hnrrrgh
I seem to be coming up with more creative groan noises for my titles.
I've been AWOL lately - I went up to my grandpa's, last weekend, and then school started and I'm only now getting online. School's awful, BTW - my latin teacher is this horrible man-teacher they brought in to replace the wonderful Ms. M we had last year (who has become a farmer, apparently). And he's boring and doesn't teach us anything and I WANT THE OTHER LATIN TEACHER WHO IS AWESOME. Wah. ;_; And, also, I asked my English teacher if we'd be reading Shakespeare (Macbeth) this year and he said no. The second semester can be any unit, as long as it's all the same genre. Last year he did plays, but that didn't work out and they're probably going to do short stories this year. Uuuugh.
On the bright side, AP Environmental Science is a lot of fun. So far we've made collages.
If my itunes would open, I'd do this meme, but it won't, so I'm just posting it here so I don't forget about it:
1. Put your media player on shuffle.
2. Take song titles that come up and add "in my pants" to the end
3. Pick the funniest 25 songs and list them.
Also, last week I saw CalShakes' production of Macbeth which was freaking fantastic. A few highlights:
-THE WITCHES OH SHIT A;LJDJALSKDA. They were dressed in these white nun's outfits, with black fabric covering their face and green surgical gloves on, so you couldn't see any skin. SO CREEPY. And according to the pre-show talk, the stage was meant to look like a dilapidated mental hospital, so, uh. That.
-YESSSS woman!Ross hello genderbending which I love
-They conflated the characters of Lennox and one of the murderers, so he was like... Macbeth's little lackey-guy.
-Speaking of Lennox, you know that one scene that's a conversation between he and Ross? ("Was that not nobly done?" "Yes, and wisely too," etc) That became a torture scene where Lennox interrogates Ross and, when she won't tell him where Macduff went, pulls out two of her fingernails.
-Lady Macbeth was awesome. That's all.
Oh, and I also watched Polanski's Macbeth. I actually didn't like it very much, I thought it was overdone and Macbeth lost my sympathy as soon as he started growing a beard. And Macduff has a handlebar pornstache (which made me scream "EEEEEEW" while I was watching it at around 7 AM). 2006 Macbeth is still very much my favorite. (Ian McKellan could still kick both their asses blindfolded, but speaking in terms of cinematic adaptations.)
OH AND. I watched all of Sherlock! I'm not much of a Holmes fan, but duuuude was it ever awesome. I don't ship Holmes/Watson (or Sherlock/John, as the case may be), but I still got all giggly over the slashy references. "Is this your date?" "No, it's not a date." "Okay, I'll get some candles to make it romantic!" lol. (I actually watched an interview with... who are the guys... Gatiss and Moffat, I think those are their names, where they said "Sherlock Holmes is actually very popular in the gay community", and I don't know if that's true or not at face value, but I can certainly see how someone not well-versed in the ways of The Internets could confuse slash with "the gay community".) Also, bravo, second episode! You managed to perfectly capture the sense of Victorian-era "ooh, the ~orient, it's so ~mysterious" racefail! Hats off!
Also, I know I have a bunch of comments to reply to, and I may or may not forget most of them. So sorry about that, in advance.
I've been AWOL lately - I went up to my grandpa's, last weekend, and then school started and I'm only now getting online. School's awful, BTW - my latin teacher is this horrible man-teacher they brought in to replace the wonderful Ms. M we had last year (who has become a farmer, apparently). And he's boring and doesn't teach us anything and I WANT THE OTHER LATIN TEACHER WHO IS AWESOME. Wah. ;_; And, also, I asked my English teacher if we'd be reading Shakespeare (Macbeth) this year and he said no. The second semester can be any unit, as long as it's all the same genre. Last year he did plays, but that didn't work out and they're probably going to do short stories this year. Uuuugh.
On the bright side, AP Environmental Science is a lot of fun. So far we've made collages.
If my itunes would open, I'd do this meme, but it won't, so I'm just posting it here so I don't forget about it:
1. Put your media player on shuffle.
2. Take song titles that come up and add "in my pants" to the end
3. Pick the funniest 25 songs and list them.
Also, last week I saw CalShakes' production of Macbeth which was freaking fantastic. A few highlights:
-THE WITCHES OH SHIT A;LJDJALSKDA. They were dressed in these white nun's outfits, with black fabric covering their face and green surgical gloves on, so you couldn't see any skin. SO CREEPY. And according to the pre-show talk, the stage was meant to look like a dilapidated mental hospital, so, uh. That.
-YESSSS woman!Ross hello genderbending which I love
-They conflated the characters of Lennox and one of the murderers, so he was like... Macbeth's little lackey-guy.
-Speaking of Lennox, you know that one scene that's a conversation between he and Ross? ("Was that not nobly done?" "Yes, and wisely too," etc) That became a torture scene where Lennox interrogates Ross and, when she won't tell him where Macduff went, pulls out two of her fingernails.
-Lady Macbeth was awesome. That's all.
Oh, and I also watched Polanski's Macbeth. I actually didn't like it very much, I thought it was overdone and Macbeth lost my sympathy as soon as he started growing a beard. And Macduff has a handlebar pornstache (which made me scream "EEEEEEW" while I was watching it at around 7 AM). 2006 Macbeth is still very much my favorite. (Ian McKellan could still kick both their asses blindfolded, but speaking in terms of cinematic adaptations.)
OH AND. I watched all of Sherlock! I'm not much of a Holmes fan, but duuuude was it ever awesome. I don't ship Holmes/Watson (or Sherlock/John, as the case may be), but I still got all giggly over the slashy references. "Is this your date?" "No, it's not a date." "Okay, I'll get some candles to make it romantic!" lol. (I actually watched an interview with... who are the guys... Gatiss and Moffat, I think those are their names, where they said "Sherlock Holmes is actually very popular in the gay community", and I don't know if that's true or not at face value, but I can certainly see how someone not well-versed in the ways of The Internets could confuse slash with "the gay community".) Also, bravo, second episode! You managed to perfectly capture the sense of Victorian-era "ooh, the ~orient, it's so ~mysterious" racefail! Hats off!
Also, I know I have a bunch of comments to reply to, and I may or may not forget most of them. So sorry about that, in advance.