Mi vida loca, plus a Snapefic update

[fire_everything]

I feel a bit of a churl. For the last month I’ve had just enough spare time and energy to read f-listy posts as they went by, but not enough for the back-and-forth of commenting. This despite the fact that several of you were undergoing crises of fandom identity, making declarations of sexual identity, and posting delightful updates about your

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[kellychambliss]

Oh, god, yes -- a Snape novel? That promises to be well-written? Of course I'm willing to wait for this WIP to P. Bring it on

[fire_everything]

*singing* I get OUT HERE! Buenos Aires! Stand back! You oughta know what you’re gonna get in me…

Sorry, couldn’t restrain myself there. It must have been such fun to do Evita! I can’t remember - does Mrs. Duarte have any solo singing parts? Anyway, you at least got to sing that one song where the all classy people go, “Tart, you better go wait on me at Harrods!,” right?

Oh, I’m glad to hear about the bike. :) So what if it’s a little dinged up? It’s the best bike in the WHOLE WORLD, you know. Everyone wants it! (Especially Dudley Dursley Francis Buxton!) And if you can’t whinge on LJ when things are whingeworthy, then what the hell is it there for?

Heh. I also have a copy of The Things They Carried which I’ve never read! Though that one I’ve owned for only seven or eight years

[kellychambliss]

Lovely -- an "Evita" fan. I had a blast being in that show. There's a LOT for a chorus member to do; I was on stage at least half the running time of the show, maybe more. Being an "aristocrat" was great -- not only did I have a wonderful costume (plumy hat, lorgnette), but the lyrics, as you say, are really enjoyable:

Such a shame she wandered into our enclosure;
How unfortunate this person has forced us to be blunt
No, we wouldn't mind seeing her at Harrod's
But behind the jewelry counter, not in front

Mrs. D doesn't have any actual solo lines, but "Eva's family" gets several nice, threatening bits in the "Eva, Beware of the City" number:

She really brightened up your out-of-town engagement;
She gave you all she had, she wasn't in your contract;
You must be quite relieved that no-one's told the papers. . .so far!

But I (as a chorus member, not Eva's mother) had two (count 'em, two!) solo lines in "Rainbow Tour."

Now I'm wishing I could do this show again.

[fire_everything]

Oh, yeah! I love the army's part in that song, too. "If it's her that's using him/He's exceptionally dim/Bitch!" I love how adult and illusion-free the lyrics are throughout the show, and how cleverly they skewer all the major characters.

Your comments inspired me to put the soundtrack on yesterday for the first time in several years (the Madonna version, 'cause I'm a person of low culture and have barely been exposed to Patti LuPone). After all, I can count this show as part of my ridiculous gringa crash course in Latin American history and culture, right? I looked up the Spanish lyrics in "Buenos Aires," and figured out for the first time that "Florida! Corrientes, Nueve de Julio" are all major streets in B.A. Never say that show tunes are not educational!

[drinkingcocoa]

Yes. I want to read a Snapey novel.

The grant-writing stuff, though on hold until I KILL MY MESSY HOUSE into order, is still very much on my mind and not (NOT, I repeat) destined to rot in my mental queue.

My girls take a bow in your direction. :-)

Thank you so much for your update, especially about your CLASSES!

I already wasn't going to see the Eat Pray Love movie, but maybe I should send you $6.50 for reminding me what I was able to escape....

[fire_everything]

Hope I didn’t put you on the spot or induce any guilt by mentioning the grantwriting thing! I just found it ironic that I myself was suddenly in need of the same information I’d offered you; it seemed to me that the universe was giving me a gentle takedown for acting like I know more about proposals than I really do. (It’s only rarely fallen to me to read them in the past, but that’s about to change.) Anyway, I agree with the sequencing of your fall agenda. From the mess-death can spring the job part and other good things. Avada Kedavra the mess! (By inches or milimeters if necessary, and without feeling guilty if it takes longer than expected).

There are some really good supporting actors in Eat Pray Love. Javier Bardem brought soul to his corner of the movie and was my favorite thing in it, although at the part where the mind-blowing Liz/Felipe sex was supposed to occur, we literally got a bedroom door shut coyly in our faces. I liked the people they got for Tulsi and Wayan (even though the movie Wayan was nothing like my own

[pennswoods]

Oh man. Your novel length Snape fic sounds like exactly what I need right now.

[fire_everything]

I hope so, ‘cause I owe you Snapecasters a little somethin’ in return for the many hours of Snape-based sustenance you’ve provided me with!

[stupid_drawings]

That's ok. Just knowing it was read and accepted makes it worth it.

[fire_everything]

As a lifelong sexual malcontent, I not only accept you, I join hands with you! I support anybody who refuses to pretend that they’re having fun (sexually or otherwise) when they’re not. It’s a necessary step on the road to actually HAVING fun.

And BTW? You unquestionably have McGregor Face, and it is most definitely a good thing.

[stupid_drawings]

What a lovely comment! Thank you, I'd be honored to have McGregor face, and I definitely have fun!

[shyfoxling]

And yes, of course Snape gets laid. What do you take me for?

A person with their head on the right way round?