Hee! Awww, sweetie. We don't mean you, of course! The other Ari is a big bastard who deserves to be shot. I say this because he is a fictional TV character :)
I've found a new fandom. Such love! Ooh, I just realised I forgot to write my footnote on Jack and his "kids", and Gibbs and his "kids".
Is a musical -- from the 50s I wanna say (made into a movie in the 80s with Steve Martin, which I refuse to watch because Steve Martin as the dentist feels wrong to me). One of my very favorites. My high school did an amazing production of it my junior(?) year and I have been in heart ever since. (My college also did a really good production last year.) I would insist you watch it if I weren't so uncomfortable with the movie. (I also admittedly get heavily attached to my first encounters with a story, and my high school's production was my introduction to Little Shop.)
One of the major plot points is a Venus Fly Trap type creature who demands human blood as sustenance.
"If you really gotta justify, take a breath and look around, a lot of folks deserve to die... "
The mild mannered gardener caretaker balks at this. Cue the sadistic dentist nearby, berating and threatening his girlfriend (whom said gardener is sweet on).
"The guy sure looks like plant food to me! He's so nasty treatin' her rough! Smackin' her around, and always talkin' so tough! I need blood and he's got more than enough!"
I can send you the song on mp3 -- can actually burn you copies of either soundtrack version. Some of the songs still feel "wrong" but I'm more amenable than I used to be.
Thanks for the offer, but don't worry about it. *g* I'm actually not much of a music person -- which is odd because I was a music major in high school!
It sounds like a funny, quirky musical though. So did the gardner actually feed the dentist to his Venus flytraps? Or did he have an attack of conscience? Hee!
Yes, I remember your preference for your first experience of the canon (hope that's an accurate summary) which is something I can understand, though I tend to be more open to multiple canons and media. But for a few things I do have obvious preferences: Bruce Timm's Batman over the movie Batmans, even Christian Bale. TV show canon versus movie canon, generally speaking.
And dude, ME NEITHER! He was funny in Father of the Bride, but on the whole I don't like him all that much and his presence in a movie is a neautral item verging on anti-selling-point.
And after 4 years of college I finally became somewhat more okay with background music and actually sometimes do it on purpose, but I'm on the whole not particularly musically oriented. I'm very text-oriented, though, so musicals can be awesome -- with the powerful lyrics, and the catchy beat. (Or not. See my issues with the Broadway version of Disney's Beauty and the Beast.) And Little Shop of Horrors is loads of fun.
[Do I need to be spoiler warning for you, Ari? I'm gonna go with no, but um, major Little Shop spoilers below. Yeah.]
After the dentist accidentally kills himself, the gardener feeds him to the plant. He eventually decides enough is enough, but it's too late and the plant eats him as well. (I hear the movie changes it so gardener and girl get a happy ending, though it retains some of the ominousness of the original ending.)
Do you usually not do musicals, Scroll? (Am curious now. Also slightly weirded out by the idea of having a "major" in high school.)
(I hear the movie changes it so gardener and girl get a happy ending, though it retains some of the ominousness of the original ending.)
Heh. I was a little scarred by the real ending of The Little Mermaid, though I can't remember right now if I saw the Disney version first or not. Ah Disney, Hollywood, thank you for giving us the not-quite-so-horrible ending :)
I've seen a few. Beauty and the Beast, actually. Crazy For You in high school, Phantom of the Opera when I was 11 and too naive to figure out the guy was just wearing make-up. Yeesh! And I saw an off-Broadway production when I was in New York in July. But mostly I've seen musical movies a la Fred Astaire, etc.
Do you usually not do musicals, Scroll? (Am curious now. Also slightly weirded out by the idea of having a "major" in high school.)
I've enjoyed musicals, don't get me wrong. I loved Disney movies because they had music! I'd sing along, I have sheet music. But since high school I've moved further away from music. I don't play anymore (flute or piano), I only sing in church. My high school was an arts school, so students could audition for dance, drama, music, or visual arts. My sister was an art major. It was a good program but there were plenty of Toronto schools that had even better. I enjoyed it though, had a blast in high school. :)
:) I have love for angst and tragedy and that whole ripping your heart out and stomping on it thing. (Though I've definitely read fic where I go, "That was dark and depressing even for me.")
If you ever have a chance to see a live action performance of Little Shop of Horrors, I highly recommend it.
Nah, I've seen Little Shop, though it was something like six years ago and I saw it in German (which I don't speak.) It doesn't really appeal to me despite my love of musicals because it's a bit too horrory for my tastes. (And yeah, I know it's funny. It scared me. I have a habit of being traumatized by daft things.)
It's funner when it's in a language you can understand, but I totally grant that it's a rather dark musical. As stated, this is far from a deterrent for me, of course.
Alas, no resurrection sex magic. This show is very close to "real life", with the Bush as president, episodes about al Qaeda, etc. I find the show distinctly Republican, which is interesting for me.
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Date: 2005-09-22 02:46 am (UTC)I've found a new fandom. Such love! Ooh, I just realised I forgot to write my footnote on Jack and his "kids", and Gibbs and his "kids".
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Date: 2005-09-22 02:53 am (UTC)(Also: Scroll has now got me singing "The guy sure looks like plant food to me . . ." from Little Shop of Horrors.)
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Date: 2005-09-22 03:19 am (UTC)One of the major plot points is a Venus Fly Trap type creature who demands human blood as sustenance.
"If you really gotta justify, take a breath and look around, a lot of folks deserve to die... "
The mild mannered gardener caretaker balks at this. Cue the sadistic dentist nearby, berating and threatening his girlfriend (whom said gardener is sweet on).
"The guy sure looks like plant food to me! He's so nasty treatin' her rough! Smackin' her around, and always talkin' so tough! I need blood and he's got more than enough!"
I can send you the song on mp3 -- can actually burn you copies of either soundtrack version. Some of the songs still feel "wrong" but I'm more amenable than I used to be.
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Date: 2005-09-22 03:37 am (UTC)It sounds like a funny, quirky musical though. So did the gardner actually feed the dentist to his Venus flytraps? Or did he have an attack of conscience? Hee!
Yes, I remember your preference for your first experience of the canon (hope that's an accurate summary) which is something I can understand, though I tend to be more open to multiple canons and media. But for a few things I do have obvious preferences: Bruce Timm's Batman over the movie Batmans, even Christian Bale. TV show canon versus movie canon, generally speaking.
Plus, I'm not a big fan of Steve Martin ;)
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Date: 2005-09-22 03:52 am (UTC)And dude, ME NEITHER! He was funny in Father of the Bride, but on the whole I don't like him all that much and his presence in a movie is a neautral item verging on anti-selling-point.
And after 4 years of college I finally became somewhat more okay with background music and actually sometimes do it on purpose, but I'm on the whole not particularly musically oriented. I'm very text-oriented, though, so musicals can be awesome -- with the powerful lyrics, and the catchy beat. (Or not. See my issues with the Broadway version of Disney's Beauty and the Beast.) And Little Shop of Horrors is loads of fun.
[Do I need to be spoiler warning for you, Ari? I'm gonna go with no, but um, major Little Shop spoilers below. Yeah.]
After the dentist accidentally kills himself, the gardener feeds him to the plant. He eventually decides enough is enough, but it's too late and the plant eats him as well. (I hear the movie changes it so gardener and girl get a happy ending, though it retains some of the ominousness of the original ending.)
Do you usually not do musicals, Scroll? (Am curious now. Also slightly weirded out by the idea of having a "major" in high school.)
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Date: 2005-09-22 04:01 am (UTC)Heh. I was a little scarred by the real ending of The Little Mermaid, though I can't remember right now if I saw the Disney version first or not. Ah Disney, Hollywood, thank you for giving us the not-quite-so-horrible ending :)
I've seen a few. Beauty and the Beast, actually. Crazy For You in high school, Phantom of the Opera when I was 11 and too naive to figure out the guy was just wearing make-up. Yeesh! And I saw an off-Broadway production when I was in New York in July. But mostly I've seen musical movies a la Fred Astaire, etc.
Do you usually not do musicals, Scroll? (Am curious now. Also slightly weirded out by the idea of having a "major" in high school.)
I've enjoyed musicals, don't get me wrong. I loved Disney movies because they had music! I'd sing along, I have sheet music. But since high school I've moved further away from music. I don't play anymore (flute or piano), I only sing in church. My high school was an arts school, so students could audition for dance, drama, music, or visual arts. My sister was an art major. It was a good program but there were plenty of Toronto schools that had even better. I enjoyed it though, had a blast in high school. :)
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Date: 2005-09-22 04:08 am (UTC)If you ever have a chance to see a live action performance of Little Shop of Horrors, I highly recommend it.
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Date: 2005-09-22 10:11 am (UTC)This is not the Ari you're looking for.
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Date: 2005-09-22 04:38 pm (UTC)Um...ignore me.
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Date: 2005-09-22 08:37 pm (UTC)Shit happens. ;)
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