#i love how her voice gets here. kudos to lindsay.

[laufire]

STACKED100 | march 15th | “we will rise” I have had enough of your stupid little jokes.

[lindsaymendezobsessed]

Ranking Lindsay Mendez's Roles

1.) Rose in DOGFIGHT: I’m pretty sure everyone who has even seen a second of her in this can agree, she CRUSHED this role. This part was perfect for her, in every way. The vocals were very different from her usual style, but in a wonderful way, her chemistry with Klena was off the charts and her emotions through the entire show were *chefs kiss*.

2.) Carrie in CAROUSEL: I mean, she won her Tony because of this role. (tho we all know that if Dogfight was on Broadway, she would have won for that as well.) Again, this role was very different from her normal style, but it was wonderful to see her branch out and do the classic soprano in a R&H show. Her vocals were beautiful, her embodiment of Carrie was lovely and the amount of joy she brought to that show was enchanting.

3.) Elphaba in WICKED: I really really enjoyed the choices she made with this show, she didn’t try and copy Idina, she brought her own style, her own voice and her own heart to the role. She played Elphaba in a way I’ve seen few portray her and for that reason, I really really enjoyed it. Again, her chemistry with Klena was stellar, her vocals were off the charts and just her amazing personality made this role so memorable. And wow, her INTG, NGD, and WAI are PERFECT.

4.) Sara on ALL RISE: It’s so cool getting to see Lindsay in a different environment, though my theater loving heart misses her on Broadway. I guess it’s good that she left about a year before the shutdown? Idk. Anyways, I really really enjoy this character, her chemistry with everyone is lovely. The way she plays such a protective friend over Emily is so so sweet and her friendship with Sherri is always hilarious to watch. I can’t wait to continue to see her in this and I hope she gets utilized more because she really does liven up the show!

5.) Performer in GODSPELL: I’d really love to rank this higher considering how “Bless the Lord” was my second most played song in 2020, but I had to. I ADORE Godspell, this cast is so amazing and the show is so fun and so personal but since her role is I guess, smaller, and she’s not exactly playing a “character” per se, I’m going to have to rank it lower compared to the others. As always, her vocals steal the show (I mean Stephen knew that she was going to be an Elphaba after working with her on this), and her fun personality really complement this show nicely. I especially love her chemistry with Telly in this show. All in all, really fun role and really great show!

6.) Jan in GREASE: Ok I’m going to be honest, I’m not a huge Grease fan, I mean I like it, but it’s definitely not on constant shuffle for me, and the whole plot kinda bugs me. Anyways, I really do like her portrayal of Jan, she’s so lively and fun and totally gets into her character. For her first Broadway role to have literally its own song and for her to sing that song so beautifully, I say kudos to her! Definitely not my favorite role of hers but I don’t dislike it at all.

7.) Laura in SIGNIFICANT OTHER: This show was so weird for me, to see her in a non musical, but I really enjoyed it. Her chemistry with Gideon, Sas and others was hilarious. She had so many great one liners and her whole character was so interesting. I don’t have too much to say on it since it’s not a musical but all in all I enjoyed her in it.

8.) Naomi in 21 CHUMP STREET: Yeah, I’m just going to leave this here. It really pains me to see the hate she gets from the teen theater community who only know her for being the girl who “Hurt their little Anthony” haha but yeah, not exactly my favorite role.

Others: So I’m not super familiar with the WINTERS TALE, EVERYDAY RAPTURE AND THE MARVELOUS WONDERETTES, so I don’t have much to say on them, but let me know what you guys think!

[passtheseppie]

JLY Analysis: The In-Depth Post

Hello and welcome to what may very well be the world’s longest post about Louis Tomlinson’s recent lyric video for his song “Just Like You”! You may have seen my prior posts about the video - here’s the link for my JLY tag if you want to catch up on my prior analysis! 

To preface, this post is the result of an actual frame-by-frame analysis of the entire video (all 6,155 frames), and it’s everything that I haven’t seen other bloggers mention.

I’m here to present the content of the video so that everyone has access to it! If I’m missing something, chances are I’ve already posted about it or saw someone else post about it, but feel free to send me a message if you spot something I didn’t catch!

 Anyway, let’s get on with it! Hopefully somebody reads through all of it, but it’s a lot, lmao. All 65 pages of my screenshot document are analyzed and laid out below the cut. 😎

First up is the headline under “whole world in my right hand”: All of the headlines that have visible words around/beneath them have obviously had the actual title replaced with the lyrics, but you can still source the original article if you have enough words. 

This is actually from the original wanted poster from the infamous Elizabeth Short case, often called the Black Dahlia case. The case has been unsolved since it occurred in 1947. 

Next is this travel deal, from a trip to Norway advertised in The Times. 

The crossed-out headline also in that frame says “really not a petrolhead”, which is from this article.

Next is this headline:

It comes from this article:

Near the Thomas Paine article is a review of this book:

Moving on to a series of cars:

“23″ written on the seat.

The above picture is actually this one of Lindsay Lohan with her black Porsche, from June 2013 as far as I can tell:

I didn’t try to find the other cars, but I believe they’re other celebrity car pics. Here’s one last one:

Next is another trip advertisement, which I believe is from a China Yangtze cruise.

The upper left text is from this football article:

This “party” headline is next:

It’s from this article, a review of a comedy that - according to the link - was first published all the way back in February, then recently update online. 

Funnily enough, one of the stars is a familiar name :-)

This next frame has quite a few articles:

The main two are these:

Here’s the frame with the relevant parts underlined:

I don’t know what the “global” logo is. On the right hand part of the frame is the obituary of Pat Sephton.

Pat, as the obituary title states, was the woman who founded the Bottoms Up strip club.

I don’t know where this next part appears in the video itself, because my document got mixed up in some places, but an anon pointed out to me that the megaphone featured is the same one in the History music video.

Some blue n green in this frame:

And this one:

The upper corner of this frame has a tiny clipping of an article:

These next two frames feature text from these two articles:

These two frames contain whited-out dialogue from a Dear Deidre column:

“I’ve, erm, I’ve been … Erm .. Well, now that you ask...”

“They said you weren’t working tonight, so where have you been?”

The green silhouettes are consistent with the couple in the article:

The article is about “Cathy” who’s cheating on her boyfriend, “Max”, with “Darren”. Darren is cheating on his girlfriend “Jill” with Cathy. 

Max and Jill actually end up together, both the victims of their boyfriend’s/girlfriend’s infidelity. Jill gets cold feet with her relationship with Max, and Darren feels the same about Cathy, so Jill and Darren try to work things out. In the end, Cathy gets left out in the cold - the cheater who started the whole mess.

Next up is the frame that the “happy eggs” article is on. It features a headline from Volume V, Issue VI of something, but who knows what. 

“Alex” hides onscreen for a few frames :-)

The full article is this one:

It discusses Manchester United at length. Interesting, given the fact that we know someone who is an avid fan of that particular team. :-)

If I remember right, he talked about Manchester United at his show this year, didn’t he? I digress - there are several more small mentions of the team, though looking through my document, I don’t think I screenshotted all of them. Interesting nonetheless. :-) Moving on!

An article about China’s Communist Party Congress.

I know we already found it, but here’s the pic and website of the Queens Arms, located in the Jewellery Quarter of Birmingham:

There are two articles in this frame:

This one about Andrea Pirlo, a footballer whose career ended this year: 

And this one about mental illness:

The quote that’s featured in the video is:

“'One in four of us will have some form of mental health episode at some stage in our life. If we're moving 400,000 passengers on the DLR each weekday, a significant number of our customers will be going through something, without necessarily showing the symptoms.”

This headline is from the following article about the National Trust:

The National Trust is the governing body of protected sites of natural beauty or historic significance. 

In the above frame is this article:

The text in this frame is from this article:

The National Trust comes back in this frame:

This is the article:

This next frame is rather content-heavy:

In the bottom-left corner is a photo of St. Vincent, from a review of her new album Masseducation. Kudos to Louis for adding another LGBTQ+ artist to the video - St. Vincent dated Cara Delevingne for 1.5 years :-) 

The same-sex marriage quote is from this article about Tim Minchin, a composer. 

The right-hand picture is from this article about Dizzee Rascal:

Finally, the upper-middle person is actually a sideboard called “Ziggy” from a bespoke handmade furniture site.

This was interesting to me because there’s obviously no person in the photo that was used - the animator just cut one out. I have no idea who it is, and I’m interested as to why the sideboard was advertised in a newspaper in the first place, considering it’s very limited edition. [shrugs]

This is from another horse-racing article:

It discusses a particularly feisty filly; fans of the horse are fighting for her to continue racing, but her manager is thinking about taking her off the track.

Carla Bruni, a musician, is featured here:

as I noted - the words featured are “world war”, “manipulating”, “exhausted”, and “tensest sense”. It’s a review of the World War II film “Land of Mine”, from this article:

This is from this article, a book review:

Beetle Bailey flashbacks! hahah

More Cillian Murphy mentions! I hope he’s hinting at an upcoming guest appearance on Peaky Blinders, lmao

This frame is from this article:

This headline is from this article, all the way back in 2014:

Anyone else getting flashbacks to.....

:-)

This frame is from a review of a Van Gogh movie called “Loving Vincent”

Not to be dramatic, but “revolutionary artist” is exactly how I would describe Louis :’)

I just thought it was funny that the dead-center word in this word search is....

OTP :-)

And yet another shout-out to Cillian! Me, too, Louis. Me, too. 

You may have seen in my prior analysis that “Ruby In The Dust” appeared, and I wasn’t sure what it referenced. This is actually the article it’s from:

This is the first line of that article:

:-)

The text on the right half of this frame is from this article: 

Hi, Manchester United :-)

This is an advertisement for McCarthy & Stone retirement homes. They have locations all over the UK, but the ads are location-specific - I thought this one was from Cheshire, but the phone number didn’t match up. It’s 0800-201-4215, but I can’t call it because I live in the US, so who knows where it’s from! [shrugs]

OTP shows up again!

We’ve already pointed out the nautical star, but I have to include it again because, as a lesbian, it makes me so happy :-)

my heart is warm :’)

I’m including this frame because I’m interested to hear other opinions - “Loui” was spelled and left up for a few seconds, then this end letter was added. It looks far too flat to be an “s”, IMO, so does anyone think it could be an “e” to spell “Louie”?

Finally, the last few frames are various articles with white paint obscuring most of the text. The “LGBT” article from earlier appears once at the beginning of the end segment, then it comes back at the very end. It’s the very last thing you see before the video ends :-)

And that’s the end! I’d like to thank @parodiesofuktabloids for helping me find the love rectangle Dear Deidre comic, and @ann-fortunately for her help with the mirror article! I’d also like to extend a major congratulations to Louis for creating a video that’s absolutely packed full of content - I really enjoyed researching everything featured. 

I couldn’t be prouder to be a fan of someone that so clearly has made a point to use his platform to represent marginalized voices through this video. As a lesbian, Louis’ representation of LGBTQ+ news and culture was particularly meaningful to me. I can’t thank him enough for putting this video together - it absolutely took an incredible amount of skill and intelligence to film and create, and I feel honored to have been the one to reverse-engineer it these past few weeks. 

Onto the next video, Louis? 😎

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Regarding Dean: Best 'Supernatural' episode of Season 12, so far

Regarding Dean has to be one of my favorite Supernatural episodes this season – it shows, distinctly, what great actors we have in Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles. Of course, Jensen gets the lion’s share of the scenes in this episode (it is called Regarding Dean, after all), but Jared’s role definitely doesn’t get lost – his skills are too great for that to happen. My first impression of Gideon Loughlin (played by Justin Turnbull) was that he was the victim of some unknown monster; I’m sure that wasn’t an uncommon thought. This scene was one of the few this episode where we see classic Dean – a confident Dean that knows what he’s doing. One of the things I noticed that was done with wardrobe was the state of Dean’s jacket – when he’s chasing Gideon, it’s the Dean we know and love – clean but still a bit rough around the edges. When it comes to the next scene, with that absolutely adorable bunny, Dean’s jacket – and Dean himself – is definitely more rough than not. I’m about 99% positive that the restaurant location used for the breakfast diner is an IHOP (if anyone knows for sure, I’d be interested in confirming this). I’ve been to many in Vancouver, and they all have a certain … look. This scene has one of my favorite lines in this episode – after Elka (played by the lovely Lindsay Winch) slaps him – “Yup, epic night.” The two trot off to the morgue to investigate their case – in which an accountant suffocates on a pile of money -- to find out that with a hex bag involved, it’s indeed one of “their kind” of cases. So far Sam has thought that Dean was still recovering from an all-night bender, and it isn’t until Dean can’t figure out how to reverse Baby – much less remember which key to use – that he gets the inkling that something just isn’t quite right. (Makes you wonder how many times Sam and Dean have been in this situation before. Probably a lot.) Both Jared and Jensen’s acting in this scene, the one in Baby, are totally spot on. At the beginning, Sam’s just laughing it off … but when Dean forgets his name (only for a second, but still) it’s obviously become a serious matter. Sam realizes that he needs some assistance, and – inadvertently -- ends up calling in for recruitments, in the nature of our favorite red-headed witch – Rowena. Although it’s a small scene, I quite enjoyed the one of Rowena playing poker. It gives us an insight into what she does when she’s not casting spells – although, her magic still comes into play when she turns her cards into a set of aces. Quite a good trick, that. What I love about this episode is that it could so easily become strictly serious – however, there are many lighthearted moments (Dory, anyone?) that just made me giggle. Also; I wonder how long it took Jared to write all those sticky notes? After talking to Rowena, and finding out the only way to get Dean’s memory back is to kill the witch, Sam and Dean set out to retrace Dean’s steps, and return to the accountant’s office. Kudos to the crew for the fast forward through the door to the accountant’s office – that was very well done. I also learned something about our Dean – who knew the guy liked cigars? Dean apparently went for burgers after the accountant’s office (surprise, surprise) and continuing to retrace Dean’s steps, they end up at a bar where we again see Elka. The look on Dean’s face when he forgets how to explain he and Sam are FBI agents was picture perfect. And Sam rolling his eyes when Elka says Dean was amazing? Priceless! There are many good guest star roles in this episode – and Elka’s is one of them. Lindsay’s tone of voice and facial expression when she talks about taking advantage of Dean (and following which, Dean’s reaction) was hilarious … and I have to wonder if “Now salsa you mittens!” was Jensen actually trying to read his own lips, or if that was scripted. Either way – kudos. Sam’s “Now that’s comedy” is another favorite line of mine – poor Dean, not being able to remember his time with Elka …. They find the video footage from the bar the night before, and of course, Dean can’t remember a thing about what’s on the screen … Now. As a fangirl, I have to say I love fourth wall breaks – and “Watching myself on Netflix” gets me each of the three times I watched this episode. I love it when the show gives us viewers a wink and a nod … it’s great to be validated! Back to Sam and Dean. They’ve found out who the witch is, and set out in the woods to continue retracing Dean’s steps – after Sam gives Dean “the talk” – yes Dean, there are monsters. The look that comes over Sam’s face when he realizes that he is giving Dean the same talk that they’ve given to uncountable civilians is … well, indescribable.  It’s almost in disbelief, like he can’t believe it’s happening. The boys traipse through the woods (another one of my favorite lines occurs here – “Our best friend’s an angel. Whaaaaa?”) to find Gideon dead – there goes the easy way to fix Dean – and some Celtic runes on the tree (anyone else find Sam’s knowledge on esoteric things amazing?). This next scene – back in the motel room – was an emotional roller coaster. I went from giggling at Dean’s comment on Rowena’s bouncy hair, and her “Do we have to fix him?” to utter sadness when Rowena says that Dean’s going to die … and then back to laughing again when Dean says, “Sucks for that guy!” During this exchange, and the next one in the bathroom, Jared’s acting is perfection. His look of loss when Rowena says that Dean’s going to die, and after telling Dean his life story – him staying strong for his older brother, and still trying to look on the bright side of things and saying, “We’ll figure it out.” It breaks my heart. This episode review would not be complete with a comment on Jensen’s acting in that bathroom scene. Speechless. That’s what it left me – looking into the camera/mirror and strictly with facial expressions alone conveying a complete and utter loss of memory. Wow. I love this show – and I love our boys. Back in the motel room, Rowena and Sam are discussing what to do next. This line? It was so epically Supernatural … about our brothers, about the family … “I’ve seen my brother die. But watching him become not him … this might actually be worse.” That’s some heavy stuff. The unshed tears in Sam’s eyes – and the frustration when Rowena mentions getting the spellbook … that’s damn good acting. Sam sets off to get the spellbook from the Loughlin siblings, and Rowena’s left back at the motel room babysitting Dean. Literally – Dean’s like a five-year-old, getting into everything until Rowena gives him a voodoo doll and some pins to play with. (Of course, she carries around voodoo dolls. This is Rowena we’re talking about.) Rowena’s role in this entire episode definitely gives us some idea of what she’s thinking – she tells Dean about meeting the Loughlin's back when she came to the country and being thrown out by them. She talks about power, and how if God and his sister can’t be happy, what hope is there for her? It’ll be interesting to see where that storyline goes … Meanwhile, Sam has found the Loughlin house – and I have to take a second to say I hope this library is real because the reader in me is absolutely lusting after it. I want that library! Anyway, Sam confronts Boyd and Catriona and ends up being tied to a chair. Again. What is with Sam and chairs in this season? Really? Sam’s inner goodness – and willingness to see the goodness in everyone – comes to play in this scene. He’s tied to a chair, yet he still tries to appeal to Boyd’s better side (if he has one) … trying to convince Boyd that he doesn’t have to play by his sister’s rules. Of course, it would be no fun if Boyd agrees, so we find out that Boyd and Catriona are planning to switch Sam’s soul for their dead brother’s. Lovely. We cut back to the Impala to see Dean waking up to yet another sticky note – one explaining that his brother has been kidnapped (Dean’s repeat of “stupid car” made me smile – even when he’s losing himself, he still knows Baby is definitely not stupid) and one saying “Stay.” (I do believe that is actually Ruth Connell’s writing. Very apropos.) I have to mention that I absolutely adore Tirra Dent’s character (Catriona). The use of her sing-song when she has Rowena up against the wall? Perfect. And Rowena’s line – “Nothing heals old wounds like opening fresh ones” is so obviously Rowena. Back at the Impala, Dean has bypassed the “Stay” and has made his way to Baby’s trunk … where there’s a very large NO on the rocket launcher (loved that touch) and a “Witch killing bullets” and “This gun.” Rowena is still up against the wall, and Dean – who has lost his ability to speak -- walks in pointing a gun at Catriona … his raised eyebrow after raising the “Witch killing bullets” sticky notes … well, it was wonderful. So Dean kills the witch(es) … Rowena casts the spell … and Dean’s back to normal, right? “Who’s this hippy?” and its effect on Sam was funny in a very evil way. Not surprising though, considering the pranks that the boys play on each other. It’s obvious – to me – how much Sam has grown. He says he was a little jealous – at first – of Dean because Dean couldn’t remember a thing about being a hunter. But I think he saw just how much of being a hunter is Dean – and himself, for that matter – and losing that would be like losing a part of himself. The scene ends with a grin to make Sam fans’ heart flutter, and a reminder to Dean that the Impala’s key is the shiny one. To wrap this up – I truly believe Dean remembers everything from what happened during his memory loss. I might be wrong, but the fact that he says “Blank, mostly” to Rowena and the look on his face – and the montage intertwined with Dean riding the bull (thanks for that, by the way) … it just makes me think that everything is still there. What do you think? This is my first Supernatural episode review – so my apologies if I miss anything. As with any family, I'm sure someone in the #SPNFamily will find something to say.

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