Month: November 2001

Well *I* laughed…

Modern Humorist’s Ultimate Harry Potter Guide

“Have you noticed that every time Osama makes a video he tries to widen his appeal by aligning Al Qaeda with a new conflict? First it was holy war against the Americans. Then it was Palestine. This week he’s calling for Jihad in the disputed province of Kashmir. I hear tomorrow he’s going to say that it’s the sacred obligation of all Muslims to help Slytherin defeat Gryffindor in the big Quidditch match.” (from “Bombing with Jai al-Leno“)

I am 26% Raver.



That’s okay, at least I am not a complete freak.

I am 25% Grunge.



What’s this? The longest I’ve been without a shower is three days? Not even close, man. I should go sit out in the rain for a week.

I am 74% ADDICTED TO THE INTERNET.

I am pretty addicted, but there is hope. I think I’m just well connected to the internet and technology, but it’s really a start of a drug-like addiction. I must act now! Unplug this computer!

Quotes!

::holding up the head of the bear rug:: “Alas, poor Yogi. I knew him well.” –Patrick

There’s nothing more amusing than seeing a waxed cartoon squirrel. –Cherise, referring to an episode of Spongebob Squarepants

I have the mental processing ability of a zombie on speed. –Cherise

Marcelina: I want to knit a hat!

Me: Out of steel wool?

Marcelina: No, I want to knit a dress out of steel wool.

Cherise: Ooh! Talk about exfoliating!

Please turn off all cellphones, pagers, and screaming babies. –Ricky, instructing Tom on how to open the show

New survey! Answer each question with a song lyric. Fun stuff. I have no idea what happened to question #1, it was like this when I got it, I swear. ::shifty eyes::

2) Describe your neighborhood: “Everywhere there’s lots of piggies living piggy lives. You can see them out for dinner with their piggy wives.” –Beatles

3) How do you look?: “I feel pretty” –West Side Story

4) If you could say one thing to the person you like what would it be?: “P.S.: I love you. You, you, you. As I write this letter, send my love to you. Remember that I’ll always be in love with you.” –Beatles

“I love you, baby! I love the way that you walk! I love you, baby! I love the way that you talk! Somebody left a cake out in the tain. Oh no! I was gonna eat that cake, but now it’s all wet and I don’t think I want any. We could get married, just the two of us. You could get a job driving the school bus! I love you baby! Will you marry me? You don’t have to decide right away! Think it over! Who’s it gonna hurt? Hey, where you going?” –Brak

5) Where do you wish you were right now?: “Here, there, and everywhere.” –Beatles

“You can’t chop your mama up in Massechucetts. Massechucetts is a far cry from New York.” –Chad Mitchell Trio

6) What do you think about your best friends?: “I get by with a little help from my friends.” –Beatles

7) Any words of advice?: “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.” –Moulin Rouge

“If I mention one day that I must dock their pay they will “dock” off my head with an axe.” –From “Men At Arms: The Musical” (song: Men at Arms)

8) What do you wish you were doing right now?: “After all, I’m only sleeping.” –Beatles

9) What do you think about drugs and alcohol?: “No, no, no!” –Beatles

10) If you could say one thing to your enemy what would it be?: “Bugger this for a lark.” –From “Men at Arms: The Musical” (song: still untitled)

11) What do you usually do on Friday nights?: “Stay iiiiin Tonight!” –my RENT parody

“Don’t forget to watch the movie! Don’t forget to watch the show!” –the muppets in a Lowe’s Theatres ad

12) What was your last break up like?: “Sisters are doing it for themselves. Standing on their own two feet and ringing on their own bells.” –The Rounder Girls

13) What do you think about your school?: “I used to get mad at my school. The teachers that taught me weren’t cool. Holding my down, turning me ’round, filling me up with their rule. I have to admit, it’s getting better.” –Beatles

14) How do you feel right now?: “Nothing really matters, anyone can see. Nothing really matters. Nothing really matters to me.” –Queen

15) Describe your personality: “We all want to change the world.” –Beatles

“He is just a nowhere man sitting in his nowhere land making all his nowhere plans for nobody.” –Beatles

“What was I thinking? Who is this guy? Maybe I will choke on this porkchop and conveniently die. What was I thinking? Quick, sharpen this knife. My endorphines are sinking. I’m ending my life.” –Christine Lavin

16) Any closing words?: “Scaramouche! Scaramouche! Can you do the fandango?” –Queen

“There’s nothing we can’t face… except for bunnies.” –Buffy: The Musical (song: I’ve got a Theory)

::snickers:: I love comments like this. It really makes me wonder about human nature. If someone dislikes the series so much, then why do they take their time to look at fanart and insult those that *do* like the series? ::is amused::

“God, i m sick of you Harry potter fans. God people, it’s a freakin book, and you people are such nerds! Do the world a favor and remove this whole entire website!” –From the Harry/Cho Valentine in my Elfwood gallery

Harry Potter! Woo hoo! After months of waiting, I finally got to see it today with my friends. Those that have not seen the movie yet had best skip this entry, and read it when they’ve got some sense knocked into them. I’m editing and expanding this tomorrow, because I’m sleepy.

People:

Daniel Radcliffe: overall, he was a pretty good actor, but there were certain aspects about him that bothered me. For instance, during most of the scenes, it was obvious that his glasses had no lenses. Also, whenever his scar was supposed to be hurting, he would just touch his forehead and frown. It would have been a lot more believeable if he winced or grimaced, at least.

Emma Watson: she had me *seriously* hating Hermione early in the movie. I just wanted to smack her. This is quite an achievement, because I love Hermione. She got better, though, and by the end, I was ready to forgive her. I just wish she wouldn’t over-enunciate so much. That got *really* obnoxious.

Rupert Grint: If you ignore the fact that this boy does not look like book!Ron in the slightest, Rupert made a fantastic Ron. In my mind, he’s the best actor of the trio.

Chris Rankin: Percy needed glasses. No excuses accepted. Give the boy a pair of horn-rims and a bigger, more noticeable prefect badge. Despite this irritations, though, I still squealed whenever I saw Percy. He needed more scenes, other than just a bunch of shots of him telling people to move faster.

Tom Felton: Shockingly, I found Tom’s Malfoy reasonably tolerable. He actually felt more like a kid in the movie than the one-dimensional, evil little prat he is in the books. Kudos to you, Tom.

Sean Biggerstaff: oh, nelly. Hold me back. Any female who did not dissolve into a puddle of goo at the sight of this boy (and the sound of his accent!) needs to have her pulse checked. Ye gods this boy is cute. I’m so fortunate to have him as my husband in law-in law-in law (Oliver is married to Cairnsy, who is married to Percy, who is married to Tanja, who is married to me). ::glomps Oliver::

James and Oliver Phelps: I was wary before, and I was pleasantly surprised. I adore James and Oliver as the twins. Like Ron, they don’t look at all how I imagined them, but they were still fabulous.

The Dursleys: Love/Hate here. I didn’t have as much a problem with the acting as with the script. The whole beginning of the movie felt rather weak script-wise, in my opinion.

Minor points:

The invisibility cloak effect was so cool. I could never get tired of that.

Quidditch. Oh. My. God. I will see this movie again and again just to see this scene. ::dies happy::

What was up with the sorting ceremony? That was messed up. And I’m rather disappointed about Dumbledore’s “Nitwit, Oddment, Blubber, Tweak” speech, the Sorting Hat Song, and the school song getting cut. I rather liked those bits.

James was a Chaser, not a Seeker. How many times must Jo reiterate this in chats?

Pronunciation! Gads! What is up with their pronunciation of “Diagon Alley” (supposed to be die-AAH-gun AAh-ley) and “Firenze” (Fee-(uh)-REHN-z(ah)), to name a few. You’d think they’d consult Jo on matters like these.

Do they ever use Hedwig’s name? I can’t remember a single instance.

John Williams’ music was groovy, but not memorably groovy. I’m still getting the sountrack, though.

Would it kill Chris Columbus to just *mention* Sirius in the first scene? ::frowls::

Now this is something to tell my children…

Transmitted by rabid animals, you’re most commonly found infecting creatures such as raccoons, skunks, bats and foxes. But don’t worry, you affect humans too, causing either paralysis or hyperactivity in your advanced stages, and ultimately death.

Your most famous symptom is hypersalviation – that delightful foaming at the mouth that we have come to know and indeed love. However, you can also cause hallucination; think of the fun you could have at parties!

Whoo! I just got back from the set strike and cast party. In my opinion, this last performance was the best one, at least where I was concerned. I felt so in character! And my makeup just rocked. I took about 6 of those makeup swaps and four different colors, then I went to work essentially CGing my face to get stronger cheekbones, cheek hollows, dark eye circles, and a generally more stern expression. Then I went in with brown and white pencil and gave myself age lines. It looked awesome. Then of course, I got my silver hair again, which was annoying because I couldn’t find a proper hair elastic and it fell out. I got my hands covered in silver trying to get it back up, then Casey Pedersen had to re-spray it. Meh. The only negative note to the evening was during my evil religious rant of doom. I completely messed up a line (though it sounded fine to the ignorant audience), and my mind went blissfully blank. I sacrifice small furry animals to Jen Pace, who covered it absolutely perfectly. ::hugs Jen so tightly she bursts:: She just said her next line (which sounded like it could fit), and I was able to pick up from there. Yay! So it was all good. A highly amusing point was when Lombard is supposed to slap Vera, and he accidentally missed. There was this tiny whap sound, followed by much audience laughter (the audience was perfect. Italian smooches to the audience!). I, who was supposed to be dead and unmoving, found it hard to not laugh. I’m rather proud that I didn’t move. Go me!

Other activities today include the Harry Potter movie and Chili’s. They will be in an entry later tonight, as I want to get out of all my makeup and wash that silver out of my hair. Tra la la. It’s over! ::is overjoyed and depressed at the same time::

Today was amusing, yet tiring. Physics and History were boring as ever. The one high point was when Maria, who I have recently discovered to be a huge Terry Pratchett fan, lent me a copy of “Eric”, one of the books I hadn’t been able to get my hands on. I told her that I would lend her “Feet of Clay” and “The Truth”, and she would lend me “Reaper Man”. ::squeals:: These classes were followed by more boredom, then lunch. Then, I went to the library to read more of “Maskerade” and study for my math test, as we don’t have P.E. on Fridays (score!). Then, the math test, which was really odd, and then freedom. Chungy started complaining about the evilness of the Forecast people, so I went to help her with her Distribution Manager duties. Poor Chungy. She had to take endless stacks of newspapers, put labels on them all by hand, and sort them into 30-paper stacks based on zip code. Ye gods. Together we made a sizeable dent in her workload, though.

Afterwards, I stopped by Smoothie King, then went to Jesuit for the call at 5:00. We all had Chick Fil A, food of the Gods, and the actors got ready. Feeling exhausted (and a tad resentful that I could be watching Harry Potter if Mrs. Felice hadn’t been so insistent on me being there), I opted to read and knit upstairs instead of seeing the show again, as Casey was on tonight. My nights were Thursday and Saturday. I treated the cast to a selection of Beatles music, as Jackie refused to listen to most of my CD collection. I went outside to help the other Casey [Pedersen. She plays Mrs. Rogers] with spraying hair silver — Casey Potter, Colin, and Patrick all need to be old. While I was finishing up Patrick’s hair, we were alone outside. He decided to ask me how I felt about the two of us, and I said (rather too quickly, in retrospect) that I thought of us as just friends. I hate situations like this. Patrick rather obviously wants us to be more than friends (Casey Pedersen cornered me one day to interrogate me about it. Evidently the whole cast thought we were dating.), which made me feel like a twit. It was obvious he was disappointed. But hey, what can you do? If I’m not interested in a guy romantically, I’m not interested in a guy romantically. Nothing to it.

The show started. I finished “Maskerade” and started “Eric”, and did a great deal of knitting in between. At one point, Nathan (who plays Narracott, the guy who’s only in the play for about 3 minutes) came in and decided that I was reading some trashy romance novel. He picked up “Eric” and started reading it aloud in a steamy, mockingly sexy voice. Highly entertaining.

When the show was finally over, I saw that this show had gotten the Hockaday audience. Because Saturday is the Coffee House, everyone wanted to see the show tonight. Meh. Still, at least I’ll have my friends tomorrow. ::wrinkles nose::

And now, sleep. Tomorrow, Harry Potter. I must assemble my costume!

My scarf is now nearly 3 feet long. Go me. I plan on making it 4 1/2 feet long, with 3-6 inches of tassel-fringe stuff on both ends. Muaha. I’ve been knitting at a rate of nearly one stripe (6 inches) a day! ::grooves::