Motley Is A Fool's Uniform

Soon. [Although I'm really not sure about the change in his voice actor.]

Hopefully I will be beating my epic record for Fringe shows attended last year (not hard, considering it was zero). I've taken advantage of the no fees day (1 Dec) and booked to see these people sing happy happy murder songs.



Somewhat saddened that Sense & Spontaneity won't be coming over to perform their Jane Austen musical (or their other shows). But then again it is a couple of years old now. Unsurprised by the lack of Soundf & Fury - they were very disappointed with the gates last time they came to Australia (pre-Covid). And no San Ureshi (I didn't feel competent to see them play at Elder Park - I really wasn't confident about walking on grass at the time).

So I don't know if there will be anything I want to see (although some of the youth theatre Shakespeare plays and interactive theatre sound potentially possible). But I'll have to see how I feel.

Not good.

Life must be bad. I've started watching classic Chinese Romance romance TV dramas. Actually so far this one is quite fun, and very genre aware.

"What is plucked will grow again,
What is slain lives on,
What is stolen will remain
What is gone is gone...

"What is sea-born dies on land,
Soft is trod upon.
What is given burns the hand -
What is gone is gone...

"Here is there, and high is low;
All may be undone.
What is true, no two men know -
What is gone is gone...

"Who has choices need not choose.
We must, who have none.
We can love but what we lose -
What is gone is gone."

- Song of Elli, The Last Unicorn, Peter S Beagle.

I'll just leave this 10th Anniversary Baking Special here. Poor Claire.

Sad that I had to miss this gig. I'd been looking forward to it for at least the last three months. [A combination of pain, possibly illness, depression (seasonal and otherwise, anxiety, and very inclement weather. I almost made it out the door before calling it quits. I have yet to recover from the severe attack of two months ago. Things aren't good it seems.]

Anyway, here is Xani of The Twoks (I did miss the first bit of the original performance but that was because the storm took out my power for a bit). The Cookie Baker gig beforehand was also excellent.

Oh well. Just watched the first episode of RWBY Season 9 and I still can't help thinking that they have jumped the shark. But then I have always liked the world-building and they've thrown that all away with the trip down the literal rabbit hole.

I expect that for commercial reasons we will never reach the end of the original planned story (which was supposed to happen sometime within the next three seasons), as RWBY remains the only really saleable asset of the deeply financially troubled Rooster Teeth. I mean they are working on a movie team up of the RWBY characters with the Young Justice League (or whatever DC calls their non New Teen Titans teen supergroup).

Then again Rooster Teeth has let most of their animators go after they completed Season 9, so I don't know how they expect to do Season 10. The collegiate atmosphere of early RT had turned incredibly toxic when they tried to expand into a more professional company, coupled with incredible demands by management for crunch without even extra compensation). Most of the people who were let go seemed to have actually expressed relief that they are looking for a new job. Which is not a good sign.

Oh well. This was my "reason for staying alive series" (so I could find out what happens next and if my predictions for the end are correct). Now I shall have to find something else, but nothing really stands out. And no, The Last of Us doesn't count because I've watched the game version and so I know how it ends, even though the writers (from Crunchy Dog Games and Chernobyl) have done a magnificent job converting it to a different media. Even if you don't like zombie movies you should watch it (the zombies are really incidental to the TV version, apart from causing the collapse of civilisation and being an existential threat to humanity, of course.

[On a personal note my brain has stopped short-circuiting (which was pretty bad) and pain is irritating but tolerable.]

And the video looks good as well.