why isn't my life like a musical?

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why isn't it socailly acceptable for me to walk down the street singing and dancing as i wish to? (not that i do this) is that too much to ask? even whistling in public makes people stare.

― di smith (lucylurex), Thursday, 30 January 2003 02:52 (twenty-three years ago)

move. some cities you can get away with anything.

― dyson (dyson), Thursday, 30 January 2003 02:54 (twenty-three years ago)

cuz musicals suck

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 30 January 2003 02:54 (twenty-three years ago)

f'um. Seeing people walking down the street singing to themselves makes me smile. Just don't do it on the bus, or while in line at the store, or any time someone would be forced to listen to you for too long.

― Dave Beckhouse (Dave Beckhouse), Thursday, 30 January 2003 02:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Helltime and I plan to buy those new battery-powered vocoders from Korg and get some of those battery-powered belt amps from Marshall or whoever and go about refusing to talk to anyone except through a 12db lowpass filter with delay.

Which is kind of like a techno/dub musical, but musical nonetheless.

― Millar (Millar), Thursday, 30 January 2003 03:00 (twenty-three years ago)

just be glad it isn't gonna be done within two to three hours.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 30 January 2003 03:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Chorus: Why isn't her life like a musical?
Why isn't her life like a musical?

Why can't she take it and use it all
in a song or a dance set in Finland or France?
Why can't the street be a stage?
Why must she always act her age?

― Rockist Scientist, Thursday, 30 January 2003 03:13 (twenty-three years ago)

*does the cancan*

― fractal (fractal), Thursday, 30 January 2003 03:14 (twenty-three years ago)

show is yer big frilly skirts, fractal.

― di smith (lucylurex), Thursday, 30 January 2003 03:15 (twenty-three years ago)

My skirts are the frilliest and I can kick awful high in them. My French accent is rubbish though.

― fractal (fractal), Thursday, 30 January 2003 03:17 (twenty-three years ago)

The only reason my life isn't a musical is because I sing like that stupid kid that sang "Like A Virgin" on American Idol last night. If I could sing I'd be dancing and singing up and down the city streets. It would be better than Newsies, at any rate (why oh why did Ned bring this movie up? Now I can't stop thinking about it, like one of those annoying songs you can't get out of your head).

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 30 January 2003 03:18 (twenty-three years ago)

people who think they are bad singers usually can sing okay.

― di smith (lucylurex), Thursday, 30 January 2003 03:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Nothing wrong with Christian Bale and Max Casella clogging around in your head.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 30 January 2003 03:20 (twenty-three years ago)

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 30 January 2003 03:23 (twenty-three years ago)

why are you sad? i meant it as a compliemtn

― di smith (lucylurex), Thursday, 30 January 2003 03:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Not you Di, thinking about Newsies makes me sad.

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 30 January 2003 03:28 (twenty-three years ago)

I apologize for any pain caused, but let's face it, it IS the acid test for the musical-fan-in-extremis.

Sing something from South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut instead.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 30 January 2003 03:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually, wait, was Christian Bale in that film? Dear lord!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 30 January 2003 03:31 (twenty-three years ago)

I take it you're not talking about Show Boat right? Or do you harbor a secret desire to lift heavy crates whilst belting "Ole Man River" in a heavy barotone? (Actually that song is really good. Never mind. I like the earlier version of Show Boat, with Paul Robeson.)

I wouldn't mind being in one of those musicals where Claudette Colbert's dress is always just about to come off (especially those scenes that take place behind closed doors). Actually I'd like to be in State Fair.

I always sing in public. Since I don't use headphones on principle, I have to provide my own entertainment sometimes. From afar it's indistinguishable from talking to myself, so there are probably a lot of strangers what think I am insane, but I can live with that. As far as dancing though, I rarely get any farther than a slight spring in my step. Occasionally my friend and I would skip through the halls in high school. Oddly enough I never got beaten up for it.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 30 January 2003 03:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Ned, not only is Christian Bale the STAR of Newsies...he says this.

Jack Kelly: Well, dat's da foist thing ya gotta learn, headlines don't sell papes. Newsies sell papes.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 30 January 2003 03:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Show Boat is the bomb.

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 30 January 2003 03:37 (twenty-three years ago)

i don't actually want to be in a specific musical tho i could conceivably burst into "the lonely goatherd" at random moments.

― di smith (lucylurex), Thursday, 30 January 2003 03:40 (twenty-three years ago)

I wanted to sing "Bedsitter" today.

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 30 January 2003 03:41 (twenty-three years ago)

i've been yelling, "so i fired two warning shots...into his head!" since christmas (and other random bits of that song). alas chicago has not come out in my neck of the woods yet so i have yet to SEE it....

di perhaps your life should be a medley of musicals. or something. or you could write your own, that would be cool!

― Maria (Maria), Thursday, 30 January 2003 03:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Just a spoonful of confidence in confidence itself. . .

― Rockist Scientist, Thursday, 30 January 2003 03:47 (twenty-three years ago)

hahaha!

― di smith (lucylurex), Thursday, 30 January 2003 03:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Jack Kelly: Well, dat's da foist thing ya gotta learn, headlines don't sell papes. Newsies sell papes.

Dear lord god in heaven, make it stop!

I wanted to sing "Bedsitter" today.

Read a book, maybe write a letter?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 30 January 2003 04:33 (twenty-three years ago)

casual fridays should be replaced by musical fridays

― the hegemon, Thursday, 30 January 2003 05:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Everyone in NY walks down the street singing. I find it f*cking annoying!

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 30 January 2003 05:34 (twenty-three years ago)

whoa, wierd.

― di smith (lucylurex), Thursday, 30 January 2003 06:02 (twenty-three years ago)

duh, because you don't have a pit orchestra

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 30 January 2003 06:22 (twenty-three years ago)

i don't think i could fit an orchestra in my pits

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 30 January 2003 06:24 (twenty-three years ago)

maybe a wee one?

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 30 January 2003 06:25 (twenty-three years ago)

'wee orchestra'! giggle

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 30 January 2003 06:26 (twenty-three years ago)

casual fridays should be replaced by musical fridays
Definitely! (only problem is that this girl that works in the office next door keeps begging for me to sing for her and I might have to actually comply if that were the case...)

Anyway, I totally agree, di. I always want life to be a musical when I'm somewhere boring like work or the grocery store or waiting in line somewhere.

If I do end up singing somewhere other than my car, it is usually more like a hum and it usually involves singing the guitar part not the vocal melody.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 30 January 2003 13:38 (twenty-three years ago)

"They got the mustard out!"

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 30 January 2003 13:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Why can't I feel? My skin should crack and peel... I want the fire back!

*BLUBS*

― Sarah (starry), Thursday, 30 January 2003 13:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Because you don't wear tap shoes to the office.

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 30 January 2003 13:56 (twenty-three years ago)

My dress shoes make tapping noises when I walk across the linoleum floor. (But alas, today I'm wearing boots cuz of the snow).

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 30 January 2003 13:58 (twenty-three years ago)

I am wearing stilettos. Click click click click.

Going home in the snow is going to be *fun*!

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 30 January 2003 14:00 (twenty-three years ago)

*chucks Di a gold-tipped cane and top hat*

― Mark C (Mark C), Thursday, 30 January 2003 14:25 (twenty-three years ago)

*lara snatches them*

If you're blue and you don't know where to go to
Why don't you go where fashions sits?
Putting on the Ritz ta dah dah

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 30 January 2003 14:27 (twenty-three years ago)

I've got it guys!
We'll save the pet store by putting on a show! A GRAND show! And everyone will come in their Sunday best...

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 30 January 2003 14:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Hello Dolly!!!

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 30 January 2003 14:30 (twenty-three years ago)

We were thwarted from seeing "Chicago" TWICE. DAMN YOU, OTHER PEOPLE WHO GOT TO THE THEATER FIRST.

I've been in five musicals: "Winnie The Pooh" (Animal 2), "Fiddler On The Roof" (Lazar Wolf), "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" (Jacob, Potiphar), "West Side Story" (Action), and "The Sound Of Music" (Max Detweiler). They all rocked, except "Winnie The Pooh". The stage version of "TSOM" is k-rad because there are two trios between Max, Elsa, and Captain von Trapp which were cut from the movie.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 30 January 2003 14:35 (twenty-three years ago)

I was a puerto rican dancer in West Side Story in high school.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 30 January 2003 14:36 (twenty-three years ago)

"MAMBO!" "MAMBO!" "GO!!!!!!"

Possibly the best scene in musical theater history.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 30 January 2003 14:37 (twenty-three years ago)

"i don't actually want to be in a specific musical tho i could conceivably burst into "the lonely goatherd" at random moments"

We learned The Lonely Goatherd for a singing contest at school, sadly I remember all the words and they are now going around and around in my head, cheers di!

― smee (smee), Thursday, 30 January 2003 15:18 (twenty-three years ago)

I appeared in a high school production of The Music Man. Happily, I did not sing.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 30 January 2003 15:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Did you vogue?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 30 January 2003 15:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Skipping 10 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

Right you are, Aaron Grossman. What was I thinking?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 30 January 2003 16:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Most sideline position in a stage show = ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER. Pity these people, who never get to be on stage, never have the authority to order around cast and crew, and must continually bow to the whims of the director and stage manager.

*moment of silence*

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 30 January 2003 16:08 (twenty-three years ago)

True enough, Lara. Rat poison isn't recommended shortly before a performance, either.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 30 January 2003 16:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Crystal meth, OTOH...

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 30 January 2003 16:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Mmm, tasty.

I did not vogue. I did interrupt the Shapoopie, though. (I was the mayor.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 30 January 2003 17:55 (twenty-three years ago)

What f'in principle keeps Amateurist out of headphones?

A few of my friends used to enjoy walking over this particular plaza very West Side Story, i.e. slinkily crouched and snapping jazz in unison and occasionally doing Fosseish bursts of movement going "pah-pa POW!" Fun.

Why is it that musicals are beholden to a particular type of music that has completely spun off from the rest of the history of music and sort of calcified there, apart from usually really terrible attempts to reference actual popular song? The best musical I have ever heard is still a particular Ladybug Transistor album, only I'm still trying to work out how the plot connects everything. Really, someone should work with independently workable musicians on a musical, not just musical-theater composers.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 30 January 2003 18:15 (twenty-three years ago)

In high school, I wanted to write a mucial that incorporated all of the tracks on Sire's _Just Say Yo!_ compilation.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 30 January 2003 18:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Dan there is still time! Don't give up on marvelous dreams!

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Thursday, 30 January 2003 18:19 (twenty-three years ago)

A tracklisting for _Just Say Yo!_ should explain why I ended up passing on this project.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 30 January 2003 18:24 (twenty-three years ago)

"Old Man River" never fails to tear me up.

Most parts of Manhattan feel like a movie musical lot. Sometimes I forget it's not normal, with the dancing orphans and singing rail cars.

(Salut, the Hegemon!)

― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 30 January 2003 18:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Dan I don't get your point ;-)

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Thursday, 30 January 2003 18:34 (twenty-three years ago)

How does one work "Kingdom Chairs" into a musical? It's a total stumper (not to mention linking it to "Galbi").

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 30 January 2003 18:50 (twenty-three years ago)

in high school i played polly browne in the musical "the boyfriend". that is really an abomination, that one. why couldn't we have done something freaky and sinister like "meet me in st louis"?

― di smith (lucylurex), Thursday, 30 January 2003 22:26 (twenty-three years ago)

I was assistant stage manager for a few high school productions. I never got to see a full scene, although I was the guy in charge of hitting a button that made a ringing noise when the script called for the phone to ring.

Later I was audio director, which meant that before and after rehearsal (and performances) I got to choose what music to play through the theater. We had an odd assortment of LPs up in the audio booth (which was only accessible via ladder): The Shaggs Philosophy of the World, Creedence Clearwater Revival Green River, AC/DC Back in Black. I remember creating a "clean" version of Singles Going Steady (with the hit track "Oh S***") to play since the theater advisor didn't like cuss words.

Anyways, most of the musicals were Lloyd-Webber affairs, so I was happy to be enconsced backstage or in the audio booth.....

What is "freaky and sinister" about Meet Me in St. Louis? Aside from the Halloween scene.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 30 January 2003 23:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Life seems most like a musical not when I'm wearing headphones but when the assorted noises of everyday city life seem to coalesce and synchronize for a moment, much like the VW commercial. That's one reason I object to headphones--not other people's wearing them mind, just my wearing them.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 30 January 2003 23:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Di, What is your band called?

Amateurist, My love of headphones is here, but I totally understand what you mean.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 31 January 2003 13:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Heh heh. There is another "special" website for people who really like headphones.

― Sarah (starry), Friday, 31 January 2003 13:52 (twenty-three years ago)

It makes me sad to think that my junior year was the last one where we used 8mm tape to put together sound cues for the shows. (Is ours the last generation to have mastered splicing?)

Now it's probably DAT or minidisc or something similar. As far as I know they've probably gotten rid of the record player too, and The Shaggs' LP along with it. **sniff**

― Amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 31 January 2003 21:57 (twenty-three years ago)

my band with "unknown or illegal user" is called The International Telepaths.

amateurist, didn't the youngest daughter in that movie have a freaky obsession with really morbid stuff? (can't think of examples, i can't ever remember what actually happens in movies)

― di smith (lucylurex), Saturday, 1 February 2003 00:13 (twenty-three years ago)

every single night the same arrangement
i go out and fight the fight
still i always feel this strange estrangement
nothing here is real
nothing here is right
i've been making shows of trading blows
just hoping no one knows
that i've been going through the motions
walking through the part
nothing seems to penetrate my heart

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 2 February 2003 00:58 (twenty-three years ago)

jesus mother of mary thats some serious buffy fandom.

― di smith (lucylurex), Sunday, 2 February 2003 02:07 (twenty-three years ago)

I've been having a bad bad day
come on won't you put that pad away?
i'm asking you please no
it isn't right it isn't fair
there was no parking anywhere
i think that hydrant wasn't there
why can't you let it go?
i think i've paid more than my share
i'm just a poor girl don't you care?
hey i'm not wearing underwear

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 2 February 2003 02:13 (twenty-three years ago)

does anybody even notice?
does anybody even care?

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 2 February 2003 02:14 (twenty-three years ago)

I was always brave and kind of righteous,
No I find I'm wavering,
Stick it in your grave,
Your finest fight,
Just doesn't mean a thing,
[She ain't got that thing]
Thanks for noticing.

(= from memory)

― Graham (graham), Sunday, 2 February 2003 02:15 (twenty-three years ago)

I examined the body while they were taking witness arias.

― Graham (graham), Sunday, 2 February 2003 02:15 (twenty-three years ago)

(she ain't got that swing!!)

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 2 February 2003 02:18 (twenty-three years ago)

That's what I meant, doofus.

― Graham (graham), Sunday, 2 February 2003 02:19 (twenty-three years ago)

The new Rocky Horror Picture Show is established.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 2 February 2003 02:21 (twenty-three years ago)

the battle's done and we kind of won
so we sound our victory cheer

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 2 February 2003 02:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Where do we go from heee-re?

― Graham (graham), Sunday, 2 February 2003 02:24 (twenty-three years ago)

(or maybe midgets?)

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 2 February 2003 02:25 (twenty-three years ago)

I've got a theory we should work this out,
Because it could get serious,
Before it's out.

*[Swishes across table and sits down, looking as gorgeous as Ms Rosenberg. But not wearing a dress]*

― Graham (graham), Sunday, 2 February 2003 02:28 (twenty-three years ago)

(fast/passed)

It's getting eerie!
What's this cheery singing all about?

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 2 February 2003 02:30 (twenty-three years ago)

wish i cd trust that it was just this once but i must do what i must i can't adjust to this disgust we're DONE and i just

wish i could stay....

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 2 February 2003 02:33 (twenty-three years ago)

It could be witches.
Soem evil witches.
No that's rediculous,
Cos witches, they were persecutedwickedgoodandlovelierthanwomenpower and I'll be over here...

― Graham (graham), Sunday, 2 February 2003 02:35 (twenty-three years ago)

wicca good!!

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 2 February 2003 02:38 (twenty-three years ago)

see you all in he-e-e-e-ell!!

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 2 February 2003 02:42 (twenty-three years ago)

...

Where do we go ... from here?
When is the ending clear?
-> [go back nine posts]

― Graham (graham), Sunday, 2 February 2003 02:44 (twenty-three years ago)

This is the man that I intend to entangle
Isn't he fine?
My claim to fame was to maim and to mangle
Vengeance was mine!

But I'm out of the biz
The name I made, I'll trade for his
The only trouble is - -
I'll never tell.

― Nicole (Nicole), Sunday, 2 February 2003 03:19 (twenty-three years ago)

She is the one such,such wondrous fun,
Such passion and grace,
Warm in the night,
When I'm tight in her tight embrace.
I'll neverlet her go,
My love for can only grow.
But there's something...no
I'll never tell.
No, I'll never tell.

― Graham (graham), Sunday, 2 February 2003 03:23 (twenty-three years ago)

(I hope your all doing this out loud like I am)

― Graham (graham), Sunday, 2 February 2003 03:24 (twenty-three years ago)

I have been singing 2 Legit 2 Quit today so have had to place a moratorium on anymore singing.

― Nicole (Nicole), Sunday, 2 February 2003 03:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Where's the bit about the bunnies?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 2 February 2003 11:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I am impressed how this thread has deteriorated into a bunch of breathless chorus girls clamouring for attention!

― Mark C (Mark C), Sunday, 2 February 2003 11:27 (twenty-three years ago)

and all that jazz

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 2 February 2003 13:38 (twenty-three years ago)

I have been singing 2 Legit 2 Quit today

If you have been doing the dance as well, then you have achieved greatness.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 2 February 2003 15:35 (twenty-three years ago)

I wish! But then I'd need hammer pants.

― Nicole (Nicole), Sunday, 2 February 2003 16:26 (twenty-three years ago)

But thrift stores everywhere will be your salvation in this regard!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 2 February 2003 16:40 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't have that kind of dedication, Ned. I am not a Hammer missionary.

― Nicole (Nicole), Sunday, 2 February 2003 16:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Neither do I, but people seem to need leaders.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 2 February 2003 16:53 (twenty-three years ago)

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