Monkey Raptor V.2

Hi! 👋 Remember this US TV show "Renegade"? Starring Lorenzo Lamas. No? Yes? Either way, do stay. The Music The music, mate. It was composed by Mike Post . The Western frontier spirit married beautifully with something distinctly Native American in its soul. Sounds grand. That slightly mournful, windswept quality. Have a listen: When I play the rhythm guitar... with a guitar, I first tune it to drop D open tuning (6th string to 1st string): Low D - A - D - g - d - d Not purely open tuning, because there's still the "dangling" g string. I need it stays in g for the subtle bends and pull-offs actually. I do alternate plucking or picking on those two last d strings. I always use a pick when playing this, with the other free fingers also plucking the strings, specifically the high d strings. Hybrid technique. Since pure classical method doesn't quite deliver the "bite" I expect from a steel-strin...

English Self-Pronoun "I" Every non-English speaker has done it at least once. You're learning English, you stumble upon the first-person singular pronoun, and you stop. You squint. It's just... I Capital, alone, imperious. Standing there like it owns the place. And you think — Blimey, what a pompous melon of a language. Assuming you use "blimey" for a mild disbelief. And add any type of fruit or vegetable for a further emphasis. Except... it's not pompous at all. It's an accident. A gloriously shambolic, monks-were-tired, French-showed-up-uninvited accident. Welsh got it right all along — just a quiet little "i". No drama. Very Welsh. How "I" Got Its Capital The English "I" descends from Old English "ic". Thoroughly Germanic, sitting comfortably alongside German "ich", Dutch "ik", Old Norse "ek". "ic" ➡️ "i" T...

Hello. 👋 This 1993 US-Canada telly series with David Carradine (RIP). The opening music is quite good with the energetic beats, vibraphone (maybe), pipa (or perhaps guzheng), and that erhu (maybe). Interesting flute part. Composed by Jeff Danna , a Canadian film and TV composer. Here: The video says "1992", but it was first aired in 1993. The Backstory Did you pay attention at the opening narration? Let me convert that into text. Here: (Scene of a tiger-dragon emblem and the title of the show.) The grandson of Kwai Chang Caine walks out of the past. (Young Peter C: "But I want to fight!") (Kwai CC III: "Yé-hé-hé-s. So did your great-grandfather when he was your age.") (Scene of a hot iron pot with tiger and dragon symbols.) (Kwai CC I puts his inner forearms onto the pot.) (Kwai CC I: "Aaargh.") He teaches his son wisdom at a Shaolin Temple. An evil force destroyed...

Hello. 👋 I've watched The Last Witch Hunter . Quite cinematic. Witch Let us start with the word witch . Etymologically, it's a tangled web. Old English wicce (female) and wicca (male) simply meant "wise one" or "sorcerer". The word sorcerer ➡️ from Old French sorcier ➡️ from Mediaeval Latin sortiarius ➡️ meaning "one who influences fate or fortune". Both terms are related to knowledge and understanding. Not... inherently "devil worshipping". Well, the binarisation. Look at us now, in digital realm, with the binary as its very foundation. From Mediaeval So the film set the background in around 13th century. It was started by them barged into the witch queen's lair to neutralise her. They were the pest-control squad of the Vatican. ⬆️ That is akin to deforestation trope. The natives are the protesters, there's the leader of the natives, those protesters are the pests, and the corporate bou...