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Over four years ago, sitting in the small Greeley theater watching some sixteen year old take her sweater off during a vignette for a piece deemed far too psychologically marring for the adolescent mind, I could hardly imagine myself returning to such a scene in the future. But then, that was the original appeal, was it not?

The high school thespians choose the stable scene because they believed it would cause an impact on the audience; and it did. The acting was horrid and bland, and yet, somewhere a line or two stood out. I began to remember and reflect on the brief piece. Then I recalled the name. “EQUUS.”

Some said it was a bit of a religious piece, others mentioned its strong sexual themes. Nobody ever told me it was good. That was then.

Today, I am glad to have reserved judgment for the play, Equus deserves to be seen in its entirety and preformed rather seriously. After all, nobody can scream an Amen quite like Radcliffe can.

I have now come closer to this actor than I ever thought I would. After seeing him mass-produced on the silver screen it was difficult to fathom that he was right there only yards away, looking up at just a small handful of us. And that he was stark naked as well.

So was the girl. The horses were amazing characters and well choreographed. Uncle Vernon’s personality did a 180, the cast was brilliant, the blocking excellent…and despite all that, their youngest actor remains something of an amateur; brandishing a different sort of wand while using the same voice and mannerisms as he always has. Equus carried him all the way. (sure, go ahead and find an innuendo with that). The play holds its own and with the interpretation of a savvy director it was a hit! Bravo to you all, and to Radcliffe for his especially impressive stature on stage. Though not versatile, it takes more than mere talent to mount a play like this one.


Neocitie out
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But holy crap. This is truly a shame. People, mostly young voters, are going to see this and agree with this! Whoever you support, you have to agree that P. Diddy is just a complete mess, and is completely irrelevant. It's truly unfortunate that this is going to have more of an impact than the real issues. Edit It's been viewed over 555,000 times since August 30th.



Edit #2 You need to be invited to see this video on You Tube now. I have only been able to find an abbreviated version, but, it's plenty long enough, believe me. Video here.

The Rules:
1. Next to each number, write only the name of the person who fits.
2. Answer one question with one name. Answer each question with appropriate name(s). <-- rule remodified by me & everyone else. Haha.
3. Don't tell the questions to anyone who isn't doing the meme.

*If you'd like to do this meme, comment & I will give you the questions as an lj personal message so be sure to check your inbox. Because I don't really know the whole lj personal message thing, I'm going to put the questions under a lj cut.


1.classydamonlove
2.bluucircles
3.No One
4.crownedrebel
5.She's not on LJ
6.crownedrebel
7.supergxcx
8.amaelgreenleaf
9.Your Mom (can't even do one fucking survey...)
10.chinma_flipish
11.No Answer
12.No Answer
13.bladerkitten
14._thekey_
15.gujjubrownie/perkyhindu
16.neocitie/satyamaya
17.megaloo13(Not an insult, I think this is a great quality in an artist.)
18.gujjubrownie/perkyhindu
19.ellecar/razzcelle
20.poor_nizzie
21.I don't know what this means
22.I don't know what this means
23.smartz2586
24.elenear(HAHAHAHAHA.)
25.smartz2586
26.No Answer
27.elenear
28.Hahahaha, etc.
29.smartz2586
30. McCain/Palin '08!

( The Questions )

Tonight's my first (or second, depending on how you see it) class in my never-ending academic career. I'm so sick of school. But if I stop now, I know I won't go back, which was about 80% of the reason I decided to just stay with St. John's. If I were to be out of school for a year, I wouldn't want to have to find a new job close to my new, better school, new housing, and all that crap. It's kind of like being lazy, but this is the responsible, respected kind of lazy, not the kind of lazy where you spend Sunday afternoon on the couch watching infomercials when you need to wash the car and clean the gutters and mow the lawn and maybe paint the deck or something (Note: that didn't happen in real life; we spent Sunday and Monday painting, polyurethane-ing, and moving furniture. We now only have one room left to do on our summer remodeling tour. Yeah, we know summer's over).

I think I was talking about my first day of school. I don't know where my class is, so I'll probably be getting there around two hours ago to find it. They have fun little three letter codes for the buildings, which mean nothing to me because I don't know what buildings they mean. But whatever, it's lab with a bunch of Krutis.

interesting thoughts to reconsider later.

How much of the population do you think is on something.... like how much of the population are habitual drug or alcohol users. Meaning how much of the population goes through much of their lives fucked up? Is it a relatively low number, because I 'm not so sure about that...

I havent updated my live journal in a long time and if you cant tell i forgot how good it was to vent ur thoughts, as stupid as they may be.

I'm watching scarface, I forgot how much I love this movie.

I had a really good summer. I really enjoyed working at the summer camp. I learned how to make friendship bracelets, play tennis, and European handball. I did some really fun things and really enjoyed working with the kids. I didnn't make very much money, but I'm very happy that I did it.

I'm excited for school to start, for my classes to start, to go yoga classes, to get out of the house again, to purple couch, to become a little closer to graduating, and have a job that pays more than crap.

I have orientation at Tequilla Jack's on Sunday. I'm still between taking that job or the one at Marios. They both have there pros and cons.

I need to get back on track with weight watchers. I have been steadily losing weight this summer, but I also had a job that kept me very active, so now I certainly have to pay attention to what I am eating and make time to work out. blaaaaaaaaaah I want to lose 5 to 10 lbs before my birthday.

Fucking Monday classes met today.  What the fuck?  Start the fucking semester on Monday if you're going to have Monday classes.  I'm ridiculously pissed right now.  You could fucking send me some kind of notice about the days, or hell, maybe you could give me my fucking room assignments?  But you're too busy looking for Elizabeth Diaz, you stupid shits.   I swear to God, if Dr. Dickface says shit to me next week for missing today, I'm gonna punch him right in his fuckface and walk out.

So yeah, his song "Forever" did turn out to be a jingle for Wrigley's Doublemint gum (The commercial is here). And I think that's fucking awesome. Ne-Yo is doing a new song for them for their Big Red gum, and some other chick Julianne Hough is doing one for Juicy Fruit. I love that people are all upset about it too. Calling him a sellout and shit. That's so ridiculous. He turned a thousand year jingle into a number one single in more than one country. I'm not just saying this because of my blatant man-crush on Chris Brown's music (Pretty much my top five songs right know are all Chris Brown, and one's that haven't been released yet). So head to the store, get some Doublemint, and listen to "Dreamer," "Captive," "Electric Guitar," or "Nasty Girl."