This drunken Sound of Music Reunion Commentary presented without comment
Well, one comment. I meant to post this last night, but then, well, things happened (aka I went to sleep instead). So here it is, in all of it's glory. My play-by-play reaction to The Sound of Music reunion while I drank some not-very-good wine.
I'm going to start things out by saying that I should not have mde my facebook status anything to do with this because that inspired my extended family to make comments on it. I hate when they make jokes on my facebook status because then I don't know if I should respond or what. This is due in large part to the fact that I haven't seen most of them since I was in, like, ninth grade. (Actually one of them lives in Australia and the last thing I remember him doing is giving me a pencil with a koala bear over the eraser and Ithought it was the coolest thing ever, so that should give you an idea of my age at the time. (Although I think Silly Bandz are pretty kick ass so WHATEVER)
(I'm also not going to fix any of my typos because I think that adds to te experience. I generally think of myself as a pretty good drunk typer. Typust. Typist. So we'll see.)
Look. I hate Orpah, okay (typo defo stays because that's what she was supposed to be named and they wrote it wrong on her birth certificate). And stickypearls you were right. That is batshit. What even, Oraph. Okay, her name is really hard to type. Anyway. Calm the fuck down, Oprah (that took a little bit to get right).
I was going to make this a drunking game and take a drnk every time they said something I already knew. But then I would have downed an entire bottle of wine by now. SO I'M JUST DRINKING.
I really want to tfind the Sound of Music. HAH. She just said "Georg von Trapp" but it definitely sounded like Gaylord. Gaylord Weiner (That's a "Glee" reference).
Time for a tangent because Oprah is talking and I don't care. OH WAIT I DO BECAUSE THERE'S JULIE AND CHRIS. I love them sfm. I will say that Oprah's presence here is akin to Raven's presenec in The Princess Diaries 2. AKA it ruins my Julie time.
I want these two people to be my gradnparedn. ts. Wtf even is that typing. Oprah is saying stupiuf stuff again, so whatever. I want to take issue with the video on Oprah's website that says something about interviews with SoM's biggest fans. I AM THE MOVIE'S BIGGEST FAN. I defy anyone to be a bigger fan than I am.
I love that they showed pictures of "My Fair Lady." ALWAYS SHOW PICTURES OF "MY FAIR LADY." That's a rule I have. Also Nicholas Hammond (Friedrich) was, like, the only kid who knew about Julie's Broadway roots when they filmed. Maybe they talk about that later, but whatever. CHRIS IS BLOWING A WHISTLE! (insert comment about him blowing my whistle)
Okay, so when I was searching for videos, all that came up with was stupid Lea Michele singing "My Favorite Things." That was SO ANNOUING. Especially because I don't like when stupid little young people do Juie convers. (Also, when Emma sang "I Could Have Danced All Night," the place where I get my "Glee" stuff was all, "Oh, here's the original, Frank Sinatrya sanf it." WHAT EVEN.) (I am wondering now if my typos are because I'm tipsy or just because I'm typing quickly not to miss anything and because I made a vow not to correct typos (except sometimes I do it anyway becase it is my natural instintct. Really. I'm trying not to correct things. Whatever, I dont' know the point of this set of parentehsis)excetp there is another parentheseis.)
True facts, I have that mp3 of Julie singing. Or at least one mp3 of her singing as a thirteen year-old. And whenever anyone talks about Julie's voice surgery I legitimately get really upset. Like it makes me tear up. And now I need to watch Despicable Me.
OPRAH. STOP ASKING ABOUT THAT OPENING SCENE. SHE TOLD YOU ABOUT IT WHEN SHE WAS ON YOUR SHOW ABOUT SHREK. Either Oprah has a bad memory, or Julie has a bad memory and this is the only thing she remembers. MAYBE BECAUSE SHE DRANK TOO MUCH SCHNAPPS.
"When did you know your voice was a gift?" that is the fucking dumbest question ever. I hate Oprah. HOMG, if Julie had gone on tour with Victor/Victoria, I DEFINITELY would have made my parents take me to see it (for real, I still hold a grudge against them for not taking me to the world premiere. IT WAS IN MINNEAPOLIS.)
THIS IS THE SADDEST INTERVIEW ever. I am legitimately SUPER upset. This is not a lie. I love Julie sfm that I can't even deal with this right now. This plus alcohol is not the best thing. I'm so fucking sad. I'm going to go read "The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles" later. what the fuckever. I hate Oprah for makign me cry. WHo does she think she is? Barbara?
DEAR ROSIE O'DONNELL, I LOVE YOU BUT I AM A BIGGER FAN OF THE MOVIE THAN YOU (okay, I typed that before I knew that her mom had died, so now I'm feeling a little bad about that, but whatever. I can't take it back now. I still am a bigger fan. DO YOU HAVE MULTIPLE BOOKS ABOUT THIS? DID YOU RECITE IT TO YOUSRELF AT NIGHT WHEN YOU SUFFERED FROM INSOMNIA?) At least once a year? I could watch it once a week. Excpet I don't because I get super addicted. SoM is like my crack. No lie. There was a summer I watched it ever y fcuking day. This is not an exaggeration. Except I stop after the weeding because I don't really care about the Nazi part. I meana, I do, but it's less Julie, and so I don't care.
I love Christopher Plummer sfm. He's the most attractive thing ever. I FORGOT HE WAS IN UP. I will rewatch that too. I cant' believe they forgot to mention "Myst loive dogs" (i'm not even trying to do html tags right now. too much wokr.) anyway. He recites poetyr in that movie. and it's on the soundtrack. and I listen to it a lot.
"You were pretty grouchy about taking the role weren't you?" I hate you Oprah. That could be taking (i need to start this sentence over because I don't'nknwo where I was going) This could be another drinking game - every time I hate Oprah. AGAIN, already drunk if that happened.
Okay, I want Chris and Emma Thompson to make a movie, because if you read Emma's filming diary of Sense and Sensibility, she drinks a lot during that filming (ar at least says she does_ and I think Emma nd Chris being drunking boddies would be te best.
Best miovie musical from any stage play. That is a very specific ocmpliment. And it's true. But it's very specific. Holy fuckyballs, Chris is 80? Now I need to control my pervy thoughts, kind of. ANyway, Chris is like half the reason Captain von Trapp is actually a good character because he sucks in the stage version, so the fact that people love it = I lost my train of thought. Anywya, the mora is that Chris is better than you.
DEAR OPRAH SHOW VIEWERS I HATE ALL OF YOU. SHUT THE FUCK UP.
Okay. Becoming a nun because of SoM trumps me. Okay, and being deaf and the first thing you heard was Julie maybe trumps my expereince a little. WHATEVER. I could tell stories about how I fucking love SoM and Julie Andrews all that. Okay. Vietname war vet. Damn. These stories are better than mine. I HATE YOU, OPRAH.
OH that reminds ME. I am drnking wine out of my new Trapp Family Lodge mug (yep. Wine mug. Love it) My parents got it ofr me in Vermont and it's classy. AND APPROPROTE for the occasion.
OPRAH DON'T SING
If people haven't seen the Mia frrow audtion, then they aren't TRUE fans.
Most popular family in ceinematic history? I'm trying to dispute that, mearely because I hate Oprah and I think that's stupid to say.
CHRIS, DON'T LIE. You and Charmian Carr TOTES had an affair. (I'm like 9-0% sure that happened.)
So I said for sure Julie was goignt o say the helicopter stroy, and my friend said for sure we were hearing about Gretl almost drowning story. AND BOTH HAPPENED. TELL US NEW STORIES. And Kym Karath, you're king od rirtating.
"The little one doesn't swim" I really like that. I don't know why. Probs because Julie said it.
Look, I'm kind of in love with Nicholas Hammond. I won't deny it. I feel so bad that Duane Chase rememberet this great moment between him and Chris is and Chris is all, "Oh, is that what that was?"
Charmian Carr is the best-aged von Trapp child.
"I love Favorite Things" SHUT UP OPRAH THIS IS NOT YOUR MOMENT. I HATE YOU.
Oprah needs to stop trying to sing tidbits of SoM songs. I hate her.
(I really despise Oprah. A lot. It is a testament to my love of SoM that I am watching this. Ugh, Oprah.)
Okay, watching SoM with me is like this behind the scenes look because I say all this stuff while I watch it with peple (which is probably why i don't watch it mwtih beopel all that often (wtf even is that_+)).
Marta is my last favorite von Trapp. "Pussywillow!" is like my least favorite lien in the whole thing. ICK. And Julie taught them to say it bakcwarsds, (supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, that is) and yeah, of course I spell tha tright. What even. Angela Cartwright has not maybe aged so well.
Are we oing to skate over Heather Menzie's Playboy...thing? I guess so. And maybe her movie with Julie? I don't know, it just went to commercial break. We'll see.
PRAH LEARN YOUR FUCKING FACTS ABOUT ANGELA CARTWRIGHT.
Oh, okay, we get the playboy reference. wtfever. She did a movie with Julie again. Let's talk about that.
I WANT TO WON THAT BOOK SO MUCH. THERE IS SO MUCH I DON'T KNOW THAT WILL BE IN THAT BOOK.
(is it bad that when I go home, I want to go stalk Debbit Turner [even though I don't ike Marta TA ALL?]) because amybe I can say nice things ang det a mention in her book?
I am so sad I was not alive to ever get to see The Julie Andrews Hour? That would have made my life etter. Thank ogd for YouTube.
ow much must the great grandchildren hateh aving to ewear taditional garb to sing anything? anyway, my parents saw a real von trapp when they went to the lodge. I hoped they would steal one fo rme, but they just bought me an mug and some mapel sugar candy That was pretty satisfacotyr.
FUN FACT ABOUT ME: MONTAGES ALWAYS MAKE ME CRY.
(this is not a lie. On "pokemn" there was a montage of Ash's oment s tiwht Pikachu and it made me cry like a abby. What even. ANYWAY I'm crying now. That is what montages due to me.)
I might have to watch SoM now. I don't watch it that often because then I just ony want to watch it. To the exculistion of tevethina else. Lokk, i don't even know. I've had almost a hwole bottle fo whine right now, so whagever, I don'te ven onknow.
FUCK I WANT THAT BLURAY THING SO MCUH. HAND IT ON"D TEVEN HAVE A BLU-RAY PAYER.
(I don'te ven know what my typing is right now. wtfever. it's ver. and i still hate opra.)
BUT I LOVE JULIE ANDRAWEAS>
Yeah, that last word was Andrews. Deal with it. And apparently I type "drunking" when I mean to type "drinking" - I kind of like that.
ETA: I just remembered that after the interview was over, I drunkenly decided to clean my bathroom. It looks pretty good. I just ooze class.
I'm going to start things out by saying that I should not have mde my facebook status anything to do with this because that inspired my extended family to make comments on it. I hate when they make jokes on my facebook status because then I don't know if I should respond or what. This is due in large part to the fact that I haven't seen most of them since I was in, like, ninth grade. (Actually one of them lives in Australia and the last thing I remember him doing is giving me a pencil with a koala bear over the eraser and Ithought it was the coolest thing ever, so that should give you an idea of my age at the time. (Although I think Silly Bandz are pretty kick ass so WHATEVER)
(I'm also not going to fix any of my typos because I think that adds to te experience. I generally think of myself as a pretty good drunk typer. Typust. Typist. So we'll see.)
Look. I hate Orpah, okay (typo defo stays because that's what she was supposed to be named and they wrote it wrong on her birth certificate). And stickypearls you were right. That is batshit. What even, Oraph. Okay, her name is really hard to type. Anyway. Calm the fuck down, Oprah (that took a little bit to get right).
I was going to make this a drunking game and take a drnk every time they said something I already knew. But then I would have downed an entire bottle of wine by now. SO I'M JUST DRINKING.
I really want to tfind the Sound of Music. HAH. She just said "Georg von Trapp" but it definitely sounded like Gaylord. Gaylord Weiner (That's a "Glee" reference).
Time for a tangent because Oprah is talking and I don't care. OH WAIT I DO BECAUSE THERE'S JULIE AND CHRIS. I love them sfm. I will say that Oprah's presence here is akin to Raven's presenec in The Princess Diaries 2. AKA it ruins my Julie time.
I want these two people to be my gradnparedn. ts. Wtf even is that typing. Oprah is saying stupiuf stuff again, so whatever. I want to take issue with the video on Oprah's website that says something about interviews with SoM's biggest fans. I AM THE MOVIE'S BIGGEST FAN. I defy anyone to be a bigger fan than I am.
I love that they showed pictures of "My Fair Lady." ALWAYS SHOW PICTURES OF "MY FAIR LADY." That's a rule I have. Also Nicholas Hammond (Friedrich) was, like, the only kid who knew about Julie's Broadway roots when they filmed. Maybe they talk about that later, but whatever. CHRIS IS BLOWING A WHISTLE! (insert comment about him blowing my whistle)
Okay, so when I was searching for videos, all that came up with was stupid Lea Michele singing "My Favorite Things." That was SO ANNOUING. Especially because I don't like when stupid little young people do Juie convers. (Also, when Emma sang "I Could Have Danced All Night," the place where I get my "Glee" stuff was all, "Oh, here's the original, Frank Sinatrya sanf it." WHAT EVEN.) (I am wondering now if my typos are because I'm tipsy or just because I'm typing quickly not to miss anything and because I made a vow not to correct typos (except sometimes I do it anyway becase it is my natural instintct. Really. I'm trying not to correct things. Whatever, I dont' know the point of this set of parentehsis)excetp there is another parentheseis.)
True facts, I have that mp3 of Julie singing. Or at least one mp3 of her singing as a thirteen year-old. And whenever anyone talks about Julie's voice surgery I legitimately get really upset. Like it makes me tear up. And now I need to watch Despicable Me.
OPRAH. STOP ASKING ABOUT THAT OPENING SCENE. SHE TOLD YOU ABOUT IT WHEN SHE WAS ON YOUR SHOW ABOUT SHREK. Either Oprah has a bad memory, or Julie has a bad memory and this is the only thing she remembers. MAYBE BECAUSE SHE DRANK TOO MUCH SCHNAPPS.
"When did you know your voice was a gift?" that is the fucking dumbest question ever. I hate Oprah. HOMG, if Julie had gone on tour with Victor/Victoria, I DEFINITELY would have made my parents take me to see it (for real, I still hold a grudge against them for not taking me to the world premiere. IT WAS IN MINNEAPOLIS.)
THIS IS THE SADDEST INTERVIEW ever. I am legitimately SUPER upset. This is not a lie. I love Julie sfm that I can't even deal with this right now. This plus alcohol is not the best thing. I'm so fucking sad. I'm going to go read "The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles" later. what the fuckever. I hate Oprah for makign me cry. WHo does she think she is? Barbara?
DEAR ROSIE O'DONNELL, I LOVE YOU BUT I AM A BIGGER FAN OF THE MOVIE THAN YOU (okay, I typed that before I knew that her mom had died, so now I'm feeling a little bad about that, but whatever. I can't take it back now. I still am a bigger fan. DO YOU HAVE MULTIPLE BOOKS ABOUT THIS? DID YOU RECITE IT TO YOUSRELF AT NIGHT WHEN YOU SUFFERED FROM INSOMNIA?) At least once a year? I could watch it once a week. Excpet I don't because I get super addicted. SoM is like my crack. No lie. There was a summer I watched it ever y fcuking day. This is not an exaggeration. Except I stop after the weeding because I don't really care about the Nazi part. I meana, I do, but it's less Julie, and so I don't care.
I love Christopher Plummer sfm. He's the most attractive thing ever. I FORGOT HE WAS IN UP. I will rewatch that too. I cant' believe they forgot to mention "Myst loive dogs" (i'm not even trying to do html tags right now. too much wokr.) anyway. He recites poetyr in that movie. and it's on the soundtrack. and I listen to it a lot.
"You were pretty grouchy about taking the role weren't you?" I hate you Oprah. That could be taking (i need to start this sentence over because I don't'nknwo where I was going) This could be another drinking game - every time I hate Oprah. AGAIN, already drunk if that happened.
Okay, I want Chris and Emma Thompson to make a movie, because if you read Emma's filming diary of Sense and Sensibility, she drinks a lot during that filming (ar at least says she does_ and I think Emma nd Chris being drunking boddies would be te best.
Best miovie musical from any stage play. That is a very specific ocmpliment. And it's true. But it's very specific. Holy fuckyballs, Chris is 80? Now I need to control my pervy thoughts, kind of. ANyway, Chris is like half the reason Captain von Trapp is actually a good character because he sucks in the stage version, so the fact that people love it = I lost my train of thought. Anywya, the mora is that Chris is better than you.
DEAR OPRAH SHOW VIEWERS I HATE ALL OF YOU. SHUT THE FUCK UP.
Okay. Becoming a nun because of SoM trumps me. Okay, and being deaf and the first thing you heard was Julie maybe trumps my expereince a little. WHATEVER. I could tell stories about how I fucking love SoM and Julie Andrews all that. Okay. Vietname war vet. Damn. These stories are better than mine. I HATE YOU, OPRAH.
OH that reminds ME. I am drnking wine out of my new Trapp Family Lodge mug (yep. Wine mug. Love it) My parents got it ofr me in Vermont and it's classy. AND APPROPROTE for the occasion.
OPRAH DON'T SING
If people haven't seen the Mia frrow audtion, then they aren't TRUE fans.
Most popular family in ceinematic history? I'm trying to dispute that, mearely because I hate Oprah and I think that's stupid to say.
CHRIS, DON'T LIE. You and Charmian Carr TOTES had an affair. (I'm like 9-0% sure that happened.)
So I said for sure Julie was goignt o say the helicopter stroy, and my friend said for sure we were hearing about Gretl almost drowning story. AND BOTH HAPPENED. TELL US NEW STORIES. And Kym Karath, you're king od rirtating.
"The little one doesn't swim" I really like that. I don't know why. Probs because Julie said it.
Look, I'm kind of in love with Nicholas Hammond. I won't deny it. I feel so bad that Duane Chase rememberet this great moment between him and Chris is and Chris is all, "Oh, is that what that was?"
Charmian Carr is the best-aged von Trapp child.
"I love Favorite Things" SHUT UP OPRAH THIS IS NOT YOUR MOMENT. I HATE YOU.
Oprah needs to stop trying to sing tidbits of SoM songs. I hate her.
(I really despise Oprah. A lot. It is a testament to my love of SoM that I am watching this. Ugh, Oprah.)
Okay, watching SoM with me is like this behind the scenes look because I say all this stuff while I watch it with peple (which is probably why i don't watch it mwtih beopel all that often (wtf even is that_+)).
Marta is my last favorite von Trapp. "Pussywillow!" is like my least favorite lien in the whole thing. ICK. And Julie taught them to say it bakcwarsds, (supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, that is) and yeah, of course I spell tha tright. What even. Angela Cartwright has not maybe aged so well.
Are we oing to skate over Heather Menzie's Playboy...thing? I guess so. And maybe her movie with Julie? I don't know, it just went to commercial break. We'll see.
PRAH LEARN YOUR FUCKING FACTS ABOUT ANGELA CARTWRIGHT.
Oh, okay, we get the playboy reference. wtfever. She did a movie with Julie again. Let's talk about that.
I WANT TO WON THAT BOOK SO MUCH. THERE IS SO MUCH I DON'T KNOW THAT WILL BE IN THAT BOOK.
(is it bad that when I go home, I want to go stalk Debbit Turner [even though I don't ike Marta TA ALL?]) because amybe I can say nice things ang det a mention in her book?
I am so sad I was not alive to ever get to see The Julie Andrews Hour? That would have made my life etter. Thank ogd for YouTube.
ow much must the great grandchildren hateh aving to ewear taditional garb to sing anything? anyway, my parents saw a real von trapp when they went to the lodge. I hoped they would steal one fo rme, but they just bought me an mug and some mapel sugar candy That was pretty satisfacotyr.
FUN FACT ABOUT ME: MONTAGES ALWAYS MAKE ME CRY.
(this is not a lie. On "pokemn" there was a montage of Ash's oment s tiwht Pikachu and it made me cry like a abby. What even. ANYWAY I'm crying now. That is what montages due to me.)
I might have to watch SoM now. I don't watch it that often because then I just ony want to watch it. To the exculistion of tevethina else. Lokk, i don't even know. I've had almost a hwole bottle fo whine right now, so whagever, I don'te ven onknow.
FUCK I WANT THAT BLURAY THING SO MCUH. HAND IT ON"D TEVEN HAVE A BLU-RAY PAYER.
(I don'te ven know what my typing is right now. wtfever. it's ver. and i still hate opra.)
BUT I LOVE JULIE ANDRAWEAS>
Yeah, that last word was Andrews. Deal with it. And apparently I type "drunking" when I mean to type "drinking" - I kind of like that.
ETA: I just remembered that after the interview was over, I drunkenly decided to clean my bathroom. It looks pretty good. I just ooze class.