Note: If this is your first time to TotalFluff, please visit this brief explanation. Thanks!
Greetings, readers!
I am continuing the series on “Less Common Songs for the Season.” Today’s is another non-English song: Noel Nouvelet. I discovered this one last year, actually, and it has become one of my favorite less common seasonal songs to listen to nearly repeatedly.
There are two versions I am sharing today; they each have their own, separate feel.
The first is slightly slower, more mysterious, and beautifully haunting:
Note: If this is your first time to TotalFluff, please visit this brief explanation. Thanks!
Greetings, readers.
I know it is normally bad form to interrupt a series after only a single day of it. However, this is absolutely worth it. Trust me.
A favorite music group of mine (Two Steps from Hell) released a Christmas Medley recently. (About two weeks ago, to be precise.) Thus, it is worth sharing.
It is made of more common songs. However, it is one of the best Christmas Medleys I have ever heard. (Possibly in part because they do not include “Silent Night.”)
I especially appreciate what they did with “O Holy Night.”
Note: If this is your first time to TotalFluff, please visit this brief explanation. Thanks!
Greetings, readers!
Now it is in the Christmas Season. Therefore, music recommendations are permissible.
To start off with, there is a beautiful King’s Singers version of Gaudete. What may make it even better for you is that it is not in English. Thus, for those of you who cannot work while English-lyric pieces are playing, you can still play this in the background.
Note: If this is your first time to TotalFluff, please visit this brief explanation. Thanks!
Greetings, readers.
I think I may be obligated to inform you that there is a new Marvel trailer out.
It is for the upcoming Captain America: Civil War movie.
The video is below.
I am not particularly thrilled about this. It looks like it will once again be a ham-handed political commentary that most people will not even recognize, per usual with the Captain America movies.
Take “Winter SOldier”, for example. That was clearly a discussion of the tradeoffs between moderate Liberal Internationalism, and over-the-top, taken-to-its-extremes to the point of almost being a Straw Man representation of International Realism. (In case you could not tell, I found that movie annoying. However, I have only seen it once. It is possible that it is not as bad (philosophically speaking) as I am remembering.)
Thus, my obligatory presentation of the trailer. I am not especially excited for this movie; I expect that there will once more be unfair, ham-handed misrepresentations of political theory for the purpose of exploring Hollywood’s philosophical preferences. Worse, people are going to love it.
Note: If this is your first time to TotalFluff, please visit this brief explanation. Thanks!
Hiya, Fluffsters!
So, I encountered the Star Wars 7 “TV Spot” the other day. And it’s really creepy.
I mean, LISTEN TO IT!!!
“I’ve lived long enough to see the same eyes in different people”? Are eye-transplants that common where the narrator’s from? Like, is she advertising a new technology? “New today! Sign up to be an EYE DONOR!”
Yeah. I’m not entirely sure what Disney was doing with THAT one.
Note: If this is your first time to TotalFluff, please visit this brief explanation. Thanks!
Hiya, Fluffsters!
So, apparently there was some sort of music award yesterday or something. I’m not sure what the occasion was. But, The Pentatonix (a fairly famous singing-group) ended up being featured for a Star Wars Tribute piece. And it was well done!
Note: If this is your first time to TotalFluff, please visit this brief explanation. Thanks!
Hiya, Fluffsters!
So, this is what I’m listening to while writing this. I love this piece. I’m fairly sure it’s been shared before on this blog, but it’s always worth re-listening to. So, enjoy! And have a lovely weekend.
Note: If this is your first time to TotalFluff, please visit this brief explanation. Thanks!
Hi, Fluffsters!
So. I have some disturbing news for you. Apparently, there are vegetables among us who desire to spook some of our furred companions. Furthermore, they are apparently incredibly stealthy.
Note: If this is your first time to TotalFluff, please visit this brief explanation. Thanks!
Hiya, Fluffsters!
So, I’ve been needing to walk places early in the morning. Yesterday, I remembered about a newish favorite I discovered a couple years ago. It’s from the Tolkien Ensemble. And it’s a delightful walking song.
Note: If this is your first time to TotalFluff, please visit this brief explanation. Thanks!
Hiya, Fluffsters!
So, I know this is a tiny bit either early or late for starting a Halloweenseries. But I was just chatting with a friend, and some music came up, and I remembered it’s absolutely perfect for Halloween.
It’s based off of the original Dies Irae Plainchant Theme.
(The video below is a bit long. You don’t need to hear all of it to get a feel for it.)
So, the words are basically “Day of Judgement, Day of Wrath” in Latin. That right there makes it a haunting refrain. And then a lot of people use it in their music.
Another is Rachmoninoff’s Variation on a Theme by Paginini. This one also doesn’t bring in the Dies Irae theme until a few minutes in. I’ve theoretically copied the YouTube time for where it actually starts. (You should listen to the entire piece, though, since it’s gorgeous. And haunting. So, yeah.)
So, yup. Here’s approximately the next location in the piece where the theme comes up. Seriously. It’s a recurring theme. I love it.
I may include more music for Halloween as it becomes relevant. But this will do for right now. And besides, I’ve got the looming terror of the 1,000th post coming up… I’m definitely going to be haunted by how little I do for it…
So, happy 997th post, and happy 9 days until Halloween! And Happy Thursday. Just to give you too many cheerful greetings and all. Because those can be scary. So, yeah. Have a great day.
