[vid] Stranger Companies (A Midsummer Night's Dream 2019)

source: A Midsummer Night's Dream - Bridge Theatre and National Theatre 2019
audio: Perfume Genius, "Slip Away"
length: 2.50
download: 298MB on Mediafire
summary: Lo, the transforming power of love.

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This production blew my mind. I was watching it without paying full attention, yeah, Athens is Gilead, Theseus is a jerk, uh-huh, and then I realized that Oberon was speaking Titania's lines. It's so wild to me how flipping a single element makes a play that's extremely familiar--I first read it for English class in seventh or eighth grade, and my high school performed it when I was a sophomore--into something new and rich and strange. And how the staging can create associations or possible connections between Theseus/Oberon and Hippolyta/Titania without ever answering them conclusively. And how queerness, well, saves the world, or at least Athens--which is why I was particularly happy with my choice of a queer artist for the song.

[vid] Odds Are (Star Trek: Lower Decks)

source: Star Trek: Lower Decks
audio: Barenaked Ladies, "Odds Are"
length: 3:04
download: 319MB on MediaFire
summary: The odds are that we will probably be all right. Probably.

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Made for colls as a Festivids treat, and for the vid_bingo 2020 challenge.

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I'm a noted fan of the Star Trek animated shows at this point. At least one person guessed that I would make a Lower Decks vid before go-live and I deny nothing. Lower Decks is great, whether you love TNG or whether you think TNG needs to have the piss taken out of it a bit more often (or both!), and it's a great piece of Star Trek--in fact Lower Decks might have the strongest first season of any Trek series, which is saying quite a lot. I'm very much looking forward to the next season.

Is the dog lip-syncing?

Would a perfectly normal dog do a thing like that?