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Something Wicked This Way Comes

October 28th 2009 01:42
Long before Dorothy dropped in, two other young girls were meeting their destinies in the land of Oz. One, the fair and beautiful, was named Galinda. The other was as green as a froggy, ferny cabbage, and her name was Elphaba. Wicked tells the story of their remarkable odyssey and how these two unlikely friends grew to become Glinda the Good and The Wicked Witch of the West.

Wicked itself has an odyssey to tell. The musical is based on Gregory Maguire’s 1995 novel, which sold more than three-quarters of its four million copies only after the musical clobbered Broadway in 2003. Far from its humble beginnings in a tiny San Francisco auditorium, Wicked has made a concerted attempt to conquer the theatre-going world. It is estimated that seventeen million people across the globe have seen the eighteen million-dollar production. This year, Wicked celebrated its sixth year as Broadway’s centrepiece and has spawned eight international productions, with companies enjoying success in Tokyo, London, Germany, North America, and the newest stop on the yellow brick road, Sydney.


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Weirdness Abounds

May 12th 2009 02:03
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Placeholder Post (Includes Fun Game!)

November 17th 2008 03:00
So it's the middle of November and for some reason life has become unusually busy. Nanowrimo is taking up scads of my time and suddenly I have a social life. What's up with that?

Anyway, the point is I'm not doing any writing this month that isn't Nano-related. I'm making a special exception for the people (person?) who check (s?) in with me every so often to see what I'm rambling about.

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Pimp My WriMo

October 15th 2008 23:21
Yes folks, it's that time of year again! NaNoWriMo time! Or, for the uninitiated, National Novel Writing Month time! Clicky clicky for the link.

By the way, I spent a long time debating over the title of this post- it was originally called "Alright Stop... It's Nano Time" but when I hit upon "Pimp My Wrimo" a smile of manic glee crossed my face. What can I say, I love a good pun.

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Scammers 0, Me 1

September 30th 2008 06:13
The other day I received my first ever email scam. The message came through a playlist-sharing website and I was excited at the thought someone liked my compilation of music. However, what I received was even better. Tickled, I read the message over and over, feeling strangely euphoric at having been chosen for this dubious honour.

Those wacky scammers!

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Just picking myself up off the floor (after watching Millenium) to say that The X Files is really affecting me. I'm flushed and giddy after finishing season six and beginning season seven today.

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I really didn't want to write this. I really, really didn't. But something cataclysmic has occured. I would almost go so far as to say the unthinkable has happened.

I've fallen out of love with Buffy. And head over heels for The X Files.

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I'm using the terms "awful" and "terrible" in the old-fashioned way, and what I mean is these films are full of awe and terror, but that doesn't make them bad movies. Got it? (Well, except maybe Armageddon. But's that's debatable.)

Four Films (And One Film Trilogy) That Make Me Tear Up Every Single Time I Watch Them:

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My words pale into insignificance beside those of Raymond Chandler. So without further ado, let us observe the greatness of the master of noir fiction's prose. And please don't judge my writing skills on that sentence, I just can't think of a better way to put it.

As an entree to the wit and colour of Chandler's writing, let us savour this choice statement from the man in a letter to a publisher:

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The Trouble With Lyra: Redux

June 2nd 2008 07:13
It was the day after Christmas, and I was bound for the cinema.

The film I was waiting to see had been anticipated more than any Christmas present, including my brand-new iPod and season two of Laguna Beach. Earlier that month I had been to see Enchanted (as a devoted cinephile, I try to absorb a wide cross-section of popular culture), and squirmed with delight as the preview for The Golden Compass unfolded. I may have even shed tears of excitement. So they had changed the name from Northern Lights to The Golden Compass—disappointing, but I could deal. I had the wonderfully promising trailer to buck me up. There was Lyra! There were solemn and possibly evil statements of intent! There was the doomsday choir! It appeared to be everything I adored in fantasy films. In my glee, I failed to notice something odd- the preview was being coupled with a Disney film. An admittedly great, G-rated, children’s film.

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