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use_theforce_em

Ups, Downs and Your Daily Quote of Amusement

Feb 27, 2008 00:40

The Good: We will not have another city show on the 10th. Which means I might actually have the time to finish my papers before break. Also, I got cast in the reading I was called back for. (Note to all OPRF Speech Team alums - the reading is "For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls" by Chris Durang. That's right, guys. The "Glass Menagerie" parody piece ( Read more... )

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use_theforce_em February 27 2008, 07:58:47 UTC

(a) Hell, that's so frighteningly true. I'm actually in a show with a girl who grew up a few towns away from us, and she was randomly talking today about how she tried to do speech team in high school, and suddenly I'm yelling, "Did I envoke the PITR god, or something?"

(b) I'm so obsessed it's not even funny. Well, you know, you've seen how I get about fandom. ;) The appearance of John Simm as the Master also did not help my growing addiction. Aaaand to make matters worse, in order to understand the series better, I've gotten into Classic-era Who. Which is insanely fun, in a Star Trek TOS kind of way. (Gah. Hamlet. I know. Take me with you? I fit in most suitcases! *puppy eyes*)

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use_theforce_em February 27 2008, 08:30:21 UTC

I have indeed ventured there. It is scary, but totally worth it for watching the Doctor progress as a character and creating all sorts of theories about things that only a handful of people care about. XD Warning: this series is constantly being retconned to high hell. Nothing is sacred and things can be confusing as a result. I would say to start on either the Third, Fourth or Fifth Doctor for your first journey into Classic Whodom. Three is the action man who wears opera cloaks and knows akido (also the first Doctor to encounter the Master on screen - and the first Master rocks a lot), Four is the scarf!Doctor who eats jelly babies and bounces about in a jolly manner, and Five is the uber-English, cricket-loving baby-faced one, who always had a nursery full of companions. I personally adore Five and Three the most, at the moment ( ... )

youngcurmudgeon February 27 2008, 07:28:34 UTC

Wait a minute, is that the I AM WOMAN, A DYING SWAN piece? Or is it another one that I can't remember at the moment? In any case, that's hilarious. And a friend and I realized that if you're writing crack-AU fic, speech team works ENTIRELY TOO WELL. Think about it, and name me a fandom you can't write it in. IT'S IMPOSSIBLE. (Kaylee totally does verse, and is confused as to why all the poems are about death and gettin' blown up. Wash's OC would've won state, except he got disqualified for going over time. And let's all give a cheer for Sectional Radio champ Dualla!)

use_theforce_em February 27 2008, 08:07:14 UTC

No, it's the "I call this one stringbean... 'cause is looks like a stringbean" one. Where all the characters were southern and the younger brother had a collection of glass cocktail stirrers?

Oh My God. You're right. John and Chiana were doing so well in HDA until Chiana got them down-ranked for standing on the table. Rygel is the SOS master, yo. The Doctor's PITR group is doing okay, but he keeps getting notes from the judges about him talking too fast. They also don't understand why there are so many funny-talking metal trashcans in the middle of it. Are they metaphors for industrialization and cruel mechanics in place of human contact?

hangingfire February 27 2008, 13:33:00 UTC

AHAHAHA. XD

use_theforce_em February 27 2008, 17:31:16 UTC

That's exactly what he said. XD

phabala86 February 27 2008, 18:36:03 UTC

Oh Stringbean.

Congrats! So which character are you reading for? Speech Team never really does leave us. I was at an audition a month ago in Cleveland and the two guys in the room both were from Illinois and had competed in Speech Team.

FYI, my friends tell me that last years Comic-Con was sold out by the end of March. So either they were just lying to me to peer pressuring me into buying my ticket early, or that's really how this thing rolls. Either way, thought I should give you the heads up.

Hope your sore throat clears up soon.

use_theforce_em February 28 2008, 08:02:09 UTC

"I call this one momma!" *stomp* *stomp* *stomp*

Thanks! I'm playing Amanda, the mother. So I get to talk like Scarlet O'Hara, which makes me happy. But man, I've been running into more people from Chicago who did Speech Team in the past few days. It's kind of creepy.

Hmm, good to know. Hopefully I can convince my parents about this one fast and get the ticket, even when there's no guarantee that we can go....

Now it's become a sinus/congestion thing. Which is still pretty awful, but I think a sore throat is my least favourite thing in the world, so at least it's calming down.