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I'm still trying to post more and still stumbling over what to actually say. It's weird because I looked back at old posts and of course I just rambled a whole lot and didn't worry about it :-P
Anyway I have a structure for this post (sort of): media I have consumed this week *g*
Starting with YouTube (no, don't run away!)
One Another
Two former strangers recount a life changing event of six year prior. A Sammy Paul film
I watch a lot of YouTube stuff from cooking videos to vlogs to book reviews but I also love some of the short films that people are putting out and this one has really stuck with me. It's 25 minutes long so it really is a short film not a 5 minute thing but it repays the time (IMHO) and also repays rewatching.
Also I just want people to come and talk to me about it.
Then books... I'm slowly making my way through a book of Wisława Szymborska's poetry which keeps catching me in different ways. Some of it's pretty dark but a lot of it is very funny and there's also been some wonderful poetry about poetry which I always love.
I have also just finished reading The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman because once I'd started reading graphic novels it seemed to be one that I had to get to eventually. Reading about the Holocaust with the current news as a background is an interesting experience but I hadn't realised how much of Maus is really about Spiegelman's relationship with his parents and the "present" day. I think I'm going to need a reread at some point.
What else? I'm slowly catching up with No Offense on TV (we're about 3 episodes behind) and I still love the mix of humour and darkness and seriousness. Oh and I finally watched the last part of Sound of Musicals with Neil Brand which was just really joyful and full of things I love. I mean there are hundreds of shows I'd have mentioned that he didn't but that's because 3 episodes just wasn't enough. It's all still on iPlayer for Brits (though episode one only has a couple of days left).
And then finally theatre because I've barely been this year and then I got a desparate plea from a fellow Rainbow leader for an extra helper to take her girls to the Gang Show yesterday.
The St Albans Scout & Guide Gang Show is always a spectacular testimony to what volunteers can create with enough willpower. A stage full of kids who are so talented and who have been given some incredible numbers to work with.
There was a gorgeous dance piece to Defying Gravity, a lovely little Disney medley sung by some of the younger cast members (which hilariously included a Frozen number and which point half the audience joined in and the other half stuck their fingers in their ears!) and my favourite song about a Farmer's Market.
There was also a whole set of numbers in a pet shop, a medley from objects kept under the stairs (opening with a song to the tune of Under the Sea) and a great American medley with songs from Las Vegas, New Orleans, Chicago and West Virginia.
Interestingly seeing it with Rainbows left me more conflicted about the fact that we never take ours. I mean they clearly enjoyed themselves but they were SO fidgetty by the end and I think most would say the ice cream at the interval was the highlight. None of the spoken word bits or clever patter songs worked for them and they tended to get bored in any slow song.
(not to mention there was an In Memoriam section and the girls near me wanted to know what was happening so I said the pictures were of people who died last year and then they used a shot of Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka and I honestly thought for a second we were going to have tears "did Willy Wonka die last year?!")
But it was as good as always and, as always, I had to try quite hard not to burst into tears during If Just One Person in the finale and the big reveal of the whole cast <3
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Anyway I have a structure for this post (sort of): media I have consumed this week *g*
Starting with YouTube (no, don't run away!)
Click to viewOne Another
Two former strangers recount a life changing event of six year prior. A Sammy Paul film
I watch a lot of YouTube stuff from cooking videos to vlogs to book reviews but I also love some of the short films that people are putting out and this one has really stuck with me. It's 25 minutes long so it really is a short film not a 5 minute thing but it repays the time (IMHO) and also repays rewatching.
Also I just want people to come and talk to me about it.
Then books... I'm slowly making my way through a book of Wisława Szymborska's poetry which keeps catching me in different ways. Some of it's pretty dark but a lot of it is very funny and there's also been some wonderful poetry about poetry which I always love.
I have also just finished reading The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman because once I'd started reading graphic novels it seemed to be one that I had to get to eventually. Reading about the Holocaust with the current news as a background is an interesting experience but I hadn't realised how much of Maus is really about Spiegelman's relationship with his parents and the "present" day. I think I'm going to need a reread at some point.
What else? I'm slowly catching up with No Offense on TV (we're about 3 episodes behind) and I still love the mix of humour and darkness and seriousness. Oh and I finally watched the last part of Sound of Musicals with Neil Brand which was just really joyful and full of things I love. I mean there are hundreds of shows I'd have mentioned that he didn't but that's because 3 episodes just wasn't enough. It's all still on iPlayer for Brits (though episode one only has a couple of days left).
And then finally theatre because I've barely been this year and then I got a desparate plea from a fellow Rainbow leader for an extra helper to take her girls to the Gang Show yesterday.
The St Albans Scout & Guide Gang Show is always a spectacular testimony to what volunteers can create with enough willpower. A stage full of kids who are so talented and who have been given some incredible numbers to work with.
There was a gorgeous dance piece to Defying Gravity, a lovely little Disney medley sung by some of the younger cast members (which hilariously included a Frozen number and which point half the audience joined in and the other half stuck their fingers in their ears!) and my favourite song about a Farmer's Market.
There was also a whole set of numbers in a pet shop, a medley from objects kept under the stairs (opening with a song to the tune of Under the Sea) and a great American medley with songs from Las Vegas, New Orleans, Chicago and West Virginia.
Interestingly seeing it with Rainbows left me more conflicted about the fact that we never take ours. I mean they clearly enjoyed themselves but they were SO fidgetty by the end and I think most would say the ice cream at the interval was the highlight. None of the spoken word bits or clever patter songs worked for them and they tended to get bored in any slow song.
(not to mention there was an In Memoriam section and the girls near me wanted to know what was happening so I said the pictures were of people who died last year and then they used a shot of Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka and I honestly thought for a second we were going to have tears "did Willy Wonka die last year?!")
But it was as good as always and, as always, I had to try quite hard not to burst into tears during If Just One Person in the finale and the big reveal of the whole cast <3
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