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Celebrating 75 years of The Wizard of Oz.

L. Frank Baum’s book inspired a film that has been cherished by many, including myself, over the past 75 years. It was ground-breaking in its day, with its Technicolor contrasting sharply against the sepia browns and greys. The songs and the costumes have always made this film exciting for me too. Judy Garland plays Dorothy beautifully, and with a voice like hers it’s no wonder “Over The Rainbow"not only won the Oscar for best original song but that it’s still remains a favourite with people today.

Thank you Victor Fleming for a fantastic film

And just to show my love a little more, here is a pic of me as Dorothy and my friend Abi as Marilyn

Marilyn, btw, if you haven’t seen the film, is not a character in the WoO.

And because I love quotes

Auntie Em: Help us out today and find yourself a place where you won’t get into any trouble!
Dorothy: A place where there isn’t any trouble. Do you suppose there is such a place, Toto? There must be. It’s not a place you can get to by a boat or a train. It’s far, far away. Behind the moon, beyond the rain…
[begins to sing “Over the Rainbow"]

Dorothy: [has just arrived in Oz, looking around and awed at the beauty and splendor] Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas any more.
Dorothy: [after a pause] We must be over the rainbow!
[a bubble appears in the sky and gets closer and closer. It finally lands, then turns into Glinda the Good Witch wearing a spectacular white dress and crown, holding a wand]
Dorothy: [to Toto] Now I… I know we’re not in Kansas!

xxx

Yeah, I am back

This is dedicated to the awesome musical show that I saw with my sister recently in London - Wicked!

I wanted specifically to use videos from that show but there are posted by people seeing the show so quality isn’t awesome and I am aware that the American show is considered to be better by a few

Lee Mead and Rachel Tucker - As Long As You’re Mine

Then because I do love the songs and their American performers -

Popular - Kristin Chenoweth & Idina Menzel

Wicked: what is this feeling (loathing) - Kristin Chenoweth & Idina Menzel

Trust me, it is so much fun, you must go see it!

xxx

Bright lights, strange costumes, total acceptance no matter your geekery or freakery Yeah guys we went gaga for Lady Gaga. She is an amazing performer and to be honest she was worth the wait (the show was postponed in March).

But wait this cool dude called Spencer has uploaded his videos of the night to youtube so you don’t have to take my word for it!

One of my faves

Sheffield won’t be the same again!

G’night little monsters

Part of the iPhone’s draw is the app stores and the boatloads of games available, timekillers to play when you have a spare five minutes. One such game Bejeweled 2 that you can play online on Facebook and on the iPhone has had me and a fair few friends hooked for a while now. You can’t explain it other than it’s lots of fun, you have to line up similarly coloured gems to make them disappear - the more gems you line up in a connection, the higher the score or magic gem you are awarded with. I mainly play the Blitz version of the game, which requires you to get the highest score you can in 1 minute. I know how addictive it can be, just one more game… In fact we were discussing it in the staffroom just theother day, as three of us are into the game. So it was funny to be browsing the internet and come across this article on Yahoo - Man beats Bejeweled.

Basically, Mike, a guy in California has just achieved the absolute highest score possible, his record took over 2000 hours to achieve, during which time he amassed 4.8 million gems and reached level 439 in the game. Mike’s game was 2,205 hours and 51 minutes long (about three months), played it over the course of three years. Three years to do this! That’s serious commitment, I wonder if he is single because that is one mightily peed off boyfriend or girlfriend. Imagine it, set the mood, candles lights out etc and the familiar glow of… the PC screen and the clunk clunk of the gems.

He scored 2,147,482,575, a score that Popcap founders debated would ever be reached. They said, “We deemed it impossible…and thus kept the cap at 2,147,482,575 knowing we were safe.”

Not banking on the power of competition and indeed addiction. I recently have been using the game on on my iPhone to relax before bed and when I can’t sleep and so have been teased by the Man and my family for it. This story makes me even more determined to do without at that time of night and to break my cycle of addition before I become some sorta gem geek too! So, here’s goes nothing 7 nights and counting!

Go get your game on… which games are you addicted to?

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Vampire beach sweaters by Wildfox clothing that I saw on Ashley Tisdale on StealTheirStyle. You can get them all over the place - here in the UK at asos quite expensive at £110 but still smily and yummy! I love the coral one especially

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Two posts in one day! Yay

So okay, a musical confession, I adore musicals, my sister bought be this 5 cd complilation and it’s take over my ipod, in a good way! I just love the emotion, the dancing and wild abandon of a lot of these songs and one of my favourites is “Anything Goes”, used also in Fallout 3 (who knew?). I give you these two versions, one close to the original show song and an adaptation from Jewel (I love her voice, she is amazingly talented!).

Patti Lupone with the revival cast in Anything Goes on the Tony Awards.

Jewel - Anything Goes - with the Chicagoland Pops Orchestra

Next is a song I heard first on Radio 1 - I’d Rather Be With You - Joshua Radin, he is a guy with a past record of great ballads, that have been used for some great films, very talented!

Finally, a new find for me, I adore her and am searching on itunes as we speak - Joy Williams - Speaking a Dead Language, just brilliant - love her

Enjoy x

1. I have a total girl crush on Aishwariya Rai - this is the awesome"Crazy Kiya Re” from the film DHOOM 2. I want her eyes

2. New find for me, I realise you might all already have been singing this for ages Daisy Dares You “Number One Enemy” feat. Chipmunk.

3. Finally, an old fave, Tell Him - Celine Dion & Barbra Streisand.

Happy grooving! xxx

Heyho folks, three songs in my head at the moment.

1. For some reason this song popped into my head this afternoon, read into it what you will - Bad - Michael Jackson.

2. Zombie - Cranberries - cause that just came into my consciousness now

3. An oldie but a goodie - You’re Still The One - Shania Twain

Bit of a mixed bag there, night all and cya soon! x

A wander down memory lane….

1. Love love love! This song by Evanescence - Bring Me To Life

2. James Blunt - You’re Beautiful.
Not too sure about him but I think this song is beautiful, hehehe

3. Enjoying singing this - ipod on, belting out the tunes like I’m at Wembly
Chantal Kreviazuk - Leaving on a jet plane

Sing, sing a song people! xxx

To my loyal three, here are my three tunes this week - squeezed into the gaps in my prep for tomorrow’s lessons.

First I really like this band, been checking out their website and youtube - Flyleaf, their singer Lacey’s voice, the strong steady rocky backbeat, powerful lyrics and Christian influence brings about strong comparisons with another Christian rock band, Evanescence (who have also released some amazing songs). I particularly like “Again” by Flyleaf. So that’s my number 1 choice this week

Another offering from America - Lady Antebellum with “Need You Now” - very country and awesome

My favourite this week is this, it uses music from one of my favourite musicals “the Sound of Music". It has been put on youtube by saihttam1988 who describes it like this,"More than 200 dancers were performing their version of “Do Re Mi", in the Central Station of Antwerp. with just 2 rehearsals they created this amazing stunt! Those 4 fantastic minutes started the 23 of March 2009, 08:00 AM. It is a promotion stunt for a Belgian television program, where they are looking for someone to play the leading role, in the musical of “The Sound of Music".” I say, “It made me grin and bop away, some of those people just joined in - how fab!” Here it…

Awesome and very creative Happy Monday folks xxx