Would you kindly read this post

CHAPTER 24

WARNING: May contain spoilerz! (Adam on a Cloud) - Mikado Mikadon't - Broke your parole? (The Playschool Code) - Moctober & Hair=cool - That's a wrap (the nearly final paragraph) - Not so hidden meanings... again

Continuing the style from the other day...

"There's a fascination frantic with a ruin that's romantic." Well, this is certainly correct when the world of ruined Rapture is concerned! I have recently, and at the same time not so recently, abdicated from my senses and invested in a copy of Bioshock. This is nothing strange, except that I don't own a XBox 360. But, Nick my friend does, and he is quite willing for me to use his console to house my game. SO in awe I was of this unique game that I was compelled to buy it, and would urge you all to do the same. At first glance it is your run of the mill FPS (Fairly Pathetic Storyline or more accurately First Person Shooter) but it quickly reveals itself to be far more than this... and that's just in the demo! The world of Rapture is an underwater city built in our 1920's, but when our story starts it's the 1950's and the city is ill kept and not quite right... I love the whole thing, but if I had to choose I'd say my favourite part of this game would have to be the story telling. Part of it is in the linear way the character moves through the game, part through your interaction with characters and other AI in the game , but the largest part is (in my opinion) in Audio Devices which you can pick up and listen to while in the game. If you don't grab them, then the story is bland and uninteresting (and makes very little sense) but if you hunt and find and listen, then the true richness of the world of Rapture as it is and was is truly unfolded, and that is the magic of it. If you want the story you can get it, but if you don't you can skip huge parts of it. The game is about choice (be it the choice to listen or run-through, kill or save, destroy to heal or pay to be healed another day), but ultimately it is about a rich world, and the way the creators impart this world and story... God I love it!!!

The Mikado will soon go to 'air' as the audiences come in! It is shaping up to be a brilliant show, but it needs more audiences. They will be good but we want great! So would you kindly book tickets to the Mikado and come see it! Tonight was our second night running the show in the Ford Theatre at GPAC (if you can't trust GPAC who can you trust!?) and for me it was a very good run. I only really messed up once and for most of it was really on top of the thing and just had fun with it... but I need to now remember WHAT I did that was great!! I know there was stuff that was funny that I added in just that night, but I can't for the life of me remember what it all was! Oh well, hopefully everyone else does what they did so that when the time comes I shall remember what I did and do it again!

Les Mis is still on my brain (and in my ears right now! Thank-you 10th anniversary CD!) and looks to be that way for a while yet! After listening to a couple of other versions I really think that the 10th anniversary English one really is the best I have seen. Philip Quast was stunning as Javert... Hell, they were all brilliant! Apart from Eponine mixing her accents the damned thing was flawless! I love Les Mis...

I am currently wearing a mustache and it's driving me insane! I am hoping that I can get rid of it as soon as the Mikado is over, which means that around the time I shave off the facial hair Glenn will be shaving off (or just cutting) his celebrated dreads. I think if he keeps his facial hair and straightens whatever hair is left it will look quite fetching, but he is having deep psychological battles of the "inner" variety over how this will affect his "coolness" and "awesomeness" and "smecksy-ness" and "golf swing, especially on those 3par courses you know"..... but I think he's just making stuff up!

So after all that, if you've read this far (not that I think anyone but me reads these anymore... oh well, PROVE ME WRONG!) then thanks a bundle! Now, I have to head to bed as it is late and I need to sleep, or so I'm told. So would you kindly comment on this and previous posts, and I'll see you all at the Mikado!

More explanations of stuff that the writer has subtly put in this blog post.....
1. Still using the Pratchett-like manner of writing, and each title is kinda linked to each paragraph...
-WARNING: May contain spoilerz! (Adam on a Cloud) Paying out my own title of this blog (warning that there may be Bioshock spoilers in the corresponding paragraph). AND Castle on a cloud is a song from Les Mis. AND it is sung by a small girl so I drew a comparison between her and the little sisters from Bioshock and Adam is the stuff these girls harvest from the dead.
- Mikado Mikadon't Here is a play on the Play Mikado by G&S AND the "We Can Be Heroes" character Ricky Wong's song "Indigeridoo", the lyrics of which are kinda 'similar'...
- Broke your parole? (The Playschool Code) Phillip is in Le Mis. He was in Playschool. So the parole thing is related to his character in lemis and the PScode is part Playschool hint and part pay-out of DaVinci Code...
- Moctober & Hair=cool This is about my moustache, and a play on the fact that it is October (not November, which is when the celebrated MOvember is on....). Hair=cool is the thingy about Glenn......
- That's a wrap (the nearly final paragraph) This one is merely because it is the last-but-one... I was gonna call it the Penultimate Paragraph, parodying the line from Monty Python's 'The Pope and Michaelangelo' skit, "we'll call it the Penultimate Supper...". But for some reason I didn't choose that as the under-heading-heading... meh.
Not so hidden meanings... again This 'paragraph'.
2. Would You Kindly - This is a phrase that my favourite character in Bioshock uses. Atlas is a lovely Irish man who, being Irish, says this. He is great! (PS, there is a DEEPER meaning, but it spoils the plot, so shh MT, shhh!) You can find it throughout this Blog post... Those of you who know the DEEPER meaning will realize why I used it where I did!
3. "There's a fascination..." It's a line of mine from a song in Mikado. I chose it merely because it kinda can be applied to Bioshock, which is a ruin of a city but still holds the ghost of the romantic feeling it once held.
4. Fairly Pathetic Story - FPS's are renowned for having next to no story, so its kinda a lame insider joke... meh.
5. Le Mis reference - I recently played the Wii Zelda game "Twilight Princess" and called my hero JonV.Jon (the original name was Link, but re-named a misspelling of Jean Valjean) and my horse was called Eponine (Epona was the original name, which is pretty close!)... I'm not obsessed I swear!