>> ^lantern53:

lol
Anything else you want from the gov't?
I'll pass.


Reinstatement of Glass-Steagall would be a good start.

A bonus would be fewer simpleminded insinuations that all government regulation is a terrible thing.

The music is perfect. It's Love Story.

Welcome to the sift from fellow probie @G-bar above.

Do I detect a little sock puppetry? I've heard of mano a mano -- how do you say sock puppet to sock puppet in Spanish.

Or maybe this is just what it appears to be.

If that is the case, I don't know WHAT to say. Except a more pleasant "welcome" from me.

[edit] There isn't a lot of Bollywood here, so its charms aren't appreciated. This is a much more cynical site -- love story music videos don't do that well here. Kitty cat videos? Yep. That is where the Sift's heart lies.

I've known it was sort of the un-official national anthem for Australia since I was little (I was there when I was 9yrs old), so I guess I've always heard it in an Australian voice.
I also had a music box as a child that had Waltzing Matilda as it's song.

How well known it is to others, I don't know. I always seem to be the one that collects odd little facts.

Lol, nice accent, btw.

Cheerio!

In reply to this comment by oritteropo:
(clears throat, puts on posh British accent) Oh, how embarrasing! I've been caught commiting an Australianism!

How well known is that ballad in your parts? I remember listening to it in primary school music class, many moons ago :, so it hadn't really crossed my mind that it might've had much exposure outside Australia... and yet here's an Irish cover and you seem more familiar with another version.
In reply to this comment by AdrianBlack:
I have always loved story songs/ballads. That was fun to hear in an Irish accent!

Thank you, btw! Tis what I do. *grins*

sunnies....cute.

(clears throat, puts on posh British accent) Oh, how embarrasing! I've been caught commiting an Australianism!

How well known is that ballad in your parts? I remember listening to it in primary school music class, many moons ago , so it hadn't really crossed my mind that it might've had much exposure outside Australia... and yet here's an Irish cover and you seem more familiar with another version.
In reply to this comment by AdrianBlack:
I have always loved story songs/ballads. That was fun to hear in an Irish accent!

Thank you, btw! Tis what I do. *grins*

sunnies....cute.

I have always loved story songs/ballads. That was fun to hear in an Irish accent!

Thank you, btw! Tis what I do. *grins*

sunnies....cute.

In reply to this comment by oritteropo:
An Irish folk group, with an Australian song
http://videosift.com/video/Clancy-Brothers-Waltzing-Matilda

Your avatar really fits in with the raiding and pillaging theme... sword, motorbike, sunnies :

Thank you for the promote!

In reply to this comment by spoco2:
That was just brilliantly done, how is this not doing better?

My last power point (man, haven't run out of them for ages!) goes to you sir: *promote power!

The whole album is one long narrative. The Rakes song is told from the perspective of one of the villains.

Taken from wiki:

The Hazards of Love is a rock opera, with all songs contributing to a unified narrative, similar to the use of recurring stories in The Crane Wife. The plot is a love story: a woman named Margaret (voiced by Stark) falls in love with a shape-shifting boreal forest dweller named William (voiced by Meloy). William's mother, a jealous fairy queen (voiced by Worden) and the villainous Rake (also voiced by Meloy) bring conflict to the album's story arc.[2]
>> ^bareboards2:

I just spent 15 minutes trying to discover if this song was a traditional folk ballad -- "murder ballad" is the type of song, I discovered.
Nope. Just a masterful modern evocation of an old tradition.
Chilling.

Very dark, but not wtf. In the youtube description they say that the work is completely self-explanatory, trying to say anything more would be futile. It's a beautiful love story to life, and disdain for illusory values.

Although I am not Russian, I would expect Russians to understand the themes well.

Thanks for the promote

In reply to this comment by Hive13:
I loved it!

*promote

>> ^lantern53:

My God is pretty awesome, which totally makes sense to me. I don't believe He was ever jealous. Anyway, not believing in God, I think, would be very depressing. To think there is no spirit world goes beyond what is totally believable...in other words, a spirit world makes far more sense to me than a physical world.


Good for you for sticking up for your beliefs. I can tell you that as an atheist, I can find comfort just as easily in the world we live in. I enjoy the "spirit" of Christmas. I love my family. I find snowy nights "magical". I irrationally fear zombies. I just don't pretend to know what's really going on at all. And I DEFINITELY don't believe that someone else call TELL me what's really going on. But I'll listen to people because I love stories. I'm interested in people's beliefs (the original ones), and I certainly don't pretend to know everything just because I don't believe in a god.

If someone needs religion to care about the world and the people in it. I find that scary.

This video has been declared a duplicate by the original submitter; transferring votes to the original video and killing this dupe - dupeof declared by geo321.

*dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/Worlds-shortest-love-story

Thanks, fixed.>> ^legacy0100:

I think you meant Stop Motion, not SlowMo

Whaaaat, Bender's Big Score had an excellent story! The Fry and Leela thing was not over done at that point, that was right off the tail of "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings" and it felt like a good follow up love story. Also it was deliciously funny. Beast With A Billion Backs did drag on yeah, though still had many many funny moments.

Though yes, at the end of the day, let's all just embrace in a knowing hug and be grateful this wonderful show is back >> ^Simple_Man:

>> ^Tingles:
I'm thankful everyday that the show is back, and that it has been pretty damn good.

Agreed. This return is so much better than when they took movies and split them up into the illusion of a series. I love the standalone episodes much more than ones with a prolonged, overarching storyline. The worst offenders were The Beast with a Thousand Backs, and Bender's Big Score.