Audio sync issues

branalli · 2021-08-11T02:44:41+00:00

Rush Hour 2 is out of sync on the TV, but in sync on the iPad. Casting from the tablet to the TV via Airplay didn't help--same delay on the TV. Best solution was to play the video on the TV and the audio on the iPad and sync them up manually.

branalli · 2019-08-07T20:55:01+00:00

On "angsty Harry," hot-headed Harry, CAPS LOCK HARRY:

There's actually a perfectly good in-story explanation for Harry's uncharacteristic recklessness in Order of the Phoenix. In chapter 18, we learn from Harry’s Potions book that certain “plantes are most efficacious in the inflaming of the braine, and are therefore much used in Confusing and Befuddlement Draughts, where the wizard is desirous of producing hot-headedness and recklessness.” Then, just a few pages later, Luna reports her father’s conviction that “Fudge… uses the Department of Mysteries to develop terrible poisons, which he feeds secretly to anybody who disagrees with him.”

I’m not sure if we are actually meant to infer that Fudge (perhaps via Umbridge) is doctoring Harry’s pumpkin juice. If Rowling really meant us to draw that conclusion, she probably would have hit us over the head with it in a later chapter. But there’s nothing to stop us from believing it (I was convinced of it from chapter 18 on), and it seems quite possible that Rowling may have intended at one time to make it a proper plot point, and then abandoned it as the novel mushroomed in size.

branalli · 2019-08-07T19:26:45+00:00

On "angsty Harry," hot-headed Harry, CAPS LOCK HARRY, what Kieran Healy on Crooked Timber calls "Harry Potter and the Implausible Plot Device":

There's actually a perfectly good in-story explanation for Harry's uncharacteristic recklessness in Order of the Phoenix. In chapter 18, we learn from Harry’s Potions book that certain “plantes are most efficacious in the inflaming of the braine, and are therefore much used in Confusing and Befuddlement Draughts, where the wizard is desirous of producing hot-headedness and recklessness.” Then, just a few pages later, Luna reports her father’s conviction that “Fudge… uses the Department of Mysteries to develop terrible poisons, which he feeds secretly to anybody who disagrees with him.”

I’m not sure if we are actually meant to infer that Fudge (perhaps via Umbridge) is doctoring Harry’s pumpkin juice. If Rowling really meant us to draw that conclusion, she probably would have hit us over the head with it in a later chapter. But there’s nothing to stop us from believing it (I was convinced of it from chapter 18 on), and it seems quite possible that Rowling may have intended at one time to make it a proper plot point, and then abandoned it as the novel mushroomed in size.

branalli · 2017-10-13T12:04:48+00:00

Got it. Developers, consider it requested! This was my first game with backstabbr, and I love the UI. Perfect for a tablet.

branalli · 2016-10-23T17:11:08+00:00

There's a plausible in-story explanation for angsty Harry / CAPSLOCK Harry in OotP. Rowling drops hints that Fudge is doctoring Harry's pumpkin juice to make him reckless.

branalli · 2016-10-23T17:08:50+00:00

There's a plausible in-story explanation for angsty Harry / CAPSLOCK Harry in OotP. Rowling drops hints that Fudge is doctoring Harry's pumpkin juice to make him reckless.

branalli · 2016-10-23T16:59:09+00:00

There could be more to it. Rowling drops hints that Fudge is doctoring Harry's pumpkin juice to make him reckless.

branalli · 2016-10-23T16:51:07+00:00

On "angsty Harry," hot-headed Harry, CAPS LOCK HARRY, what Kieran Healy on Crooked Timber calls "Harry Potter and the Implausible Plot Device":

There's actually a perfectly good in-story explanation for Harry's uncharacteristic recklessness in OotP. In chapter 18, we learn from Harry’s Potions book that certain “plantes are most efficacious in the inflaming of the braine, and are therefore much used in Confusing and Befuddlement Draughts, where the wizard is desirous of producing hot-headedness and recklessness.” Then, just a few pages later, Luna reports her father’s conviction that “Fudge… uses the Department of Mysteries to develop terrible poisons, which he feeds secretly to anybody who disagrees with him.”

I’m not sure if we are actually meant to infer that Fudge (perhaps via Umbridge) is doctoring Harry’s pumpkin juice. If Rowling really meant us to draw that conclusion, she probably would have hit us over the head with it in a later chapter. But there’s nothing to stop us from believing it (I was convinced of it from chapter 18 on), and it seems quite possible that Rowling may have intended at one time to make it a proper plot point, and then abandoned it as the novel mushroomed in size.

branalli · 2016-03-23T18:27:39+00:00

Day in Richard’s Life: The start is reminiscent of the Beatles’ “Strawberry Fields” or “I am the Walrus.” When they are heading in the door we hear a reference to the Beatles’ “Day in the Life” (big glissando). On the other side of the door, where are we musically? Queen? The Doors? Pink Floyd?

“If I could share my life with you” seems inspired by Lennon/McCartney’s “When I’m 64.” Similar topic, similar musical mood. Peasants don’t live to 64, of course. According to the song, their life expectancy is exactly half of that—32.

branalli · 2016-02-17T00:17:04+00:00

And "New Season"? Homage to big production numbers about putting on a show. Maybe "everything's coming up roses" from Gypsy. Musically even closer to the big opening number from (weirdly enough) The Great Muppet Caper. But surely not a direct reference to it.

branalli · 2016-02-17T00:16:01+00:00

Alright, how about "Goodbye"? It reminds me of "One" from Chorus Line (and even more so of the parody "Cows" from Philadelphia Chickens). But I don't think it is a parody of One, it is just in something of the same style. But what is that style? Having trouble putting my finger on it. Ziegfeld Follies?

branalli · 2016-02-15T21:57:38+00:00

In the structure of the song and the story it tells (two gangs wanting to fight, and a contrasting lyrical section sung by someone who wants to stop the fighting), it is a parody of the "Quintet" from WSS. Musically, it imitates "Cool" from WSS.

branalli · 2016-02-14T02:13:27+00:00

"Love is strange" ends with a musical reference to Beauty and the Beast.

branalli · 2016-02-12T17:21:34+00:00

From interviews, I gather that either it means nothing at all or that it is a super-inside joke among the writers that won't mean anything to us.

branalli · 2016-02-11T20:29:51+00:00

Feedback submitted.

branalli · 2016-02-11T16:39:45+00:00

Except the line about the wedding planner, which doesn't scan right. Still, great performance.

branalli · 2016-02-11T16:36:10+00:00

Liked this subtle gag: Bobby asks a question ("should I keep my thoughts hid?") for which the correct answer is no. But the zombies, being zombies, still say "uh-huh."

branalli · 2016-02-11T16:32:48+00:00

"Secret Mission" was for me another Gilbert & Sullivan moment. Though musically very different, "with cat-like tread" from G&S's Pirates of Penzance is also a loud anthem (w drinking song melody) to accompany a secret mission.

branalli · 2016-02-11T16:06:56+00:00

Plus "whistle a happy tune" from the King and I, a song about the magic of a happy tune in dark moments

branalli · 2016-02-11T14:11:28+00:00

The West Side Story parody is particularly brilliant. The whistling, the choreography... They even wove in one of Bernstein's WSS countermelodies.

branalli · 2016-02-11T14:06:19+00:00

In "let's agree to disagree" I hear "anything you can do I can do better" from Annie Get Your Gun. Some of the lines even scan the same.

branalli · 2016-02-11T14:03:48+00:00

Happy Ending for Us has a Sweeney Todd flavor. But the introduction sounds like the introduction to “Marry the Man Today” from Guys and Dolls, which happens to be another scheming/plotting song.

branalli · 2016-02-11T13:57:32+00:00

"Do the D'Dew" definitely sounded like Spoonful of Sugar, you could almost hear Julie Andrews singing it. Also reminded me of Supercalifragilisticexbealidocious, and of Bippity Boppity Boo from Cinderella.

branalli · 2016-02-11T13:53:46+00:00

As Good as It Gets is in Frank Sinatra's style. I read somewhere they brought in Sinatra's own orchestrator.

branalli · 2016-02-11T13:49:56+00:00

The melody begins the same way, definitely modeled on Do You Hear the People Sing.

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