I'm... Demetrius?

so for the past week we've been studying Act II scene I of Midsummer Night's Dream, specifically the argument/showdown between Titania and Oberon. I guess I just read it a little differently, but it doesn't seem like they're Angry-God-Weather-Commanders in that scene, more like Mother and Father Nature and earth is their child, sort of, and when they're angry ain't nobody happy.

Anyway.

So today we discuss it a little more and then he puts in a video so we can watch the scene. Because it's period (they moved it up to Victorian times, but the fairies still wear romanesque garb and ALL the lines are the same--which is dumb because Demetrius is wearing A SUIT and not ATHENIAN CLOTHES), it's a little hard to tell when it was made--late eighties, early nineties--but it has that Hook-like Cheez Factor of Too Much Going On, Too Silly. And this is just Oberon and Titania, lords of the fairies.

So Oberon has his ridiculous nymphs running around and Puck looks like an idiot--or rather, acts like one, you know, someone too smart trying to play someone dumb when they really shouldn't be (like Dustin Hoffman paying Hook, exactly). And then Titania shows up in this ridiculous caravan of fairies dressed up like... god knows what... and Oberon gets so pissed there's an earthquake. And an avalanche. And lightning. And a fire. And mud boiling. And he has this massive stone throne, and Titania has her caravan, and we are two minutes into this thing and I am trying so hard not to laugh right now.

Then Titania opens the curtain and IT'S THE FUCKING CRAZY LADY FROM HAIRSPRAY.

I almost lost it right there. So I'm trying really, really, hard not to laugh at how ridiculous this all is, with Oberon being waytooserious and Titania being waytoopissedandditzy and oooohhhh gooooood it's soooo over the top.

And then Demetrius rides in on his bicycle, and I KNOW EXACTLY WHO IT IS, even though you can't see his face. I turned to Melissa to give her a NO FUCKING WAY look, and I was right.










IT'S FUCKING CHRISTIAN BALE.

At that point I pretty much died, and I had to bite down not to laugh, and I was turning red from trying not to laugh. OOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHH GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD FUCKING LOL. He's not even bad (like Newsies, anyone?) but HOLY SHIT IT'S JUST WAY TOO MUCH SHENANIGANS TO HANDLE.


Of course as soon as class is done, Melissa was like "Do you want me to fucking trash your lights?" and I pretty much lost it.

WE ARE SO RENTING THIS.

I'm... Demetrius?

so for the past week we've been studying Act II scene I of Midsummer Night's Dream, specifically the argument/showdown between Titania and Oberon. I guess I just read it a little differently, but it doesn't seem like they're Angry-God-Weather-Commanders in that scene, more like Mother and Father Nature and earth is their child, sort of, and when they're angry ain't nobody happy.

Anyway.

So today we discuss it a little more and then he puts in a video so we can watch the scene. Because it's period (they moved it up to Victorian times, but the fairies still wear romanesque garb and ALL the lines are the same--which is dumb because Demetrius is wearing A SUIT and not ATHENIAN CLOTHES), it's a little hard to tell when it was made--late eighties, early nineties--but it has that Hook-like Cheez Factor of Too Much Going On, Too Silly. And this is just Oberon and Titania, lords of the fairies.

So Oberon has his ridiculous nymphs running around and Puck looks like an idiot--or rather, acts like one, you know, someone too smart trying to play someone dumb when they really shouldn't be (like Dustin Hoffman paying Hook, exactly). And then Titania shows up in this ridiculous caravan of fairies dressed up like... god knows what... and Oberon gets so pissed there's an earthquake. And an avalanche. And lightning. And a fire. And mud boiling. And he has this massive stone throne, and Titania has her caravan, and we are two minutes into this thing and I am trying so hard not to laugh right now.

Then Titania opens the curtain and IT'S THE FUCKING CRAZY LADY FROM HAIRSPRAY.

I almost lost it right there. So I'm trying really, really, hard not to laugh at how ridiculous this all is, with Oberon being waytooserious and Titania being waytoopissedandditzy and oooohhhh gooooood it's soooo over the top.

And then Demetrius rides in on his bicycle, and I KNOW EXACTLY WHO IT IS, even though you can't see his face. I turned to Melissa to give her a NO FUCKING WAY look, and I was right.










IT'S FUCKING CHRISTIAN BALE.

At that point I pretty much died, and I had to bite down not to laugh, and I was turning red from trying not to laugh. OOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHH GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD FUCKING LOL. He's not even bad (like Newsies, anyone?) but HOLY SHIT IT'S JUST WAY TOO MUCH SHENANIGANS TO HANDLE.


Of course as soon as class is done, Melissa was like "Do you want me to fucking trash your lights?" and I pretty much lost it.

WE ARE SO RENTING THIS.

I am such a geek.

Seriously... I am a huge dork. I've been geeking out in concrete lab because it's... concrete. Lol. It doesn't help that this amazing house went up for sale on ebay and I really want to own it. Seriously, just look at the pictures. I would totally turn it into my Dr. Evil/Tony Stark lair. DORK

Yeeaaaaaaaah. Concrete is awesome.

So this is cool, you can vote to name node 3 of the ISS, and you should totally vote for Serenity. It's winning by a landslide and I'm really not surprised. (Although I'm actually surprised some other huge space fandom hasn't picked up on it and tried to name it something else, although I could be wrong since they don't show the votes for the top suggestions.)

Okay so I didn't realize the Harry Potter themepark was not going to be a separate park. That's more understandable. Although the other article mentioned the other "island' themes, and they sounded a little more interesting. I think my grandma wants to take us down there, though, so maybe I can get a Disney+Universal trip out of her.

OMG CHECK THIS OUT I doubt it's actually Atlantis but it looks like it could be something. So cool.

Shia saves a snake. Appropriate, I daresay.

Things I learned from the Oscars this year: DUDE NO ONE TOLD ME ROY SCHNEIDER DIED. Jaws was so good! (And fie on those who have never seen it.) By the way, did anyone watch the Oscars? Damn they were good this year. Jackman is a great host, Tina Fey and Steve Martin were hilarious, I liked all the stage settings for the first half, and Ben Stiller as Joaquin Phoenix was ridiculous. ("You look like you work at a Hasidic meth lab.") So good, so good. Second half, kinda blah, though. Too much Slumdog stuff... Meh. The speech from the writer of Milk was AMAZING though, HOLY CRAP. Oh and Ledger, won, yay! :D

Oh, here's something else the screenwriter for Milk wrote about it. His message is so good... and so true.

Yep yep, so. Back later with more, I'm sure.

I am such a geek.

Seriously... I am a huge dork. I've been geeking out in concrete lab because it's... concrete. Lol. It doesn't help that this amazing house went up for sale on ebay and I really want to own it. Seriously, just look at the pictures. I would totally turn it into my Dr. Evil/Tony Stark lair. DORK

Yeeaaaaaaaah. Concrete is awesome.

So this is cool, you can vote to name node 3 of the ISS, and you should totally vote for Serenity. It's winning by a landslide and I'm really not surprised. (Although I'm actually surprised some other huge space fandom hasn't picked up on it and tried to name it something else, although I could be wrong since they don't show the votes for the top suggestions.)

Okay so I didn't realize the Harry Potter themepark was not going to be a separate park. That's more understandable. Although the other article mentioned the other "island' themes, and they sounded a little more interesting. I think my grandma wants to take us down there, though, so maybe I can get a Disney+Universal trip out of her.

OMG CHECK THIS OUT I doubt it's actually Atlantis but it looks like it could be something. So cool.

Shia saves a snake. Appropriate, I daresay.

Things I learned from the Oscars this year: DUDE NO ONE TOLD ME ROY SCHNEIDER DIED. Jaws was so good! (And fie on those who have never seen it.) By the way, did anyone watch the Oscars? Damn they were good this year. Jackman is a great host, Tina Fey and Steve Martin were hilarious, I liked all the stage settings for the first half, and Ben Stiller as Joaquin Phoenix was ridiculous. ("You look like you work at a Hasidic meth lab.") So good, so good. Second half, kinda blah, though. Too much Slumdog stuff... Meh. The speech from the writer of Milk was AMAZING though, HOLY CRAP. Oh and Ledger, won, yay! :D

Oh, here's something else the screenwriter for Milk wrote about it. His message is so good... and so true.

Yep yep, so. Back later with more, I'm sure.

things and such

So I totally forgot that today was Fat Tuesday and that tomorrow is Ash Wednesday. I think this will be the first Ash Wednesday I'm not going to church. I mean, I may have not gone last year but I don't remember.

Anyway, I'm in a terribly mood to deal with people and that will basically be a big sign tomorrow "HELLO I'M NOT A CATHOLIC" and I just don't want to deal with any of that right now... Bleh. I've been like that all day. Not in a people mood. I know exactly why, too, it's just that I happened to read several things that made me in a don't-want-to-argue-with-people mood. First of all, a random article that had caused a Twilight discussion (yeeeeah, I'm a comment reader). I don't want to dislike it just to be a literature snob, but it worries the feminist side of me that so many young girls think it's so good. I mean, for people who know it's not written that well (I did find it so boring I never made it to the point where the plot showed up) and enjoy it as fluff, cool beans, that's fine. But when I'm in a mood like this I also want to encourage people to read good stuff... like Shakespeare, haha... But yeah, sometimes I find it hard to balance encouraging people to learn with shoving it down their throats a little just for sake of argumentative convenience. I'm not the type of person who likes to argue, I just don't like being put at odds with friends. So that's where that comes from. Secondly, an article about the whole atheists-in-america and militant-christians thing, which just always gets me a little riled and anxious. Bleh. And then we went to our Girl Scout meeting where there were nine roughly third-to-fifth grade girls and THEY'VE NEVER HEARD OF THE BEATLES and lately I've been frustrated that kids think High School Musical and Miley Cyrus and that shit is the Best Thing Ever and I just hate pop music so much for so many reasons and I really didn't want to deal with a bunch of annoying girls who've never heard of the Beatles. I now know why I hung out with boys in gradeschool rather than girls, and why I grew into being able to hang out with girls again. It's a maturity or intelligence (or FORETHOUGHT) issue and it explains so much. I just don't like that age group of girls, apparently.

BAH. So, yes, not in a people mood.

Oh my god there is this girl (who is sitting in the other room and it's driving me crazy) and she starts EVERY sentence with "it's one where". Regardless of actual context. If she's explaning something, it's "it's one where". FUCKING LISTEN TO YOURSELF, IT DOESN'T EVEN MAKE ANY SENSE FOR FUCK'S SAKE.

That's another thing, I've been wanting to jump on people all day for grammar and usage stuff. Not in a people mood.

OH. Oh. Oh my god. So we were hanging out after Girl Scouts waiting for the last mom to come, and two of the girls in Phi Rho were talking about this guy at work who is kind of awkward and apparently only undeleted his facebook to say he was in a relationship with his new girlfriend but OH MY GOD IT WAS BEN CHRISTOFF THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT. I love Ben :C He was such a goofball in high school, and I mean I haven't really talked to him lately but I see him going to and from class and it's not like he grew a stalker beard and shuffles around or something. So I dunno. That just breaks my heart really, because he was a really awesome friend in high school. Lol I remember him playing guitar and harmonica with Mr. Bosticco. Oh lordy. Good times. I miss high school =)

things and such

So I totally forgot that today was Fat Tuesday and that tomorrow is Ash Wednesday. I think this will be the first Ash Wednesday I'm not going to church. I mean, I may have not gone last year but I don't remember.

Anyway, I'm in a terribly mood to deal with people and that will basically be a big sign tomorrow "HELLO I'M NOT A CATHOLIC" and I just don't want to deal with any of that right now... Bleh. I've been like that all day. Not in a people mood. I know exactly why, too, it's just that I happened to read several things that made me in a don't-want-to-argue-with-people mood. First of all, a random article that had caused a Twilight discussion (yeeeeah, I'm a comment reader). I don't want to dislike it just to be a literature snob, but it worries the feminist side of me that so many young girls think it's so good. I mean, for people who know it's not written that well (I did find it so boring I never made it to the point where the plot showed up) and enjoy it as fluff, cool beans, that's fine. But when I'm in a mood like this I also want to encourage people to read good stuff... like Shakespeare, haha... But yeah, sometimes I find it hard to balance encouraging people to learn with shoving it down their throats a little just for sake of argumentative convenience. I'm not the type of person who likes to argue, I just don't like being put at odds with friends. So that's where that comes from. Secondly, an article about the whole atheists-in-america and militant-christians thing, which just always gets me a little riled and anxious. Bleh. And then we went to our Girl Scout meeting where there were nine roughly third-to-fifth grade girls and THEY'VE NEVER HEARD OF THE BEATLES and lately I've been frustrated that kids think High School Musical and Miley Cyrus and that shit is the Best Thing Ever and I just hate pop music so much for so many reasons and I really didn't want to deal with a bunch of annoying girls who've never heard of the Beatles. I now know why I hung out with boys in gradeschool rather than girls, and why I grew into being able to hang out with girls again. It's a maturity or intelligence (or FORETHOUGHT) issue and it explains so much. I just don't like that age group of girls, apparently.

BAH. So, yes, not in a people mood.

Oh my god there is this girl (who is sitting in the other room and it's driving me crazy) and she starts EVERY sentence with "it's one where". Regardless of actual context. If she's explaning something, it's "it's one where". FUCKING LISTEN TO YOURSELF, IT DOESN'T EVEN MAKE ANY SENSE FOR FUCK'S SAKE.

That's another thing, I've been wanting to jump on people all day for grammar and usage stuff. Not in a people mood.

OH. Oh. Oh my god. So we were hanging out after Girl Scouts waiting for the last mom to come, and two of the girls in Phi Rho were talking about this guy at work who is kind of awkward and apparently only undeleted his facebook to say he was in a relationship with his new girlfriend but OH MY GOD IT WAS BEN CHRISTOFF THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT. I love Ben :C He was such a goofball in high school, and I mean I haven't really talked to him lately but I see him going to and from class and it's not like he grew a stalker beard and shuffles around or something. So I dunno. That just breaks my heart really, because he was a really awesome friend in high school. Lol I remember him playing guitar and harmonica with Mr. Bosticco. Oh lordy. Good times. I miss high school =)