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jimberlagetoday at 1:39 AM4 repliesview on HN

William Shatner has the most experimental, wild Spotify I've ever seen. If you haven't ever seen it, look at his discography. He does a lot of almost spoken-word poetry over soft rock, punk, etc. You get the sense that he views acting as his side hustle and is waiting for his musical career to take off.


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vunderbatoday at 2:04 AM

He's also (to my knowledge) one of the only major Hollywood actors to ever star in a movie filmed entirely in esperanto. I've heard that the pronunciation is rather rough around the edges though I have no way of corroborating that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incubus_(1966_film)

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wodenokototoday at 4:45 AM

His rendition of “Common People” is my favorite cover and I honestly prefer it to Pulps original.

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etrautmanntoday at 2:37 AM

At one point he was huge into the paintball scene as well. Beyond hobby level

squigztoday at 4:12 AM

There's also the time he did spoken word Slim Shady for Futurama

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqf04PAeFnE