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omorkaWe went to our local comfy cinema for the matinee showing of Captain Marvel yesterday. I am pleased to announce that it holds to the tradition of the space/cosmic MCU films having excellent soundtracks. In the interest of not spoiling anyone, I will only say that (a) being firmly in the Target Demographic for once was nice, and (b) if you haven't watched Kevin Smith's YouTube video about his reaction to that particular Stan Lee cameo and you can stand Kevin Smith at all, you should - it's an interesting reflection on conversations between creators and their works, and it is also 9 minutes of Kevin Smith trying not to cry on camera and only partially succeeding.
Part of the reason we didn't get around to it earlier in the week was that I decided to do karaoke night at my favorite clean-but-slightly-sleazy karaoke bar on Thursday, as my sort of Spring Break treat for myself. We had a reasonable number of folks show up, at least for a song or two, and the other groups who were also there were enthusiastic and cheering for everyone, in their group or not. (For example, at one point we had a multiethnic group of six or seven women with an age spread from twenties to fifties jamming out on the floor and whooping out the lyrics while a thoroughly drunk thirtysomething gangly white dude did a remarkably competent rendition of "I Will Survive".) I did three of my standards ("I'm a Believer," which I could do in my sleep; "I Touch Myself," which usually gets more of a reaction than it did; and "Human Nature," which was my closer and which had several people on the floor singing along, which was nice) and two stretches. The first stretch was "Free Falling," and I'm pretty sure the version this bar had isn't in the original key, because I know where those notes are and I was having to sing lower than I was expecting.
The second was P!nk's "Who Knew". If you're not familiar with the song, it's a woman looking back on a relationship several years after it ended, reflecting on how something that had felt like forever and ever when it was happening and you were young and dumb could somehow feel so far in the past. The song is ambiguous about whether the relationship ended because they broke up, the other person died, or both (presumably in that order) - it's entirely possible to read it as the dude promised her forever and then split, but there's a hint in the last chorus that maybe something more permanent happened. The video leans a little harder into that second interpretation, with the imagery suggesting that the dude didn't just leave after their last argument. I still usually hear it the first way, and that was what I was thinking when I turned it in to the KJ - for me, it's usually a song about the Imzadi. Then right around the last chorus, the song decided that the second interpretation was correct and it was going to be about SDK instead - and my voice broke. I managed not to start crying, but let's just say I did not do P!nk proud on that final refrain.
Ah, well. If Kevin Smith couldn't keep it together about his dead friend on camera either, I'm not going to beat myself up about it.
Part of the reason we didn't get around to it earlier in the week was that I decided to do karaoke night at my favorite clean-but-slightly-sleazy karaoke bar on Thursday, as my sort of Spring Break treat for myself. We had a reasonable number of folks show up, at least for a song or two, and the other groups who were also there were enthusiastic and cheering for everyone, in their group or not. (For example, at one point we had a multiethnic group of six or seven women with an age spread from twenties to fifties jamming out on the floor and whooping out the lyrics while a thoroughly drunk thirtysomething gangly white dude did a remarkably competent rendition of "I Will Survive".) I did three of my standards ("I'm a Believer," which I could do in my sleep; "I Touch Myself," which usually gets more of a reaction than it did; and "Human Nature," which was my closer and which had several people on the floor singing along, which was nice) and two stretches. The first stretch was "Free Falling," and I'm pretty sure the version this bar had isn't in the original key, because I know where those notes are and I was having to sing lower than I was expecting.
The second was P!nk's "Who Knew". If you're not familiar with the song, it's a woman looking back on a relationship several years after it ended, reflecting on how something that had felt like forever and ever when it was happening and you were young and dumb could somehow feel so far in the past. The song is ambiguous about whether the relationship ended because they broke up, the other person died, or both (presumably in that order) - it's entirely possible to read it as the dude promised her forever and then split, but there's a hint in the last chorus that maybe something more permanent happened. The video leans a little harder into that second interpretation, with the imagery suggesting that the dude didn't just leave after their last argument. I still usually hear it the first way, and that was what I was thinking when I turned it in to the KJ - for me, it's usually a song about the Imzadi. Then right around the last chorus, the song decided that the second interpretation was correct and it was going to be about SDK instead - and my voice broke. I managed not to start crying, but let's just say I did not do P!nk proud on that final refrain.
Ah, well. If Kevin Smith couldn't keep it together about his dead friend on camera either, I'm not going to beat myself up about it.
