1. It's been a WEEK since I've posted. Whaaaaat. Where does the time go? Oh well, it just means less verbal diarrhoea for you guys to wade through... or it just means that it ALL COMES AT ONCE, like I expect it will in this Omnibus Post of Doom. Heh.

2. Work. Holy god, WORK. Last Wednesday was legit one of the worst days - WORST DAYS - I have ever spent in the office. I left work at 9pm the night before, dragged myself back in by about 5am, and WORKED and hammered my brain into submission and wrote something like 11-13 paragraphs, NONE OF WHICH WAS USED, and basically wound up in a stairwell crying. Yeah... really NOT a highlight of my career to date. And to just add insult to injury on that bad, bad day, I went in search of some Japanese food in this particular restaurant... only to discover the restaurant had closed (temporarily, for renovations, but REALLY, talk about shitty-assed karma, huh?). SIGH.

3. So HOW have I rewarded myself for that much fail? I think it's called an epic EPIC marathon of TV over the weekend. Basically, I watched over half of Season 5 of Desperate Housewives AND got caught up on the new season, and just finished watching House, Bones, Glee AND 30 Rock. A++++ me - bringing couch potato-dom to new heights of obsession every day. ( THOUGHTS )

4. WOW THAT WAS A LOT OF TV. Amidst all of that, I still managed to find time to meet friends on Sunday afternoon to FINALLY watch Julie & Julia - OH HAPPY DAY. I have such a craving for French food right now, and am about three million times more excited for It's Complicated. ( some disjointed thoughts on the movie )

5. Everyone needs some pretty damn awesome Bebe Neuwirth in their lives. No lie. All fact. Courtesy of illusory_thrill.

6. I really need to go to bed, though I'm not sleepy at all. Good thing I'm away from regular work for the next two weeks and can use that time to recover my sanity. Oh, and buy tickets for NYC. XD I'm so tempted to get tickets for A Little Night Music RIGHT NOW, guys, but the tickets are so expensive and Telecharge isn't offering up anything AWESOME. Are they holding blocks of seats in reserve and only releasing them later? Should I wait a bit? Will there be discounts? Because ticket prices for this show are LEGIT INSANE. Oof.

1. So it's ten minutes past midnight and I JUST got back into work. What a way to start a day, huh? It's not like yesterday wasn't a particularly bad one, it WAS - one of those when I felt tragically undervalued, underpaid, put upon, and just generally aggrieved with everything. (Yes, ESPECIALLY so, apparently I CAN feel even worse than I do on a regular basis at work.) I was in such a bad mood I actually told my boss when she tried to make a joke that "I'm sorry, I'm not inclined to find anything funny today." Oops. A+++ for me on maintaining interpersonal communication at the workplace. The really tragic thing is that I KNOW I need the extra quiet hours to work on this stupid paper, so instead of giving up, I'm back here and planning to spend the night - I figured it'd be easier to go home, shower, and come back fortified with food and not have to deal with the commute in the morning. In other words, I would SO not be averse to y'all SPAMMING ME WITH HAPPY. Please. Anything to get me through this night would be much appreciated.

2. Let me get things rolling. I was truly in the worst mood ever until momentsofbeing4 posted the newest trailer for It's Complicated. OMG YES YES YES. ♥ I cannot - absolutely cannot - wait for this movie. The new scene at the very end of the trailer PRETTY MUCH KILLED ME DEAD FROM THE LOL-ARITY. I'm so going to watch every interview and read every article featuring this cast. EVERY SINGLE ONE.



3. Also, I DID watch House when I got home earlier, just to make myself feel happier about coming into work. ( A few thoughts on House 6x04 The Tyrant )

4. AND yesterday I watched Bones. ( Bones 5x03 The Prodigy In The Plain )

5. WHY. WHY in god's name are all the awesome stars and shows going to OKLAHOMA to put on shows?! SERIOUSLY!?!?! I would kill to be able to watch this production of Sweeney Todd, at the same theatre that hosted Ms Murney in Tommy (if I'm not mistaken?) earlier this year. Because holy FUCK, Jeff McCarthy as Sweeney Todd would be the most. epic. match of voice to role in a looong long time. (I know whereof I speak, I've heard him sing Epiphany live, UNPLUGGED, and it was EPIC TIMES.) And then to add Emily Skinner as Mrs Lovett?!?! FUCK ME. That 'A Little Priest' would actually be an eargasm waiting to happen. I WANT. FOREVER.

6. And NOW I am going to stop procrastinating and go do what I'm here to do: work. Bah.

1. Minor friends-cut has been done! If you feel I have erred (either in cutting or NOT cutting you) and/or want to be added back, please message me now or forever hold your peace! (Comments are screened and, if necessary, will remain screened for discretion!)

2. WORK IS MADE OF FAIL. Seriously now. I should not be awake at 3.07am, but I am. And I have to be back at work in far too few hours, rewriting an entire paper again. After I left at about 1am. D: D: HORRORS.

3. GOOD THING MY FANDOMS MAKE UP FOR THE LOUSY. OMG seriously there has been SOOO much random lollerskating/random flailworthiness involved in my fandoms over the last couple of days:

a. It was just Meryl's 60th birthday on June 22! :) I missed it, because I suck big time, but girlie_girl_23 didn't and her lovely tribute is here.

b. Next To Normal: The Abridged Script <-- omg I howled laughing at this, especially the way ALICE RIPLEY always and only refers to herself in the third person as ALICE RIPLEY, and Bobby, poor guy. *weeps*

c. Random thought: Alice is actual going to be bereft when her FB account reaches its maximum number of users, isn't she...!? And that's coming up soon, she just needs, like, 2,000 more people...

d. Official site for Julia's upcoming show - the Cy Coleman revue. She is looking classy. David's goatee, on the other hand, amuses me far more than it really should. So who's going to see this, other than Not Me?

e. OMG the Wonderettes universe is going to expand! - I swear I flailed when I got that google alert: now we get the story from the point of view of the Crooning Crabcakes! I'm hoping it includes - other than Billy Ray - Johnny and Richie as well, so there'll be shout-outs to my Wonderettes. ♥

f. And as a perfect example of how my life is full of random lollerskaty flail, guess what show's coming to Singapore in August? CLEARLY I would rather be watching Beth in this show in Aspen (OH GOD I WANT TO GO SO BADLY), but I guess I can make do with a local production of Spelling Bee. SO RANDOM A COINCIDENCE, AMIRITE?? It's the last show I thought would get a run here, just because it's not well-known at all (usually we get Phantom or Les Miz or some such well-worn chestnut of a show, ad nauseum).

g. Also, I got this comment on one of my random House!flail posts and was ridiculously amused. I can't decide if poster was being sarcastic, LOL.

4. Also, I think I am legit insane. Today I decided to embark on a flail project of complete insanity. OMG. Details... at some later point. XD BUT THE PROSPECT OF IT EXCITES ME.

5. How is it that I am wide awake NOW, when I am flailing, but will be half-dead when I'm at work, trying to work? Urgh. I PROMISE TO CATCH UP ON COMMENTS SOMETIME IN THIS MILLENNIUM.

1. URM. FOUR DAYS. Just four days more, guys - this time, in four days, I will literally be boarding the plane for Qatar New York. OMG. I can't... even BEGIN to process this, it doesn't feel real at ALL. I mean, I have tickets for most of my first week of shows, and at least half of the second week, and I've been planning this for a while. STILL. NOT GOING TO BELIEVE IT, as usual, until I'm actually THERE.

2. In other news, longest, laziest weekend I've had in AGES. We had a full three days off thanks to Labour Day (May 1) falling on a Friday. I had SOME grand plans of catching up on tv (god knows my flist is going to explode when the next House episode airs, and I am FIVE MONTHS BEHIND), or do something a little more productive... and yet, I spent most of it asleep and being lazy. Truth be told, I actually kind of like the sound of that. XD

3. Friday was family day - lunch out for my brother's birthday, at a fancy Chinese restaurant where basically we proved that, genetically, we all have a song playing in our heads at any given moment. Seriously we all just kept... humming out loud during the meal, while scoffing down epic amounts of beef and cod and god knows what else. I came home and napped after that, as I had gone to bed at some ridiculous hour of the morning, and then out for dinner to my aunt's place again. She's doing better after her second round of chemo, not having quite as bad a reaction to it as the first round, so ♥. Then I came home and... spent the entire night flailing at weazel_luv over Wonderettes. GOD KNOWS WHY. (I AM SEEING IT WITHIN THE WEEK, GUYS. ASFHALFHLSDHFLSDHFLSD.)

4. Saturday: I had plans to go for yoga, which were completely thwarted when I got up at 3.30pm (sigh). Instead, I watched X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which I actually REALLY liked. I know it's been critically savaged, for the most part, but I loooved it. Turns out I'm just a huge X-Men/Marvel fandork, I guess, because I just... had the best time settling back into that universe, watching all the characters I love pop up in flesh, blood and celluloid, and... it was just FUN. (I also loved X3: The Last Stand, so yeah, I really am just a huge nerd with really poor taste in movies. I'm not apologising though, these movies make me happy!) I am a sucker, apparently, even for not-entirely-well-wrought romance, and bought into the Silver Fox thing by the end. URGH, ME. No spoilers, however. Let us, for a minute, discuss the masculine pulchritude on display in that movie. ZOMG HUGH. JACKMAN. When I saw the trailer, I KNEW the movie could have been an absolutely god-awful pile of steaming manure and I'd have loved it anyway just because Hugh gets to run all over the screen being sexy and hot and growly omg omg. And that he did, in epic amounts. What surprised me is that I also found Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool ridiculously sexy. SHUT UP. In his six minutes of screen-time, he didn't even bare these, but I was still done. OMG HOTNESS. Now I have to go watch Definitely, Maybe again. I did NOT, however, like whoever played Gambit. Taylor whatever or somesuch? Urgh. Not that Gambit's one of my favourite characters, but... it just didn't work for me. He wasn't anywhere near charismatic enough.

5. During the movie, I had the insanely pressing URGE to delve back into the comics again - now, try to believe me when I say that I really AM far from being the biggest comics dork around. ( I don't think anyone really believes me, do they? )

6. AFTER the movie, to get back to my weekend - I went to a colleague's house for an awesome potluck dinner. ♥ He made chili and corn on the cob, other people brought corn muffins, mashed potatoes, ice cream (I contributed some not-so-great salad that wasn't popular anyway with all the OTHER things on the table), and it was just fun to sit around chatting about... movies, work, anything, everything. Honestly the people I work with are about the only reason I haven't lost my fragile grip on sanity in the past six and a half years I've been at this job. And it's been FAR too long since we had one of these chat sessions, so that was good!

7. Then, on Sunday, I managed to get up in time for my 2pm yoga class: which, although it was the easiest of the easy classes, I almost died in. GOD. I have not been back in weeks, because I've been lazy and the thought of inflicting pain on my really just completely inflexible body didn't appeal. So, being out of practice, that - predictably - became a self-fulfilling prophecy. A+, me. I'm already sore, and am going to hurt like the DICKENS tomorrow. In fact, I was apparently so tired I went for lunch, came home, and SLEPT FOR FOUR HOURS. Straight through dinner on a worknight. EPIC FAIL. That now means, of course, that it's 2.46am and I am WIDE AWAKE. AUUUGGGH.

8. ALSO, YOUTUBE LOOP. AIEEEEEE. Chiefly, there was Alice and Emily belting their faces off in I Will Never Leave You, one of the few times I've SEEN them sing that song unattached at the hip. YOU HAVE TO WATCH IT, GUYS: can we say omigod sexy SASSY belting times a million. 2:31 is legit an ORGASMIC EXPERIENCE, when they belt in opposite directions but sound PERFECTLY in sync, omigod. (ETA: OMG, 0:55!!! How. Cute?!) Then I found Bebe videos, and although she really doesn't have the best voice on her, god I LOVE her sass. She's SUCH a killer Velma, and probably the only person I'd want to see in the role over Julia (that's right, REPLACE IN CHICAGO, JULIA, PLZ). And yay, Bebe singing from Cabaret! I LOVE her line readings more than anything else. Mmmm, dripping with sarcasm and sass. I heart you, Lilith Bebe. ;)

9. And, because apparently this isn't already epic long enough, I figured I should get started on my alphabet meme, or I won't be done by the time I hit NY. To wit, here's the first five letters of the alphabet, accompanied by a lot of flail and a handy Twitter-ready summary for each. ( That would be A-E, in case you didn't know )

10. OMIGOD THAT TOOK FOREVER. Wow, I am going to have to seriously cut down on the time I spend on the next 21 letters or I am going to die. D: I shall now attempt to go to bed at 3.47am even though I'm WIDE AWAKE (damn the nap) and hungry (no dinner). Blaaarrrgh.

WATCH THESE VIDEOS. YOUR LIVES WILL BE BETTER FOR IT, I PROMISE.

Epiphany: Holy HELL, Alice is FIERCE.


I am legit obsessed with this. Especially when Alice cackles at one point, and then at the very end, when she just eases into a gentle, sweet smile. INSANITY. Best female Sweeney EVER, y/y??

( more amazingly sassy belting under the cut )

Thanks SO much to the filmer for sharing!

1. WOW. I EPIC HATE SENDSPACE. Stupid piece of junk site. I was uploading my tracked-and-ready Chicago boot when it DIED HALFWAY and now it refuses to even load at all. Bah humbug. I'll just have to share the madness with y'all tomorrow, I guess.

2. In other news, I am SICK. WTF WTF WTF. I spent all day apparently trying my very hardest to cough my lungs out through my eyes, which is only slightly less painful than it sounds. And then I started getting snuffly AGAIN. I disapprove of this in every way. How is it FAIR that I am sick AGAIN. I have spent, like, six of the last eight weeks incapacitated by illness of some sort - the two clear weeks being when I was in NYC. Evidently this is a sign that I should just move there now, since I MUST be allergic to Singapore/work/all of the above. Who's with me on this?! Sigh.

3. (That being said, I admit that I am actually more upset that I might ruin my audio on Saturday of VERY VERY TRES IMPORTANT CONCERT than I am at being ill again. I ADMIT THIS.)

4. Going phone-shopping after work did not put me in a much better mood. I must have hit at least ten mini-shops and asked after the kind of phone I need and just came away empty-handed each time. (Either that or I was quoted a price that I'd rather stab myself in the eye with a barbeque fork than pay.) Should I just give in and use a Nokia although I kind of pride myself on never having used one? Bah humbug redux.

5. Is it a secret that I love people who sing/belt awesome? BECAUSE ZOMG WHY SO SO SO AWESOME, GUYS. ( video flail )

6. I hate sendspace, my cough and work. However, I love my fandoms. Also, I adore Julia belting. Just, you know, fyi. Because she sounds like a DREAM. (p.s., I think I need to learn MORE about Farah Alvin. Who wants to educate me?!)

1. Oh goodness, I'm sleepy. I was sleepy at 10pm, wtf. It's my version of jetlag, I guess - though not quite. If I had had adequate amounts of sleep over the last couple of nights after getting home, I'd be fine. But I keep... lingering online, predictably, which means I've spent the last two days functioning on four and seven hours of sleep respectively. Fail. I'm gonna crash after this (for serious), since it's back to work in a matter of hours. BLERGH DO NOT WANT.

2. And that's CNY over for another year - well, the festivities go on for a couple of weeks yet, but the main part of it, with the food and money and visiting relatives, is over now. There was a massive party at my house tonight, and I spent most of it bonding with my computer. Honestly? People annoy me so much sometimes. Also, my brother took back the laptop he 'gave' me as his new one is, for some reason, worse than this one. Urgh. I was looking forward to multi-tasking by using it while watching TV. I GUESS NOT, NOW. Sigh.

3. Since on occasion most of the time I'd much rather spend time flailing than with people, I plunged straight back into icon-making (visual representations of my fandoms ftw!), and that's what I've been doing all afternoon. Made a ton of Meryl ones, catching up on the stuff I missed while on vacation. I decided to post all my Falling In Love icons because I don't think anicons are gonna happen as I originally intended. I'm too lazy. (Aren't Meryl and Robert De Niro ridiculously hot together though?) I'm also saving up icons for a bigger Broadway batch - I've quite a few (slashy) Wonderettes icons, and I made ten Gypsy icons because hai, photo diary of closing night! Awesome. Also, it makes me a tiny bit less terrified of Patti to see her just waking up, or to see her sprawled on her dressing room floor (presumably stretching, though for a moment I thought she had fainted and was horrified that the photographer was busy taking pictures instead of HELPING her).

4. BTW, this POSSIBLE guest star for 30 Rock? FUCKING ROCKS MY UNIVERSE. YES PLZ. If this happens, I think my brain might very possibly break into a million teeny tiny pieces, and each piece would melt from the awesome. I'M PRETTY SURE I'M NOT EXAGGERATING THERE.

5. If any of you guys happen to be bored, I've some music to flail over. ( videos under the cut )

6. OMIGOD I NEED TO WATCH A MOVIE, GUYS. I haven't watched one in two weeks, I think. Can we say withdrawal?! I didn't watch anything on the flight(s) back since I was addicted to Tetris (yes, I fail hardcore). But! There'll be Doubt this weekend (CAN WE SAY MEGA ULTRA EXCITED?!), and a bunch of other Oscar movies to catch up on. I have a feeling I'll be watching three shows a day on the weekend. Oddly enough, I'm totally fine with that. :D

7. Is Photobucket being a mega-bitch for anyone else? I managed to upload my Meryl icons before the site stopped functioning normally, but man, is it ever being a pain right now. Grrr.

8. The prospect of being at work in seven hours or so makes my heart very very sad indeed. :(

1. Am currently at the Doha airport, not even past the halfway mark of a SEVEN-HOUR layover between flights back to Singapore. I am sorely sorely missing New York already. Also, I am going to die from heat stroke when I get back. By our last day in NYC, it was about 45F i.e., 7C, and I was walking around in just my Wicked hoodie... clearly I had acclimatised to the -16C temperatures of the week before. :P Seriously: it was 17C when I disembarked in Doha, and already I exclaimed at how WARM it was - Singapore will be at least 10C hotter. F A I L. I envision spending most of the next year week indoors.

2. Turns out there's wireless internet at this terminal. I have never been happier to have dragged my laptop with me on this trip (and I will never travel without one again!) - I sure could have used this in my FIRST ridiculously long layover here. I think it was in 2005 or 2006 when I was on my way to Egypt. We had to wait here for six hours at one point. I have spent more time in the Doha airport than... probably any airport ever. How's that for random times?! This, of course, means that I haven't done anything of what I PLANNED to do - which was get caught up on all the books I brought/bought on the trip which I didn't read because I was too busy flailing/watching theatre. But Wavepad refuses to work, so I can't track audios, wtf! *grumbles*

3. I'm addicted to Tetris. I spent the entire 11-hour flight (it's shorter because head winds or tail winds or whatever are in our favour travelling back across the globe) playing Tetris instead of, you know, watching movies. Or reading. Or even sleeping. Boo, I suck.

4. Let me also admit right now that I am ridiculously addicted to The Marvellous Wonderettes. Also my Mamma Mia audio. I am listening to both (especially my favourite songs) on a loop, and I really REALLY want to be able to see both shows again. Preferably with the specific performers who make me all flaily. BTW, because I'm not at all creepy: when I mentioned earlier that I'd stalked Beth Malone on Facebook, I meant it - I thanked her for a great show, and she was really nice and replied! ♥ Corinne Melancon sings such a BEAUTIFUL rendition of One Of Us. Now I wish that song had been kept in the movie. Meryl singing it would probably kill me dead. (And here's another random factoid proving that I'm not at all creepy: Meryl HAS sung two lines from it and was all reproachful of Benny for it being cut from the film. XD)

5. Speaking of Meryl, I really want to MAKE ICONS. This picture is just screaming for a ROCK ON caption...


She's in Tokyo! Why on my side of the globe NOW, Meryl?!

On a related note: Is it sad that Photobucket has noticed my hiatus and is sending me e-mails titled "Your Album Misses You"? I wish I was kidding. I'm not.

6. STILL. I will keep my chin up - it's been one of the best trips in the history of the universe (honestly this is my favourite vacation I have EVER taken). But it WILL be nice to go home and settle back into a familiar groove, in a way, and get some me time... well, maybe not, since I'm plunging straight back into CNY festivities and then work thereafter. Again, as I've said frequently, I'm just glad there's so much flail-related stuff to distract me from being back in the equatorial climes of Singapore. Doubt (and a ton of Oscar movies) on the weekend. Epic Emil concert the weekend after. Taiwan a month after that. noldoparma - want to go book-shopping at Kino? I think we get 20%-off sales from Jan 28 for a few days. I'm going to have to distract myself from how blah and soul-sucking RL/work will be in comparison to the last fortnight...

7. I AM going to read now. I must try to finish another book before I go back to work on Wednesday!

1. I realise that I need to stop abusing my headphones. Because even though ONE set is cheap enough at $25, the fact that I bought my third one for the year today? Means I've spent $75 so far! WTF. I never MEAN to break my headphones, obviously. But I just... do? And it sucks, because these are the nice clip-on kind, which produce AMAZING-quality sound and don't annoy my ears. So they're worth the money... but three times over? Faily of me, I know.

2. Also, since Jeremy Piven had to go off and pursue his new career as a thermometer, Norbert Leo Butz and William H Macy are filling in for him in Speed The Plow. Frak. I mean, FRAK. I wasn't going to see this, and my schedule as it currently stands really doesn't allow for it, but OMG - to see William H Macy live? (Also, Raul Esparza and Elisabeth Moss, but mainly for one half of Filliam H Muffman.) AUGH. Yeah, I know. The only way to REALLY resolve this dilemma is, clearly, just to move to NYC. Sigh.

3. MERYL. I need need need to stop watching her promotional interviews and stuff for Doubt, because, argh. Do not need to be spoiled, or have my expectations raised any further. As things stand, I think I got spoilt in a pretty major way for a key plot point when I watched a kind of town-hall-type press conference the cast did for the movie. BUMMER. ( Nevertheless, I MUST share my favourite parts of the interview... )

4. And I also bought Dark Matter when I spotted it in the DVD store - I was looking to see if Mamma Mia was on the shelves, but I suspect it was sold out. Serendipitously, however, I spotted this DVD, and it's one of the few Meryl movies released in the past few years that I HAVEN'T seen, so. :D

5. As I check IMDB to see which ones I HAVEN'T seen - House of the Spirits, wth. I didn't even KNOW this movie existed. Okay, I did, but I didn't know what it was ABOUT. What a weird (albeit awesome) group of actors to have playing... a bunch of Chilean characters. Jeremy Irons? Winona? Glenn Close? I have this book somewhere, waiting to be read. I should get to that.

6. Finally: a meme snagged from in48frames - I'd love it if you guys could spam me with some music! XD It'll be fun!

Friends List Soundtrack Meme I want to have a complete soundtrack with one song from each of my friends. It can be your favourite song in the whole world, a recent favourite or just a song that you think really identifies you. Upload the song and leave the link in a comment. If you can't upload your song, just post the artist and name, and I'll (try to) download it myself. I'll put a fanmix together with (hopefully) pretty art and post it on my journal for everyone to download.

1. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, sunspawn!! Have a GREAT day, hon. ♥

2. WTF MOSQUITOES. How long are your lifespans, SERIOUSLY.

3. Okay so I'm not a narcoleptic after all. Guess you guys were all right on that count. :P Five hours of sleep last night - I was REALLY good and went to bed at 2.30am yesterday - worked out pretty well for me. Did not prevent some epic sleepiness at work, but those usually coincided with, you know, the mid-morning and mid-afternoon moments when it would probably happen anyway. I'm so enamoured of this 'getting enough rest' thing that I'm actually going to go to bed again! Before 2.30am! Why, soon I'll be sleeping at 10pm! (Although first I would have to leave work by 10pm in order for that to happen, hmmm.)

4. I have not been remiss in my Julia/Broadway love. REST ASSURED. ( thoughts on Keys )

5. IN THAT VEIN. Guess what I'm going for in January? :D Scott will be having a CD release party at Birdland on Jan 12 - I've already booked a table for weazel_luv, my sister and myself. XD I'm not counting on Julia being there (the guests haven't been announced yet, for one thing, and for another, I refuse to set myself up for a disappointment), but if he gets HALF the people on his CD to turn up, it'd be awesome - hai, Norm? Heidi? Sutton? And Lisa and Megan? YES PLZ I WANT SOME OF THAT SINGING AWESOME. So yeah, I'm excited. :D Thanks, irnbruise, for helping with the booking! :D

6. OH HAY. New Julia google alert! I love that she bawled Seth out over the car thing, mwahaha. Way to not read your own emails, Seth. I got inordinately excited about the fact-drop that she played Bianca in Kiss Me Kate in her first professional production because OMG the thought of Julia singing Too Darn Hot is, well, TOO DARN HOT. Except I keep getting the movie mixed up with the stage production - Ann Miller sang (and danced a ridiculous tap number to) Too Darn Hot in the 1953 film, but it isn't actually sung by Bianca onstage. BOO. GOT ALL EXCITED FOR NOTHING. Not that I'd actually ever be able to HEAR Julia sing Too Darn Hot, since this was millions of years ago - but well, the idea was nice while it lasted.

7. 30 ROCK, ZOMG!! I've decided to use my mealtimes productively by finishing up Season 1 of the show (so that I'll have a chance of catching up to Season 3 sometime in this millennium) when I haven't got new episodes of The Colbert Report to keep my food company - and EEK. Fighting Irish was a HILARIOUS episode. MOLLY SHANNON! I love Molly Shannon. I also loooove Tina Fey (I LOVE that moment when she sighs and says she needs to go and talk to her food, LMAO) and Alec Baldwin. (Who was randomly awesome as a slightly decidely evil lion in Madagascar 2, btw. Can you imagine the amount of flail that will ensue in my head when more news on his next movie starts leaking out?) Am really bummed that the box set for Season 2 isn't on the shelves here yet, or I'd just get that and save on download time. ARGH.

8. Now I'm watching Ann Miller sing and dance. Fuckity. I hate that she never danced WITH Gene Kelly. (They were in On The Town together, so he choreographed for her, a bit, but they never danced together. Instead he danced with Debbie Reynolds and Vera-Ellen until their toes bled - literally.) I think she's the only female tap dancer who could match him step for step and tap for tap. She's AMAZING. (High praise, from me, for I have fandorked Gene - and Fred Astaire, though to a lesser extent - for A LONG TIME.)

9. How's this for cheesy-awesome Broadway dance number? :D I think Madeline Ashton needs to be on Broadway RIGHT NOW.


- I looooove how this HUGE splashy production number goes from jazzy Broadway and sizzling tap to DISCO (it starts to go south at about 2:48!), LMAO. It's so bad it's AWESOME!
- Meryl does Marilyn! and belts! ♥ And awww, dumpy!Goldie and totallynerdy!Bruce Willis!
- FAVOURITE dance moment: 2:05! So sassy!
- Oh, Death Becomes Her, ILU. You so awesomely cheesy. I need to watch you again, stat.

10. Okay, how did I get distracted typing this for an HOUR?! AUGH. BED NOOOOW.

11. ETA as my iPod syncs - yoga yesterday broke me. *weeps* I can't straighten my arms without them hurting. WTF. I don't even remember what it is I DID to get them that way!

1. OMG I HAVEN'T POSTED IN THREE DAYS. WUT. Have you guys missed me? (Don't answer that. :P)

2. Thank god for a weekend of considerably LESS fail than the week that preceded it. I spent it... sleeping, flailing, running errands, and most importantly, did NOT go back to work as I had originally intended to. Which means I'm going to DIE tomorrow, and possibly over the next five days. But at least I got the time off to chill out. I needed that. Really a LOT.

3. Started Saturday off with a late-night supper with noldoparma (what, I left work at midnight, that counts as Saturday, right?!), then ended up sleeping at 7.30am *cries*... but managed to get up to run errands and even go for yoga! Which KICKED MY BUTT. I guess I thought I had hit a point when I COULD handle at least the basic class and not want to completely die during the process... but turns out it REALLY depends on the instructor you get! I was kind of tired (duh), and so I figured I'd go for an easy class - and for some reason, I thought the instructor I had selected was one I'd had before, who was pretty chill during the lesson. WRONG. This guy was INSANE. I wanted to weep DURING the class, and am still hurting from it now. Which is GOOD, I guess. But but. *cries*

4. Then, since there are literally NO movies I actually want to see in cinemas this weekend (Nights In Rodanthe, what?!), I decided to have a nice little TV night all to myself. I brought food home (and OF COURSE proceeded to spill sauce all over my bedsheets, argh!), put Pushing Daisies on... and LOVED IT. Well, what I saw of it, anyway. Because it turns out I was SO TIRED that I fell asleep during the second episode! By the time I woke up it was noon...

5. ... and by the time I woke up AGAIN, it was 4pm! *cries* This time it really WAS just a matter of being completely tired out though. Because I think I drifted off to sleep at about midnight or 1am. Which means I crashed for 14 hours or something?! Certainly I was planning to watch MORE TV (i.e., House, PD), but I DIDN'T. *weeps*

6. Then I woke up. AND OMG TINA FEY. ON SNL. AWESOMENESS. Predictably, there be TINA FEYLIN ICONS. But after that, I watched the OTHER scene on SNL with Palin, and cried/died laughing. ( Amy Poehler KICKS ASS )

7. Also, Sarah Palin in the White House, as linked to me by irnbruise, is a LAUGH RIOT. So much fun to be had by clicking everywhere. Suffice it to say I've spent far too long on this site. Click on the door MORE THAN ONCE, kthx.

8. And hai, guess who ELSE has been busy this weekend? That's right! ( Julia Murney!! ) XD

9. Did anyone else wonder why Cheno's Xmas album was named A Lovely Way To Spend Christmas, but did not feature that song on the album? Bah. Turns out the iTunes version has TWO EXTRA SONGS. I downloaded, of course, and am sharing to spare y'all the full download. ( A Lovely Way To Spend Christmas | The Lord's Prayer )

10. Can I say that Sendspace has been MAJORLY hating on me lately, so y'all should be grateful for my perserverance. It took me ALL this evening to upload Cheno, and all of last night to get Julia/Julie through the servers. (Then I fell asleep and couldn't post yesterday, fail.)

11. FINALLY. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, teh_maskmaid!! Hope you have a FABULOUS day, and that the new Cheno tracks add to everything else good that I hope comes your way today! ♥

12. So... you guys think I did good in coming back from my three-day hiatus?! ;) I also spent AGES this evening catching up on my comments, btw. Like, HOURS. *cries* But I'm all caught up and I think I shall go to bed now. Another work week beckons. *sobs*

1. Want to guess what time it is? HA. DON'T BOTHER. I'll just tell you: it's 7.36am. WHO FAILS AT SLEEP?

2. It feels like ages since I've posted, even though it's been barely... a day and a half? There are things I must do - like flist a bit and reply to comments and do this icon meme that lanafromoz took from me that I haven't even DONE yet, heh. But. SLEEP FIRST, AND SLEEP SOON.

3. The reason I'm awake this late? Well, aside from the fact that I took a nap from 6-9pm, and also headed out for another late-night supper/bitching session with noldoparma, it's because I decided I needed to STOP MAKING MAMMA MIA ICONS. So I finished the batch and have now posted them. I realise the only reason I ever end up posting anything at xitian is that I've finally decided that I NEED TO GET MY LIFE BACK. Posting means I will STOP MAKING ICONS. Urgh. In any case, 100 icons = DEFINITELY TIME TO STOP, Y/Y?

4. I've also decided that I'm going to be all restrained and NOT watch Mamma Mia again in the cinema. Especially since I JUST went again, for Viewing #4, with my aunts on Saturday afternoon. They had a grand ol' time, I must say, which is great. :D But I have now watched Mamma Mia once a week for the last month, which is, shall we say, a tiny bit excessive. I think I shall just be good from now on and wait for the DVD. I CAN DO IT.

5. Oh, MUSIC CRACK! You know who has a truly gorgeous voice? JASON DANIELEY. ( yes, he's one of the reasons I went to NYC in June )

6. Wow, that was FLAILY. Anyway - I watched the VP debate on Friday, because I was WORKING SO HARD that day. :P I'm not going to get into my thoughts on that, but this sums it up pretty well:


From AdennaK
LOLOLOLOL, Y/Y?

7. Okay okay okay. I should sleep. SLEEEEEEP. O_O

1. I don't know WHAT time zone I'm living on anymore. Maybe on NYC time - because it's 11.39am right now and I haven't been to bed yet. O_O

2. That being said, I stumbled home yesterday after work and switched on my computer... but couldn't stay upright. I crashed in bed at 1pm and got up at just after 7pm. Craziness. Tried and failed to go for yoga, and instead met noldoparma for another marathon bitching session about the crappiness of our jobs. *sigh*

3. I've since spent the last... errrr, ten hours or something fangirling 9 to 5. It is wrong, very very very wrong, to like a musical this much while it's still in its OUT-OF-TOWN TRYOUTS. I know this. And yet I cannot help myself. I've made a shit-ton of icons that I've posted to commemorate opening night. ARGH. I WISH I COULD SEE THIS SHOW.

4. Speaking of shows I wish I could see? FOLKS IN NYC. TOM KITT IS GIVING A CONCERT WITH HIS FRIENDS - BY WHICH I MEAN ALICE, JULIA AND ALSO AARON TVEIT. October 6 at 11.30pm at Joe's Pub (see here). I'm hyper-excited about this, because it means, YAY, TOM KITT. I HEART TOM KITT. Also, Alice singing N2N songs, and maybe Julia will sing She Goes again! OMG. How incredible would that be?! And why don't I live in NYC yet, dammit? *cries* (Thanks for the heads-up, Beth!)

5. I plan to spend this weekend recovering from the last week of epic fail by just flailing quietly at home... well, mostly anyway. I'll stay in and watch House and Evita today, and I'm going to see Mamma Mia again tomorrow! \o/

6. OH GOD I NEED TO STOP MAKING ICONS AND GO TO BED.

1. Omigod. I left work at 2.30 in the morning. I am made of so so so much LOSE. But at least... well, I'm trying anyway... to not go into work this weekend. Surely I can do it?! That was the POINT of staying until 2.30am!! Bah. My work life is about to embark upon an ever more terrifying downward spiral over the next few weeks. I know it. *weeps* I shall try my best to maintain my weekends for flail.

2. Not that I don't flail at work. Because, hai, I think I'm done for - I flailed all day at the prospect of what I'm pretty sure is a NEW OBSESSION.



3. This is a largely music-themed post - when is it ever not - since I snagged a music meme from tamoshan and figured I might as well take the opportunity to resurrect my long-abandoned Friday 5...



4. Also, I was alerted to this by theroomstops: audio clips of Kristin Chenoweth's upcoming Christmas album are up on her official site! Yay! My favourites are her versions of What A Wonderful World, The Christmas Waltz and Do I Hear What I Hear. Oh god, how is it not October already?!?

5. It's the Mid-Autumn Festival in Singapore (and across Asia) right now. I don't eat mooncakes - just don't like the taste - but it's always nice to see people wandering the streets with paper lanterns. (I always wonder what would happen if your lantern catches fire. That would be quite sad, no?) Maybe I'll actually see them this year as I do intend to be out having dinner both nights this weekend rather than holed up at work or in front of the computer. ;)

6. The scab on my knee has dried up! It doesn't hurt! And hopefully won't bleed! I'm hoping to get back to yoga or something, maybe on Sunday. :D

7. Oh god, my alarm clock for a normal work day JUST WENT OFF. FAIL, ME, FAIL. I owe people other memes that I was going to do, but no. I MUST GO TO BED, ARGH.

8. BELT ALONG WITH ME, PEOPLE: IN MY HANDS THE FUTURE IS CRYING RISING HIGH OR DYING IN VAIN!!

1. I'm supposed to be in bed - WAS supposed to be in bed - but have kept hanging around online for some reason unbeknownst to me.

2. Awww, RENT. Farewell posts have started to pop up all over my flist, and so I figured I might as well join in. It IS sad and the end of an era, isn't it? Whatever you might say about the show getting tired, and it no longer being as relevant or as electrifying as it used to be: there'll always be a place in my heart for this show. I remember seeing it for the first time ever in London, back when I was in college. Maybe 7-8 years ago now. I remember not understanding very much of the dialogue: mainly because I'm deaf and the lyrics just tumbled over each other in such a confusing way. But I remember loving the music, and the story, and the characters, and letting that just wash over me. I will never have the visceral connection to this show that so many Rentheads have, but I DO love it, and it still speaks to me in a way not many musicals have. I'm glad I saw the show again when I went up to NYC in June, so that I can say: you know, I managed to catch RENT before it left its original theatre and ended its 12-year run, and that's good enough for me. (Here's my audio from that performance, if anyone's interested.)

3. Went to bed at 7am and managed to get up in time to meet my friends for a CRAZY expensive champagne brunch at the local Ritz-Carlton. The food was ah-mazing: I think I ate, like, seven oysters, tons of foie gras, lobster and seared tuna and just so much dessert. Oof. I didn't even really eat dinner after that, because seriously we just ate non-stop from around 1pm 'til 3.30pm or something. That's the one thing I love about Singapore - not that it's great for my waistline, but OMG. Eating as a national past-time. Gotta love it.

4. Wait, I lie. I had dark chocolate Maltesers (ARGH, NEED TO STOP), and then my younger brother turned up in my room and offered me part of the snack he was making for himself - canned tuna and cheese on toasted portobello mushrooms. Om nom nom nom. (Which totally deserves to be its own tag, given how often I talk about food on here. And so it shall be.)

5. I've been making icons all night. O_O Because I'm compulsive that way and needed to finish my Idina/Cheno ones before I allowed myself to stop and go back to, you know, DOING OTHER THINGS. LIVING MY LIFE. *weeps* I need self-control, is what I need.

6. Work is going to be made of EPIC AMOUNTS OF FAIL tomorrow. So I SHOULD be in bed. I'm not, however, because I am retarded. GOING NOW, I swear it. I apologise for being boring.

7. Edited to add, as I am clearly not in bed yet: I'm a little bit perturbed that __grobanites includes Idina as an interest and not the woman whose lungs of titanium produced the G-sharp at 2:20. WTF, dudes. FAILCAKES. EPIC FAILCAKES. (OH GOD, I haven't watched this video in ages. HOW INTENSE IS THIS PERFORMANCE. I might have just proposed marriage to that G-sharp. SQUEE.)

1. Argh, my curiosity got the better of me, and I promised mirime that I would do this mysterious meme she did that somehow included me as one of her answers - but I can't for the life of me answer some of the questions. FAIL. I APOLOGISE. I'll scout down another meme tomorrow and do it in repentance. ;)

2. Hai, Alice Ripley kicks epic amounts of ass. This is a Fact Of Life. Her entire performance at The After Party last week is up on Youtube, so go hunting. This one's my favourite - Alice belting the crap out of Rainbow High from Evita, yay! (And no, I don't listen to Alice and Julia singing the same song on a loop. I DON'T. Well, not yet, anyway...)



3. Ace is such a fun show. I loved the demo when I finally put it on a CD and listened to it in my car a few months back - and whee, the production in DC sounds great! I'd love to be able to see this live. Emily Skinner is excellent, of course, and Jill Paice does a good job as Elizabeth. Plus, bonus: I'd totally forgotten that Julia sang on Missing Pieces in the demo - I love rediscovering old songs!

4. Okay so this is pretty much an entry centred around music flail - medland asked for recommendations and for once I actually didn't pounce and force Julia down someone else's throat. Who's up for some awesome Chinese pop music? JAY CHOU = FTW. ( Follow the cut! )

HAI. SO GUESS WHO'S AWESOME, OTHER THAN JULIA.

weazel_luv drove to Sacramento and back on 13 Aug 08 to catch Julia in EVITA - and being the massive fandorks that we are, we worked out our time differences and cleared our schedules (no lying, I actually did do this) so that she could upload her audio and I could track it and distribute it to the WORLD in the shortest time possible. XD

So consider this the hugest Evita spam post EVER. The audio is free for everyone to download; pimp the links far and wide! Our only condition? NO HOARDING. Because hoarding sucks and spreading the Julia love is what we're all about, anyway. Oh, and comments would be awesome, please - if you're downloading, surely you can spare the time to leave a word of thanks, especially since weazel_luv is being ridiculously generous in not sitting on this and trading it out excruciatingly slowly like she very well could.


And since this is a spam post, FLAILAGE IS WELCOME. Did Julia's sob in Don't Cry For Me, Argentina break your heart? What about her insanely high high belt in A New Argentina? JUST WANT TO FLAIL IN GENERAL? DO IT.

1. I'm not feeling TOO bad right now, but god - about an hour ago, I just wanted to curl up in bed and sleep. SO TIRED. I don't even know why; I've not been doing very much at work these days (thank god for that). BAH. This does mean that I'm actually going to do the unprecedented today: once I'm done with this post, I'm going to bed. YES THAT'S RIGHT. BEFORE 2.30AM, MAYBE. GASP.

2. Went out for a HUGE vegetarian (vegan, really) dinner with the family, as my aunt has quit her job and is heading off to Taiwan next week to serve in a mission over there. I tell you, if I'm ever going vegetarian, it will have to be in Singapore/Asia. Goodness gracious me, the THINGS they can do, the magic they can make, without eggs or meat! We had, to all intents and purposes, vegetarian sharks' fin, fish and beef rendang, among other things. It was insanely good even though it was probably all yeast and tofu.

3. You know what made me happy today? This made me happy today:



4. And finally! I snagged this meme from doctors_girl as I thought it was a really fun, easy way to find out more about all YOUR fandoms and celebrity crushes and whatnot. XD I've changed some of the questions, just for kicks. So please, indulge me! I intend to indulge myself...


5. And now, bedtime. Ooh, and to start reading The Sweet Far Thing, mayhaps. YAY!

6. But wait. Brian d'Arcy Shrek. OH. DEAR.

1. I had NO IDEA how frickin' tired I've been over the past week - apparently sleeping 3-4 hours a night while still trying to be a semi-functioning human being at work isn't a good idea - until I got home early this morning. I ended up going straight to bed at 4 in the morning or so, and waking up about 13 and a half hours later. At 5.30pm. WTF.

2. O_o

3. At least it was a fun time out last night - I went out for a HUGE Japanese buffet dinner with noldoparma and C, to this awesome restaurant in Greenwood that basically gives you as much sashimi as you could ask for, for just over $70. Which is a freakin' amazing deal and SO WORTH IT. It's fun to eat with people who can eat as much as I can and ENJOY IT, so yay! Honestly we scared other patrons away with the amount of food we kept ordering and then inhaling - it was nuts. Wasabi and pitan tofu = MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF LOVE. I think the waiter there recognises me now. *ahem*

4. Then we watched the new Mummy movie, which was the randomest thing to ever random. For serious. Weirdass movie, which was surprisingly fun because it clearly had decided it didn't care about having a plot or being in any way logical. Whatever works for it, I guess. Basically my only takeaway from the show, other than the fact that Michelle Yeoh speaks truly shitty Chinese and has not improved one iota since Crouching Tiger, is that I have this inexplicable liking for Brendan Fraser. WTF. I can't explain it, really, but there it is. He's not movie-star handsome and not hideous, but he has this totally goofy, oddball charm that makes him just... IDK, so adorable. I'm kind of excited to be seeing him in the Inkheart movies now. :D

5. I sent noldoparma home after that, and decided to head up to her place to grab some book!crack, since I'm on a kids' fantasy kick. We wound up sitting around in her room chatting for 2.5 hours. Talking about everything and anything in between - JD Robb (wut, now I have to read this series, LOL), American politics and goodness knows what else. Good times - what am I going to do at work when you guys leave, I ask again? I have NO IDEA.

6. I'm due at dinner in 15 minutes. I have neither showered nor budged from the computer. Punctuality is so not gonna happen.

7. However, fandom flailing is. OMG, DHP IN A NEW PLAY. Opens late April. I guess the trip to NYC in May will have to go ahead after all? Then I can watch this AND 9 To 5? *sobs* Too much awesome.

8. Also, I know you've all probably seen this already, but quite a few of you might not have. And I have to share it for the awesome that is Eden Espinosa and Tracie Thoms singing Take Me Or Leave Me live. :D OMG. I wish I could see this FINAL Broadway cast do Rent live. Still bummed that I missed Eden in June. :(

1. Technically it isn't spamming if I'm posting on a new day for ME, right? IT'S A NEW DAY. Okay okay. I'm being spammy. Deal with it. ;)

2. I stole a meme from lanafromoz, because I felt like it. :D ( LJ meme )

3. My flail over Alice Ripley and Next To Normal continues to grow in leaps and bounds. I've been... stalking smokeline (to her knowledge, it's okay, I'm not crazy!), and just found it insanely adorable how Alice had a bubble-letters phase when she was signing people's playbills at the N2N stagedoor. Mwahaha. She's so dorky, I love it. Anyways. I made icons with a couple random Alice/Brian ones thrown in to complete the set. Woe betide the day that I decide to try making anicons of N2N...

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4. Continuing my Idina love from a couple days back: I'm sure she's sung I Feel Everything live on other occasions, but I haven't stalked Youtube enough to know when. I did get caught on a little loop when I was linked to her performing Roxanne on 18 Jul 08 in Atlanta though... and OMFGIM. SHE ROCKED OUT. SHE TOTALLY SANG, LIKE, MY FAVOURITE SONG ON HER ALBUM. ASLDJASLDJASDSA. 1:50 FTW.


5. OMIGOD. SENDSPACE FINALLY ALLOWED ME TO UPLOAD KERRY'S LAST WICKED IN LONDON. FINALLY. AFTER WEEKS OF BEING FUCKING EVIL TO ME. CELEBRATIONS - THEY ARE CALLED FOR.

6. And I forgot to add. I watched Dr Horrible's Sing-Along Blog yesterday but could not FLAIL because I'd just posted. NOW I CAN. OMG OMG. NATHAN FILLION AND NEIL PATRICK HARRIS. ILTHEM. They were freakin' HILARIOUS. (Felicia Day, I'm afraid, not so much. Did not like her voice. Not that Nathan could really SING either, but he played his part SO well, LOL.) Now I have to go and finish watching Desperate Housewives just so I can get more Nathan.

7. I've been quite spammy enough today, no? I was going to upload audio examples of Sherie Rene Scott proving INCONTROVERTIBLY that she is the most kickass thing about the Little Mermaid as a musical, but that can wait for another day. ;)

8. Oh also. Went for a run - half an hour, well done me! - and then chicken rice dinner. The chicken rice is inordinately expensive (like, five times as much as you'd pay in a hawker centre or food court) but wtf, it was SO YUMMY. Plus the restaurant has now moved to the 38th floor of the hotel, so there's a GORGEOUS view of Singapore town from way up high. Nice. :D