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sara_elf and I saw Phantom last night.
No shame. We both liked it. A lot.
See, the thing to bear in mind here, is that we both absolutely love the music -- particularly, of course, the original Canadian cast (Colm Wilkinson and Rebecca Caine). But neither of us were actually particularly impressed with the production itself. I've always, always had the soundtrack, and listen to it frequently, but was never interested in ever seeing the production more than once.
You can do so, so much more with film than you can on stage. It was beautiful, and lavish, and big, and the sound was just booming and fantastic. (Also, Emmy Rossum has a beautiful voice!) And of course, I went in here knowing that ultimately, ALW never gave up artistic control. He was involved in the casting and the screenplay. If that was the case, there couldn't have been anything going on in that movie that would have given him an aneurysm. So personally, I'm really quite content.
Also? Sara and I both left giggling amongst ourselves and saying, "I'd still lick him! It only looks like a really, really, really, really, really, really, really bad rash!"
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I slept terribly last night. Ugh.
Also, I'm feeling a little sad . . .
that I'm seeing people posting roundups of the various Establishment Christmas logs and nobody's mentioned Paul/Russell. I know it's silly of me, as we've had a lot of people telling us how they feel about their storyline since they finally started to sorta-kinda connect, but now I feel kind of like I don't know if anybody's really following anymore. I still love writing Russ torahalia_cat's Paul (who is so omgfuckingamazing). It's more just the fact that it's been very easy to gauge everything from readers' reactions, and know what was working and what wasn't, and now it's just -- are people just quiet, or have things gone really, really wrong?? Ugh. I want to stop being so fucking insecure about everything I do!
Will reply to comments later, and probably post a proper Christmas round-up with a picture of the Gryffindor scarf thatsara_elf knitted for me.
sara_elf and I saw Phantom last night.No shame. We both liked it. A lot.
See, the thing to bear in mind here, is that we both absolutely love the music -- particularly, of course, the original Canadian cast (Colm Wilkinson and Rebecca Caine). But neither of us were actually particularly impressed with the production itself. I've always, always had the soundtrack, and listen to it frequently, but was never interested in ever seeing the production more than once.
You can do so, so much more with film than you can on stage. It was beautiful, and lavish, and big, and the sound was just booming and fantastic. (Also, Emmy Rossum has a beautiful voice!) And of course, I went in here knowing that ultimately, ALW never gave up artistic control. He was involved in the casting and the screenplay. If that was the case, there couldn't have been anything going on in that movie that would have given him an aneurysm. So personally, I'm really quite content.
Also? Sara and I both left giggling amongst ourselves and saying, "I'd still lick him! It only looks like a really, really, really, really, really, really, really bad rash!"
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I slept terribly last night. Ugh.
Also, I'm feeling a little sad . . .
that I'm seeing people posting roundups of the various Establishment Christmas logs and nobody's mentioned Paul/Russell. I know it's silly of me, as we've had a lot of people telling us how they feel about their storyline since they finally started to sorta-kinda connect, but now I feel kind of like I don't know if anybody's really following anymore. I still love writing Russ to
rahalia_cat's Paul (who is so omgfuckingamazing). It's more just the fact that it's been very easy to gauge everything from readers' reactions, and know what was working and what wasn't, and now it's just -- are people just quiet, or have things gone really, really wrong?? Ugh. I want to stop being so fucking insecure about everything I do!Will reply to comments later, and probably post a proper Christmas round-up with a picture of the Gryffindor scarf that
sara_elf knitted for me.
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Date: 2004-12-27 06:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-28 03:52 am (UTC)I'm guessing that it probably has something to do with not knowing whether or not I'm going to be fired in two weeks. This is a little more tangible, perhaps. I'm a mess of neuroses!
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Date: 2004-12-27 07:15 pm (UTC)And SK!Vin could use some company.... *snoggles*
SK!Vin: *languishes*
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Date: 2004-12-28 03:46 am (UTC)And... gee, I keep forgetting about poor Patrick! I'm very bad.
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Date: 2004-12-27 08:31 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-12-28 03:29 am (UTC)And I loved the moms stuff. Made me giggle and want to smack Russell to tell him mommy. *g*
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Date: 2004-12-28 03:50 am (UTC)And, aw, I'm glad you liked it! Also *pokes* did you see my next entry? Huh? Huh? About the AU?
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Date: 2004-12-28 04:10 am (UTC)