Clearly...
While I'm well aware that parents get mad at their children for staying awake until (in their minds) obscene hours of the night/the wee hours of the morning, I'd like to believe that my mother is the only mother in the world to get mad at her 23 year old for staying up until 2 in the morning to finish watching West Side Story on Turner Classic Movies. Oh, and I never got to finish it. Turning off the TV and coming upstairs was the only way to get her to stop screaming. I don't get it. Sometimes I think my father and I are the only people in this household who think rationally.
Me, watching a musical on TV until 2 A.M., volume low, not singing along, everyone sleeping.
Mother, yelling at me from the top of the stairs to go to bed, waking up my father who has to be up in 2 and a half hours and forcing a response back up from me.
Pick your poison. I'd like to think that the former option creates less noise and a friendlier environment for everyone to function in.
Also, on the note of West Side Story, since this is my first time watching it...or at least a large chunk of it...what's with all the terrible singing? And bad accents? And "Puerto Rican" girls who really just look like run of the mill white girls with poofy black wigs and all over spray on tans? Seriously...this is supposed to be a classic. While some lines and some parts of the show and songs did amuse me (some parts were rather witty...I chuckled inside) I just didn't find it to be as appealing as grade 12 vocal jazz class made it out to be. OH! And I found that "America" song quite funny considering the financial state America is in now. I'm CLEARLY biased but...why would anyone want to emigrate there these days anyway? Especially when Canada is so much better and not that much farther away.
Would I watch it again? You bet your cholita ass I would!! This hot mess is so entertaining at stupid o'clock in the morning all alone.
Until the mother with the real latin accent breaks into your mental, musical theatre high, that is.
Me, watching a musical on TV until 2 A.M., volume low, not singing along, everyone sleeping.
Mother, yelling at me from the top of the stairs to go to bed, waking up my father who has to be up in 2 and a half hours and forcing a response back up from me.
Pick your poison. I'd like to think that the former option creates less noise and a friendlier environment for everyone to function in.
Also, on the note of West Side Story, since this is my first time watching it...or at least a large chunk of it...what's with all the terrible singing? And bad accents? And "Puerto Rican" girls who really just look like run of the mill white girls with poofy black wigs and all over spray on tans? Seriously...this is supposed to be a classic. While some lines and some parts of the show and songs did amuse me (some parts were rather witty...I chuckled inside) I just didn't find it to be as appealing as grade 12 vocal jazz class made it out to be. OH! And I found that "America" song quite funny considering the financial state America is in now. I'm CLEARLY biased but...why would anyone want to emigrate there these days anyway? Especially when Canada is so much better and not that much farther away.
Would I watch it again? You bet your cholita ass I would!! This hot mess is so entertaining at stupid o'clock in the morning all alone.
Until the mother with the real latin accent breaks into your mental, musical theatre high, that is.