We're on a mission from God.

[tzikeh]

My roommate shrift is not exactly a fan of musicals. In fact, it's the #1 way she differentiates herself from nestra.

But.


tzikeh: NESTRA - we have a MISSION
nestra: Okay...
tzikeh: shrift *actually said*, OUT LOUD, last night - "I should really sit down one day and watch the good musicals."
tzikeh: We must make a LIST.
nestra: Oh, god.
tzikeh: I KNOW!
nestra: Little does she know.
tzikeh: What happened was Victor/Victoria was on tv, she was in the kitchen and I was flipping channels and stopped there because, hey, Victor/Victoria. We were laughing because it's FUCKING FUNNY
nestra: I WAS WATCHING THAT TOO!
tzikeh: IT'S FATE!
tzikeh: And we talked about how if they remade it today, King would *not* find out she was a woman before he said "I don't care if you are a man" and kissed her.
nestra: That could be totally hot. ahem.
tzikeh: YES IT WOULD BE HOT
tzikeh: I said "I guess this is a musical you can take because all the singing is in a show, and not part of the movie." and she said, probably.
tzikeh: anyway, so - late last night just as she was going to bed, I was watching Pirates of Penzance because TiVo brought it to me and I haven't seen it in a great while.
nestra: Pirates!
tzikeh: And she was in the living room briefly and I said hey - you should watch just a little of this - it's Kevin Kline in thigh-high leather boots. and she said "... okay!" so I just showed her the Pirate King number. And then she uttered those words. Those words we never thought we'd hear.
tzikeh: we're on a mission from God, nestra.
nestra: Until she flees the apartment and never comes back.
nestra: "What happened?" "Musicals."
tzikeh: BWAH
tzikeh: but seriously - Victor/Victoria was 1982? 25 years ago. We can remake it! and this time we can cast a woman one might *possibly* believe is a man. Which is really the only drawback of the film. Because, dude. Just... no.
nestra: Heh. That was my husband's comment.
nestra: She will have to watch Music Man at some point so she can beta my probably-will-never-be-written SGA Music Man story.
tzikeh: ...
tzikeh: see, now I'm inclined to bar her from ever watching Music Man.
nestra: It would be BRILLIANT. John Sheppard, confidence man.
tzikeh: tell me Rodney is the librarian. go ahead - tell me
nestra: Rodney McKay, brilliant but bitter librarian who had to stay behind in this STUPID small town to take care of his sister.
tzikeh: *cries*
nestra: AWESOME, I tell you. The think system!
tzikeh: ...
nestra: Rodney teaches piano in his spare time, of course.
tzikeh: GARY underwater Gary UNDERwater Gary underwater let me say it once again....
tzikeh: I think we should really start her off with shit she'll dig - like killer cannibal barbers and their cannibal slut neighbors.
nestra: I said eventually. She doesn't have to watch it first.
tzikeh: I was also thinking stuff with people she is familiar with, so I'm browsing about for that too
nestra: Singing in the Rain.
tzikeh: well, NATURALLY
tzikeh: Is it possible she really hasn't seen that?
nestra: You can ask, but you may not like the answer.
tzikeh: Mocking shrift is fun.
nestra: Although mocking her for not having seen musicals...we're sort of a few notches down the cool scale there.
tzikeh: Fine. Shrift is inarguably cooler than us. But we know all of the colors in Joseph's coat, which is a GREAT PARTY TRICK.
nestra: Still not helping on the cool scale, though. *g*
tzikeh: Pfft. Details.