Random Rants

OMG>>> Yesterday's piccies of the parade turned out very very very sucky... Why? Because I used the wrong perspective for my digi cam... Everything was taken using the close up mood!!! Crap. That really really sucked. All the fireworks and the spotlights - all taken but all appeared very very blur. I'm not even in the mood to post the piccies here... :(

But I did find something awesome today though... A superb video of Wicked of the tour cast with Stephanie J. Block (Elphaba) and Kendra Kassebaum (Galinda/Glinda) while lurking at the Wicked forum @ http://www.unexamined-life.com . Superb superb video. It shows Stephanie defying gravity with her broom and Kendra singing Popular - Luv luv Stephanie but totally hate Kendra's voice. Totally wrong for Glinda - her upper register is very very weak. And her attempt to reach the soprano notes were really really bad... Very very thin. She is bloody funny though... Her lines for Popular for example, "Instead of dreary who-you-were... well, are / There's nothing that can stop you / From becoming popu-ler ... lar!" are totally hilarious - her head shaking after making a 'bad' rhyme was so incredibly cute! She does that a lot in the show plus a lot of hair and skirt-swishing to emphasize the bimbotic side of Glinda. She is so superbly funny and cute but Glinda is not her voice-type character... :P Download the vid here.

This just makes me want to see Wicked on Broadway even more!!! The question is whether there will be tix for me and my buddy to see it or not!!! News is that Wicked is sold out for the whole of this season and next. We'll see but I think I'll just positively die if I don't watch this show!!! :P Plus Phantom!! :P

Last bit: 1 more rehearsal left for NDP this Saturday on 060805 and then... The real thing on 090805! :) Very very excited. The hype around this year's NDP is really really good! :) I'm seeing posters everywhere and the advertisements are on on the telly every what 10 minutes or something? At least they didn't overplay the Rui En and Taufik song unlike in McDonald's. I couldn't survive studying in Mac's now... They replay that song every 2-3 minutes or something... Incessantly! :P

Anyway, that's all from me for now. :) Till next...