crazyashley

So... I have a few new pics and art pieces I want to post...but Devi won't let me.  Every time I try to load I get a load bar that stays at 1% and NEVER FUCKING MOVES!!!  someone please tell me what is going on.  I have internet explorer and windows 8 and I've uploaded from this laptop before.  the only thing different id my virus pro, which is AVG, and I've used that in the past as well!  Artist Overboard, HELP!!!

soo...I couldn't get to sleep at all last night, and wound up thinking about the above a lot more than I should have.  I feel lost at the moment.  My house burnt down two months ago...thankfully all are fine, but it's turned my world on it's ear, and i'm utterly and completely lost. I have no idea what i'm going to do with my life now.  I'm still in the navy reserves, but that just feels like i'm playing responsible adult 2 days a month.  I still feel like i'm in highschool, except all my friends grew up around me and left, and i'm stuck a dumb, clueless teenager. I know what I want to do, but I know it's not practical or even really feasible at this point.  I'm planning on going to medical assistant school this fall, but I dread it, because I know i'll be miserable.  but I feel like I have all these expectations piled on me by my family...and of course I can't bring it up to them because they'll get mad and say they don't have them and nobody will get anywhere.  My friends are all over the map and I feel so less mature than them anyway, I don't feel like I can talk to them either.  I just can't seem to get my shit and my life together, and I have to wonder if it's like this for everyone or if I just suck at being 24.  I'm talking to this guy online I really want to meet, but he's so well put together and on his way to whatever fulfilled adulthood is i'm almost ashamed to go ahead, for fear I'll drag him down.

someone out there please tell me they understand, or at least that things get better, i'm driving myself crazy!

So, Andrew Lloyd Webber seems to have seen the Le Mis movie...okay, I can live with that.  he's a grown man, he can see whatever he wants.  Whatevs.  HOWEVER!  He seems to have taken inspiration from the latest retelling of the musical (which is by one of his greatest competitors in the musical field, FYI) so now....CATS movie.

 

Now I hear you saying, But crazyashley, you love CATS! you've dressed as them, gone to the live show, written and drawn them.  seen the movie over 300 times.

I'll repeat that.  Seen the movie. Over. 300. times.

see the issue I have here?  if I've seen it over 300 times, the movie obviously already exists...so why is he making another one?  Again inspiration.  also, it'll be 'live action' takes, like Les Mis (which technically, is exactly what the first one was).  there are exactly 2 ways for this to turn out.  it'll either be awesome...or a shitstorm over a manure swamp. 

why a shitstrom over a manure swamp? because, other than the exclusion of the Growltiger scene, which I can forgive, because poor Sir John Mills was blind at the time of filming, the original VHS that most of us had (or DVD, for you younger lot) is damn near perfect.  yes, they leave a bit out here and there, but it was formatted for VHS, and therefore had time constraints. but the cast was perfect, the music wonderfully more complex than a live performance because you can do that in a movie score, and the production live action enough that you could easily be convinced they did everything in only a few takes.

now, Webber could improve it, but it would be hard, very hard.  and that is what worries me.  Webber from the first recording was in his prime.  today's Webber, while still nothing to sneeze at, is no longer the transatlantic powerhouse he once was. (LND, anyone?) so those are my reasons for worrying over the new CATS.   What're yours?