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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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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.