The mother of all mile-long entries...
I'll probably ask the dream community about it later and see what they get from it XD.
Anyway, this is how it went: I'm taking some class at probably my school and, strangely enough, it's an art class. And who should I see sitting across from me?
Emmy Rossum.
Wtf? XD; Maybe it's wishful thinking 'cause I'm always hoping I'll bump into her somewhere, but maybe not?
Well, I remember she was wearing this top from one of her interviews:
or this:
Yeah, anyway, I remember talking to her, and she seemed so shy and quiet. Unfocused as well, like she was daydreaming or something...
Well, that's pretty much it... It probably doesn't mean much, but I'll see if they have any ideas over there, anyway XD;
Moving on...
So, Tuesday (the day school was back in session =P), I find out our school's gonna have a talent show, so I decided I'd try out. I didn't have much faith in anything happening because our school's so disgustingly disorganized and unfunded, but what the heck. Only problem was that the audition was on that Thursday and Friday, and 1. I had a test to study for Tuesday, 2. an opera to go to Wednesday, and 3. Lots of crap to do on Friday. Thus, I barely had any time to practice XD;;.
I decided to sing Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again because I had practiced it [incorrectly] a while before, and thought maybe I could patch it up with correct breathing and etc. in just a few tries. First, I planned to sing to the 2004 movie soundtrack, but changed my mind to sing to the 1986 musical soundtrack because Sarah Brightman's version is really more technically correct. (I adore Emmy's voice, but she just doesn't have that experience). The weird thing was that I remember listening to Sarah's version and hating it, not a long time before! So it was very strange that I happened to listen to it a few days ago and completely fall in love with it.
In any case, it really didn't matter which one I sang to because the audition had to a capella anyway. This was both good and bad - good because I could sing it in a slightly lower key and avoid the G5 which I had not had enough time to master, and bad because there are like three key changes and thus lots of opportunities to mess up.
It turned out that barely anyone was auditioning Thursday, so there were about five people. The only teacher judge was late and one kid had to leave and come back tomorrow, and another needed to use a piano we didn't have in the plain-as-day classroom. (It was supposed to be in the chorus room, but the moved it for some reason).
Anyway, I went second (out of like four) after this kid who moonwalked and etc, and I was so nervous. Luckily, I didn't mess up too much - I accidentally swallowed after the higher part where I shouldn't have, and I almost went off-key on the first "help me say good-bye". I think I may actually get in because I doubt that may other people will audition, so they'll probably be desperate for participation XD;
And now, about the opera I saw...
I'll be brief(-ish 8D) here. It was I Puritani with Anna Netrebko. First, the dialogue is horrid. My mom says she wanted to burst out laughing in response to most of the lines. The plot is like...wtf? I mean Elvira goes all psycho when she thinks Arturo betrayed her, and three months later he's back, and it's like, ":D!!!!!!!!! YAY OMG UR BAK!!!!"
...no "where were you <<;", no "YOU BITCH, YOU MADE ME GO CRAZY <<", no nothing. o.O?!
The costumes and sets were luff, as always (except they were f*cktarded in Idomeneo. I mean, since when do the citizens of Crete wear European dresses? x.o).
As for Netrebko and her singing, I do not get wtf everyone is complaining about. She wasn't perfect, but she was certainly pretty damn good. Maybe she overacted a little bit here and there, but overall it was quite nice. I so do not see what all of the people who dislike her see.
Speaking of her, she's going to be signing autographs next Wednesday from 12:30 -1:30 at the Met. I'd totally go, but I have school =/. I mean, if it were Kristin Chenoweth or Emmy Rossum, I'd cut (XD, "take a day off" ;D) for sure, but...it's not. I like her, but she's not my favorite singer. But it'd be cool...I'd tell her my name was Anna, too...and in broken Russian, of course. And that I loved her Violetta XD;. I'm trying to convince my mom to go, but she's all, "I can't take a day off for that D:" <<;
And finally...
In the last part of this entry, and I do hate to bring this up again, I'd like to discuss something I'm seeing increasingly more of and it's bothering me.
Okay, I've complained about this before, but it's still getting on my nerves.
People that think they know Emmy.
Wtf?
Doesn't anyone agree with me that you can't pretend to know a person from reading/watching interviews with them?
The only people that really know Emmy are her close relatives (maybe her distant ones, too?) and her friends. That's it. Sure, she seems like a nice person to me, but for all I know should could be an evil fire-breathing dragon. And for all her "haters" know, she could be the sweetest person on Earth.
I can stand it when someone claims she has no talent or no abilities when it comes to acting and singing - they have their reasons to believe that, and it's all based on opinion, of course.
But Emmy's personality? Why talk about something you know nothing about? It IS possible the she just acts really weird in front of an interviewer or TV camera or whatever. I've said my share of things that I wish I never had because they sounded very not-me, and I can't even understand why I said them. But then again, I know why. I was in the company of people I was not closely acquainted with, and I said weird things because I felt weird. It happens all the time.
I hate posting this on my lj because it's pointless. No point in posting it on the fan community - I'm guessing most of them believe she's a nice person. And of course there's no point in posting on the anti-community, because the majority of its members are certain she is an evil bitch (Note: I'm pretty sure this does not apply to you, my friends, who are part of the community).
Another thing (I'm almost done, I PROMISE XD;;; ): I was checking my friend's friend's page a long time ago and I remember one person in the community mentioned that her fans think she's very famous when she's not. I found that really strange, because I never thought she was famous. I was pretty certain that no one really knew her at all because PotO isn't the type of movie that people my age love to go see, and I knew she had a fansite, but I did not expect to discover anything when I search for her in lj interests. I was shocked to find all those fansites, and that one anti-community was practically unbelievable for me. "How could anyone care so much about her to dislike to the extent that they would join an anti-community?" Its existence showed me that she was much more famous than I thought. Not saying that any publicity is good publicity, but it's better to be felt passionately about, even negatively, than brushed off like an annoying fly, no?
Anyway, fame is over-rated. Who’re the most famous people in the entertainment industry today? Pop singers, “actors” from the “hip” movies, people like Paris Hilton (what is she famous for again? I wondered for the longest time about that when she started showing up in my magazines), “actors” from “hip” TV shows, etc. If I’m right about this, I have no desire for Emmy to be :famous” at all, and I don’t see any great faults in not having the whole world know your name.
If I ever meet her, I'll ask her what she thinks of it. I've always wondered.
To end on a happy note, tomorrow I am bringing my friend with me to my singing lesson. I'm trying to convince her to get lessons as well, actually. She claims to believe that my teacher will send her away when she opens her mouth, but I don't see that happening XD! I am curious to what her voice type is because I can't place her to save my life. Ah, we'll see =D!
PS: That same friend is a godly writer and wrote me a [kinda rushed compared to the fic she wrote for her other friend *glares at her* <<] gorgeously-written EC fic that is kinda pseudosmutty. Anyone want the link?