This is our revenge for Ning taking away our nine networks. The one that hurt the most was the Putty Network, where we were going to expand upon the Necroputtycon, aka the Way of the Paw. Back to Show Tunes for Pagans. As I said in the description, neither of us is gay, but we love musicals. Doc loved musicals, and he wasn’t gay, either. We’ve had a lot of fun with Stephen’s creation of Vaudeville Occultism. The next time you’re in deep conversation with your friends, and someone utters a catch phrase, burst into song. We tried it last night. It’s not from a musical, but it worked. “Stop in the name of food, before I get more lewd, think it o-o-o-ver, think it o-o-o-over.”
It’s really unfortunate that in many people’s minds that musicals are associated with homosexuality. It’s only true for men, if at all. Stephen hates that stereotype, as he hates all stereotypes. He likes to explode stereotypes through the use of humor, so this is where vaudeville occultism comes in. Doc was very heterosexual, and extremely secure about his sexuality, and he loved musicals. We watched many musical movies together. Of course, my being female and when encouraged, of a rather romantic turn of mind, I loved musicals. A lot of this post has to do with Vaudeville Occultism. We’re old enough to remember the great musicals; Oklahoma, South Pacific, Flower Drum Song, My Fair Lady, Camelot, Carousel, The Music Man, Kiss Me Kate, Kismet, West Side Story, Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Hair, and The Sound of Music. We also like some later shows such as Rent, Cats, The Phantom of the Opera, and Wicked. My current favorite is The Phantom of the Opera. Doc liked it too. I found it to be very romantic in a dark way. Doc too was very romantic in his dark, droll way. Which musical is your favorite?
We’ve had a lot of fun with Stephen’s creation of vaudeville occultism. Next time you’re deep in conversation with someone, and they utter a catch phrase, burst into song. “Stop in the name of food, before I get real lewd, think it o-o-over, think it o-o-ver.” “Every party needs a pooper, that’s why we invited you, party pooper, party pooper. “
A report just came in, Carol’s putty does 100th putty. She uses her paws to swipe one piece of food out of her bowl then eats it. We have reached critical mass, and 100th putty has reached all the way across the country.
What do Pagans do in ritual? “A candle in the wind.”
I was being interviewed by Stephen about musicals and show tunes, and said that I had loved show tunes and musical from the time I was a young girl, long before I knew about Paganism, and her started to sing the old Animals song “When I was Young.” Stephen’s favorite musical is the “Producers” because of the musical within a musical “Springtime for Hitler.” Carol’s favorite is “The Sound of Music.” Which is your favorite show tune? I have a lot of favorites. It all depends upon which mood I’m in. Currently it’s the “Music of the Night” from “Phantom of the Opera”.
Another good musical is “Grease”. John Travolta was in the stage production of “Grease”, but played the part of one of Danny’s friends, not Danny. But when they went to make the movie, they figured that John Travolta was a more bankable star. Ah, Hollywood politics. Jeff Conaway portrayed Danny in the Broadway production of “Grease.” By the way, Doc’s nickname for Olivia Newton-John was Olivia Neutron Bomb. Stephen just asked me which was my favorite performer in “Grease”, Athens or Sparta? Stockard Channing is our favorite performer in “Grease.”
“The Lion King, which was based upon the Disney film of the same name spent several years on Broadway, and is now touring the country. I suspected “Jesus Christ Superstar” and “Godspell” of being Jesoid musicals. You can get show tunes on Rhapsody and Pandora. I’m going to download “Phantom of the Opera,” “Cats”, and “Wicked” tomorrow.
Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber composed 13 shows, with several lyricists as his collaborators. One of them, Tim Rice, he used for several shows. These shows included two of my personal favorites; “Cats” and “Phantom of the Opera. Stephen also likes “Phantom of the Opera” for many of the same reasons Doc and I do. What do you think, folks? Should we include TV themes in this group? We think alike a lot. Every so often one or the other of us will say, “There’s an echo in here” because we’ll say something in chorus. Many times when we’re in the same room, our minds link up in weird ways. The reason I’m bringing it up now is that you may not have noticed it, but we often sing the same show tune at the same time. It’s crazy, especially since we didn’t arrange it this way, it just happens. “I dream of Libra with the black lace trim.” Carol has a friend named Libby, who is just as crazy as we are, and I made a Freudian teddy about her name, calling her Libra, and the black lace trim is about the teddy itself. Libby’s favorite musical is “Rocky Horror Picture Show”, and her favorite song/scene in the show is the one where they are eating Meatloaf. “What? Not Meatloaf again!”
Below are Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 13 shows:
The Likes of Us 1965 Aspects of Love 1989
Lyrics by Tim Rice Lyrics by Don Black and Charles Hart
Not shown until 2005
Sunset Boulevard 1993
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Book & Lyrics by Chris Hampton
Lyrics by Tim Rice Based on the 1950 Billy Wilder film
Jesus Christ Superstar 1970 Whistle Down the Wind 1996
Lyrics by Tim Rice Lyrics by Jim Steinman
Jeeves 1975 The Beautiful Game 2000
Revised as By Jeeves Lyrics by Ben Elton
Revised as Boys in the Photograph 2009
Evita 1976 Woman in White 2004
Lyrics by Tim Rice Lyrics by David Zippele
Tell Me on a Sunday 1979 Love Never Dies 2010
Lyrics by Don Black Lyricist?
Cats 1981
Lyrics by T.S. Eliot
Additional lyrics by Richard Stilgoe and Trevor Nunn
Song and Dance 1982
Lyrics by Don Black revised by Richard Maltby for Broadway
Combination of Variations 1978 and Tell Me on a Sunday1979
Starlight Express 1984
Lyrics by Tim Rice
1st performed for Queen Elizabeth’s 60th birthday
The Phantom of the Opera 1986
Lyrics by Charles Hart Additional Lyrics by Richard Stilgoe
Based on Gaston Leroux novel
Other musicals; (These are NOT by Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber)
La Cage Aux Folles, Jane Eyre, Wicked (Synopsis follows)
Mary Poppins, Blue Man Group, Young Frankenstein, 9 to 5,
Rock of Ages, The Lion King, Shrek the Musical, Dream Girls,
In the Heights, Billy Eliot, Jersey Boys
This is a chance for you to do some research. I did research on Wicked but you can do research too. Show tunes and musicals put you in a very serene meditative state.
Wicked Music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz. Book by Winnie Holzman. Based upon best selling novel by Gregory Maguire. The musical celebrates its 7th anniversary October 30th 2010. It is the 17th longest running Broadway musical having logged over 2870 performances since its premiere in San Francisco at the Curran Theatre in May 2003, and in the Gershwin Theatre on Broadway October 2010. It has spawned productions in Chicago, LA, London’s West End, San Francisco, Japan, Germany, and Australia. The tours have visited over 30 cities in both the US and Canada.
The show opens as Oz celebrates the death by melting of Elphaba the Wicked Witch of the West. Then there is the rest of the story, which is an extended flashback. Elphaba and Galinda were roommates back in college at Shiz University. Elphaba is discovered to have magickal talent which the headshiztress promises to introduce her to the Wizard. Prince Fiyero Tiggullon arrives and the two women become rivals for Fiyero’s affections. Elphaba gets an audience with the Wizard, and soon takes off for the Emerald City. While there, Elphaba gives the monkeys the power of flight and discovers that the Wizard lacks any powers of his own. She runs, taking the Grimmerie with her, the palace guards after her.
A few years have passed. Elphaba’s exploits have earned her the title wicked Witch of the West. Glinda and Morrible (the headshiztress) hold a press conference to announce Glinda’s engagement to Fiyero. Elphaba flees for refuge to the governor’s residenve. Her sister, Nessarose is now the governor. She castigates Elphaba for not helping her. Guiltstricken, Elphaba enchants Nessarose’s jeweled shoes so that she can walk. Nessarose miscasts a spell from the Grimmerie on Boq, causing his heart to shrink. Horrified, Nessarose lays the blame on Elphaba. The Wizard attempts to win Elphaba’s favor by agreeing to set the flying monkeys free. Upon encountering the now speechless Dr. Dillamond, she rejects the Wizard’s offer and attempts an escape but runs into Fiyero. Confirming his love for her, he runs off with her. They declare their love in a forest, but are interrupted when Elphaba senses that her sister is in danger. She flies off to help, but arrives too late, just as Glinda sends Dorothy and Totoalong the yellow Brick Road Firyero surrenders to the palace guards who take him to a cornfield to be tortured until he gives them Elphaba’s whereabouts. Elphaba attempts to save him, but thinking she has failed accepts her reputation.
There is a Witch Hunt. They go to Elphaba’s castle, where Dorothy throws the water on her, and she melts, leaving only her hat and her vial. Glinda, unsure what has happened, takes the vial to the Wizard, who reveals that he is Ephaba’s father have had an affair with her mother. Glinda tells Wizard to take off in the balloon and puts Morrible in prison. We return to the beginning scene of the show. Fiyero whom Elphaba had turned into the Scarecrow, opens the trapdoor in her castle, and Elphaba steps out very much alive. The two are happily reunited. Glinda addresses the people of Oz saying she would like to be known as Glinda the Good as she will reform the government . Elphaba and Fiyero leave Oz forever. [from Wikipedia]
Remember you can get the soundtracks for these musicals on Rhapsody.
My blog at both Blessed Be UK and Avalon was removed because I was asking for sorely needed money. Apparently, unless you are rich enough to afford one of their exorbitantly priced pro-memberships you can’t ask for money. If I were rich enough to afford a pro-membership, I wouldn’t need to ask for money would I? The owners and administration of both these sites discriminate against poor people. If you have a presence one either or both of these networks, please write a blog protesting this grossly unfair and prejudiced policy.
Vandals removed the bench from the bus shelter by the Extra Storage lot on Lawrence and Stockton Blvd. This happened at least 4 months ago. . Why are the Regional Transit people taking benches away from bus stops when they should be putting more in? It’s yet another way in which ordinary people are being shat upon just because they either aren’t rich enough to afford a car, or choose to take mass transit because they’re environmentally aware, or too old or blind to drive. Where are people supposed to sit whilst they wait for a bus that only comes when it feels like it? I’m lucky because when I start walking and taking the bus again I have my sporty red and black walker, which has a seat on it. So I have a chair wherever I go. I take my walker with me as a protest because I noticed early on that this town is notoriously short on places for people to sit either whilst walking to the shops or waiting for a bus that might or might not come. And now they’ve taken another one away.
We still need paid readings and donations. Send donations to my Paypal account tezra.reitan@gmail.com and to Stephen’s email account at any of his email addies. If I get $5 donations, I shall send the donor a copy of one of my ebooks. For $20, you can have all five ebooks. This past month, the month of August, was the worst on Keen in the 10 years since Stephen (Frog) has been on the service. He made -$25 on KEEN in August. He owes $2000 in rent, and I owe $1000. What does it take to get you to open your pocketbooks?
Back before my accident, Stephen was able to scrape $50 together to pay our friend to put our website together, and she’s working on it now. I’m looking forward to seeing it. It should be very impressive. Fear not, we’ll keep you abreast of all developments on this front. Abbott’s Inn International School of Magick will then be on the internet map, so to speak, in a big way. Stephen has a website through Yellow Book. www.abbottsinninternational.com is the link. The phone number is 1-888-611-7982. Call him sometime, and ask for a reading.
Stephen knuckled under and paid those greedy bastards at Ning.com to keep Abbottsinnian’s alive. The link is http://abbottsinn.ning.com/ . He suffered a mortifying experience on Saturday night at Foods Co. He hadn’t had time to call and get his balance, so he ran out of money and had to put everything back except the putty food. He blames the Republicans and Schwarzenegger. I blame the fact the he doesn’t say no when someone offers him a sales pitch. You folks aren’t doing your part. Not one of you has called for a reading or a class. Do you WANT us to starve to death? Do you want us to die? Have you all suddenly turned into Republicans? I think you have. I think you just don’t care.
We are currently looking for legitimate get rich quick schemes. The condition is that it can’t cost anything. We have no money. If you have one let us know.
We are desperately looking for a house mate. We would prefer a Pagan woman, but will accept a male if he puts the toilet seat down. We don’t want dogs but will accept another cat.
The bus stop sign from Stockton and Roosevelt was taken away, so I missed the first 51. We don’t have enough bus stops for them to take one away is unconscionable. I had to hobble almost 2 blocks to the next so I got to my appointment late. Instead of doing what they should be doing and adding more stops, they’re eliminating them.
Stephen’s had to do 10 system restores since he got his computer 2 ½ years ago. One of our dearest friends, who has a Gateway, and she is very happy with hers. She says that is definitely what Stephen should do when he gets his next computer.
Inquiring minds want to know: How do we add music to our sites? Please let us know. The person who helps us do that earns a reading on webcam on the popular IM clients. The person who helps us establish ourselves on the Paganspace.net chat client earns a reading. We’re using readings as currency here because we have no other medium to use for an incentive. All the money we make goes for paying the bills of bare-bones living.
We’re in survival mode here, subsistence living.
Stephen is hopping mad right now (appropriate for a frog, no?) because his ex-wife Debbie is taking one of the twins and giving her to a strange woman who lives at their complex. He has grown quite attached emotionally to both of them, and doesn’t like to see the pair split up. I was prepared emotionally a long time ago for this eventuality. I just don’t know why it took Debbie so long to do it. I suspect that she calculated it so as to cause the most hurt to Stephen. Yes, she is that cruel. She claims to be a Wiccan, but doesn’t abide by the Rede at all, and never has a good word to say about anyone. I try not to think about what she says about me, but I shudder at the emotional abuse she piles on their daughter. Stephen was so emotionally distraught that he broke a pair of his glasses accidentally right after she called. Debbie never lifted a hand to care for these animals from the day they were born. Until my accident, we took turns feeding them, then Stephen took it over. It was he who shelled out moneys for food and kitty litter. Debbie has never compensated him in any way for the expenses. She just demands money from him. It was I who arranged for the twins to get spayed. We thought we were getting Frikki back, but the woman is holding onto her.
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