MooVeez

Movies are a huge part of my interests. Well really, my whole family. My sisters even a film major at KU. Here's my favorites:

The Breakfast Club: As many of you probably aready know (at least from 4th block) I have an insanly big and weird crush on Judd Nelson's character John Bender. I dig the bad boys, not gonna lie. Including Puckerman from Glee and Holden Caulfeild from Catcher in the Rye. OHHHH but addie, those are fictional characters! If all the twilight weirdos can love their vampires and werewolves, I can crush on whoever i want... at least mine are human... freaks. Alright back to TBC- insanly good movie on discovering what's really inside people. Not like blood and weird organs, like feelings. Everyone discovers that even rich kids have problems, and bad boys have feelings. And that the freaky girl can talk. Plus the scene where they get really blazed is hilarious.

The School Of Rock: Just basically the funniest movie ever. Jack Black is my soul mate. I relate to the movie becuase i have kick ass music teachers like "Mr. S". My orchestra teacher's the bomb.com. He's kinda like my therapist as well as a teacher. Ms. V, the choral directior, is brilliant behind a music stand. She pushes me to be better than i think i can be. When i was like in 4th grade i also had a really big crush on Freddy the bad ass drummer with his sleeves all rolled up. Jack Black got cast in that movie for his performance in Tenacious D. Which is also a really funny flick.

White Christmas: Makes me wanna dance everytime i watch it. Its a family tradition to watch White Christmas during the holidays. First off, Danny Kae is one of the best performers i have every had a privilage to watch. So funny, amazing dancer and singer, and dosen't take himself too seriously. He's just a fun guy. I also love him in the court jester, which is really old, so i doubt a lot of my classmates have seen it. and he's really cute for an old guy.

Little Miss Sunshine: A beautiful movie cinematography wise. (did i even spell that right? oh well.) How hard is it to shoot a movie in a moving vehicle? Difficult i imagine...  I LOVE the grandpa in the movie. He's great at being the grumpy crumugen. Paul Dano plays Dwayne who is silent for most of the film in hopes of joining the airforce. When he figures out he's colorblind and can't fly jets, the first lines in the whole movie is F-bomb after F-bomb. His character just made me so sad. You guys know the feeling when your heart kinda hurts? and sinks? Thats what i feel like when i watch his character. I also relate to this flick because my family can be kinda crazy too, but i love them none the less :)

There you go! I love waay more thousands of movies, but too many to count.

Technicallities

I'm not sure if all of you truely understand the super hard work that goes into putting on a show. Theres lights, sound, and acting that all have to been taken care of. memorization is killer. For kill me deadly, every time the main character says, "charlie nickles" the sound DUH DUH DUHHH goes off.That took for freaking ever to get right. literally, we spent like two hours on it.  And then somebody screws up their lines, they can't find theyre fake ciggarettes, or somebody dosent come in on their cue and before you know it your rehersal is  hours.

Lemme explain Reiff Rage to you all. For those of you who don't know Mr. Reiff, he is the theater director at west. Most hilarious man alive. He's obsessed with ghost busters and fart jokes. But when were not just messing around and its crunch week for a musical or something, Reiff Rage can spark. When this occurs, you dont try to run. You just hide or cower in fear and hope that MAYBE he will spare your life. His face goes FIERCE red. And theres this one vain on his temple that turns really purple and pumps up and down. This only happens when we all screw up SO BAD its scary. I've only seen it two times in my life actually.

But other than that, school musicals are a blast. they consume my life at the time, but whatever im seventeen. You just get super close to everybody. When theyre over and I've been doing the same thing after school for  two or so months I'm like, what do i do now?  Homework? HA.

Musicall Me Back

Musicals are so weird and fantastic to me... I grew up watching them and I was shocked when I went into the real world and realized people weren't singing about buying bread or doing homework.... I died a little that day.... anyways, This particular post is all about my faves.

CHICAGO- Roxie Hart is a thriving performer who can't catch a break.. So she meets this guy who says they can work something out. They start sleeping together and then he's like, "oh i was kidding. i just wanted some action dude," so roxie gets PISSED and kills him. So she goes through jail, and court system and what not. but all the musical numbers, in the movie, are in her head. The transitions are beautiful and it is an excellent film. I saw it on  Broadway too, and they really talked to the audience. It seemed way less serious then the movie.

ALL SHOOK UP- This is an elvis musical. nuff said. The Elvis character is hilarious. This girl falls in love with him, and i forget why but she dresses up like a dude to spend more time with him or something.. but it just reminds me of the movie She's The Man when Amanda Bynes plays a guy. I don't know why but people acting like the opposite sex is super funny to me.

GUYS AND DOLLS- I grew up falling asleep to this sound track. When i was little i listened to musicals as i fell asleep. Weird right? It's really not too original. Just you're basic love story, but i love it. My mom always used to sing me the song Bushel and a Peck before popping in the CD.

A CHRISTMAS CAROL- Not just ANY Christmas Carol- the Silver Dollar City version of A Christmas Carol. My family goes every christmas and we always watch it. It's full of funny British accents and such. It makes my Christmas season.

Writers workshop project- t-minus now

Okay guys, this is THE LAST TIME i change my subject for this blogging assignment- i swear. I've decided to blog about something i really love, which is theater. Lets go back to kindergarden- picture 5-year-old Addie with a turtle neck and leggings. My first grade teacher, Mrs. Tony, was asking all the kids what part they wanted to play in our Christmas pageant. She came up to me and asked if i wanted to be the queen, or the star Christmas tree. THE TREE. DUH. So i was the sparkling christmas tree.. I don't even think i said anything... i just stood there all tree-like. So that's pretty much where it all started.

Ok, so now I'm in middle school. Ms. Jackson's performance class. We had this assignment where we got a certain job or task to act out to a song of classical music of choice. I got ironing. I show up to class and NOBODY has their classical music. I was the one looking like a goober trying to figure out what smelled like it was burning to Beethoven's fourth.... (it was the shirt I was ironing.)

Now, in high school, I've had crazy fun times doing Les Mis, Annie, Kill me deadly, and am currently working on the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, and Thoroughly Modern Millie. (come see it!) In Putnam, I play an ambitious 11-year-old who has a lisp and two gay dads. It is without a doubt the funniest show i have seen/ been involved in. There's also a lot of audience participation, so with the right people... BOUND to be hilarious.

I guess people see theater people as really quirkey and weird, but we are.