Amy's Listen to this with me

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[bolt.upright]

Even if you use the page link?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS8...4688&x-yt-cl=84503534&feature=player_embedded

Yep.

 

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Another all-time favourite song:

 

[bobistheowl]

Yep.

Well, I hope they haven't changed a policy, to keep me from linking additional private videos in forums. Maybe there's something unusual about that particular link. The video file is unique; I downloaded an Xvid version at torrentday.com, (a private bit torrent site), and made the excerpt clip with BoilSoft Video Splitter, so it's almost impossible that someone else could create a different 'chunk', of identical file size and length.

I'll put something else up, and we can test the link here, to see if it works for other people. I can only go by what I can see on my own computer, and I can see the video. If no one else can, the link is useless. If somebody else can, but not you nor Maurice Boscorelli, I would have some computer thing in common with the person(s) who can see it, that is different from the people who can't see it. I'll find some other way to allow you to see that video, bolt.upright. It's not like anything I've seen before. I think seeing it once would be a good investment of four minutes of your life, even if you never want to see it again.

I'll post again in this thread, when I have a new private upload on YouTube, and we can hope that the Sia video is an anomaly, rather than a new policy at Youtube.

 

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Re: Sia - Elastic Heart

This song was performed on Saturday Night Live on January 17, 2015. I had never seen nor heard of Sia previously. I had assumed that her name was Cya, like text message spelling for "See You", so I was expecting to see a 'manufactured' performer like Charli XCX, who was incredibly bad on SNL a few episodes ago.

My opinion of this video has changed. It's now one of my favorite clips, not because it's my favorite song or subject matter, but because it is so unique.

My initial opinion was partially based on the fact that it is so unusual. Sia doesn't face the audience, while performing. In this show, she's singing in profile, but sometimes she has her back to the audience. She wears a wig, and a veil covering her eyes. I think her eyes may be disfigured by Grave's Disease, (see the previous page, #510 ), but I'm not sure.

While Sia is singing, two dancers perform a modern ballet, that acts out the story of the song. One of the dancers is Maddie Ziegler, a twelve year old dancing phenomena. I don't know of a twelve year old with more talent.

I don't know who the other dancer is. When I saw this on television, I honestly thought she was a guy, for the first couple of minutes, based on her face, and her body type. Seeing a twelve year old girl dressed like Miley Cyrus is a disturbing image, unless you take into account that she is doing interpretive dance, in which case it's proper; the performance is not meant to provoke sexual thought. The same is true, if you watch a women's gymnastics competition. They are dressed appropriately for the competition, but not for the shopping mall.

The dance acts out the theme of the story in the song: A mother and daughter are arguing about independence.

With some songs, the lyrics are meant to be heard distinctly, so you can tell what someone is saying. With other songs, the voice is one of the instruments, and what the song is about, and what's being said, vary from person to person. You can't really sing along, because you're not meant to. Your just supposed to listen and watch, and react.

Apparently I can't share this with you by video link, but you can download the same clip that I uploaded to YouTube here:



You can't watch it online, however, so anyone using a phone is probably SOL, unless you access this from a computer some other time.

The file is about 56 MB, and about 4½ minutes long. You click the blue download link on the far left of the browser window on ge.tt, and save to a downloads folder, and you need to remember where you saved it. When the download is complete, you open the file with a media player.

This is an Xvid .avi video file type. I watch it with VLC Media Player, which everyone who saves video files should have. It may or may not play properly on other media players that other people might use. VLC Media Player is a free download, that needs to be installed in Program Files on a Computer. It has no 'third party' installation, where you have to take a program you don't want, to get the one you do want, and no toolbars get added to a browser window. It's best to get VLC Media Player from the home page:

https://www.videolan.org/vlc/

For anyone who want to read about it, before deciding if they want to download it or not. Some of the more obscure video formats, like .ts file type, don't play properly with other media players, as well as lossless audio formats, like .flac and .shn, but VLC plays everything, and has updates when new formats or codecs are used. It keeps itself up to date. No one who collects digital video files needs to use anything else.

You download a setup file from videolan.org, and you open the setup file to install the app. The installation instructions are very easy for anyone to follow, and the player has additional optional features, like making screen captures, or enabling/ disabling subtitle tracks.

Here's a screen cap from the video, made with the VLC media player:



Full size:

I can put this kind of video up in this thread, because "the usual suspects" from the 'pork room' have decided to leave this thread alone. They won't leave threads I start alone, so that's why I don't start many threads anymore. It's not worth it to me, to give them new things to destroy. They'll just have to find a different way to have fun, or someone else to torment, but they'll still hijack anything I start, to ruin things for the rest of you.

I don't need this forum to watch the videos: I can see them on my computer, or burn them to disk, and watch them on my television. I can share them with people here, but I stop doing that when 'the pork room' takes over. When that happens, everybody loses, except me. I can watch the videos by myself, or just share the link addresses with certain people by private message.

Not everybody is going to like this performance, but some people will like it a lot. Most people won't bother to find out if they would like it or not, and some people won't like it, because it's not similar to something they already like; they don't want new and different things in their life. I put it up for you, and I can't do more than that.

 

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[bobistheowl]

Sia - Elastic Heart

This video IS on Youtube, Sia put it up herself, on her VEVO channel, and it's very popular, 2.3 million views in a week.



Page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaqymceidB8

This is better quality that the file I got at torrentday. That one is not as bright. I thought that was a problem with my monitor.

When I make a private upload, you don't get those annoying popup ads on top of the video.

I don't know if I just have some process sapping my computer resources, but this video looks like it has 'jump cuts' on my monitor. The uploaded version that no one else could see was like that, too, but it looks normal, when I view the Xvid file. That I can't explain. It's like some of the video frames have been removed. That might be one of those problems that only effects my computer, but this time, my clock is correct.

 

[bobistheowl]

@ bolt.upright: I missed condolences to you on the death of your cousin Ellie Mae a few weeks ago. She was a real hottie, back when I was in short pants. Donna Douglas passed away on January 1, 2015 from pancreatic cancer at age 82.

 

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peace, were you involved in the production of this video?

 

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[bobistheowl]

Divine - Walk Like A Man

A portion of this video was used in an episode of Max Headroom, Blank Reg played it on his Big Time Television Pirate TV station, that broadcasted from a van that drove around the outskirts of town. I think this is directed by the same person who did the Whip It video for Devo. I dedicate this song to peace.

 

[bobistheowl]

Nine Inch Nails - March of the Pigs (Woodstock '94, August 13, 1994)



This is from the Pay Per View broadcast of Woodstock '94. I received this in a trade of DVDs with a guy named Merv from South Africa.

 

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