chaosvizier

So the other day my good buddy angledge gives me a great Christmas gift: a ticket to join her in Lincoln Center for a Handel's Messiah sing-along.

( Boring post about classical music follows. Click here to laugh at my mediocre singing skillz, yo. )

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I might be extra punchy from stress and lack of rest, but standing here in the office doing my work and suddenly hearing an Indian gentleman break out into Lionel Richie's "All Night Long" is unnaturally hilarious. Maybe it's just me.

So I'm dreaming last night.

( This Way To Fucked Up Dream Storytime )

Just when you thought the world had not yet totally milked J.R.R.Tolkien for all his dessicated corpse is worth, someone came up with this fascinating concept. Now don't get me wrong- I love the Lord Of The Rings. I am a complete geek. I've read the books and seen the movies many many times. But giving it a full-on musical overhaul... well, that's questionable. Some musicals are good- I've enjoyed a good show on Broadway, and Gilbert and Sullivan and Rogers and Hammerstein have produced some memorable numbers here and there. I'd just have a hard time picturing LOTR in musical format.

On the other hand, Mama Mia proved that the works of Abba could, in fact, be transformed into a successful musical, and Cats showed the same thing with the poetry of T.S.Eliot. So, maybe LOTR The Musical isn't such a bad thing... unless left to my deranged songwriting imagination. Like this:

( If you want to see me maul song lyrics, click here. )

Weekend come, weekend gone. And some stuff happened too.

Friday- Saw Matrix: Revolutions again, this time in IMAX format. Why? Because I'm a sucker for shiny fancy technology, and because I wanted to see Monica Bellucci's boobies on as large a screen as humanly possible. Or something like that. Umm... anyway. I liked the movie better the second time around, surprisingly. All my prior reservations and problems with the movie are still there, but I think taken as a whole it's not a total crapfest. I'll still grant that it's nowhere near as good as the first one. They jumped the shark, no question. But it was acceptable. And worth getting drunk to afterwards. Didn't make it back in time for jeffster's party, though. My bad.

Quote of the Day: "KNEEL BEFORE ZOD!" - fizrep/chaosvizier

Saturday- Sleep is good. Not much to add to that. Picked up the Hollands on their flight from Holland, spent the evening hanging out with them and fizrep and my wonderful housemates and, later, halcyon7. They made me feel less foolish by also knocking down the Hello Kitty shower curtain. Heh. Saw Zoolander which was much funnier than I would have given it credit for. Adam Sandler is really not one of my favorite actors- he's just not funny, in general. Owen Wilson did help to make this movie much funnier than it could have been. Played lots of Cranium, which was buckets of fun.

[Edit: I mean Ben Stiller. Not Adam Sandler. They both suck, though, so fuck em.]

Quote of the Day: "No, that would be fucking a clone. Like Anna did." - ghostwriterxx

Quote of the Day:
"I don't want to drink alone. That would make me an alcoholic." - ghostwriterxx
"What do you think THEY are?" - deinemuse, pointing at fizrep and chaosvizier

Today I limp because I did something that messed up my knee. Badly. Ow. I felt it crunch inside and thought, That can't be good for me. And hey, I was right.

[Edit: I also told my parents Sunday that I moved. Several weeks ago. Heh, my bad.]

As a completely irrelevant side note that will satisfy my insatiable curiosity, does anyone reading this actively enjoy classical orchestral/choral music, or am I the only old-fashioned dork here? Brutal honesty is acceptable.