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Went college shopping yesterday...I now have an alarm clock (with radio, CD and a line in for my iPod), a fan, a phone/answering machine, plus a boatload of other crap (detergent, shampoo, mascara, etc.) But that's mostly done...all I have to do now is buy some snacks, figure out how big my storage crates should be, and buy a new bra (TMI?)

However, my mum bought me Hot Fuzz (YES!) and I picked up 300 (w00t!). Last night, I watched Much Ado About Nothing (the Branagh version) and love. I really adore Shakespeare, and I really really adore Branagh!Shakespeare. Plus the joy that came from Robert Sean Leonard showing up ("EEEK! It's WILSON!!!") even though he over-acted a bit at times...Keanu Reeves was, well, Keanu Reeves (surly), and I don't know what the hell was up with Michael Keaton and I don't think I want to (he was funny most of the time, though, when I wasn't going "WTF?!"). But Kenneth was love, as always. I really want to watch his Hamlet before I go to school, but it's checked out of the library T.T Maybe I'll pick up Othello again.

And now, I'm going to go watch What Not to Wear.

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Didn't post last night, because the computer was being monopolized by JuJu, who has discovered some kind of demented cake-making game and refused to get off. >.< After that, we watched Othello (the Fishburne/Branagh version), so it was okay. Kenneth, you are a sexy sexy man, even though you are kinda old. Your evil makes you sexier.

Watched an episode of Band of Brothers in APUSH today (Ep 7, "The Breaking Point," for inquiring minds). That was depressing. It was an interesting reversal from the way APUSH went yesterday, what with Truman!Thumb and Stalin!Thumb making out constantly. And poor Truman!Thumb just kept getting his face completely sucked off by that dirty little commie. When I say the upcoming exam is making us a wee bit cracked? I kid thee not. But seriously, I felt kind of icky and slumpy inside for the rest of the day. Boo.

I was supposed to go dress shopping tonight for Senior Ball, but my rehearsal got pushed back (I'm awaiting a call at this very moment to tell me it's time to come back for it) so I might not get the chance. Oh well...I'm thinking something knee-length/mid-calf, maybe blue? I'll post a pic when I get it, so it will be preserved for the ages.

Lost was kinda awesome. I loved Mikail (spelled totally totally wrong). Something about nutty Russian dudes just does it for me. And Sayid might get to torture him, which is always enjoyable. <3 Supernatural comes back next week! YAYAYAYAYAYAYAY~! I am hoping and praying it doesn't get cancelled...it's such a good show, with a pathetically small audience. We're a dedicated fanbase though! T.T

We got a new catalog today, and I saw a shirt I must. have. It says something along the lines of "Thou, minion, art too saucy." Hee to the nth degree. <333 It's a quote from Two Gentlemen of Verona. Shakespeare? "Minion"? "Saucy"? All on one shirt? That there is my kinda top.

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Current Location: Home
Current Music: Mickey - Toni Basil

Dude, I seriously love Shakespeare. I know, I might as well put on a hat with foot-tall neon letters reading "ENGLISH NERD! MOCK, PLZKTHNX" But I do.

Everyone's always like "ugh, Shakespeare, it's so stuffy, blah blah blah" when, really, it's So. Not. I mean, it's ridiculously bawdy, and actually really really funny, once you get into the rhthym (<This word? HATE.) of the language. And the language itself is beautiful. Which brings me to my point (yes, I actually have one.)

I'm sure anyone who has studied Shakespeare in recent years is familiar with "No Fear Shakespeare," the delightful series of books (also available on line for FREE) which translates Shakespeare with a side-by-side modern English version. It's really helpful for people who aren't sure what's going on, or as a review of what's happened in an Act/scene. The only problem is...some of the phrasing is just destined for sporfle.

For example: I'm currently studying Othello. After a drunken fight (not entirely his fault), Cassio (who is the only person in the play with two names...meaningful?) bemoans the evils of alcohol with: "That we should, with joy, pleasance revel and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!"

The "No Fear" translation?

"Why must we party like animals?"

Me in the school library:
o.O

>___________<

*SNERK*

Oh, Cassio. Unrelated but...smothering Desdemona? Lame. It's *way* cooler in the original Cinthio version, where Othello and Iago beat her to death with socks filled with sand. Shakespeareyay!

(Sean Bean always makes me think of ol' Willy.)

Current Mood: amused

I love Edmund the bastard of Gloucester. I love him so very much. He's so deliciously evil, and you know, he gets more ass than any man ought to. But I can certainly see why. He's so smoothly devious, it's horribly enticing. Watch him plot! Watch him cut! Watch him grope! Watch him swordfight! Just WATCH HIM.

I now lay all claims. Edmund is my Shakespearean BadBoy and no one elses. More specifically, Edmund as portrayed by the fabulously fabulous Reese Madigan is my man.

And I like it when he wears his sexy black chainmail. Ooh, and also the manskanky silky pajamas. (Although Cornwall had far manskankier pjs. Lotsa chest going on there.) I don't see why King Lear gets to take his shirt off, and Edgar gets to wonder around in a loincloth, and all I get is a low-cut pajama top on my Edmund. Sigh.

I wanna see it again.

Current Mood: loved
Current Location: Home
Current Music: Some country thing

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