Obsessions

I have a new obsession. It is my Legally Blonde The Musical soundtrack. I can't get 'So Much Better' out of my head, but I don't mind as it's a great song. Twas amazing. And yes, like Priscilla, I DO want to go and see it again. The only bad point about the whole thing was that there weren't many (like, two) gorgeous actors/dancers/singers in it. One of the best things about it was that the girl who played Elle (Sheridan Smith) wasn't exactly size 0, which I thought was really good as, like her, neither am I. She was curvy and completely enjoying herself. I wish I could be like that! But it was amazing and I'd definitely rush to see it again... And if it was a choice between Legally Blonde and Priscilla... Well, I'll let you choose which one I'd pick by yourself... :D xx

I love London's West End

I went to see Legally Blonde The Musical today. Twas amazing.

I have now seen musicals in the West End with (in no particular order):

-Singing and dancing nuns (Sister Act, The Sound Of Music)
-Singing and dancing French revolutionaries (Les Miserables)
-Singing and dancing French opera people (Phantom of The Opera)
-Singing and dancing African animals (Lion King)
-Singing and dancing futuristic rockers (We Will Rock You)
-Singing and dancing people with big hair (Hairspray)
-Singing and dancing cars (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Grease)
-Singing and dancing wedding guests (Mamma Mia, also seen on Broadway)
-Singing and dancing pickpockets (Oliver)
-Singing and dancing nannies (Mary Poppins)
-Singing and dancing lawyers (Legally Blonde)
-and even Singing and dancing transvestites (Priscilla Queen of the Desert)

And my top five favourites were:

1. Priscilla & Legally Blonde (yes, it WAs as good as Priscilla. Even without Oliver Thornton!)
3. Hairspray
4. Mamma Mia
5. Sister Act

And now I need to see musicals with:

-Singing and dancing witches (Wicked)
-Singing and dancing flappers (Chicago)
-Singing and dancing boys (Billy Elliot)
-more Singing and dancing French opera people (Love Never Dies)
-and Singing and dancing munchkins (The Wizard of Oz, when it comes out)

Therefore I love the theatre. I am thinking of pursuing a career in acting, but when I told my mum this she thought I was joking. When I assured her I was serious, she shouted at me that it is not a 'proper job' and I can always join Amateur Dramatics societies when I'm older and that it is 'a phase I am going through'. But I can't think of anything I'd enjoy more than singing and dancing on stage in a big, glittery musical for my career. Harumph.

Oh, and I have decided that whatever I decide to do for Uni I am going to live in London. I just love it. Whenever I go there I always feel like my it's already my home. i love it so much. If I could I'd move there now. I already feel homesick being back in Herefordshire. :(

5. Colour My World

5. Colour My World
Originally uploaded by colourmyworld♥photography

My FAVOURITE song at the mo, so needed to be EXTRA special <3 :D

Smothered in Revision

It's Bank Holiday Monday (yay!!) which unfortunately means I am bogged down with Latin, Maths, Chemistry, RS, Art, History, Physics, French, Biology and TWO PIECES of English Coursework. I might just suffocate. I always hate the end of the first half term in Spring because of EXAMS. AAAAAARGH!!! But this year is horrible, I've got three science modules AND two linear Maths GCSEs and plus all the other end-of-year internals. I live in Revision Ghetto in the suburbs of Good Grades City. I cannot cope. And if I'm so stressed out THIS year, what'll next year be like, with English Lit, English Lang, French, History, Latin, Art, Biology, Chemistry, Physics AND a horrible Additional Maths paper. I might DIE. Actually that would be a good idea, all tragic and literary... Actually no. Not until I've met the love of my life and had a nice time and visited lots more places and gone to Prom. And hopefully got married. And get an AMAZING job in the West End as a costume/set designer or possible actress in a musical, where I will get to wear sparkly costumes and prance about on stange generally enjoying myself. Or an interesting yet boring and not as fun job such as a lawyer or a solicitor or obstetrician, where I will get to wear designer suits and Prada heels if I get lots of money.
On the other hand, walking back from our CCF practice today (we have inspection next week and I'm right hand marker for the Navy, so the Navy follow my marching, and as everybody else follows the Navy marching effectively they're all following me, except sometimes I get confused and fall over) a rather fit boy on his bike asked me very politely if I had the time, to which I dithered and "um"ed and "ah"ed and got my phone out (shocking pink with a diamante charm... oh, the embarrassment!!) to check the time and told him that it was, in fact, five to five. He gave me a nice smile and I learnt that his name was Ben before he cycled off towards Asda. So my gloriously un-flattering CCF kit isn't that un-flattering after all. It just consists of a MAN's shirt, a MAN's trousers, a MAN's jumper, a MAN's tie, a BERET, and a granny hairnet. Such a turn on. I DON'T think. :D
So I really need to get back to my (oh, joy) Chemistry Revision. i hear it calling in that evil, alluring voice.....

50 M&S Ginger Nuts is your Guideline Daily Amount of kcal. Really.

Well, Wallpaper was cancelled, so me and Feck went to town on a quest. For a book. An utterly amazing but totally trashy book. Because we are cool. And then we went to M&S because lunch was mank (school dinners, eh?) and bought some white chocolate chip cookies (for me) a blueberry muffin (for Feck) and some Ginger Nuts for 59p (for both of us, because we are pigs). So we went up to the Pod (the teensy computer room in the English block) and found that it was locked, and Wallpaper was almost certainly off. We went to find our teacher. We went into her classroom, where music was blasting very loudly, saw that it was empty, and stood there pondering for a bit on what our next action would be. We decided to head up to the girls' toilets in the creepy, back bit of the English block (so-called the 'Harry Potter Loos' because of the cracks in the walls and the numerous, stained mirrors - as in the film Chamber of Secrets - and ancient everything). When we got there, Becky managed to bounce straight up on the ledge and kept looking out the (very large) open window in to the alley below. With a bit of a leg-up, I managed to get up too. We stuffed out faces with Ginger Nuts (but not of course before reading the percentage of kcal/salt/sugar/carbohydrates/protein/fluff in a GDA at one point I got the answer "Ten." And we had aaaaages before we were even considering to go then... And we talked. And listened to Chairlift, Belle & Sebastian and Tilly & The Wall (who have a tap-dancer instead of a drummer. How cool is that?). And guessed who lived in the house on the other side of the alley, which had a straw hat, a dry-cleaning bag, a bottle of lentils, a bottle of Egyptian sand and two clay models most likely built by a child in the window. Then we heard echoey voices of girls coming from the house and so shouted "Oooooh, we are ghosts, we will HAUNT you! Oooohhhh..." until they shut up. Which they never did  in the end we gave up. And then we heard the CCF people practising their drill with guns and heard some very loud voices. And then I had to go and get my bus and had to leave Becky, so I shouted (in an ironic way, of course) "I LOVE YOU MY SHMEXY DARLING" to her and walked across the road to  find some random grandpa giving me the evil eye. Ah... old people today...

So I had an interesting afternoon. And to make you laugh, I thought in Physics that before the Big Bang we were the size of "German Monkey Amoebas" (no offence to any Germans out there. It was actually "A Germ In" a monkey amoeba, but it was heard wrong. I love Germany, it is a great place and they do cabbage in a nice way).

That is my life. Yay. XD

POMPEII VIDEO!! UP AT LAST!!!

The only thing that could actually distract me from listening to Oliver Thornton singing 'Both Sides Now'. (GASP!!!)
Here is the link again because it is full of utter epicness!!!!



WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

The Amount of grass Becky put in my hair on Thursday.

Half of Wyeside.

Late Nights & Ladders in my tights

Sorry about the pointless title. I just thought it rhymed.


Talk me round, you can try
To cut off my senses, make my cry
Out to the skies and stars above
Where I know there must be love.


Sugar hearts and candy canes
I sit at home bearing the pain
From which I try, nonetheless
To be happy and forget the stress


I can't seem to remember
I seem to forget
Those soft pure words 
Full of my regret
I threw away into the dirt
And then they flew away


Meaningless lyrics, and empty tune
Trying to pretend I'm immune
To human despair and floods of tears
Every single day


Tell me once and tell me twice
A glimpse of sadness in the night
The joy of seeing a new day rise
I feel so much better today.


Well, that was completely random... just a few lyrics off the top of my head. I am not depresses in any way, just in case of any implications in the verses. I am just bored.

5. Both Sides Now

5. Both Sides Now
Originally uploaded by cake_in_the_rain♥ot

I've looked at love from both sides now,
From give and take, and still somehow
It's love's illusions I recall.
I really don't know love at all.
By Joni Mitchell.

AND I HAVE AN OLIVER THORNTON COVER!!!! EEEEE :P

4. I Love The Nightlife

4. I Love The Nightlife
Originally uploaded by cake_in_the_rain♥ot

Ooooh I, I love the nightlife
I got to boogie
On the disco 'round, oh yea
Oh, I love the night life
I got to boogie on the disco 'round, oh yea
~Alicia Bridges.

Like the merging? I'm very pleased with it :D
Song no. 4 (:

3. Go West

3. Go West
Originally uploaded by cake_in_the_rain♥ot

Song No. 3, Go West by the Village People. The kiddie compass looks a bit odd because I couldn't find a proper one.... (:

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2. Venus

2. Venus
Originally uploaded by cake_in_the_rain♥ot

Continuing with my Priscilla Playlist - Of course, the first time we ever see Oliver on stage is during this song. I wanted to make this extra special because of this reason, but my inspiration ever so slightly drained and I ended up with this. In case it is a bit misty as to why this pic is for this song, here are the lyrics I chose for this pic:

"Her weapons were her crystal eyes
Making every man a man
Black as the dark night she was
Got what no-one else had
Wa!

She's got it
Yeah, baby, she's got it
I'm your Venus, I'm your fire
At your desire
Well, I'm your Venus, I'm your fire
At your desire..."

Possibly expect a replacement sometime soon. Song Number 2 Venus by Bananarama.

1. Don't Leave Me This Way

1. Don't Leave Me This Way
Originally uploaded by cake_in_the_rain♥ot

My Priscilla Playlist underway. I know I sound like a stalker, but I am just so much more creative with a title to go by :D. And of course from Priscilla, my favourite musical, gives added inspiration (well the thought of Oliver Thornton does anyway... :D) Song Number 1: Don't Leave Me This Way by Thelma Houston.

OH. MY. GOD. ("Oh, not AGAIN. She's such a stalker!" I hear Becky sigh) I AM COMPLETELY IN LOVE WITH OLIVER THORNTON... OH, AND I ♥ PRISCILLA

Well Becky. I'm sure you're only too eager to guess what I'm about to have a mega-uber-mahoosive-giganticus-humongous-so-big-it-is-hard-to-describe-how-big-it-really-quite-is glee-fest of FABULOUS.

PRISCILLA!!!!! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Last Saturday I went to see "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert - The Musical" At the Palace Theatre in West End. 

And OH MY GOD it was AMAZINGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't know if you have heard of it, but it's only a year old here in London and, as I'm told, a huge deal Down Under in Australia. This fabby show is about two transvestites and a transsexual who are on their way to Alice Springs in the desert from Sydney, on an old, beat up tour bus called Priscilla. The reason behind this is because Tick/Mitzi's (played by Jason Donovan) ex-wife now owns the casino there and is offering them a few weeks of performing and a change of scene from dingy downtown Sydney. With Tick is Bernadette (Don Gallagher) a transsexual whose lover has recently died, and (in my opinion) the absolute STAR of the show, party boy/drag queen Adam/Felicia played by Oliver Thornton ♥, the yummiest thing since toasted Starbursts (try them over a campfire...mmmm). Seriously. The show was absolutely fantastic but seeing gorgeous Oliver strutting his stuff up there in a pink sparkly thong, suspenders, heels and not much else was the big, fat, juicy cherry on top of one of the most scrumptious cakes in a long, long time. I actually can't express how utterly fantastic the show was and Oliver, and if I could, I would probably be up there dancing with them. In fact, in my gap year, I was thinking of creating the job title "Official Diva of Advertising" for Priscilla and then I could work with Mr. Thornton.

And to add to my stalker abilities, here is a factfile of my favourite actor in the whole world (off the top of my head, of course):

NAME: Oliver Rhoe Thornton

BORN: Abergavenny, Monmouthshire (next door to herefordshire, where I live!! :D), 10th September 1979

OCCUPATION: Currently starring as Adam/Felicia in Priscilla in London

WEB: Oliver's official website

         Oliver's Twitter

So go on those websites and see for yourself how utterly stunning Oliver Thornton is. I would put on a picture myself, but:

a) there are so many to choose from I would be all night drooling over them before I chose about 100

b) there are probably lots of copyrights on the pics and I don't want to risk infringement

Honestly I would keep telling you every detail about Oliver but I already sound like a deranged stalker and I am quite tired and have SO MUCH revision to do tomorrow I need a good night's sleep. 

Go and see Priscilla. I gave it 100000000000000000000recurring out of 10 and I've seen almost all of the West End musicals. And like I told Becky: It is way, WAY better than The Lion King. Which is amazing, if you've seen it, so you'll know my standards.

Oh, and just in case I didn't mention it:

OLIVER THORNTON IS ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS AND YOU WOULD BE MAD NOT TO WATCH PRISCILLA AND FALL IN LOVE WITH HIM.

Actually please do be mad - all the more for me!! :D 

Night night xxx