dramaturgy: ([ASOIAF] Lannisters.)
http://www.hbo.com/video/video.html/?autoplay=true&vid=1118917&filter=game-of-thrones&view=null

AHHH SERIOUSLY WHY IS IT NOT 2011 YET.

That video looks amazing I WANT IT NOW. (DID YOU SEE MY HARRY LLOYD AS VISERYS? My one regret is that he will not be around for long, but alas. I will take what I can get.)

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Aug. 11th, 2010 03:54 am
dramaturgy: ([ASOIAF] They see me R'hollin'.)
OMG Joe Dempsie is going to be playing Gendry in ASOIAF.

The internet is over, everyone, we can go home now. XD!
dramaturgy: ([Misc] N2N)
HOLY SHIT ON A STICK.

http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Married_Couple_Mazzie_Danieley_Take_Over_in_NEXT_TO_NORMAL_719_20010101

I JUST SCREAMED SO LOUD MY BROTHER ACTUALLY ROUSED HIMSELF FROM HIS BED TO ASK ME IF I WAS OKAY.

I AM BETTER THAN OKAY I AM AWESOME.

DEAR MS. MAZZIE AND MR. DANIELEY, PLEASE BE THERE WHEN I COME BACK IN THE FALL.
dramaturgy: ([Celebs] Michael Urie is sleepys.)
Interesting things. First there was an interview with Phoebe Strole (♥) about... well, things in general, but about her experience with Adam Rapp's new play The Metal Children which I kind of wish I'd jumped at seeing before I left New York. It's a good interview, but it linked to something I liked even more: an essay by Adam Rapp about his experience with censorship of his works and how that became The Metal Children:
In the spring of 2005, I received a call from Bruce Weber of The New York Times telling me he was about to travel to Reading, Pennsylvania, where my young adult novel The Buffalo Tree had caused a bit of a stir. The novel, published by Front Street Books in 1997, was a part of the English curriculum at Muhlenberg High School, and a young woman, purportedly “puppeteered” by a local Christian group, quoted passages from the novel containing sexual content and foul language in front of the local school board. The book was immediately pulled off of shelves, wrested from student hands, and all copies were banished to a large vault.

Mr. Weber told me there was going to be a town meeting to discuss the improper procedure implemented in “banning” the book. He said that the major players on both sides would be present, and he asked me if I was going to attend. This was certainly a shock to me. I couldn’t go. I was in Chicago and about to start tech rehearsals for the world premiere of my play Red Light Winter at Steppenwolf. We’d only had three and a half weeks of rehearsal, and I was directing. This isn’t much time to get things up to speed, and I told Mr. Weber as much. He called me from the meeting and put one of the students on the phone with me. She had apparently stood up in front of her community and offered her copy, which she owned, to the library so that other kids could continue reading the book. She was extremely excited to talk to me, and I was moved to tears...

One brave student approached a lectern, which was placed in the enter [sic] aisle of the church, and confronted the head of the school board, asking him why he felt he could make decisions about what kids were capable of processing with regard to sex and violence when he’d never even spoken to one single student and had little or no presence in the high school. About a hundred students stood up and cheered, and the hair on the back of my neck stood up. A standing ovation at the curtain call doesn’t even come close to what I felt in that moment.

It's an awesome essay, talking about how works have a life of their own after the author puts forth a finished product (I kind of get it -- I raise my eyebrows at how many reviews one of my stupid little Harry Potter fics has gotten in the last six months when I wrote it six years ago, and why people keep favoriting my only Firefly fic1) and I love how this is a topic that is clearly close to his heart and experience -- I think that is what the best art is made of.


1 Not to compare my own fanworks to Adam Rapp's brilliance, of course.
dramaturgy: ([DW/T] Eleven smirk.)
I just want to give the update that American Idiot is brilliant and my favorite. Not a favorite something, just my favorite. If I wasn't in awe, I was a sobby mess. ([livejournal.com profile] roseanna will confirm.) It's my generation's Hair.

That's right, I said it. You can quote me.
dramaturgy: ([SPN] Like father...)
I am past the point of talking about how much I love Supernatural and the writers. The actors are great, but the writing is tight and fantastic. You can have the best actors in the world but nothing will save a crappy script.

I have a casual fan interest in lots of things, but it's very rare that something captures my attention and devotion for very long the way Supernatural has.

That said, I have run out of words to talk about how amazing this show is. brb, worshiping at the altar of Kripke and Co.
dramaturgy: ([TF] Get up.)
I wonder if I can squeeze a nap in before church.

That is likely as far as that thought will go, so I'll say no more. It is Maundy Thursday and ergo almost Easter, which is my favorite church holiday. I was working today on making more of the Figaro/Figaro costumes.

I was going to talk about a bunch of stuff in here but I can't really think of anything else to say. OH I bought a ticket for the cheap seats at New York City Center's "Anyone Can Whistle." Raul Esparza and Sutton Foster, how can I refuse? I also found out that one of my Broadway hubbies Aaron Lazar is in the revival of A Little Night Music, so that's gone on the list of things to see. Not to mention that Adam Rapp has a new play called "The Metal Children" going up in May and Phoebe Strole is in it, so I want to try and make it.

[livejournal.com profile] duchessdollydot will be getting here in not so long. I have food to cook for Easter dinner and I am so excited to have company it's just kind of sad. Me, I mean.

My mother sent me my Easter basket in the mail, and it had all the normal stuff you would find. Chocolate, SWEETTARTS CHICKS DUCKS AND BUNNIES, and a couple cheap DVDs. But there was also a packet of index cards and a glue stick. I don't understand.

About six more weeks left. I can make it.
dramaturgy: ([Tudors] Katherine Howard.)
Om nom nom Indian food. I just met [livejournal.com profile] dmp and her affianced and they are so much fun. I even think I managed to stay away from talking about myself too much, hooray! They looked awesome in their steampunk gear and I felt rather underdressed in my jeans and Hawkeyes t-shirt. They are here for I-Con and I am a little miffed that this is taking place at my OWN SCHOOL and I had to hear about it from Diana.

But yes. Anyway. I have a picture of my car!

Cut. )

He's pretty. I'm pretty sure it's a he. I don't have any ideas for names yet. He rides very smooth though. Wednesday morning was a headache because I was trying to figure out parking permit stuff. I called the office when they opened and they said if I put my stuff in online it would be ready by nine. I cheerily said okay!! and went down there. I got there about ten after nine and they couldn't find it. So they said I'd have to go to the bursar's office. I went to the bursar's office, and they said I'd have to bring in my registration. So I went and got it out of my window, but it's only a temporary registration, which they don't take. At this point I was pretty pissed because, what the hell people. I think the lady felt bad for me because I'm sure I looked like my head was going to explode, and so she got the student parking people to write me a temporary parking pass. Argh.

Wednesday night, I saw The Pride with [livejournal.com profile] strangerface and her sister, which I loved. I wrote a nice, thoughtful post on my theatre blog, and you can read that if you want, but here I'm going to do the fangirling.

If you've read this journal ever, you know that Ben Whishaw is one of my favorite actors and if they sold tickets to a performance of him reading out of a phone book I would probably go. But it was tired, it was a Wednesday, and I was getting a little headachey, so I was torn on whether or not to try and stagedoor this mofo. We walked out and kept on walking, and I left Emily and Bridget to take the 1 up to Penn. Except I went into the 'Downtown' entrance which is not where I needed to go. So I got up the stairs and it hit me: that was a sign. I went back to the theatre.

I wish I'd been cool enough to say something besides HI THANKS FOR COMING TO NY I LOVED THE PLAY CAN YOU PLEASE SIGN, but [livejournal.com profile] roseanna is going to teach me her ways. Apparently she can channel her nervous energy into being cute rather than awkward. But yes. Hugh Dancy was a total gentleman with a gorgeous smile and almost a little too [livejournal.com profile] codeswitching for me to not be weirded out (I'M SORRY I KILLED YOU, luckily, did not fall out of my mouth). Adam James was hilarious and now when I watch Planet of the Dead I'm going to be on the lookout for him. Ben Whishaw BEN WHISHAW was very nice, a bit... shyer seeming, but I did the hi, hello, thanks for the show bit, and told him I was a very big fan -- god, why am I so cliche? He thanked me, said "Cheers" (the British are so adorable), and by this time the others who had stuck around to stagedoor had realized that he was the other guy. Andrea Riseborough was lovely as well. She reminded me a lot of a girl I was at Coe with in theatre. XD None of them were a bit short, and were very happy to be there, I think.

I was too nervous to get pictures, but, playbill? )

Also, only somewhat unrelatedly as one of my first impressions of Ben was "he's a bit shorter than I thought he might be," I realized that thanks to the freakishly tall men in my family, I have a skewed perception on what "tall" is. Being 5'8" myself probably doesn't help.
dramaturgy: ([QAF] Not Antisocial.)
So the Department basically has all of us grad students like triple booked for Wednesdays. Graduate population meetings, class in the city, play festival meetings, work, it's like they want me to kill myself. You think they'd figure this out, but I guess not. :|

I've also never understood classes where they're like OH THERE IS A TON OF STUFF CULTURE BLAH BLAH BLAH but here's 240580 pages of reading and a small paper due next week, see ya! :D Like, seriously. Stop it.

Yep, I'm definitely back in school.

I made pancakes for dinner tonight and they were made of the most fantastic fail. I don't have a griddle so I tried using a pan on the stove and that did not work nearly as well. They were getting pretty well cooked on the outside and still soupy on the inside, and also, I remembered why I don't like to cook: because there is always a mess to clean up.

I think I want to write a paper on Katie Mitchell for my Theories of Theater class. I've raved about her stuff here before. She does devised theater and has a dance background, so I think it'll be kosher. I just hope it won't be like, I have trouble finding resources or anything. Because that would bite.

And it would be really nice to know what my books were going to be for the class in the city. Because there weren't any in the bookstore. o_O
dramaturgy: ([ASOIAF] Benjen Stark.)
I'm sitting here at Panera in Davenport (I work at 1 so I had to ride down with my brother in the morning, long story short) and I just turned to look out the window and it was SNOWING. Just a little. But it was definitely snowing. And then I glared outside and it stopped. :D We'll see how long that lasts. Also, I was standing in line to get a sammich (om nom nom) and this little girl (four, maybe fiveish) said, "Gramma, that lady's so tall!"

LOL.

I went back to Coe yesterday to see Electra, the second fall production. It was amazing, no two ways about it. It reminded me why I love theatre. Not just why I love going to see it, but why I have to make it. I have to do theatre in some way or another. It's one of the few things that all civilizations on earth have had (especially if you're applying a wider definition of theatre), and there's nothing like watching an actor pour themselves into a shell that we call a "character," or helping them to do it.

Also, they made it RAIN in the Dows. That was my first question at the talk back. "I spent four years in this theatre, how did you make it rain?" Basically they took a sprinkler system that would be buried in someone's yard and put it in the grid. I'm gobsmacked. It was brilliant, it worked wonderfully. The walls of the house were supposed to bleed to, since Orestes killed everyone he was supposed to, but the pump jammed and it didn't end up doing that. Damn shame, it would have been awesome.

Everyone was phenomenal. I just. I love it.

My sister, also, skipped classes on Wednesday to go to Chicago with some of her friends to this one Hot Topic where they were selling t-shirts and wristbands to get in an audience with Robert Pattinson. XD It was quite an adventure from the sounds of it. They didn't get in to that smaller audience, but they watched him give a public address in front of Macy's. I asked if he looks as drug addled in person, and she said yes. XD Oh, Robert Pattinson. Never change, please. XD
dramaturgy: ([Heroes] A powerful mimic.)
Well, I worked today, so I got to pretend to be a contributing member of society. Which is good. I get paid tomorrow, which is also good. Of course I worked nine and a half hours in the last pay period, so yeah. Not much going on there.

It's been a TV week. Heroes, Mentalist, Project Runway, and Office under here. Just cut so I can ramble spoileryish. )

... Well the important stuff behind the cut is that I volunteered for a staff review position at The Two Cents, where I am going to be reviewing The Mentalist and Dirty Sexy Money weekly.

I've also been studying for the GRE (of course! I'm taking it on October 18), and reading Cracked.com, where they have hilarity such as 4 Celebrities Who Just Might Be Superhero Alter Egos, 11 Most Badass Last Words Ever Uttered, 5 Historical Figures Who Died The Weirdest Deaths, and The 5 Pimpingest Historical Figures. Go on. Read. You won't be disappointed.

Tomorrow we're heading to Coe for the Homecoming concert and then I'm going back on Saturday night because of the play. It'll be awesome.

ETA: Love Meme.
dramaturgy: ([Heroes] These are for you Peter!)
I won't give any spoilery thoughts. I'll just say that damn, I missed Heroes. ♥ ♥ ♥

ETA: I was supposed to tag that with 'waxing nostalgic' but you know... in retrospect, 'what a mindfuck' works just as well.
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Concert. Oh my goodness, that's great.

First of all, for those of you who don't know, I went to a Christian rock concert tonight, with six of my dear friends, Katie, Kate, Aubrey, Kelly, Ashtin, and Mark.

See Spot Rock, concert and the time I had tonight!! )
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To anyone who's ever recommended me Flogging Molly: Thank you. :)
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First thing we hear of him for CoS. "Slytherin has a new seeker."

EEEEEE!! [/fangirlishness]

And Dan and Rupert! Oh man oh man oh man oh man oh man ::breathes deep:: Those boys are going to break some hearts.

::runs off to take a cold shower::
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I've just been busy being a fangirl, poking around seanbiggerstaff.com. Jesus Christ he was such a cute kid. I think I want five just like him.
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The chat with Chris Rankin is approaching, waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!

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