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Uni still being a bunch of slavers. I'm still tired. Schedule still killing (but pretty awesome).

Our anatomy teacher scared the beejesus out of us by pulling some dissected arm out of a bag and going "OH HAI, look at how this arm twists! *rotates* AND LOOK, here's a plastinated head, I did it my self *waves*".
It's not like I can't handle it, I just wish he wouldn't surprise us like that.
Less than a week, people. And we get to dissect... *bounces*

Yesterday I had the strangest feeling. I realised that I really missed doing Shakespeare with my English class (Medicines is fun and all, but I miss things like English and History). So, I dunno, I might watch a Shakespeare movie? Henry IV? Othello? I already saw two versions of Romeo and Juliet (and both like five times, the Zeffirelli and the Luhrmann one. I heart them) so I'll skip that one.

And people talking about Mad Men convinced me I should watch. But that's when I have time again.

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Mad Men is rocksome. Chocked full of social realism and cool period costume!

How about Henry V with lil Kenny Brannagh's cute lil speech? Have you seen Al Pacino's Merchant of Venice? I for one really liked it. Or Julie Taymor's Titus, that's a trip. Which Othello do you gots?

In uni I spent three quarters of my entire life in the science buildings, I really got to missing English and such too. Senior year I (FINALLY) had some electives to spare so I took some literature-ish classes, it was nice :D

I love period costume! (And some social realism might be nice, I've been watching too much cracky shows) And the redhead lady is pretty hot.

I've seen Merchant of Venice, I loved the "Hath not a Jew eyes" speech. Pacino delivered. Speeches like that make me love Shakespeare. Like Mercutio. God, I love Mercutio. And King Lear! So awesome. Branagh's Henry might be cool, I saw his Hamlet (And Gibson's Hamlet and Rozencranz and Guildenstern are dead) and I think he's pretty great. Maybe I should watch something crazy like Ian Mckellan's Richard III. Hmm.
I also heard some pretty cool things about Prince Hal in Henry IV, so that's the reason I want to see/read that one really. I love the way Shakespeare writes his young men.

I don't have any Othello, but it's the one tragedy I didn't really do in depth, so I feel like I should give it a shot. (We had to do Macbeth in English when we were fourteen. Seriously, the teacher killed me ded with his musical version XD)

Seriously, the teacher killed me ded with his musical version XD

I would have liked to have been killed ded by this psychotic teacher! :P

I love that Richard III! It was awesome, I don't mind radical interpretations as long as they're done well. If you like that check out Taymor's Titus, it's even more crazy.

Hahah Mercutio, he is one of the more captivating characters from R+J (hahaha don't lie, you so thought "Rhaegar + Jon" for a minute). What is it you like about Shakespeare's young men? I've never given that much thought (we never studied Shakespeare all that much in depth so I'm kind of clueless on the finer points -- but OMG musical Macbeth, too awesome!).

I have never seen or read Henry IV :(

Redheaded lady from Mad Men was also on a few episodes of Firefly, and yeah she is smokin'. Nothing wrong with crack though, everything has its place :P

He was so serious about it! He made a musical with twenty songs. He sang like half of them and he made some upper years sing the rest. I should try and dig up the cd he gave us.

But that was nothing compared to his Animal Farm musical (again, all by him). Thanks to him I got to see my little brother play a singing dying old pig. *sniff* It was so beautiful.

It's not that Shakespeare's young men stand out amongst his other characters (His other characters are awesome too, look at Lady Macbeth or Lear). It's that they stand out amongst other young men. In Romeo and Juliet I was so captivated by the way his youths talk. I don't know, they really radiate that youthful quality. And there's always so much passion (Hai there, Edmund the Bastard). That's why I love Zeffirelli's R+J (hehe, I sort of did XD) because the characters are actually played by teens, and they're so good at it! And Mercutio is the prime example. The way he talks, full of those metaphors and a sort of underlying cynicism (His queen Mab speech) and his outgoingness. It's amazing how a playwright from the 16th century can write such enduring characters. These characters still work (I remember, I could do Romeo's angry tirade after Mercutio died by heart: "And fire-eyed fury be my conduct now!" )

Haha, like I told deeplyunhip, I might dig up the CD, it was pretty epic for a 70 year old English teacher. :D

Ahh I see, yes that's true he's good at those knights of summer :P

I had a 70 year old teacher who sang to us on his guitar about biochemistry, alas no CD.

Oh man, I love this dude even more. I would steal candy from children in order to be in a musical version of Animal Farm (*especially* if I mysteriously got to play ~~Eeeyore~~ Benjamin!)

Haha, my brother's friend played Benjamin, with droopy ears and all. And his other friend was fabulous as le Coq. No seriously, he played him like Gilderoy Lockhart ("You want ze autograph? Voila!"). And now I leaving out scrawny Moses, Molly and Boxer (the ladyhorses fancied him allright). Their songs were awesome. But it's still not as good as my little brother playing old Major ("*cough cough* *supported by nurses* Let's all sing a song").

Yeah, it totally rocked. And I'm saying this as a trying-to-be-totally-uninterested older sister.

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