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Really fine and thorough Via Appia again 85m from Still Wanderer | Italy in 4K (enable CC)

Volubilis, Morocco 8m from BZ Travel More Via Appia, Rome 11m from Ancient Rome Live

Rare slow version

If I post the 3 here then I can clean out my watch later list. First a singer increasingly liked by those in mopey moods, maybe because her voice reflects the wine she says she chugs to get courage to sing. She apparently never went to school, but when becoming band leader's GF, out went the old songstress and eventually most males in the band died of unspecified cancers. So don't cross her? Then 2 videos with exceptional dancing (one a redo).

Palmyra, Syria 8m from Amazing Places on Our Planet

OK, after this 200th post of this thread, I will try to leave it to others to continue. I just find myself listening to a "lesson" version of "Monkey Man" because it wallows in luscious riffs without the strangled sounding vocals. Too bad it omits the piano accents too, which were really nice: P.S. I restored full movie link in prev post - don't miss it!

I fact checked myself and found the studio in question is just across the border into Alabama and consists of the "birthplace of R&B" Muscle Shoals studio. Not too far from Nashville but a tiny alcohol-banned settlement and subject of various anecdotes in Keith Richards bio, which he may recount in this great documentary with amazing music clips: Here is one of many Muscle Shoals sound playlists; skip thru https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y8Q2PATVyI&list=PLDuMhhYHE7i8Yr3ACbHm7GKb4kEFteWAR OR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqK1NF5m4bc&list=PLlq27sZziU8kCmvpN4I208K7LnLbVWJv3 . One of these songs I never heard of has a quarter billion views and hundreds of thousands comments! BTW I can accept the SE accent even for Bakersfield artists because most were transplants from TX, MS, AL, etc.

Satirical songs that pick up on above souring west coast theme: Isn't Jagger misplacing his exquisite mimic of a US persona in LA suburbs? He is using a rural SE US accent that doesn't survive into urban west. He maybe heard live broadcasts from those superchurches in the humid south. The band lives bunkered in hotel rooms and can't get much sense of place while touring. They did record one (double?) album in a hideout studio in Mississippi backwoods where that persona would fit: P.S. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakersfield_sound explains this style of music including this performance, but I don't accept the accent unless it comes from Nashville transplants to Bakersfield CA

The west coast vibe of "turn on, tune in, drop out" shown here before it soured a bit:

Linking things to climate change, sometimes dishonestly, has become key to getting funding, tenure, and attention.

Old Norse and old English may have been mutually intelligible, and more words probably have Viking origin than previously thought:

I was worried some of my picks were idiosyncratic, but this topic is what am "I" listening to. And the view and comment counts of the following are stratospheric, so why aren't "you" listening too? Following is a mashup(?) of Brubeck's Take 5, the most popular jazz recording ever made. The sound has been warped into more contemporary song vs the old one being legendary but too familiar to some. This has almost 8M views and 8k comments! That derived from the 26M views and 13k comment video https://youtu.be/tT9Eh8wNMkw which has a long pleasant meandering take at https://youtu.be/G27qErb6R-k . Brubeck did not fall into typical jazz player addictions, but was a WW2 vet with 6 kids brought up in a 70 year marriage. Died not too long ago in his 90s.

Isn't the above scene where an assassin shoots darts at Sellers and keeps hitting innocents? Sounds morbid but done in funny way. The above costars Marisa Allasio, the most beguiling actress in history methinks. I am waiting for her marriage into royalty to dissolve and to start dating that 87yr old countess. Fred Astaire became my favorite actor in history after attending film festivals devoted to him in Europe. His singing voice is feeble, thus the hard rock overdub above.

Holy cow, seeing Trajan's column on that livecam (when panning was working) led me to stumble on the news that they recently opened the interior of the base for visits. You can't climb the spiral staircase, but can look up and just wonder about the audacity of constructing it's 19 drums of marble hollowed with functional stairs:

I will make a few comments on what is on view. The Rome camera has frozen panning and just now switched to infrared. Anyway, when you get the view of big white king monument on upper left, look at the brick ruins under the trees (currently lit with single spotlight). This is a friggen 5 story ancient Roman apartment building! Well, the top story is gone and bottom is underground, but I will post a photo of insula dell'Ara Coeli: To the right under the bell tower is Capitoline museum (world's first) with full Roman sculptural content: And more hidden stuff back when panning worked. BTW I tweaked my webcam playlist so it doesn't get jammed by African camera downtime so easily.

Webcams have a special appeal to me, but the ones from Italy labeled live seem overwhelmingly old and canned. You can tell because youtube posts total runtime. Below is a rare live one that picks up only scraps of ruins, and it is has certain restrictions due to being labeled child-oriented. Maybe others can post genuine ruin live cams where you can see the rhythms of seasons, etc. P.S. I am starting a playlist of sort of chill livecams which show slices of life, mostly in nice places I have visited. About a quarter of the time they have something interesting or quirky going on. You can advance thru the list, but without any ruins so far:

I'm looking for one on Roman north Africa, in case you see a quality history. Want to post corrections to some travelogue stereotyping of Romans. But my insomnia remedy is less educational, consisting of cooking a decadent meal then sinking into lullaby land. Bad for the waistband, wallet, and health but hard to resist.

Smoother than long exposed via Appia, and maybe less wheel traffic

The premium version of my Cuban post above appears to be at https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=onwoLbL2OZY&feature=share but I suspect it often gets downshifted into regular version. When the stars align right it can sound like each player is swinging on a separate pendulum overhead. The Indian one in particular rises from tame to sparkling on a high end laptop (or maybe headphones?). On my nearly high end laptop it sounds tame and flat. I wish we could sort out a common youtube strategy for using their music mode or radio mode. I get these for no (extra) cost but others maybe cannot. I can't even figure out music.youtube terminology, which seems changeable anyway, so someone more knowledgeable is welcome to advise.

This video illuminates so many issues of regional dialect, beyond the banal one of pronouncing tomato. Like how the Canadian oo sound and backwater regions of UK are actually retaining what used to be mainstream pronunciation. How some weird spellings are actually phonetic according to older english. And how Shakespeare was on the cusp of writing in a distinctly different language. It seemed so cruel to be graded on comprehending such mysteries in school, probably now replaced with something readable but bad. It used to be that in at least coastal US the A sound was ridiculously nasal and was kind of considered dialect 30 years ago. But I observed this was primarily from females, often young, and thus a faddish affectation. Kind of like how young Japanese females adopt a baby talk affectation. Thank goodness that annoyance lessened. By the way, more evidence seems to pile up that english is stealth viking. English is said to borrow heavily from French, but often not Parisian French. More like Norman French. Nor-man. North men. Danish vikings that raided then settled in Normandy. They only superficially adapted to local language, giving what has been depicted as a bizarre dialect in one of the highest-grossing French films of all time (really funny). PPS. The eyeshadow of this man reminds me of a factoid in a lecture I have buried in long audio form. While localized darkening varies with ethnicity, it tends to signal a B vitamin deficiency. I forget which one, and even a B complex pill leaves out some, but is a worthwhile precaution. I used to have the flippant attitude that no pills were needed with a varied diet, then suffered critically from low b12. Be pragmatic; you need what you need, and the whole framework of what is a vitamin is garbled due to historical mistakes of which ones are or are not true vitamins. Not a fan of mindless consumption of multivitamins tho. PPPS. for extra credit see related Italian super popular funny films https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JtQfHPPGS8 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocSf8m2xWiI

Saepinum 4 min from Italy4Real

I had ignored the history channel new Colosseum series as not likely worthy, but some channel surfing indicates it may be pretty good. It even looks like you can stream episodes after a while for free at https://www.history.com/shows/colosseum . Where is that old forum spirit of critiquing popular media representations of Rome? I can understand avoiding TV due to spewage of woke commercials, but use that fast forward button. They even revive having real expert commentators instead of the trend towards slangy pierced woke figureheads mouthing scripts they don't understand. I'm a little embarrassed about Romans love of such games and would prefer to follow their more popular horseracing, but this series apparently redeems itself with wider context.

Cuban music = afro beat + euro glide If you can switch into "youtube music premium" mode, this Indian piece rises to ethereal levels. Oops, maybe that triggers a month free trial. P.S. Here is the premium version https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=jmxtgU7--ps&feature=share

Webcam: I still don't recommend this port over other spots in the Med, but others seem to like it...

Here is an interesting English series with a Roman/Latin episode. Medieval scholars sabotaged perfectly phonetic english spellings to reflect Latin root words. So douBt or receiPt picked up silent letters that weren't even in the French roots of the English words. P.S. See his episode on names for military ranks, which has quite comical roots. But no, there is no known reason why Brits put a f in LeFtenent. I more and more often hear UK content by amateurs who furthermore use F instead of TH, like I Fought for I THought. Didn't TH originate from Vikings, but even Scandinavians tend to replace it with T or D.