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Over Thanksgiving my father decided that we should do one "cultural" event as a family before Christmas and one after Christmas as part of the whole holiday season. (It's worth noting that our season is already more packed than some others as my birthday is the 28th) Since, thanksgiving involved watching my brother's football team play, I was given the task of selecting our pre-Christmas outing. I initially requested that we go see (listen) to a full concert of The Messiah. I often fell like a bad choir person because I've only actually heard the "For Unto Us" and the "Halleluja" both because I preformed them with my University Choir so I didn't hear a whole lot more than the Alto part anyway.
That plan fell through since no one was actually preforming The Messiah on the days we had available, so my father sent me an email with all the events that were happening. One stuck out immediately. The Bryn Mawr Film institute was hosting a sing-a-long Sound of Music. I love The Sound of Music. As a child, it was the movie I put in and watched everyday (well that and Mary Poppins and the live action Pooh movies). I've stopped watching the movie on TV because I can quote the whole thing and it ends up annoying me when they cut bits out. I was really nice to see the movie a) on a full sized movie screen in a theater setting and b) with a group of people who clearly love it as much as I do. I will say however, that in the future I will probably stick to watching my DVD copy. Apparently I don't hate the Baroness nearly as much as everyone else does, as it kind of upset me everytime people booed her.
Part of my viewing now may be colored by the fact that I listen to the Original Broadway Cast Recording of the show more often than the movie. There were three songs in the original show "An Ordinary Couple," "No Way to Stop It" and "How Can Love Survive" which were cut for the movie version and replaced with "I Have Confidence" and "Something Good." Both "No Way to Stop" and "How Can Love Survive" are both sung at least in part by the Baroness, the first with Max and Captin Von Trapp and second just with Captin Von Trapp. Both are songs I like a lot (they're both pretty funny) and have made me enjoy the character more. "Ordinary Couple" directly replaced by "Something Good" which is unfortunate as I think the former is actually the better song. IMDB tells me this is a change that most theater companies now include in the stage play which I find sad, although the version I saw for my eleventh birthday retained the original (that's how I knew the extra songs existed).
On a completely different subject, my Aunt has decided to do Tapas for Christmas dinner and each member of the family is supposed to bring a small appatizer like dish to include in the Tapas spread. I am offering up Samosas, which I made for the first time yesterday. They turned out pretty good (atleast the four people who tried them all liked them and my brother had to be cut off for fear that I wouldn't have any left for the actual christmas meal); altough, they do have interesting and decidedly not pyramidal shapes. I think I started getting the hang of folding the dough correctly toward the end of my second batch of 14 Sumosas.
That plan fell through since no one was actually preforming The Messiah on the days we had available, so my father sent me an email with all the events that were happening. One stuck out immediately. The Bryn Mawr Film institute was hosting a sing-a-long Sound of Music. I love The Sound of Music. As a child, it was the movie I put in and watched everyday (well that and Mary Poppins and the live action Pooh movies). I've stopped watching the movie on TV because I can quote the whole thing and it ends up annoying me when they cut bits out. I was really nice to see the movie a) on a full sized movie screen in a theater setting and b) with a group of people who clearly love it as much as I do. I will say however, that in the future I will probably stick to watching my DVD copy. Apparently I don't hate the Baroness nearly as much as everyone else does, as it kind of upset me everytime people booed her.
Part of my viewing now may be colored by the fact that I listen to the Original Broadway Cast Recording of the show more often than the movie. There were three songs in the original show "An Ordinary Couple," "No Way to Stop It" and "How Can Love Survive" which were cut for the movie version and replaced with "I Have Confidence" and "Something Good." Both "No Way to Stop" and "How Can Love Survive" are both sung at least in part by the Baroness, the first with Max and Captin Von Trapp and second just with Captin Von Trapp. Both are songs I like a lot (they're both pretty funny) and have made me enjoy the character more. "Ordinary Couple" directly replaced by "Something Good" which is unfortunate as I think the former is actually the better song. IMDB tells me this is a change that most theater companies now include in the stage play which I find sad, although the version I saw for my eleventh birthday retained the original (that's how I knew the extra songs existed).
On a completely different subject, my Aunt has decided to do Tapas for Christmas dinner and each member of the family is supposed to bring a small appatizer like dish to include in the Tapas spread. I am offering up Samosas, which I made for the first time yesterday. They turned out pretty good (atleast the four people who tried them all liked them and my brother had to be cut off for fear that I wouldn't have any left for the actual christmas meal); altough, they do have interesting and decidedly not pyramidal shapes. I think I started getting the hang of folding the dough correctly toward the end of my second batch of 14 Sumosas.
