Pointless Musings
Jan. 11th, 2005 06:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
themostepotenteYeah, just like the title suggests. And besides, there are certain people that count on me for their day's entertainment :P
1.) Phantom of the Opera: I've noticed a good portion of my friendslist has been wibbling over the movie. People, I sure as fuck hope you know that PotO has been around a long time, and like this is NOT a new phenom :P I'm sorry, but I can't get excited over something that's missing two key elements; Michael Crawford and Sarah Brightman. 'Nuff said.
2.) The asshats across the street whose Christmas tree is still visible from the window: Take the fucker down, you lazy sons o' bitches. It's bad enough it's stilll up, but to plug the sucker in?
3.) Kittens that prefer empty toilet paper rolls over 'real' toys: I could make a real killing marketing this :P
4.) On hating the snow and cold: I live in Michigan and I H-A-T-E both. I'm up there in smarts with the dumbshit 'I'm going to leave the Christmas decorations up all year' neighbors :P
5.) On laughing at the idjits smoking out in the freezing cold: *dons nametag* Hello! I'm now one of those fucking idjits! Ah, irony.
More later,
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1.) Phantom of the Opera: I've noticed a good portion of my friendslist has been wibbling over the movie. People, I sure as fuck hope you know that PotO has been around a long time, and like this is NOT a new phenom :P I'm sorry, but I can't get excited over something that's missing two key elements; Michael Crawford and Sarah Brightman. 'Nuff said.
2.) The asshats across the street whose Christmas tree is still visible from the window: Take the fucker down, you lazy sons o' bitches. It's bad enough it's stilll up, but to plug the sucker in?
3.) Kittens that prefer empty toilet paper rolls over 'real' toys: I could make a real killing marketing this :P
4.) On hating the snow and cold: I live in Michigan and I H-A-T-E both. I'm up there in smarts with the dumbshit 'I'm going to leave the Christmas decorations up all year' neighbors :P
5.) On laughing at the idjits smoking out in the freezing cold: *dons nametag* Hello! I'm now one of those fucking idjits! Ah, irony.
More later,
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Date: 2005-01-11 03:27 pm (UTC)Does being a fan for about...five years count? (Or would the proper term be "phan"?)
As for Crawford and Brightman....I rather adore Crawford, which is why I have the Original London Cast. But he's not the reason I like the show. Actually the first production I ever saw of it (a national tour) had a better Phantom than Crawford. I kid you not.
And I could do without Sarah Brightman ever having been born, no offense. I much prefer Emmy Rossum's voice.
Have you seen the film yet? It's worth a look you know.
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Date: 2005-01-11 03:32 pm (UTC)I'll accept five years :-)
And I could do without Sarah Brightman ever having been born, no offense. I much prefer Emmy Rossum's voice.
OMG woman, take it back! I love Sarah Brightman. Her voice. Her beauty.
I saw Phantom in Toronto ages ago at the Pantages Theatre. And I'm talking like 15 years ago.
The movie? Eh, It'd be a tough sell. The movie to me is like the fucking cliffnotes of the musical. It just doesn't follow the same.
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Date: 2005-01-11 03:39 pm (UTC)And if someone sees the movie and through it discovers the wonder of the stage show? Is there something wrong with that?
OMG woman, take it back!
Nevah.
The movie to me is like the fucking cliffnotes of the musical.
It's actually not. You should give it a chance. There are only about...four major changes made, two are additions, one moves an event from one part to another, and only one is actually an omission, and only a partial one at that.
I mean, heavy cutting is, imo, the biggest fear when translating a stage show to film, but there really wasn't any heavy cutting for Phantom.
And it was filmed beautifully.
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Date: 2005-01-11 03:43 pm (UTC)So was Peter Jackson's interpretation of Lord of the Rings.
It still wasn't Tolkien.
Which reminds me, I forgot to bitch about the fucktard that doesn't know the Ages of Middle Earth from a hole in the ground :P
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Date: 2005-01-11 03:45 pm (UTC)And I don't think I'm going to get into an argument about LotR, except to say you're right, it's not Tolkien, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have artistic merit, and isn't a valid interpretation of Tolkien. No one ever claimed it actually was Tolkien.
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Date: 2005-01-11 03:49 pm (UTC)Boy, you and
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Date: 2005-01-11 03:51 pm (UTC)Haha! I'm very flattered. I've spent long hours figuring all this stuff out. XD
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Date: 2005-01-11 03:30 pm (UTC)i was in borders the other day. they were blasting brightman at me. i do not like her voice, particularly when she duets with people like bocelli, who don't need her.
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Date: 2005-01-11 03:35 pm (UTC)Sorry to butt in but I totally agree. Hell, Bocelli doesn't even need instrumental accompaniment.
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Date: 2005-01-11 03:40 pm (UTC)good point. :D
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Date: 2005-01-11 03:35 pm (UTC)Did I mention the tree went up before Thanksgiving?
i was in borders the other day. they were blasting brightman at me. i do not like her voice, particularly when she duets with people like bocelli, who don't need her.
Blasphemy!
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Date: 2005-01-11 03:37 pm (UTC)ah, no, i didn't notice if you did. guess they just realllly like christmas. huh.
>Blasphemy!
oops! chiedo scusi, prego! ;)
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Date: 2005-01-11 03:31 pm (UTC)2. I have dreamt of driving around with a beebee gun, shooting out Christmas lights. There ought to be a law that these things come down on January 2nd.
3. My cats have an astounding attachment to the little plastic rings that come off of a gallon of milk.
4. I have no comment. I live in California. Where it's been raining forever.
5. Hello idjit. I'm an idjit too.
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Date: 2005-01-11 03:36 pm (UTC)Lon's really oldschool :-)
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Date: 2005-01-11 03:40 pm (UTC)Mmm Lon. *thumbs-up*
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Date: 2005-01-11 03:42 pm (UTC)TP rolls, the plastic rings off milk containers, bread tags, and twist-ties. You'd make a mint.
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Date: 2005-01-11 03:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-11 03:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-11 03:53 pm (UTC)I need mah Q-ball!
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Date: 2005-01-11 04:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-11 04:03 pm (UTC)Pretty, though. I don't mind.
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Date: 2005-01-11 04:05 pm (UTC)Look at all of the 'Christmas In July' sales stores have.
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Date: 2005-01-11 04:17 pm (UTC)Don't forget milk rings and those little clear caps on sport bottles.
And I once had a neighbor who left their (real) Christmas wreath on their front for 3 years. Same wreath.
We finally called the fire department, who made them take it down.
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Date: 2005-01-11 04:34 pm (UTC)I think I would have stolen it off their door for shits and giggles :P
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Date: 2005-01-11 04:55 pm (UTC)...but we thought about it. *g*
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Date: 2005-01-11 04:31 pm (UTC)But I took care of #4. Neener-neener-neener. Livonia does not miss me one iota. And vice-versa.
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Date: 2005-01-11 04:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-11 04:35 pm (UTC)I saw Phantom in NYC five years ago in '99. And then saw the movie version a month ago at BNAT. I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised by how closely the movie was to the stage version.
Now I have been a fan of the whole Phantom thing since 1987 when I got my mom to get me the soundtrack. I wore those cassette tapes out.
Also here is another thing your post reminded me of. I grew up in a fairly small city. (about 10,000) and there was one main road to get to the grocery store and so forth. One year when I was 13 I noticed this house on the road with their Xmas tree still up in the picture window in mid January. And then I noticed it again in Feb. and so I kept looking and by golly that tree was up the whole year around until the next Xmas. *bg* But alas they didn't turn the lights on July or anything.
My Xmas crap is down and put away on the 2nd of January. It is the one thing I am really anal retentive about.
I live in the snow belt region of Ohio. 50 miles from Lake Erie. I feel your pain sweetie.
lol.
<3
~me
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Date: 2005-01-11 04:42 pm (UTC)I saw Phantom in NYC five years ago in '99. And then saw the movie version a month ago at BNAT. I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised by how closely the movie was to the stage version.
Now I have been a fan of the whole Phantom thing since 1987 when I got my mom to get me the soundtrack. I wore those cassette tapes out.
I originally had the London Cast Recording on cassette. I would have purchased it on CD, but that wasn't an option when I bought it.
I'm just not keen on turning a stage production into a movie.
And gah -- my hands are frozen. How many more days until spring?
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Date: 2005-01-11 04:54 pm (UTC)I never was able to afford seeing the play but I had the highlights of it for years.
However, the movie makes it much more accessible to me. So, um, there.
Plus, sorry, Michael Crawford does not compare in the looks department to Gerard Butler.
I used to just faint that Michael Crawford could even sound like that. All I can think of is him as the little squeaky guy in Hello Dolly.
so, nyah.
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Date: 2005-01-11 05:04 pm (UTC)You stick that out, you'd better use it. *G*
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Date: 2005-01-11 08:26 pm (UTC)The key element that the movie is missing for me is Steve Barton. :-( But he died some years ago, so...
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Date: 2005-01-11 11:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-11 09:58 pm (UTC)From my experience, they prefer emptyING toilet paper rolls, heheh, into messy piles and confetti all over the bathroom and adjacent rooms. Also, they love balls of tin foil, those silly puddy eggs with all the puddy pushed down to the bottom so it wobbles but doesn't fall over when they kick it around, the caps to cheap ballpoints,
and foreign films,and all sorts of other crap. I think they know when you've bought the toy. They don't like them too 'manufactured.'no subject
Date: 2005-01-11 11:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-12 01:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-12 03:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-12 03:04 am (UTC)But oh, the film is pretty even if some of the orchestrations are dubious. To me, during the Phantom of the Opera song, it sounds like there's some mad banjo player on crack strumming away.
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Date: 2005-01-12 03:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-13 10:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-12 05:27 am (UTC)2.) I'm an asshat! *grins* But, it's also tradition in Sweden to have the stuff up until 20 days after xmas (which we celebrate on the 24th, just to be annoying). Which means that... I have to take it down today! *wail*
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Date: 2005-01-12 03:38 pm (UTC)Well, that's different. It ain't like that here. I'd really be afraid if it was. People would have their shit up through spring :P
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Date: 2005-01-12 06:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-12 03:40 pm (UTC)Oh, and Illinois can be just as cold if not colder at times.
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Date: 2005-01-12 09:42 pm (UTC)Chicago: it's fucking cold without all the pretty snow.
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Date: 2005-01-13 01:01 am (UTC)And we are both about 4 hours drive from Chi-town.
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