So i know that there are many many people who give Glee a ton of shit, like people will either passionately love it or hate it. When someone asks me if i watch, don’t know about anyone else, but i always get heaps nervous, like i’m thinking that this could potentially end a friendship right here depending on what i say. So i’m always like, “yeeaahh... I like the songs and stuff.. the story is sometimes...” u know, like trying to play it safe. And if they say they like it i’m like ‘OMG I LOVE IT’, hell even if they say they hate it i’m like ‘SHUT UP I LOVE IT!!’ pfff like we could have been friends anyway.
There is no doubt in my mind that glee has made me who i am at the moment. Like i don’t even know what i would’ve been listening to on constant loop for the past couple of years if Rachel Berry had not been born. God my life would suck, in fact i’d probably be dead. I sure as hell wouldn’t have fallen in love with this musical that’s for sure. Rachel and Mercedes dueting take me or leave me - omg people speak of pinpointing those single moments that have defined the rest their lives - this was one of those times hey. WATCH IT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3cbGKlYWkE ; and if it’s ever removed for copyright or whatever, audio http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w55hz4Q7MGE . Easily the the best $2.19 i ever spent. Easilly.
Anyway so like any self-respecting gay, i loves me some musical theatre. Before this though i guess u could say i just enjoyed it a lot; like i’d been to a few shows with my family, Mamma Mia!, The Wizard of Oz (with ’ol gurl Nicki Webster), in grade 12 i worked in my school’s production of The Hound of Music, that sort of thing. Went on a pilgrimage with my girl friend Emma to Sydney for Wicked, as u do, so yeah i enjoyed it a lot :) Wasn’t till rent though that i actually got addicted to it like Amy Winehouse was to heroin, ecstasy and crack-cocaine! (.. nah not even too soon for that one :/ ) Glee led me to the original Take Me or Leave Me by Broadway goddesses Idina and Tracie, which i listened to a few hundred times. Had an epic moment of re-discovering Seasons of Love from when i joined the choir for a year in grade 4 - crazy awesome. Then of course did the usual IMDB/wiki-research on the musical and movie, before finally deciding that my life would simply not by complete until this shit had been seen in all it’s entirety. MOVIE NIGHT!! I think i even made a fb event for this one - it commanded serious attention. So i got a whole bunch of my friends of dorothy really keen, and we all got together at Rhiannon’s house for the grand first-time viewing. Actually to be honest i don’t think any of the others knew what we were seeing when i organised this.. It was kinda just like ‘movies and sleepover at Rhi’s!!’ and then i was like ‘musicals!! or something..’ and everyone else was like ‘wait, whaa?’ Quit ur complainin bitches, i wanna watch it so we’re watchin it and u’ll love it. Nick was all like ‘mer musicals suck’. Nick’s awesome and one of my bestest friends, but like he’s that one friend that u have who has all kinds of shit taste in music and movies. Like ok i know it’s personal opinion and all that, but guaranteed if there was any song or tv show that i like, he will hate it. And i don’t know if he does it just because, like sometimes we’ll be driving in the car and he’s like ‘don’t play any glee cuz it’s all shit’, and of course i’ll deliberately play glee, and he’ll not realise and be loving it singing along!? What’s the deal man, make up ur mind. Anyway so he wasn’t keen, but seeing as i’m big spoon in our relationship we watch it anyway. Also earlier in the evening i’d completely destroyed him in a beer sculling comp so his pride was kinda low. (Long story short, i hate beer and he loves it, so of course we had a beer drinking comp at southbank which Nick thinks i cheated in cuz he was drinking it all slow and laughing at me not being able to drink it, and then i caught him off guard by sculling the entire thing and he couldn’t keep up. So this was the official re-match at Rhi’s, where we both just had to go for it, loser has to make the winner a sandwich, and i beat him again, still waiting for the sandwich). Why would i agree to a beer drinking comp in the first place u may ask, especially when i believe it tastes like sewerage? Really Brett, u know me - i broke my ankle trying to better my bounding record at training, even though i’d already beaten everyone. BODY ON THE LINE. MUST WIN NO MATTER THE COST! That is why we are going to destroy at tennis comp - babe i will play with no arms or right foot and still try to win for us. IT’S JUST A FLESH WOUND. KEEP PLAYING!! Obviously this is where ur actual tennis pro ability will come in handy..
Totally have gone off course, and bringin it back.
RENTLOVE IT
Get ur friends together, cover the floor in matresses, pull out the sheet and projector, get drunk, prepare to have ur life completed.
Here are some pretty pictures
For those of u who aren’t Brett and are reading this (??) actually omg YOLLY!!! My one and only follower :D When i heard that u were not only reading my posts, but also watching the films??!! Literally pissing wiv excitement xD Hello my lovely, i’ll tell you a story..
It was a cold and lonely night, as many of our nights are.. ok no not really, it was actually kinda warmish; i decided to watch Rent, but before i started I got a text from my dear friend Brett, (or maybe i texted him, i can’t remember) and we were talking about something, i can’t remember what it was now.. ok so i’m going to go get my phone cuz this story sucks so far. Right ok, so we were talking about Delta Goodrem and being bummed that her album isn’t rumoured to be coming out till August. This of course made us both kinda sad, and seeing as the extent of Brett’s night plans were to stare blankly at his sewing machine, i proposed a night time showing of my current all time favourite movie musical. However, seeing as he lives all the way on the far far north side, we would have to settle for a long distance viewing of rent by correspondence from our computers - which we did. And i think we were pretty much in perfect sync too! Until i took a 10 min break for intermission, which i think i did without telling him, oh well (irrelevant). So i was totes jelous cuz brett had 2 bottles of moscato and the only wine i could find at home came out of a box, but i was on a high from Rent anyway so drank tea. (again, irrelevant, why would u care what i drank).
Anyway, so i was totally invested in watching this musical right - it was tragic and amazing and my voice was a little sore from singing all the songs hard out; the movie finishes and i’m like totally emotionally raw and exhausted, get a text from Brett, and i quote - ‘How touching :} It wasnt too bad :)’ ... ... ... ... ... ... ??? WT actual F?? ‘It defs picked up towards the end.. I found it hard to relate to any of the characters or their circumstances tho..’ Brett, ok so no we are not struggling bohemian artists with AIDS and soul wrenching voices in the 80s, but at bare minimum, almost all the characters are gay les bi undecided - surely we belong to this? it’s like pick ur own adventure!! no? *sigh :(
Again this probs comes down to personal preference. Can only hold it against him a little bit :P At least we both loved, what is arguably the worlds greatest lesbian anthem, take me or leave me.
- - - FAVOURITE MOVIE MOMENTS - - -
I think this time my favourite single moment was also like the saddest part of the movie :( trying to think of a lovely happy moment that outshines Joanne standing up and singing at the funeral, but just can't. Kills me.MOVIE : ORGASMIC
HOTTNESS OF CAST : Yay! ;)
CRY FACTOR : 2 tears
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