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STEP IN TIME, YOU STEP IN TIME!

So I saw Mary Poppins Last night. Amazing.
I really really enjoyed it, I'd had my doubts about some of the casting but they all were fantastic.
Perfect choices.
Verity Hunt-Ballard was 'Practically Perfect in Every way' in her lead role as Mary Poppins.
Matt Lee was loved by all as the cheeky Bert
Marina Prior was an extremely beautiful and talented Mrs Banks
and Phillip Quast (!!!) played the career focused Mr Banks.

I knew that it wasn't much like the movie, so I wasn't disappointed like many people are when they see the show. I enjoyed the differences and thought that a lot of the new songs were quite fun.

After the show, I went to the stage door (as i do) to meet the cast (specifically Phillip Quast) in person.

Matt Lee ran out quite fast, clearly in a rush to get somewhere, but not before smiling and saying hi to my mum and me.
Verity Hunt-Ballard snuck out as well and we let her go (shame)
Marina Prior then came out and I got a photo and an autograph
and then the wait began for Mr Quast.

we waited and waited and waited.
everyone else waiting at stage door had left.
majority of the cast had left.
majority of the Her Maj Staff had left.
I refused to leave.

we had been waiting for about half an hour when one of the cast members walked past and asked if we were waiting for someone, we told him who and he asked the door man if he had signed out yet and that we were waiting.

He hadn't left. we were still in luck.

a few minutes later i saw him coming out. he signed out and the door man pointed in our direction. Phillip looked and then came out.
His first word to us were "I am -so- sorry for keeping you waiting" and then he stood there talking to us for about 10 minutes.
He is one of the nicest most amazing guys I've ever met. I truly thought he would walk out, sign my book, take a photo and leave. but he was in no rush to leave at all.
He hung around and talked about his recent trip to Malta for a movie, how he is enjoying doing Mary, why he is enjoying it and other things alike.
After watching him for 20 years, (literally my whole life) first way way back on Play School and then later in theater shows. (mainly Les Mis, best Javert EVER) I finally got to see him perform live annnnnd then meet him. Pretty safe to say that last night was the best night of 2011 so far =D
If you haven't already i -highly- suggest going to see Mary Poppins while you can.

'Mum, i think i was a Drag Queen in another life"

a true thought and a true comment I made today, to the shock of my mother and the hilarity it caused her.

as strange a comment as it is, i really think its true.
I've thought before that if I was a guy I'm pretty certain I would be gay.
I wouldnt give up my musicals, music, sequins, glitter (and other shiny substances) or fruity girlie drinks for anything.

Yes I know just coz guys like that stuff it doesnt mean they are gay. I know many guys that like the same music and musicals and shiny things and fruity girlie drinks and are very much straight. I just think that if I was a guy I would be gay, and id love it :)
all of this came to me whilst i was watching 'The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert' (classic aussie film if you havent seen it) so the thoughts probably dont really count.

One other thing that i thought while watching this afternoon. it really frustrated and angered me how little things have really changed for the gay community since the early 90's.
Nearly 20 years later and they are still not being accepted to many communities/groups.

Anyway, just a short blogpost venting some of my ponders :)

The End?

well thats it.
its all done.
its all over.
its all finished.

as of the 24/11/2010 i have -officially- graduated.
I am SO not ready to be released into the wild open world of crazy!
I mean seriously, me, get a real job? are you kidding?!
So as exciting as the whole graduating thing is, it kinda scares the shit out of me.
I'm 20 years old for crying out loud!
I don't know what I want to do!
I can hardly dress myself (yes i still out things on the wrong way/inside out/on the wrong foot from time to time) let alone be trusted in a real, full time, 'work for the man' job!!

To be honest I dont think I want one right now. Which I know is stupid, but the way I see it, there is still too much for me to do.
I want to have fun and do crazy stuff before I'm too old to do it all. Most of all though I want to travel. I want to go to so many places it's insane. I dont even know where to start! or how to get enough money to go to them all. I know ill need a job, but I dont want a serious one that I am going to get sucked into and realise in 10 years time that I have been to caught up to follow my dreams, as lame as that sounds, its true. It happens all the time and I dont want it to happen to me.

At the moment I am saving for Leakycon 2011, it will be the first Harry Potter Conference that i will attend and I cannot wait! I am working my ass off in a basic christmas casual job and saving all I can just to make enough to get there. I love Australia to bits, but i was born with the travel bug and i neeeeeed to travel soon!!

So far i plan to spend at least 3-4 weeks in the US. I figured if im going to go all the way over there, I might as well spend some time seeing some other places i am dying to go to.
I have real issues with saving though, so if anyone has any good tips, um help?! lol

um....hi?

I know, I know!
I failed!
3 posts in and it takes me 9 months to post again -.-
damn
I really wanted this to work haha, so ya know what, I'm gonna give this another shot!!

Nothing very exciting has been happening. As it is my final year of TAFE I've been busy with that and making sure I'm getting everything done, and doing what I can to get ahead. I flew up to Sydney in April for 2 weeks for work experience/holiday and i must say it was one of the BEST times I have ever had...I've never been a huge fan of Sydney, and always said I could never live there, but I had the MOST amazing time. I absolutely hated leaving, and have been itching to get back ever since. Which I am!! in 2 weeks!! for more work experience, but I'm still super super excited =D

I finally began my much awaited Harry Potter re read this week. Which turned out to be a rather bad idea. Not only is it taking me unusually long to read it (due to TAFE getting in the way) but it is also causing me to have Travel blues. The Travel Blues are happening due to Infinitus starting this week in Florida at the Wizard World of Harry Potter. Its really bad...all the posts and photos are driving me crazy mad, yet I am so so so addicted to them, I cant get enough, I just want more and more and more!! I'm totally geeking out!! and its scary to think that I'm geeking out so much over a Potter event that I'm not actually at haha. Just imagine if i was there!
I'd definitely be living up to my Widgey Bird nickname. I pretty much am now...any mention of Potter or Infinitus and I get waaaay too excited :p

okay, its late, I'm tired and Harry is waiting for me
so goodnight, good day and good luck!!

P.S.
throughout writing this I was being sent idea's by my lovely drunken friend Matt, he firstly wanted me to write about drunken phone calls (which i couldnt write about coz I dont think ive made any/dont remember them). He also wanted me to mention how much he loves me and that we sluts are officially whoring together so all you bitchez better watch out. So this is just a small shout out to one of the most amazing guys in my life :) Epic Love going your way Matty <3

um....hi?

I'll believe in you all my life.

okay so nothing has really happened at all with me the past few days. I've been really bored!!
the only thing I've really done is watch movies(never really thought about it before but -movie- is a really weird word) and there is one in particular i want to talk about.

i watched E.T yesterday for the first time in years. id forgotten just how much i used to love it when i was growing up...i remember the first time i ever saw it was when i was on holiday in Queensland with my family, i was probably 3 or 4 at the time and it scared me to death. The day after we went to Seaworld and my parents took me on The Bermuda Triangle, which is a water ride and theres aliens and stuff throughout it, i was terrified and to this day cant go on it lol. i eventually saw it when i was a little bit older and i quickly fell in love with it and watched it repeatitivly.

After watching it again recently, i was surprised how quickly i fell back into that same love for it. As soon as it had finished and the credits rolled i wanted to play it again from the start. Instead i forced myself to remove the DVD and replace it with the Special Features disc. Now as a film student i love my 'audio commenties' and 'making of's' and ET didnt lack that. There was a creating of ET feature which absolutely took my breath away at seeing exactly how the magic of ET was created. the reunion feature was awesome, seeing the cast together again 20 yrs later and seeing how much they have changed, especially the kids and the Music of John Williams was just spectacular.

After watching the movie and the features, my love and respect of Steven Speilberg and John Williams has grown immensly. I actually jumped onto imdb and checked out Speilbergs (forever growing) list of films he has done and while i knew most of them there where many there i loved and watched while growing up, and still to this day cherish, that i never realised where his films. He has such an amazing talent to take a simple story and turn it into an amazing film that buries itself deep in your heart and no matter what, when you go back to watch it, it always touches you.

John Williams has been in my life as long as, if not longer than, Speilberg, with his amazing movie scores accompaning some of the worlds greatest films. To this day i still get shivers (good ones) whenever i hear the themes from movies such as ET, Starwars, Indiana Jones, Jaws, Harry Potter, Superman and Jurassic Park. amoungst many many others. Together they make an amazing team that have worked on over 18 movies together over the years, all which steal you away from reality into the magical world of film.

After Watching ET and feeling drawn into the movie so much that i wanted to watch it all over again straight away when it ended (an event that only occurs with very few films), gave me a renewed inspiration and energy into what i want to do. i want to make people feel like that, be completely drawn into the film, like nothing else in the world matters at the time. i know it will be hard work, but i want to get there, maybe not directing or one of the other massive roles, but just to be able to work on a film like that would be the greatest honour. id give anything for that opportunity, and the only way im going to get it is if i work for it, and im not gonna give up trying no matter how long it takes.

Fail Blog

Okay, ive decided, im gonna do my best to keep this thing up to date, try and blog everyday and all that. i used to be on Livejournal and that was just fail haha, i think i posted maybe 3 blogs in a year. i really want to give this a good go though.

so basically like every one else im going to use this to post my thoughts and the happenings of my life, minus the gory details. i mean come on, this isnt a diary for crying out loud haha so if you're here too snoop bugger off. im not a great writer either, as you can probably already tell, so sorry if my posts lack any excitement or intrigue...i also lead a pretty boring life...so you've been warned. dont complain if you find my posts boring, i couldnt really care, this blog is for me, not for your personal entertainment =D any constructive critisim on my writing technique is MUCH appreciated though lol

i had a really good weekend this weekend. things have been a little messed up in my life lately, so it was good to get away. Friday night i met up with all my mates for the first time in ages. i like to call them my gang, they are always heaps of fun to be with and can make you forget anything thats going on. So we all met up and went and had dinner on Lygon Street at a resturant called 'Key on the Wall' it was a realy nice place and was awesome to be with everybody and to just be able to chat (unlike when in the clubs). After that we headed to a lounge on Sydney Rd, we all just chilled and and joked around for a bit, it was well cool.

I spent most of Saturday at home but then headed out in the arvo to the city, i went and bought 'Britannia High' (an English TV show about a bunch of teens in a performing arts school) and then headed to Bianca and Kieras, where i was staying for the night. The three of us headed down to North Melbourne and had dinner together. After dinner, Bianca headed home and kiera and i made our way (across the rd) to the Lithuanian Club, (note: i love melbourne! while waiting in line two guys walked past in leotards, one had one arm down is back and the other had hotpants with genitilia painted on haha) where we went and saw Josh Thomas. He is really pretty damn awesome haha, he put on an awesome comedy act. the audience was full of teeney bopper fangirls which was rather pathetically amusing lol they were so over the top! to the point where after he came out, he actually said he felt like a Jonas brother (which we all no is NOT a good thing lol) and at the end of the show a girl threw her bra on the stage...WTF!!? lol it made for good lulz though haha

we headed back to B and Kieras, (stopping for slushies on the way) where we all hung out for a bit. After awhile Kiera headed to bed and Bianca and I stayed up watching Britannia High....till 3 in the morning :p

Sunday we all got up and Kiera headed out for a wander and B and i wandered down to woolworths and got some bread and cheese and headed back home to make cheese sandwhiches which we proceeded to make and eat whilst watching Brit High. so our day continued along those lines till we had to go meet Ally at southern cross, so we went and got her and headed back to the apartment where we continued to hang out. i unfortunatly had to head home, so i said my farewells and began my not-so-long-but-very-lonely walk back to southern cross where i was to get my train and go back to face reality. On my way back though i randomly bumped into my mate Brad who i havent seen in ages!!! it was so good to see him again, even if it was only for a few minutes =D

i love when random stuff like that happens, it always makes me smile!
this blog is way longer than i expected, which i guess is a good thing, but i better wind it up before it gets too long (if its not already :S)
thanks for reading
xoxo