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Posted on December 8, 2005 - by Lindsey
Thursday Thirteen #16
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Thirteen Things about Lindsey! 1. This is my first time doing the Thursday 13. Let’s see if I can think of enough things to write about to keep this up, LOL! 2. I am at home in Florida now. I got home Tuesday night. Hopefully I’ll finally be able to get over being sick and I’ll be able to focus on my school work. 3. I had to take an incomplete in 3 of my classes. Basically that means that I have until the next semester starts to get all the work finished. Which means that I have to do homework and study all throughout Christmas break. Neat. 4. On Tuesday, before I went to the airport, I had my prompt book defense meeting with my theatre professors. It went pretty well. It was a little hard to talk about my prompt book because they’ve all had it since October, so they’ve been able to review it and know exactly what’s in there, but I had to try and remember from two months ago. Makes me wish that I could have had the meeting back when I turned it in, but I understand them wanting more time to review it. 5. I have no car here at home. Since I flew home, that means that my car is parked at the airport up in NC for an entire month. I am worried about my baby . . . 6. Finally got The Sims 2 installed on my computer again (it was erased when I had it reimaged, and I couldn’t find the discs to reinstall it). I started up doing The Legacy Challenge – I’m currently on Gen. 3, and this is hard friends! 7. I still have all my Christmas cards to write. I’ve addressed half of them, but I haven’t actually written in any of the cards. I feel like such a slacker. Maybe I’ll make some hot chocolate, turn on the fire (yes, turn it on – it’s a gas fireplace . . . we do live in FL), and put on a Christmas movie. That’s gotta make me want to do Christmas cards, right? Hmmm, maybe I’ll make copies of the picture of Oliver in his Christmas sweater and stick those in there along with the traditional pic of me and my brother . . . Would y’all be interested in that? 8. My mom was working at the concession stand at my brother’s soccer game earlier this week. The other woman who was working with her is the mother of a friend of mine from high school. He graduated 2 years before me. I had a crush on him, and my mom thinks he liked me back, but we didn’t quite figure all this out until about 2 months before he graduated, so what was the point? I went to visit him his freshman year, but then he went abroad his entire sophomore year and we haven’t talked since. Which means we haven’t talked in 4 years. Once his mom realized who my mom was, she gave her his cell phone number and insisted that I call him. I know that he’s had a girlfriend for 3 years, so why on earth would I call him? I haven’t yet, because only one thing comes to mind when I think about that – awkward. 9. Since becoming sick, I’ve done practically nothing but read books and watch TV and movies. As a result, I am now addicted to the Gilmore Girls. With my trusty friend Netflix, I’ve managed to watch all of seasons 1 and 2, and I’ve watched half of season 3. I should have the rest of season 3 and the majority of season 4 by Friday. It’s a little . . . ridiculous. At least it’s not reality TV. 10. It is much harder to come up with 13 things to write about than I thought it would be. 11. My mom keeps asking me what I want for Christmas. I’ve got things I want on my Amazon.com wishlist, but other than the new iPod that I want, there really aren’t many big things I want. And I doubt they’ll buy me books and CDs . . . they think I have too many already. Which is true. 12. My brother Bo went skydiving last week. The concept is absolutely terrifying to me . . . 13. Have you ever eaten at a P. F. Chang’s? I’m trying to get my family to go tomorrow night. We went once over the summer because they just opened one up here, and it was SOOOOOO delicious!!!!! Links to other Thursday Thirteens! |
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Posted on December 8, 2005 - by Lindsey
Rent
Rent
Rent is a play that I have always loved. Though I may not agree with all the things that this play idealizes, I do think it was a truly revolutionary piece of theatre and the music is phenomenal. I first saw the play when it toured in the late 90’s, early 00’s, and I saw it on Broadway in the summer of 2004. I have the entire soundtrack memorized.
I tried to go into the movie without any expectations. I really had no idea if putting this play onto film would actually work, so I figured that if I didn’t think about it much that if it was bad then I wouldn’t be disappointed.
Needless to say, I certainly wasn’t disappointed. The characters became so alive, it took me by surprise. All but two of the characters (Mimi and Joanne) are portrayed by the actors who originated the characters. It’s quite obvious that the actors love their characters, and now that they have 10 years more experience on them than when they first acted these parts, it’s quite obvious that the maturation has developed stronger, richer actors who were able to bring these characters into a real existence.
It was great to be able to see the play take place in its actual setting – we get to see the apartment, the CatScratch Club, the life support meetings, Angel’s funeral.
I’d describe the music, but there’s much better review than I could ever write on Amazon.com. It’s the user review by M J Heilbron Jr. “Dr. Mo”, who wrote this review based only on the soundtrack two weeks before the movie was released. The review is currently the first one that you see when you visit the page for the Rent soundtrack.
SPOILER ALERT – MILD SPOILER BELOW!!!!!!
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Minor complaints (let me stress MINOR):
Joanne’s parents were OK with her sexuality, and in the play they were most definitely not OK with it. I think that added an extra dimension to Joanne’s character that we were missing. However, I think Tracie Thoms did an EXCELLENT job acting the part!
Also, Roger’s walk through the desert was a bit much. I wish they’d picked a slightly less cheesy location for him to sing from.
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Posted on December 8, 2005 - by Lindsey
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
This movie, the fourth installment in the Harry Potter series, was phenomenal. I personally liked this book the best, so I was a bit hesitant about seeing this movie. I was excited, but in the past I’ve been a little disappointed with the Harry Potter movies and how they’ve transfered to film.
However, with new director Mike Newell, this film exceeded all my expectations. It was simply a lot funnier than the others. Newell was really able to capture a piece of the characters that was missing before, and this movie was hysterical. It was also extremely true to the book. Yes, there were some things missing, but have you seen how thick this book is? Given the length that they had to work with, I think that this movie was pretty darn accurate.
Do yourself a favor – go see this, even if you didn’t particularly like the others. This was a fabulous movie.
Posted on December 8, 2005 - by Lindsey
Smashed
Smashed
by Koren Zailckas
This book was quite different than any other book I’d ever read. It’s written from the perspective of a twentysomething woman who is not an alcoholic, but abused alcohol in high school and college. Though her particular experiences are quite extreme, there are elements of her story that sound like half the women I know who are my age. The book drags a little (hence only 4 out of 5 stars), but the basic concept is very unique. I’d recommend this book to all college aged women, and any women who have questioned their alcohol consumption from time to time. This is not the story of an alcoholic – this girl was not physicaly addicted to alcohol (though emotionally is a whole other story). From Amazon.com:
This isn’t just one girl’s story of sneaking drinks in junior high, creeping out for night-long keg parties in high school and binge-drinking weeknights and weekends through college—it’s also a valuable cautionary tale. At 24 (her present age), Zailckas gave up drinking after a decade of getting drunk, having blackouts and experiencing brushes with comas, date rape and suicide. She weaves disturbing statistics (from Harvard School of Public Heath studies and elsewhere) into her memoir: most girls will have their first drink by age 12, and will have the experience of being drunk by 14; teenage girls drink as much as their male peers, but their bodies process it badly (they get drunk faster, stay drunk longer and are more likely to die of alcohol poisoning); and date rape and booze go hand-in-hand. Zailckas had alcohol poisoning at 16 after a night of downing shots at a party with friends, but having her stomach pumped in the emergency room and enduring a month of being grounded didn’t check her desire to drink. Fraternity keg parties led to drunken sexual encounters not-quite-remembered; drinking began to replace intimacy. Alcohol defined Zailckas’s adolescence and college years to such an extent that, as she tells it, she lacks the tools to be an adult: she’s unsure how to maintain relationships and unclear about sex without an alcohol buzz. Zailckas is unsparingly insightful and acutely aware of what drinking can and does do to girls. She explains that while kids are taught that drugs are always dangerous, alcohol is perceived as an acceptable rite of passage. Her book is deeply moving, written in poetic, nuanced prose that never obscures the dangerous truths she seeks to reveal.
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