Steph's English notes are not substantial

[1863_project]

On my birthday last Friday, I took some rather copious notes in English class. Okay, so I took my real ones on another page. But I also had Justin Masterson's lovely start on the brain...

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[horsecrazyliza]

That picture? Totally adorable. And not really slashy... and I've been listening to this (SWEETEST. SONG. EVER.) for about three or four hours now. :P

Those aren't much better than my English notes, to tell the truth. We watched the Franco Zeffirelli version of "Romeo and Juliet" last week and we were supposed to look for similarities and differences between how we pictured the characters and how Zeffirelli portrays them--and one of my points was that "I imagined Mercutio to be better-looking." (Seriously, though!)

(Also, one girl did write "Romeo looks like a cuter Zac Efron" on her paper, so I guess mine wasn't so bad...)

[1863_project]

Okay, that's totally better than me repeatedly listening to (Don't Fear) The Reaper today, even if it was only because I kept picturing Jed and Clay spending their off-day playing Rock Band and repeatedly doing that one song just to annoy Jacoby. (Thanks, by the way!)

I'm not the only person who has a sexy mental image of Mercutio, yay! I kind of wanted him as a freshman in high school...all my favorite characters tend to be killed off. (Lord of the Flies hurt me, too!)

(...wow. High School Musical disturbs me, but...wow.)

[horsecrazyliza]

Seriously. That song has got to be one of the sweetest songs on Earth, possibly rivaled by "I'll Cover You" from Rent. (...coincidental that both of those are love songs between gay guys and are sung by cast members of Rent? Just goes to show how awesome Rent is!) Aaanyway.

I love Mercutio! Oh man. My mental image of him is basically tall, dark, and handsome with a silly grin. Therefore, the Zeffirelli version? NOT what I pictured.

I hated Lord of the Flies, though. Hated it.

High School Musical disturbs me. Zac Efron disturbs me (plus, this is not cute. Or hot. Or sexy. Or anything other than "freaky"). Come to think of it, ya know, the Disney Channel in general disturbs me...

[1863_project]

It's so cute, though! It really is! (Gay love songs in general rock, too. They're just so sweet...)

If I was casting a Minor League version of Romeo and Juliet (because I did this for Titus Andronicus, only to have my lead, Breslow, end up in Cleveland), I would totally not be above casting Justin as Mercutio. He could pull the role off - he's got the right personality for it. (On the other hand, though, he could probably do a flip and pull off Benvolio, too, because he's just so darn NICE.)

I liked Simon and then he died. It made me so depressed. Every single character I latch onto gets killed! ARGH!

The Disney Channel frightens me. I used to have to watch it when I babysat, and the only good thing it ever did for me was inspire the creation of one of the two main characters in the novel this blog is named for. It's just...weird. And everyone has the same hair!

[horsecrazyliza]

I know! That's one of the reasons I love Rent... they're just so honest! I read Anthony Rapp's memoir (that's the guy singing that song) after seeing him speak and sing at Northeastern and he's just so friggin' honest. Like... wow. It is SUCH a good book, too.

Justin would be Benvolio. I would make an exception and cast Pap as Mercutio. See--Mercutio makes too many lewd jokes to be Justin. Justin doesn't drink or smoke or swear at all.

My brother watches it. Ugh. It's scary. The characters have no individuality or anything, either. They're... clones. o.o

[1863_project]

It's great - honesty's such a beautiful thing, and there really isn't enough of it.

...Pap as Mercutio is just about the most perfect casting I have ever seen. I'm seriously tempted to write and/or draw this, if only to hear Paps yell about 'a plague on both your houses.' (Ooh, we can do this Sox-Yankees style and it would totally work because Joba is friends with Jacoby and Clay! YES! ...okay, yeah, I've gotten very little sleep since Saturday, when I stayed up late to write about beaver meat, and it's showing...)

I have a friend who likes Hannah Montana and the Jonas Brothers, and I don't quite understand the allure. I never really got into that sort of stuff, anyway. (The only good High School Musical thing is I Don't Dance, anyway, and only because it involves baseball. I've seen that, but nothing else...)

[horsecrazyliza]

I know. It's definitely one of the reasons I love Rent so much. Wicked, too--it raises all sorts of philosophical questions, but in a totally awesome (and musical!) way.

Okay. This totally needs to happen. NOW. And Clay and Joba will be Romeo and Juliet, but in a nonromantic way. They'll be trying to create peace. Oh man. This is taking perfect shape--

Romeo - Clay
Benvolio - Justin
Mercutio - Pap
Montague - Tito
Lady Montague - Theo
Juliet - Joba
Tybalt - A-Rod (perfect, no!?)
Nurse - Phil Hughes (because he's cool too--his blog is so hilarious)
Capulet - Brian Cashman
Lady Capulet - Hank Steinbrenner
Paris - ???
Friar Lawrence - ...Selig? Nah, that's bad.

I've only read through act two, actually, so if I'm missing characters, add them in, please... this is going to be EPIC.

I don't like it. At all. Ugh. They're just so... generic.

(Also, muahahaha--a perfect, perfect, perfect excuse to use my Kielty icon!)

[1863_project]

Okay, that's just brilliant stuff right there. Seriously. I especially like A-Rod as Tybalt, because he gets to go and die. I also love Phil Hughes as the Nurse...that's so epic and strangely hot. No, I have not slept much recently.

This is my unfinished casting of Titus Andronicus. It's quite sad and pathetic, but it is the extra special Chris Carter-directed version, hence the occasional Stanford references I dropped in. But I need a new Titus because there's no Breslow anymore! (And I may or may not regularly fantasize about Jed in the band uniform. I draw it far too often...)

(Kielty could TOTALLY be on the Disney Channel with his hair.)

[horsecrazyliza]

Hughes has one badass pitching face. I love it.

Also, I'm quite proud of Hank Steinbrenner as Lady Capulet, personally. It just... fits!

That Titus Andronicus = win. Lavinia is so preeeetty. (/snicker)

Yeah. It's 2:15... and I have a big essay I have to entirely revise tomorrow (plus LESTER VS HALLADAY)... and I'm going to the game on Wednesday... (it is McGowan pitching!) so I'll basically be dying by Thursday.

[1863_project]

And what a pretty nurse he'll make! He gets to make snide sexual comments about Joba, too! What fun!

I think it does, too. I wonder if Lady Capulet would be willing to dig up some Montague clothing buried beneath her house...

If I'm doing something with the prospects, because of his hair and build George is nearly always cast as the girl. It just works for some reason.

It's dead week here (my exams start Monday! Nuuuuu!), so I'll be on no sleep for about two weeks. Whoop-de-doo! Right now I'm copying over a Japanese script for a sketch...everyone has to handwrite it out. Ugh.