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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[anwariel.livejournal.com]

CJ CREGG PLZ

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5 people CJ Cregg would never fall in love with:

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.

[anwariel.livejournal.com]

Sorry it took me so long to reply, but OMG, THIS IS AWESOME. I really love 4 and 5, especially 5 - it perfectly embodies the kind of weary perseverance with which CJ lives.