Music & Movies

Yes, I can't wait until that comes out!

And has anyone seen the new Bridget Jones movie? Any film in which Colin Firth gets wet is a good film in my eyes. Not as good as the famous wet shirt scene in Pride and Prejudice but I'm not complaining.

hey, they are fun, at least the one we had in California was. I went with different groups of friends each time and it was always a good time. It's not like your going to get rollercoasters and cotton candy so you might need to lower your expectations a bit but all in all it's cool.

Ren fairs are fun if you slow your inner pace down and really get into it (like in character/costume yourself, not just as a spectator/tourist type thing). When you see someone performing and start to leave, they notice.

But the last time I went to one, some friends of mine got decent, original poetry written about them and them *alone* for just a few bucks.

Has anyone heard of Winston Churchill: The Hollywood years? Looks very good, Christian Slater, Vic Reeves... I saw a clip of it and it looks like a really good parody.

emm_oh_you_es_e: There is a big difference between a California Ren. fair and one in Pennsylvania. In California, you have civilized people that are good actors, and here you have a bunch of rednecks and hippies trying to act.

lol, sorry about that

Hmm, I don't think we have anything like those this side of the pond, although there's a place called Kentwell Hall, which is permanently in a Tudor timezone, mainly for schoolkids. You have to dress up and perform something (a piece of Renaissance/Baroque music, or a poem or something in that style) to get in, and stay in character. I wrote a hilarious satirical piece about Henry VIII and his various diseases (making wild suppositions as to how he may have caught them, of course) but I don't think they were too impressed. Apparantly, not many 8-year-olds know the meaning of 'syphilis'.

Hey ive been there! We didnt have to do any performances, but we did dress up, they made us do the washing, the cooking etc
Highlight of the day was doing skipping with the whole year group and one very large skipping rope

Butterfly Dream I'll do that. My college does have a theater department but it is on a different campus. It's only ten minutes drive (if you're a motorbike mentalist LOL) but I'll check it out see what they got.
Oh and with Ren fairs my mate is a member of one of these historical battle re-enactment groups. They have loads of poetry and stuff from the periods they are re enacting.

haha
Laydee: that is funny and reminded me of the time a friend and I put together a epic poem and worked w/ some musicians to create a 2 hr. performance. It was put together as a benefit for a local middle school, but was billed as "MATURE AUIDENCES ONLY" due to the profanity, and at parts descriptively sexualy themed content. I really dont think anyone else besides me and him found that really funny.

Lol, it's funny how sometimes other people don't see the humour in things that make you howl with laughter.

I was always one of those annoying, show-off kids that was always putting on plays and singing and stuff. I remember we had a French exchange kid for a couple of weeks when I was 6 or 7. I decided to write a play completely in French to entertain him. However, at the time, I only knew two words of French: 'bonjour' and 'arbre' (tree), so my friend and I performed this 30 minute play using only those words and a lot of frantic miming. The poor boy was very bemused...

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