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January 1

Disney Actors and Singers

Can you please give me a list of all the actors and actresses who star or have starred in Disney Channel who are also singers or part of a band? Can you please give me a list of all the actors and actresses who star or have starred in Disney Channel who have released at least one album?

Republicanism (talk) 00:25, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

Disney Soundtracks (cont.)

Can you please give me a list of all the Disney movies and TV shows which have at least one soundtrack?

Republicanism (talk) 00:30, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

You mean soundtrack album, right? This would likely include almost every Disney movie, which is a lot of movies. Category:Walt Disney Records soundtracks is a good list, but isn't nearly exhaustive. This would just be the ones which Wikipedia has an article for. Staecker (talk) 02:12, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

Better list just for films (not TV): List of Disney film soundtracks. Staecker (talk) 02:13, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

How was 2013 imagined by fiction authors?

Whether it be in printed works, film, TV, or any other notable media, how did 2013 used to be imagined by fiction/science-fiction writers & producers?

What works come to mind the best?

Moreover, if you can find clippings of films / TV shows whose settings take place in 2013, may you please link them here? I'd love to compare how "Yesterday's 2013" stacks up / will stack up against our 2013. Thank you kindly. --76.250.252.170 (talk) 05:56, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

I was just looking at Works of fiction set in 2013, actually. Too bad it's an unsourced morass of awfulness. Evanh2008 ^{(talk|contribs)} 06:29, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

2010: Odyssey Two is only 3 years past now, and our exploration of space is nowhere near that level, nor is our progress with sentient (and occasionally homicidal) computers. StuRat (talk) 07:01, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

Back to the Future Part II is set in 2015 - flying cars and levitating skateboards - I can't wait. Alansplodge (talk) 01:03, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

Exactly how this year might have been imagined is hopefully quite different from one writer to the next. New and creative ideas are essential elements of science fiction.--Shantavira|^{feed me} 10:09, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

This is far too broad a topic to address unless you want to specify stories set in 2013 or with 2013 in the title, in which case you should do an advanced search at google books. μηδείς (talk) 17:45, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

Nonsense, it's a perfectly reasonable question to which Works of fiction set in 2013, already linked above, is an obvious answer. --Viennese Waltz 12:54, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

Obvious, maybe, but hardly adequate. μηδείς (talk) 17:42, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

The OP could check how reality has matched fiction by looking at the lists for some previous years. Sadly we don't (yet) seem to have an article for one of the more obvious examples. AndrewWTaylor (talk) 13:41, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

Agent M

Was that Agent M guy (played by Michael Jackson) that appeared in MIB 2 working for MIB? My memory (I hope it's not too faulty) tells me he wasn't working for MIB... Yet. Am I right? Bonkers The Clown (Nonsensical Babble) 06:56, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

That's Men in Black II, and not (MIB) Motor Insurers' Bureau, or Motion Induced Blindness, or Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre. -- Jack of Oz ^[Talk] 07:28, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

As this youtube clip shows, he wanted to join MIB as "Agent M", but Zed said he was still working on the "alien affirmative action program". Clarityfiend (talk) 08:14, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

Identify a song

I'm trying to identify a song from the 1980's (or possibly slightly earlier). The chorus goes "Oh, Black Bart, on the Caribbean, on the Carib-BE-an or ca-RIB-bean sea". I think it's reasonable to assume it's about Bartholomew Roberts. That article tells us there was a song "by David Grossman released on the CD Graffiti (1984)". It obviously wasn't by David Grossman, or anyone else listed at David Grossman (disambiguation). It might possibly have been by David Shepherd Grossman, on whom we don't have an article, who doesn't look like he'd pass WP:MUSIC, and who also looks a bit too young to have been releasing albums in 1984; "Graffiti" doesn't appear on the Amazon download list. Any further help would be most appreciated. Tevildo (talk) 16:05, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

You can see a live performance of the song here/ Evanh2008 ^{(talk|contribs)} 09:40, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks very much - I enjoyed listening to it, and our article isn't in error after all. Unfortunately, it's not the song I remembered - that was a much more Boney M / calypso-ish thing (although it wasn't by Boney M, the singer had a much deeper voice than Frank Farian). I'll keep looking. Tevildo (talk) 21:55, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

song name

hi all just heard a song but don't know the artist name. just remember aline from the "you look good with your makeup on" know its not much but can anyone tell me the name of artist and song>

any help would be appreciated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 182.188.234.49 (talk) 17:52, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

Nowt on Google with those lyrics... Are you 100% sure they are correct? gazhiley 09:29, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

Teenage Dream by Katy Perry has something like "look good without any makeup on", maybe that's what you heard? Adam Bishop (talk) 12:21, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

Left-handed child wishing to learn violin playing

My 6 year old grandaughter wishes to learn the violin. She is left-handed. Would she be best advised to learn to play normally (i.e. bowing with her right hand) or is it in order/advisable for her to bow with her left hand ?

Samuel Brendan McCrea, Many thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.131.207.242 (talk) 20:40, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

You should discuss this with her violin teacher, and you definitely shouldn't be buying her first instrument until she's started lessons and the teacher has given their opinion about what is a suitable instrument (not just handedness but scale length). As with most stringed instruments, there is roughly an even distribution of the required dexterity between the two hands. So some teachers will just flatly say that everyone should finger with their left and and bow with the right, regardless of their handedness. -- Finlay McWalterჷTalk 21:11, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

With very rare exceptions, all violinists play the 'normal' way, and all violins are designed to be played that way. One important reason for this is that when playing in orchestras (which is where most violinists do most of their performing) the violinists (and other string players) sit at music stands in pairs, and a player with their instrument the wrong way round would at best look odd and at worst be physically disruptive. It's less of a problem for guitarists: e.g. Paul McCartney famously plays left-handed. AndrewWTaylor (talk) 21:45, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

Another point is that the bowing is just one of a violinist's activities. The left hand and its fingers are, if anything, busier than the right hand, with depressing the strings etc. The left hand doesn't just hold the violin. See Playing the violin. Both hands are vital and both fully involved, and I can't really think of any instrument designed to be used with just one hand. So, the player's handedness is pretty much irrelevant.

I have quite a bit of beef with this. The left hand isn't used to hold the violin at all. See our article you linked yourself. --Wirbelwind(ヴィルヴェルヴィント) 00:22, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

Hmm. One very minor point about one short sentence, while totally ignoring the rest of my post, is "quite a bit of beef", eh? Where I come from, our cattle have considerably more meat on their bones than that. -- Jack of Oz ^[Talk] 01:04, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

Side comment: Although it's a sideshow to the main event (music played by both hands), there is a great deal of piano music written for just the left hand, and a small amount for just the right hand. We're sadly lacking in an article on piano music for one hand. We have Category:Compositions for piano left-hand and orchestra, and a list of such works, but we need a more general article, if anyone's got some spare time. -- Jack of Oz ^[Talk] 01:27, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

Austrian pianist Paul Wittgenstein needed some after his right hand was blown off in the First World War. See Works associated with Paul Wittgenstein. Alansplodge (talk) 19:04, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

Tee hee. Yes, I know. I wrote that article.  :) -- Jack of Oz ^[Talk] 19:27, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

Well done, I wondered what you got up to in your spare time. Feel free to sing along: "David Hume could out-consume / Wilhelm Freidrich Hegel / And Wittgenstein was a beery swine / Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel..." I know it was his brother, but it had to be quoted. Alansplodge (talk) 22:43, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

Why? —Tamfang (talk) 18:40, 27 June 2013 (UTC)