two movies and where the hell is everyone?
Big giant Happy Birthday to fiyero06 in exactly 42 minutes. Go geekery! XD
Second note: Wow, my LJ circle's been kinda dead lately. Or maybe it's just me. I can't muster enough energy to post most days... am 'bout falling over asleep now, and I still have to study for Precal quiz (sans calculator, gulp) and second half of Physics test tomorrow. Sigh.
Dress rehearsals next week and performances starting Thursday -- also the day of the MSMS math competition. One more week and by 10 Sunday night it'll all be over. No more extracurriculars for the rest of the year, except yearbook work and MSPA competition formalities (don't have to do any more work for it though, phew). Relief is in sight. *steeling self for next week*
News on the media consumption front: two new movies in the last two days, both provided by fiyero06 (all hail). Yesterday -- Mirrormask. OMG. Am speechless. Am giddy and giggly and fangirly and feel seven years old again. ^_^! This is precisely the sort of movie I grew up on -- it struck every humanly imaginable chord a movie can strike with me. (Okay, maybe not all of them, but...) I SO regret not getting to see on the big screen, too, because that would be unimaginably awesome. Score another one for Gaiman and McKean. (McKean gets an extra score for his massive comic Cages, too, although I forgot to mention its awesomeness when I finished it a while back.)
Today -- Rent. Had not gotten any decent incentive to watch it, but watched it anyway and found that it struck various chords also. I understand that everybody must perceive the story their own way, so I know people had been giving me all the reasons why they loved it, and those just happened to be different from the reasons why I loved it. Only a little criticism: could stand to be edited for length (I don't need to be given 15-20 seconds of still-frame to meditate on Roger's angst; I can multitask while the plot progresses), and the dialogue is sometimes heavy-handed (but that's forgivable as the strong points of musical stageplays tend to be the songs and choreography, Rent being no exception). Also, there are about three beginnings and four endings -- a few could stand to be combined. It would flow better -- and it might also please more of the audience, since the "big final ending" spent whole fraught minutes resolving the one plotline I didn't really care about. If more was resolved at once, I think the impact would be greater. But that's just my opinion.
Other than that, loved it -- the songs are brilliant and Collins and Angel are my heroes. Mark's pretty cool, too.
Anyway.
Last thing: BOOK RECS! Wah! Only Tiggy answered my request! Check out the previous post and see if you have any input, pretty pretty please? Thanks! ^_^
Blergh. Time for the sleeping. And then the testing. And then the continued sleeping, probably.
-rave
Second note: Wow, my LJ circle's been kinda dead lately. Or maybe it's just me. I can't muster enough energy to post most days... am 'bout falling over asleep now, and I still have to study for Precal quiz (sans calculator, gulp) and second half of Physics test tomorrow. Sigh.
Dress rehearsals next week and performances starting Thursday -- also the day of the MSMS math competition. One more week and by 10 Sunday night it'll all be over. No more extracurriculars for the rest of the year, except yearbook work and MSPA competition formalities (don't have to do any more work for it though, phew). Relief is in sight. *steeling self for next week*
News on the media consumption front: two new movies in the last two days, both provided by fiyero06 (all hail). Yesterday -- Mirrormask. OMG. Am speechless. Am giddy and giggly and fangirly and feel seven years old again. ^_^! This is precisely the sort of movie I grew up on -- it struck every humanly imaginable chord a movie can strike with me. (Okay, maybe not all of them, but...) I SO regret not getting to see on the big screen, too, because that would be unimaginably awesome. Score another one for Gaiman and McKean. (McKean gets an extra score for his massive comic Cages, too, although I forgot to mention its awesomeness when I finished it a while back.)
Today -- Rent. Had not gotten any decent incentive to watch it, but watched it anyway and found that it struck various chords also. I understand that everybody must perceive the story their own way, so I know people had been giving me all the reasons why they loved it, and those just happened to be different from the reasons why I loved it. Only a little criticism: could stand to be edited for length (I don't need to be given 15-20 seconds of still-frame to meditate on Roger's angst; I can multitask while the plot progresses), and the dialogue is sometimes heavy-handed (but that's forgivable as the strong points of musical stageplays tend to be the songs and choreography, Rent being no exception). Also, there are about three beginnings and four endings -- a few could stand to be combined. It would flow better -- and it might also please more of the audience, since the "big final ending" spent whole fraught minutes resolving the one plotline I didn't really care about. If more was resolved at once, I think the impact would be greater. But that's just my opinion.
Other than that, loved it -- the songs are brilliant and Collins and Angel are my heroes. Mark's pretty cool, too.
Anyway.
Last thing: BOOK RECS! Wah! Only Tiggy answered my request! Check out the previous post and see if you have any input, pretty pretty please? Thanks! ^_^
Blergh. Time for the sleeping. And then the testing. And then the continued sleeping, probably.
-rave