Wishes can bring problems such that you regret them

I MAY HAVE SPOKEN TOO SOON THE OTHER DAY. AAAARRGH THE WORLD WILL END.

You remember when I was ranting about the ADVERT OF WRONG that is Gene Kelly breakdancing to Singin' In The Rain?? Remember how I said "At least no one's done anything like that to The Wizard of Oz or tried to remake it"?

This time they've gone too far...

I love the Muppets. Honestly, I do. I'm very happy with them for Christmas Carol, ECSTATIC with them for Muppet Treasure Island, and head over heels in love with them for their involvement in Labyrinth. But THE MUPPETS DOING WIZARD OF OZ?!?!?!

WITH ASHANTI AS DOROTHY AND QUEEN LATIFAH AS AUNTY EM????

Judy is spinning in her grave, poor love.
*mopes and mourns*


This is clearly karma trying to teach me that no good will come of searching through the IMDB to perve over pictures of Tim Curry. *hides head in shame*

Gacked from mystic_horizons
Name Meanings!

Catherine - Pure


Name Origin: Greek
Number of Syllables: 3.00
Gender: Female

More interesting facts about the name Catherine:

Lucky Number: 2
Ruling Planet: The Moon
Element: Water
Primary Color: Orange
Traits: Sensitive, domestic. Tends to be emotional and easily influenced to tears. Has a fertile imagination. Very fond of the home. Patriotic. Accepts changes in surroundings. Prefers to live near the water. Often possesses musical talents and would make a very good psychic.

*squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees*
Okay yes it's mis-spelt but that's only cos no one accepts the amazingness of spelling my name Cathryn. Clearly superior. *giggles*

First thing's first:

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Claudia today decided that the lovely Chris Quinn may as well be a woman "'Cos he's pretty and has girly hair". This amused me. For those that care, he's the one that was standing next to me in the Gasping promo pic. *pets him*

We spent today searching for Japanese beer [an exciting adventure in a very cold Oxford town] ready for tomorrow evening's sushi night. *cheers* We need more Japanese beer though so we shall have to go and get some more in a bit, for now we are eating Chinese, toast and honey and rejoicing in the goodness that is Clue.

"Life after death is as improbable as sex after marriage" *grins* I love Madeline Kahn. *sighs and pets her in this film*

Chris came up yesterday. Yay. It was lovely. First time we've seen each other since the beginning of December. A little under 24 hours really wasn't enough, but at least it was some time.

I got my Christmas present - Bearclaw slippers [because I am AMAZING and COOL and Chris is a loser] and a VDay present of a MAGIC TREE!!!! HOW AMAZING?!?!?!?!?!?!?! It's so childish, so purile and so very very us. It's making me happy as I sit here watching it grow. You know the kind, made of cardboard and you put 'special liquid' on it and it grows fluff in a matter of hours.

Lord bless Habitat for their magic trees.

I have to go buy a vase for my bouquet tomorrow morning. Poor flowers, they arrived on Monday but the office didn't let me know until Tuesday morning and since then they've been in the cellophane and box in my room. But they seem happy and tomorrow they'll get to take pride of place on my desk. Next to my magic tree.

Whorehouse cast list gets announced tonight. Neither fahara or I are going to FPs tonight though so littlerosyposy will be the first to find out if any of us got anything. Tra la la. Right. I'm going to eat some chocolate spread and mope at my lack of Chris and work out when I can get away to Cardiff.

Scary realisation - in 27 days I'll no longer be a teenager.

*hides from the world*

My body is rebelling.

Firstly I have the THROAT OF DEATH. I suspect this is brought on by smoking on Saturday night harcore belty singing at Fortune Players last night.

Emma, Rosie and I stole the tune line for Killer Queen [We Will Rock You version that does silly things like change "Let them eat cake, she said, just like Marie-Antoinette" to "Let them eat cake, she said, find me on the internet" but who am I to argue with Ben Elton? Yummy man wrote Kirsten for me. Well not for me but shhhhh it's early in the morning and I'm rabbitting]. It's technically a chorus number but now it's more sort of "MUJAH you will sing backing for us, you munchkins of doom".

Did I mention it's early as all fuck and I'm slightly delirious due to the pain in my throat?

I'm singing Gimme Gimme as a solo and if you don't know it, it's a very yummy belty song from Thoroughly Modern Millie. And I ♥ it.

Also doing loooooooovely three part harmony with Julia and Hannah on I Wish I May from Witches of Eastwick. Inexplicably, yours truly managed to get the top harmony line despite the fact that I'm not the soprano out of the group, but whatever, it's fun.

So yes. Hardcore singing has given me the throat of death. It's punishment for briefly abandoning musical theatre to do OMG 'straight' acting.

Just a quick update to say two things.

1) A brand new welcome to suckandblowelf otherwise known as the lovely Claudia who was the stage manager for Gasping! I have spent today with her doing the get-out and cooking us a steak dinner [we kept salivating at the thought and it had to be done....*so* proud of myself cos it's the first time I've EVER cooked steak] and now prodded her into the LJ world.

2) Happy Day-That-Should-Not-Be-Mentioned to all of you. We don't need special days to let each other know we love one another, be it as friends or whatever, but let me reitterate to all of you on this day of commercialism [and I do realise I'm 20 minutes early] that I love you all very much indeed and am grateful for knowing you either just online or [OMG] in real life.

*cuddles and kisses a plenty*

2 nights down, one to go!

Last night's audience was excellent, lots of laughing in all the right places and *shocked-gasp* a double-bow!!!!

The down-side of this is Chris Quinn hammed up his death even more and has an ego that now needs to be caught and shot! *giggles* *loves on him as he gets me cheap yummy wine by being stunning*

So one night left. Sitting in the bar last night, Claudia-the-Suck-and-Blow-elf declared that she didn't want it to be over *giggles* ahhh how I love the predictible traditions of theatre. Not normally the tecchies that don't want it to end though!!

Sadly I have no one in the audience tonight. Chris can't come tonight cos he's still feverish and ill. :( Poor rabbit. His sister's gone to look after him last night so that makes me feel better for not being able to be there for him.

I had txts from Aaron about West End Orgy last night and so I need to pick a song to do. Apparently he'd like a belty number. My shortlist isn't great, I'm not in the mood for most songs cos they're overdone or mehy. Mind you, it'll probably be easier to cut my choice of 8 down to 1 when NDot looks at the sheet music and declares that he can/can't play certain piano parts because I'm mean and like songs with 5 flats or 5 sharps. *evil grin*

Right. Now I'm going to run away for breakfast! Perks of having one's mother here - she does yummy poached eggs :)

Gasping Review!

Not the best review ever, but at least my character got mentioned, which is more than Tasha's did.


It's a bit of a 'Ben Elton Bashing' review more than anything...also...Kirsten is not a lesbian! She's bi, goddammit!!! That's why she's talking to 'Anton' at the beginning of her scene.

Grrrrrrrr.

I have hunger and am in a very boring lecture, hence updating and searching for my review and stuff!

I need coffee.

Much caffeine.

Anyone has any spare coca-cola/proplus/coffee hanging around then I could use it!

Last night's dress rehearsal sucked like hell. It was attrocious.

*whimpers*

I'm still not actually nervous about tonight yet...more worried that I'll fuck up again as badly as I did yesterday.

I hope not though. I don't think el_merry_achi could cope with another 11.25pm phonecall from me whimpering and crying about whether I'm making a mistake with my life and whether I've wasted the last 15 years doing crap.

*runs away from the world*

I am kitten. Hear me mewl.

Just a quick update on my non-life before I head off to the dress rehearal.

I am tired. Quelle surprise. Had very yummy pancakes last night with fahara and littlerosyposy which saved me from attempting my own and burning the house down. However, I'll be burning down the kitchen when el_merry_achi comes up to see Gasping because he didn't get any pancakes yesterday, poor love.

*yawns at you all*
I'm still feeling worryingly calm about Gasping. I don't like it...I should be worried by now. Bah.

Just got emailed this by my lovely friend Vickie.
An alternative set of lyrics for that well known song...

( I WILL SURVIVE............ )

Right, I'm going to catch up on all the sleep I've been missing for a bit before I decide to go and try my hand at savoury pancakes! Happy Pancake Day! w00t!

Yesterday was 'day off from Gasping'. So what did Kat do?

She stayed at the Drama Studio from 11am until 12.30am painting and making props and sweeping and helping with the get in. Kat clearly has no sense of selfpreservation or her own welfare.

I covered myself in paint, always fun, and helped make the beautiful prototype Suck and Blow machine.

We all had Domino's pizza for lunch, yay us. That sated one of the food cravings I've had recently!!

At 6 I had to dash off and do Whorehouse auditions. At 7.50, I was finally doing my audition. Which was short and crap and badly run. [For that read, Kat sang 'You Can Always Count On Me' unaccompanied from the middle eight to the end, and then had to do Improv. Grr. Nicely narcissistic improv though. I had to give my case to the courts in my defence to prevent myself being jailed for streaking.
My defence went like this "Firstly, I'd just got out the bath to open the door to sign for a parcel from the postman. A dog ran past and stole my towel. What was I supposed to do? I had to chase the towel and the dog. Plus. Look at these legs. 44 inches from toe to hip, the world NEEDS to see these legs, it would be heresy to keep them from public view". Yes. My legs and I have a love affair at the moment.] Hey-ho!

Then back to the Drama Studio to help Nik focus the lights. And have Chinese. *grins* Yummy. So that was food craving number two sated! Two in one day, not bad, not bad at all.

And what's Kat doing today? Is it the work she has to do for her lecture tomorrow? No it is not.
It is, in fact, helping with Gasping all day and doing a tech tonight.

I'm really not going to make my lecture at 9 tomorrow, and I *have* to.

Ah well, it's production week. I have less of a life than normal, YAY!

There's such a sad love
Deep in your eyes
A kind of pale jewel
Opened and closed within you eyes
I'll place the sky
Within your eyes

There's such a fooled heart
Beating so fast
In search of new dreams
A love that will last
Within your heart
I'll place the moon
Within your heart

As the pain sweeps through
Makes no sense for you
Every thrill has gone
Wasn't too much fun at all
But I'll be there for you
As the world fall down

It's falling
It's falling down
Falling in love

I'll paint you mornings of gold
I'll spin you Valentine evenings
Though we're strangers till now
We're choosing a path
Between the stars
I'll lay my love
Between the stars

As the pain sweeps through
Makes no sense for you
Every thrill has gone
Wasn't too much fun at all
But I'll be there for you
As the world falls down

It's falling
As the world falls down
It's falling
It's falling
It's falling
It's falling
Falling in love
It's falling


Yes. That song sort of sums up the multitude of reasons for adoring Mr. David Bowie, lord and master of the omnipresent crotch *sighs*

Guess what. Listening to the Tertiary Phase when suffering a little from the effects of alcohol [Shhhhhhhhhhhh no one tell my director! Last night was supposed to be 'get an early night and relax' night. I was led astray by the assistant director and male lead *nods earnestly*] causes Kat to believe she has inspiration and an ability to write slashfic.

Not terribly wonderful slashfic but hopefully it'll stave off snakey's craving for the pairing and maybe, just maybe, stop the incessant requests for more of it for at least......ohh....six or seven minutes. *grins*


( Zareth/Japhod part 2! )

So Kat decided to try and murder one of her friends last night.
In fact she tried to drown her.

My poor laptop was the victim of a careless action otherwise known as 'making myself more comfortable in bed'.
What happened was just this:
Laptop on floor next to bed. Kat snuggled in bed. Glass of water on bedside table. Kat turns over to hibernate. Kat's duvet catches glass. Kat hears thud of glass on foor. Kat swears black and blue and flies out of bed and has to call boyfriend back. The end. It's a mini adventure.

But she seems to be okay...*cuddles her* I think most of the water missed her and got the floor, and what little did get her, I mopped up immediately. And so, I feel that to make up for trying to end her days of service and beauty, she needs a name. So many of you lot have names for your computers, sarahofthedead has Gatsby [who is, by all accounts, the most beautiful computer in existence], pinkcolumbine has Lucinda, etc. etc. and I think my little beauty needs a name.

And so. Through boredom and procrastination of 'getting ready to go to a lecture', we bring you today's poll. Choose wisely, my friends, the fate of my little laptop rests in your paws.


Poll #430317 A rose by any other name...
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 18

What shall I call my laptop to make up for drowning her?

Any other suggestions?

There's a good reason I don't go to bed at 9.30 even when I need to get up ridiculously early to haul my cookies across town for lectures. And that's because I wake up a little over an hour later feeling like I've been asleep for hours, have a heart attack that it's morning and I'm running later, and think I've missed two very important phone calls.

Now of course I'm awake and grumpy *giggles*

ALSO. I've re-evaluated my declaration of the world's MOST TERRIFYING ADVERT.

No longer do I agree with Sarah that it's the advert of the dead girl against a tree and that horribly childlike voiceover of "If you hit me at 40 miles an hour, there's an 80% chance I'll die" which is horrifying [unless you're a sick twisted fuck like my darling love and find it funny.....why am I dating him?].....but that has lost the crown of most terrifying.

For some reason when I go to describe this next advert I find myself thinking of Xander's lines in Once More With Feeling when describing Sweet's effect on the world - "disturbing, and not the natural order of things [and do you think it'll happen again?]".
This advert has shaken my perception of the world, and to be honest I feel quite...'violated' by this advert [not really the word I want to use, but it's the only one I can think of].
This is a really strong reaction and it's going to seem SO stupid when I finally get round to saying what the advertisement is...but...to go from being asleep to seeing this has confused me and left me feeling very hurt and almost betrayed by life.

Some car company has decided that to advertise its product...it needs to use the clip of Gene Kelly's fantastic, classic and infamous dance sequence from Singing In The Rain. Fine. But they've doctored it to make it 'more hip'. Gene Kelly [obviously via a merged body double] now break dances his way through the song.

You're now all sitting there staring at the screen [if you've even bothered to stay with my rant this long] going "What? That's what Kat's going on about? Some stupid bit from a musical?" but I love that sequence. It's part of my youth, I grew up with Gene Kelly playing in puddles and to see someone now do *that* to it...Well it'd be like someone taking Mrs. Moss [my cuddly rabbit] and piercing her nose and putting her in a dominatrix outfit. [If any of you try it, you'll lose limbs].

I swear if anyone EVER does anything like that to the Somewhere Over the Rainbow sequence from The Wizard of Oz someone wil die. Infact, the entire advertising agency responsible would die. It's bad enough that other people do covers of it. Bad ones. All of them. *hisses at anyone who ever makes the mistake of covering the glory that is Judy Garland*

♥ Have two 9am lectures two days running
♥ Have these lectures at the campus that's over 45 minutes bus ride away [+ a 15 minute or so walk]
♥ Have lectures where she knows NO ONE else in the class
♥ Have to do group coursework for all these modules
♥ Eat an entire cheesecake to make herself feel better
♥ Go to bed before 9.30pm


Yes that's right! The category you were guessing is THINGS KAT DOESN'T NEED TO DO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Which just about sums that up.