elapses | 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.

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:) i enjoyed the picspam. and found it mildly hilarious for reasons unbeknownst to me. Hm, firefox is saying unbeknownst isn't a word and now i'm not sure and overthinking. i'm also not sure why i'm not capitalizing anything.

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.

and found it mildly hilarious for reasons unbeknownst to me
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!

:)

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.

Wow, not even a half-hearted denial :(

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.

:) ily. and not doing a denial and getting a sadface was so much more fun. ...I don't even know. But, no, you aren't a dork. I've just never been that exposed to musicals. Or musical movies. Or whatever. I'm a little jealous; you've got that whole culture thing going on, haha.

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.

Hahaha, no, I agree, the :) was much more fun. HA, I could not not be exposed to musicals, honestly. My dad's the spawn of two band geeks from the 40s, my mom's dad and stepmother are both completely involved in the Zilker Summer Musical (she was volunteer of the year last year, he's been President of the Board like... five times now), and my mom's mom and stepdad are... actors. It was unavoidable. I was really obsessed with Judy Garland at like... two. Not even kidding. At three I had all Laurey and Curly's kids named (Oklahoma!, my favorite movie). Ironically I predicted the gender birth order (girl, girl, boy, girl) my own family would eventually be.

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.

PUT ON SOME HAPPY MUSIC.

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