Whoa, Hey, What , whodatohmygosh IT'S ME!!! DANIEL! I'M ALIVE!!!!!!!! Seriously! ME! DANIEL! Ok, so we've gotten the point across, right? It's me, Daniel. And I'm alive.
What have I been doing lately? Well, I was in the school musical at North Layton. That's why I've not posted here in a while, and for that you have my sincere apoligivites. But the show, Man it was AWESOME! And most of that awesomeness was supplied by the awesome people who made the play awesome.
But let's backtrack it a little bit. The play was called "Once On This Island", twas basically a Caribbean retelling of the original Little Mermaid story but with Rich people and Peasants instead of people and creepy sea people. It takes place on an Island where rivers run deep, where the sea sparkling in the sun earns the name "Jewel of the Antilles", an Island where the poorest of the peasants labor, and the wealthiest of the Grand-Hommes play. You see, there are two different worlds on one island. The Grand-Hommes, owners of the land, and masters of their own fate, And the Peasants, eternally at the mercy of the wind and the sea, who pray constantly... To the gods! Asaka, Mother of the earth, Agwe, God of Water, Erzulie, Beautiful goddess of love, and Papa Ge (yes, it's pronounced the way you think it is...) sly demon of death! This peasant girl who was saved by the gods from a storm falls in love with a rich french guy, and she sells her soul to Papa Ge to keep him alive after Richm'n crashes into a tree somehow. Her love, Named Daniel, is taken back to his rich whateverland and she goes to find him there, where she discovers that he's engaged to some french girl named Andrea. Her heart is broken, and she waits for her love outside of the gates until he is married. He pretty much ignores her, so she dies somehow and the gods turn her into... A TREE! A friggin' tree. Cue big dance number and emotional "entire cast gathers 'round the campfire and sings" thing. Good times had by all, greatest time of my life.
So that was basically the intro to the play. I played Agwe (one of the lead parts), and I got my own song and everything. Which is surprising considering the only reason I tried out was because my friends Bailey, Isaac, Grant and Blake did. Bailey ended up doing a Friggin' awesome job as Andrea and Isaac had two lines as French Gossiper #2, Grant was a storyteller and Blake was Isaac's peasant soulmate, Peasant #2.Which was equally as awesome. Great job guys. Anyway, this whole post so far has been leading up to this awesome sentence that will change all of our lives forever:I'm making a documentary.
"Whoa, did he just say that? My life is forever changed!"
So yeah, I filmed a lot of the rehearsals and stuff, totalling at about 3 and a half hours of footage. I'm gonna start editing it together and making it into the greatest documentary ever! Who wants to help me? Anybody?
Fine. Losers. I'll make my own best film ever.
Anyway, other than that, I'm still just being awesome. Oh, check this out.
Yes. Just... Yes.Man, I spent a ton of time on that Once on this Island summary...
Oh, how Awesome is "Moulin Rouge!"? I just watched it for the first time in a long time a few days ago, I never really realized how awesomely hyperactive it is. It's like the film editor had really bad ADD when he put it together. So cool. And the soundtrack is awesome too, I love how they start singing "Smells like Teen Spirit" in the middle of some big show tune type dealio. And that's awl ah have t'say 'bout that.
I bought The Silversun Pickups' new album, Swoon. Good stuff! I enjoy it about as much as I like their first album, it's every bit as Siamese Dream-ish as Carnavas. Get dat.
I'm really excited for X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which comes out tomorrow. It looks to be a kick-awesome film indeed.
I'm also REALLY looking forward to... wait for it... Wait for it... Star Trek!
I think it was a GENIUS idea to bring this kinda-dying franchise back to life with an Origin story and young cast for Kirk, Spock, Scotty and the original crew of the good ol' USS Enterprise. Ok, I sound like a trekkie, but I swear I'm not. I've only ever seen a few episodes of the original show and The Next Generation. And Star Trek IV.
Whales!
Live long and prosper, whales. You're my favorite aquatic mammals.
And with that, my glorious return to the bloggish realm is here. Here's the Shatman.
And just for fun, Elton John. Who's going on tour again with Billy Joel. I gotta see that. Way to scare the crap outta me, Elton. I think it's gonna be a long, long time before I get that image out of my head...
