The Official Adam Pascal Love Thread, part three- Page 486

[Billboard Girl]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 1:45am

My brother wants to major in music business or music technology, and he doesn't get why my parents want to make sure the schools he looks at are good for other things in case he changes his mind.

[wickedrentq]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 1:45am

It makes perfect sense for medicine to have caffeine...most meds make you tired, so it's great that some have caffeine in it.

Caffeine really is like any other drug--you build up a tolerance for it. The first time I had coffee...now keep in mind i hate soda I never drink it ever, I was like the road runner the first day I had coffee. I remember one time in math class my friend said stop moving and I said okay and I just kept my feet still and started rocking and waving my arms really big...I seriously could not stand still. I skipped down the halls, and jumped and made noises during play rehearsals, it was soo much fun! Needless to say, these days coffee is part of my daily routine, never had that same effect after the first time...ah well. Twas a fun day.

[Billboard Girl]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 1:48am

But sometimes you want medicine to make you tired, or at least not keep you awake.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 1:59am

"It makes perfect sense for medicine to have caffeine...most meds make you tired, so it's great that some have caffeine in it."

Actually, medicines have caffeine in them because it does have pain relieving affects in small doses.

[wickedrentq]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 2:01am

Well, double the use!

Billboard, most medicines have the effect of helping you sleep I would think...most don't have caffeine.

[wickedrentq]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 2:02am

Ooh forgot to mention this earlier...Em in discussing the movie it's funny one thing I said was...and you know it's so great it goes unnoticed but I really loved the music in this...I hope it wins an oscar for score, it was so beautiful and appropriate

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 2:03am

It's a beautiful score. Subtle, yet unique. And every time I hear it, I'm taken right back into that mindset.

[wickedrentq]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 2:08am

I'm thinking these days it doesn't take much to get you into that mindset :-P

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 2:16am

Well, certainly there's my "guh, Heath!" mindset, and then there's the real, I-can't-stop-thinking-about-this, lying in bed awake, mind-blown feeling about a piece of art that has affected you like you will never be able to explain. I feel like I went somewhere when I saw that movie. Like it was real. A two and a half hour trip to someplace other, not just me sitting in a chair by a screen, but on a journey with the two of them -- how cliche is that? But it's true. The music is so powerful that it can put me right back there, emotionally. It carries throughout similiarly enough to be able to take you right back to a lot of their big moments, happy and heartbreaking.

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[wickedrentq]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 2:25am

Hmm, I couldn't possibly use you as a prop for every discussion/argument I have w/ ppl about the importance of entertainment, or why it's more than an escape, or why stupid friends who say an obsession of mine is unhealthy should be whipped? By prop I mean pick you up and wind you up like a little toy and give that speech each time Aww, I could just see it now. Little Sarah, what do you want for Christmas? I want the Emcee doll! (In case that came out sounding a *little* weird, I just meant that that was so well expressed and I think really important and the ultimate desire of entertainers to have audience reactions like that, not just to make you into a toy...)

Oh, I see what you're saying. I guess it's like the Little Mermaid for me. Right now I could describe and tell you things about what my family room looked like when I was 3--but when I watch the Little Mermaid b/c I watched it so much in that room at that age, I can close my eyes and I perfectly see the room--every detail that I couldn't remember in any other circumstance except watching the movie brings back. I think that's a big reason I still call it one of my 2 fav movies of all times, sometimes I feel like I actually regress when I watch that movie, and I feel like I'm an excited little 3-year old again.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 2:28am

I don't know, I mean, I've never, ever felt this for a film before. I remember hearing it was happening and being like "YAY GAY COWBOYS!!!!" and I won't lie, it's hot, they're hot, whatever, but it's so much more than that. It takes a lot to really affect me. It's not just like "oh, what a good movie," for its entertainment value -- this isn't entertainment, it's art. It's not just a good movie, it's something that's got a bigger purpose, I think. And it really, really spoke to me. I certainly don't feel that for my other token "favorite movies." I like them, yeah, and I feel something for them because I like watching them, but I don't feel for the stories they tell.

Alright, bedtime. adieu!

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[Billboard Girl]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 2:31am

Awww, The Little Mermaid. I love that movie, and Part Of Your World is one of my favorite songs. Heh, I remember being 3 and finding the Triton character so frightening that seeing a man with a beard would freak me out. My uncle had to shave so I wouldn't be afraid of him.

Good night, Em! Daaamn, it's 2:30 already?

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[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 2:33am

For the record, The Little Mermaid is my all-time favorite movie. It was the first movie I ever saw in a theatre, too. I wanted to BE Ariel.

[Billboard Girl]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 2:42am

I think I'm going to go to bed now. I'm afraid that if I don't, I might wind up falling asleep with my head on the keyboard or something.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 2:44am

I love The Little Mermaid. I was singing Under the Sea the other night outside the Hilton theater.

And I'm off too. Storm is over, so I should be able to sleep now.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 2:46am

I keep flip-flopping between being about to fall asleep and being wide awake. Annoying. 'night!

[wickedrentq]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 2:51am

Ohh bedtime for you...poopie :-P

Hmm...I'm not gonna pretend it meant to me what it does to you, I do feel like I connected w/ the characters and really felt for them more than normal but..I think there are things that ppl at least like us who can enjoy some forms of art(like bway) as much as we do in other forms that can bring us to that level. But I mean...it's funny, Wicked had an effect like that on me, which is weird. I mean from the moment I saw it I bawled and I hardly cried at shows at that point and I mean I love the show but I still don't understand what it is about that show that just makes me feel so invested and connected and touched by it. And then it's great I've been able to apply it to my own life, and belt, albiet badly, Defying Gravity before I hafta do something really difficult, like when I had to sign up for comm. college last year after the breakdown...I sat in my car, belted it, and as I walked w/ my parents I sang it in my head the whole time, it really helped.

Umm...I'm trying to think if there's much else...well...again I don't know if any of these examples are comparable to what you're experiencing now, but at the very least they do somehow move me or I feel connected more than I do in a regular movie...Center Stage...it was weird, but when Amanda Schull is on that stage spinning and spinning, I always cry. Just after tortured she had been at classes, to triumph in that way...I mean it felt more powerful than a classic underdog story...like it's impossible for me to not just have this wonderful feeling when I finish watching that movie.

And Field of Dreams(w/ Little Mermaid my other fav movie). Well, this one makes perfect sense, but still...I love baseball so I understand that love, but also I...I struggle between some kind of view..I'm a huge pessimist and optimist, I'm a misanthrope and humanitarian. There's a part of me that's so pessimistic about humanity and the world and I'll say Earth is hell...but then there's another part of me, who is obsessed w/ the ideas of Utopias, has reread "Utopia" quite a few times, who refuses to give up of the idea of a utopia, of dreams coming true, of letting fantasies taking over, of happily ever afters, etc I guess you get the point. And FoD completely reached out to that part of me. It's like...I dunno, you could call it an unrealistic fairy tale, yet it's...presented realistically...I mean we're programmed to think these things could never happen, but as I watch...I just...buy it. I mean god, I could go on about this movie, but I don't know if you've or anyone on the thread has seen it and I don't wanna either give things away or go on about things no one will know what I'm talking about...but...I could go on and on about the themes of that movie, and how meaningful it all is and okay...I think FoD is my BBM. And just sitting here thinking about it, now I really understand what you are feeling now and well just...everything you've said. I just hope, FoD is very emotional, but very happy...BBM understandably is not, I hope that's not affecting your states these days, I mean it's so great to think about FoD b/c of the happiness it represents and Rent too ends w/ such hope, it makes me so happy to talk and think about it...well anyway, it really is wonderful to connect and love and be so affected by a movie

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 4:31am

Yeah, I'm still awake.

I was reading CB and eatlasagna posted a thread there about the show's timeframe and someone else commented that BWW people are mean. Um, okay, but no one here signs their posts with "F*ck off."

Do all message board posters bad-mouth each other saying they're the best, or is it just the Rent-related ones? The whole BWW vs. CB vs. LJ vs. IMDB just seems unnecessarily hostile considering we're all fans of the same thing, but at the same time I still think BWW is far superior to the other boards.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 11:15am

But wrq, I can't even honestly claim to say I feel myself in either Jack or Ennis. Like, with Wicked, that's an easy character to relate to. Maybe it's more of a subconscious, less obvious relation that I feel to one of them -- simply because of the over-arching notion of fear to be who you are, and love, and the pain love causes. Or something like that. Like I said, I can't put my finger on it. Probably never will.

I wasn't that mean to him! Christ!

[Fantabulous428]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 11:36am

Morning everyone! Wow, there's some deep conversations going on. I'm still in my drinking coffee, staring at the screen mode.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 11:44am

I'm amused by the depth of conversation at 2 am.

[Fantabulous428]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 11:52am

Ok, I've had a good amount of coffee. Perhaps I can dive in now....wait. Nope. Still not there yet.

[Cheez Whiz]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 12:23pm

Dear me, part three?
That's a lot of love.

[Fantabulous428]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 12:25pm

We have a lot of love for The Adam

[Cheez Whiz]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 12:26pm

I can see that.
I don't think I can say I have a love for him, but deep respect and admiration, sure.