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Post by basi1faw1ty on Apr 29, 2019 11:53:03 GMT
The other week, I visited Liverpool and entered the Beatles Museum on Mathew St. My folks got the concession price for being over 60, so I was left to pay the full adult price for myself. Cashier Man: "Are you a student?" Me: "No, I wish." CM, feeling sorry for me: "Well, say you are so that I can give you the concession price." Me: "Whu... what? Really?" CM: "I mean you look like one so..." Thanks to that charming man, I paid £7 instead of £15 because I was dressed like a college student, wearing bright red Converse and a nerdy Star Wars shirt. To be fair, I've had the "Are you a student" comment crop up quite a bit as of late when I've tried to buy certain things. Not complaining whatsoever
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Motown
Apr 23, 2019 8:59:58 GMT
Post by basi1faw1ty on Apr 23, 2019 8:59:58 GMT
Yeah, it closed in the West End last Saturday. The tour is a long way off finishing though, thankfully, that'll keep going till early 2020 I believe!
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Apr 22, 2019 17:13:03 GMT
stevejohnson678 How utterly heartbreaking, sending my utmost condolences. What an adorable wee fella.
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Apr 18, 2019 22:23:33 GMT
The UK tour stopped at my local tonight and it was divine. Berry and Diana stole the show.
One humourous anecdote for you tho: at one point Diana got two audience members up onto the stage to sing a duet with her. One was a man named Martin from London. Di looked at his tshirt/jean/trainers attire and asked if he was dragged here by his wife, gesturing to her in the audience. He replied: "That's my daughter". Audience bursts out laughing. Di turns bright red. Man then mutters to her: "My wife is much younger", and she keels over with laughter and takes a little while to compose herself. Audience lap it up.
It was great fun, am glad to have caught it before its end.
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Apr 9, 2019 15:49:57 GMT
Enjoyed this ep slightly more than the first. Maybe because I'm proper invested in it now, and I actually read up on the abbreviations.
But I would've enjoyed it way more if I didn't have my father sat next to me going "Who's that?" "What's just happened?" and "Why's he there?" every five minutes.
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Apr 9, 2019 15:43:21 GMT
Delighted for Monica Dolan and Patsy Ferran! To think I actually saw Ferran's stage debut in Blithe Spirit, and I thought she made Edith absolutely come to life! Had an inkling she'd go far. Also I was further delighted to see (surprising no one) who was sat next to Monica Dolan: Forget Gillian Anderson (sorry), but a Charlie Edwards/Dolan/Peter Morgan sandwich is right up my street. Like Peter's little side glance at Gillian too.
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Apr 6, 2019 12:56:06 GMT
I'd wish I'd known about that then, however I would've been way too shy to ask for any of those things anyway. Stupid British mentality of not wanting to cause a fuss, ha!
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Apr 5, 2019 14:02:08 GMT
Spamalot at the Playhouse. I got upgraded from front row Upper Circle to back row Stalls due to low ticket sales that evening. I had Les Dennis as Arthur, and Michael Palin was the guest God for that week.
View ranged from adequate to atrocious because of the overhang of the circle above (I'm small) and tall people sat in front that kept getting in the way, so I had to almost kneal on my seat to get a good view of the action. Show was great overall, but there's a feeling I could've enjoyed it way more from up in the circle than down below?
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Apr 2, 2019 15:26:43 GMT
Song's OK. Tolerable at least.
But that video was... quite an adventure.
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Apr 1, 2019 17:19:56 GMT
Yeah, totally. This is my first dive into LOD, and apart from losing my mind with all those abbreviations, I managed to stay glued to the screen.
Some things didn't make sense, obvs cos I've just gotten into it, but I am kinda invested now.
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Apr 1, 2019 17:16:51 GMT
There is something significant about the 'hotel receptionist' - you don't get that much screentime without a purpose. Wish I could have seen what was being typed into the screen. He lied about the toilet and I don't believe a chain hotel like that would let someone stay there when they clearly couldn't pay... Yeah I feel the same! I was sat too far away from t'telly to see what was being typed, but luckily we have iPlayer... {Spoiler - click to view}
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Brexit
Mar 26, 2019 16:08:22 GMT
Post by basi1faw1ty on Mar 26, 2019 16:08:22 GMT
Brexit sounds like a good idea now, given Article 13/Article 11 has just been approved by the EU Parliament. Song parodies? Gone. Animated gifs? Nope. Memes? Illegal. Uploading clips or screencaps from films and TV shows to the internet? No more. Basically anything that contains copyrighted content will not be allowed online any more in the EU if you do not own it. Also if you link or post snippets of a review or news article from a mainstream source, you now have to pay a license fee for it. Yes, that's right, it's that bad. In all seriousness, the copyright laws are seriously out of date and are in-part fundamentally to blame for the crash of the Music Industry. Also parodies are covered by an exemption rule of A13, as are memes. Apparently. Maybe I've reading too much into it (or indeed not enough). Let's hope that exemption is true. Also implementing a copyright filter for nearly everything posted online would be an almost impossible task.
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Brexit
Mar 26, 2019 15:51:45 GMT
Post by basi1faw1ty on Mar 26, 2019 15:51:45 GMT
Brexit sounds like a good idea now, given Article 13/Article 11 has just been approved by the EU Parliament.
Song parodies? Gone. Animated gifs? Nope. Memes? Illegal. Uploading clips or screencaps from films and TV shows to the internet? No more. Basically anything that contains copyrighted content will not be allowed online any more in the EU if you do not own it.
Also if you link or post snippets of a review or news article from a mainstream source, you now have to pay a license fee for it. Yes, that's right, it's that bad.
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Mar 10, 2019 20:11:27 GMT
Went shopping yesterday and heard an MJ song start to play in one of the shops I entered. It felt really awkward to me, idk how everybody else felt. Then I went into the shop next door, and The Jackson 5 came on! Argh!! Separating art from artist in this instance really is gonna be a tough one.
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Mar 9, 2019 12:59:00 GMT
Tim Luscombe's Eurovision at the Vaudeville, November 1993. Lasted for only three weeks. Lost around £275,000.
Sir Lloyd Webber closed it early due to "negative critical appraisal"; someone in the Mail apparently described it as violating every clause of the Geneva Convention.
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Mar 7, 2019 12:10:33 GMT
So I've seen it and... that was harrowing, and part 2 is supposedly worse, so I've heard.
It's gonna take me a while to wrap my head around this, and trying to separate art from artist is gonna prove even trickier than I thought if all this is true.
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Mar 6, 2019 17:44:30 GMT
I don't now how to feel about this. I recall hearing stories and reports like this several years ago around 2002/2003 of MJ doing these awful things, but then I hear these two men in the centre of this particular MJ scandal have been accused of lying and changing their stories multiple times, and they're only in it for the money.
HOWEVER I'm still keeping an open mind until I view this doc, then I'll decide.
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Mar 4, 2019 18:51:49 GMT
Hello to my fellow aspies, Dawnstar and martello736 ! Nice to make an acquaintance! I possibly collect roles played by certain people, there are about three people that I will watch in whatever they do but I don't quite know how far I'd go to see them, I have not had to deal with that test yet. I do think that if one of them ended up in say an Asian tour and that was the only place they were going to play that role I would have to give up the idea of seeing all roles. Let's say I collect them in all their UK roles. I am guilty of this, too, with a certain actor that will remain nameless (his first name begins with C and his last name is like Jedward but swap the letter J with an S and put it at the end). No matter how bad the production, I will strive to see every show he stars in (up to a point*), because even if the show is unbearable, at least I can gaze longingly at his face for 2 hours and get some enjoyment from that. (*Even I have my limits. He went to Australia for the entirety of 2017 and ofc I could not afford a return ticket all the way to Australia and back, and that's minus hotel/theatre ticket costs, so that will be a show I will forever regret not being able to witness. My only consolation was a load of bootleg audio recordings of the show popped up online, so I'm quite lucky in that respect.) And I've been trying to collect theatre programmes (and the occasional stub) of his past shows, as well as every show I go to see presently in the West End and beyond, with or without him starring in it. Idk what fascinates me about looking at old programmes but... Yeah, I do that. And HECK YES to david's BUILD YOUR OWN THEATRE magazine thingy mabob. The Globe would make an excellent candidate.
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Mar 3, 2019 17:13:14 GMT
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Feb 25, 2019 13:47:08 GMT
I have a confession: I am guilty of being part of some bad behaviour, but this wasn't my fault.
A couple years ago, a big group of us were on our way to Leeds Town Hall to watch a stand up comedian. We arrived in Leeds with enough time to spare, and I told my group to hurry up as we only had 10 minutes to walk through Leeds centre to get to the hall. However my group, consisting of close family and friends, dawdled so much walking and chatting to each other and even queuing up for a last minute McDonald's (WHY???) and just messing about that we ended up being late to the show, and we did the walk of shame into the auditorium and shuffled our way down our row while the comedian continued his act. Got several disgruntled faces staring back at me as we made them miss the first 10 mins of his routine.
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Feb 25, 2019 13:30:03 GMT
Oh no, that's crazy! That person needs help, QUICKLY.
But you just reminded me of something; I knew of someone who waited for an actor at the Nash until coming up to midnight (she was the only one there), and when he came out, she followed him down the South Bank a bit and eventually caught up to him. The actor was quite chill about the whole thing, though. Most people would probably run a mile.
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Feb 13, 2019 16:36:51 GMT
Roughly 15 mins to get to my local theatre, the Alhambra in Bradford, who've been churning out some great touring productions as of late. Roughly 3 hours to see anything in London. Add an extra hour for Chichester Festival. It's rather a rare thing for me, due to all the travelling, and if that's not the problem, it's the ticket price (generally speaking). And my motivation? Just to have a grand day out, and if my fave actor's in it, to have an even grander day out, and geek about the show to others later. Also it's one thing to sit in front of a TV screen watching a pre-recorded show, it's a completely different thing to sit in front of a stage watching something unfold live and be immersed in it
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Feb 13, 2019 13:27:49 GMT
If there's any consolation, the amount of Will Smith genie memes circulating online is incredible and worth a look if you want a laugh.
I don't plan on seeing this to be quite honest. It's not just Will Smith that's dodgy. Jafar's actor sounds pretty bad, too (in the trailer anyway).
Disney's mission to turn everything in their library into live-action is becoming ridiculous now. Nobody needs or wants these films. Have Disney really ran out of originality that they have to resort to this, or is it so they get more money by tugging at people's nostalgia? Both, I suspect.
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Feb 11, 2019 12:06:58 GMT
With the one exception being the Paul McCartney carpool karaoke thing, he is rather intolerable.
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Feb 8, 2019 18:21:12 GMT
Ah yes, stage dooring. I've already said my piece on the subject really. I'm pro-SD, as long as participants behave with proper decorum. I've found all actors I've stage-doored don't mind it, and some even bask in it. As I've gotten older (and hopefully wiser) however, yeah, I'm might step back from it a bit. What drives you to do it? Genuinely interested. Well at first it was just express my appreciation and to get a little extra souvenir in the form of an autograph or two to round off my visit. Recently though, instead of autographs, I've stage doored a certain actor just to say hi and to catch up for five minutes or so (I always seem to be greeted with a "hello!" and a hug whenever I see them so as far I can tell they doesn't seem to mind my visits). If they're busy or have to be somewhere, I'll go away. Common sense ofc.
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Feb 7, 2019 14:42:11 GMT
Ah yes, stage dooring. I've already said my piece on the subject really. I'm pro-SD, as long as participants behave with proper decorum. I've found all actors I've stage-doored don't mind it, and some even bask in it.
As I've gotten older (and hopefully wiser) however, yeah, I'm might step back from it a bit.
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Feb 4, 2019 15:48:46 GMT
~appears~
The Jackson 5 were pretty bad. Idk why but their songs just grate on me, maybe due to Michael's jarring child voice. Thankfully his solo work is a different story, but his early stuff was... eww. So I can't wait to sit in Motown the Musical and have to suffer through five of their songs.
~disappears back into the void, avoiding the oncoming barrage of tomatoes~
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Dec 20, 2018 18:54:21 GMT
Quality Street, because even though Cadbury > Nestle for the most part, their strawberry and orange cremes taste miles better imo. And mildly exciting fact: the Quality Street factory is a 15 minute drive away from me
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Dec 2, 2018 19:42:36 GMT
It was a very dull part one to the final Dalton didn't sing well in his duet - but I still expect him to win The XF final used to be a huge event. My mum used to be an avid viewer, but now even she's stopped watching. It's all a bit low rent, now. Exactly the same with my mum. She's had enough of it now, and has been converted to the Strictly side. (EDIT: oh for heaven's sake, I've messed this thread up, haven't I? Sorry, I shouldn't be allowed access to the internet)
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Dec 2, 2018 19:41:34 GMT
My mum used to be an avid viewer, but now even she's stopped watching. It's all a bit low rent, now. Exactly the same with my mum. She's had enough of it now, and has been converted to the Strictly side.
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