just passed the tv room in time to see aragorn's face on the screen (ben was watching). ran in, noticed it was E! and thought, "yes! i've caught the E! LotR episode or special or whatever it is." then the people started to talk about orlando. and talk. and talk. and then they cut to a commercial, promising stuff about the rich people with tv shows when we come back.
i didn't want orli, and i don't care about the rich girls! give me good ol' dom and billeh LotR.
one week, chillens!
in other news, ben is home for winter/xmas/chanukah break. he's taking bartending classes so that he can get a job when he goes back to school and get some dough in his pocket.
in other other news,
myOHmy moodyblue (5:11:13 PM): I SAW IN THE NEWSPAPER THAT ASSASSINS IS COMING BACK TO BROADWAY- TAKING CABARETS PLACE.
hurrah! that's more like it.
roguebunhead, you and i are SO going to see it togetha! but it makes me sad because there's no way that whoever they get to play the balladeer will have as sexy a voice as Patrick Cassidy (looked him up at the sondheim reference guide, lol).
oh, and
roguebunhead? i believe i'll be well enough by saturday. feeling better now.
next order of business: may i congratulate
ladybug_love and
_cashmere on their new marimbaby. and yes, half the reason that i am addressing this is so that i have the oppurtunity to say "marimbaby" on my LJ.
note: i don't want to offend any christians. or jews. or any denomination, really. /note
hmm.....probably would have had a better time if i had known that the Salvation Army was a christian organization. it's ridiculous, because i was in guys and dolls, and the sarah's mission was the exact same thing. yet i did not realize. it's irritating, because every family member that i tell it to goes "of course they're christian! it's the salvationarmy." DUH. it's just that i thought the salvation could be saving people from hunger or cold or homelessness or something. i didn't realize it also involved saving them for jesus.
anyway, we got to NJPAC at about six, and we got divided into dressing rooms. which we didn't exactly need because we weren't changing clothes, but it was cool to have a place to put our stuff, with a mirror and a bathroom and even a shower. jess and ana and katie and i were the first ones in our dressing room, so we got to claim chairs in front of the mirror. très cool. thanks to
ladybug_love for french braiding my ugly, ugly hair.
after some time hanging out in there, we went to the stage for soundcheck. they needed to move three altos into the three alto seats in the front row, and it ended up being me, kamakshi, and raisa. WOOP! i plan to be in the first row for the rest of my life. :D people always talk about shortness like it's a curse, but i love it. it was esp cool last night because i was front and center, so i knew people would be able to see me. i wanted to be one of those animated singers that people always look at because they're enjoying themselves.
after the soundcheck, during which mr. morden was a big loser, we went back up to the dressing rooms. when it was time to go to the show, we tried to organize ourselves into rows and failed miserably. but the first row people knew what we were doing ::high fives::
i was not nervous at all. surprising, because i normally get nervous about everything. but really, i was as cool as a cucumber(bund. shoutouts to tyler on that).
so the band played a song, and then some guy got up and started making this speech about the concert and christmas, and as he talks i'm noticing that he's saying stuff like "jesus christ, our lord" and i was like....okay. eventually, he started saying something and everyone bowed their heads, which made me really uncomfortable. i didn't want to bow my head, but i didn't want to stick out, so i just tried to tilt it a little and look at the floor. but i was thinking "they didn't tell us there were going to be prayers or anything like that."
the band played some, we sang some, these people did some skits. everything was christmas oriented, except for when we sang "light the candles." i wish they had taken it out, because by then it was obvious that this was a christian concert, and it was like, "who are you singing the chanukah song for? the poor misguided jewish choir parents like
mandamanda's who ended up in the audience?" it was the only non-christian thing in the whole concert.
more skits, more singing, more band. one of the skits was of a guy who had been playing a fed ex worker talking about all the xmas presents that never make it to the recipients. and then he started talking about how he obvioudly wasn't really a fed ex worker, but he had found the lord. he told us this story about how his daughter had asked him a few days ago if she was going to live for a zillion years. and at first he thought that was just such a cute innocent little question, and then he said "yes, you are, because you believe in jesus" or something along those lines. ::felt uncomfortable again::
this was the concert that never ended. i think it may be one of the only concerts that i was ever bored at, if not the only.
so mrs. hamilton had warned us that near the end, we might be singing along with the audience for some xmas songs the band was going to play. but apparently the band conductor also wanted us to stay standing, which felt like we were still on display, which bothered me because we didn't know what we were singing. then the band launches into some song, and i hear all these voices singing, and i have never heard this song before in my life. apparently the words were in the program, but i didn't think of grabbing one because two had been put on kamakshi's seat and none on mine, and i didn't think i needed one. so i just attempted to mouth words that i didn't know. that was an adventure. :D (and the song was something about bethlehem. i don't remember the full title, but i found it out later.) but can you say awkward? <<--hehe, i didn't say "uncomfortable"! praise me.
then we sang deck the halls and silent night, and i was amused because i knew the words to some of the less well known verses better than some christians. thank you jazz choir!
then we had to remain standing (my feet/knees hurt enough standing for the number of songs we usually sing. having to stand for this extra crap too was annonying, even if we had breaks in between) so that this guy could give a benediction, which involved more bowing of the heads and awkwardness.
was happy when we finally sang the finale medley and got the hell off the stage. much ranting took place. mostly by me. but amanda, jess, and katie also took part in it. they all agreed. (one good thing came out of it, though - amanda and i decided that at the jewish xmas party, we're going to march up to our parents and say, "mom, dad, we've found jesus.
.....
.....he was in a fed ex box!"
...well, we thought it was funny.
but i have to say, it's not really the religious stuff that bothers me. it was the fact that we were completely uninformed about it. from all i had heard, i thought it was going to be a normal concert - we sing, the band plays, we leave. the end. there were no clues that there were going to be benedictions and head-bowing and random xmas songs that jews don't know. either amham knew and wasn't telling us for a reason that i can't guess at, or NJPAC knew and didn't tell her, or NJPAC didn't know what they were doing at all. in any case, it seems very poorly organized.
i'm kind of glad that my parents couldn't come. mom said she was glad, too, when i told her. lol. i feel bad that
mandamanda's parents spent fifty bucks to see an xmas concert.
[edit] stolen from
mandamanda's journal:
'So last night was the NJPAC concert. Okay, since when was it suppossed to be a Christian Worship Service? I felt so uncomfortable. It was all like "Kneel down and accept Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior!" Um, hi, Jew.'
hahahahah! [/edit]
to sum it up, it amuses me that amham kept telling us to do well and behave because "don't you want to be invited back?" and after last night, i think the answer would have to be NO.
wow, that was muuuuch longer than it needed to be.
whew.
today i stayed home and i'm freaked that teachers are giving so much hw.
usaangel917 (9:00:49 PM): did i tell you about frazier assigning an essay due the 18th?
usaangel917 (9:00:54 PM): or did jess or someone?
shootingstars720 (9:01:06 PM): YEAH! I HAVE ONE DUE THE 18th TOO!!!!! AAAAAAHH!!!!!
usaangel917 (9:01:10 PM): ew!!
usaangel917 (9:01:24 PM): it's like.... "helloooo, it's the day after RotK, we have BETTER things to do!"
shootingstars720 (9:01:25 PM): geez...ms frazier, way to be a JERK!
that quote made my day.
...still missing why she's everyone's favorite teacher.
although i am excited about reading Macbeth. it's the bloodiest shakespeare play. i read the third witch in the first scene; i'd like to play a witch again because i think i'm one of the only people who would read it in a weird voice instead of just a quiet one. i'm DYING to read in a scottish accent, only i can't do one. ::cries:: i want a scottish accent so badly and i can't get it!!
::glares at
roguebunhead:: don't you even start with me.
gonna go frolic 'round. can't WAIT for the weekend. even if i do need to write an essay (thanks a LOT, frazier).
-lani
p.s.
might as well tell my PSAT score because i believe my entire class heard. 75 in verbal, 59 in math, and 65 in the writing that doesn't count. for now, that translates into an SAT score of 1340. which is fine, apparently, but i thought i'd get higher because i took the SATs a few years ago and got a 1230. thought i would have improved more. i at least want to equal ben's score.
night, chillens.