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friday five: june 12th, 2020
Time to start a new tradition here - five random recs for your Friday, things I've been enjoying lately.
1) The East Pointers - Wintergreen. Do you need good Celtic-flavored pop from dudes from Atlantic Canada? Here you go. This is such a fun, happy song, and the video is particularly fun for being performed in sign language (by a woman who is apparently one of the Wiggles?).
2) I've been watching a lot of YouTube lately, and one of the channels that's entertained me most is FilmJoy. Particularly their Deep Dive series, in which four of them watch genre movies generally considered to be terrible and find the things to love about them. Because this movie was being discussed on Twitter today, I'll recommend the episode on the 2000 Dungeons & Dragons movie, which I had no idea existed until I watched this video.
3) If you're missing Dragon Age like me, the Tevinter Nights anthology is highly entertaining and full of tidbits of lore for places that aren't Ferelden or Orlais. It'll stoke the "BUT DA4 WHEN" fires burning inside you for sure.
4) Alex introduced me to The Hu recently, and they're delightful. Who knew I needed Mongolian folk metal in my life? Most of their music is in their native language, and it's all fantastic, but a good starting point for English speakers is their recent release - Song of Women, featuring Lzzy Hale of Halestorm.
5) Triple Click is a great podcast for video game fans. I tend to shy away from video game commentary because ... well, video game fans are who they are, and many of them are very much Not Me. But the trio of games journalists who do this podcast are very good and their take on topics is entertaining even when I don't agree with them.
So there. Some media to consume this weekend. If you have any recs you want to share, come on over!
1) The East Pointers - Wintergreen. Do you need good Celtic-flavored pop from dudes from Atlantic Canada? Here you go. This is such a fun, happy song, and the video is particularly fun for being performed in sign language (by a woman who is apparently one of the Wiggles?).
2) I've been watching a lot of YouTube lately, and one of the channels that's entertained me most is FilmJoy. Particularly their Deep Dive series, in which four of them watch genre movies generally considered to be terrible and find the things to love about them. Because this movie was being discussed on Twitter today, I'll recommend the episode on the 2000 Dungeons & Dragons movie, which I had no idea existed until I watched this video.
3) If you're missing Dragon Age like me, the Tevinter Nights anthology is highly entertaining and full of tidbits of lore for places that aren't Ferelden or Orlais. It'll stoke the "BUT DA4 WHEN" fires burning inside you for sure.
4) Alex introduced me to The Hu recently, and they're delightful. Who knew I needed Mongolian folk metal in my life? Most of their music is in their native language, and it's all fantastic, but a good starting point for English speakers is their recent release - Song of Women, featuring Lzzy Hale of Halestorm.
5) Triple Click is a great podcast for video game fans. I tend to shy away from video game commentary because ... well, video game fans are who they are, and many of them are very much Not Me. But the trio of games journalists who do this podcast are very good and their take on topics is entertaining even when I don't agree with them.
So there. Some media to consume this weekend. If you have any recs you want to share, come on over!