Yoon Jung aka Yoony here. Someone who tends to have sudden bouts of spastic-ness/emo-ism. Trying to escape from reality sometimes with the knowledge that doing so does no good. Coming up with random poetry, and dark tales. Sitting on the staircase in the middle of nowhere and pondering about exits. No entrances since I already got here. Looking for an answer to that huge question mark hanging in the silence. An unhealthy obsession with verbs. Lifetime hobby: speaking in my own special version of Morse Code half of the time which results in incomprehension from both parties. Which can be inconvenient. I've been trying to master the art of clarification ever since. But you know, the universe is four-dimensional. Everything seems relative. Except for the speed of light. So don't blame me if you don't understand. Talk about inferiority complex. Of course you feel proud to have quite a few members of your nationality rising to prominence and eptiome of all-rouded excellence, but a shooting star always leaves behind a faint trail of glitter which hopes to retain the fiery-ness and glory of that fleeting human moment.

http://www.dartmouth.edu/presidentelect/cv-kim.html

I am really proud that this gentleman and his wife are Koreans.
I also feel relatively relieved that I don't look like a Korean. Contradictions inevitably seem to be part of life (at least mine) and that causes intense suffering now and then. No wonder suicide rates are rather high.

You either excel or, well.

The safest is to go along with the flow. Be rational and logical, but dare to be a bit imaginative as well. Just for the sake of sanity should the ultimate result be not what I expected, people expected, or the nation expected of her people.

And yes, that sums up to me not thinking very highly of myself. The little vagaries of life...
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May: I don't know... I MAY take liberal arts when I grow up. :P And well, some of the songs in Sweeney Todd are nice.

Maggie: Ok ok, Smart One. Johanna and Anthony (aka much watered-down version of Romeo and Juliet) do provide comic relief. But I think that there were comic reliefs done superbly well by Johnny Depp along the way, so J and A are pretty... petty.


Charisse: Yes. Inadequate. The Renaissance Man in the olden days learnt A LOT more; they mastered various disciplines and made multiple use of them. An example is Leonardo Da Vinci (I think you know already :/ ), an architect, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, botanist, musician and writer. A simple genius.


Amelia: okie, updated! Oblivion meaning nothingness?


Hemin: Well the AMOUNT OF BLOOD that comes out from the wound IS freaky...The blood just flows down from slit throats like water. And I am pretty sure that blood isn't THAT dull, almost brown color.


xingzhi: Well, I am the Yoon Jung from RGS Guides and Tribune. :)
I should (as usual) be doing the weekend homework (but oh wells).
I admit that the songs in Sweeney Todd are really nice. I love the "overaching" tune. :) Especially the "Worst Pies In London", "Good, God, That's Nice!", "Green Finch and Linnet Bird" (a version which is TWO OCTAVES LOWER thank you), and "A Little Priest".

I was amazed when the glass didn't shatter in "Green Finch and Linnet Bird" though. Johanna sang SO HIGH that I was sure that either

A. The bird in the cage would either burst, or

B. The window would be shattered into smithereens and she would be able to climb down into freedom.

would happen. How could she sing so high??? I couldn't make out the words the first time I heard her sing it. On top of the sky-high pitch, she managed to HOLD IT. There was a part where you have to belt out (or scream or squeak) aaaaahhh or something straight after "how you sing" (I think) and it must have been taxing on the lungs. She can really hold it.

Johnny Depp himself mentioned that the songs in the musical tend to have rather long beats. He saw black (yes, the ENTIRE MOVIE was in a dark Gothic lighting but I am not referring to THAT), and he said that he started feeling a bit giddy in the midst of singing twelve beats without inhaling.

That was a close shave. He could have fainted in the midst of singing, "I shall have my vengeance." And that was the scene where he was going about the street promoting his barber-y skills with his razor-sharp...razors.

I LOVE the scene when he sings, "My life is full of joy!" (evil, psychotic laughter)
And then Mrs Lovett goes, "That's all very well, but what are we going to do with him?"
Sweeney Todd: *still holding his glorious razors in both hands and looking at the sky with arms outstretched*
Mrs Lovett: HELLOOOO, are you listening to me? You've got to get rid of the body.
Sweeney Todd: *STILL looking at the sky with razors*

There was a HUGE comic relief when Johnny Depp looked like milk had gone sour in his mouth in the wedding scene.

Priest: "Do you promise on your honour to.....something something something"
Ms Lovett: "I do" (very eagerly)
Todd: *looks like he ate a cockroach, tries to force the words "I do" out, but can't, and nods painfully instead*
Priest: You may now kiss the bride.
Lovett leans forward, Todd leans forward, shifts his eyebrows, looks like he swallowed bile, and pecks her on the lips really quickly.

aaaaah I want to watch more musicals. So far my favorites are Sound of Music and Mamma Mia.

Edward Sanders, who acted as Tobias Ragg the poor little boy, was born in 1993.
1993. 1993...

speechless.


I wonder how you can imitate a Spanish accent. The Piroulli or Prirouelli guy in Sweeney Todd pulls it off really well (and he looked comical in tights -- which were indeed... nvm -- curly wig, and a bright cloak).


Alright, off to read the Public Order Act (for SS and MPP). Byezz...