The cast of Going Postal has been anounced! And, well, I've never seen any of these people in action. XD So I'll just judge by the looks now. :p

I absolutely love the woman who's going to play Angua:

( Ingrid BolsØ Berdal )


( Claire Foy might not look exactly how I imagined Adora Belle Dearheart, but I kinda ...can't close the window with her pic and keep staring at her face, so I'm perfectly fine with her in this role. :D )


( Aaand here's Moist! )

...Mam inne poczucia humoru. Takie bardziej ...salonowe. I to nawet kilka. Naprawdę. Ale mam też takie, przez które na widok takich rzeczy jak:

+ Blog Sex Tips for Zombies

+ "Grzmot w nocniku" albo "Zgwałcili mi tatę" jako nazwa zespołu

nie mogę przestać kwiczeć.

I swoją drogą, "Najgłupsze nazwy zespołów"? o.o O co im chodzi? Dla mnie większość wymiata. :D

OH GOD. OH GOD. I'VE JUST DIED.




Oh, Bradley. ( A bigger version )

So, it started when megan_moonlight posted the video of Susan Boyle singing "I Dreamed a Dream". I've listened to Susan, decided that she is, indeed, incredible (especially considering that she's a complete amateur), and then I went to YouTube to look for other versions of this song. I've listened to Lea Salonga, Judy Kuhn, and Ruthie Henshall. About half an hour later, I've reached the following conclusions:

Lea Salonga is ...hmm. I've listened to this and this and, as long as I like her as Eponine (not as much as Stephanie Martin, though. But then again, Stephanie Martin just beats everyone hands down), here she makes me wince. I mean, she sounds nice in the first half, but in the second she gets too loud and sounds like she has to strain herself horribly to be able to sing this song to the end. Together with the way she enunciates words, it makes her look and sound overdone and unnatural. So I'll give her that she's better than Frances Ruffelle (who played Eponine in the Original Broadway version), but nah, overall, I'm not a big fan of Lea.

Judy Kuhn's version didn't blow me away, either, but I also didn't catch anything particularly off-putting about her performance. She's good, but she definitely didn't KILL me like Ruthie Henshall did.

Ruthie Henshall is the only person whose performance of "I Dreamed a Dream" makes me actually feel anything; the only one who can make me feel the character's emotions as I watch her. Her version of "Fantine's Death", it's made me cry. And being moved to tears by fictional events is an extremely rare occurence in my life. Not only do I love everything I've seen her in so far and like her rendition of "I Dreamed a Dream" better than Salonga's, but also I think, quite blasphemously, that she completely kicks Liza Minelli's arse in this one. So yeah, I have a new idol. 8D

OMG #1 - Eee, Ruthie Henshall and John Barrowman's Anything You Can Do!

OMG #2 - Ruthie Henshall was the original Roxie in Chicago. :D (And Chicago = 1920's! ^^)

Oh boy, I have it bad:

my mother: *scratches the pastry board with a knife, vigorously*
Susan: *jumps out of her chair and starts dancing Charleston*


I'm also slowly going through the YouTube's twenties-related videos, and I've noticed something funny: most people apparently see this era as some kind of a long-gone golden age of chastity, to which our tainted, bitter, experienced modern world can't even compare. Let me tell you, oblivious commenters of YouTube, that looking at a flapper and seeing a meek, innocent girl is one hell of a misinterpretation.

The 1920's, all the roaring craze they were, happened because people needed to release the World War I trauma. People didn't want to be moderate, serious and quiet, and that's why the twenties were like a ten-year-long festival, and not one of chastity. Flapper dresses barely covered knees (and uncovered them completely when you danced Charleston, for example ;)), which doesn't really sound outrageous from today's perspective - but ninety years ago people didn't have today's perspective; ninety years ago short skirts were seen for the first time in history, and it was a revolution.
The Victorians were chaste and well-behaved. The Edwardians, yeah. The flappers?

The flapper girls refused to wear corsets, instead putting on light, short, sleeveless dresses. They smoked cigarettes, drove cars, cut their hair, and wore make-up (earlier associated only with prostitutes). And took part in petting parties (which is something I was really surprised to learn. I mean, petting parties? And they say the sixties was when the sexual revolution begun!). And voted. All of these, as far as I know, for the first time in the known history.

Actually, to me, women from the twenties are more independent and modern and generally ass-kicking than, for example, those from the fifties (it's not that I don't like the fifties, or something - I do. But women were not free in this decade). To prove which, I'm posting this picture, that really tells more than thousand words:


( A cartoon. An original one, from the twenties )


*grin* How can you not love them? :DD It's easy for us, now, to be independent and oh-so-rebellious. Imagine what it was like with Victorian matrons still alive, kicking and putting out your cigarettes all around.

Oh GOD, I love ballet so very much. Look at this:


Perfection. *____*

And, in case you've never heard of Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake (= gay Swan Lake. Matthew Bourne is the ballet version of Russel T. Davies :DD), here you go:



[edit: Oh, btw, this is the scene in which the Swan [...Odile? XD] and the Prince meet for the first time. The Prince goes emo and wants to drown himself in a lake, but it's all over when the Swan comes into the play...]

The dancer playing the 'main' Swan is Adam Cooper. Have you seen the way he moves? ...I would very much like to be able to say something eloquent about this man's skills in the field of expression through movement, but all I think of ATM is "askdlfjdkfjkdjpdskds" (and that's what ONE GESTURE by him did to me. One gesture. Watching the clip to the end will probably cause my reduction to a puddle of complete goo. Not that I mind). That. That is Perfection, too.

*włącza się do fazy kocio-obrazkowej*

( Poznajcie Hosię )

...it's like with clothes or icons on lj: I do like the ones I have, but I need to get new ones from time to time, too. ;)

( Anyway, here it is )

Hah! Well, I can't believe it --

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2009/04/09/2009-04-09_gay_marriage_poster_boys_invited_to_poland_after_controversy.html

Who'd have thought? The man's making progress! Not that I believe this invitation was his own idea, but still, a few more steps like that and he's going to make up for all the backwards ones. Whether he wants it or not. >D

- I've seen the first, and then the second episode of Merlin - I liked it. I didn't like what happens to historical accuracy there (I won't comment on the Arthurian accuracy, because I suck at the Arthurian legends), but hey, it's a commercial show for young people, not a documentary, I repeat to myself and just agree to ignore the uncomfortable details.

So yeah, seen from the right angle, Merlin is very cool indeed. ;p

- I've also seen Jesus Christ Superstar. Live. :D It's very cool, too - and you don't even need to look for a right angle! - but ...I liked it in a calm, balanced way, if you know what I mean. I found Rent (the previous musical I've seen live) much more exciting. :)

- "I've kissed a girl" is the Song of the Day today. I can't get it out of my head.

- I'm not entirely sure, but it looks like it's full moon today. And full moon is cool moon. :)

...or when the fandom out-fandoms itself:

http://www.cinematical.com/2009/02/05/fan-made-bellas-womb-from-twilight-aka-creepiest-fan-made/

And I thought I have crazy ideas.

"Only when we are no longer afraid, do we begin to live" - but who ever really stops being afraid?

sarahtales, also known as Sarah Rees Brennan (whose big fan I am), has bought herself a castle. And is living in it with a bunch of friends. And they've got bedrooms like this: http://www.dianapeterfreund.com/chez-castle/ I am insanely jealous.

Also, Sarah has a Twitter account, if anyone's interested: http://twitter.com/sarahreesbrenna
And there's something like TeamCastle Twitter account, where the Sarah Castle's inhabitants' adventures are, um, accounted for: http://twitter.com/TeamCastle

And at one of these sites - not sure where - I've found this link: http://ariberk.livejournal.com/1830.html - and have been caught in a major train-wreck syndrome. ^^ I am terrified by those stories (which is kind of stupid, since most of them aren't even about malicious ghosts. But hey, it's me, the girl scared even of trailers of crappy horror movies that nobody else is afraid of, and who can't watch more than four episodes of Supernatural in a row without freaking out and not being able to sleep alone in the house) as much as I love them. :D And yes, I do realize a lot of them can be made up. But they also might not be. *shrug* That's not really the point, is it?

I'd like to inform that, inspired by the six-word challenge at <lj user="multifandom_pl", I came up (after I wrote a certain amount of six-word and ten-word fanfiction, as well as Forms Without Middle - an inside out take on what Szymborska once said: "a story might not have an introduction nor a conclusion - the middle, however, seems necessary") with a way to use my account on Twitter (which is here: http://twitter.com/waeter): I shall write fanfics there! 140 characters each. :D And you, of course, are very welcome to join me in the folly. :D

Yesterday, I and a friend of mine went to a park (we needed a place away from the public - and there's hardly any public in parks right now, and also, this particular park has a small band shell, so it was perfect) - a friend who, just like me, is as much interested in musicals as he is crazy - and we sang songs from musicals, at full blast. :D It was fun. I acquainted him with "Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better" - we're planning to learn to sing it together. :P

Also yesterday, I watched the 4x12 episode of Bones, in which Booth and Bones go undercover and join a circus. And they perform as a Russian knife-thrower and his assistant. And Booth throws knives at - well, around - Bones. And Camille, Hodgins, Sweets and a new assistant of Bones' watch them in the Jeffersonian (because Cam manipulates Bones into installing a camera over the stage xp). Oh my. I love this show so much. :DD

http://wiadomosci.wp.pl/kat,1356,title,Amerykanska-gazeta-pisze-o-nazistowskiej-Polsce,wid,10882408,wiadomosc.html

K***a mać, jak ja nienawidzę czegoś takiego. Znaczy przepraszam za (wygwiazdkowane, ale i tak xp) wyrażenie, ale jestem dziś trochę zestresowana, więc to, co mnie wkurza, wkurza mnie trochę bardziej niż zwykle, a poza tym nie muszę być jakoś szczególnie zestresowana, żeby nie znosić takiego bezmyślnego mielenia ozorem, jakie uprawia ...*powstrzymuje się od użycia jakiegoś kwiecistego inwektywu* autor tego artykułu. Nazistowska Polska. *warczy* Co za idiota.

Epic win:



I want somebody to make this into a real opera now.

A teraz coś specjalnie dla Nietoperza: Les Misérables en français. ^^


To jest super - piosenka śpiewana przez Eponinę po tym, jak ratuje Mariusza i Kozetę przed atakiem jej ojca i jego ekipy. Uwielbiam to niezależnie od języka, ale to wykonanie jest po prostu powalające. Głos tej kobiety jest niesamowity:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rkh7T7hEe9o&feature=related

"A la Volonté du Peuple", też fajne, ale ja jednak wolę angielską wersję:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zu1eyEvcEG0

A to jest "Seul devant ces tables vides", którego też mi się bardzo podoba (to znaczy głos tego pana mi się podoba, bo wykonanie jest identyczne jak w wersji anglojęzycznej):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1qOlsy2rnQ&feature=related

Zapewniam, że nie będziemy prowadzić wojny, nawet jeżeli druga strona będzie ją prowadziła. Jeśli PO ma politykę miłości, to PiS ma teraz politykę pokoju. Miłość kontra pokój - powiedział w rozmowie z "Super Expressem" prezes PiS Jarosław Kaczyński.

Jestem pod wrażeniem umysłu, który jest w stanie przeciwstawić sobie miłość i pokój. *gleba*

Swoją drogą, wyobraźcie sobie Kaczora jako przywódcę nowej fali ruchu hipisowskiego, rozpowszechniającego miłość jako narzędzie walki z pokojem. *stara się to sobie wyobrazić* *kręci jej się w głowie* To by było coś.

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Czyjś komentarz na WP: "Do miłości potrzebny jest pokój i to najlepiej w dobrym ...........hotelu."

Lol XDD