Half Scottish Diaries

Musicals Marathons and Disney Deprivation

March6

HOLY WOW ITS A BLOG! haven’t done one of these for a while. I really should use this wonderful blog site John and I slaved over, more often… anyway, on to the actual topic of the blog

I was never much of a musical person, or more accurately… I never thought I was much of a musical person, but since returning from New Zealand I have discovered the true greatness of musicals.

While in NZ, I saw part of Sweeney Todd, and the complete High School Musical 3. I wasn’t hopeful for HSM… I didn’t think I would enjoy it, I didn’t think it was my thing, I didn’t think the songs would get stuck in my head for days on end, I didn’t think I would be driven to downloading the OST, I didn’t think it would start me on an epic musical quest… I was wrong about all these things, and to honest? I’m glad i was wrong. Musicals are fucking awesome.

since returning from nz I have seen:
High School Musical 1
High School Musical 2
High School Musical 3 (again)
Hairspray
Sweeney Todd
Mamma Mia
Across the Universe
Rent
Moulin rouge (again, but not since I was a kid)

and with the help of the ever wonderful Jade and the ever wonderful Tenani, I have managed to plan out the next few I will watch with my musical buddy Angie (who can be seen here) and the list is as follows, the first 3 being the musts.

Grease
West Side Story
Singing in the Rain
Wizard of OZ
Phantom of the Opera
Chicago
The Producers
Dreamgirls
Gone With The Wind
The Sound of Music
My Fair Lady

The other part of this blog spawned from the continuation of me and Tenani’s chats about musicals, and how deprived my childhood must have been because I haden’t seen some of the classics such as My fair lady and the Wizard of OZ (I have seen most of oz, just never seen it beginning to end un-interupted). I mentioned that my childhood was also deprived because I had seen very little disney… of the 10 Disney films Tenani named as “musts” I could honestly say I had only seen properly and and could remember 3 of them, others I had seen parts of or seen completley when very very young, but didn’t really remember. In Tenani’s mind this Disney Deprivation was a calamity beyond words, and I was inclined to agree with him, I always wished I had seen more of those classic films but once I reached a certain age it just seemed I was too old to be watching them…

My reasoning for this tragic childhood Disney deprivation, by my understanding is as follows. I am the youngest of 3 children, while I am 18, my brother is 24 and my sister is 26, therefore when I was a kid my maturity and development levels were pulled up by them, so while other kids where watching disney, I was watching Xfiles and Bond. I have decided I must fix this so I have decided I will list Tenani’s 10 “disney musts” here and strike them off as I watch/rewatch them over the comming weeks. I will also cross off the musicals musts mentioned earlier as I watch them, just to keep record.

-Lion King*
-Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
-Beauty and the Beast
-The Little Mermaid
-Bambi
-The Jungle Book*
-Toy Story*
-Aladdin
-Pinocchio
-Fantasia

(* indicates one of the 3 I do remember)

Maybe after watching all those I can finish Zelda or Mario on the Nintendo64… another thing I never quite did…

don’t be afraid to comment… I’d love some feedback or suggestions on other Disney or Musicals musts. :)

Dream diary.

January5

Ok so last night I had this really strange dream, I dreamed I went back in time to meet the creator of dinglepop, but when I arrived the time machine had screwed up and my clothes had disappeared, all I had where underpants, I did indeed meet the creator of the game, and he was my age at the time, He took me to “borders” to get some clothes, but to get there we had to go on this walk up a small mountainous track through bush, with wobbly bridges and thin beams you had to walk on for parts of it. The creator of dinglepop didn’t know I was from the future, he thought I was from “up north” and when I let slip I was from the future and that in the future he would make loads of awesome games, he thought I was a bit of a nutter. I stopped telling him stuff because I realised I might change the future and then he wouldn’t make the games and that would just suck.
When we finally arrived at “borders” it turned out to be a tree house, owned by the local teacher, Mrs border, and the clothes she sold where the lost and found clothes from the school, We climbed up a long ladder and reached a hatch at the top that said “borders” we called out and she opened the hatch, for some reason my mother from present day was inside drinking tea with Mrs borders, and on the ground was a painting of the cupboards with the crime scene tape in my bedroom, which had apparently been painted by one of my mums friends.

MY DREAMS ARE SO! FREAKING! WEIRD!

Mitto

January3

he is just like so amazing right now like omg, he is just so damn schamexy and amazing and he makes my world go around, I wuv him 4 eva, I want his babies. He is made of epic awesome hippo. <333
mitto = BFF
da End

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