So I decided to finally watch Dr. Horrible's Sing-along Blog. I know it's been out quite awhile, but I never got around to it. I'm just a little behind the times. I thought it was very good. by far the best web production I think I've seen. The songs seemed to be better versions that those in Sweeny Todd. This truly is the way of production and entertaining over the next few years.Seeing how Felicia Day did such a good job, I decided to watch all of the Guild too, since I had some time after Heroes. The series itself, was pretty good and had me chuckling at a few moments, although for the most part, Felicia was the best character. She is a pretty good actor and I hope she gets more chances in the future.
Also, I want to claim my love of Top Gear. I think this is the best TV educational TV show, ever. Yes, even better than Mythbusters and Alton Brown (who by the way looks absolutely horrid lately, especially in HD. Think Tom Hanks from The DaVinci Code) This show is thoroughly entertaining and drop dead funny, all while teaching me about cars. Even though I'm not a huge car fanatic, I find it absolutely enjoyable. It being British also gives me this sense of knowledge, for which I have absolutely no reason why. I only wish it was more convenient to get a hold of. I don't get BBC America unfortunately and BBC's player doesn't work outside the UK, which is too much of a trouble to get a UK IP address. It's the best show they've got. They really should export it more easily.
So the Christmas Holiday has pretty much begun. I know I've seen ads for Christmas stuff as early as probably a month ago, but about now is when things start picking up. I can tell, because it is difficult to do anything for the next 2 months. The streets are packed and parking is horrendous. I tried going to the mall, and it was so crowded. Where are these people the rest of the year? I hope it dies down like most places mid January. Christmas shopping is exceedingly hard this year. Being away from everyone, I have no idea what to get people for the holidays. I hope when I'm home over Thanksgiving I can get some ideas for people. It doesn't get any easier telling others what I want either. Now that I have a job with steady paychecks coming in, when I want something I go out and buy it for the most part. This makes telling people what I want difficult. Hopefully I can come up with some stuff like clothes to pick out over the next few weeks.
Here's to hoping for a layoff free Christmas!
2 comments:
Wait, did you mean to say the songs were better composed than those in Sweeney Todd? I'm the first person to support Dr. Horrible and all things Whedon & co., but that's overkill. Stephen Sondheim is one of the greatest composers ever, and arguably the greatest living composer today. When college courses [and whatnot] go over the most influential and brilliant composers, to generalize they'll go over Mozart, Bach, etc. and then Sondheim is soon to follow. Now, what you might have heard was Sondheim influences within Dr. Horrible because Joss Whedon did grow up listening to Sweeney, Assassins, Follies, A Little Night Music and well... all of Sondheim's shows and many other theatre pieces. I, too, pointed out similarities after watching each act. The duet in act 2 was particularly very Sondheim-y with the layers, as was the placement of words and rhythm in act 3's "Slipping".
I felt it was necessary to give some insight to this composing thing. Again, I'm the first to defend all things Joss but wow - never have I heard someone say it's better than Sondheim. Glad you enjoyed Dr. Horrible so much, though!! Joss had a great upbringing in theatre; both the Buffy musical and this one were most impressive for someone who doesn't compose music for a living, or even as a hobby really.
And yes, The Guild is good, hilarious fun and certainly sets a high quality of writing for the web!
I don't think I meant better composed, more like I enjoyed them more at the time. Looking back, I imagine its more a "last one I hear" is the one I like best. Since I drew a slight comparison between the two, I'm glad to hear there are more influences than I could come up with. I think it also has some with my expectations. For any reason, Dr. Horrible met my expectations going in, while Sweeney Todd did not.
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