I spent about three hours this morning doing my math and science (biology. I have to memorize thewhole anatomy of the crawdad, both inside and out. It’s not going well yet.) and world book and handwriting. I’d just finished my math and lunch (a box of cherries) when my parents were shouting, “We’re going to look at a house. Do you want to come?” I figured I could lose an hour of school, so I got in the car and looked at the house.
The house was okay.
Then, we’re in the car, and my mother asks me what I was doing all morning. I said I’d been doing math, and she said she thought I’d been asleep. So it turns out we got the day off today. And we get tomorrow off too. So I’ve done my schoolwork for Monday!
More unique words from the three year old:
Lily wants to kill a mockingbird…
Do we have that in South Africa?
–(email from Kate to Madeleine, on 21 October, 2008)
The way you capitalized it look likes lily would like to kill a mokingbird, presumably with a weapon of some sort. :)
I don’t think we have it.
–(email from Madeleine to Kate, in reply, on 21 October, 2008)
I GOT TO SEE HSM3!
I EVEN USED THE ACRONYM FOR HIGHSCHOOLMUSICALTHREE!
Seriously speaking though, I did see it. And, assuming that we are all aware of how not so great any High School Musical movie is, it wasn’t the worst High School Musical movie. The worst of the three they’ve made is most definitely the second. The kind of plotless copy of the first.
Now, before you say, “hey! Madeleine thought this was a good movie… I’ll go see it!” And do go see it, please understand I’m not suggesting this movie. I’m simply giving credit to a bigger budget in creating a better movie.
That said, if you want to see a High School Musical, and haven’t yet, I would suggest this one. I would never suggest seeing them all. They are very repetitive: basically the same plot idea, similar songs, and the same characters with the same conflicts.
I also suggest taking someone with you who will enjoy making a joke of the movie. If you need a laugh, this is the movie for you!
You’ve got the scene where Troy and Gabriella are in Troy’s tree house, and singing. They go inside, and mysteriously the roof opens, an action which takes at least 30seconds if not a minute. 15seconds after it opens, they are outside again, and the roof has magically closed.
You’ve got another angry Troy song and dance scene. In the first, Troy is actually quite good at keeping his anger in check. In the second, he is so angry he manages to make jumping around on a golf course look like the grand canyon, complete with agonizingly sorrowful poses. In the third, he goes to school at like 8pm (why does he assume the school will be open at 8pm?) and runs through the hallways, tearing down a poster of himself (a huge, two story tall poster in the cafeteria, that absolutely no one would ever notice the absence of!) and sliding around a rotating hallway like some 80s music video.
Then, there are the magically changing lockers. The one day, they’ve got black and blue wildcat logos. The next day, they’re a pristine and blank white. What kind of a school has people come in late at night to redo lockers? (Although the late night redecoration would explain why Troy thought school would be open at 8pm).
There’s the whole problem with the prom ‘frock’ that wasn’t actually in the movie.
And then there’s the wimpy ending. Throughout all of these movies, Troy struggles with whether he should pursue basketball or theatre. In this movie, as the seniors, being seniors, are going to college he must pick. Instead of picking one or the other, he says he’s going to pick both!
Wait! That’s not picking, that’s staying undecided!
And, worst of all, there’s my brain. As we drive home from this movie, guess what I had stuck in my head.
It’s not even just a song from High School Musical: that would be reasonable, as they are quite catchy.
No. My head has
“This is the last time to get it right! [...] This is the last chance [here, we go from: 'Now Or Never', sung by Troy, from HSM3, to: 'Start of Something New', sung by Gabriella, from HSM1] This could be the start [...] of something new [...] it feels so right to be here with you. This is the last time to get it right! [...] This is the last chance [...] This could be the start [...] of something new [...] it feels so right to be here with you.”
On a repetitive replay, complete with switching songs, movies and singers right in the middle.
So you’ll probably be fine going and seeing the movie, but only if you bring along a lighthearted outlook on all the flaws, someone to make fun of it with, and leave my brain, because this combo I’d come up with was worse than ‘If We Were a Movie’, by Hannah Montana.
This one has the entertainment working for it; a whole nice room upstairs.
Now, besides these ads and houses being quite funny, I’m not spending my days randomly perusing housing listings in the area.
We may very well need to move by December 7th, so my parents are house hunting. The only of those which we would look at for actual buying/renting are the one with the nice room upstairs, the room my family calls ‘The Bali House’ (just don’t ask me why), and the one with the indoor pool, etc.
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