BEST JUNE 6TH EVER
I've had fun June 6ths in the past.
In 2006, my sister, friend, and I were in the Keys are we laughed at how it was 6/6/06.
In 2007, I sat at home wearing red and black and drew fanart.
In 2008, I sat at home wearing red and black and drew fanart while listening to a Barricade Day playlist on repeat.
In 2009, I went to a rummage sale wearing red and black and drew fanart later while listening to the playlist on repeat.
In 2010, my friend and I went to Dilliard's, she gave me the 30s film and the 50s film as a belated birthday present, we tried on various red dresses, bought none of them, went on a shopping adventure to buy fabric, baked a Barricake, made a tricolor skirt for a doll, made mixed up colored cockades, decorated the Barricake with specific blood stains for each character, drove to my friend's house with the cake and made her eat it with us, drove to ANOTHER friend's house and made HER eat the Barricake with us, and then brainstormed what Battleship would be like for Les Mis. ALL OF THIS WHILE LISTENING TO LES MIS ON REPEAT. FULL VOLUME.
BEST JUNE 6TH EVER.
I met this friend last year a few days after Barricade Day. We were both doing Curtains at a local youth theatre and my nails were still painted red from the days before. Our mutual friend told us that we both liked Les Mis. It was amazing. I'd never met someone as obsessed as I was. We became super good friends very quickly.
Last week, we started discussing what we would do for Barricade Day. We decided to get together on the 6th and do festive things. We tried to invite some of our other friends but they all (fortunately) couldn't come. We met up at a crappy little mall at 1 pm. As I waited for her to arrive, I spotted one of my other friends who I haven't seen since winter break. We chatted and it was awesome. Then my Mizzie friend showed up. She gave me the 30s movie and the 50s movie as a belated birthday present.
At the time, we thought that one of our other friends was going to be joining us but she wouldn't pick up her phone. We tried on red dresses while we waited. Finally we got word that she wasn't going to be coming. We went to the store and bought cake supplies and headed to my house. In the car ride, we jammed out to various Les Mis songs on shuffle.
We then went to a fabric store and bought little quarter yards of red, white, and blue cloth. On the way to the checkout counter, I spotted a GNOME PRINT quarter yard of fabric and we got that too. Then we went to my house again and started making the barricake. We put it in the oven and started on the cockades. We decided to screw the guide we had pulled up and made them by what we figured would work. It did. For anyone who is interested, we just sewed thread along the edge of strips of fabric, then scrunched them up by pulling the thread. We accidentally cut the fabric wrong and had to make incorrectly ordered cockades. The white and red were in the wrong places. We noticed this before putting them together but decided to go for beauty over accuracy. We promised each other that we would make better ones next year.
We took the cake out of the oven. It had a fairly large crack in it. We decided that this would be the upturned paving stones and started to make our barricade.
We iced the cake and started to put down little chocolate circle chippy things. Those things you're supposed to melt to make chocolate fondue stuff. We also started adding chocolate graham crackers. Pretty soon, we had a nice barricade going on. We decided to make the wall of the Corinth with graham crackers. We took some white cloth to be Mabeuf's shirt and stained it with red food coloring. We stuck that on a toothpick and made it our flag. We stuck it into a chocolate circle thing and put that on top of the barricade. Then we decided that this was the post-battle barricade. We carefully went through the book and tried our best to make blood spots for each character who died outside of the Corinth. Then we added blood spots for the wounded (Marius's blood drags off the cake because he was dragged away) and the dead National Guardsmen. It was pretty gruesome and morbid lookin'.
Then we decided to head over to an entirely different friend who I haven't mentioned at all yet's house. She had been studying or something and couldn't join the party, but we told her we'd bring her some cake. We took a look at our barricake and realized that getting a single piece would be impossible. SO, we loaded the cake into a shallow pan and hopped in the car with our incorrect cockades. We were VERY scared that the cake would either jolt forward and die or simply fall apart from the car ride. It wasn't worth debating the stupidity of transporting the cake without any protection from destruction. During the twenty-some minue ride, the Corinth wall fell over but we put it back up. Other than that, it remained very in tact. I was proud of myself for not making it fall over.
We tried to get in contact with her, but her phone was being really weird. We decided to hope for the best and just went to the door and rung the doorbell. Her dad answered. We went in and her dad called her down. She was very happy to see the cake but told us that we were very silly. We got plates and whatnot and started eating the barricade. By the time we could eat the actual cake, we were all really full. We decided to put some tin foil over the cake this time. It was a wise choice because we had to stop abruptly later that night and the cake would have definitely gotten all over the dashboard without the foil.
We wished her a good night and drove to another friend's house, which was only about two (if even) minutes away. It was about 9 pm. We shared the cake with her and then headed out to my house.
We talked about what we would do next year. We decided that we would make it a long celebration. June 4th would be dedicated to educating non-Mizzie friends about it. June 5th would be the baking and decorating of a barricake. We would also start a game on June 5th where you build a barricade and then move your people and stuff. Weapons that deserve mention: guns, doors to slam, bottles of nitric acid, guns with no ammo, torches with which to blow up the barricade, and mean insults about not having friends. You cannot kill civilians. Enjolras WILL execute you. Anyway, June 6th would be dedicated to bloodying up the barricake and honoring the dead. June 7th would be a day of mourning. You must listen to Turning on repeat.
Anywho, that was my day. Pretty fabulous. I hope everyone else's June 6th was wonderful!
In 2006, my sister, friend, and I were in the Keys are we laughed at how it was 6/6/06.
In 2007, I sat at home wearing red and black and drew fanart.
In 2008, I sat at home wearing red and black and drew fanart while listening to a Barricade Day playlist on repeat.
In 2009, I went to a rummage sale wearing red and black and drew fanart later while listening to the playlist on repeat.
In 2010, my friend and I went to Dilliard's, she gave me the 30s film and the 50s film as a belated birthday present, we tried on various red dresses, bought none of them, went on a shopping adventure to buy fabric, baked a Barricake, made a tricolor skirt for a doll, made mixed up colored cockades, decorated the Barricake with specific blood stains for each character, drove to my friend's house with the cake and made her eat it with us, drove to ANOTHER friend's house and made HER eat the Barricake with us, and then brainstormed what Battleship would be like for Les Mis. ALL OF THIS WHILE LISTENING TO LES MIS ON REPEAT. FULL VOLUME.
BEST JUNE 6TH EVER.
I met this friend last year a few days after Barricade Day. We were both doing Curtains at a local youth theatre and my nails were still painted red from the days before. Our mutual friend told us that we both liked Les Mis. It was amazing. I'd never met someone as obsessed as I was. We became super good friends very quickly.
Last week, we started discussing what we would do for Barricade Day. We decided to get together on the 6th and do festive things. We tried to invite some of our other friends but they all (fortunately) couldn't come. We met up at a crappy little mall at 1 pm. As I waited for her to arrive, I spotted one of my other friends who I haven't seen since winter break. We chatted and it was awesome. Then my Mizzie friend showed up. She gave me the 30s movie and the 50s movie as a belated birthday present.
At the time, we thought that one of our other friends was going to be joining us but she wouldn't pick up her phone. We tried on red dresses while we waited. Finally we got word that she wasn't going to be coming. We went to the store and bought cake supplies and headed to my house. In the car ride, we jammed out to various Les Mis songs on shuffle.
We then went to a fabric store and bought little quarter yards of red, white, and blue cloth. On the way to the checkout counter, I spotted a GNOME PRINT quarter yard of fabric and we got that too. Then we went to my house again and started making the barricake. We put it in the oven and started on the cockades. We decided to screw the guide we had pulled up and made them by what we figured would work. It did. For anyone who is interested, we just sewed thread along the edge of strips of fabric, then scrunched them up by pulling the thread. We accidentally cut the fabric wrong and had to make incorrectly ordered cockades. The white and red were in the wrong places. We noticed this before putting them together but decided to go for beauty over accuracy. We promised each other that we would make better ones next year.
We took the cake out of the oven. It had a fairly large crack in it. We decided that this would be the upturned paving stones and started to make our barricade.
We iced the cake and started to put down little chocolate circle chippy things. Those things you're supposed to melt to make chocolate fondue stuff. We also started adding chocolate graham crackers. Pretty soon, we had a nice barricade going on. We decided to make the wall of the Corinth with graham crackers. We took some white cloth to be Mabeuf's shirt and stained it with red food coloring. We stuck that on a toothpick and made it our flag. We stuck it into a chocolate circle thing and put that on top of the barricade. Then we decided that this was the post-battle barricade. We carefully went through the book and tried our best to make blood spots for each character who died outside of the Corinth. Then we added blood spots for the wounded (Marius's blood drags off the cake because he was dragged away) and the dead National Guardsmen. It was pretty gruesome and morbid lookin'.
Then we decided to head over to an entirely different friend who I haven't mentioned at all yet's house. She had been studying or something and couldn't join the party, but we told her we'd bring her some cake. We took a look at our barricake and realized that getting a single piece would be impossible. SO, we loaded the cake into a shallow pan and hopped in the car with our incorrect cockades. We were VERY scared that the cake would either jolt forward and die or simply fall apart from the car ride. It wasn't worth debating the stupidity of transporting the cake without any protection from destruction. During the twenty-some minue ride, the Corinth wall fell over but we put it back up. Other than that, it remained very in tact. I was proud of myself for not making it fall over.
We tried to get in contact with her, but her phone was being really weird. We decided to hope for the best and just went to the door and rung the doorbell. Her dad answered. We went in and her dad called her down. She was very happy to see the cake but told us that we were very silly. We got plates and whatnot and started eating the barricade. By the time we could eat the actual cake, we were all really full. We decided to put some tin foil over the cake this time. It was a wise choice because we had to stop abruptly later that night and the cake would have definitely gotten all over the dashboard without the foil.
We wished her a good night and drove to another friend's house, which was only about two (if even) minutes away. It was about 9 pm. We shared the cake with her and then headed out to my house.
We talked about what we would do next year. We decided that we would make it a long celebration. June 4th would be dedicated to educating non-Mizzie friends about it. June 5th would be the baking and decorating of a barricake. We would also start a game on June 5th where you build a barricade and then move your people and stuff. Weapons that deserve mention: guns, doors to slam, bottles of nitric acid, guns with no ammo, torches with which to blow up the barricade, and mean insults about not having friends. You cannot kill civilians. Enjolras WILL execute you. Anyway, June 6th would be dedicated to bloodying up the barricake and honoring the dead. June 7th would be a day of mourning. You must listen to Turning on repeat.
Anywho, that was my day. Pretty fabulous. I hope everyone else's June 6th was wonderful!