Great Way to Make a Buck...And other random stories

I've been a huge fan of the comic strip Pearls Before Swine ever since the first time reading it, which was on a super bowl sunday where Pig and a few others were going to get the Super Bowl cameras to broadcast them on TV by having the letters G O T E A M on their chests. Unfortunately, the M and the A got in front of the other two making G O M A T E.

Every now and then they release book collections that are a ton of fun to read. The interesting thing is, after two or so books the author, Stephen Pastis, released books that had strips that had already been published, but with comments on every few strips. Honestly I think it's a great way to make money pretty easily, especially because its quite interesting to read the comments.

I also have found Pearls Before Swine to be oddly uniting. In 6th grade the guy I sat next to was...well kind of obnoxious and not many people liked him very much. (if anyone wants to know who I am talking about, I'll give a couple of hints: his initials are Bull Shit, his last name is demasculating, and if you mispronounce his last name you almost curse--something I didn't realize until a teacher did it) One day he caught me cutting out Pearls Before Swine from the newspaper. From then on we talked about it whenever our class got newspapers and near the end of the year he drew me a Rat and Pig. Which I've obviously lost by now.

A recurring theme in Pearls Before Swine was Rat making up his own philosophys. (like cheesepuffology) After I noticed a lot of girls (at least I think) on Broadway Secrets saying Gavin Creel made them want to be gay men I thought up Creelism or Gavincreelism. You can figure the rest.

Now that I've gotten myself to Gavin Creel and Broadway Secrets. When I was telling two of my friends about Gavin I mentioned there was a specific reason that I didn't fantasize about him (as I have with SO many other guys.) One of my friends (if you know her, you can tell its her by the following quote) guessed "Because he speaks only korean, lives in persia, or is 89 years old. Any of those? All of those?" It took them forever (and a ton of hints) to figure out that I'm the type of girl who does not believe she has the ability to turn a gay guy straight. (Or do I?) The more normal of the friends asked how I knew he was gay and the other suggested I had looked it up on "wikidikipedia" accompanied by a strange face and odd typing hand gestures. (and yes, she likes to fuck up words as she turned asterik into asterdikitidikity-thingy) I responded "Actually several girls have said he makes them want to be gay men...something I think only another gay man could do"

Broadway Secrets 7/10/09

3. Meeee tooo.
12. Because I was still sucking my thumb 10 years ago?
16. Implying that none of the aaahs at the end work?
17. I need to get this CD
21. I am! Ha!
24. You mean like Oprah, Orpah?
30. Yes! Basically I'm rooting for anyone that's not a certain other person.
31. Aw. That's true. And I mean, have you seen him with his dog?
36. All I saw was the top line and I said "Yes he is!" not realizing that was the bottom line
38. I'm not comfortable with that, but I want to do it anyway.
47. It only turns me on when its Matt :)
49. Uh, yeah.
51. That'd be pretty cool
53. I agree. Christopher Sieber's pretty awesome too
56. She's totally awesome too
58. Huh?
60. As I've already communicated. I couldn't believe I didn't know he was on Gossip Girl!
62. I'm going to get around to downloading her Natalie
64. I believe it!
68. Yeah, but see Ben's face in the background
70. Actually I did, thank you very much. I saw a video of her interviewing about it and she was absolutely adorable. And of course a perfect nemo
71. I wish I could
72. Of course.
78. Yes. Her mother and her buddhist are just great and funny.
80. I Know! How could they just say "You weren't good enough on your first performance ever, so now you don't get the opportunity to improve" AND he got his friends and family to buy tickets to see him, and now they won't. I'm not even crazy for his Berger, but this makes me kind of made.
81. Since when is Ben Moss even rumored to be gay?
82. Mee too
83. Am I supposed to surprised?
87. Agree. Matt as Melchior plz?!?!?!?!?
91. I think you are the only one
93. Fuck no. And she can't really sing. Not without allowing the whole world to count and inspect all of her teeth. My sister does a great Demi Lovato impression
96. Oh wow. Awesome picture

Here I am, watching CSI: NEW YORK while playing RUN. The detectives are talking about saw dust and they find what tree it belongs to. Gary Sinise's character then says.
"Which is indigenous to Flushing, Queens."

I then gasp, and not only loose my game but knock my computer off my lap.

Couldn't they have picked a different tree?

Across the Universe/Hair

Totally could use advice/ideas for my Across the Universe/Hair videos.

So if there are any ideas, big or small, I'll totally accept advice

• Aquarius
• Donna
• Hashish
• Sodomy
• Colored Spade
• Manchester, England
• I'm Black/Ain't Got No
• Sheila Franklin/I Believe In Love
• Ain't Got No Grass
• Air
• Kama Sutra/The Stone Age
• I Got Life
• Initials
• Going Down
• Hair
• My Conviction
• Easy to Be Hard
• Don't Put it Down
• Frank Mills
• Hare Krishna/Be In
• Where Do I Go?
• Electric Blues
• Oh Great God of Power
• Black Boys
  
• White Boys
• Walking in Space
• Minuet/African Drums
• Yes I's Finished on Y'all's Farmland
• Four Score/Abie Baby
• Give Up All Desires/Hail Mary/Roll Call
• Three-Five-Zero-Zero
• What a Piece of Work is Man/How Dare They Try
• Good Morning Starshine
• Aquarius/Ain't Got No/Yip Up The Sun
• Flesh Failures/Let the Sun Shine In
• Hair (Reprise)
• Let the Sun Shine In (Reprise)

Gavin Creel- You Sing So Awesome!

Greatest video ever!

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

Across the Universe/Hair-Sample

Hey! This is the first of many videos I'm making. Kind of just a way for me to figure out videos on my laptop. Turns out it doesn't totally suck if I shut out every other programs. I think I might do a few more lines and quick bits to see if I want to switch to Sony Vegas to do the actual songs.

I worked hard on this, and I think it turned out alright-ish. I think it's better than my Washington D.C. video ;) I picked that girl to be Jeanie mostly because she was the only pregnant one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27EhE8AM_u4

Broadway Secrets 7/3/09

None this week, seeing as I was out of town, also why I'm so late.

6. Since when?
8. Aw that's really great. Did they then strike Charlie's Angels poses? Poor Farah.
16. I'm glad someone finally focused on someone new in the Rent cast.
17. Okay, that's great, I guess.
18. Definitely. I wonder if I should change that to my desktop background now.
21. Yes, definitely
22. I know! Ever since I watched the Hair video I have an insane love for her.
25. Untrue. No, I don't mean they're not fantastic because every one of them is. I'm talking about the second clause. The first I saw is not entirely my favorite.
33. While they are adorable, I don't think anything's going on.
34. It's not the best. But there have been worse. The biggest problem is that we all know what Gavin looks like with long hair, and that's not it.
41. Same. Well actually I don't think it was what triggered it, but it progressed it or worsened it or something? The whole SA/JSO thing really was bad. Especially I was acting like I was fine and it was fun, but I don't know.
43. I love him. I was surprised at how much I loved his Woof, but he was great.
46. Hm, I don't know. To be honest I love Caissie. I'm not sure about Caren
60. Yeah. It's obvious that them winning was all about making award history, not about honoring the most talented.
75. Max? Is that you?
79. I'm sure there's a reason for that.
81. Wow. That was just last week
84. I really didn't get that vibe from her performance. That was nearly 4 months ago, but still.
86. I have to admit that broadway in general (not just Hair people) has made me care a little more. It's not because I'm a homophobe or a bigot or anything but I once read in a bathroom stall "why are all the hot guys either stupid or gay?" and I said to a friend "I think the only gay guys, let alone hot gay guys are inside my locker." she said "You're right"
87. Spell check is partly to blame for that issue, just so you know.
90. Yes, definitely.
93. Aw. I mean yes, she is ruining a totally bromantic picture. But still, she's awesome too.
95. His feet are not that big.
97. Definitely vocally, but she's still impossible to not watch in group numbers.
99. I like Bobby better. He gave the character more pain and suffering, Brian made Dan very stoic.
101. Oh please be.
112. I agree with some of those. Not all, but some.
114. I'll have the same problem. I'll be so shy.
115. It's better than a bunch.

Broadway Secrets 6/26/09

I made 3 secrets this week. I don't think they're very obvious

1. Interesting, and a little creepy. Where is that picture from? It's so cool
2. Again. With the secrets about the example labels.
5. The only thing that bothered me was that I thought there was a formatting mistake or something.
6. True.
9. Except that she's a great singer and powerful as hell.
10. Am I the only one who liked the Shrek performance? I thought it was cute.
13. She looks great.
14. I'm glad the Allison love is back.
15. Pretty good chance it'll be good-looking. It won't necessarily be talented.
17. I can say that. You wanna know why? Because it really wasn't all that stuff. Good music. Talented people. Nothing else though. Loveable? No. Heart-wrenching? No. Jaw-dropping? Definitely no.
19. I might actually check it out. I was never interested in TBD anyway.
20. Harry Potter musical would suck.
21. I love how powerful she is. But not her pronunciation/diction.
23. That sounds like me.
34. He'd be good on Broadway. I didn't like Ugly Betty
36. I agree. With both parts actually. For some reason if people ever accuse me of having a crush on him, they end up embarrassed. On that note, he IS adorable beyond belief.
38. I know! The only reason why I can't hate Rock of Ages is Wesley and Lauren. Otherwise I really have no interest (Yes, Amy Spanger is awesome, but she could do better)
39. Really? As far as I know Blake Daniel is NOT gay. (Is it just me, or does he seem a little young for Gavin?)
40. DOES IT INVOLVE BLAKE DANIEL?
42. Same for me. I connect with Natalie so much.
43. I was thinking of making a secret like this a long while back, but I couldn't because there was no official picture and mine would have had a screencap of a bootleg which is not good.
47. I'm gonna look it up.
54. The kid will learn to stay away from the computer, and therefore become a very smart kid.
62. In those pictures, man they do look alike.
65. Now I want to go back and watch that show...even though it kinda sucked.
66. The similarities are totally true, but that doesn't make them similar. (This reminded me of the Broadway.com Tony red carpet video when Gavin said "We'll rock the house 60's, Rock of Ages will rock it 80's")
67. I like them both a lot. Act 2's songs took longer for me to get into, but now I love all the songs.
70. My cousin got a stagedoor picture with him.
74. I agree with her being cute and talented, the posing I don't really find a problem. It's more contagious the more she does it.
75. Funny, nice, and I agree.
77. I don't want to believe this. But for some reason she was the only one in the cast my cousin didn't see at stagedoor. I know it can't have been that he didn't want a picture with her, because he thought she was awesome and totally hot.
78. They're cute in that picture. (That means something since I don't think either of them are very good looking)
79. Do her fans call her Key? That's weird.
89. How is it "all about english accents" Seriously, the american productions are awesome.
96. Now it's perfect!

Looking forward to reading other reviews.

Youtube Experiment

After I've just been sort of agitated by things on youtube, I'm going to privatize all my videos for awhile. I'm interested in what the reaction may be. And if there is no reaction, then maybe it's better off that way.

I Think I'm Writing Again.

Chapter Godknowswhat:

This would not have been the best time to get my ass kicked, so I moved (I did not run, I was not afraid of him) away from George. I saw a closet that I could maybe hide, wait in. Until it was safer at least. There wasn't much space in there, because a ton of clothes. But it was better than anything else so I did my best to slip in there. I was almost to a safe spot where no one could see me even if they opened one of the doors. Suddenly I completely wiped out when my foot got caught on something. I looked towards whatever it was that took me down and it was Sarah sitting cross-legged on the floor.
"You tripped me."
"You stepped on me." she retorted.
Sliding Doors is kind of a weird movie. I mean like, the whole movie you're kind of thinking "How is this possibly going to end when there's two realities happening at once. And then near the end I thought it would be really funny if she died in both possibilities, which she didn't. But the whole purpose of the movie I guess is to be like "Deal with it. It gets better." LOL. not really, but if you see it you'll know what I mean.
"No I didn't. I fell instead" I defended myself.
Sarah just shrugged. "Whyyyy are you in my closet?" She asked annoyingly.
It might be a better idea to let her go first.
"I am hiding from my ex's parents." she raised her eyebrows as if to ask if I could believe that.
"I'm hiding from your ex."
She was unsurprised. "Why?"
"I might have said one or two things to piss him off." I confessed.
"I can't imagine what could piss off such an even tempered person." She responded dryly.
Spending time in her with a closet wasn't too bad of an idea.
"Can I sit with you?"
Her eyebrow raised sharply asking me why I'd stupidly ask that.
"Beautiful show."
Why did she act like that was the first time she'd heard that?
"Really?" Sarah asked hopefully.
I nodded. "I only saw a few, but you're a great artist."
She smiled again.
"Thanks. I don't hear that alot"