152 insights into my soul

Heh, isabel79 saw POTO this weekend, and I'm amused that given the number of times she's seen it, I have not been there for any of them! But given I saw Wicked this weekend, it had me wondering how many musical soundtracks did I have that I haven't actually seen the musical for:

-Avenue Q
-Jersey Boys
-Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
-Spring Awakening

Hey, only four. Hopefully I'll see Priscilla one of the time I'm up in NYC later this year. And I think Avenue Q is still showing on Broadway. But alas, I don't think there's any chance to see Spring Awakening. Though I don't actually have that big an interest in seeing Jersey Boys.

I at least have seen the movie versions of:

-Annie (though i have the music from the remake with Victor Garber, not the original movie)
-Godspell (hey, its back on Broadway! There's this one Disney Flip chick on it. Which is the extent of what I know about this new version)
-Hairspray
-Jesus Christ Superstar
-Little Shop of Horrors (though I hardly remember it)
-Phantom of the Opera (I recently replaced the movie soundtrack version on my ipod with the original cast recording)

But like Spring Awakening, I don't think there's a way to see the stage production versions of some of those anymore.

And the ones where i've seen the actual musical and the movie (if there was one):

-Mamma Mia! (surprisingly, I only have a couple of songs from the actual play, but that's because I already have a lot of Abba on my ipod)
-Rent (its the movie version soundtrack on my ipod, though I do have a song or two from the original cast recording.)
-Rock of Ages
-Wicked

So I guess I have a decent number of Musicals on my ipod. Of course, there's also music from musical movies:

-Across the Universe (it still annoys me that the version of "All You Need" is love on the soundtrack doesn't have the "He loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah" in the background at the end- they had it in the movie, and in the original song! Its total BS!)
-Bandslam (And you can be sure I'll be getting the soundtrack to Joyful Noise when that comes out)
-Burlesque
-Camp Rock
-Camp Rock 2
-Dr. Horrible's Singalong Blog
-Enchanted (I wasn't sure if I should count this and not other Disney movies, otherwise I'd have to add Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, and the Little Mermaid)
-HSM
-Lemonade Mouth

And then if we go to songs from TV shows, I do have every song ever done on Glee (that was released) plus songs from the soundtracks to the musical themed episodes of Buffy, Grey's Anatomy, and Scrubs. Plus, released songs from American Dad, HIMYM, Pushing Daisies (I'm annoyed they never released Chenoweth's version of "Eternal Flame") , Ruby and the Rockets, and Victorious.

Despite all this though, I still think the majority of my music is actual music that gets played on the radio.

Heh, randomly perusing through youtube the other day, found clips from one of Donnie Yen's latest movies, "Ip Man", based on the life of Bruce Lee's Wing Chun teacher. I think my favorite fights are this one against 10 black belts, and the end fight. One thing I've always found cool about Wing Chun is just the endless flow of traps to strikes, being able to chain them together so easily in a kinda graceful, vicious dance of blows. I mean, if you study the physics of it, its efficiency and beauty coming together, the way the practicioners' strikes elegantly flow through the opponent's defenses, utilizing economy of motion to maximize the power of the blows while simultaneously nullifying/avoiding the opponent's attacks. Poetry in motion? I think it is!

I think my favorite move of his in this movie are those times where he just does those rapid fire punches like a dozen times in really quick succession. Its just awesomely brutal and also kinda hilarious! (Jeez, and I wonder why people think I'm a sociopath) But really, between punching guys a jillion times in the span of a few seconds, and kicking a guy a jillion times in rapid succession in Iron Monkey, the guy's got speed.

TV commentary:

Lost- the penultimate ep before the season finale, and things are definitely still interesting. ( spoiler cut )

Scrubs- Ah, it was also the series finale of Scrubs. Not a bad ending, a little schmaltzy, but Scrubs was always a little schmaltzy.

Interesting, I didn't realize the whole "What's the difference between peanut butter and jam?" joke from this past Monday's HIMYM was a real joke. I figured it was just one of those "insert your own punchline here" things, because the reality wouldn't live up to SagetTed's "the dirtiest joke he ever heard claim". And the reality doesn't, given this is the actual punchline: ( under the cut )

Anyhoo, what the hell was up with Scrubs being pre-empted in Atlanta for a special on Digital Conversion. Seriously, they needed to pre-empt a new ep for that?! WTF?! What is there to get? But, luckily, it was online the next morning.

TV Commentary:

Scrubs- Okay, I was trying to figure out the song Ted was playing there at the end, because it sounded so familiar. And then it became obvious he was doing an acoustic guitar cover version of Outkast's "Hey Ya"! Awesome! As awesome as the Joshua Radin cover of the Sesame Street theme from the original first ep of this current season that they ended up showing 5th or whatever. Anyways, Ted's version is almost the same as Obadiah Parker's version. And cool, Joshua Radin finally put up his version of version of Sesame Street on his Myspace.

Lost- ( spoiler cut )

So the roomie's friends, the CKs (I assume the mrs. is also a C, but I know her name isn't spelled the way its pronounced) were passing through and joined the usual suspects for pre-Lost dinner. We have entirely too much cherry coke zero now. Anyways, the roomie grilled up some skirt steak that was really delish.

TV commentary:

Scrubs- ( spoiler cut )

Lost- ( spoiler cut )

What the eff, is it really 5 degrees out there with the windchill factor? I like saw little flurries driving into work.

TV Commentary:

( Kyle XY )

( House )

( 90210 )

( Privileged )

7A!!!

Heh, on the way to work, passing by the abortion protestors over at Governor's Ridge (I guess there must be a clinic in that complex, which is the same place I took my CCNA exam) one of them had an amusing sign that read "Be like Juno!"

What's with all the TV last night? NCIS, 90210, Privileged, 2 eps of Scrubs (now on ABC!), SVU, and Nip/Tuck. Thank goodness there weren't any new eps of House or Fringe. I only caught the CW stuff plus Scrubs and Nip/Tuck.

TV commentary:

( 90210 )

( Scrubs )

( Privileged )

( Nip/Tuck )

Oh, on the way to Junior's for breakfast, The Real Mccoy's "Sleeping With an Angel" came on the mp3 player, which I've said before will always be burned in my mind as the song that mad cute brunette chick danced to at the first strip club I ever went to. One thing I've never mentioned though is that she would leave her vest on (albiet opened). Which is kinda weird, because its not like its a costume, and the other chyx there took off everything. Mebbe she had like hideous scars on her back or something that she wanted to hide. I guess only D would possibly know.

Ah, its the first of NBC's "Comedy Night Done Right" (that doesn't have as good a ring to it as "Must See TV" had). So, Thursday night TV commentary:

My Name is Earl: I dunno, the roomie's not into the whole "fake classic sitcom in Earl's coma head" thing, but I have to hand it to the writers, they do seem to come up with concepts to keep things on the show changed up. I mean, they coulda just stuck with the whole Earl does a good deed a week thing, but first the Prison thing, now this, I think its an interesting way to keep it refreshing.

30 Rock: I don't know why I found the whole Cathy joke hilarious, but I did. Alas, the MILFs weren't as hot as they could be. But Cerie is still frickin' hot, so that makes up for it, I guess.

The Office: ( cut for spoilers )

Scrubs: ( cut for spoilers )

So, clevemire reminded me of a few more shows I forgot, so my estimate is up to 51 shows. Of course, a lot of those shows weren't on the same time. Though I guess I also do reviews/commentaries on LJ for a lot of them, so that's still a lot of hours spent.

Hmm, weird, I didn't realize Keri Russell was guesting on this week's Scrubs. I was just talking about her with the usual suspects, I guess after Hot Fuzz, since she figured prominently in one of the movie posters. I think I prefer mostly straight/kinda wavy haired Keri over her traditional freshman year Felicity curly locks. I'd do a poll, but that would entail finding good pictures of both dos and posting them and all that jazz, and I'm just too lazy today. Anyways, I think she's still looking good, though is she more chesty nowadays?

( Smallville: Nemesis )

( Supernatural- Folsom River Blues )

( The Office: Product Recall )

Luckily, the roomie's been taking a break from San Andreas long enough for me to watch my shows. Commentary behind cuts since I'm sure clevemire was prolly watching the Sox game instead:

( Scrubs )

( Gilmore Girls )

( Veronica Mars )