Beda April 22: Scattered

My cat is being annoying today. Every chance she gets she is upstairs in my room. Normally I don’t mind but she keeps trying to get into my food when I’m eating or sit on my lap while I’m trying to type, or suck on my fingers while I’m trying to type, or curling up against my computer and reaching out her paws and yanking on keys with her nails while pressing all sorts of things and changing settings. I hate it when she does that. I know she’s just trying to hang out and be adorable but I really hate it when she turns off my computer when I’m in the middle of something.
Still sick but things are looking up.
Are any of you guys into Broadway? I have been very into Broadway ever since my senior year of high school. I don’t know a whole ton about it I just know the shows that I’m into which isn’t a lot but I love them and am super loyal to them, oh and not all of them are technically Broadway some are off Broadway…but that’s not really the point. The point is that I wanted to talk about American Idiot. I have never seen this show but I’ve known about it for it feels like years now, ever since they said that they were doing something like a two week trial in California. I desperately want to see this show. Especially since I found out that it has John Gallagher Jr. in it who I’ve loved since before I knew who he was. (Thank you Spring Awakening for letting me know who a ton of my new favorite actors are.) I bought the version of 21 Guns that the cast did with Green Day and I freaking love it and have been waiting for the whole soundtrack to come out. It came out on Tuesday, I can’t afford to buy it right now since (ironically?) I spent my last twenty bucks on my Green Day ticket, I did however find a way to get my hands (or my ears really) on a copy yesterday. I’ve been listening to it all day and I think that I have an opinion now. As I would hope you know I love Green Day and as you may not know I have strong opinions about them (for example don’t get me started on the Wake Me up When September Ends video.) My opinion on this soundtrack is that I like it. It took a while to get used to hearing the songs that I know practically backwards sung differently…I’m still getting used to that, but having the understanding that this has to be something different from what I know otherwise of course it would just be a Green Day concert with a plot…which would be awesome but that’s not what this is. That helps. The whole thing starts with American Idiot just as we know it except with different singers which kind of puts you in a weird vibe like “is this some sort of alternate reality” or something but as other songs go on they introduce strings and whatnot which helps to put you more in the “this is a musical” state of mind it sort or is an alternate reality but it’s one that doesn’t suck, the strings help to make the songs just different enough from the originals that it doesn’t sound like karaoke. They also have a couple new songs which I’m not sure I like yet, because they have sort of backing tracks that I swear are from other songs so it sounds like the singer is just singing the wrong lyrics but I suppose I’ll get used to that, there are only two of those and one of them they have actual Green Day singing at the end so hopefully I’ll get used to hearing that and then get used to the musical version, those songs also aren’t really my favorites, they sound like they belong on the b-side of a single maybe, they just have a quality that I’m not sure fits with the show but as I’ve said I haven’t seen the show so maybe in context they will be wonderful but with the flow of the soundtrack they sound out of place. Something else I have to point out that I really like is that they did a mash up of Last of the American Girls and She’s a Rebel and I just really like they way they did that.
I think that’s all I had to say about that. Slightly different topic…but not really. I freaking loved Glee on Tuesday! (Oh side note I spoil things like crazy when I talk about them so if you don’t want to be spoiled on things just don’t read anything I write ever, I would think that you would have already watched Glee if you care about it and therefore this won’t have spoilers but I’m really more just warning you for future reference, I like spoilers and I forget that other people don’t sorry.) I did have to watch Like a Virgin with my mom which was a little awkward but I had a chair between me and her and I couldn’t see her reaction and I really hope that she was more interested in the puppy then what was going on on TV. I have to say, I’m kinda in love with Jonathan Groff, he was so creepy awesome in that library scene and then asking about the care bear, I love it, I know he was kind of a jerk for pressuring Rachel but come on him asking her to come out of the bathroom so that they could talk about it, or at least sing about it. That was awesome. I can’t think of anything I have ever seen him in that I didn’t love him. One thing I’m wondering about though is how come whenever anyone sings Like a Prayer there is always a black choir in full robes just waiting to sing? They live in Ohio it’s just a little unrealistic (I know the whole thing is a little unrealistic but everyone has their limits. Funny story about that later) I did love their version of Like a Prayer though. I actually love that song it was the first Madonna song I ever heard, my friend Catie introduced it to me, she had a whole dance worked out for it that we would do and we listened to it a lot so I have history with that song. Back to Glee, I want to know what sort of health coverage those teachers are getting cause seriously they have counseling covered and the people will come to you and work with whatever you need, where can I get that? Where can anyone get that really? Those people in LA need to do a little bit of Ohio research. I think they forget sometimes that they aren’t in California…although I did appreciate in the episode when Finn tells Quinn’s parents that she’s pregnant that he called it pop so at least they got that right.
Okay off topic story about the suspension of disbelief. My dad is big on history particularly military history. Once he was watching this movie on the Sci Fi channel about I think WWII except there were dinosaurs. Everything seemed to be going fine in the movie (well as fine as it can go in a movie about WWII with dinosaurs) then they had a shot of the interior of a plane and my dad took one look at that and got all disgusted that they had gotten the control panels all wrong. So I guess dinosaurs flying around during WWII is no big deal but a messed up control panel is just completely unbelievable.
Anyway I should go and like try to heal or something to here ends today’s blog.