hate-free blog except maybe the very ocassional gripe about bryan singer.
reading: american gods by neil gaiman, heir of fire by sarah j. maas
listening to: dear evan hansen cast recording; natasha, pierre, and the great comet of 1812 cast recording
last movie: dunkirk
alexander. i have to leave. ALEXANDER. look AROUND look aROUND, at how lucky we are to be alive right nowHELPLEEESSS they are ASKING me to lead look AROUND - isn’t THIS enough he will never be SATISwould it BE ENOUGH he will nevTO BE SATISFIIIIED SATISFIIIED sISTORY HAS ITS EEEEEEYES OOOOONNN YOU ASSUME YOU’RE THE SMARTEST IN THE NOOOOONNNN-STOP YOU WILL NEVER BE SATISWOULD IT BE ENOUGH SATISFIED BE ENOUGH FII-IIII-I-IIIIIEEED RUNNING OUT OF TIME WHY DO YOU WRITE LIKE HISTORY HAS ITS EEEEEYYYYYYYEEEESSSS OOOOOOONNNN YOU i am NOT throwing away my JUST YOU WAAAIT i am NOT THROWING AWAY MY JUST YOU WAAAIT I AM ALEXANDER HAMILTON!!! HAMILTON !!!! JUST you WAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIITTTTTTTTT
I AM NOT THROWING AWAY! MY! SHOT!!!!!!!!
pasek & paul: we pitched the weirdest idea for a musical
me, looking up from where i’m seated in the literal middle of a theater-large stage while an anachronistic electro-pop opera of leo tolstoy’s war and peace is being performed with thirty seven genres of music beautifully dovetailed into a seamless production that shows the greatest depiction of the realities of searching for love & meaning when you don’t know what love & meaning are, taking centuries old words and abstract concepts and making them visceral enough for you to follow every word and sob like an infant is playing: what
FAVORITE MUSICALS → Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812
They say we are asleep until we fall in love,
And I’m so ready to wake up now.
hamilton meme: ships [2 of 3] » alexander hamilton and john laurens
“cold in my professions, warm in my friendships, i wish, my dear laurens, it might be in my power, by action rather than words to convince you that I love you.”
When people say that Hamilton is the best musical of the century they are obviously forgetting about A Very Potter Musical
The plan is to fan this spark into a flame,
but damn, it’s getting dark,
s o l e t m e s p e l l o u t t h e n a m e.
i’m a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal / tryin’ to reach my goal, my power of speech: unimpeachable / only nineteen, but my mind is older / these new york city streets getting colder, i shoulder / ev'ry burden, ev'ry disadvantage / i have learned to manage. i don’t have a gun to brandish / i walk these streets famished / the plan is to fan this spark into a flame | HAMILTON
dark as the tomb where it happens, i’ve got to be in the room where it happens.
favorite Hamilton lyrics: 1/?
“My name is Alexander Hamilton.”
And there I be!
Ain’t I p r e t t y?
Its my city.
I’m the k i n g of New York!