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Andrew Lloyd Webber made a sequel to Phantom of the Opera called Love Never Dies. It is about what happens to the Phantom, Meg Giry, and Mdme. Giry after the end of PotO. They end up going to New York at the turn of the twentieth century and the Phantom runs Coney Island. During that period in New York's history, Coney Island was the most beautiful, interesting place. I like that the play takes place there.
The new music fits that theme. It is almost like carnival music. There's creepiness and a touch of romance. The new play is all very strange, and I'm not sure I believe in what has happened to these characters from the first play. I'm not sure I like the singer for the Phantom either because his vibratto is really too strong at times and he spits his words occassionaly and it doesn't always seem to fit what he's talking about. But people are free to interpret characters any way they like, and I guess I just have a different perspective on the Phantom.
I like it. I wasn't sure I would. But I really do.
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I've been watching movies that make me cry lately. I watched P.S. I Love You and I cried through the entire thing. There were scenes that made me laugh. It's hard to have a romantic comedy without comedic scenes. But the majority of the film is so heartbreaking. It ended well though. It was about a woman trying to cope with the death of her husband, trying to figure out what to do with herself now that everything she'd been working for has been so utterly disrupted and destroyed, and for a while I was concerned the movie would end with her having a new boyfriend. But it didn't.
It was a really great movie.
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I've been weird lately. I think I need more sleep.
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Ew.
I had my oral surgery today. My mouth feels weird. Not fun times.
But I'm glad it's over with.
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But that was when I ruled the world.
A guy at work asked me out today. He's new and very quiet. I thought it was a little brave of him to ask someone the day before Valentine's Day; also because it was clear he wanted to take me out on Valentine's Day. I told him I was taken, of course, and so that's ended. I do hope he wasn't embarassed about my saying no. Rejection can hurt the ego.
Sometimes it's strange when someone that has never spoken to you before suddenly shows very deliberate interest.
But Jimmy is the only one for me.
I'm going to get my BA in English Lit in one year. I don't know how it's going to happen, but I'll be a teacher someday. For the sake of time and money, I'm sticking with the Lit degree. I'm planning on graduate school. I wish I were a little better at planning, or had better help in planning, but I'll figure this out somehow.
School this semester has been so low key. Maybe it's because I'm only taking one English class and so have less papers to write and so am less stressed out, but I'm still taking 4 classes, plus 2 break out classes with their own assignments, and all classes have their own reading to do. I feel like I should be a little more overwhelmed. But I'm not. And I'm enjoying each class immensely.
It's funny to me how the classes I'm sure I won't enjoy end up being my favorites. I've learned so much about teaching and bilingual education this semester so far. I enjoy discussing it and reading about it. I feel like I understand the education system much better, and when I become a parent with children of my own, I'll be able to better understand how I want my kids to be educated.
I'm also taking a class specifically centered around Shakespeare. We're reading Henry V right now. I've never read it before, but I'm really liking it. We've already covered A Midsummer Night's Dream and Twelfth Night. As much as I like his comedies, they tend to be a little ridiculous and I like his more serious stuff better. I have this paper coming up where I have to take a 12-50 line monologue by a character and try to stage it. I don't actually have to put on a performance, it's just a paper describing how I would have the actor perform it. I'm so excited because I always do that sort of thing mentally anyway. It's going to be so fun to write!
Have I ever mentioned how much I love going to school?
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This must be the place; I can tell by your glare.
I think part of me is becoming less interested in melo. These changes have been nice, and though there are some things that bother me about the new melo, it hasn't really changed my purpose for using this site. Whether or not I have colors or many folders or karma or whatever doesn't impact whether or not I have anything to write about.
I'm tired of making everything FO, so I'll start posting publicly and see how that goes.
I'm a little frustrated today. I have a To Do list that I've really tried to work with.
I need dental insurance. Right now I have a dental discount plan that is working quite well with my orthodontic needs, but I have a surgery coming up and I'm worried about what that will look like. So I've been searching online for an insurance provider. There are so many things I don't understand. Is having an indemnity plan better than a ppo or hmo? Is having braces considered a pre-existing condition? If a plan says it doesn't cover orthodontics, does that mean just that it won't cover braces or does it mean that it won't cover anything involved with braces as well? (I'm coming up on an extraction surgery due to overcrowding) And this waiting period business... if I have to have the surgery in a month but most plans have a 3-6 month waiting period for extractions, does that mean I won't be covered for it anyway? Should I even bother keeping my surgery in mind when looking for a plan or should I just focus on general upkeep? I'm going to need cleanings and checkups and the like all through this process, so I'd really like to find a plan and a dentist anyway.
It all gives me a headache. If anyone reads that and has advice, I wouldn't mind hearing (reading?) it.
I want to buy a new wardrobe. I'm addicted to the show What Not to Wear. I love it. It's always giving me ideas about my clothes and how I wear clothes and good ways I can improve my style choices. Especially when I see girls with my body type wearing clothes I didn't think would work for me, but seem to look good on them. It makes me want to try things.
I never was much of a shopper. I like to keep things simple. I have a lot of basic type stuff. Not many prints or interesting colors or shapes to my clothes. I own one pair of heels. I want to change all that and be a little more adventurous with my style.
I'm nearly 27 but I feel like I still dress like a teenager. And with my braces now, I really feel like I look like a kid. I think when I get my tax refund back, even though 1200 of it will go to my tuition, I'll still have about 600 to play with. I'm thinking I may take a bit of that to buy something fun.
That's it for now.
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Yeah, I get that way with books too. I read this book called Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz, and I totally was not expecting to be moved to tears by a Dean Koontz book, but by the end of the story I had to take a moment before I could finish. Hah..
I do too!!! Especially with books...sometimes I get so lost in the story that I feel like I am a part of it and I know the people.
I like movies and books that make me cry too. I do think a little crying is good for you. My boyfriend says it's hard for him to be moved to tears like that because he never forgets he's just watching a movie and none of it is real, so it doesn't affect him. But I think you can relate to a situation or a character without them having to be real.
PS I love you makes me cry too. You want a real tear jerker...frickin The Time Travelers Wife or Precious. Both made me bawl my eyes out. I don't know why, but I love movies and books that make me cry. Maybe I need that release.
That's not a movie someone should relate to so closely. :(
I'm glad you liked it too though. I liked that they managed to have funny scenes amidst all her mourning.
P.S. I Love You hit me just a little too hard and close to home. Great movie!
Yeah they are, but it kind of hurts when anything touches them. So eating isn't that fun. I hope they fall out (or disolve. I think they can do that too) soon.
that is really lame. but hey, now no one can say you are eating too much ice cream. :]
aren/t they supposed to fall out on their own?
Yeah they are. So surgery is going to be just as fun to have them removed. I'm so paranoid about my stitches. It's been a week since the surgery and I still can't eat food that requires me to chew. It's lame.
oh mannn that sounds rough. :/
are your wisdom teeth impacted? that/s when the yawning was failure.
having stitches in the front of my mouth would make me want to touch it all the time.
Extraction for my braces. I had a tooth that never grew vertically out of my gums so it was stuck high up in the roof of my mouth. They had to take it out because it was interfering with the roots of my other teeth. I have stitches going from my first molar on the right side going in an arc to my two front teeth.
I have to get my wisdom teeth out in a few months. Not too excited about it. :(
ooohh ehh.
yawning may not be too bad for you then, i hated yawning after i had my wisdom teeth out.
what did you have done?
Smiling has been the worst. I have stitches between my upper gums and lip and I can feel it pull everytime I smile. It doesn't hurt but it's sort of an uncomfortable feeling.
watch out for yawning. it hurts really bad.
hold your chin & your jaw together when you feel one coming on.
Oh how I wish a new wardrobe was an option. I have to wait until I have the baby, and then I probably WILL have to buy all new things. I dont plan on being overweight forever, but realistically I know I'll probably not fit into the things I wore before I got pregnant. And I don't want to dress like a teenager, either.
It's an English class, and yes, at times it's very boring. I don't remember who said it but one critic I read once said that plays shouldn't be read, they should be seen or performed. And I definitely agree with that. I think you lose a lot if you try to read Shakespeare straight. But I enjoy his language and can understand him well, so I'm enjoying his stories regardless. I do try to see some filmed version of every play we go over though. I like to see how different actors interpret the same things.
i took a Shakespeare acting class in my college and fell in love with his stuff..my fav play is Hamlet and i acted in Macbeth or should i say the Scottish Tragedy lol is this an acting class or an english style class cause one thing i learned is as an english class...it can be very boring
have fun with it!!
She does have a great voice. Any song in particular or just Patti in general?
I personally fall asleep well to Patti Smith.
It's called Ramble On.
One of my personal favorites is Going to California, but I love so many of their songs.
That's what my boyfriend was telling me! Haha, I thought it was kind of dorky, but it's pretty amazing that a band with such critical acclaim can sing a song about fantasy creatures and lands and still manage to draw a large and diverse amount of fans. I actually really like this song I posted. It's so long but so mellow, and kind of nice. I want to look up more. Which is the song they do about Lord of the Rings?
oh man, Zeppelin is awesome.
Zeppelin was singing about Gollum and The Ring and Mordor 30-40 years ago.
Neither could I. Ha.. But I like the idea of having to think of songs or look up videos. I'm always having music conversations with people and this jogs my memory. :)
Haha. You caught up on all the music, and I just completely deleted it from my melo. I can't keep up with it/remember to do it.
I just think it's kind of strange that someone in the fashion industry doesn't know what colors compliment eachother. I mean...Really? Isn't that basic knowledge?
The show has actually been pretty good this season...But it tends to disappoint me, just because I love the challenges where they have to make an outfit out of something obscure like flowers or garbage, and they don't do it that often.
Haha that's pretty awesome. She's got a pretty hard core flip.
thanks! i just got almost a foot of my hair cut off a few weeks ago and now i'm rocking the Dr Mrs the Monarch 'do.
That works then. I love your icon by the way. Venture Bros is a great show. :)
by "worked up" i meant any song that puts you in an extreme mood, whether it be manic, angry, pumped, horny, anything.
Well, supposedly, he's being deployed. So he'll have no choice but to leave me alone. You know, assuming that's true. He's told me that story so many times now.
You've got someone like that, too? I don't get it. If someone says they don't want to talk to you, wouldn't you leave them alone? Why talk to someone that doesn't want to talk to you?
People will do anything for attention. I know this girl that I stopped talking to about a year ago because she's a compulsive liar and couldn't help but include me in her lies and even though I've told her I have no interest in being her friend anymore, she continues to send me messages every other month. It used to be a lot more. It can be anything from she's dying of some horrible thing or she hates me and I'm immature. It's all designed to get a response. You're doing right by ignoring him. He'll get bored someday...
Because he's crazy and has sever anger issues. And apparently, he thinks I deserve it. Umm. No. I'm not perfect, I'll admit that. But I've done nothing to provoke this, I've been ignoring him. Until last night when he supposedly wanted to talk things out and I told him I don't want to, I don't care anymore. Why should I after all the nasty messages he's sent me recently? I can't believe he'd even think I'd WANT to talk after that.
I love science fiction, and I've read Ender's Game but haven't gone much farther than that, though I've always meant to. I've read mostly Isaac Asimov so I'm probably biased when I say he's my favorite science fiction writer. I like that although he has different series of books, they're all connected to each other and exist within the same universe, though at different times. Do you ever read fantasy books? I'm not really big on that genre, but a friend reccomended the Wheel of Time books and they were actually pretty amazing.
I enjoy nonfiction, but it's always stuff that no one else wants to read. I loved this book called The Great War and Modern Memory, all about the first world war and the writers that came out of it but I've yet to convince anyone else it's a worthwhile read. Ha..
Well I've been going through various science fiction classics & series since that's historically been my favorite genre. I just finished the Ender series by Orson Scott Card, and Ender Wiggin is pretty much my favorite literary character so far. I loved Snowcrash by Neal Stephenson even though I wasn't expecting to. I also listen to a lot of nonfiction, and surprisingly my favorite recently was The Checklist Manifesto. The author is a surgeon so a lot of it is just stories about his various surgeries gone wrong, and how they were saved by a checklist. :)
:) I like a wide variety of books, but these are the ones that either surprised me with their awesomeness or just made such an impression on me I tend to read them over and over.
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy. Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz. Love in the time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Isaac Asimov's robot novels. The Wanting Seed by Anthony Burgess. Take It Like a Man by Boy George (his first autobiography... can't help it, he's just so interesting.) I Have Fun Everywhere I Go by Mike Edison. Welcome to the Monkeyhouse by Kurt Vonnegut, mostly because of the short story Harrison Bergeron.
What have you read lately that you've liked alot?
I totally friended you because you wish Atlas Shrugged was longer, and that makes you extra special. I probably should have friended you a long time ago but you know I sometimes lag at things.
Recommend your favorite books to me. I've got an audiobook subscription and I'm pretty much listening to a book whenever I'm not talking to a person.
yeah she's good. But it was definitely a crazy semester. I probably could've gotten symptahy from the professors, but I wasn't about to pull the sob story card to get through classes.
Wow. No wonder you didn't do so well. I'm glad that things have turned around though. Your wife had to have brain surgery? That sounds scary. All went well?
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I like Dean Koontz books. I just read Dear John by Nicholas Sparks and cried my ass off. Not so much for the love story part of it, but for all the other things going on.