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A Twilight spoof

Hahaha. Although I will say that I bet the movie will be better than the books. Bad books often make decent movies. Because you don’t have to deal with the author’s voice or poor word choices, etc, and directors will fill in holes left by the author and a good actor will invest the character with motivation the author didn’t bother to give in the book. Movie scriptwriters are not the author, so they are free to see the story objectively, put themselves in the audience’s shoes and make the story into something they believe will come off better onscreen.

With a better book series and the wrong director and the wrong script, this could be bad news, but for Twilight it might actually help. Even if the trailer does look kinda cheesy.

Snape!doll arrived today! Finally! He's wonderful and worth both the money and the wait. But I can't buy another doll that expensive for a few months.

And I found a Burberry bag at Goodwill. Actually,I found two but I could only afford one.



As I said, one of my birthday presents was tickets to see A Prairie Home Companion at the Meadowbrook Farm. My parents started listening to that show on the radio before I was even born, so I grew up with it every Saturday night (and later, Sunday afternoons). I don't even care that it's not really my kind of music, I've always wanted to see it live.

Well, we didn't get lost but we had to go all the way back to Manchester because my sister left them at her house. An hour trip turned into three hours. Our seats were uncomfortable and awful but that's okay. They had a big screen.

The musical guest was a woman whose name I don't remembr but she did a good
version of this song. A Google search implies she is the original artist. Hmm.

Only I kept thinking of different words, "He loves his damned old vampire clan, as much as he loves me
Someday soon, gonna turn me, someday soon"

The Rhubarb show is not officially recorded and won’t be broadcast on the radio, and the sound effects sketch with Fred Newman was specifically tailored to a New Hampshire audience, so if you weren’t there, you’ll never know why the phrase “Oh no! Not my weekend home!” is so hilarious.

Basically, the sound effects sketch consists of Garrison improvising a story, and Newman doing the sound effects for it, while Garrison attempts to stump him (like including Loons singing “Hall of the Mountain King”) you can see a bit of this type of thing in the “Prairie” movie. This time he started talking about how generally creepy New England is, and how you can’t trust a place with mountains because things roll down mountains. And then he starts describing avalanches and earthquakes that split the ground and dinosaurs rise up and start terrorizing the people, including ripping up their vacation homes and throwing them in the ocean. It ended with demented dolphins using submarines to shoot down meteors and the people of Manchester defeating pterodactyls by playing them bagpipe music.

He also seemed to enjoy not being beholden to the FCC.