"I Like Long Walks On The Beach, And Those Funky Square Things With All The Words In Them..."
I'm skipping the intro, and going straight to the biggest fangiggle I've had in months. About five minutes ago, I found out who was cast as the caterpillar in the Tim Burton Alice in Wonderland. Ready?
ALAN FRICKING RICKMAN. AS THE GORRAM CATERPILLAR. THINK ABOUT THAT FOR FIVE SECONDS. OMFGASDFGHJKL; TIM BURTON STOP BEING SO AMAZING ARGH AASDFGHJKLJHGFDSDFGHJKLKJHGFDFGH~
*sigh* Ok. So, Johnny Depp is the Mad Hatter, this I knew. Helena Bonham Carter is the Red Queen; I would only assume she was in it. And then you know who is the White Queen is? Anne Hathaway. That was sort of a surprise; I'm glad, though. I like her alot, and she hasn't been in anything that great recently. SO. I just wondered... Is Alan maybe becoming a part of the Tim Burton crowd? OOOOOOOH THAT WOULD BE SO GREAT~
BUGMAN!ALAN ON CRACK!
So. *giggle* Ok, I'm good now. Anyway, while I'm on the topic of Tim Burton, I finally saw Sweeny Todd. At Kenny's house, actually, at the end of Christmas vacation. Surprisingly, I didn't geek out as much as I thought I would: only during Alan's two singing bits. I mean, I didn't dislike it by any means. I guess Alan was just so evil, and creepy rather than snarky. Come on, he was creepy, and totally sketchy/stalker-like/child-molester. BUT I did love By the Sea; I couldn't help but think of the buttfacemakani pic with Bella and Voldie... Also, we told Erica that NPH played Toby once, and so she kept screaming that he was going to die, and freaking out every time he showed up, and we were just like, "THAT'S NOT NPH, DEARIE." Also, Borat makes me laugh. Now back to the Misadventures of Sev and Wally!
Newsflash! Snape wants to be the pope!
Really. But anyway, my mum has since finished it. I did read this one little part where Waleran came up with this battle plan, and William was all, "YEAH, LET'S GO SLAUGHTER SOME PEOPLE!" and Wally was just like, "Erm... You can... You know... Go without me. Please." Oh, also? I did find a bit that mentioned how he hardly eats anything. And I'm like, 'Heh. I knew that was totally in-character.' But he really was evil, whereas Sev is not, so you know. He ended up having something to do with this plot that killed some guy, and something about dethroning the king, and apparently it was really easy to guess what it was.
You know what kind of drove me nuts, though? The way this guy writes dialogue is weird. It's like it goes, "Waleran said: 'Wow, why am I a snarky, evil bishop and not a snarky, not-really-evil professor?'" It's really funky with the colon and all.
Okay. So, I might have liked the first one better, but I really like the second one too. I guess I like them both for different reasons. As for Golden Army... First off, after Voldemort died, Lucius got bored, somehow became an elven prince, learned to be a ninja, and renamed himself Nuada. Really. Also, he became a Pokemon Master, all, "FOREST GOD, GO!!!" And Abe all, "Oh no! Grass type beats water type!" And then, " HELLBOY, GO!!! USE FLAMETHROWER!"
My only complaint, actually, is the sad lack of Abe!smoochies. I can imagine Hellboy later, "Hey. There are other fish in the sea." "YOU ARE NOT FUNNY, RED." *cue creepyface!Abe* But him listening to the sappy love songs was soooooooo amazing and cute, and I was giggling like a madwoman. I could go and quote the whole thing, but... "'Track eight." "'Can't Smile Without You?'" "I know..." "Yep, I'm gonna need a beer too." It's just amazing and I do love it. (Also, I found the scene on Youtube and showed it to my mum, and now she doesn't hate Hellboy so much.)
Krauss I'm suprisingly enamored with. Between beating on Red and being all angsty about not being human anymore, I just kinda like him. I don't know if I like him enough to go on the List, but... Hey.
Hm... Ninja elves or ninja Nazis... To be honest, I think Nuada wins here.
ABE HOW CAN YOU BE A FISHMAN AND STILL BE SO CUTE!?!?
(Yeah, I guess I do like this one better.)
Ok, this is weird, I saw Anthony Stewart Head in Sweeny Todd, David Boreanaz on Entertainment Tonight or whatever it was, Alyson Hannigan on How I Met Your Mother (WITH NPH HEEEE!) and Seth Green in, like, everything. It's weird.
So Seth? I personally didn't know I was involved with Robot Chicken. I was just watching the Star Wars special, and then in the commentary or whatever I was like, "OMG IT'S OZZZZZZZZ!!!!!" And my dad was just like, "whut?" And then he stopped and pointed out that he was in the Scooby Doo movie. And I was like, "OMG YESSSSSSSSSSSS~" And it was just this general fangirling. God, he's been in everything! (Including Sesame Street! I couldn't find it on youtube, although... http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Seth_Green )
Anyone ever see Ask a Ninja? "What is the difference between ninjas and crazy people? Ninjas throw shurikens and spears! Crazy people throw tantrums and poop. Ninjas have the stamina to fight for days and days and days! Crazy people have the stamina to argue with a piece of macaroni for a year. Ninjas say 'hiya!' before they attack! Crazy people are known for saying 'whoop-whoop-nanny-nanny-baloolooloolooloooooo!' before they pee their pants. Ninjas train constantly to stay in peak physical form! Crazy people, however, make a conductor's hat out of a ham sandwich and drive a cafeteria tray around like it's a choo-choo train."
"So he was out on Broadway, when I was on the soaps,
Who's got the high score on Ninja Ropes?
Who's got a bullet-proof car like the Pope's?
Look at Neil mackin',
So sad he's so lackin',
He makes seven figures, and gets Emmy nods,
I make seven layer bean dip for the Gods,
I'm also in Halo 3, what are the odds?"
The Commentary is crazy amazing. Better Than Neil I think might be my favorite, but The Art is great too. (It will be quite the day when I can finally do Felicia's thing there with the hair and the cheese and the Guild second season...) Also, I was surprised that I liked Zack's Rap so much, but I guess I do. "I'm the youngest!" Oh, and lastly? I want to get an iPhone just so I can play Ninja Ropes and beat 'one-nineteen-point-seven yards.'
Again, this was forever ago, but I have a few tidbits about this trip to the Boston Science Museum that I went on with Echo. First of all, bears smell funny. Also, they had a mythical creatures exhibit, and hence Kraken jokes abounded. Of course, we thought of our dear friend Kaylee in the griffin bit, and then Nancy Drew/ the Halloween sleepover when it came to Chupacabra. There was also small bit about kappas, which- contrary to Snape's beliefs- are in fact Japanese. (Although, I don't blame him for not knowing much about them. Really. I'd like to point out that if they want to eat someone, they first suck out the person's soul through their butt. Look it up on Wiki, I swear.)
There were also- and I counted- three Pokemon references. My favorite one was a poster about this kid talking about them, and it went something like, "My favorite is Gengar, this funky purple one that eats dreams." So yes, it was very productive.
I've been singing Sound of Music, like, a ton. Do you think we could give Snape a guitar and make him sing Eidelweiss? We already know from Sweeny that he can sing... (XDDDDDDDDD SORRY: THIS IS HOW I THINK~)
I've added House and Dr. Chase to my List, because, you know, they're cool. They aren't very high up, but still.
You know you're turning into Echo's little sister when people from the Constitutional Convention are showing up on your List. I was studying for my history midterm, and I found this blurb about James Madison. Basically, he was like a little shoebox!Remus. You know, he was always reading, and he was sort of quiet and cute and good at being the research-guy and... Well, Remus-y. I can just see it: "Um... Mr. Washington, sir? I was reading last night, and I found this really interesting chapter about Ancient Rome, and it gave me a good idea, but it might not be so good, I'm not sure-" And Ben Franklin all, "Out with it, boy!" "Right! Yes, so I was thinking..." Hee. <3
On the same page, I was still studying in art, and I was talking about this one thing with my friend Emily. Basically, during the war between France and Britain, this guy called Citizen Genet was stirring up the Americans to join the French. And Washington was all, "Hey, we're not getting involved here." So Genet set up this whole meeting and basically dumped on Washington. Emily said, "So he said to Washington, 'So go away, or we shall be forced to taunt you a second time!'"
Of course, Mr. Hanchett noted that Genet was then "forcibly removed from the country" which Ellie translated to "drop-kicked across the pond."
I want to point something out here. Trauma Center? Back when we were playing it at the Fantastic Five sleepover, we looked up some sprites and were horrified to see the similarities between our/my favorite Kassal brother and a certain lavender-suited defense attorney...
That is frightening.
I'll be back later with some updates on the Snapecast episode that I've only just started listening to, and also the dress picture. Hopefully I won't keep waiting so long to do these posts, so I can make them shorter and more manageable!