With Apologies To Those Who Are Sick Of The Election. But, Man, Ukuleles.

[rionaleonhart]

To the three persons from my English Language course who came up to me on the train platform and allowed me to join their conversation: you won't see this, but I was feeling terribly lonely after the seminar, and you are the reason I wasn't in tears on my journey back from campus today. Thank you so much; you have no idea how much you helped me.


To America: I hope you have been voting for Obama. He plays the ukulele. And he's probably got some policies and things, but, seriously, you need a president who can play the ukulele. Don't deny it. (Everyone I passed today was discussing the election. Everyone. There's not nearly so much interest when it's time to elect a party for our country.)


To self: I CANNOT BELIEVE YOU BOOKED A PLACE AT A SUPERNATURAL CONVENTION. YOU ARE SUCH A DORK. AND IT'S GOING TO DRAG YOU UP TO BIRMINGHAM RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF YOUR EXAMS. AND YOU FORGOT TO FILL IN YOUR ADDRESS, SO YOU MAY NOT EVEN GET THE CONFIRMATION LETTER WITH THE DETAILS YOU NEED. WAY TO GO. (I've e-mailed the guy in charge, so with any luck I have not ruined my chances of meeting wanttobeatree and sazzlette eeeeeeeeee. APPARENTLY THERE ARE GOING TO BE SOME ACTORS OR SOMETHING TOO, BUT wanttobeatree AND sazzlette ARE THE IMPORTANT PART.)


To everyone on my flist: ahahaha, I love that you're all falling for High School Musical. (Pretty much all of the posts on my friendspage lately have been about either High School Musical or the American election. I FEEL A TRULY HORRIFYING CROSSOVER COMING ON.)

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ADDRESSING ALL THE ISSUES.

[th-esaurus.livejournal.com]

You know you can always text me if you're feeling down? Of course it isn't the same as having real people, but...I know what it's like, and the offer's there.

LIKE NOBODY HAS DISCUSSED THE ELECTION WITH ME. Only one girl because I was checking the BBC News website and she was like OH YEAH ELECTION and I was like AREN'T YOU EXCITED TO BE PART OF THIS HISTORY-MAKING GENERATION and she was like I GUESS?

Conssssssss involve a lot of waiting around being a bit bored, but I miss them anyway ): I haven't been to one for about four years. Oh, Lord of the Rings, you really turned me into a geek.

SIGH HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL )8 YOU REALISE YOU ARE ENTIRELY TO BLAME. ALSO: THE FIRST ONE IS STILL BORING.

Re: ADDRESSING ALL THE ISSUES.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

I still haven't seen the films, and I caught myself shoehorning gratuitous Zac Efron jokes into my neither-slash-nor-crack Top Gear fic on my journal. For no good reason, except I needed to add mockery!

I blame Riona.

Re: ADDRESSING ALL THE ISSUES.

[bubbles-san.livejournal.com]

Would you like my 'Riona Made Me Do It' icon? Because I don't have enough room for it (what with going a bit mad on the Stig icons lately, and being unwilling to delete Jeff or Neville or Gordon or Nazgul#5 or John Prescott or Djaq or Tosh or James or Dr. Horrible or Spock) and I want it to get used.

Re: ADDRESSING ALL THE ISSUES.

[rionaleonhart]

♥! Thank you; it's good to have the offer. I only had a little time to be sad before people came along to unwittingly brighten my day, but I shall bear you in mind in the future.

I have never been to a convention before! I am terribly excited and excitingly terrified.

The first High School Musical film admittedly does not have the sheer glorious levels of crazy of the other two, but I have great affection for it anyway. Because Troy and Gabriella are adorable.

[th-esaurus.livejournal.com]

I find Gabriella so boring.

I was looking through my notes from the other day, and in a fit of boredom I had apparently drawn a picture of them where Gabriella is saying O TROY U R SO MANLY and Troy is replying I AM Y.

[pornontoast.livejournal.com]

Oh my god OBAMA AND A UKULELE. 'Scuse me whilst I get stupidly overexcited at the prospect of a ukulele-playing president.

(I hope there are a lot of ukulele players in Florida, he'll have that stitched up then!)

[rionaleonhart]

IT WOULD BE THE BEST THING EVER. He could play the ukulele in the White House and all of America's ills would be magically healed.


...this is just my 'ukulele' icon. I do not think that Obama is Pyramid Head.

[wanttobeatree.livejournal.com]

I do not think that Obama is Pyramid Head.

OR DO YOU.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

Everytime someone in the UK says Birmingham, I think "Alabama? No, the other one!" Which is why I nearly jumped in and went "Okay, that really is a touch excessive during exams."

It's hilariously confusing, although it does explain Richard Hammond's intensive fondness for pickup trucks. (They reran the America special as part of a four hour Top Gear marathon last night BBC American; it was awesome!)

[rionaleonhart]

Hee! No, Alabama is a tiny bit farther than I'm willing to go for a weekend during exam season. (BE MORE CREATIVE WITH YOUR PLACE NAMES, AMERICA. I WAS VERY CONFUSED WHEN I SAW AN AMERICAN SAY SHE LIVED NEAR 'DURHAM' TODAY. (How would you pronounce that, by the way? Over here, it'd be 'Durrum'.) AND FOUR STATES BEGINNING WITH 'NEW' IS TOO MANY.)

[bubbles-san.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean. When I saw on a list that TGLive was coming to Dublin, I nearly sprained something freaking out until I remembered- oh, yeah, the other one. In Ireland.

And I constantly have to add 'The state, not the country' when telling people where I'm at.

[wanttobeatree.livejournal.com]

RIONA RIONA RIONA MISHA FUCKING COLLINS IS COMING

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

[rionaleonhart]

I THINK I JUST FAINTED

AMAZING

THIS IS A SIGN THAT BUYING THE TICKET WAS THE RIGHT THING TO DO, ISN'T IT?

BEST SIGN EVER.


EDIT: APPARENTLY I AM SO EXCITED BY THIS THAT I CAN NO LONGER USE TENSES CORRECTLY.

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

SHARPAY FOR PRESIDENT, with Ryan as Vice-President. Much like Paris Hilton, I imagine she'd make the White House pink.

Speaking of awesome ukelele performances:

Creepy Doll by Jonathan Coulton (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Olv-aR6JKvQ) in which the song is made creepier by the added ukelele! Why more horror movies don't feature a soundtrack with ukeleles is beyond me. It can clearly be used for a creepy atmosphere.

[rionaleonhart]

...

I actually really, really want to see what the hypothetical Pink House would be like.

And I'll check that Coulton song out when my Internet connection is being less erratic.

[bbakerb.livejournal.com]

I am of course unable to vote in the US election so as a substitute I went into town and bought a HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL PARTY PLANNER. The, er, incredibly creative HSM-themed activities it includes: charades where you mime scenes from HSM and people have to guess which one you're doing! a quiz telling you what HSM character are you most like! um, some kind of HSM-themed musical chairs, I am not sure exactly how that works?

IT IS MY WAY OF SUPPORTING AMERICA. BEST OF ALL it comes with amazing stickers. I am going to put the Ryan and Chad stickers on my bike and draw little hearts around them.

[rionaleonhart]

This sounds beautiful! TELL ME WHICH HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL CHARACTER YOU ARE MOST LIKE.

[justspaz.livejournal.com]

I immediately wish I could vote, more so than ever. A vote for Obama is a vote for ukulele enthusiasts everywhere!

If the candidates were HSM characters, who would they be?

And...go!

[cryforthemoon.livejournal.com]

*hugs* Squeeeee, ukulele! :D

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Oh hee, since getting into Wodehouse I cannot think of ukuleles without thinking of Wooster yes I know he played a banjolele, or a trombone in the TV serial, shusht. Anyhow, awww! (I wonder if we'd ever see a jam session with Clinton on the sax and Obama on the uke?)

And "politics as a fandom" - perfectly encapsulates how I'm feeling about this thing. It's the series finale, and I'm having to rely on recaps from everyone else to get an idea of the 'canon'.

[rionaleonhart]

(I wonder if we'd ever see a jam session with Clinton on the sax and Obama on the uke?)

Okay, I don't even care what Obama's policies are. This is what I want out of the new presidency.

[lotus0kid.livejournal.com]

I hope you have been voting for Obama.
Done and done ^^. It's so cool to have my voting!cherry popped on something so big people who don't even live in America can't stop talking about it.

He plays the ukulele, and is ear-twins with my favorite Doctor. I WANT THIS MAN TO BE MY PRESIDENT.

[pointytilly.livejournal.com]

Pretty much all of the posts on my friendspage lately have been about either High School Musical or the American election. I FEEL A TRULY HORRIFYING CROSSOVER COMING ON.

HELLS YES. DO IT. DOOOO IT.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

CNN's called it! BBC's called it!

Ukulele players for the win!

[proleptic-fancy.livejournal.com]

Okay, I voted for him anyway, but I'd have at least made the effort to try to do it twice (Illinois politics are...special) if I'd known about the whole ukulele thing.