It's a magical world

 

I actually had planned to make this vid using a different Kim Boekbinder song (if this one sounds familiar, it was the Radio segment music in an episode of Welcome to Night Vale many years ago). But when I was hurriedly throwing the project together I didn't go back to check my vid playlist, and I got about a third of the way through before I realized I'd meant to use another one from the album. But by then I realized that this song was better, and kept at it.

 

I originally planned to do more of both seasons, but clipping was a nightmare for weird technical reasons, and I realized that I could concentrate on S2 to take a different angle than the few other Prodigy vids I've seen. I'm really happy with how it turned out, and that so many people have liked it. Happy Festivids, and LLAP.

source: Star Wars (prequels, The Clone Wars, Obi-Wan Kenobi, A New Hope)

 

I saw Hadestown at the NYTW in the summer of 2016 and loved it; I saw it on Broadway two years later and honestly didn't love it quite as much. It's still excellent and incredibly moving, but the flashy money sets and above all what they did to the Hermes role when they cast Andre de Shields left me a little cold. Andre de Shields is great, but I don't think he's actually good as Hermes and I do think he was a stunt casting to bring in the punters. Which is a fair choice, but I liked Hermes much better the first time around.

Which is why this is the version of the cast album I have, and though I thought about trying to find a completely different song for this vid, in the end the gravitational pull of the show was too hard to resist and I didn't really try. I wondered whether the contrast between going down to Hades in the song and trying to get up and out in the game would be too much, but people seem to have dealt with that just fine. I was also influenced by this essay from Amal el-Mohtar on the resonances between the show and the game, which I was not very good at playing initially but which I was obsessed with anyway. I picked it up again after making the vid and there are still new lines after getting the secret ending! And I still haven't unlocked all the Erebus content.

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