

last book: reread the sherlock holmes short stories bc i’m working my way through the granada holmes adaptation and it reawakened my love for the stories

last movie: conclave lmao

last tv show: granada holmes (just wrapping up the return of sherlock holmes

favourite colours: blue-grey, any shade of blue, and the blue shades of purple

spicy, sweet or savoury: sweet

current obsession: knitting my first cardigan #myfirstcardigan

last search: the meaning of the word “promulgate” (which is not as widely applicable as i had initially thought)

looking forward to: my three days off apart from labor day i got in september. although one of them i will be moving into a new apartment which is always rough. but im looking forward to that apartment bc if all goes well it’ll be my last one for the rest of my phd so i can make it my own a bit. and of course starting up music ensembles again. i think not having my music ensembles is a reason im not coping well rn which is embarrassing to say but its true

tagging: @sircarolyn, @supercantaloupe, @polaraaace, @orthoceras, and @strollingsquid if you want to :)

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“This is what they took from you” and it’s a blonde family cooking barbecue in the suburbs? Brother you are racist and fascist over hot dogs? You know you can still do that. Also if you befriend other ethnicities, they will bring cool other food to the potluck. Stupid ass

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my emotional state may be unraveling but this cardigan isn’t! 🗣️🗣️

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i am STILL mystified by how not only did my uncle (1) end up in the same place as cardinal tagle but also (2) it was the cardinal’s actual house (3) they casually said Mass also in his house (4) the cardinal’s family was there too in his house (5) dude like my uncle met and talked with and spent time with cardinal tagle. for what. how did this come about. what is my uncle, whom i have sometimes looked at and thought enviously that i could make a better priest if i had been born a man, cooking

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YOUR EMAIL FINDS ME ON THE FIELD OF BATTLE

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if you have a popular post on this site inevitably people will tag it with something like “croggles to bringles when they lost the ploogie in ep 10” and it rules. i have no idea what you’re talking about but you’re right this IS so croggles to bringles when they lost the ploogie in episode 10.

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people love to find progressive ways to say we should all be arranged into separate groups and try our hardest to not relate to one another

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The New American Gothic (2017) by Criselda Vasquez