Mad World

Stille Wasser gründen tief, tiefe Wasser sind nicht still. Ace | grundlegend verwirrt | Tagträumer

[abcd-epik]

my encounter with a lost deer in an underground passageway , Nara - Japan. by firreflly

[cocainejuul]

This is how I feel everyday of my life

[tadhannahj]

I think I've seen this film before and I didn't like the ending

[horseimagebarn]

horse whose hooves are stuck individually in different colored buckets the horse seems a bit surprised but unbothered the sign of a well mannered yet perhaps empty minded horse or perhaps this is all a goof of the horses own design

[saul-tortellini]

[hamletthedane]

100% Disagree

It’s an underdog story about classism in which the folk hero (Johnny) is confronted by a powerful man (the Devil) who tries to exploit the hero’s perceived ignorance and inferiority by offering a great reward with impossible odds. Although Johnny warns him that looks can be deceiving, and that he’s going to regret the dare because Johnny is the “best there’s ever been”, the devil is blinded by his greed and arrogance.

The devil creates an awful cacophony of technically excellent fiddle playing that would be impossible for Johnny to replicate. It’s a trick.

But Johnny just grins at him and starts to play “simple” classic country fiddling songs - Fire On The Mountain, House Of The Rising Sun, and Daddy Cut Her Bill Off. He doesn’t rise to beat the Devil - he simply creates his own music from his home, in the style that he knows, and his love of it and the familiarity of the music make his “backwoods” fiddling more perfect than the Devil could ever achieve.

It is thus the devil’s pride, not Johnny’s, that allows Johnny to Bugs Bunny his way into a golden fiddle.

(In that sense, I do agree that it is the most American song: in a land of prejudice and inequities, great power lies - dormant but ever-present - in those we underestimate and attempt to exploit.)

[cumaeansibyl]

Also people initially react to the devil's part like "holy shit that's badass" because he's got electric guitar and bass and a whole backing band to make him sound good. Of course he sounds amazing. But if you drill down to the actual fiddling -- and this is straight from Charlie Daniels -- it's not as technically difficult as what Johnny does. It's fast? But it's mostly just going up and down scales.

Here's a good performance -- the devil's part starts around 2:00. Check out how long Daniels just stands there holding his fiddle while the guitar and piano carry the weight. I love that piano bassline but fiddling it ain't.

It's still an American narrative: if you can afford to hire a bunch of more talented people, you, too, can look like a genius. Doesn't make you one.

[emilybeemartin]

I saw a post saying that Boromir looked too scruffy in FotR for a Captain of Gondor, and I tried to move on, but I’m hyperfixating. Has anyone ever solo backpacked? I have. By the end, not only did I look like shit, but by day two I was talking to myself. On another occasion I did fourteen days’ backcountry as the lone woman in a group of twelve men, no showers, no deodorant, and brother, by the end of that we were all EXTREMELY feral. You think we looked like heirs to the throne of anywhere? We were thirteen wolverines in ripstop.

My boy Boromir? Spent FOUR MONTHS in the wilderness! Alone! No roads! High floods! His horse died! I’m amazed he showed up to Imladris wearing clothes, let alone with a decent haircut. I’m fully convinced that he left Gondor looking like Richard Sharpe being presented to the Prince Regent in 1813

*electric guitar riff*

And then rocked up to Imladris a hundred ten days later like

[armavnd]

*smooches the casting director* you found him. you found the man.

[sketchy-scribs-n-doods]

the four horsemen of Queer Agony

[neilcfreak-deactivated20240223]

[skzoolandia]

Same Lee Know, Same

[incorrectskzquotes]

Chan: Stop doing what your friends are doing! If Jisung and Hyunjin jumped off a cliff, would you jump too?

Minho: If they jumped, I was probably the first to jump.

Chan:

Minho: I’m no follower, I’m a leader.

[incorrect-straykz]

hyunjin: girls are so hot

hyunjin: guys are hot too

hyunjin: why is everyone so hot?

seungmin: global warming

[sexyleon]

I can’t stop thinking about Chan’s bed bugs, like it’s so objectively funny

First you have a man who spends like a third of his career travelling and staying in hotels and he GENUINELY doesn’t know bed bugs are real

And that man is Australian so his concept of bugs is extremely warped

LIKE HE SEES THE BUG IN HIS BED????? And just????? Flicks it off and can’t be bothered????

Well, he’s bothered enough to inform the front desk of the hotel. Who then. Proceed. To hear there is a bug. In a bed. At a hotel. AND IGNORE IT

And this man SLEEPS NAKED so he got ATE THE FUCK UP

So bad that for his next two concerts, he cannot show half his body cause he is covered in evil little bites

Like part of his infamous choreography is showing the crowd his abs, and two whole shows didn’t get to see it because A BUG

AND EVEN MORE FUNNY. The crowd legitimately thought he wasn’t doing that “sexy” choreography because his BOSS was in the audience

BUT NO. IT WAS. FUCKIN BUGS.

He then proceeded to boil his very expensive clothes and ruin some of them :’)

Iconic, Stay never let him live this down

[incorrectskzquotes]

Hyunjin: your eyes are blood shot have you been doing drugs!

Felix: no sadly just a small mental breakdown

[incorrectskzquotes]

Chan: ugh that's it your gonna get it you better start working or I swear I will beat your a-

Jisung: no no no wait stop. I'm baby

Chan: what?

Changbin: you heard him hes baby!

[incorrect-staytiny]

Minho: it’s not illegal though

Bang Chan: [stares into Minho’s room, which is full of cats]

Bang Chan: it’s just..there’s so many..

Minho: but it’s not illegal

[incorrectskzquotes]

Seungmin: You like Jisung?

Hyunjin: yes. Thoughts?

Seungmin: and prayers, dude what the fuck

[incorrectskzquotes]

Changbin, struggling to keep upright in 1 inch heels: Yeah, I-I don’t really think heels are for me.

Seungmin, walking flawlessly in sparkly golden 6 inch heels: WEAK.

[incorrectskzquotes]

Felix: Bottling up negative emotions is bad for your health, so you shouldn't do it.

Seungmin: I know, that's why I bottle up all my emotions, both positive and negative, so it cancels out.

Felix: Tha- that's not how that works..