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"I'm Rick James, BITCH"
man, the chapelle show rocks. now if I could see it again in slow motion =)
jeez, every time I think I'll have some free time to do stuff (such as write in this thing), stuff pops up. two weeks ago, it was the rough draft for my ayn rand paper. last week, it was initial research for my world lit film project and throwing together the final draft for said ayn rand paper. now, it's preparing for a class presentation of what I've done so far for world lit. during hell week, since we perform our play this thursday. night rehearsals from 6 to 12, possibly 2 or 3 am.
so what is this play, you ask? "searching for a narrative". adam rappold's plan II senior thesis. basically, it's about a guy named Hiro, who realizes he's in a play. he has no desire to change things, since he ends up with a girl named Rachel and they live happily every after. but his two friends, Black and Red (Brian and Samantha), decide to mess up the play, since they (mainly Red) are tired of being treated as second-rate objects. things rapidly go out of control for different reasons, and Hiro ends up wandering from scene to scene, trying to recover his "narrative" at any cost.
this thing was supposed to be over by february. unfortunately, our main character, mike, decided to break off and do his own play. furthermore, the only spot we could get for the utopia theater was end of april/beginning of may.
is the play good? well, go watch it and find out :P april 22-24 and april 30-may 1 at 7:30. from what I've heard, we've done more rehearsal for this than any other broccoli project play. broccoli theater = ghetto theater, in the sense that we don't impose strict standards like regular theater groups. this play has six scenes, each in a different setting. the technical effort put into this is incredible. as someone put it, we have to live up to the set =) we've also choreographed a ton of stuff, from kung-fu fighting sequences to fencing duels to waltzes.
as much of a hassle as it was to stick with the play for so long, it's been fun watching the script slowly come together. I actually like the ending we have right now. the one before it was more confrontational and uplifting, but this works too. of course, none of this will mean anything to you guys until you watch =)
I also love my cast members. such a crazy bunch. I still feel hesitant about the cast party, though =\
speaking of parties, the plan II formal ball was last friday, on april 16. surprisingly, I didn't go. anime club came first. under any other circumstance, I would have gone to the ball. but on that friday, we were wrapping up banner of the stars II and scrapped princess, as well as nearing the end of tsukihime. besides, someone's gotta hold down the fort. our little group has been shrinking over the months. eva's in new zealand. rick got a job, I think. john's been going to houston and doing other stuff. elizabeth and john are still here, but elizabeth leaves before kimi ga nozomu eien and godannar come on. we did get someone new, though. yay for alexa.
april 16th was also my birthday. for some reason, I'm unsure on whether I should announce this fact or not. case in point: someone in allison's class wrote down that she was having a birthday party on the board, with the message "presents expected". I realize that the message isn't that callous, since the only people who would go are the people who want to celebrate for her, but I still feel hesitant. one thing's for sure - if I announce it to my plan II friends, they'll drag me to the house of guys and get me to do crazy shit after getting me boozed up. heck, look at katie and kan =)
did I do much on that day? not as much as I hoped to. we (the guys at the end of the hall) did play a lan game of civ3. but besides that and anime club, nothing too spectacular happened. saturday was acutally more interesting - tech rehearsal and then the tga vs acm lan party. man, I was a fool to think I would make myself leave at around 1 to get some sleep. ut2k4 was fun, but my computer would take a few minutes to load up each map, so I fell behind each time. someone did set up para para paradise there, although we never did figure out who owned the stuff. the raffle prizes were disappointing. no 3D card or memory sticks here. I think there were cases of bawls and ati bags of random stuff.
chong, you hyped up the leviathan too much for me. it's a cool vehicle, I will admit. but if you're playing against a semi-intelligent team, you probably won't have a chance to deploy it in a good spot. raptors will strafe you and people will go kamikaze style to bust up your ride.
the most amusing death message I saw on ut2k4 - when someone ran over himself. I still have no idea how the hell he managed to do that. actually, there might be a possibility - if you're in a vehicle, and a bigger vehicle slams into you, flips you over, and then drives over you while you're still inside. like what happened to me =(
if you watch amvs at all, get random variable's "euphoria" - rahxephon to the tune of frou frou's "must be dreaming". the more I watch it, the more I start to believe that this ranks among the best amvs ever made. it's mainly about the visual effects, but it never seems cluttered or pointless. plus the style also seems to fit.
rahxephon itself is whack. watched the first episode. so many unknown terms and events thrown at you. if you thought evangelion plunged you into the thick of things from the start, check this out.
and now physics homework before I go to bed. stupid hell week.
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