PUT ON SOME HAPPY MUSIC.
Dec. 2nd, 2007 12:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elapsesSo 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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Date: 2007-12-02 09:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-02 10:40 pm (UTC)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.