Oh my goodness!

It has been such a long time since I last posted a blog! I'd love to fill you in on everything that has happened, but to be perfectly honest, I can't remember everything. I can barely remember what happened yesterday. And that, my dear blog-readers who I have so cruely neglected, is because we are finally into Hell Week.

Yes, Hell Week - the week out of the year when I get very little sleep, wear excessive amounts of make-up and spend my evenings flouncing around on a stage in front of a paying audience. Some people have multiple Hell Weeks throughout the year, and I do usually...but for me, February is the main one. Normally it's in half term, but the theatre was already booked. So now I have to contend with lack of sleep, lack of sensible food, lack of time to commit to schoolwork and my current lack of voice. As always, I am horrendously ill the week of my show. Yay ¬¬

I'm off school today because I can't breathe and to be honest, I just couldn't face a full day of school and then all night at the theatre (dress rehearsal tonight). I intend to spend today sprawled on the sofa, eating toast and watching LOST. I should be redrafting my English coursework, but what are the chances of that happening?

Oh and I have Dailybooth: http://www.dailybooth.com/proud_veggie

I'll do a better update soon :)

Bye

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New Moon review

I'm really sorry that I haven't posted a blog for ages.

And I'm really sorry that all you're getting now is a review of the New Moon movie.

But here we go. If you don't want to read it, you don't have to.

Right, I'll start off by saying that New Moon has always been my least favourite Twilight book. I don't know why...it's not the lack of Edward specifically, I think it's because Bella goes all emo for about six months and it makes me want to punch her whiny little face in. But I digress. I thought the film was so much better than the book and so so much better than the first film.

[Okay, my notes are really messy and not in any particular order because I scribbled them down when I got back from the film at like, half 11 at night]

Bad bits

• New contacts - why the frick did they give the good vampires these weird orange eyes with black edges? Where did the gold contacts go? Before the film, there was trailer for the movie called Daybreakers about a world where everyone is vampires and the few humans are harvested for blood or whatever...and they had the gold contacts from Twilight. I don't know why the producers or whoever gave this new film the old contacts and got these crappy tiger ones.
• Makeup - not a fan of the makeup. There are times when the vampires look like they've been dipped in white paint and I swear all the guys are wearing so much lipstick. There was one bit where Jacob rubbed his lips together and you could see where his lipstick had smudged on his top lip.
• Where did Bella's huge opal ring come from? It distracted me every single time I saw it.
• I still have some issues with Kristen Stewart (the line "As long as she like" springs to mind - is that how it was written? Because that was ridiculous)
• The clip of Bella being a vampire - was that an actual clip from Breaking Dawn? If so, I am not seeing that film. It was cheesy, it was weird, her dress was hideous and she looked strange as a vampire. I thought she was meant to look stunning...she just looked a bit pasty and badly-dressed with weird eyes.
• KStew blinks too much. My friend pointed it out to me near the beginning and it was all I focused on through the whole movie.
• What friend would let their friend wander off with some random guys on motorcycles? As my friend Rachel said at the time, "If you even tried that, I would bitchslap you then drag you all the way back to your dad to tell him what a frickin' moron you were".
• Plus, those guys were SO EFFIN' CREEPY. They actually made my skin crawl - "I can be anything you want me to be" - EW!
• I didn't find the big Edward leaving scene as emotional as I expected. When Jacob left, it was more sad. She broke his little furry heart :(
• Some of the big emotional scenes took too long to happen. The dramatic pauses were far too long and it was irritating.
• When Kristen is trying to get her lines out in said emotional scenes, her body like...vibrates. She shakes the whole time she's dramatically pausing.
• The ending. WTF was that? "Marry me" *gasp* credits. Everyone in the cinema was like "What the hell???" when it finished.

Good bits

• Billy Burke steals every single scene he is in. He is the most fantastically awkward dad EVER and I love him.
• The lighting was so much better, not all blue like the last one
• Jacob in general - the wig was better, his lines were hilarious and wow the kid has grown up a lot. Like, a lot a lot. He has like, the best back ever. Phwoar.
• I liked the way they handled Bella's depression. As I've said, in the book it made me want to punch something. I think it was really good and much less annoying than on paper.
• Emmett and Jasper were awesome as always.
• I love Carlisle so much.
• Did anyone else think that the burning blood-soaked gauze in the bowl looked a little like the flower from the front of the book?
• The humans were fantastic! I personally think they are the best characters in the films, they are written so perfectly. Mike is so adorable and awkward, and Jessica is exactly right - the whole leprosy/zombies analogy was possibly my favourite bit of the film.
• Who came up with the terrible movie titles? They are a genius.
• The scene at the movies was AWESOME! Definitely my other favourite bit. The little exchange between Mike and Jake about him being too young was so good. And I was laughing so much at the dialogue in Face Punch, that I couldn't breathe throughout the whole emotional scene between Jacob and Bella on the stairs.
• I'm so glad they left Emily in. I thought if they'd cut anything from this film, it would be that. But they didn't and that makes me happy :)
• Rosalie looked so much better in this film.
• Why wasn't Victoria's hair like this from the start?
• The wolves. That's all I'm saying. They are a 'good bit' all themselves.
• The Volturi = LOVE!!!!!!!! Michael Sheen was EXACTLY right and so creepy, it was amazing.
• Dakota Fanning was awesome! When did she start looking like a 21-year-old? I've never been a big fan of hers, but she was so good! And I loved the awkwardness when she was concentrating on Bella and nothing was happening.
• Despite my criticisms of her, I think Kristen was so much better in this film than the last one and I can't wait to see if she improves again for the third.

Overall, I thought this film was so much better than the first. I've always been Team Switzerland (on the fence), but leaning more towards the Edward side of the equation. But for like, an hour in the middle of this film, I hopped the fence into Jacob territory. True, all it took was Rob to come onto the screen and take his shirt off and I was vaulting over that fence like my life depended on it. But it is a credit to the film that it was able to sway my view in that way.

Leave your thoughts on New Moon in the comments. Have you seen it? What do you agree with me on? What do you disagree with?

Proper blog soon.

Bye

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People of the Internet!

I think you should all get yourself onto this video and watch and enjoy.

And then go and download the song.

It's for Children in Need, which means it's for charity which means you can enjoy some music and do something good for the world. Which is awesome.

So...yeah...do it!

Bye

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Have you guys seen

Bridget Jones' Diary?

I just watched it and I'd forgotten how much I frickin' love that film. And yes, I realise just how much of a girl I sound right now.

But it got me thinking: when you rewatch it, there are a lot of things that seem really dated about the film. Her clothes, for instance. Or Hugh Grant's hair. But of all these, the most dated is the concept of the diary itself. If the film had been made today, Bridget would've had a blog and a Twitter account, and it just wouldn't have been the same.

But some day, our children or our children's children will be looking back on things that heavily feature Facebook or MySpace and be like, "That's seriously how you used to communicate? You didn't have hologram phone watches? How weird!"

Yeah...it just occurred to me how fleeting the latest pop culture or online fad is, but still we get all caught up in having the newest thing when it'll probably be hopelessly passe in the next few months - weeks, even.

Anyway, after being all deep and stuff (because that's deep for me), I realised that I suspect that I will grow up to be like Bridget. Not a smoker, hopefully. But not a great cook, prone to making a fool of myself in social situations, a habit for falling for completely the wrong person...yep, I am just Bridget Jones fifteen years earlier. And that is a pretty depressing thought.

But if I can have Hugh Grant and Colin Firth throwing themselves through restaurant windows for me, who am I to complain?

So...yeah...this was a pointless blog.

Tell me something interesting in the comments. I don't care what it is, but something I probably didn't know before.

Bye

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So, it's done.

I've sent off my university application. Well, it has to go through the school first for my reference and I still haven't paid, but I've sent it. It can't be changed.

Having done that, it's made everything else seem so much closer - Christmas (which I haven't even thought about yet), resits in January (yeah right, I didn't revise for the exams the first time round. I probably won't do anything until the Christmas holidays), the show I'm in in February, actual exams in the spring and summer.

And then prom. Prom! Apparently, if we want to stay in the hotel afterwards, we have to book soon. I've barely thought about it - I don't know what I'm wearing, who I'm going with, whether or not getting a limo is really tacky, if I want to fork out and get my hair done professionally. And on top of that, who is paying for all of this? I'm sure my parents will contribute, but I don't know how keen they'll be.

Aargh stress!

Bye

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I am so bad at this.

I have typed three blog entries and saved them without posting them because I wanted to add photos, and then never added photos and now they are irrelevant.

What's happened since I last blogged?

I did have a detailed description of my trip to London to see John Barrowman in La Cage Aux Folles, but I'll be brief - it was brilliant, John was fantastic as always and he signed my programme.

And then it was Halloween and was Elphaba from Wicked (Google it if you don't know, but I like to think that you all get it). My friend was Galinda:



So yeah...now we're back at school and it's hell. But today was pretty good.

Did any of you watch that Grease: the School Musical on Sky recently? Don't worry, there is a point to this question - it does link in with my good day. Well, it was filmed at a school in my local area and I knew a couple of people in it.

Today, me and some friends went to this singing workshop thing with some of the Year 12s from our school. It's really for Year 12s and at the end they'll get some kind of qualification in leading vocal sessions. They will be going out to primary schools, but the Year 13s are just going to improve our technique and learn new warm-ups. It's meant to span two lessons, but all of the Year 13s involved have lessons straight after, so the woman leading it has decided to do practical while we're there and then do the theory when we've gone.

Anyway...
(I'm sorry, I'm rambling a little...that much detail probably wasn't necessary)

I was just sitting there waiting for the session to start; the four Year 13s on one side of the room and the four year 12s on the other. Then this woman from the main office came down and was like, "There's some more people here for the workshop" and in walked three of the kids off the Grease programme. It was so surreal! Like, obviously they're just schoolkids and they're not famous or anything, but until now two of them have only ever existed inside my TV screen (I already knew one of them from an orchestra I used to be in). It took my brain a few minutes to register their actual existence and stop going, "You were on the TV...you were on the TV..."

I'm such a freak. If they hadn't been on that programme, I probably wouldn't have even noticed when they walked in other than to say hi to Jess.

Anyway, I just thought I'd share that little moment of weirdness.

Bye

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Tomorrow

I'm going to London.

Just like last Saturday, I'll be down south in the capital.

And I still won't get to go to Abercrombie and Fitch to see if they have the male models like in New York.

And I won't get to go to Paul which apparently does the best macaroons in the world, was mentioned in Gossip Girl and has three branches in London.

But instead, I get to see La Cage Aux Folles! Which is exciting!

The last time I saw a show in London was...Wicked in June. Far too long ago.

And before that, Spring Awakening in April.

And after tomorrow, the next time won't be until December!

And after that...well, I just don't know. I can't afford to go again for the forseeable future. I can barely afford to go in December.

Aaah well...I'll have to make the most of it while I can.

Bye

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