Beware: The Chibis Have Taken Control!

OK. I'm full of way too much squee to make ANY kind of sense right now, but I at least wanted to update the tally. It's official... by the end of the Philly run, I'll have seen Hair exactly 30 times, 25 of those with the tour cast. -.-;;; Wow.

Movingonnow.

Apparently, Paris is sick. Though this week is his scheduled vacation, he was out the last week or so of the Toronto run and has apparently kind of blown out his voice. D: This horrifies me. Get better, Paris!! Even if I never see you in Hair, again (likely... oh, who am I kidding? Definitely.), I don't care... I just want you better. :( Losing your voice on the stage would be a tremendous loss. :(

And... I'm too tired and discombobulated for anything else.

( And the Hair tally continues... )
28) 1/5/12 evening -- Philadelphia, Academy of Music, Tour Cast -- OK, regular people in new parts, first. Ryan Link as Woof; Mike Evariste as Hud; Sara King as Sheila; Aleque Reid as Jeanie; Liz Baltes as Mom/Buddha; Will Blum as Dad/MM; Shaleah Adkisson now sings Cailin's "What a Piece of Work is Man" solo, Corey Bradly is in Mike Evariste's track (but I think sings Arbender's "Don't Put it Down" part), Laura Dreyfuss is in Cailin Rose's track (OMG *_*), Jamila Sabares-Klemm is in Sara King's track, Laura D'Andre is in Jen Sese's track and Gregory L. Williams is in Arbender Robinson's track. O_O Wow. Tonight's understudies: Marshal Kennedy Carolan is on for Claude all week except Sat. matinee; William Joseph Lewise was in Marshal's track... and holy shit, he looks just like Paris before Paris cut his hair. It was fuckin' me up something awful. O_O I kept looking up and going, "Paris--? No. Not Paris. *pout*" WEIRD.

Further thoughts some time tomorrow, because... dude, I'm too drained and yet full of squee to even think about a review tonight. Suffice it to say that overall, I'm happy. Very. ^_^ More on that at a later date. ^________________^

So... went to see Hair #9 in Hartford today with a friend from LI. ( And... we have a cut, because this became excessively babbly... as usual. You'd think I'd know better by now... *sigh* ) Anyway, we then went back to the car and drove over to the Elbow Room to meet zoicite and her friends for a wonderful dinner (they were going to the 8 o'clock show ^_^), then headed home. And my friend let me babble at her about Hair, the different casts, and Gavin Creel for three hours. That's how you know it's real friendship. ^_^

Then I got home and randomly churned out my first full Hair story since The Zorya. It was brought on by the Be-In scene -- specifically Josh's line as Claude's father, "My son doesn't like me... etc." -- and it's Pure. Smut. My G-d, it's as close as I'm ever going to get to a PWP. I guess once that wall comes crashing down, it crashes hard. O_O;;; And I've been promising them sex for a while. I'm actually happier with this one than I am with Nuriko and Tasuki's (Sorry guys! -.-;;;) but I think that's because I hooked into an imagery that I liked and was able to forgo a lot of the mechanics. *sweatdrop* In any case, I need to give it a good read-through before I post it, but it should go up sometime tomorrow unless I find something glaring.

Edit (4:21 AM): Ah! I remember when the kiss/almost kiss was! And it followed another scene I wanted to mention. I love what Paris and Steel do for Walking in Space. I've discussed it before. I noticed something new today. Gavin used to sit up to shotgun the joint to Will... Steel leans his entire body over Paris with one hand braced on Paris' chest to shotgun the joint to him while he's still laying on his back on the floor. *_* Then, when they sat up and Steel curled around Paris, that was when I thought I saw them kiss. But I was seeing it kind of from behind as I was to the left side of the stage, so now I'm not sure. :-P Still. LOVE THAT MOMENT.

OK, this time I really do think I'm done. O_o;;;

(And yes, I really did wake myself up out of a sound sleep from remembering that and actually pulled out my computer to type it up before I forgot. O_O I'm... gonna go back to sleep, now...)

*clears throat* So... I've been doing a lot of thinking lately. I've been out of work now for about 16 months and my life is wildly different from what it was when I first went out on disability. I no longer have my own apartment. I have a gorgeous niece whom I adore. I'm back in school to pursue a new career. I have lost almost 70 pounds. I have made new friends.

And it all started because of Hair.

Don't run away! Hear me out. I promise, this is not more Hair babble. Not really, anyway. ^_^ *coughs* ( As a compromise, I'll place the self-realization babble behind a cut. Fair? ) What it all boils down to (for those of you who skipped the cut ^_~) is this: All of my big talk about getting involved for the last year+... it was all just lip service. I hadn't really done anything. Just sat at my computer and signed petitions. I'd stifled my own voice because I was afraid to use it alone. Enter Hair again. Gavin Creel (the Broadway Revival's first Claude), recently reminded us all that AIDS Walk New York is happening soon and this year, Broadway Impact is going to have a team. I watched him starting to raise money and boggled at how quickly people jumped on board to help. Then again... he really is that awesome. ^_~ I checked out AWNY's page and looked at the route map. I realized that it couldn't be more than 5 or 6 miles. I could do that. It wasn't so much, really. It was almost too easy.

I could do that. I can do that. And if I only raised $25 from my own mother... well, that's $25 going to a damned good cause. So, I signed up. To get involved. To help in whatever small way that I can. To do something to help someone else. To take the next step in creating my own happiness.

To use my voice.

To change the world.

So, I'm going to take a chance. I set an extremely modest fundraising goal for myself and I'd like to blast it the hell out of the water. So, I'm reaching out to all the social networks that I frequent and even risking a connect between LJ and real life to do it. If you think you can help out, even if it's only $5 or $1... please let me know. I'll send you a message with a link to the donation page. I'll put that faith out there in you not to abuse it.

And as an added incentive, I'm even willing to offer a reciprocal gift of sorts. How about we'll call it... a short fanfic of your choosing in any fandom for which I have written or am currently writing? Hell, I'll even consider revisiting Sailor Moon for a cause this worthy. ^_^ Not sure I write in a fandom? Ask. I may even be willing to consider a new one for this. ;) To be gifted to whoever among my LJ crowd donates the most money (...or any money, if I want to be realistic ^_~) towards my goal.

Sound like something you might be interested in? Let me know. We'll talk. ^_^

Thanks for listening.

(stolen from zoicite who stole from someone else, etc., etc. ^_^)

Post a single sentence from each WIP you have (or as many as you want to pick). No context, no explanations. No more than one sentence!

OK, not gonna post sentences from every WIP... because that would be insane and because I'm not even sure they're all on this comp. I need to do something about that. :-P

1. Eyes narrowing once again, Danny glared at the jock, "Is this another one of those epiphany moments or do I get to hit you this time?"

2. And after this last trip... by Aslan's mane, after this last trip, a horrifying dream would be welcome compared to what he'd suffered there in the mists.

3. He'd set such a high bar for what Alice expected from a man that any lesser man would have difficulty even seeing the damned thing past the sun glare, much less hurling himself over it.

4. Nuriko allowed his voice to drop into that husky growl that had so thrown the other man at their first meeting, "Since you remember me so well, Kouji-san, you may also remember this... I need no man to speak for me."

4a. (I couldn't decide. Sue me.) "This deception, this trickery, this sadistic game... Nuriko, is this all that you know?"

5. When she'd asked Sheila about it the older woman had hedged, said that they'd been busy, but Jeanie had known from watching those anxiously shifting blue eyes that wouldn't quite meet hers that there was more to the story -- something was keeping Berger away.

6. Secretly, Berger had even thought that *he* might not mind dressing up, again, but he was determined to save it for a special occasion like an anniversary, or Claude's birthday... or for a time when he'd really fucked something up.

7. Jeanie merely arched an eyebrow, "No... we were talking about what Berger had done to upset you... and the obvious conclusion is that it's not so much *what* he did to upset you, as *who* he did to upset you."

8. Whatever the case, Conner didn't toss off Kira's biting words like he usually did -- he took them full force, like a knife to the gut.

( Bonus: Because I had to. NSFW? I guess that depends on how you'd rate this. I think it's NSFW, but I tend to over-rate these things... Ah, fuck it. Just read if you want to. ^_^ )

And that's all I've got on this comp. ^_^ If you see anything interesting and want to know more, let me know! ^_^ Bonus if you can name all the fandoms. ;D

In other news... I WANT THIS. Friend and I caught the infomercial on TV and I know and love every one of the songs they were playing. And now I want this. Even the CD cases are cool. And I counted 5 songs from Hair in that 15 minute viewing alone. WANT. Anyone want to buy me an early b-day present? *unsure but game smile* ^_~

And then we flipped to South Park and it was the marijuana/bris episode -- which is my most favorite South Park, ever! (And beyond appropriate after the Flower Power infomercial. XD) Awesome. ^_^ Hello, synchronicity... we meet again. ^_^

HAIR TOUR IN HERSHEY, TOMORROW!!! :D

*eyes clock* :DDDDDDDDDDDDD

HAIR TOUR IN HERSHEY, TODAY!!!! :D :D :D :D :D

You've all heard me squealing and blushing for years at the very thought of writing sex. Well... I've become aware (thanks to all my Hair stories) that I'd like to get over that. The problem is two-fold:

1) I have no practical experience. I am not a gay man, nor am I ever likely to be one. Therefore, everything I know about gay sex I've gleaned from other first or (more likely) second-hand accounts. That makes me extremely uncomfortable. I don't like feeling under-knowledged about a subject for which I intend to write.

2) I promised Nuriko a loooooooong time ago that out of love for him, he and Tasuki would get my first lemon. Then I realized that it would have to happen towards the end of OB (if not as an epilogue O_o) and my rewrite on that SOB has seriously stymied my efforts.

...Which, as it turns out, has been a really convenient excuse.

( Cut for babbling about erectile writing dysfunction and THE HAIR TOUR!! )

Nuriko: O. M. G--.

Tasuki: Did... did I really just read that right?

Nuriko: *nodnod* *wobble eyes* *glomps the fic author*

R-chan: *blush* *bluuuuuuush* *BLUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSH* *little voice* I'll try, OK? That's all I'm promising.

Nuriko: I don't care. I'll take it!

R-chan: *twitch* Fine. Then help a girl out! Stop talking at each other and start sexing each other up, already!

Nuriko: *twitch* I'm trying!

Tasuki: *sweatdrop* Um... yeah. This one's my bad. I'll work on it.

Nuriko/R-chan: *sweatrain*

Edit: And... 2 1/2 hours later, I still have no paper, I have almost 2000 words of FY fic... and still no sex. O_o;;; At least I've gotten them through the talking and they seem to be ready to get down to business. Now if only I wasn't too bloody exhausted to type. Neeeeeeed sleeeeeeep. *thud*

*eyes icon* No, Setsuka. Just... no. I really won't. Why? Because I live on Long Island and we've gotten more snow so far this season than freaking Anchorage, Alaska. That is not right. O_O It's Alaska. We're... not. *twitch*

( Anyone who doesn't want to listen to me babble about general life, TV shows, ficcage and Hair (again)... flee now. ^_^ )

Final bit of random other news: I am one of the new mods for 15_minute_fic, successor to the now defunct, 15minuteficlets. Long story. ^_^ Anyway, the point of the comm is that every week a word is posted under a cut tag. Once you look at the word, you have 15 minutes to write... whatever. ^_^ It's kind of a fun way to get your writing juices flowing when you're a little stuck. Head on over and check it out! We could use some fresh meat. ;D

I think I'm gonna go toddle off and do some writing or something. ^_^ *waves* Later!

Starting word count for OB part 5 rewrite: 8,694 2564 / 10117 words. 25% done!

OK, first off, I'm still high off of Gavin Creel's third and last Birdland show. He was even more corny and adorable than at the first show. And there were even more new songs! All of which were wonderful... and most of which made me want to bash Jonathan Groff in the face (or crotch, whichever was closer) with something heavy. Honestly, I caught Gavin wiping tears away after one or two songs. ;_;

That being said... Dude. Hobbit table. XD Sheer awesome. XD And so much more, but I'm just too tired and I can't even try to write it all.

Mainly, the point of this post was to share this article about Hair's new tour cast. The whole article is awesome, but here was my favorite two paragraphs:

"Hair's touring company is led by a phenomenally talented collection of actors. Burkhardt is perfectly cast as the sexy, mercurial Berger. As likely to charm a woman in the front row with his long dark hair and easy smile as to flirt with the man sitting next to her, Berger is the unofficial leader of the leaderless Tribe. He's the man who they all want to be. Or do. Or both."

Seriously? OMG, awesome. XD And so true!

"Burkhardt infuses the character with an undeniable magnetism, an effect heightened through his clear onstage connection with Remillard's Claude. The characters Claude and Berger are engaged in a mutual and uninhibited triangular relationship with Sheila. The two men love one another, and Remillard and Burkhardt communicate that intimacy in an entirely casual and naturalistic manner. They have developed something powerful that brings an even greater depth to the story, moving the audience to even greater investment in the pair."

*wobble eyes* Also, so true! The ease of the relationship between the two of them was one of the most beautiful things about this cast. I adore them so unbelievably much. And I seriously love how Sheila only got a brief half-line mention in an entire paragraph of gushing about Paris and Steel's Claude and Berger. :D

Now, go read the rest of the article! It's not very long and it's totally worth it.

Side note: So glad they seem to have found a blowdryer for Paris' wig. It looks much better now... a.k.a. almost like his real hair. ^_^

Part 2 of the massive deconstruction that ate my life for two days -- and before you complain about it being short remember that looks can be deceiving. My discussion of Paris Remillard alone took up a whole page of 10 pt single-spaced font. O_O Coming tomorrow: Discussion of Claude/Berger and the dance party. ^_^

And then on to the "Big Three"...

8) ( Caren Lyn Tacket as Sheila )

9) ( Steel Burkhardt as Berger )

10) ( Saving the best for last... Paris Remillard as Claude )

Addendum 12:50 AM -- from Gavin's Twitter...

gavincreel Gavin Creel
dragged it up, opening night PRISCILLA in toronto. bravo to everyone, especially my hippie leader.
21 minutes ago

*just dies* Really, Gavin? Really? *_* So adorable. So much love. It's been almost 5 months (?) since they last did Hair together and Will is still Gavin's hippie leader. *_* Lovelovelove! Is it fair to say that Will will always be the Berger to Gavin's Claude? I think so. ^_^ They make it so easy... they really do. ^_^

Go back to Part 1 | Part 2 | On to Part 3!

OK... I've been verbose about a deconstruct before, but I don't think I was ever quite this bad. I have 5 full pages (that's about 4100 words) so far... and I don't think I'm even halfway done. D: I'm going to have to post this sucker in parts like a fic or you're all going to kill me. *chuckles* Going back to work, now!

4:22 PM -- Two more to go. Only Berger and Sheila. And the dance party fun. And wow... having now been deconstructing for the last 4 hours (minus lunch breaks)... I think I need to stop for a little while. O_O Will come back to it later... like after chorus, I think. To give you an idea? It's now 5254 words. Good freakin' grief. This is definitely going to go up in parts otherwise no one will read it. Ah... who am I kidding? No one's going to read it anyway. :-P ^_^)

So... today. Today was unbelievably epic. Just... epic. Thank you for coming with me, zoicite! It made the day even more epic. ^_^ And I'm too tired to sum it all up at the moment or deconstruct it in any way. Suffice it to say that the tour tribe is absolutely fantastic. No lie. No exaggeration. They are unbelievable. I fully intend to give you a rundown tomorrow once I've had time to let it all digest.

I will, however, say four things right now:

1) Paris and Steel have (dare I say it?) nearly as much (if not as much) chemistry onstage as Gavin and Will. I'm in awe. And I didn't think it was possible for the gay to be more obvious than how Gavin and Will played it. Apparently... I was wrong. Thank you Paris and Steel! ^_^ More on this tomorrow. For now, I'll just say this: Walking in Space... and Good Morning Starshine. O. M. G. *_*

2) Josh Lamon is a beautiful human being. That is all. *wobble eyes*

3) I can not tell you how happy I was to have Kacie Sheik and Darius Nichols back. I have missed them so damned hard!

4) I danced next to James Rado. And talked to him. And hugged him. O_O *_* O_O I never thought I'd get to thank the man, himself, face to face for giving us Hair. I am so blessed... and my heart is actually racing a little at the memory. *blissful sigh*

And I really can't do the rest tonight. O_O Too tired. And damn it, I had all this wonderful fic inspiration floating around in my head! ...Even if half of it is Berger/Hud and Claude/Woof -- dude, if you saw the show today, it makes sense. Even if I spent half the show going, "Dude... where the hell did this subtext come from?" it was still totally adorable and I loved every second of it. ^_^

OK. I'm stopping now. Going to bed. More tomorrow. ^_^