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.

MY DREAMS ARE SO! FREAKING! WEIRD!

weeks resolutions!
1: finish tidying and re aranging my room
2: tidy my computer desktop
3: finish the reno on this site!
4: make a video

I realise if I work fast I could probab ly get all this stuff done today… but I’m not in the mood for working fast, and if I set them all for today they would most likley end up like my normal full year resolutions. Failures. I will get started on the room now though… once I’m out of bed and dressed…

Why has it been so long I hear you ask? well… that’s a complicated issue… John Lacey helped me build what this site used to be, to my specifications, and through out the process it was brilliant! but at the end of it all… I grew to feel more and more like the site was obnoxious… some may remember pages like the old “stalk me” section (still accessible through searching in the bar at the top) although seeming funny to me… I realized these things must just seem kind of pretentious to others… these feelings gradually made me want to use the blog less and less, and due to this I got out of the habit of blogging… I might add at the time I wasn’t really making videos or in fact being a part of youtube at all either, so that would have added to it. but anyway, that’s why I haven’t blogged for over 5 months.

But now with this new (still under construction) site theme,  I feel the site has been returned to what it should be, and what it was originally intended to be, A simple yet snazzy blog, nothing more, nothing less. This rather rough and partly nonsensical blog hopefully marks the beginnings of regular posting again.

…yep that’s all I gotta say for now. it 4:19am and I should be sleeping.

K bye

p.s. john Lacey is also helping me with this new layout, <3 thank you so much john.

So the boarding house is … well I presume most of you have seen the video.

I go home this weekend again like i did last weekend. which is good, it gives me time to wind down and recover, gives me a night in my own bed, and lets me use decent internet! Hazzar!

i had some drama last night, My external harddrive was being used by a friend and it got unplugged while a movie was playing, without being ejected properly, and now it is unreadable and unreparable by disk utility, It was quite distressing as there is alot of stuff on there I cant get back, including lots of my old videos. I brought it into school today and took it to one of the techies, on the off chance one of them knew a better way or “repairing” it and it turned out one of the techies is a professional at data recovery! and has a private buisness that specialise in it. HALLELUIA!! I took it in to him and he said it would be easy for him to do and told me to leave it with him over the weekend, he says the actual recovery will be done by the end of the day but he is going home so I wont be able to get it back till monday. BUT ZOMG I GET IT ALL BACK YAY!! sadly the harddrive apparently has issues, it makes a clicking noise which is apparently the “head” bouncing off the drive. not good. So I will need to get a new one soon but it is still under warranty so I should get one for free… as long as i can find the ebay store I bought it from… and the digital reciept, thank god my mum keeps all her emails.  I have lots of other thingies I want to show you all such as the art book I made recently and am very proud of, and my new wall of cool stuff, but that is for another time, the bell for the start of lunch has just gone and i wanna go to the tuckshop before all the good food is gone. another blog soon hopefully.

p.s. I just realised its 888 today, damn them… *jealous*

K bye.

wow, ok I Kindof left this blog half written, sorry about that, I went into town to buy a sleeping bag and then I ended up going to see the dark knight with leuke, AND OMG IT IS FUCKING AMAZING!!. Heath ledger’s performance was simply brilliant. He will be remembered for it.

ok well this blog is kindoif disjointed and messed up, will try and write a proper one tomorrow and finish what i was starting to say earlier, don’t feel like writing much now.

expect another blog soon, and hopefully a video! =D

kthxbai

soon. I promise.

The party as being held by one of my good friends, and she had given everyone an invite +1, and therefore allot of her friends brought there boyfriends along, sadly there boyfriends where mostly the “cool kids” from my school, generally people that arn’t that nice, people I don’t get on with. Now, as it was a masquerade ball, everyone was wearing a mask, most people where wearing small eye mask, I however was wearing a full face gorilla mask, and a full tail suit, and I didn’t take it off for the entire party. all the people there that I knew, knew it was me in the gorilla suit, except the 5 boys from my school.
I was given the name of Oscar as to not reveal who I was. as you can imagine, An unknown person in a gorilla mask and suit, did cause some controversy, and through the night, lots of people tried to get me to take the mask off, and even tried to rip it off at some points. Thankfully I managed to keep the mask on, and therefore keep who I was a secret, I also wasn’t speaking to the boys from my school so they couldn’t recognize my voice, but through various hand movements and primitive sign language I managed to indicate that I would eventually take that mask off, but not until the end of the party, 10:30.

(as you can imagine, A full face rubber mask can get quite hot inside, and there where a few times where I did have to sneak off to a secluded area outside to take the mask off and have a breather.)

anyway, the end of the party arrived, and people where getting angry and really wanting me to take the mask off, so everyone went into one room, I stood out the front of everyone, and took the mask off, and there reaction was priceless, I don’t think I have heard so much swearing and shock for quite a while. lots of “BULL F*%cking S#$T” and “NO F&*CKING WAY”. It was brilliant.
another thing is that allot of them took photos of there girlfriends kissing me on the cheek while I was wearing the mask, I would love to see there faces when they look back at those photos.

anyway, heres a few photos of me In costume, I am trying to get my hands on some of the photo’s from the actual ball and if I do I will post them here! =)

My costume consisted of;

*Black tailcoat

*Black pants,

*Black furry gorilla chest(actually just black fur pinned to a tshirt)

*white cotton gloves

*Black polished shoes

*wooden cane

*and of course the mask

(these pohotos are taken after the party, the baloons where added at the end of the party just for fun)

Ok thats about all really, I have more to talk about But this post is long enough as it is.p.s. I’  curious as to how many people actually read my blog now it has changed site… so if you read but haven’t commented before, leave a comment and say Hi

p.s. oh and if anyone still has my old link in there blog roll, can they please update it.

krhxbai