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colchrishadfield:

For fun this Canada Day, my brother and I set out to make the most Canadian music video ever. How’d we do?

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#our home and cherished land #music #good old Chris Hadfield #my family doesn’t own any Canadian Tire money #though we do have a Tim Hortons donut hole #(…we’ve had that donut hole since our Yay Citizenship party two months ago) #(we really should get rid of it) #(but *not* on a day of the week where it would fall to me to wash the container we put it in) #(if Mom really wants to keep that disposable container she can wash it herself)

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(tagged by cakehorse)

YOU CAN TELL A LOT ABOUT SOMEONE BY THE TYPE OF MUSIC THEY LISTEN TO. HIT SHUFFLE ON YOUR IPOD, PHONE, ITUNES, MEDIA PLAYER ETC AND WRITE DOWN THE FIRST 20 SONGS. THEN PASS THIS ON TO 10 PEOPLE. ONE RULE: NO SKIPPING.

(I’ll copy the format she used.)

1. “Real Tears” || Stevie Nicks || Two Kinds of Love

2. “Some Become Strangers” || Stevie Nicks || Rock a Little

3. “Circle of Life” || Elton John || Elton John’s Greatest Hits

4. “Let the Wind Erase Me” || Assemblage 23 || Storm

5. “What the Water Gave Me” || Florence and the Machine || Ceremonials

6. “Half a Mile Away” || Billy Joel || 52nd Street

7. “I’m Not Calling You a Liar” || Florence and the Machine || Lungs

8. “Clockwork” || Turn Left || Void Stuff

9. “Mordred’s Lullaby” || Heather Dale || Avalon

10. “Storm Front” || Billy Joel || Storm Front

11. “I Missed Again” || Phil Collins || Face Value

12. “No Way Out” || Phil Collins || Brother Bear

13. “Cry Wolf” || Stevie Nicks || The Other Side of the Mirror

14. “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” || Stevie Nicks || Bella Donna

15. “Dust” || Cara Salimando || Dust

16. “Human” || Assemblage 23 || Storm

17. “That’s What You Said” || Phil Collins || Dance into the Light

18. “Journey’s End” || Chameleon Circuit || Chameleon Circuit

19. “You’ll Be in My Heart” || Phil Collins || Tarzan

20. “Another Record” || Genesis || Abacab

I suppose I’ll go with the same people as last time: eponymous-rose, cosmic-llin, shayvaalski. And there’s always sort-of-tagging.

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#oh look an original post #eponymous rose #cosmic llin #shayvaalski #there’s a distinct lack of Fleetwood Mac #but other than that it looks decently representative #meme #music

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the-andorian-mining-consortium:

vortisaurus:

(the entire exchange, preserved for posterity)

(I don’t know if anyone cares to tell me if the Klingon is correct or not?)

Some of the words are correct, but the grammar and usage is all off. The passages above look like straight, word-for-word translations from English, which would come out as nonsense if you said it to a Klingon. XD

Here’s a slightly more accurate translation, but I had to shift things around quite a bit to make it work, and it comes out as an entirely different song! But here it is:

yuQDaq wIpawDI’
‘ej HovDaq mayIt
Dochmey DIlegh
Dochmey law’!
reH poH’e’ DIvangbe’laHtaH!

Doch’e’mey law’. 
Doch’e’mey DIyajbe’leH
DItu’be’
chalDaq Hov Sal ach
Doch’e’mey DochSuSmey je
gho boghtaH
poH’e’

It does change the meaning of the words, since some of what’s expressed in the original doesn’t really translate in the same way to Klingonese. This is a rough translation back to English:

When we arrive on the planet
And walk into the star
We see things
Many things!
We can not continue to talk action forever!

Many huge things.
Huge things we cannot understand.
We cannot find them
But into the sky the star rises high
Big things and small things
The circle is born and continues
Forever.

And Circle of Life I suppose would be “gho yInmeH” – circle for living. You could say “yIn gho” (life’s circle) but it’s not very clear what is meant as it could be also interpretated as “the circle is alive”.

gho yInmeH
Hoch SeH
Hoch ‘IQ, hoch tul, hoch voq je
bang

maHmeH  wItu’eghtaH voghDaq
HeDaq wIleng
He Qatlh
gho yInmeH
gho yInmeH

Circle for living
It controls everyone and everything
Everyone is sad, everyone has hope, everyone has faith,
The ones who are loved

We continue to find somewhere for ourselves
On the route we travel
The route is difficult
The circle for living
The circle for living

Someone else could probably do a better job of this than me, but that’s as close as I can get!

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#oh dear Kahless #Star Trek #language #awesome

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fabledquill:

I cannot be the first person to notice that Gotye looks a ton like the Eighth Doctor.

BUT YOU DIDN’T HAVE TO SHOOOOOOOOT ME UUUUUUUP

MAKE IT LIKE IT NEVER HAPPENED AND THAT I ALWAYS LOOKED LIKE A STEAMPUNK

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#Doctor Who #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog

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sophiagratia:

first contact day: making self-respecting trekkies listen to steppenwolf on purpose since 1996 or 2063 depending on how you count

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#Star Trek #First Contact Day #yes this #turns out ‘Magic Carpet Ride’ is one of those songs that sounds much better half-heard on grocery store radio #than on Youtube where you can hear all of it and are paying full attention #(same with ‘Kiss from a Rose’) #(I found that one out recently and was disappointed) #you don’t know what #we can seeeee

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{{broken audio, but you can get the same experience from any source of “Never Gonna Give You Up”}}

princenscout:

christinefuckingchapel:

throwbacksongs:

Rick Astley – Never Gonna Give You Up

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#is this a rick roll? an anti rick roll???#have we broken the rules of logic by actually posting this legitimately?????? (via)

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#April Fools #legitimate Rick Astley #(it genuinely is Never Gonna Give You Up) #(all the way through) #(I checked) #oh why not #I already had this stuck in my head for the occasion #(though I haven’t (yet) encountered any RickRolls this year) #(not even ones that made me suspicious beforehand)

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justice-turtle:

sometimes-cats:

Bohemian Rhapsody is no one’s favorite song, but also everyone’s favorite song. Like, when someone asks what your favorite song is you never say Bohemian Rhapsody but when it starts playing on the radio I am pretty sure you crank it up and belt out every single lyric and you don’t even care you’re so proud.

I’ve, uh. Never heard Bohemian Rhapsody.

(That’s a Queen song, right? The one everybody quotes almost as much as The Princess Bride, that starts with “I see a little silhouetto of a man, scaramouche, scaramouche, will you do the fandango”?)

…possibly I should remedy that at some point. Forget Steve Rogers, I need a remedial course in 20th-century pop music. ;S

I’ve listened to a lot of those “60s-70s-80s” radio stations over the years*, and I don’t think I’ve ever heard “Bohemian Rhapsody” on the radio. The first time I heard the song was at seventeen when we were sharing music at Girl Guide camp, and once more on Youtube since then. I don’t know most of the words and it almost never comes up that I don’t know most of the words. (I am aware of its reputation, but almost all the quoting I’ve encountered takes place on the Internet, where people don’t notice you not joining in.)

*They’d probably make for a decent remedial course, too. After a while you start to notice which songs tend to come up. Soon you too can make “Don’t Stop Believing” jokes when a train goes by the tracks within earshot of your house every night at midnight.

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#music #reply via reblog #of course the radio method wouldn’t work so well for people who don’t *like* 20th-century pop music #who just want to get in get the references and get out #don’t know how to help you if that’s the case

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slepaulica:

brin-bellway:

slepaulica:

Synaesthesia conversation!

To me this song is predominantly Slate blue, Dark Slate blue, with highlights of periwinkle. There are some midnight blue and indigo parts. Your synaesthesia might be showing you different colours. that’s okay! reply by showing me a song that has similar colours to this one (so if you see this as yellow, show me another yellow song). Your song can be any genre of music as long as the colours look similar to you. and then i will reply with a different song that has similar colours to what you showed me. and we can talk to each other with music.

if you see movement instead of colour then give me a song with similar movement. (i see movement too, but colour is easier for me to describe in words) if you smell something, then give me a song with a similar scent. so equal opportunity, any kind of music related synaesthesia welcome.

colour chart here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_colors

This was a tough one. It’s not very strongly coloured, and it’s hard to find the right mix of grey and brown.

This isn’t quite right, but I had to settle.

:)

Phil Collins voice has a lot of bronze in it, yeah. I had to listen to it a few times, the one you picked isn’t very strongly coloured for me, but i can hear the grey like raindrops in parts of it. and in some ways the movement is similar to my song in parts.

I reply with Cowboy Mouth – Jenny Says because of those grey polka dots and because there’s some browns in the chorus, not quite the same as your song, but i think it matches it or complements it, and they both have some bits of yellow. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEfpoUuKFOY

Black with grey stripes. (Somewhat less stripe-shaped in that one.)

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#synesthesia #music #reply via reblog

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slepaulica:

Synaesthesia conversation!

To me this song is predominantly Slate blue, Dark Slate blue, with highlights of periwinkle. There are some midnight blue and indigo parts. Your synaesthesia might be showing you different colours. that’s okay! reply by showing me a song that has similar colours to this one (so if you see this as yellow, show me another yellow song). Your song can be any genre of music as long as the colours look similar to you. and then i will reply with a different song that has similar colours to what you showed me. and we can talk to each other with music.

if you see movement instead of colour then give me a song with similar movement. (i see movement too, but colour is easier for me to describe in words) if you smell something, then give me a song with a similar scent. so equal opportunity, any kind of music related synaesthesia welcome.

colour chart here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_colors

This was a tough one. It’s not very strongly coloured, and it’s hard to find the right mix of grey and brown.

This isn’t quite right, but I had to settle.

Tags:

#synesthesia #reply via reblog

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