RENT rules, baby. Kate and I agree that some of the performances from the matinee on Saturday outshine those on the original broadway cast recording. Perhaps one day I’ll get around to playing the music. RENT is a great soundtrack to sing along to. It was especially hard not to at the show, lol. Collins was great. I almost cried. I’m gonna have to revise that “I never cry at movies/theater/music concerts, etc” because I’ve almost cried at several. Perhaps I’m getting overly emotional in my old age. Eh. Perhaps I was just overly happy with getting a RENT long-sleeve tee, with NO DAY BUT TODAY across the back. *gleeful* So I was trying to explain how, as much as I love the soundtrack and have listened to it so much I know every word, even the crazy words to “La Vie Boheme,” there’s just something so…new/great/theatrical/different about actually seeing the show. Yes, I know, one’s live and one’s Memorex, but I guess listening to the soundtrack can inure you to the emotional content of the show. In both Phantom (the movie) and RENT (the musical) I noticed things that intellectually I knew were happening, since I’d seen both theatrical performances, but that you miss when you just listen to it everyday. Yeah. You should go see both of those.
Did you know you can see the first five minutes of Elektra at Yahoo? Go see. And the Troy dvd has an easter egg, which I shall go find tonight. When I’m not watching 24, of course. Anyone else peeved that the widescreen edition of Troy only features Brad Pitt on the cover? Sheesh. The whole reason I bought the thing was for Orlando. I admit it 😉
Anyone have a vcr they’d like to let me have? The one in the living room has decided it likes the taste of tape, and thus will not do anything but sit there like a lump on top of the dvd player. Boo.
Page 7: You remember the shoebox project, right? What a bad fan I am. I didn’t look to see if there was anything new over the break. Lo and behold, HUZZAH! there is! Enjoy.
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It’s snowing!
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When I left work I was worried about various things. Still am, actually. But this makes it all better. Anyway, when I left, it was spitting little icy balls. This was about 7 pm. So, in the course of putzing around and after watching the extras on the Troy dvd, I turned on regular tv and caught a weather report, and the lady says, “there’s already a half-inch on the ground downtown…” and I was like, I’m almost downtown, and I looked out the window and lo and behold, there was snow! It’s so pretty! *awww* It makes me happy when it snows and I don’t have to drive in it. At least not yet. It will probably be gone by tomorrow when I have to drive to the Fox to see RENT . Yay RENT! No Day But Today, baby! And there will be Kate-Crazy-Bowls’n’Wraps-ness which will be fun and possibly Rams football. You all know how much I love football, right? *sarcasm*
What do you think about a Phantom layout? just until we get some more Kingdom of Heaven pictures 🙂 And I need new layouts for LJ and blogger. There goes artistic Jen. Someday, I hope. Maybe I’ll get to see Phantom again. My mom told me there’s a new big screen theater out in Chesterfield that’s supposed to have great sound too. Wouldn’t that be a blast! And I’m sure my dad is looking forward to Elektra 😉
I’m supposed to get a new computer at work. That will make things nice. Pablo’s leaving, which is sad. But on the upside, if I ever get a chance to go to Sweden I’ll have a place to stay 😉
On a totally different note: I just found out that I passed Orgo I! Sigh. That’s a relief. Now I just have to get reading for the next semester. Bah.
Time
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My dad has to do an illustration of our new Governor, Matt Blunt, he who won because of the drug connotation of his last name, as some of my friends have mentioned. My dad is a Democrat. Unfortunately, as an artist he can’t show journalistic bias for (or against, in this case) his subject. Sometimes I dread the next four years. This may be the land of the free but it certainly seems like we’re losing freedoms. Sigh. Bad thoughts. Begone! /ETA}
Chantal Kreviazuk, everybody. Since I’ve felt that time is really rushing past me. How is it already the second weekend of January?
Time, where did you go?
Why did you leave me here alone?
Wait, don’t go so fast
I’m missing the moments as they pass
If you ever wondered
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read all about it.
Anyone who has not yet encountered a wiki while surfing the web will sometime soon, for wikis are proliferating quickly. In fact, the word wiki comes from a word for “quick.”
Here’s to the Professor
StandardToday is JRR Tolkien’s 113th birthday. Amazing, isn’t it, how one man could have such an effect on popular culture? I wonder if he would have been happy at how his books created such fervent obsession 😉 I hope he would have liked the movie.
I saw Phantom of the Opera this past weekend, which was nice. I liked it, and so did the parents 😉 There were definitely some off notes, but on the whole the actors really could sing. The costumes were great and it was nice seeing the sets be more realistic than they are, by necessity, on the stage. Unfortunately for me, we saw it at an independent theater that doesn’t show big-name trailers, so no Kingdom of Heaven trailer for me. Alas. I just went home and watched it on my computer 🙂
Hope you all had a safe and happy holiday season. I need to take down my tree sometime, I guess. *sniff* I like the holidays. I just wish I’d had a little bit more time off. Ah well. someday grasshopper. Troy comes out tomorrow 😉 I know it wasn’t all that great of a movie, but hey. It’s Orlando. That makes me happy. Random thought: anyone else notice that Kingdom of Heaven includes two actors Orli has worked with before? Marton Csokas and Brendan Gleeson also star…like you care. Random thought #2: if you like instrumental music you might like Mehdi.
Happy New Year!
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Best wishes for a wonderful 2005. I hope 2004 was good to you and that 2005 will be even better!
Historic
Standard50 years ago, the first organ transplant occurred. Way to go! Amazing that they can do that, even today. Thank goodness.
Good news is that I a) will have a new computer at work after New Years and b) I don’t have to come into work tomorrow! I can actually take vacation! Whee! So you won’t see me tomorrow. Thank goodness. It’s time for a break.
Happy Holidays!
StandardHope you all had a Merry Christmas or whatver holiday suits you best. I did pretty well with the presents 🙂 I thought about putting up something but I was just too lazy. Bad Jen. I still need to make some email presents for my buddies in the Philippines. Sorry I’m so late, guys!
There was supposed to be an entry earlier today, but the computer ate it. I think that was the first time that Firefox crapped out on me. Silly virtual memory paging file, whatever that means. Ah well.
I’m very excited about Kingdom of Heaven, Orlando’s next movie. Medival Orli, what more could I hope for? I do hope it’s not another Troy. As much as I liked that movie, it really wasn’t that good. But the trailer for KoH (which I’ve watched about ten times now) looks very good, slighly Gladiator-ish (not surprising, since Sir. Ridley Scott directed that too) and quite exciting. *crosses fingers* Sigh. This fangirl is impatient. May 6 2005, folks…and just so you know, when you do finally see the cool trailer, the music used at the end of it, at about 1:50, is from Jonathan Elias’ The Prayer Cycle, a very beautiful album. The song is from Movement III: Hope. Check it out.
Hope you all have a stunning New Years. We’ll see if I have anything new to talk about in the days to come 😉
it’s only a little gripe…
there’s no one here
StandardThere’s no one here yet, and it’s already 9:30…it’s a little weird being here in the lab with no one around. I just love going to work so much! *just a little bit of sarcasm* sigh. I’ll leave early today and hopefully get some cleaning and laundry done. Something that doesn’t require going outside. It’s SO cold! And it didn’t snow. *pouts* No white Christmas this year, I guess. Though why I keep hoping for one I’m not sure, as we almost never do have one…ah well. I didn’t want to drive in it anyway.
Thank you to all of you that sent Christmas cards. Hope you’re having a nice holiday! *can’t wait until tomorrow even though she has to get up and go to work*
pssst: what an ignoble post for #500! I’ve been doing this way too long. Thanks for the comments, guys 🙂 Although I did manage to finally get Categories displayed after the entry. Not yet on the individual ones, I’ll work on that sometime…
Fiona made me a gifte 🙂 Whee! That reminds me, haha. Gotta get working on mine…
I shouldn’t complain…much
Standard(we interrupt this blog to bring you an important message: Halleluja, the Half-Blood Prince is on the Horizon! JK Rowling has finally finished Book 6 of the Harry Potter series. Now we only have to wait for July 16 of next year. Sigh. What I wouldn’t give to have her successes. Back to your not-so-regularly scheduled blogging.)
I nearly want to cry. I have consigned myself to four and half months with no vacation, aside from spring break…sigh. I signed up for the second semester of Orgo today, and its attendant Saturday-at-8-freaking-AM lab. *wails* Not that I’m taking much vacation as it is, but I have totally destroyed any chances of a weekend trip until summer. Which is ok, I guess, since summer was always the plan for New York…right, Lell?
Speaking of Lell and by extension NaNo, I really need to finish Artorius Rex Novare. I still have the ideas, don’t get me wrong. And I find it funny how my best grade on an orgo test happened while I was combining studying and writing like a fiend. Huh. Still don’t know what the final grade was, it won’t be posted until Christmas, I don’t think. *crosses fingers that there’s a big curve*
but on a happier note: I finally got my Extended Edition of RotK from the parents. Even though I had been out late partying with coworkers for a going-away/Christmas party, I had to watch a bit of the first disc. And the easter egg…OMB, it was hilarious! Can’t wait to watch the rest, and drool over the little Legolas tidbits they offered us slobbering fangirls.
(side note: Apparently B. Dalton Booksellers are going out of business, at least in the mall near my house, which is really sad, because they’ve been there forever, it seems. On the upside though, everything in the store is 40% off. Yay cheap books.)
You know that Toyota commercial with the tire rolling by “scenes of life,” or however you’d describe it? Yet another example of a car company with a good commercial. The music was written especially for the spot, by a band you might know…that is, if you were a fan of Roswell, like me…Fisher wrote the short song which you can download from a link on their website. I love the Fisher songs I’ve heard, but dislike their connection to Roswell…it was part of the whole Max/Tess thing that I have to admit was beautifully filmed but made the Dreamer in me want to gag. Ahh, Roswell nostalgia.