T'eyla Minh

No, seriously, it really was.

( Write-up under here. Photos, etc. )

And that, as you can see, was teH Weekend of Ultimate Gayness.  It was also teH Weekend of Synchronicity, teH Weekend of Ultimate Random, and teH Weekend of 'teH'...

I'm utterly exhausted, but at least my ears have stopped ringing...

Eni, feel free to link the photos.  Er, assuming you don't hate me now. :P

I shall now end this insanely long post...

OMGmoviesqueeprettydeathdead!!

I'll try that one again.  The Corpse Bride trailer, courtesy of bizarre_imagery

Duuuuuuuude.  *staaaaares*

Cinema trip, anyone? :D

(Last post for a while, honest...)

Just been to the website for The Woman in White.  Michael Crawford's barely recognisable. :D  Look!!

It has, however, had some wonderful reviews so far, and as I've said all along, Lloyd Webber really knows how to do Victorian melodrama, and I have absolute faith in him.  And at any rate, seeing anything on the stage it's designed for makes it three-hundred times better than any tour could be, and now I'm really starting to get quite excited... And quite frankly, I think I'm going to dissolve when Michael sings anyway, so the show won't really matter. :)

*squees*

So, I managed to get the first act of Sunset Boulevard before going out, plus about two minuts of Act Two, which leads me to believe there was an interval.  Would have reviewed at the time, but the computer wasn't on.  So, here's something of a review, while I re-listen and make comments.  This will, of course, make no sense if you're not listening a) to the same thing I am and b) in the same way I am.

Before I begin, though: I had my apprehensions and nearly didn't bother trying to tape it because of the hassle involved (it's hassle enough trying to switch tapes without the added bonus of not actually being there to turn them over, hence why I just tried to get what I could with a 90 minute tape.)  With any luck Naomi's managed to fenangle something either with her computer or taping me the second half.  Then I thought, 'Dude, it's got Michael Ball in it', which is reason enough, plus, I've only ever heard Petula 'Award Winning Performance' Clarke singing "As If We Never Said Goodbye" and was quite intrigued as to her portrayal.  Nobody - and I mean nobody - will ever top Faith and Jeremy in my book, just because... well, because.  I've given enough reasons to justify that as an answer.  So.  Here we go.  I shall doubtless not get to bed now til at least 2am, which is somewhat annoying as I want to get up reasonably early to achieve all the things I was meant to have achieved already, and I probably won't get to post this for, oh, another three days, as the network is still playing silly buggers.

Anyway, without further ado: ( A shambolic not-quite-review of the First Act of Sunset Boulevard on Radio 2 )

Right.  Shambolic, for which I apologise, but you were warned.  Want Act Two.  Wonder if I could write to them and ask if they have plans to repeat it...

It's not a patch on the tour.  I'm biased and I admit it.  The tour = satiated Nautica.  The tour = much fic.  The tour = Jeremy + Faith + chemistry + beautiful people + wondrous casting.  The tour = perfection itself.  And Sunset = definitely not good for my health, but we already knew this...  Actually, going back to that 'beautiful people' comment, that's probably part of it I never even considered before.  We all know I think Jeremy's gorgeous (heh, yes, that's how it all started, remember?) but, wow, Faith was just beautiful...  in, like, a really terrifying way.  Those eyes, dude.  And her entire stature and presence just... beautiful and dangerous and rather frighteningly sensual, as even Lloyd Webber noticed, and it worked.  I may follow the other 'ships, but nothing's going to convert me from Joe and Norma, ever.

I... forgot the point I was going to make somewhere in there, but it had something to do with shippiness and was probably pointless anyway. :)  I shall stop now.

Hurrah.  Sunset-nostalgia.

see, the only good thing about really, really bad angsting is that when the PMT finally ends (that's what it was, apparently), i'm ridiculously hyper for days :D

it's christmas! yay! *mad laughter*

right. on sunday i bought the andrew lloyd webber "masterpiece" video (filmed in beijing) here we go :)

"jesus christ superstar" collection:

with someone called tony vincent as judas. he was scary, but very pretty :)

"evita":

with elaine paige, of course :) and i think it's now a pre-requisite for anyone who's ever played norma desmond that they must be able to get down a flight of stairs in one smooth movement...

"the heart is slow to learn":

this is a frelling wonderful song (lyrics to be posted in next entry) and was originally stated by lloyd webber to be in what he "hoped would be the sequel to the phantom of the opera", but it never happened. anyway. it's incredibly annoying, and i wish he'd never bloody told us, because now i just want to know who the frell sings it!! (that, and it's a really good sunset-related song, but that's another point entirely...)

"the beautiful game" snippets:

the overture is nice. but the song he's turned "the heart is slow to learn" into, "let us love in peace", is horrible! which therefore implies that the apparent sequel to phantom isn't, in fact, happening. see, i think he was going to base it on the frederick forsythe novel, realised it was, to coin a phrase, a pile of dren, and decided against it... ;) but anyway. grr...

"cats":

elaine paige singing "memory" still makes me sad, though not as suicidally so. plus it was a very odd version...

"the phantom of the opera" selection:

here we had kris phillips doing the phantom, and he was quite good. as this is merely an introduction to the chinese people into the wonderful world of lloyd webber, however, i will ignore all discrepancies and let them off ;)

"sunset boulevard":

kris phillips again, and i admit to being slightly worried having seen him just playing the phantom. my first thought was 'he looks too old', but then he sang the theme with just the right amount of smart-arse cockiness and won me over ;) then was "the perfect year". what can i say but "awwwwwwow!" it was shippy, shippy, shippy! and elaine paige is tiny (either that or kris phillips is incredibly tall, i'm not sure which) and it was all adorable and wow.... i think i squashed my huggy cushion beyond redemption. i spent the entire thing releasing all the pent-up "eeeeee!"s from seeing the show. it wasn't as ee-worthy as jeremy and faith by any means, but wow... it'll bloody do when i get shippy tango scene cravings :D oh, and she sang "as if we never said goodbye" in yet another completely different way to glenn close and faith brown... and equally well.

the rest is pretty much non-descript. can i say again that tony vincent was preeeddy... ;)

okay, lyrics to "the heart is slow to learn" to follow...

Right. Here we go again:

( Sunday 23rd June 2002 )

well, i'm back from the con. i'm also tired as hell (having only got three hours sleep friday night) and i'm off to eurodisney tomorrow at 7.00, so i must go to bed.

in a week's time, there will be two very lengthy posts here, for the con (which, by the way, simply rocked) and my holiday...

so, until then, mes amies, i shall leave you in suspense and with this quote:

andrew: "i'll give YOU ridges..."
alex: "no you won't..."

(it will all make sense. honest.)

this is the kinda review you want. this is just the kind of nice comments that keep you writing and make you all warm inside.

whoever this person is, i love them :)

"Wow, what can I say, that was an incredibly beautiful piece of descriptive prose, I absolutely luved your handling of that possible scene! It was everything I expected from you, I've read several of your fics before but this is the first time I've actually been moved to comment - which is nothing special on my part I'm just not given to reviewing, it's just that you've completely blown me away with this one and I had to say something:) My god, it was soooo beautiful and definitely tearworthy...makes me think now more than ever how the PTB are going to fix this."

to get someone to review who never reviews - that's one of my aims. to get them to review this nicely is just an added bonus :)

Just how adorable is "Bob and Rose"?

The trailers for the upcoming episodes never fail to make me squeal. I haven't squealed, not properly, since about Season 6 of "The X-Files" (i.e. the one before it all went strange), or since "The Nanny" was still being shown on Sky One.

"Bob and Rose"! More to the point, Alan Davies! Playing a gay man (it SO doesn't work, though... he just doesn't have the look or the voice for it even though he plays the character well...) - what is it with me and gay men??

*squeal*

When this comes around again (say in about 15 years...) I am taping it, definitely...

And, finally... he giggled!! Alan giggled... *SQUEAL!!!*