Random
The word of the New Year is officially RANDOM.
This may seem weird and sheepish, I know, because random is everyone's new word, you go around and school and everyone's like 'wha-he-ho! RANDOM!'
But the fact is that it is a legendary city-ish word (esp. Sydney) and SO MUCH RANDOM STUFF HAS BEEN HAPPENING LATELY IT'S NOT FUNNY.
Random Thing Number 1.
Some of you may not have realized this due to my incredibly shockingly bad 'journal lag,' which is what I call it when there's a big amount of time between doing something and writing about it in your lj. Currently I'm up to aboutthe 27th of December. Basically I'm giving up with hope to revisit later.
Anyway, the thing you may not have realized is that I went to Summer@NIDA, ie a course at the National Institute of Performing Arts, in early January. Blake went too. We met a whole bunch of totally cool people, our teacher was none other than Sam Worthington, here's his IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0941777/
Read it.
So the thing is we met this chick called Emily, she's totally cool, looks like Elliot out of Scrubs (the lead chick) and yeah. Last week we find out she is BLAKE'S SECOND COUSIN. We met up on Monday cos we were in Sydney for a drama excursion and reminisced. So that was RANDOM!
Random Thing Number 2.
This of course means the discovery of another Syndrome... as we all should know I have already discovered Cartwright Disorder, where you fall in love with your friend's sister, and also Elizabethitis, where you fall in love with someone cos they look like someone else. This comes in two variations: O.C. Syndrome, where you fall in love with someone because they look like a celebrity, and Kayla Syndrome, where they look like an ex-girlfriend. It is hard to decide which is worse.
Anyway, we now have something which I have dubbed Distant Relation Disorder, where you fall in love with your friend's second cousin.
No joke, this has happened twice in the last two weeks, although the second case was actually from an earlier time where I was unaware of her second-cousin status.
Possibly the randomest thing is that one girl falls into both the O.C. Syndrome and Distant Relation Disorder categories.
As you may have guessed I have a very short attention span when it comes to the opposite sex.
'And I'm not easily impressed. Oh wow, a blue car!'
And I bandy around the words 'fall in love' a lot, even though as far as I know I have never been in love... yes Whitney, except for that time, which I'm still not sure whether to admit or not.
And I name these illnesses after the first recorded case, which means that in any of them read this I am fucked and should probably start using codes and stuff. Oh well, maybe later. But I am definitely open to other name suggestions because all of these are just temporary.
Random Thing Number 3.
One of the Onstage performances in Sydney (best of the drama HSC) was called 'Who Did It,' it was basically like Cluedo... except a musical and phenomenally written/acted. Anyway when one of the killers (Miss Scarlet) revealed her identity, screaming about how 'I smashed his jaw with a candlestick!' the other three freeze, look up at her, and yell...
'RANDOM PSYCHO ATTACK!'
'Nuff said.
Random Thing Number 4.
This one has a lot of backstory so if you need to get a drink or something DO SO NOW.
Okay, so back in year 6, in 1999, Laksmi and I are establishing ourselves as totally mad state-level debaters, with a combined team from around the area. There was us and possibly that Kate chick who lives near Blake in Kingy... is her name Kate? Who knows. Anyway, one member of our team was this girl named Emma-June Curik. We worked together, I assume we did pretty well, I proceeded to forget her for six years.
Then I go and see Footloose at the Arts Centre last Saturday night. Suprisingly, Bonnie and Laksmi are there too. (This is Random Thing 4a methinks.) We watch it, it is TOTALLY AWESOME, as in so much better than our one. Shaw was great, Ariel was great (real red boots! ehe), the other 'adults' were great, Willard was a whole heap of fun for me to watch, Rusty was one of my favourites, but Urleen and Wendy Jo were an absolute revelation. They did it American (how it's meant to be done) and thus gave even the most minor of characters so much more... character. Plus the choreography was fantastic. And the lead guy was good too except for his permanently suprised/excited voice/expression. To quote Laksmi, 'Almost Paradise was actually Almost Paradise, as opposed to Halfway to Hell.'
Anyway Laksmi reminds me that the girl playing Ariel is none other than the same Emma from year 6 debating! Thus Random Thing 4b. So that was kinda nifty.
But the most random thing was Emma finding my journal almost by accident, actually remembering me, and not realizing that I'd just seen her in a show a couple of days ago after having no contact whatsoever since last millenium!
[Emma, if you're reading this, sorry about all the attention... but you have to admit as random things go this takes the freakin' cake.]
Those are my random experiences of the last couple of days. As you may have gathered from monday to wednesday we were in Sydney on the drama excursion to watch Onstage. Onstage was awesome, the standard was so high and the Cluedo one was brilliant. A real suprise was going to the Australian Theatre for Young People and seeing this utterly fantastic hip-hop thing called Move the Crowd, with DJs, mixing, MCs, beatboxing, breakdancing, etc, all with a story and a great message.
Final note: I use too many superlatives, too many dot dot dots, and too much caps. And all my posts are just recounts instead of being angsty and speaking my mind. If this bothers you, please, get angsty and speak your mind.
THAT WAS NOT SARCASTIC... IN ANY POSSIBLE WAY
This may seem weird and sheepish, I know, because random is everyone's new word, you go around and school and everyone's like 'wha-he-ho! RANDOM!'
But the fact is that it is a legendary city-ish word (esp. Sydney) and SO MUCH RANDOM STUFF HAS BEEN HAPPENING LATELY IT'S NOT FUNNY.
Random Thing Number 1.
Some of you may not have realized this due to my incredibly shockingly bad 'journal lag,' which is what I call it when there's a big amount of time between doing something and writing about it in your lj. Currently I'm up to aboutthe 27th of December. Basically I'm giving up with hope to revisit later.
Anyway, the thing you may not have realized is that I went to Summer@NIDA, ie a course at the National Institute of Performing Arts, in early January. Blake went too. We met a whole bunch of totally cool people, our teacher was none other than Sam Worthington, here's his IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0941777/
Read it.
So the thing is we met this chick called Emily, she's totally cool, looks like Elliot out of Scrubs (the lead chick) and yeah. Last week we find out she is BLAKE'S SECOND COUSIN. We met up on Monday cos we were in Sydney for a drama excursion and reminisced. So that was RANDOM!
Random Thing Number 2.
This of course means the discovery of another Syndrome... as we all should know I have already discovered Cartwright Disorder, where you fall in love with your friend's sister, and also Elizabethitis, where you fall in love with someone cos they look like someone else. This comes in two variations: O.C. Syndrome, where you fall in love with someone because they look like a celebrity, and Kayla Syndrome, where they look like an ex-girlfriend. It is hard to decide which is worse.
Anyway, we now have something which I have dubbed Distant Relation Disorder, where you fall in love with your friend's second cousin.
No joke, this has happened twice in the last two weeks, although the second case was actually from an earlier time where I was unaware of her second-cousin status.
Possibly the randomest thing is that one girl falls into both the O.C. Syndrome and Distant Relation Disorder categories.
As you may have guessed I have a very short attention span when it comes to the opposite sex.
'And I'm not easily impressed. Oh wow, a blue car!'
And I bandy around the words 'fall in love' a lot, even though as far as I know I have never been in love... yes Whitney, except for that time, which I'm still not sure whether to admit or not.
And I name these illnesses after the first recorded case, which means that in any of them read this I am fucked and should probably start using codes and stuff. Oh well, maybe later. But I am definitely open to other name suggestions because all of these are just temporary.
Random Thing Number 3.
One of the Onstage performances in Sydney (best of the drama HSC) was called 'Who Did It,' it was basically like Cluedo... except a musical and phenomenally written/acted. Anyway when one of the killers (Miss Scarlet) revealed her identity, screaming about how 'I smashed his jaw with a candlestick!' the other three freeze, look up at her, and yell...
'RANDOM PSYCHO ATTACK!'
'Nuff said.
Random Thing Number 4.
This one has a lot of backstory so if you need to get a drink or something DO SO NOW.
Okay, so back in year 6, in 1999, Laksmi and I are establishing ourselves as totally mad state-level debaters, with a combined team from around the area. There was us and possibly that Kate chick who lives near Blake in Kingy... is her name Kate? Who knows. Anyway, one member of our team was this girl named Emma-June Curik. We worked together, I assume we did pretty well, I proceeded to forget her for six years.
Then I go and see Footloose at the Arts Centre last Saturday night. Suprisingly, Bonnie and Laksmi are there too. (This is Random Thing 4a methinks.) We watch it, it is TOTALLY AWESOME, as in so much better than our one. Shaw was great, Ariel was great (real red boots! ehe), the other 'adults' were great, Willard was a whole heap of fun for me to watch, Rusty was one of my favourites, but Urleen and Wendy Jo were an absolute revelation. They did it American (how it's meant to be done) and thus gave even the most minor of characters so much more... character. Plus the choreography was fantastic. And the lead guy was good too except for his permanently suprised/excited voice/expression. To quote Laksmi, 'Almost Paradise was actually Almost Paradise, as opposed to Halfway to Hell.'
Anyway Laksmi reminds me that the girl playing Ariel is none other than the same Emma from year 6 debating! Thus Random Thing 4b. So that was kinda nifty.
But the most random thing was Emma finding my journal almost by accident, actually remembering me, and not realizing that I'd just seen her in a show a couple of days ago after having no contact whatsoever since last millenium!
[Emma, if you're reading this, sorry about all the attention... but you have to admit as random things go this takes the freakin' cake.]
Those are my random experiences of the last couple of days. As you may have gathered from monday to wednesday we were in Sydney on the drama excursion to watch Onstage. Onstage was awesome, the standard was so high and the Cluedo one was brilliant. A real suprise was going to the Australian Theatre for Young People and seeing this utterly fantastic hip-hop thing called Move the Crowd, with DJs, mixing, MCs, beatboxing, breakdancing, etc, all with a story and a great message.
Final note: I use too many superlatives, too many dot dot dots, and too much caps. And all my posts are just recounts instead of being angsty and speaking my mind. If this bothers you, please, get angsty and speak your mind.
THAT WAS NOT SARCASTIC... IN ANY POSSIBLE WAY