PUT ON SOME HAPPY MUSIC.

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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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[book-babe.livejournal.com]

:)

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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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.

[book-babe.livejournal.com]

:) 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.

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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.