#wao request hour 2013

[arodrwho]

rules: answer 30 questions and tag 20 blogs you would like to get to know better.

was tagged by @chromalogue​ (thank!!)

1. nicknames: the ro friend calls me ace, little sister 1 calls me dork, and and little sister 2 goes back and forth between “face,” “faish,” and “fishy” bc she adorably can’t pronounce my name proper (which tbh no kids ever rly can)

2. gender: mostly a girl, sometimes more, sometimes less

3. star sign: virgo

4. height: 5′1

5. time: 11:10pm

6. birthday: sept. 3

7. favorite bands: ehhhhhh i don’t ? rly listen to bands a whole lot uh. poets of the fall is nice, and fun., and nickelback, and ? others

8. favorite solo artists: uhhhh well tracy chapman’s always gonna be up there, fond of amos lee too, and p!nk, and julia nunes, & ?? others again

9. song stuck in my head: “i’ve got a dream” from tangled and “pizza” by julia nunes have both drifted through a couple times while writing this, also “when the sun goes down” from in the heights

10. last movie i watched: the incredibles!!

11. last show i watched: uhhhh i just watched the latest supergirl ep, but like fuck that bc the whole...nazi crap they’re pulling. soooo let’s talk the last show i watched in the marathon sense, which is leverage. love me some leverage

12. when did i create my blog: 2013

13. what do i post: if we’re talking original posts then complaining mostly? but if we’re talking reblogs then dr who stuff (+bonus leverage and fringe)

14. last thing i googled: “in california if you’re on your parents’ insurance can they tell what doctor’s visits you’ve had”. (answer: surprisingly not always! under certain circumstances u get privacy)

15. do i have any other blogs: yyyyyyep. i’ve got the doomblog over @aroacenbdrwhoquotes, and i’ve got a writing blog i never use @greencomposition, anD i’ve also got a sort of....personal sideblog for junk i don’t want followers i know irl to see (which is in theory give-out-able on request but in practice [vague shrug])

16. do i get asks: ehhh rarely

17. why i chose my url: because i’m the most sentimental fuck who’s ever lived (read: it’s taken from the title of a picture book my mom bought me the day i was adopted) (it’s” called the tin forest” and it’s a rly good book, w/themes i can’t quite word but feel v strongly about)

18. following: uhhhh 163

19. followers: 458

20. average hours of sleep: mmm bout 8

21. lucky number: 4

22. instruments: the tiniest possible amount of violin 

23. what I’m wearing: dude jeans, college t-shirt i got for free, mismatch socks one of which has lil sheeps on it and says “black sheep of the family” which is.....ironic & mildly hilarious, considering. aND also a v soft hoodie w/3 whole avengers on it (hulk, thor, & iron man)

24. dream job: writer. pls let me make the words go for dollars

25. dream trip: uhhhh well, if we take “dream” to its extreme, then i’d say a trip Anywhere in the tardis (except somewhere there’s plague, bc uhhhhh no thx)

26. favourite food: [samwise gamgee voice] PO-TA-TOES. boil ‘em, mash ‘em, stick ‘em in a stew

27. nationality: american, unfortunately

28: favourite song right now: uhhhhhh idk that i have a favorite song rn tbh. am not as wild into music as other folks. like i like it but i also....disengage from it for long periods of time, sorta forget it’s a thing i can listen to, & am only just slipping back into it after one of those periods, so. i got nothin

29. last book I read: uhhhh i read some of the brief wondrous life of oscar wao for class? but non-class-wise, i’m in the middle of rereading good omens

30. top three fictional universes: dr who ofc, and i wanna say fringe and leverage bc those are the shows i’m most into rn buuuuut there is also the fact that hp owns my entire damn soul, and that the young wizards universe is cool as Heck. so...gonna have to actually say dr who, hp, and yw. yeah (wAIT but star wars??? can i have four bc if i can then also star wars)

friiiiick if i’m tagging 20 people lmao but i’ll do a few i guess? @killuabs @keepthemacramesecret @fangoriousfae @autisticpadfoot and ??? whoever else the heck wants to do this, consider urself tagged

[thestarswhichremain]

The Wao Request Hour 2013 DVD is now on sale! It's going for ￥12,000, is 88 minutes long, and includes a 28-page booklet with photos of the live.

Unfortunately, it seems to be limited to WFC members, since I don’t see it listed anywhere else. I’d love to get my hands on it, but alas, I do not live in Japan, so joining WFC would be pretty difficult; not to mention I’m way too green to do so, it’d be disrespectful.

Setlist

1. WING (W-Wing)

2. Never Say Goodbye (Never Say Goodbye)

3. 僕らの未来 (WAO 1st)

4. ONE HEART (Never Say Goodbye)

5. 僕の悲劇を聞いてくれ (Phantom)

6. マンリーコの恋歌 (A Kiss to the Flames)

7. LA LA LA LOVESONG (originally sung by Kubota Toshinobu)

8. La Vie en Rose (originally sung by Edith Piaf)

9. 炎のたからもの (originally sung by BOBBY for Lupin the Third: Castle of Cagliostro)

10. AWAKE (WAO 1st)

So many Takarazuka songs. It makes me happy and sad at the same time... I really love 「マンリーコの恋歌」 and 「僕の悲劇を聞いてくれ」, though, so it’s great to see that she sang them here, especially because it means that other people love those songs too! It’s a pity that Ohana isn’t there to sing “ONE HEART” with her, but since it was only a harmonising part it’s not that bad.

As an aside, Taka-chan sang “LA LA LA LOVESONG” at the 1997 TCA Special, so the request wasn’t completely out of the blue. The irony that she was requested to sing “La Vie en Rose”, which Ohana sang both at that same event and when playing Piaf in the 2010 production of Dietrich, does not escape me either...

[don-dake]

Waoderful (ref)

[thestarswhichremain]

Pretty old news (i.e. concerning something that happened over a year ago), but I thought it was very cute how when Saika Ryo went to "Wao Request Hour 2013", she bumped into quite a few other people she knew from Takarazuka. Apparently something similar happened on the first day of the 2011 Dracula production, so I'm not quite sure whether they do so in the spirit of supporting an OG, or because they're Taka-chan fans themselves, but either way it's cute~

The first picture is Saika with fellow 88th-generation Siennes Ayane Raira and another whom she refers to as Yumi but whose full name I cannot find, the second with 89th-generation Shirahana Remi, and the third with 91st-generation Harusaki Koron. If anyone knows who this mysterious 88th-gen "Yumi" is, please do tell and I'll add her name in!

[don-dake]

Alternate angle shots.  Think I prefer these shots of にんに君 and Waocula better, haha. And great, Wao is having another Special Concert soon in November, 2013. Ref: (here) & (here)