These Are My People. Here's My Patch.
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dodger_sisterI was just flipping back and forth between two TV shows - one was an SVU episode where the perp was played by Michael Trucco (you know him as Anders on BSG) and A Cinderella Story on ABC Family. This is a weird enough combination as is, but Trucco also played the uncle of Chad Michael Murray’s character on One Tree Hill - so the combo of watching him on SVU and then flipping to a movie starring Chad…look, if I had been stoned, I would have thought I was watching a really messed up episode of One Tree Hill, okay?
Anyways, I saw my grandpa today.
We try to go every Sunday and spend an hour visiting at the nursing home. Friday was Grandpa’s birthday (92 ya’ll!!) so we took him a card and a vid The Canadian-Brother emailed us of his kids telling Grandpa 'happy birthday'. He watched the video on my sister’s phone, then my grandma watched it and then Grandpa said, “Don’t put that away, I want to watch it again!”
Then he told us this story about being on the ship in the Navy during WWII. They had these young kids on board (“Oh yeah, they were definitely kids, these boys were.”) and how they wanted a dog but they knew they weren’t suppose to have one. So unbeknownst to anyone else, they grabbed a dog off the docks one day when they were in port. Once they were back out at sea, they hit a terrible storm and these young boys kept getting sick everywhere. So my grandpa tells them, "Stop thinking about it, you’ll get over it," and one of the guys says, “Can you tell that to our dog?” That’s how Grandpa found out they had a dog onboard.
He said that damn dog was terrible sea-sick and at their next port, the boys unloaded it onto the dock.
In other family news, The Nephew is awesome. He is really into Teen Titans right now (The BFF bought him season 1 & 2 for Christmas).
TN: Who is your favorite? My favorite is Beast Boy.
Me: I’m not sure I can pick, I like Robin and Raven.
TH: You could eeny-meeny-miny-mo it.
It’s his new answer to everything lately, you can just decide by eeny-meeny-miny-mo. I called him a few days ago and asked if he had watched anymore Teen Titans and he said, “Yes, I have all four now but I didn’t like the very last episode. It wasn’t very good.” He is a very opinionated 5 year old.
He also is really into Les Miserables the musical, which I know is weird for a kid his age. When I was 18 and The Little Brother was 13, we went to NY to visit The Canadian Brother (who I guess would have been The NY Brother then) and he took us to see our one and only Broadway play, Les Miserables. Now my little brother at the time was into hardcore punk like The Misfits, etc. But he got so into this musical, we both did. We listened to it obsessively and it is still my favorite musical to date. Anyways, he was never ashamed to be listening to it when his punk skater friends came over. He even got one of them really into the music from the play. He actually read Victor Hugo’s book at the age of 14, he loved the story so much.
I guess he is still really into it because now his kid is as well. The Nephew says to me the other day, while we are in the living room playing video games, “Hey, do you know who Gavroche is? I like his song,” and then proceeds to sing it for me - the whole thing. There were a few words he kind of slurred, either because he didn’t know the words or he was trying to imitate the accent...but this is serious business for a 5 year old to be singing, it’s not Raffi or whatever five year olds listen too these days. Then he says his other favorite song is “One Day More” and I said, “Yeah, but that’s hard to sing because there are so many people singing so many different parts,” and he says, “No, I just sing the one day more part,” but then he proceeds to start singing all of Jean Valjean & Enjolras, the revolution leader’s, lyrics.
I mean, seriously, who is this kid and how did he get so awesome? I was so impressed. If he wasn’t so shy about cameras, I would audio record it and upload the audio for you all. He is so damn cute, my Little Man.
If you don’t know Les Miserables and why it is impressive that he was singing these songs…I shall now give you video.
This is Gavroche and as my brother informed me when he went looking for a good clip to show The Nephew, who wanted to see what Gavroche looked like, he was apparently played at one time by Nick Jonas. You can all go look that up for yourselves, if you are so inclined.
This is One Day More, which is probably my favorite song of them all, although Do You Hear The People Sing holds a close second. I like the big ensemble numbers a lot. I get all goosebumpy. Once I saw a New Years Eve performance and after One Day More, ushers came down the aisle offering drinks and the cast came out on the stage and made a toast. It was midnight exactly during the intermission, it was really cool.
In final news, Tivo has recorded another bad SyFy movie starring Jason London for me, this one is called “Snow Beast”. It also has John Schneider. So that’s on for this week sometime in my viewing schedule. I know, I have a sickness, I can't stop watching bad SyFy movies.
Anyways, I saw my grandpa today.
We try to go every Sunday and spend an hour visiting at the nursing home. Friday was Grandpa’s birthday (92 ya’ll!!) so we took him a card and a vid The Canadian-Brother emailed us of his kids telling Grandpa 'happy birthday'. He watched the video on my sister’s phone, then my grandma watched it and then Grandpa said, “Don’t put that away, I want to watch it again!”
Then he told us this story about being on the ship in the Navy during WWII. They had these young kids on board (“Oh yeah, they were definitely kids, these boys were.”) and how they wanted a dog but they knew they weren’t suppose to have one. So unbeknownst to anyone else, they grabbed a dog off the docks one day when they were in port. Once they were back out at sea, they hit a terrible storm and these young boys kept getting sick everywhere. So my grandpa tells them, "Stop thinking about it, you’ll get over it," and one of the guys says, “Can you tell that to our dog?” That’s how Grandpa found out they had a dog onboard.
He said that damn dog was terrible sea-sick and at their next port, the boys unloaded it onto the dock.
In other family news, The Nephew is awesome. He is really into Teen Titans right now (The BFF bought him season 1 & 2 for Christmas).
TN: Who is your favorite? My favorite is Beast Boy.
Me: I’m not sure I can pick, I like Robin and Raven.
TH: You could eeny-meeny-miny-mo it.
It’s his new answer to everything lately, you can just decide by eeny-meeny-miny-mo. I called him a few days ago and asked if he had watched anymore Teen Titans and he said, “Yes, I have all four now but I didn’t like the very last episode. It wasn’t very good.” He is a very opinionated 5 year old.
He also is really into Les Miserables the musical, which I know is weird for a kid his age. When I was 18 and The Little Brother was 13, we went to NY to visit The Canadian Brother (who I guess would have been The NY Brother then) and he took us to see our one and only Broadway play, Les Miserables. Now my little brother at the time was into hardcore punk like The Misfits, etc. But he got so into this musical, we both did. We listened to it obsessively and it is still my favorite musical to date. Anyways, he was never ashamed to be listening to it when his punk skater friends came over. He even got one of them really into the music from the play. He actually read Victor Hugo’s book at the age of 14, he loved the story so much.
I guess he is still really into it because now his kid is as well. The Nephew says to me the other day, while we are in the living room playing video games, “Hey, do you know who Gavroche is? I like his song,” and then proceeds to sing it for me - the whole thing. There were a few words he kind of slurred, either because he didn’t know the words or he was trying to imitate the accent...but this is serious business for a 5 year old to be singing, it’s not Raffi or whatever five year olds listen too these days. Then he says his other favorite song is “One Day More” and I said, “Yeah, but that’s hard to sing because there are so many people singing so many different parts,” and he says, “No, I just sing the one day more part,” but then he proceeds to start singing all of Jean Valjean & Enjolras, the revolution leader’s, lyrics.
I mean, seriously, who is this kid and how did he get so awesome? I was so impressed. If he wasn’t so shy about cameras, I would audio record it and upload the audio for you all. He is so damn cute, my Little Man.
If you don’t know Les Miserables and why it is impressive that he was singing these songs…I shall now give you video.
This is One Day More, which is probably my favorite song of them all, although Do You Hear The People Sing holds a close second. I like the big ensemble numbers a lot. I get all goosebumpy. Once I saw a New Years Eve performance and after One Day More, ushers came down the aisle offering drinks and the cast came out on the stage and made a toast. It was midnight exactly during the intermission, it was really cool.
In final news, Tivo has recorded another bad SyFy movie starring Jason London for me, this one is called “Snow Beast”. It also has John Schneider. So that’s on for this week sometime in my viewing schedule. I know, I have a sickness, I can't stop watching bad SyFy movies.
Tags:
- birthdays,
- cartoons are for everyone!,
- chad michael murray is my douchebag,
- dogs and virgins,
- family circus,
- jason london is delicious,
- musicals - life with song,
- my grandparents - my heroes,
- one tree hill is my after-school special,
- real life,
- the bff is my bestest best friend,
- the nephew,
- tivo and i will be in my bunk,
- videos - various,
- youtube is an alien-virus
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Date: 2012-01-23 03:16 am (UTC)HUGH JACKMAN will be SINGING Jean ValJean in the Les Mis movie, forthcoming!
I could JUST. FREAKING. DIE.
(also, loved the stories of your family, as per usual. of course you knew that already, but still.)
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Date: 2012-01-24 09:48 pm (UTC)My sister has the DVD of Hugh in Oklahoma and that was about all I could handle without exploding, this new Les Mis is gonna put me right over the edge.
(Thanks! Even though they often annoy me, my family is quite awesome).
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Date: 2012-01-28 10:51 pm (UTC)And now I think I must find and watch Hugh Jackman in Oklahoma....
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Date: 2012-01-28 11:06 pm (UTC)Yes, do.
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Date: 2012-01-28 11:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-23 03:28 am (UTC)Also I've always enjoyed A Cinderella Story, it's such a sweet and fluffy movie.
Your nephew completely rocks by the way and makes me think of my nieces who are a few years older but very much themselves.
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Date: 2012-01-24 09:58 pm (UTC)Les Miz and Newsies songs are what I sing when I'm happy and walking.
Those are my top musicals too! (Along with Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat). I always have soft spot for Oliver! because it was the first musical I saw (though my mother insists I saw Fiddler first, I don't remember it) and I love Dodger (obviously) but something about Les Mis and Newsies just draw me in. My brother was also obsessed with Newsies, I can't tell you how many times we watched that movie.
I actually own A Cinderella Story. My sister got me this DVD 3pack for my birthday called The Slumber Pack - it has ACS, Traveling Pants, and What A Girl wants. I think she bought it as a joke, because I had expresed interest in ACS and she was like, "Here you go, you 12 yr old girl". But then she highly enjoyed A Cinderella Story, in the end. I've always thought Hilary Duff makes good choices though. And well, I liked Chad in the football uniform, I am just that easy to please.
My nephew is seriously the coolest kid. I may be biased.
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Date: 2012-01-24 10:00 pm (UTC)I think that kind of bias makes tons of sense because they're our nieces and nephews. I've been thinking about meeting up again at some point for watching movies as it was such fun last time.
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Date: 2012-01-24 10:29 pm (UTC)Ha! Concidence. I was going to call you tomorrow and see if you wanted to pick a day for next week. I saw on your journal you had a ton of work days coming up this week but next week is good for me, as I am not in therapy atm. We can either watch 3:10 to Yuma or The Gilmore Girls, your pick.
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Date: 2012-01-24 10:32 pm (UTC)If you're feeling up to it, we could do a mix. Yuma's not a terribly long movie and we could get in a few Gilmore Girls episodes. I could also bring over X-Men: First Class as I've been meaning to do a rewatch at some point and haven't yet.
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Date: 2012-01-24 11:06 pm (UTC)I have this urge when we watch Gilmore Girls to just mainline a bunch of it - Gilmore Girls is just one of those shows where I can watch a whole slew of episodes in a row and veg out. But I kind of want to watch 3:10 to Yuma (not the least of which so I can read your fic when you post stuff), so let's do that and XMFC and then next time we can do GG.
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Date: 2012-01-24 11:14 pm (UTC)Would this Friday work? I always seem to lose my Fridays afternoons to doing nothing but vegging in company is far more fun.
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Date: 2012-01-24 11:27 pm (UTC)2-ish sound good to you?
Off to eat dinner now and watch Hoarders.
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Date: 2012-01-24 11:29 pm (UTC)2ish should work as I finish work on Fridays at noon, have lunch and get home after 1.
That gives me time to pick up DVDs and things and drive out. I'll bring Yuma and XMFC and there will be fic talking as that always helps me move works along.
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Date: 2012-01-23 09:33 pm (UTC)Nepthew sounds awesome and talented
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Date: 2012-01-24 10:02 pm (UTC)My nephew is awesome and talented (I didn't even know he could sing!) ;)
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Date: 2012-01-25 04:10 am (UTC)Apparently my DVD collection looks like it should belong to a teenage boy.....a weird teenage boy
Mine too! I have a ton of snarky low-brow comedies, action movies mostly about zombies and bad natural disaster films. I have a few other movies but honestly, I just watch the same three movies over and over again anyway - Deep Impact (your mom should watch that if she hasn't, it's amazing, it's actually quite good) Independence Day and Jurassic Park.
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Date: 2012-01-25 04:18 am (UTC)My shelves are mainly full of horror(the old slashers I love, some remakes I tolerate) And then lots of stand up comedy
Have you seen Zombie land? Normaly I hate horror/comedy, but there is something about that one that works.
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Date: 2012-01-26 03:30 am (UTC)My favorite Independence Day moment is when the alien is inside the President's head and the general is all, "Is that glass bullet proof?" and Adam Baldwin (in uniform!) is all, "No, sir!" and whips out his gun and blows the alien away!
Yeah, I've rewatched that scene like porn, okay.
Have you seen Zombie land?
OMG, YES! I honestly think this is the best zombie movie ever made. It is fucking scary and hysterically funny and sweetly sad at the same time.
Have you ever seen the original black and white Night of the Living Dead? I am blown away by how ahead of its time it was. Also, you should watch the really campy cult classic of Return of the Living Dead, about a group of punk rockers who get drunk in a graveyard and then get attacked by zombies. My friends and I used to watch it over and over. Of course, we were stoned of our asses but still.
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Date: 2012-01-26 03:39 am (UTC)Night of the living dead is an awesome film. Punk rockers and zombies in the same film <3 I've seen way too many zombie films lol
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Date: 2012-01-26 03:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-26 06:42 pm (UTC)It had the family traveling around killing people and using them to make chilli for chilli cook offs.
They make you graon, but bad horror and syfy are still so watchable lol
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Date: 2012-01-23 09:34 pm (UTC)Also, that last vid? (can't see the first one for some reason) Woah. I want to see that musical!
Love the family tales, bb. :)
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Date: 2012-01-24 10:14 pm (UTC)The link for Gavroche's song here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fpTufcJuIU).
You should totally see Les Miserables! It is epic. You want to get out of your seat and shout, "Revolution!" and then like join the fight. Then you remember it is a play and you have to sit back down. ;)
It has a reformed convict fugitive, revolutionaries, stubborn hard-edge cops, love triangles, abused orphans, streetkids, pickpockets and corner whores. Sounds good, right?
I reccomend, if you ever get the chance, that you see it on stage, it's the ultimate experience. But also, there is a movie coming out (I think they start filming this summer) and it is the first time they have ever done a musical movie of it. They have made several movies of the book, but none of the musical. And this one stars Hugh Jackman as Jean Valjean!! (watch the One Day More vid again, Jean Valjean is the guy who sings the first line).
<3
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Date: 2012-01-25 01:19 pm (UTC)Hugh Jackman, you say? Movie, you say? Musical, you say? I like! Looking forward to that movie, then. And yes, I'd love to see it performed on stage. I love musicals!
<3
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Date: 2012-01-24 12:27 pm (UTC)The Nephew continues to be a source of amusement that's for sure. I'm actually not surprised he knows all the song. We as older kids, adults, find something we like and memorize the shit out of it, little kids do the same thing. Except where we end up creepy fanboys, they're adorable little prodigys! lol
I saw Les Mis I think in elementary school on a field trip and remember being very impressed. I've never seen it as an adult though. The vids make me think I need to rectify that.
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Date: 2012-01-24 10:22 pm (UTC)I didn't even know The Nephew could sing! I
warpshape him into the ultimate fanboy as best I can but thank goodness his dad has remembered to get on the musical-love early.Kids actually have an easier time with memorizing than we do, because they are still learning their language skills. You know the song at the beginning of Beauty and The Beast that is half in French? I had this girl at one of the daycares I worked at, she had just turned 3 years old and she could sing that whole damn song, even the french bits. It was amazing.
Elementary school? I am impressed because my school didn't even take field trips like that in high school. It was a crappy school.
Oh yes, if you get a chance to see it on stage as an adult, you definitely should! Also, the movie will be coming out next year, I think, with Hugh Jackman, so that'll rock. But nothing will beat seeing the play live.
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Date: 2012-01-26 11:44 am (UTC)Oh, I hadn't heard about a Les Mis movie. Hugh Jackman is practically a religious experience so it ought to be good.
I agree, there's nothing like a live performance. I'll keep an eye on my local theater company. It seems to me Les Mis comes through every couple of years or so.
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Date: 2012-02-26 01:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-26 10:15 pm (UTC)The Nephew is the most adorable thing ever. I am so proud of what a cool kid he is turning out to be. I mean, he likes comics and video games and good tv shows and now, apparently, musicals!
who at fourteen plays four instruments, is an amazing photographer, and is just all-around way cooler than me.
She sounds awesome! I know, how are all these kids cooler than us? My cousin's 11yr old is learning to play the drums - I mean, how is he that cool? I remember when he wouldn't sleep in his own bed and now he is learning to play the drums because, in his words, "That's what the ladies like."