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[sisterjune]

Hello kids! I saw the BEST MUSICAL EVER, the other night. What's it called you ask?
Why it's

A VERY POTTER MUSICAL OF COURSE!

I recommend this to EVERYONE. But especially potter fans. I havent read the books in a while but everything was hilarious to me, it's a great great musical put on by a bunch of college students and recent grads. There's plenty more info about what the musical is, who the people behind the production are as well as the cast and why they did this at their youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/StarKidPotter. you can watch the whole play there too if you like

You can find some gifs, caps and a download link to an avi file of the entire play here:
http://bigmamag.livejournal.com/187397.html
also the dude who plays voldemort has a totally slammin bod wtf. Voldemort should not look attractive! Srsly I am so glad he got to be shirtless for almost the ENTIRE time. Speaking of shallow things, the dude who plays harry in the musical (Darren Criss) is approx 24982092x more attractive to me than Dan radcliffe ever was. But then he DOES play guitar! and can sing soulful power ballads! Seriously this was just a funny musical to me until the next to last song "You're not alone" and that was the point where I was like HOLY CRAP these guys are truly talented! It does take talent and effort to set up something like this but these arent just practical jokesters armed with prep school uniforms and access to instruments and sound equipment. They are the real deal and they could totally do serious musicals if they wanted to, they got skills, but they simply chose to make a silly musical about harry potter and show it for free. How awesome IS THAT? (I am so keeping an eye out for future projects from these guys. these are our generation's puccinis, tchaikovskys and mozarts...no rly.) and also the girl (yes girl: Lauren Lopez) who plays Malfoy? HYSTERICAL. After the play she was totally my favorite. So so funny. Everyone was great but I think she and Darren were the stand outs.

I'm such a nerd that I joined ontdpigfarts soon after watching the musical. If you like it I suggest you join the comm too. (I got sorted into ravenbawww! apparently this means I'm classy. I'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO BE CLASSY! YAY)

and Props to ohvienna for pimpin this in her lj or I'd never have known ok I would have probably known about eventually since nothing stays secret for long in fandom but it would have taken much longer! and watching it so made my day. It will make your day too guys! OMG watch it!

Skins: My God I'm sure you are all sick of whining about how much Season 3 annoyed me but I really just want to say this one last thing then I swear I wont bitch about Skins ever again (or rather not until S4 next year)
I finally saw ep 7 from S2 which is Effy's episode and it was not only amazing and emotional and hella dramatic but Effy was SO fucking cool in it! and what kills me about it she was ten times more interesting, active, likeable and well developed in that SINGLE episode than she was ALL of season 3!WTF? I mean I was willing to believe until I saw this that the writers just had no clue what to do with her to begin with and that the only reason it didnt show before hand was cause she had such a small role but look here she was the center character and she was fabulous and so well written! So many complex layers there of her character yet to be discovered! and now I'm so angry cause if they could write her like this in S2 they damn well could have in S3. Where was devious but ultimately good hearted effy and her machinations in S3? She was such a passive character there simply put as an object to fought over by two prats ie the male characters and I hated it then and now I hate it EVEN more because she was this dynamic fascinating female character and in the end she got stuck as the "love interest" and nothing more than a pretty face. It just feels so unfair cause after this ep I wanted to know more about her and see her do more awesome shit and I felt so irritated knowing already that I never would. Bah! Oh well no reason to keep harping. One day I will to ease my own suffering, write up my version of S3 skins. Basically what would have happened if they let me write the show. Then maybe I can finally fucking drop this. (Pandora it should be said was HILARIOUS in ep7 and I had no clue she appeared in S2! lol her crush on tony and his sheer horror at her antics, so so cute <3 I miss this pandora why did she turn all salacious and angsty in S3? *grumbles*)

For some positivity I want to say that I am enjoying Season 2 of skins SO MUCH. I am like glued to my comp screen and I'm already down to the last 3 eps if though I only started watching yesterday. I cant say that it's more cohesive than S1 and it's definitely more melodramatic but I really do feel convinced by all the emotions exploding all over the place. S2 is alot more intense and dramatic than S1 but still manages to have quite a quirky sense of humor. Watching Cassie meltdown into this really scary darker version of herself and Tony rise from the ashes of his accident like the beautiful dark phoenix that he is, and of course Sid loses his shit repeatedly and possibly showing more spine in a single episode of this season than he did in all the eps last season combined. I love wimpy sid too though ( "I- I am objecting!) cutie pie <3 and Also Sketch, I love her crazy pyscho ass. I feel so bad for her though I hope she finds some peace or love before the season ends. I died laughing at her last encounter with anwar, when he finally realizes she's been using him to replace maxxie and getting him to dress like him ("You're fucking dumped!) I laughed so hard. I think my favorite thing so far though was the Chris episode, poor Chris he broke my heart so much again. How such a goofy moron such a tragic sweetheart at the same time? I loved that Jal chose to help him and while I originally questioned the idea of them getting together, Chris's speech to her at the end of the episode and seeing him try so hard to be mature and responsible for once in his life was really moving and totally convinced me that Jal is a good thing for him and he would be good to her. I forsee bad things though. and damn Jal is probably the most put together reasonable compassionate girl on the show, but SHE ends up pregnant!? Talk about unfair show! I wanted to see her become a star of classical music and get rich/famous in europe. Then Chris would move with her and keep the flat clean and take care of their adorable dogs and later kids. and Possibly run a consulting business on the side or smth IDEK. it would have been fly.
I'll probably post one more time about skins when I see the rest of S2 and after that it's back to blogging about other things until January (when S4 starts airing and yes i'm watching it cause I'm a masochist and also love JJ and Naomi too much not to)

Leverage 05 - I LOVED THIS EP SO MUCH OMG. I feel like Hardison's disguises get more hilarious every week.and I'm amused that Eliot's disguise merely required him to go around looking scary and ominous which is probably how he usually looks. and of course Parker as the newbie reporter, she was adorable! and As were her attempts to steal "badly". I love how S2 is switching it up on us. Letting Hardison do Parker's usual role last week while Sophie took Nate's role this week and Eliot got to do some hacking! Nice! For a second when he said he didnt know whether the dashes go before or after Http on a web URL I thought he was serious and became afraid. Luckily he was just fuckin with hardison's head. HA. I love how each week it seems like they are doing a satire of a popular film genre or Tv trope. Last week was very slapstick and sitcommy and the week before had a very Mission Impossible feel to it. This week it was all about political thrillers clearly. I got a total flashback to State of Play in that scene in the abandoned warehouse. It reminded me so much of a similar scene in SoP, until Nate showed up decked out in military garb that is. General!Nate was also a riot, he totally grunted all of his lines. I want to say more but it will only come out as "GLEE GLEE GLEE". Definitely my favorite so far though. I'm looking forward to ep 7 though, it looks we'll be getting to the more intense plotlines then.

College resumes for me in 5 days. :(

Comments

[scribblingfemme.livejournal.com]

For whatever reason I had heard of AVPM, but had thought it looked stupid. But everyone kept talking about it so I was alright I'll see it. And it was one of the most hilarious things I've ever seen. I LMAO every time Draco slithered around.

And I felt like a perv because I also couldn't take my eyes of Voldemort's body, lol.

I've got to go back to college next week too. But I'm surprisingly looking forward to it, it's been a pretty boring summer where I live.

pardon my lateness!

[sisterjune.livejournal.com]

yep it's so awesome i was actually intrigued the moment i heard about it but see even if it was bad and stupid I would have loved it for being a harry potter MUSICAL. i mean just, how can you go wrong with that!?

OH slithering! that's what she was doing! XD I kept wondering wtf was girl draco sliding around all over the floor and furniture for. It was hilarious but so so random but now suddenly it makes sense!
you and me both, I stared holes through my comp screen at that man's body. I'm so glad he spent the majority of the play shirtless though I kept wondering if he was cold XD

[nekokonneko.livejournal.com]

OMG how did you not hear of AVPM til now? XD

You're gonna hate what happens in the last few episodes. Specifically, you're gonna hate what they do to Chris :{

[sisterjune.livejournal.com]

HO! You knew about it all along and didnt tell me? You cant know about something like HARRY POTTER MUSICALS and not TELL everyone! I mean just GAH. but yeah I totally didnt even know it existed until 4 days ago XD

I saw ;_; I havent been able to watch the final two eps yet cause I know they will break my heart a billion times but I will be strong! and finish it...eventually!

[nekokonneko.livejournal.com]

Sorry for the late reply. I've been out of the country ^^'
But yeah AVPM seemed liked someone everyone and their dog knew about. I'm lame and I know about it, s I figured the cool people would :3

[citoyenne.livejournal.com]

That musical sounds awesome. I'm definitively downloading and pimping it!

sorry this is late!

[sisterjune.livejournal.com]

please do! and it's been 3 days now so if you already watched it then I hope you enjoyed it and if you havent yet I hope you enjoy it when you do! It's definitely not boring so even if you dont like it you hopefully wont be bored. :)

[acidpenguin46.livejournal.com]

I think I will send you pre-emptive hugs for the final three episodes of Skins, because if you love Chris, then you are probably going to need them.

Also, complete and utter word to what you wrote about Effy. There were slight glimmers of that Effy in the first episode (eg. "How does it feel, being the doormat?"), but as soon as she fucked Cook, she just became an object for two (hell, three if you include JJ) to fight over. I miss my enigmatic, dark, don;t-fuck-with-me-or-my-brother Effy, dammit!!

My main problem with series 2 is that it felt very rushed in places, particularly in Chris' episode. I almost wish S3 could have been used as a proper post-script to S2, so that there was more time in which the writers could tell the stories that they wanted to.

[sisterjune.livejournal.com]

Jal's episode made me cry like a baby and I havent been able to bring myself to watch the last two episodes yet but I will definitely do it...eventually! I've made peace with the fact they kill of chris even though it feels so unfair, I mean the kid was finally doing something with his life! woe ;_;. Also I just realized like a few hours ago that the actor who played chris had made a cameo in an episode of merlin. I totally didnt know that the first time i saw it. *feels behind*

Yeah she had some choice moments in ep 1 and then it was downhill from there :( I still feel annoyed by it cause I keep thinking it could have gone so much better! and yes exactly! Take no shit effy who was dark and a real enigma not just pretending to be "fit and mysterious" was the character I fell in love with and she was nowhere to be seen in S3.

Yeah I can feel how it's more rushed and choppy than S1 but I still love it just cause of how much more intense it feels in general and darker. But S1 is the true classic bit of television. and another season of the S1 cast would have been so much better than the real S3. I'm gonna be so sad when S2 ends cause that'll be it for gen 1 and I got to really adore those characters.

[acidpenguin46.livejournal.com]

I watched the final episode the same weekend I watched the series 2 finale of Torchwood, and let's just say it was a very depressing weekend. I still haven't made peace with the fact that Chris was killed off, and it's been over a year. I loved that crazy, little dude so much, and like you said, he was just getting his life together. And hee, the only reason I started watching Merlin was because I knew Joe Dempsie made a cameo in it ;p

I do love s2, I think the premiere episode of that series is the best episode (well, maybe apart from Effy's S1 episode) this show has ever done. It's just one of the few tv series that I thought could have used a few more episodes, just so it didn't feel as rushed as it did. Oh, I was bawling my eyes out at the end of the final episode. It didn't help that they had a cast wrap-up montage at the very end, with a clip from every teen actor who featured. When they reached Joe Dempsie, I just lost it.

[sisterjune.livejournal.com]

I didnt really adore and love chris till S2 but even before then I knew he got killed off. Which is why I was prepared for it even though I was really upset about it cause he's SO adorable! I mean at first I didnt care for him but after his episode in S1 and seeing him become more chill and mature in S2, not to mention his devotion to Jal. I just totally fell in love. and then got my heart broken when I saw him die even though I knew it was coming I had no idea I'd be as upset as I was. It hurts especially cause he felt so real, it's not like when people die in other shows to me. I hate that Chris died cause I feel like it was done for drama more than anything and I just wanted him to do well in life! Cause I totally sympathize with feeling like a failure and a fuck up even though his reasons for being apathetic about his life were a little different from mine. Gah I'm gonna get all emo I should stop :( But yeah I think I was only able to just accept it cause I knew it was happening a long way ahead. Something I will never make peace with though was the horrible mind rape the tenth doctor did to donna. I am STILL mad about that! and refuse to watch any further RTD episodes of Who because of it. I mean the character assassination of rose and the mistreatment of martha were bad enough, not to mention the deifying of the doctor but that horrible end for Donna was the last straw. No more Who for me till 2010 (Ok I lie I will totally watch Simm's episodes but...grudgingly!). Anyway I digress.

I will get a box of tissues ready for when I watch the final two eps. I think I'm gonna need it. and I'd like to think Chris will live on in our hearts! and that Joe Dempsie will get alot more tv offers where he plays lovable fuck ups so I can pretend Chris's soul was transported into another reality. and also continue crushing on the actor

[acidpenguin46.livejournal.com]

You hit the nail on the head as to why I love Chris so much, and why his death hurt so much. He was drifting through a haze of pills of sex until he found something to live for, and to finally find that something which gives your life meaning but being unable to experience fully because you end up dying just isn't fair.

Oh, I will never forgive RTD (or the character of Ten, for that matter) for what was done to Donna. I wasn't a great fan of how he wrote Who in the first place (there is a special place in hell for Last of the Timelords), but then he had Donna mindraped, which is not only bad in itself, but also for the fact that she had learnt so much about herself, only to have it stolen away from her, even though she begged and pleaded for it not to happen. No, Moffat's era can not come soon enough (even though I will watch the Simm episodes with plenty of alcohol to numb the painful experience it will surely end up being).

I do hope that Joe Dempsie gets more work, just because I need to see him more (not only because he is a good actor, but also because, well, he's kind of hot).