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Fun Stuff => CHATTER => Topic started by: Patrick on 12 May 2009, 19:40
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Well, I finally found video. My battle with Labinot starts about 50 minutes into the video.
NOT RECOMMENDED FOR SHITTY INTER-WEBS OR COMPUTERS (http://www.tvklan.tv/emisioni.php?id=404#)
(my apologies for the shitty quality and for the commercials. This is the network's official site, they uploaded it, not me)
(also, if the site crashes it's because I have been linking basically everybody to this)
(also also, have fun trying to figure out what they're saying)
(also also also, take a look at some of the other singers and dancers, and see what kind of ridiculously talented and usually-attractive people I get to chill with every day)
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Man, I'm going to watch this video and say "I slept in the same bed with that guy."
Where do I get my "#1 Legitimate Groupie" t-shirt?
EDIT: also holy shit your voice is fucking amazing
also ha ha you sang a Killers song on live TV and I'm going to make fun of you next time I see you in meatlife
also that Pepsi commercial after your segment is really funny
also we seem to be also twins, Patrick
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i have such a crush on you from now on.
there is nothing you can do to change this
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(http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v1220/158/15/205400701/n205400701_30783475_7796.jpg)
Proof of my brush with greatness.
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You should rip the video and clip it so you can more easily show people! I don't have the patience :c
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Red Team Ladies man. Yow. Also on a totally different note I'm really curious about what all that feedback afterwards they gave you was.
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They started the video off with a High School Musical song. So lame
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dear zombiedude, this thread is clearly to tell patrick how awesome he is. you haven't done that. i'm sure it would be a nice thing to do.
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I was criticizing the show, not Patrick. Patrick was doing some excellent singing there. If I was Albanian, I would vote for you.
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Dude it's not like American Idol is high-caliber programming.
Patrick damn man that is fucking sick.
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Can someone please do a thing so that people with shitty internet can maybe watch this please?
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Good singin' there Patrick. I find it amusing that Labi has a stronger stereotypical American singing accent than you do.
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Also, I find it a pretty good showing because even though I don't like the song I think that the dude from the Killers has a really good voice and a lot of processing on it in that song, so it's a pretty tough gig.
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I wish I knew what they were saying so much. Nice one Patrick
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Do to a random set of circumstances Brandon Flowers owes me $20. I now feel slightly vindicated.
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That language sounds made up.
For the rest: Nice
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Excellent job, Patrick. And yes, amazingly beautiful people around you.
Albanian sounds like 50% Italian, 20% French, 20% Russian, and 10% Elvish? :?
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HEY LADIES, I PLAYED A GLOCKENSPIEL/BONGO JAM WITH THIS GUY BEFORE HE WAS FAMOUS.
THAT MEANS YOU'LL SLEEP WITH ME, RIGHT?
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Very cool, Patrick! I'd vote for you. =)
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Who the fuck is Patrik?
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Albanian semi-growling nu metal by Hugh Hun. Awesome.
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Who the fuck is Patrik?
So you may or may not be aware that Albania is an impoverished and troubled nation, one lesser-known tragic side effect of which being that they agreed to sell the letter 'C' to the U.S.S.R. way back in the day and lease it back and a favorable rate. However, when the union fell, Kazakhstan curiously kept the rights to the Albanian use of the letter 'C', and since they have no interest in leasing it cheap in exchange for political agreeability, Albania has been unable to afford its use for some years now.
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A high-ranking Kazakh official, mysteriously AWOL as of three days ago, was last spotted attempting to unload the letter on a group of Nigerian guerrilla warriors in exchange for several hundred decommissioned nuclear warheads.
Albanian sounds like 50% Italian, 20% French, 20% Russian, and 10% Elvish? :?
I'm fluent in Russian and semi-fluent in Italian and this sounds about right.
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Albanian is actually 100% different from any other language on the planet. It borrows a few words from Turkish, but never forgets to cite sources.
Also thanks for the voice compliments! I am glad somebody thinks so. I was less than completely satisfied with both performances (see night [nata] 2 for the first one), heh.
For those who have asked, the judges were just saying that they were pretty pleased with my singing. People were impressed that I am actually capable of showing something resembling a pulse onstage (I have a bad habit of hiding that shit during the rest of the week) and the judges SHIT themselves over my Albanian pronunciation. They said that my Albanian was better than Labinot's, but they also said his English was better than mine (THEY WOULD NOT KNOW). I was pleased, but too nervous to show it!
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I actually kind of agree! Not that you guys know the opposite languages better than each other, but that you sounded better than him on the Albanian song and he sounded better on the English one
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Wow, Albanian TV looks exactly what I expected it to look like.
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Hey Patrick, if you need any of your competition taken care of just let me know.
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Wow, Albanian TV looks exactly what I expected it to look like.
You know, considering that not too long ago Albania was giving North Korea a good run for dreariest, drabbest, most oppressive place on Earth, the fact that they now have a show as gaudy and fun as this gives me... HOPE. :-D
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He kind of has a slight southern accent (to my ear) when singing and you kind of have a heavy amount of awesomeness when you sing.
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Ok maybe I am doing it wrong but I just watched/skipped forward through chunks of the whole damn 90 minutes. Where exactly was Patrick?
Also what the hell is the premise of this show? Is it like two people trying to see who can do the act better and then they get judged on it?
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::picture of chris and patrick::
Proof of my brush with greatness.
hey, that's my apartment.
dear patchy,
i miss you. you're so cute on tv. please come home to california and be my little brother or something.
<3,
yelley
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Ok maybe I am doing it wrong but I just watched/skipped forward through chunks of the whole damn 90 minutes. Where exactly was Patrick?
Also what the hell is the premise of this show? Is it like two people trying to see who can do the act better and then they get judged on it?
I managed to miss him the first time I skipped through it was well. I ended up having to skip forward to 50 minutes in and just resisting the urge to skip. When I was skipping around all I ever saw was the other guy singing.
I have to admit that, being from the Southern US, I was a little anxious clicking on something that said TV Klan. Thankfully there were no white hoods. I was half afraid it was going to be a public access channel from Georgia.
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I doubt any KKK sponsored TV station would show a music show from Albania. But it's interesting imagery, I have to say.
Maybe next time when Lynx and Lamb something participate.
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Klan TV: All hating, all the time.
This was a rather entertaining little watch, the songs lyrics sounded slightly like the black speech from LoTR but it was still cool, all I can say is good luck Patrick hope you win.
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They started the video off with a High School Musical song. So lame
Dude not only that, but this week they introduced 4 songs from HSM3 into our repertoire so that we can have a whole month that is HSM-themed. I wish they'd have picked something awesome like Les Miserables or something instead of that shitbucket musical, but what can you do.
Yelley I would love to be your little brother.
Katie, the premise of the show is that there are two teams. The two teams each send out a few people each week to battle against somebody sent by the other team (we don't actually choose who gets sent out, that is the producer's call). For the dancers, nobody gives a fuck. For the singers, so far it's been gender-segregated, but Labinot is thinking about quitting, so eventually I am going to get to battle one of the girls, which is going to be badass.
Anyway, whichever team has more wins each night, the members each take turns saying the name of a person to eliminate from the other team. My team has been winning pretty consistently (5 to 2, holy shit) but yeah, that can't possibly last for much longer.
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Anyway, whichever team has more wins each night, the members each take turns saying the name of a person to eliminate from the other team.
Putting that decision in the hands of the opposing team seems kind of silly. Don't they try to eliminate the people they think are the best singers, so that only the worst ones are left on the other side? Maybe I'm missing something.
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I guess that is the point! It forces stronger performances from everyone.
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Well, whoever gets nominated goes through a two-step process by which they can be saved. If they rank higher than a certain spot on the voting placement list, they stay. If not, they go up against the collective opinions of the judges. If they pass that, they're safe. This happens up to three times, then they just kick off whoever is in last place.
This week they added another little fun aspect though: they're kicking off the last-place contestant as well as whoever the winning team nominates, and there's no chance for recovery from that. And since they go ahead and kick off that person before letting us nominate the second person, there's no chance of accidentally having our opinions coincide with the voting placement. There is now always going to be two people getting kicked off each week. After the first person is kicked off automatically, the normal elimination procedure follows.
Fucking terrifying.
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Dude not only that, but this week they introduced 4 songs from HSM3 into our repertoire so that we can have a whole month that is HSM-themed. I wish they'd have picked something awesome like Les Miserables or something instead of that shitbucket musical, but what can you do.
You are so wrong (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT0umA-THXw)
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I wonder if they knew Zac Efron was a woman when they casted her in the part.
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Hi, Patrick.
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Dude not only that, but this week they introduced 4 songs from HSM3 into our repertoire so that we can have a whole month that is HSM-themed. I wish they'd have picked something awesome like Les Miserables or something instead of that shitbucket musical, but what can you do.
You are so wrong (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT0umA-THXw)
I don't see what point you're trying to make, this is exactly the same horsefuckery they've been trying to push on us, but with a slightly different melody and fewer keyboard-trumpets.
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(Albania can't afford irony)
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Bump (http://www.rtvklan.com/emisioni.php?id=489) (again, I can't clip the video because I don't have the necessary software, nor decent hardware)
This time, you get to see me win, and at the end, you might get to see me cry.
I swear I didn't take my jacket off because I thought it'd be sexy. I did it because OH HOLY CHRIST IT IS HOT IN THAT DISCO.
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There was a commercial on there with Enya in it.
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Someone clip it for me for Christ's sake.
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Man, Patric, you sang so much better than the other guy there. You'll win it all, just you wait.
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Awesome job Patrick, btw. Their performance is at around 50 minutes into it again. Took me a while to find it. Also, maybe its just me not understanding the language, but the host for that show, she, doesn't seem very into it, or, I don't know their doesn't seem to be a whole lot of personality there. Her expressions and body language for the most part are almost static. I think the only reason its bothering me is because that combined with a language I will probably never speak makes that show really hard to watch.
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Someone clip it for me for Christ's sake.
Can't you watch it at your amazing new workplace now?
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Someone clip it for me for Christ's sake.
I'm sorry Bawx (and everybody else!) I really wish I had a computer that wasn't a piece of shit so I could :(
Labinot and I are introduced at 47 minutes, and his song starts shortly after. Mine is immediately after his, at about 51.
Also, maybe its just me not understanding the language, but the host for that show, she, doesn't seem very into it, or, I don't know their doesn't seem to be a whole lot of personality there. Her expressions and body language for the most part are almost static.
Yeah Zana is about as interesting to watch as a brick wall. None of what she's saying is important anyway, the show is pretty self-explanatory. We sing, they critique us for what feels like 7 hours, the dancers dance, they have similar critiques, and at the end of it all, somebody gets booted off.
And hey, thanks for your kind words. I really appreciate them, man. Same goes for you, snalin.
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I haven't worked out yet how to get Nero to make a small video with acceptable audio quality (I've never tried video editing before), so here are two files:
Audio only, OK sound* (3MB)
http://www.mediaf!re.com/?d1nvndnjity
Video with crap sound (15MB)
http://www.mediaf!re.com/?jmzn2qewmx1
* i.e. no worse than the orginal stream
I added the voting at the end so you hear his name lots of times...
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Thanks Paul!
I will set it to download whilst I go to the bank.
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Awesome job Patrick, btw. Their performance is at around 50 minutes into it again. Took me a while to find it. Also, maybe its just me not understanding the language, but the host for that show, she, doesn't seem very into it, or, I don't know their doesn't seem to be a whole lot of personality there. Her expressions and body language for the most part are almost static. I think the only reason its bothering me is because that combined with a language I will probably never speak makes that show really hard to watch.
I agree, she almost sounds like she's mocking the whole affair.
But I guess that's just tones in a language we'll never understand. Like how to many western people, even whispered sweet nothings in Japanese sound like death threats.
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But I guess that's just tones in a language we'll never understand. Like how to many western people, even whispered sweet nothings in Japanese sound like death threats.
At the store I used to work at, we had a middle-aged woman from Italy as a cashier. One of the absolute sweetest people I've ever known who was always friendly and helpful. When I was a supervisor, I got more complaints from customers about her than any other employee. I have a very good ear for emotional tone and can control my own to the point where I've only had a small handful of outright blowups with customers over several years, so it didn't take me long to figure out the cause.
The normal speaking intonation of the cashier in English carried over from her Italian, and it mapped almost exactly to the pitch changes that an American uses to be sarcastic or dismissive. Once you've triggered the "I've been treated rudely!" switch in somebody, it's next to impossible to get them to unruffle their fur. I tried explaining this phenomenon to some of the customers but it never worked. In fact it happened once with a friend of mine, and afterward I explained the whole situation in detail, and at the end the reaction was STILL, "Yeah, but she was rude to me." Aaargh.
So I just gave up and told customers from then on the usual BS answer of "sorry about that, I'll have a talk with her," then deleted the incident from my mind.
That's probably part of what we're hearing in the hostess, intonations that map to negative connotations to our ear, especially when we don't understand the words to put it all in context.
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Nah dude she actually is a bitch and she has no friends and her marriage is on the rocks and she will probably die alone.
I can't even feel bad while I say this because I'm just speaking the truth.
Stay tuned for next week's installment, where I sing yet another Coldplay song, because apparently that's all I'm good at.
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Oh Eugene, Labinot told me specifically to tell you hi.
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Sweet.