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PUT ON SOME HAPPY MUSIC.
So there is kind of this thing going on in the world right now, where everyone is like "Wow, musicals are kind of... really awesome? How 'bout that?". Which is great. I'm glad everyone is excited about Sweeny Todd, I'm glad the world loved RENT and Hairspray and Chicago, and I'm glad this possibly probably bodes well for future productions of movie musicals with awesome costumes and people dancing and singing happily around soundstages. But here are some cold, hard facts for you: you have not seen enough musicals.
I know you all know about the golden age of the Hollywood musical. 90% of everyone has seen Singing In the Rain and Wizard of Oz, they have earned their place as cultural relics. But there are so many more that most people haven't seen. And I'm just saying, there's something to be said for an age where the producers would shell out to make a cake full of singing people or a red, smoky swimming pool with eleven full-access diving swings. Those days are gone.
P.S. AMTP -- this is what happens when I go through Office withdrawl: massive picspams of MGM musicals.
Hey guys, I've been a super crappy LJ friend as of late, thanks to having a life, which is... weird. School's over twoish weeks (for the semester, I mean), which will be niiiiiiiice, but I'll try to be around more this week too, because I miss you all and this is basically our last of TV. I am sorry I missed birthdays! And I'm sending out Christmas Cards tomorrow or Tuesday, so last call for that. I've kind of lost track of which of your links I've already gone to and which ones I haven't, so if I leave you my address twice, or something, just... ignore me. I'm overzealous about the Holiday season.
I also want to do this meme, just because: Name a character (or few) from one of my fandoms and I'll give you (a) three facts about them from my personal canon/fanon, (b) a reason he/she sucks, (c) a reason he/she is awesomecakes, (d) five things that never happened to that character or (e) five people that character never fell in love with and why. You pick the character. I pick the letter.
I know you all know about the golden age of the Hollywood musical. 90% of everyone has seen Singing In the Rain and Wizard of Oz, they have earned their place as cultural relics. But there are so many more that most people haven't seen. And I'm just saying, there's something to be said for an age where the producers would shell out to make a cake full of singing people or a red, smoky swimming pool with eleven full-access diving swings. Those days are gone.
P.S. AMTP -- this is what happens when I go through Office withdrawl: massive picspams of MGM musicals.
Hey guys, I've been a super crappy LJ friend as of late, thanks to having a life, which is... weird. School's over twoish weeks (for the semester, I mean), which will be niiiiiiiice, but I'll try to be around more this week too, because I miss you all and this is basically our last of TV. I am sorry I missed birthdays! And I'm sending out Christmas Cards tomorrow or Tuesday, so last call for that. I've kind of lost track of which of your links I've already gone to and which ones I haven't, so if I leave you my address twice, or something, just... ignore me. I'm overzealous about the Holiday season.
I also want to do this meme, just because: Name a character (or few) from one of my fandoms and I'll give you (a) three facts about them from my personal canon/fanon, (b) a reason he/she sucks, (c) a reason he/she is awesomecakes, (d) five things that never happened to that character or (e) five people that character never fell in love with and why. You pick the character. I pick the letter.
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I completely love the musical "revival" or whatever that's gone on but... They just don't make 'em like they used to. I think Hairspray is maybe the closest they've come, but absolutely nothing stacks up against some of these. What's this one (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v207/alex_rules_you/018-2.png) from? I don't recognise it.
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I feel exactly the same way! It's great but it's just... not the same? Hairspray is definitely the closest they've come and was definitely my favorite recent musical, but compared to Seven Brides For Seven Brothers?
I actually don't know the specific movie! I capped the picspam from my That's Entertainment DVDs, and it's been eons (we're talking 13 or 14 years) since I've endeavored to see an Esther Williams swimming musical. My best guess is Neptune's Daughter or Bathing Beauty?
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Jim!
Chuck! (pick one! or do both PD Chuck and Chuck Chuck.)
Pam. (il her, but I'm done with exclamation points, i think. :))
Also I just saw something on theoffice-us (lol lazy) about xf/the office fake crossover thing and it made me think of you and i was wondering if you'd seen it already.
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Your thinking: "oh Alex, you are such a dork? LOL", yes?
Jim Halpert (a):
1. His "songs that remind me of Pam" playlist was named "You Said That", not for any real reason except that he felt a little weird about it, and he didn't want Mark or someone looking at his computer for a second and... finding it. For a few seconds he called it "playlist for Dad" to be as inconspicuous as possible, but that was just... too weird.
2. He's got no less than four Phillies foam fingers in the bottom of his closet. It's just that sometimes when he's running late to a game he forgets to grab it, and then he feels like he needs it and so he buys another one.
3. The first year he spent at Dunder Mifflin, he actively avoided making his desk his desk, because it would all have been too real the day he set up a photo frame of him and his brother or something. He changed his mind when she leaned over him to steal three pieces of tape from Dwight's tape dispenser ("I know he's in the bathroom, but how much do you want to bet he'll weigh his tape dispenser tomorrow morning and figure out how many I took?") and used it to tape a picture of her and Roy.
You can't just throw out Chucks and expect me to choose, Melissa >:( You are going to have to specify!
Pam Beesly:
1. Alex Trebek. The guy's sure to have years and years of trivia accidentally packed into his head, and she think she'd get sick of hearing it on day 3 of their (imaginary) relationship.
2. Andy, but she guesses that's kind of Jim's fault for permanently associating him with all the things she hates. Uh, not that she'd be at all interested in Andy if that prank hadn't happened. I mean, she thinks this serenading with song thing he's got going is a little sweet, but she's been on the receiving end and it's kind of... weird? And when it's over, he's still Andrew Bernard.
3. Sam Baldwin. Sleepless in Seattle is more in the Legally Blonde category than the Princess Bride category, Desert Island movies-wise, she realizes that, but she likes it anyway, it's just that she thinks it'd be hard to really fall in love with a guy who's already had this great love story. She doesn't like the idea of being the second.
4. Her art teacher. He's got this way of talking down his nose at her (and the rest of the students) that make it ever so clear that he thinks he's light-years above all of them, and sometimes she just wants to smack him back down to reality and remind him that he is teaching watercolors in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He's not Paul Cézanne -- he's not even Bob Ross.
5. Michael Scott. No elaboration necessary.
I haven't seen it! Link me!
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I would just like to throw it out there that I love you a lot, because both Jim's and Pam's lists were perfect and could not have fit them more wonderfully if they themselves wrote them. Like. Just. Perfectttt.
Haha, okay. Fair enough. Chuck's Chuck.
Here. (http://community.livejournal.com/theoffice_us/1287108.html#cutid1) Also this (http://community.livejournal.com/theoffice_us/1284981.html) description of Pam just makes me happy.
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I'M GLAD YOU THOUGHT SO. I am now going to ruin that pristine image of that by doing a crappy one for Chuck Bartowski:
1. It took a year to convince him that Captain Awesome really actually was in love with Ellie. He feels a little bad about this, but there's something a little off-putting about his (awesome) personality and the way he talks about the girls he dated before.
2. His favorite Star Trek character was Dr. Crusher, but he always claims it's Garak.
3. He thinks the most intimate possible thing (that line you cross you can never go back) is probably brushing his teeth with a girl at the same time in the same sink, but he's never gotten there, so he wouldn't really know.
HAHAHAHA, Scully and her blue balls. I approve this crossover, so long as it does not actually ever grace my TV screen.
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I REALLY DID.
Heeee. And number three made me laugh, a lot, because that seems like a very Chuck thing, and I can see him thinking it, almost exactly like that, with the parentheses included in his thought process. (I'm not the only one that things in parentheses, right?)
Hahaha, nice.
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You did not need that paragraph.
I think in parantheses. DO NOT FRET.
Seriously, the poor woman really needs to get laid. Actually, so does Mulder. It's kind of depressing.
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AND OMG YOU'RE BACK. ...You are back, right?
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Kathryn Janeway:
1. Her first boyfriend was named Mickey Daniels. She was sixteen and she had to pick between him and her Bolian lab partner. She picked Mickey mostly because he wasn't blue, but it ended up weird when all he wanted to do was stick his hand up her shirt. She still kind of wishes she hadn't made the shallow choice.
2. She kind of hates being an admiral now. She works with stuffy and boring people, has to fuss with hearings and paperwork and she doesn't ever get to move around. Instead of staring down Admirals she stares down Captains who are breaking rules but technically probably doing the right thing (a fair amount of the time). She misses the people and she misses the danger, but she couldn't ever Captain a ship that wasn't Voyager.
3. At their welcome home reception, Phoebe leaned into her and whispered "your first officer is cute" in that way she does, and that's maybe what hurt the most.
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CROSS YOUR FINGERS I GET A SNOW DAY.
(THIS SEEMED AN APPROPRIATE PLACE TO POST THIS, HAHA. YOU KNOW YOU LOVE ME.)
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1. Once he's in California, it's Donna (and by extension, Josh) he ends up talking to the most. He gets why the others maybe only had time for an email every now and then -- his old friends were good friends, but they were also some of the busiest, most important people in the world. But Donna liked to use her free moments to call him -- the end of her lunch break, the nights she stayed late to watch Josh get something done, the days when she was back home, recovering from her accident alone in her apartment, long bus rides on the campaign. CJ was always suprised, when she did call, at how much he already knew.
2. He's really sick of being called cute. Sometimes he really wishes he could be that guy, the one who just sort of looks at a girl... badda bing badda bang. But he's Sam Seaborn, and somewhere along the way he guesses he figured out he's too dorky to be graded much higher than cute.
3. His English final his freshman year of high school was to write a personal anectote to share with the class. He told a funny story about a trip he had taken to New York -- puzzled over it, and he was really, truly, proud of how pithy he'd made it by the time he brought it in. But by the time they got through the alphabet down to Seaborn, he'd listened to so many of his classmates read out what was actually in their hearts he felt like it jarred completely. He'd never even considered that the people he'd been sitting with all year had actual sorrows -- dead parents, drug addictions, mistresses -- it was something he'd yet to fathom in his own life.
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I DID TOO. I was that three-year-old whose favorite movie was Oklahoma!. And Gene Kelly very well might be -- that man is in-fucking-credible. I actually had to cut out a huge number pictures of him because the picspam was starting to go Gene-Gene-Gene-Gene-Judy-Gene-Jane Powell-Gene-Fred. It was kind of sick, but I really adore him. That's funny that you just did an article on this, though!
I do know what you mean about those musicals that were never movies, though. So many get left behind. And MGM musicals were often not perfect -- they botched their adaptation of my favorite musical ever (Kiss Me Kate). It's just that there's a certain... type? Of musical that works with today's movie market? I don't think anyone's willing to step outside of that box. But now I'm not making sense!
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About the meme...I would like to see Dwight Schrute :P
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I think it's ridiculously awesome how excited a Dwight Schrute bobblehead makes Dwight Schrute. Another reason he is awesome(cakes), is, I guess, how much he loves saying his name. Dwight Schrute.
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Mulder
Scully
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Mulder:
1. He really does have an eidetic memory, even if Scully doesn't believe him anymore. It's just... kind of creepy, at some point, he thinks, if he knows weird little details? I mean, he's glanced at her personnel file and he's not really ever going to forget her grandmother's middle name and there's something a little weird about that, so he pretends to forget stupid things, like her birthday and which cabinets she keeps her groceries in.
2. He grew up a Red Sox fan like any good New England boy, and that was really the one thing he and his father connected on, it always felt like. There was something different in Bill's eyes when he took him to baseball games. He switched to the Yankees at fifteen, because he was sick of everything and all he really wanted to do was hurt them and that was the best betrayal he could think of.
3. Sometimes he makes up cases (well, takes up ones that he knows aren't anything) just for those hours on the plane, in the rental car, stretched out across her hotel bed.
Scully:
1. Yeah, she totally already knew how to play baseball.
2. She's come to hate Scully family holidays. She feels like she gets tiptoed around, because she's old and alone and infertile, and she sometimes has to wonder what Bill and Charlie say to their kids to make them tiptoe around her the way they do. Her mother looks at her with sad eyes, and she doesn't understand how they can think of her as a little crazy -- like this thing means nothing and is so easy to extricate her from -- after Melissa.
3. "Even my parents call me Mulder" really bothers her, in retrospect, because his parents do call him Fox. Sometimes when she's feeling especially unhappy about the state of everything, she thinks that she's the only one who isn't allowed to call him Fox. Which isn't fucking fair, really, that Diana waltzes in and calls him by his first name every second word, because she's put in so much more than that woman.
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I was wondering what was up with you! I hope you are doing okay! Also, I seriously hope you have accommodations for Vancouver worked out (I mean, assuming you are still coming), because I need to book where I'm staying within the next couple of days. I think. It's all very confusing! CANADA, WHAT?
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I'm good, I'm just kind of overwhelmed by finals and I have family in town (hence why I had to miss
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It's totally okay, re: Vancouver! I'm sorry to hear that your Dad's being a pain about it, though. I hope you'll be okay with lodgings, though! If not, we should still probably be able to work something out. I haven't booked yet (but I should be within the next few days, so I'd better get my ass in gear, lol).
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HA, that is a super cute Christmas icon.
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1. Bob Russell. There's something so amiably pathetic about him (how funny to say that about the second most powerful man in the country), and she doesn't think she could ever love a man who was just... pathetic.
2. Josh. Josh is like what she imagines a little brother would be like: loud, annoying, but in that way where sometimes at the end of it you want to pull him into a bear hug.
3. John Hoynes.
4. Ainsley Hayes. She likes Ainsley more than she ever thought she would, but every time she sees Sam Seaborn stare stupidly (do all men lack subtlety completely?) at her blonde little Republican legs, she finds it even more annoying that she's apparently the only member of the senior level staff that can hold her own in argument against her. Men.
5. Sometimes she feels like that might be her entire list -- that all she'd really need to fall in love with a guy is to meet someone who'd make her feel like a girl again (she's not going to. Other days she spends with the sleaziest of sleazy reporters and she feels like she's never ever going to fall in love with anyone again, and sometimes she's too tired to think about it at all.
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have you ever seen any bollywood movies? that whole HUGE industry is all these three-hour ridiculous epic musicals, they're amazing. i could rec you some, but they can be hard to find unless you have a netflix account or an indian neighborhood near where you live.
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I've seen a few! I have netflix at home, so I'd love some recs for winter vacation!
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oh cool! i was really into them for a while a couple years ago but then i just stopped seeking them out once my friend who got me into them graduated and moved back to texas, but recently my love has been totally rekindled, so now the first like ten movies on my netflix queue are all bollywood movies, haha.
anyway, i haven't really seen THAT many, and predominantly only ones starring shahrukh khan because my friend was obsessed with him and, well, he's hot, haha. but i would recommend most of the ones i've seen. kal ho naa ho is the first i ever saw, and i own it, i love it so much. swades is my other favorite. dilwale dulhania le jayenge is a must-see (world-record holder for longest theatrical run). dil se has an amazing story and my favorite musical number (on top of a moving train). veer-zaara is really beautiful. main hoon na is RIDICULOUS because it's seriously like every possible movie rolled into one, and the action sequences and musical numbers are amazing because it was directed by a choreographer. and kuch kuch hota hai is kind of stupid but really really adorable. and ALL of these star shahrukh khan, so you'll probably get sick of him.