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"It's not the sort of thing you say, to a heavily-armed...Christian." [Oct. 18th, 2006|01:26 am]
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[Voices |The Diva's Lament]

I remember first hearing about it...gosh, it must have been years ago. My dad was reading news and told me, "There's going to be a Broadway musical based on Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Starring Tim Curry and David Hyde Pierce. Guess what it's going to be called? Spamalot."
Well that's a curiosity, I thought. It was like hearing "There's going to be a Lord of the Rings musical" or, you know, "They're making a stage musical of The Lion King!" Interesting, unexpected, something I'd maybe want to know more about, but not something that would ever affect me. Because, you know, New York is an entire world away. :P

Then it came out, and it was huge.
Aaaand now it's touring, if you hadn't already guessed.

Was it awesome? Yes. Would it have gotten as big as it did if it did not have connections to Monty Python? I don't think so.
That is, there's (obviously) a lot of the play taken straight from Holy Grail. But there's also a lot of new stuff, and a lot of musical-spoofing stuff. And while most of the new stuff is good, and some of it is great, all the biggest audience laughs came from the tried-and-true stuff that everyone and their uncle can quote in their sleep.

For something taken off of what is essentially a bunch of loosely-tied-together skits, Spamalot tries to give things a little bit more plot at the beginning but by Act 2 it's just a bunch of completely unconnected bits and songs one after the other. Which is okay, but eh. Also, Sir Bedevere is a completely useless character in this. All the knights have their gimmicks: Robin is the coward, Lancelot is gay, Galahad is cocky (he is also Dennis, that is Dennis becomes Sir Galahad when he is knighted. I don't know why...). Bedevere is... "flatulent". He was a funny character in the movie but he doesn't do anything here.

Notable omissions:
-No witch scene
-No Bridge of Death (didn't bother me very much but apparently it's my dad's favourite scene)
-No Castle Anthrax, though the girls did have a cameo (there was a perfect opportunity to put it in too, right after 'Find Your Grail')
-Always Look on the Bright Side of Life loses some of its effect when no one's actually dying during it.

Miscellaneous things [joke spoilers here]:
-French soldier: "I wave my jungle towel at you!" It was so random.
-"We are now the knights who say... Ecky-ecky-[...]boing...I like big butts and I cannot lie, you other brothas can't deny, when a girl walks in with an itty bitty waist and a round thing in your face, you get sprung! We ain't no hollaback girl!"
-Eponine from Les Mis makes a cameo in the French scene.
-By the end of the show the fourth wall is irreparable from being broken so many times. It's more fun that way.
-"Qu'est-ce que c'est?"
-"What?"
-"What is this?"
-"C'est un lapin...un lapin de bois!"
-"What?"
-"It is a wooden rabbit!"

In general the songs are great (a couple get on my nerves), and they get better after a few listenings to get all the lyrics. Two of the songs the audience acted a little offended at: 'You Won't Succeed on Broadway' and 'His Name is Lancelot'. Lancelot's song is funny on the CD, but in chainmail pants and a codpiece with pink-and-orange mariachi-costumed dancers in front of a big rainbow background it becomes a little (or more than a little) over the top. 'You Won't Succeed on Broadway' ("..if you don't have any Jews") was really funny but everyone was groaning somewhat at the beginning, as if they felt guilty to laugh.

Bottom line, at least 50% of the play is pure gold, and you already know it. The other half is a gamble, most of it is great too but it has a different feel to it.

And that's all I feel like writing tonight. k-gnite.
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omgguesswhat [Aug. 30th, 2006|05:34 pm]
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[Spirits | excited]
[Voices |Regina Spektor - Us]

Squeeeeee!
This afternoon my dad came home with a surprise.
"Got any plans the night of Tuesday, October 17th?" he asks.
Spamalot is coming to town and Dad got tickets this morning Eeeeeeyay!

^^

Random schoolday events:
-In Art History we took the AP Test's multiple choice from 2004, just to see how we'd do relying on guessing and outside knowledge alone. I managed a 49%, which actually for an AP test isn't bad.

-Photography and Webpage Design are taught in the same computer lab, so being an aide for the Photography class lets me listen in on both of them. Today the Webpage Design class learned most of the HTML that Jule taught to me in 4th grade. Ah, memories.

-My cousin Andrea is going to our school now. I found her and Paula in the hallway on my way out and offered them a ride home; I asked her whether she wanted to be dropped off at her place or ours and she didn't answer; Paula gave me wrong information so it ended up taking 45 minutes to get home. Blech.

But yes I am pretty happy right now. *grin*

~Joyyyyyy
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"ONLY-ASSHOLES-CARRY-CHALK!" [Aug. 27th, 2006|04:02 am]
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[Spirits | drained]
[Voices |Tsunami Bomb - Planet, Schmanet, Janet]

Fwahahahah! Rocky was great, as always. I would say a fun time was had by all, but that would not be strictly true. That is, Doug had fun, I had fun, but Jessie was kind of scared.
Elyssa liked the movie, but didn't like the rest of it as much. Which is understandable because she did get dry-humped... But that was by Doug, during the Time Warp. And he does that to everyone whenever he gets a chance.

There was a costume contest. Jesus and Batman were there (Jesus won).

Pluto was the star of the night (oh god that was a poor choice of words). A bunch of people had little signs on popsicle sticks saying things like "WE LOVE P". I didn't get a chance to read them.
The virgin sacrifice for the under-18s (including Jessie and Elyssa) was to name the planets, under penalty of getting whipped cream sprayed into their hair. Pretty boring. Over-18s was an orgasm contest with bananas, but there were a HUGE number of virgins tonight so the rest of them had to lick a 'P' covered in whipped cream.
And two guys who wouldn't participate got spanked by the whole audience. Including Elyssa with her crutch.


Left to right: Jessie, Me, Elyssa. Aaah, I think those are my dad's hands behind us XD

I have a handful of other photos, I might upload them to Flickr, later. Tired now. I'll also link ya to Cosmo's photos once he uploads them. There might be some good blackmail material of me on there, like the photo he snapped of Danielle playing suck-and-blow during her virgin sacrifice last year. :P

They were giving out condoms at the door at the end. Jessie thought they were candy or something at first. Doug pondered the possibilities of balloon animals.

On that note I leave you. I am tired. Here's hoping I won't sleep past two... *blink*

~Joy

PS: "Wait a minute...That's his sister?"
Hahaha oh virgins!
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Pour illuminer notre terre et changer la vie [Apr. 30th, 2006|10:34 pm]
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Eponine had it rough, poor girl. Very bittersweet end for her.

I am perpetually amazed at how there is never a "bad seat" in these theatres. Today I was in the very last row back on the balcony, we were in the middle of the loge (3rd level?) for Wicked, and we were pretty far back for Lion King too. But I am never disappointed with my view.

I found both Doug and Mrs. Whitaker and her daughter after the show. Rather, they all found me. So that was nice.

I dun want to go back to school... *whine* The weekend was a sort of a waste, other than Les Mis, and Friday is our AP US History test... Grumble.

The year is nearly over, at least. Next year will be even more hectic. And some time between these points, I *need* to get my license. Driving will be somewhat hard without it.

~Joy will relax during the summertime.
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[Apr. 28th, 2006|05:18 pm]
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JTHM Bond: so, this will be your first time seeing Les Mis?
Slithy Joy: Yep
Slithy Joy: ^^
JTHM Bond: well, be warned.
Slithy Joy: of?
JTHM Bond: there are scenes of violence in this play.
Slithy Joy: =o
JTHM Bond: there are also prostitutes.
Slithy Joy: =o!!
JTHM Bond: one of the main characters is a prostitute.
Slithy Joy: =o!!!
JTHM Bond: also, i have had the songs from this play forcefed to me since i was in kindergarden.
Slithy Joy: You've just described Moulin Rouge
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I like naps. [Apr. 26th, 2006|09:52 pm]
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[Spirits | excited]
[Voices |Tsunami Bomb - Planet, Schmanet, Janet]

I am seeing Les Mis on Sunday!!
Geez, I am on such a musical kick right now.
The paper says the cast is great and Doug will be so jealous of me (that is, if he isn't seeing it as well).

Went shopping for a prom dress this evening. It was great and I fell in love with just about every dress there. The one I got is black and pink with thin straps. (Anyone care to see pictures? Hell, I'll probably take them anyway even if no one says.)

The next few weeks will be pretty busy for me. Journalism is doing a bake sale 'cos we're completely broke after this issue, then there's the AP US test next Friday, the SAT and Prom on the Saturday, and the Chemistry test on Wednesday. Yikes.

Overall though this has been a fantastic year. Maybe I'll write up a sappy reflection once June rolls around.

~Joy blah blah tired blah blah happy blah blah squee
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Sweet Lurlina... [Mar. 13th, 2006|12:48 am]
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Fucking fucking hormones.
I mean, damn!

Tonight alone I was swooning over about 5 different guys in the audience, Fiyero (omg&060;333), and a dude playing a flying monkey, for fuck's sake. (...he had a mohawk.)

Not that it's the most serious of afflictions to have, but I just end up feeling stupid all day when I'm around people, particularly of the opposite sex and similar age. ("similar" is highly subjective, as well)

I feel like... well, last year. Or the year before that. Or before that. It's rotten.

Wicked was pretty sweet, by the way. I'll write about it later but at the moment I'm about to fall over, though I still have lots of work to do. rats.
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No hay más que hoy [Feb. 15th, 2006|03:57 pm]
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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1428154079191069188&q=RENT
Faaaantastic. ¿¡COMO PAGAREMOS ALQUILER?!
It's only fantastic in that it's sorta terrible. And en español.

Spanish gurus, os pregunto - one of the songs, "Today 4 U", is translated as "Hoy por ti". Now obviously I'm still a bit foggy on the whole por/para thing, but in what contexts can this make sense? Say, to perform for someone, would that be por?

...mmk, El Tango Maureen is the funniest thing ever.

"A todo lugar que te puedes largar al dejar Nueva York será... Disneyworld."
Brilliant. In the English, it's "...a pleasure cruise."
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RHPS deemed culturally significant [Dec. 27th, 2005|11:06 pm]
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Rocky Horror Picture Show added to the National Registry
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"I bet they're selling pokécondoms somewhere around here." [Oct. 30th, 2005|09:41 pm]
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[Spirits | drained]
[Voices |Le Tigre - Viz]

--Ok the HTML and links are screwed up ATM. Fuck it. I'll fix it all later--

"Who gives the best blowjobs on the Starship Enterprise?"
"....SPAHK!"
"No, we all know now it's Sulu!"

Rocky Horror Picture Show FOR THE WIN.

Cosmo got the photos up really quick this time.
http://www.thedentonaffair.org/gallery/imageFolio.cgi?direct=Shows/2005/10-30_Esquire_Theatre

Relevant info: The people who went are me, Danielle, Doug, Dad and Paula. I brought my V mask to the show and wore it at random intervals. I also brought a prop bag, and got sprayed with silly string.

Let's give 'em a look...

Before the show:
This guy was kind of a dick. I don't know, he was the one introducing everything tonight instead of the other guy, and I didn't like him very much.
Me! I can't see Danielle or Doug in there, dunno why. They were sitting next to and behind me, respectively.
Dad and Paula. I wish Paula liked it more. She fell asleep twice during the show. D:
Danielle says cheese and I'm covering my face. Why? Hm. The Asian guy next to me took a picture of my mask as we were leaving the theatre :D
Dad and Paula

The Virgin Sacrifice:
I seriously don't know if this was a boy or girl.
BATMAN! Or, "The Dork Knight".
Nothing needs to be said here.
During the virgin sacrifice, Danielle and I made Doug go up even though he wasn't a virgin. He got dryhumped. There aren't any pictures of Doug specifically, but this should give you an idea.

And the show begins...
Look! It's the cute kid who was Brad last time! He didn't play a part this time. He just kind of stood around and yelled out some stuff. But he's still great-looking.
Oh yeah, he played whatever Hapschatt. But that's like, 5 lines. Whatever.
Memorable callback: There's one thing left to say and that's ONLY. ASSHOLES. CARRY CHALK!</a> ...Y'know, as Brad writes the heart on the door. I guess it's one of those visual gags. Those are the best, though!
The Crim. In his book, at the picture of Dr. Scott, there was the policeman from Family Guy! It was classic.
FUCK THAT CHIN! FUCK THAT CHIN!

They arrive at the castle...
You can see me wearing me mask as the Hairless One sings.
Again
#3 and the back of Doug's head
And we do The Time Warp! All three of us, and me with my mask on.
Dad and Paula
The Crim took Danielle up in front to do the Time Warp, because she was wearing a TMBG shirt.
Again
Our Frank was a girl this time! She did well though. So now we have a girl Rocky and a girl Frank, thus restoring the slash equilibrium.
Frank's ass and Danielle and I.
This is my favourite shot in the entire movie.

The monster is created...
Drew Barrymore. I mean, Rocky.
He likes to blow small things.
Silly string. Dick!
The result of the silly string.
Worth noting, too, that the silly string was sprayed into the audience. Danielle and I sat in the first row, so we got it all over us, and the Crim (or maybe it was Dr. Scott, I forget) specifically sprayed a bunch onto my lap and a person a few seats down.
Men in lingerie are always good.
Me, in my mask and party hat. :D
Again

Okay, so that was a long-ass list, but at least I cut it down from 353 images, huh? So be thankful, you cretins.

The anime con was good, but would have been better if I, y'know, knew more about anime. Going to a con is a sort of nerd rite of passage I guess.
We played tofuball. It was excellent. There was this stuffed tofu cube that we threw around in a circle and kept up like a volleyball. Heee.

Busy-ass weekend. Need sleep and food.

Oh, and before Rocky Paula and I went to a party of one of her friends, Andrew. We didn't do much of anything except roast marshmallows, hang out and later watch Phantom of the Opera, but it was neat.
There was this Korean exchange student kid who came. His name is Suan (or some variant spelling of that) and he's adorable. He roasted marshmallows for the first time and he was nice and sweet and he's a really good singer and pianist. I want to meet him again. :(

And tomorrow is Halloween. Good show.

~Joy has a headache now though
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Sometimes I love people. [Oct. 20th, 2005|11:22 pm]
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[22:02] *** Joyuna has joined #superdickery
[22:02] (Devin) Yeah I head about that.
[22:02] (Devin) Joy
[22:02] (Joyuna) Devin
[22:02] (Pez) Pez
[22:02] (Joyuna) Rocky!
[22:02] (Devin) Dr. Scott!
[22:02] (Pez) Pez
[22:02] (Joyuna) Janet!
[22:02] (Pez) Pez
[22:02] (Devin) Brad!
[22:03] (Joyuna) Dr. Scott!
[22:03] (Pez) ...
[22:03] (Pez) Pez
[22:03] (Joyuna) Ok, done.
[22:03] (Joyuna)
[22:03] (Devin) Yep
[22:03] (Pez) stupid rockyhorror geeks

edited because of stupid IRC and its stupid greater than/lesser than signs and stupid HTML.
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NO ROCKY! There's BAD MUSIC under there! [Oct. 14th, 2005|12:21 am]
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[Spirits | hyper]
[Voices |Me First and the Gimme Gimmes - Science Fiction/Double Featu]

Rocky Horror image dump, cannibalised from conversation w/ Lu, with commentary.

Slithy Joy: OMG Esquire pics are up!
Slithy Joy: http://www.thedentonaffair.org/gallery/imageFolio.cgi?action=view&link=Shows/2005/10-08_Esquire_Theatre&image=2005-10-09_RHPS_002.jpg&img=&tt=
Slithy Joy: At the very bottom is Doug and my Dad
Slithy Joy: And over in the corner is our female Rocky (in the gold)
Slithy Joy: She looks just like Drew Barrymore, it's creepy
see katie disco: Your dad looks like a goofball
see katie disco: And Doug looks...creepy

Slithy Joy: http://www.thedentonaffair.org/gallery/imageFolio.cgi?action=view&link=Shows/2005/10-08_Esquire_Theatre&image=2005-10-09_RHPS_003.jpg&img=&tt=
Slithy Joy: Me and Danielle and Doug!

Slithy Joy: Cosmo's a really bad photographer...
Slithy Joy: http://www.thedentonaffair.org/gallery/imageFolio.cgi?action=view&link=Shows/2005/10-08_Esquire_Theatre&image=2005-10-09_RHPS_009.jpg&img=&tt=
Slithy Joy: FRANK
Slithy Joy: He poured his cup of water on us.
see katie disco: ahhh that would have made me very happy
Slithy Joy: I have to find some pics of our Brad
Slithy Joy: he was so unbelievably hot

Slithy Joy: http://www.thedentonaffair.org/gallery/imageFolio.cgi?action=view&link=Shows/2005/10-08_Esquire_Theatre&image=2005-10-09_RHPS_015.jpg&img=&tt=
Slithy Joy: wooo us
Slithy Joy: I'm the one with the flaming red hair
Slithy Joy: >_>
see katie disco: i never would have known : )

Slithy Joy: Look! They had an actual set thingy this time!
Slithy Joy: http://www.thedentonaffair.org/gallery/imageFolio.cgi?action=view&link=Shows/2005/10-08_Esquire_Theatre&image=2005-10-09_RHPS_018.jpg&img=&tt=
see katie disco: WHOA THAT IS ACCURATE

Slithy Joy: http://www.thedentonaffair.org/gallery/imageFolio.cgi?action=view&link=Shows/2005/10-08_Esquire_Theatre&image=2005-10-09_RHPS_021.jpg&img=&tt=
Slithy Joy: Us again
Slithy Joy: and kid in Weez shirt
Slithy Joy: this was when they were teaching us to Time Warp

Slithy Joy: http://www.thedentonaffair.org/gallery/imageFolio.cgi?action=view&link=Shows/2005/10-08_Esquire_Theatre&image=2005-10-09_RHPS_022.jpg&img=&tt=
Slithy Joy: lmao@dude who wouldn't get up
Slithy Joy: one dude in the whole theatre wouldn't get int eh aisles

Slithy Joy: http://www.thedentonaffair.org/gallery/imageFolio.cgi?action=view&link=Shows/2005/10-08_Esquire_Theatre&image=2005-10-09_RHPS_031.jpg&img=&tt=
Slithy Joy: VIRGINS
Slithy Joy: VIRGINS VIRGINS VIRGINE
Slithy Joy: S
Slithy Joy: including Danielle and Doug
Slithy Joy: they sucked at Suck and Blow, so they didn't really get properly sacrificed =(
see katie disco: I would try to avoid that at all cost
see katie disco: I'd be like
see katie disco: "...no...I'm...I'm not a virgin...a virgin what?"
Slithy Joy: :-D
Slithy Joy: People rat you out
Slithy Joy: they always do

Slithy Joy: http://www.thedentonaffair.org/gallery/imageFolio.cgi?action=view&link=Shows/2005/10-08_Esquire_Theatre&image=2005-10-09_RHPS_067.jpg&img=&tt=
Slithy Joy: BEST VIRGIN SACRIFICE EVER
Slithy Joy: Fucked by an ape.

Slithy Joy: http://www.thedentonaffair.org/gallery/imageFolio.cgi?action=view&link=Shows/2005/10-08_Esquire_Theatre&image=2005-10-09_RHPS_077.jpg&img=&tt=
Slithy Joy: LOOK AT HER
Slithy Joy: She's Drew Barrymore I swear
see katie disco: I see it

Slithy Joy: http://www.thedentonaffair.org/gallery/imageFolio.cgi?action=view&link=Shows/2005/10-08_Esquire_Theatre&image=2005-10-09_RHPS_079.jpg&img=&tt=
My dad and Doug

Slithy Joy: http://www.thedentonaffair.org/gallery/imageFolio.cgi?action=view&link=Shows/2005/10-08_Esquire_Theatre&image=2005-10-09_RHPS_094.jpg&img=&tt=
Our cast

Slithy Joy: http://www.thedentonaffair.org/gallery/imageFolio.cgi?action=view&link=Shows/2005/10-08_Esquire_Theatre&image=2005-10-09_RHPS_098.jpg&img=&tt=
Slithy Joy: DOUG IS GIVING HORNS IN EVERY GODDAMN PIC

Slithy Joy: http://www.thedentonaffair.org/gallery/imageFolio.cgi?action=view&link=Shows/2005/10-08_Esquire_Theatre&image=2005-10-09_RHPS_100.jpg&img=&tt=
Slithy Joy: http://www.thedentonaffair.org/gallery/imageFolio.cgi?action=view&link=Shows/2005/10-08_Esquire_Theatre&image=2005-10-09_RHPS_112.jpg&img=&tt=

http://www.thedentonaffair.org/gallery/imageFolio.cgi?action=view&link=Shows/2005/10-08_Esquire_Theatre&image=2005-10-09_RHPS_130.jpg&img=&tt=
Slithy Joy: Danielle
Slithy Joy: during the rain scene
Slithy Joy: took out her umbrella.
Slithy Joy: Eveyone else had newspapers it was so fantastic.
Slithy Joy: newspapers: http://www.thedentonaffair.org/gallery/imageFolio.cgi?action=view&link=Shows/2005/10-08_Esquire_Theatre&image=2005-10-09_RHPS_131.jpg&img=&tt=

Slithy Joy: tiiiiime waaarp
Slithy Joy: http://www.thedentonaffair.org/gallery/imageFolio.cgi?action=view&link=Shows/2005/10-08_Esquire_Theatre&image=2005-10-09_RHPS_151.jpg&img=&tt=

Slithy Joy: http://www.thedentonaffair.org/gallery/imageFolio.cgi?action=view&link=Shows/2005/10-08_Esquire_Theatre&image=2005-10-09_RHPS_184.jpg&img=&tt=
Slithy Joy: b
Slithy Joy: u
Slithy Joy: l
Slithy Joy: g
Slithy Joy: e
Slithy Joy: BRADBULGE

Slithy Joy: http://www.thedentonaffair.org/gallery/imageFolio.cgi?action=view&link=Shows/2005/10-08_Esquire_Theatre&image=2005-10-09_RHPS_187.jpg&img=&tt=
Slithy Joy: yaaaaaaaaaagh
Slithy Joy: he's so adorabl
Slithy Joy: e
Slithy Joy: and What charming underclothes he has.
see katie disco: :P
see katie disco: his kness are scraped up
see katie disco: ...
see katie disco: KNEEEES
Slithy Joy: I definitely wasn't looking at his knees

Slithy Joy: Cosmo took way too many pictures of Danielle
Slithy Joy: it's slightly disturbing
Slithy Joy: http://www.thedentonaffair.org/gallery/imageFolio.cgi?action=view&link=Shows/2005/10-08_Esquire_Theatre&image=2005-10-09_RHPS_271.jpg&img=&tt=
see katie disco: they gots the hots for her
Slithy Joy: http://www.thedentonaffair.org/gallery/imageFolio.cgi?action=view&link=Shows/2005/10-08_Esquire_Theatre&image=2005-10-09_RHPS_275.jpg&img=&tt=
Slithy Joy: another!

Slithy Joy: http://www.thedentonaffair.org/gallery/imageFolio.cgi?action=view&link=Shows/2005/10-08_Esquire_Theatre&image=2005-10-09_RHPS_286.jpg&img=&tt=
Slithy Joy: ahem!
Slithy Joy: http://www.thedentonaffair.org/gallery/imageFolio.cgi?action=view&link=Shows/2005/10-08_Esquire_Theatre&image=2005-10-09_RHPS_289.jpg&img=&tt=

Brad was so hot ._.
Sadly there weren't any pics of the Crim outside of his gorilla suit. He was kind of cute but something about his eyes was really weird.

~It was a damn fun time for Joy and everyone else.
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Sue's to blame! [Oct. 9th, 2005|08:35 pm]
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[Spirits | exhausted]
[Voices |Puffy AmiYumi - K2G]

This weekend has been a blast.
COSI, Rocky Horror with Danielle and Doug, and the Columbus Zoo. Crazy fun all of them.
All the time in between these activities, including two trips to Columbus and back, have gone by in a bit of a daze.

I'll write more as soon as I can think straight, and as soon as I've gotten no less than 8 more hours of sleep.

Photos should be here once they're put up. There will definitely be some of Danielle and probably some of with me in them too. }=D
http://www.thedentonaffair.org/gallery/imageFolio.cgi?direct=Shows/2005/10-08_Esquire_Theatre
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fucking excellent meme [Jul. 6th, 2005|12:38 am]
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I had to do it. I HAD TO, OKAY?!! Geez.

Choose a band/artist and answer in song TITLES by that band: They Might Be Giants
Are you female or male: How Can I Sing Like a Girl?
Describe yourself: No One Knows My Plan
How do some people feel about you: Rabid Child
How do you feel about yourself: A Self Called Nowhere
Describe an ex-girlfriend/boyfriend: You'll Miss Me
Describe your current girlfriend/boyfriend: S-E-X-X-Y
Describe where you want to be: Destination Moon
Describe what you want to be: She's Actual Size
Describe how you live: Till My Head Falls Off
Describe how you love: Sapphire Bullets of Pure Love
Share a few words of wisdom: I can't fucking decide, so you get a bunch: Alienation's for the Rich/The Sun is a Mass of Incandescent Gas/Put Your Hand Inside the Puppet Head/See the Consellation

Basically, I just love TMBG song titles. :]

PS: I beat Lu. No HTML for you!

Are you female or male: Sweet Transvestite
Describe yourself: Wild and untamed thing
How do some people feel about you: The Sword of Damocles
How do you feel about yourself: Super heroes
Describe an ex-girlfriend/boyfriend: Dammit, Janet
Describe your current girlfriend/boyfriend: Toucha Toucha Toucha Touch me
Describe where you want to be: Over at the Frankenstein Place
Describe what you want to be: I Can Make You a Man
Describe how you live: Rose-tint my world
Describe how you love: Once in a while
Share a few words of wisdom: Science Fiction/Double Feature
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What I did on my summer vacation: Part 2 [Jun. 27th, 2005|03:49 pm]
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[Spirits | happy]
[Voices |Lifestyle - Come On]

We were finally in Chicago, albeit 8 or 10 hours off schedule. We didn't have time to find the hotel, so we went straight to the theatre where The Lion King was going to be.

...Kind of. First we decided it would be fun to get lost for a while.

Things worth mentioning about Chicago:
a. Traffic is insane. There is always traffic. Don't plan to go anywhere without being slowed down by traffic.

b. Street signs... There appeared to be no street signs at all. We actually did find some in another part of town on Sunday, but downtown where we were there were none, which was a problem because we needed to get to Randolph but we had no idea where we were.

c. There are a ton of really expensive parking garages there.

Eventually we got to the theatre without too much trouble and took our seats. They were pretty near the back and high up, but there weren't any people in the row in front of us so I could see the stage perfectly anyway. I also got a nice view of the percussion guys on balconies on either side of the stage. They were cool.

It's no secret to my friends that I love Disney movies, and it's also no secret to the entire world that The Lion King is an excellent Disney movie. This was perfect.
As the paper/cloth sun rose and Circle of Life began, I couldn't help it; I started to tear up a little. I didn't mean to. But it was excellent. I was pretty much riveted from then on.

I don't mean to sound like a DVD featurette, but it was really amazing the wide range of styles and props they used. There were of course the Disney Movie music and story, and the African masks and chants, but there were also Japanese shadow puppets and French ballet. There were probably many more styles of music, dance and costuming that I couldn't identify. And it all fit together like it was meant to be.

--It all fit together except Timon, Pumbaa and the hyenas. I love those characters as much as the next guy, but it was a bit jarring to go between serious, powerful emotional scenes like Shadowland and Endless Night and then the childish comedy of the meercat and warthog (they were also the two characters whose costumes most resembled their animated selves).
The hyenas have always bugged me a little bit. They just seemed moreso annoying in the musical.

The actors who did Scar and Zazu were absolutely fantastic. Zazu's jokes actually didn't bother me too much. There were a couple of great 4th-wall-breaking jokes at the end of I Just Can't Wait to Be King - Zazu's costume is a greyish suit with tail feathers, but he also has a white hornbill puppet. Sometime during the song, the puppet gets stolen from him by Simba. After the song, Zazu is trapped outside the curtains, which are yellow and red and green and fit the style of all the other costumes in that segment. He stands there for a moment and grumbles:
"It looks like a shower curtain from Pier One!"
He then notices he's lost the puppet: "My bird! My bird!" and runs off the stage. It was lovely.

Scar was great too. No one can deliver Scar's lines better than Jeremy Irons, but the actor for Scar was really good at acting with his body and his mask. It seemed to me like the actors for Simba and Mufasa pretty much disregarded their mask and only used their faces, but Scar always seemed to have his mask looking into the eyes of the other character's. It might just be the nature of the Scar mask apart from the others - While Simba, Mufasa, and all the other lions' masks sit on top of their heads, Scar's is held up by a separate twisted bar.
And as odd as it sounds, I actually felt a little sympathetic for Scar. I think they made him into a lot more interesting character with his new song - The Madness of King Scar.

During the intermission, we headed down to the merchandise stand. *grin* There, I found what might just be my favourite shirt ever - It's a picture of Scar's mask, all brightly coloured and shadowed, and it says "I'm surrounded by idiots."
I have to thank the t-shirt designer for that shirt. All the rest of the shirts available were pretty mediocre. I got that and Paula got a different shirt and a keychain.
I'll probably have a couple of pictures of it in my camera - the film is being developed and I'll have all my pictures ready in a few hours. I intend to take full advantage of my new Flickr account. *grin*

After the intermission was a song from the Rhythm of the Pridelands CD - One by One. The lyrics sounded different to me than what I'm used to - I'd be interested in knowing how they were changed. The new lines don't have clicks in them in the same places. XD

I wish they'dve used Busa as a full song. I think the theme was there a few times, but nothing memorable. :(

The show was absolutely excellent and I'm glad to have experienced it. I'd love to see it again sometime.

The show ended at midnight (well, 11 Chicago time), which means I was up over 24 hours not counting a few 20-minute naps on planes and the car ride. Eep.
We made our way to the hotel, which was "conveniently" right next to O'Hare, and a small ways out from downtown. Heh.

TO BE CONTINUED...! On our next episode, Wrigley Field and WIRED NEXTFEST! And photos!

~Joy has much to write about that!
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My dad is awesome - and I've got scans to prove it [Jun. 22nd, 2005|08:30 pm]
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[Spirits | excited]
[Voices |They Might Be Giants - A Self Called Nowhere]

OMGLookItsZippy: do me
OMGLookItsZippy: shit
OMGLookItsZippy: wrong window
*titter*

Yesterday afternoon, I was bored. I had a book to read, but would rather read a comic. I decided to raid my dad's huge bookshelf and see if I could find anything there.

Well, I didn't find any comics, but I did find a couple interesting books. One was a DC timeline/encyclopedia thing, which was most fun in that it showed some covers of translated comics. Ladies and gentlemen, from Argentina, I present to you...
Flush Man! )
Another was a big book of Silver Age Superman covers, which provided a whole section of Superdickery. Mwahaha.

But those finds pale in comparison to the treasure I found hidden among the paperbacks.
I found...
Am I getting you hot, Lu? )
The Official Rocky Horror Picture Show Movie Novel. Boy, that's a mouthful. I can only assume that this resource was created in the days before videotapes, for those too chicken to go out to the midnight showings. Heh. It'd also be a useful resource for people meaning to memorise the movie, as it's basically the movie script with song lyrics and pictures. Allow me to illustrate...
Spit it out, asshole! )
I almost hate to ruin the book's spine; it's really pretty nice. I think I'll keep it.

Riff remembers )

Being it a book of movie stills, it's also a pretty good source of pictures because my )$#*(& computer DVD player won't let me take screencaps.
The bannister's lucky! )
Totally expect that to become an avatar soon.

Say something French, Frank! )

And finally...

YOU'VE GOT NO FUCKING NECK! FOR REAL!


~Joy apologizes to the three or four people who read her livejournal, for posting two RH-related entries in a row. =P
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"HAPPY HANNUKAH, MOTHERFUCKER!" [Jun. 5th, 2005|11:00 pm]
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[Spirits | happy]
[Voices |RHPS - I'm Going Home]

So, Rocky Horror Picture Show was yesterday/the wee hours of this morning.

=D

It was a lot different from what I had expected, but that's not entirely a bad thing. The theatre was incredibly tiny. It was about a quarter of the size of a normal theatre I'm used to, if that.

All through yesterday, from the morning to after the show itself, Paula couldn't make up her mind whether she loved it or hated it. She woke me up by sending me a text message "ROCKY HORROR TONIGHT! I CAN'T WAIT!", and alternated through the day between that and "Oh my god it's so weird/scary/creepy this is all your fault Joy." I still don't know what she finally settled on.
Jule couldn't come with us, but I'm not sure if he would have liked it anyway. It might have caused him psycological scarring. I had a blast though.

I both laughed my ass off more and experienced more f-bombs than any night in years. There weren't many of the callbacks that I'd previously read about or heard, but that made a lot of it funnier.
The guy who played Frank sat next to us for the first part of the movie and yelled out some great stuff. =D

The "virgin sacrifice" was kind of lame. The under-18s (of which there were happily quite a few) had whipped cream sprayed in our mouths and we had to sing the Spongebob Squarepants theme song. I got whipped cream on my Freezepop shirt, but it was hardly public humiliation.
The others drew penises on the chests of the guys with whipped cream. That was good.

...I'm writing this entry based on notes I scribbled down at 3am last night in my paper journal, which is mostly just a list of my favourite callbacks. So, should I list?

Some of the lines were Cincinnati-specific, which was pretty great.
"Where do you get your pot?"
"Columbia!"
"I get mine in Over the Rhine!"

"You see,"
"Xavier!"

Windshield wipers - When Brad and Janet are driving in the rain, one moves their hands back and forth in the air chanting "Asshole, slut! Asshole, slut!". Then, there are variations on the winshield wipers: e.g. "Windshield wipers on acid!" *waves hands around all wiggly-like* ...I can't remember any more. Anyway...
"Windshield Wipers on Marge Schott!"
"Seig heil!" *Nazi salute*

*Magenta and Riff elbowfuck with Dr. Scott in between them*
"In Cincinnati, the handicapped are always getting screwed over."

More callbacks!

*Dr. Scott busts through the wall*
"Oh yeah!"

"Magenter? Who the fuck's Magenter?"

Not only does the Criminologist have no fucking neck... He also has a pussy for a chin and a diabolical chicken has stepped on his forehead.
The guy who played the Criminologist did a bunch of the smaller parts, so had to make some quick costume changes. In one scene, he apparently couldn't change fast enough so he came on with his tie and an unbuttoned shirt.
"Did the Crim get laid or something?"
In this scene all the neck jokes were changed to "chest". Ahahaha.

Some of these things are probably "you had to be there" jokes. Bear with me.

"And I've seen... Blue skies"
"This movie too many fucking times!"

...Man, there were so many other great ones. But I've forgotten them. Throwing stuff wasn't allowed, so sadly there weren't many/any props. There could have been noisemakers, gloves, flashlights... But alas no. They were selling birthday hats outside for a quarter though so I bought one and wore it with pride. Hah.

"Two shows for the price of one! The Rocky Horror Picture show and CATS!"

As we left the theatre, we were goodbyed with "Hope you come again tonight." Think about it for a second. It might have just been the completely straightfaced and normal way he said it, but it took me halfway to the parking lot to understand. XD

Bottom line: Absolutely utterly completely different from watching at home. In some ways better, in some ways not as good. I don't think you can enjoy the movie for the movie's sake at a midnight showing, but you will definitely enjoy it for the experience and the callbacks. I advise to watch it in the comfort of one's own home first.
And any participation scripts you may read or listen to will be NOTHING LIKE the real thing. So you have no excuse not to go.

~Joy wants to go again. Doesn't know if Paula'd be up for it though.

PS: I can't believe I forgot this one! It was by and far my favourite!
"This laser is capable of emitting a beam of pure anitmatter."
"Then it's not a fucking laser, is it?!"
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Christopher Lee is the best [Jun. 3rd, 2005|07:42 pm]
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HAH YES.
I just downloaded (I know, I'm going to hell) a Rocky Horror Show studio cast album with Christopher Lee.

That's Saruman, for yous not keeping track (Or Count Dooku - Whichever one you think is funnier). Sadly he's The Criminologist so we don't really get to hear him sing, but he's got his verse in Super Heroes, lines in Time Warp etc.
It's amusing to the greatest extent possible.

I love Christopher Lee

More Christopher Lee goodness: He was the voice of King Haggard in the old animated movie of The Last Unicorn. He's also playing Haggard in the live-action version, whenever the hell it decides to come out. But ALSO, he did Haggard in the German dubbing! And supposedly TLU is ungodly popular over there.
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[May. 30th, 2005|12:07 pm]
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[Spirits | ecstatic]
[Voices |The Time Warp]

Next Saturday June 4
The Esquire in Clifton
12:00 Midnight
ME

And now I need to ask Jule if he can go.
EEEEEEEE.
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I want to elboxsex CJ... [May. 28th, 2005|10:45 am]
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[Spirits | giggly]
[Voices |Richard Cheese - Rape Me]

I had a really weird, long, funny, interesting, and kray-zay dream. So sit back, fasten your safety belts and enjoy Joy's life scewed just so to fit into a dream.

I was in Mrs. Keegan's classs (Math), except we were watching a movie. We were watching Brother Bear and I think I was using a laptop. At the same time we were watching the movie, I was reading slash (...) about it. I was making notes about how the slash didn't fit at all into the storyline and how it didn't fit the characters.

Zach was sitting next to me. He actually really liked the film. He kept telling me about little easter eggs and techincal details about the DVD, which brings up a small issue I've been having - ever since showing the slightest interest in games, Penny Arcade, and computers, Zach has been telling me anything and everything about computers he can think of. I kind of feel like I've been plunged head-first into a programmer job, with me not even knowing how to use DOS properly. So I just smile and nod but I feel like I'm kind of letting Zach down because of it.

CJ was in class too. He sat by a girl who resembled Jackie from choir, the sweetest and nicest girl you will ever meet, but she seemed to be his sister or something. When I walked by his desk he told me "So we're gonna have a little party tonight, huh?" I blinked, confused. The 'sister' told me that she and CJ were coming over to my house that evening because their parents had to meet up and do something with my mom.
I was extremely excited. I mean, why wouldn't I be. Aieee.

Suddenly I felt a strong, immediate urge to go to the bathroom. This unfortunately is a very common theme in my dreams because: a. Whenever I wake up on a school day, the first thing I do is use the bathroom, and b. Whenever I have a weekend, I sleep in, which leads to c. I often get bladder urges on weekend mornings while I'm still sleeping. This never leads to anything outside of the dreams, thank god, but I feel like I have to go to the bathroom in a lot of my dreams. o.O

Anyway, that paragraph was meant for something, I swear. So, having to go to the bathroom, I went up to Mrs. Keegan's desk and asked her if passes were still being restricted. This is important BECAUSE: Yesterday, Mr. Ashworth came on the intercom and told everyone after 5th bell that all bathroom passes were now void and no one should be in the halls between then and the end of the day. So this show that the "setting" of the dream is after yesterday, which means that CJ should not be there.

She said that passes were still restricted, but class was almost over.
I'm pretty sure in my dream that I did go to my locker and there was a terrible after-school rush and all that crap, but the next important thing happened while I was safe in my home.

Kinda safe in my home anyway.

I didn't know when CJ would get here, so I was excited and scared and waiting.
One interesting thing to note about this dream was that it was unusually accurate of my house's floorplan. Many times in my dreams rooms will shift, or the house will be something completely different. From this dream, I can point out to you exactly where I was sitting or standing when I was doing different things.

So we've already covered Disney, crushes and school, here's another facet that reared its head: Comics.

On the news they said that a group of people were on the loose - they were very dangerous and everyone should be careful. I looked at the pictures and recognised them. They were from the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (...except The Thing. I don't know wtf he was doing there.).
And here's where we start getting into the many subtle layers of geekery: Mina Murray, nee Harker, is the only woman in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. She also doesn't have any powers other than being exceptionally awesome and having been a vampire at one point in time.
She was given powers for the movie, I think.
Silk Spectre/Laurie Juspeczyk [and her mother, Sally, who used the same name] is the only prominent woman in Watchmen. She, like the majority of the other heros in Watchmen, had no powers and were just sort of Batman-type vigilantes, which is much the point. For the movie, she is being given some powers. They are renaming her Slingshot, because she can like... shoot balls of energy from her peace sign-imitating fingers. Wtf.
So here's the connection: In my dream, Mina was given powers and she gave herself the name Firewall. I know. And guess what she could do? Yes, she could create walls of fire. Hah.

So we went around being scared for a little bit until the came to our door. Eep. We (though I'm not sure who exactly 'we' was... Maybe just Paula and I) hid in the back of the house while they wreaked their havoc in the front. I don't know why they were here or what they were looking for, but in the end the damage was basically just this: Someone got knocked out and had to be put on a stretcher in the living room, many of the books around the computer were scattered on the floor, and two of the three hinges on the bathroom door were broken.

They left. The cats came out from their hiding place in their room and I came out from mine. I sat on the steps and looked into the living room (if you can't envision what I'm talking about, I can't really explain it. Our staircase goes up to the back end of the 2nd floor, and the first 1/3 of the staircase is the non-existent 'wall' of the living room).

For no adequately explained reason, Frank-N-Furter was sitting on the couch next to the KO'd man on the stretcher. At this point I was either schizophrenic, had a cell phone, or Halo could talk, because I sat there on the steps with Halo in my lap and I was talking to Lu. The unconcious man was old and ugly and Lu asked me "Are you getting hot?" about the man. I said, "I am, but that's because Frank's on the couch." I went upstairs because I decided I had to go to the bathroom again.

In the bathroom I found a bunch of old magazines and flyers - I mean, reaaally old. A couple were from the 60's or 70's because they had colour photographs on the covers, but a lot of them were reeeeaaally old. They were about jungle exploration and different "_____'s of the world" (the greengrocer's apostrophe really stuck out in my mind).

After that I went to the downstairs bathroom and finally was able relieve myself, but not before realising that the door was nearly unhinged. Damn you, The Thing. Damn you.

The phone rang and a woman left a message on the answering machine. I can only assume it was CJ's mom. She was talking about answering an email and they'd be there soon.
Me, being the nosy little snot that I am, went to the computer and checked my dad's sent email items.
It was a really long and in-depth email. At the end of it was a list, of articles of clothing and names.
It didn't take me long to realise that it was some sort of RHPS cast list. Dad played Brad, my mom played Columbia (o.o?!), and people I didn't know played most of the rest. I was at the end of the list, and it said that I could be Columbia if Mom didn't want to; otherwise I was Magenta. What was odd was that it wasn't my name as "Joy", but instead "Joyuna". I looked for CJ's name on the list but couldn't find it.

And this is about where the dream ends. CJ never showed and we never got to have that Rocky Horror party. Stupid dream. :P

This is one of the first signs I've given of actually missing CJ. All through the time he was there, it was really nice: I got the same high as I did with everyone else when I was with him, but I didn't feel any wrenching pain when he was gone; just an absense of the great happiness. I was sad about him leaving and all, sure, but he was like a drug with no withdrawal symptoms.

~Joy will have no crushes to fawn over during the summer... With any luck she WILL have some RHPS however.
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You're a hotdog... [May. 17th, 2005|09:56 pm]
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[Voices |RHPS - Planet Schmanet Janet]

Random question of the day:

What other kind of mind-fuck would there be, other than a mental mind-fuck...?
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What's white and sells hamburgers? [May. 15th, 2005|08:34 pm]
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[Spirits | confused]
[Voices |TMBG - How Can I Sing Like a Girl?]

Whaaat!!?

Y'all know (or, y'all who care, know) the opening song of RHPS, Science Fiction/Double Feature?

Richard O'Brien, Riffraff, sang that.
I alllllways thought it was a woman. It definitely sounds like one. What the heck.

Patricia Quinn's lips, Richard O'Brien's voice. Huh.

~Weird, says Joy
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