Mad World

It’s an underdog story about classism in which the folk hero (Johnny) is confronted by a powerful man (the Devil) who tries to exploit the hero’s perceived ignorance and inferiority by offering a great reward with impossible odds. Although Johnny warns him that looks can be deceiving, and that he’s going to regret the dare because Johnny is the “best there’s ever been”, the devil is blinded by his greed and arrogance.

The devil creates an awful cacophony of technically excellent fiddle playing that would be impossible for Johnny to replicate. It’s a trick.

But Johnny just grins at him and starts to play “simple” classic country fiddling songs - Fire On The Mountain, House Of The Rising Sun, and Daddy Cut Her Bill Off. He doesn’t rise to beat the Devil - he simply creates his own music from his home, in the style that he knows, and his love of it and the familiarity of the music make his “backwoods” fiddling more perfect than the Devil could ever achieve.

It is thus the devil’s pride, not Johnny’s, that allows Johnny to Bugs Bunny his way into a golden fiddle.

Here's a good performance -- the devil's part starts around 2:00. Check out how long Daniels just stands there holding his fiddle while the guitar and piano carry the weight. I love that piano bassline but fiddling it ain't.

My boy Boromir? Spent FOUR MONTHS in the wilderness! Alone! No roads! High floods! His horse died! I’m amazed he showed up to Imladris wearing clothes, let alone with a decent haircut. I’m fully convinced that he left Gondor looking like Richard Sharpe being presented to the Prince Regent in 1813

*electric guitar riff*

And then rocked up to Imladris a hundred ten days later like

Minho: If they jumped, I was probably the first to jump.

Chan:

hyunjin: guys are hot too

hyunjin: why is everyone so hot?

First you have a man who spends like a third of his career travelling and staying in hotels and he GENUINELY doesn’t know bed bugs are real

And that man is Australian so his concept of bugs is extremely warped

LIKE HE SEES THE BUG IN HIS BED????? And just????? Flicks it off and can’t be bothered????

Well, he’s bothered enough to inform the front desk of the hotel. Who then. Proceed. To hear there is a bug. In a bed. At a hotel. AND IGNORE IT

And this man SLEEPS NAKED so he got ATE THE FUCK UP

So bad that for his next two concerts, he cannot show half his body cause he is covered in evil little bites

Like part of his infamous choreography is showing the crowd his abs, and two whole shows didn’t get to see it because A BUG

AND EVEN MORE FUNNY. The crowd legitimately thought he wasn’t doing that “sexy” choreography because his BOSS was in the audience

BUT NO. IT WAS. FUCKIN BUGS.

He then proceeded to boil his very expensive clothes and ruin some of them :’)

Jisung: no no no wait stop. I'm baby

Chan: what?

Bang Chan: [stares into Minho’s room, which is full of cats]

Bang Chan: it’s just..there’s so many..

Hyunjin: yes. Thoughts?

Seungmin: I know, that's why I bottle up all my emotions, both positive and negative, so it cancels out.