Life Update // In which Peter Pevensie is my spirit animal

So.  I was planning on writing a post about Twenty One Pilots (because they are alghslkgalgh *cries* so amazing I can't even) BUT apparently my emotions decided "NO MORE DEEP THOUGHTS AND POETRY AND BROKEN SAD REFLECTIONS FOR YOU"

my emotions literally

So, thanks to my ever-changing mood, I am too happy to sob over Tyler and Josh and their aggressive screamo ukulele piano rap music. 


Terribly sorry.  I can't help it.  Let's just say this happened and I stopped being Tyler and instantly switched to Josh mode somehow:


My brain decided to be Josh now so yes happyhappyhappy

SO TIME FOR A LIFE UPDATE.  WOOP WOOP.  I haven't done one of these in a while...


Exciting thing #1:  I have decided that Peter Pevensie is my spirit animal. 

I feel like this is basically the entire first movie right here.  Peter trying to be an adult and failing for the most part.  But he is also an oldest sibling with a bunch of younglings to look out for because RESPONSIBLITY OF THE ELDEST.  AND I FEEL THAT.  I can relate with Peter so much it's not even funny anymore.  If my sibs and I ended up in Narnia, I would probably repeat Peter's words/actions like a script and that look of "WHY IS THIS HAPPENING TO ME NO STOP CHILDREN I'M TRYING TO DO THIS FOR YOUR OWN GOOD AND I HAVE NO IDEA ABOUT ANYTHING BUT I'M GONNA WING IT" 

But he is such an oldest sibling.  I can't even.  He talks like an oldest sibling, he acts like one, ALGHSLGH.  So many times books and movies don't get siblings right, BUT THEY NAILED IT HERE.  *applauds*


Also his sword.  Is epic. 

Exciting thing #2:  I SAW THE PLAY OF LES MISERABLES. 

Not the Broadway one, of course.  This was a teen theatre group, but don't let that fool you.  This cast.  Oh my word.  They sang and acted as good as--NO BETTER--than most Broadway casts I've heard.  THE KID WHO PLAYED JEAN VALJEAN (who was like 19 years old) sounded like Hugh Jackman crossed with Alfie Boe and and and....I don't even know anymore. 

The rest of the cast was equally brilliant.  Especially Enjolras.  He was PERFECT.  PERFECT, I TELL YOU.  He was blond and blue-eyed (YES they got that right) and he was like an Aaronjolras Jr. because he walked, talked, sang, and had that fiery revolutionary grimness about him.  (Apologies for my terrible descriptions.  My words aren't working today.)


Here is a pic of the barricade under attack:

isn't it perfect...

The Thenardiers were amazing.  They definitely used the movie version as a model, because Thenardier was like Sacha Baron Cohen on steroids and it was hilarious. 


Gavroche was...wow.  I actually know the kid who played him, he was in a few shows in my theatre group, but I had never seen him act this good before.  His death scene was so good and realistic for an 8 year old kid.  I feel so untalented now. 


Okay.  So because I haven't seen the play before, I had no idea how different Empty Chairs At Empty Tables was from the movie.  I mean, the movie version of that song was sad, and I teared up, but when I saw the play version.  Oh my goodness.  I was crying so hard when all the Barricade Boys came out behind Marius, all happy and everything, then holding the candles. 

I don't think there was a dry eye in the whole auditorium at the end, and this was a YOUTH GROUP.  I didn't think that a cast of non-professional teens and kids could get me so into the story that I was bawling my eyes out at the ending.  It was so good though.  And then people were trying to talk to me afterwards and I couldn't talk to them because then I'd start crying again.  Does that ever happen to you?

Exciting Thing #3:  I started a new series and IT IS AMAZINGGGGGG. 

I saw this book at my library bookstore and because I am a magnet drawn to pretty covers, I HAD to buy this.  Because a) THE COVER IS SO BEAUTIFUL I CAN'T EVEN and b) it's obviously about my most favorite animal in the world, white tigers, and I love white tigers with the fierce love of a mother armadillo so. 


It collected dust on my TBRTP (To Be Read: Top Priority) shelf for weeks and weeks (because my Top Priority shelf isn't really 'top priority' I just try to trick myself into thinking that it is because I have literally no motivation whatsoever) and then a friend asked me if I had read that book and I said "OH I HAVE THAT. I TOTALLY FORGOT ABOUT THAT BOOK.  I MUST READ IT"


So I did.  Even though I had more important things to be doing.

I regret nothing.  It is such an amazing, captivating, beautiful book.  ABOUT WHITE TIGERS AND CHIVALROUS, HANDSOME PRINCES AND BROTHERS AND INDIA AND MYTHOLOGY AND ROMANCE AND DANGER AND it's perfect.  Perfect, I tell you. 


If you haven't read it, you must.  I insist.  Do it now.  Shoo.


Exciting thing #4:  I watched "Interstellar" and decided that it is one of the greatest films ever made.  I CRIED HARDER FOR THAT THAN I HAD FOR LES MISERABLES.  It was so sad and sweet and my feels ugh.  It was the best father/daughter story I had ever seen.  I love stories like that, and this one was so ingenious and amazing and destroyed my feels.  Also now I want to be an astronaut again.  I never stopped wanting to be an astronaut, but when I was 9 my mom took me to NASA and ever since I wanted to be an astronaut.  Watching "Doctor Who", "Gravity", and "Interstellar" only made me want to go to space even more. 


This also was what inspired us (COUGH me) to randomly yell "MATT DAMON" at people because I really have no idea why.  But Matt Damon was in that movie so I blame that. 


Well that's all for this post....I know there were other exciting things I was going to share with y'all, but I forgot what they were. 


Bye, y'all. 

Who is your spirit animal?  Isn't Peter Pevensie amazing?  HAVE YOU SEEN THE PLAY OF LES MISERABLES.  Have you read The Tiger's Curse and if not why aren't you reading it right now?  Do you want to be an astronaut, too?