posted 08-18-2006 12:01 AM            

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Originally posted by Twyzzlyr:
You've never had a baby pee on the backdrop before.

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*giggles immaturely about the peeing baby*

posted 08-20-2006 04:20 PM               

Bump.

A bunch of randome things...

I just spread a bunch of woodchips on our yard. That was fun.

"Unfaithful" by Rihanna is on the radio.

I washed my sheets today, hung them outside, and then my sister just told me that some bugs got squashed on them. I was like, "How do bugs get squashed on sheets?" but she's washing them again, so it's okay.

I spilled chocolate milk on my white shirt a little while ago, so I had to wash that too.

I had a fruit salad for lunch.

School starts in four days.

I will be a freshman.

Our church sent money to another church down in Missouri after the hurricane, and now their choir is coming up to sing during the services next weekend. It's going to be fun, because it is a mostly African American church and so they do good fun music. It's going to be packed.

Now "Unwritten" by Natasha Bedingfield is on the radio.

posted 08-20-2006 04:44 PM               

I agree. This thread will most certainly not be dieing any time soon. It calls for desperate measures, so i'm just going to plagarise from my blog.

*PAAAASTE!*

Ok, for about the last week the people on my 'prefered list' have been able to read this:

Something will be on it's way in the next few days. Promise.

At least, they would have been able to read it if i knew what a 'prefered list' was, and whether or not i actually have one.

And now we come to actually blogging something...

I haven't really got much to say. Well, that's a lie, i always have plently of stuff to spew, obnoxiously, into the ether to anyone who will listen. But nothing much about anything important.

Actually, I have a lot to say about a play i saw a few days ago: The Seagull, by Chekhov (you should all know that, I just thought it polite to give him a mention) at The National Theatre, 'starring' - loathe that term - Juliet Stevenson and Ben Wishaw...
It was the most brainshakingly, mindalteringly, coursesteeringly beautiful experience that i have ever had in a theatre. Good god. It's bring ears to my eyes even now just thinking about it, not only the raw emotion that was happening on stage but what it evoked in me, as an audience member, a person, a human being. The joy, the greif, the pain, the ecstacy of them all. Every actor says that there was one production, of this play, or that play, with this actor or so and so, that made them truly realise what their life was going to be about... now, i've always thought that was bollocks, utter utter bollocks. But The Seagull, at the National, on the 16th of August '06 was mine. It's dismissed my doubts, and cemented my thoughts: i am an actor; i was born one, i'll live one, and i'll die one. I, as it may turn out, mingt not be a sucsessful or particully good one, i certainly don't think i'll ever be an especially, well, special actor, but it's who i am.

And that's exactly it, who, not what, it's not what i am, it's not a job, it's a lifestyle. And I believe that is what it comes down to, the reason why I want to do this for the rest of my life: changing peoples opinions through stories, of people like them - because all people are like people, moving them, having them really believe in them. After all, theatre, politics, and religion are interchangeable; they all have enormous followings, they all have people who commit their entire lives to them and they all are based on the basic and fundamental foundation of talking to people, engrossing and engaging them, causing progress and change. People drawing inspiration and hope from powerful ideals that they believe in and love, and love hearing over and over again. I mean, how is the Complete Works of Shakespeare any different to the Communist Manifesto, or a much better comparison, The Bible?; it's beautiful poetry, it's beautiful stories about people behaving the way people always have behaved and always will, and we can draw guidance and life experience and learn from it. Thinking about it, The Comp Works of Shakers actually does a MUCH better job at all that than The Bible. I think i'm lucky enough, in my opinion, to believe in all of these belief styems: Theatre is them all. It's my faith and i'm ready to take my vows.

I'm never going to be JUST an actor, but that doesn't mean i can't be one. I realise that now.

I feel so fucking alive! So unlike Masha, who, despite herself, is beautiful;

MASHA: Send me your books, enscribed please. Only please don't write 'To my dear friend', but just 'To Masha, parentage forgotten, purpose of existance in this world unknown.' Goodbye.

posted 08-21-2006 07:35 PM            

I bought Swenney Todd today. The new one, with Patti LuPone, and Micheal.. something. Only because stupid Borders didn't have DRS (Dirty Rotten Scounderls) or Forbidden Broadway.

But I like it. Some of it, is quite scary. Oh and one amazing thing about this production: the actors are the orchestra. And they all play - except for Sweeney - more then one insturment!

The very end, A character named Tobais starts whispering:
"Patty cake. Patty cake. bakers man..." he sings as though he is a child, trying to beat away fears.

"Mr. Todd? Oh, where's the old woman, you've harmed her to, have you? You shouldn't, you know? You shouldn't harm.. no body.." Then he starts speaking brokenly about pies and corn and razors. That's when Todd is bounding and gagging him and he makes these raspy throaty sounds..

Ah it freaked me out while walking the dog.

Sondheim, is crazy. I mean, unlike other composers who harmonize. The shortest to that he's ever gotten is people sometimes singing together.

posted 08-21-2006 07:36 PM            

edit: that was for helenbooktrip.

posted 08-22-2006 11:10 PM            

I just ended watching a british TV show called "NY-LON". Rashida Jones and Stephen Moyer were the leads. She is a love-to-be-poor-because-it makes-me-feel-good-about-myself-to-be-so-selfless girl, working in a record store in NY and teaching to the poor (for, what was it? 12 bucks? yeah right!), He is an english yuppy stock-broker (last name antonioni but had no trace of italian blood anywhere) "with a heart of gold" as some have described him.
They fall in love.
They miraculously travel from london to new york every week, no jet-lag, no luggage in some episodes, where do they get the time and money? beats me.
Nevertheless I was hooked, I thought everything was there for a romance of epic proportions, and kept wainting for them to get their shit together and make it happen. But no, being almost true to life, neither is willing to go all the way for their love (even though I still think Michael -the male lead- was truly in love and Eddie -the female lead- was not so much), they end up apart, unfulfiled and all-out depressed. Just like me.
And I say "almost true to life" because honestly I don't think transatlantic loves survive in the real world, unless by some real luck of the truly commited, and michael and eddie don't end up together.
But, having said that, it was a TV show, and I wanted romance, the kind that only exist in la-la-land, fiction is there to help us take a break from the bleak reality of life isn't it?.
Now, family and friends, I'm always glad to see family and friends portraited, but here, neither michael's family is believeble (they are down right repulsive to me) nor eddie's friends are true (obnoxious, meddling, good for nothings), hehehe, I couldn't stand neither.
Since there is not going to be a second season for this cancelled programme I am left feeling cheated but charmed at the same time, weird combination.

What I wish the show would have ended like?
Eddie and Michael move to australia and begin a new life there, they were both intelligent characters, well acted, they would have had a great life down under. Away from ungrateful family and concited friends.

posted 08-23-2006 10:35 AM            

problem was. They didn't have the CD I wanted.

I did buy Sweeney though.

posted 08-23-2006 02:50 PM            

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Originally posted by OvertheMoonforIM:

"You said the secret word!"

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

posted 08-23-2006 04:34 PM               

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Originally posted by slightlyconfuzzled:
my goodness! what ARE you doing?

edit: that was for helenbooktrip.

[This message has been edited by slightlyconfuzzled (edited 08-21-2006).]

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working. 5 days in a row. 8 hour shifts. two 15 minute breaks. so...standing for...7 and a half hours.

after working 46 hours in 6 days i finally get tomorrow and friday off. im predicting i will be online tomorrow, so hopefully some of you will be around to talk to. the only reason i can think of not being online most of tomorrow is if bike into town. but ill probably be too tired for that.

posted 08-23-2006 05:08 PM            

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Originally posted by Greenery:
This is rather random, but one of my friends just sent me one of those freaky forwards that tells you that some creepy person is going to appear in my dreams and kill me. Those things are just freaky. I don't actually believe them, but why do people forward them? Seriously. We all know that they are not true.

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posted 08-23-2006 10:30 PM            

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Originally posted by i_luv_fiyero:
does anyone think that we should continue General Chinwagging in another thread?
or else the pages will just keep getting longer and the page will just keep stretching...

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posted 08-23-2006 10:33 PM               

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Originally posted by Plant a Note:
Psh! Not until we do the same with the "I'm bored can I start a game?" thread!

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posted 08-24-2006 11:07 AM               

so i said that I thought Sarah Jessica Parker would make good Elphaba. my idea quickly gt shut down. well it just so happens that i came across a picture that can back up my idea of SJP s Elphaba....have a look....
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too see more funny celebrity charicatures (sp?) check out this site... http://www.worth1000.com/cache/contest/contestcache.asp?contest_id=8294

posted 08-24-2006 01:33 PM            

so I get back and I'm pretty loplegged, which to me is pathetic, since I only ran like eight blocks.

And I tell people I'm going to take a shower, I almost fell over in the shower - and the last time I couldn't stand on my own two feet, was when I was thirteen and going through a growth spurt.

my mom thought it hilarous that I tripped down the same flight of stairs, twice.

*giggle fit*

But, still, I hate growing.

posted 08-24-2006 04:47 PM            

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so in another thread everyone was talking about who they thought would be a good Elphaba in a Wicked movie.
i tried to find said thread buti could not.

so i said that I thought Sarah Jessica Parker would make good Elphaba. my idea quickly gt shut down. well it just so happens that i came across a picture that can back up my idea of SJP s Elphaba....have a look....
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posted 08-25-2006 04:16 PM            

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Originally posted by OvertheMoonforIM:
Sorry to tell you this, but I'd bet my brand new toothbrush that it's a fake.

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posted 08-25-2006 05:10 PM            

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Originally posted by SoulOverflowing:
Not the [b]new toothbrush!!! [/B]

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posted 08-28-2006 01:58 AM               

Double post, sorry.

posted 08-28-2006 09:52 AM            

Sorry, OTM, but what purple toothbrush?

and. uh, that's pretty sweet about Josh Groban and Norbet, Idina and Kristin..