A Fan's Perspective: Crossovers--Just because

So. Last night I re-watched the retrospective documentary of the tv show Supernatural. I love this network; and I love all of it's shows--that I happen to have seen. Now, Supernatural has been a HUGE obession of mine from it's pilot episode, and I am super impressed by how this show has evolved, even to the point where it doesn't take itself seriously and goes completely meta(because---YES!!!!) I quote from Jared Padalecki last night: "Supernatural has done things that no other show has done." Truth! They've done fan convention episodes; they've done "book series" episodes; they're even doing a musical next week!!!!! But you know what they haven't done? A CROSSOVER!!!! AND THEY TOTALLY SHOULD!!!! So here, for your reading pleasure, and because I am a fan and can pipe dream, is my proposal for SPN and other CW show crossovers. Obviously, Reign and Jane the Virgin would be kind of a stretch, but some others not so much. Observe(in ascending order of what I'd like to see):

3. Supernatural in The Vampire Diaries
This and the following are the easiest, because in this case, there are monsters galore--aka vampires, aka something for Sam and Dean to hunt. Or not. I've always been fascinated by the episodes where the Winchesters let the "monster" go, as he or she isn't really "bad". Youtube has also taken this by storm(yea for fan videos!!!!), and I've always wondered what it would be like if this happened:

You know, because that would be really fun--for gooey romantics, like me.  On the other hand, it could be done with the same set of monsters in a different city, as in:

2.Supernatural in The Originals
Klaus and Elijah going against Dean and Sam, or allying with them to protect Hailey? Or Hailey teaming up with Sam to take down---Mikael? That would be awesome! And we could get Crowley in on this one too. Crowley and Klaus together? Possibilities!

Joseph Morgan as Klaus and Mark Sheppard as Crowley

So now we get to the best one; by favorite one; really, the one I would really seriously love to see for so many reasons--and would be soooooo difficult to pull off--for so many reasons which I will not go into in lieu of potential spoilers/major confusion to those who don't watch this show. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you:

1.SUPERNATURAL IN THE 100!!!!!!!
Yeah. That was all in caps. Because it would be so sick!!!!! Check this, people on earth after a nuclear apocolypse--ok, Sam and Dean did this is Season 5; they are experienced. The Grounders in The 100--all right, they aren't monsters, but hey, there could be some supernatural something or other somewhere, right, what with all the reaper experiments and the Mountain Men and everything? And they don't know how to hunt--and the Winchesters do! And also because of this:

Devon Bostick as Jasper and Jared Padalecki as Sam--the nerds ^_^

Bob Morley as Bellamy and Jensen Ackles as Dean

Jasper and Sam would be fun to see together because both start out basically the same way--innocent and cute "little kid" types; Jasper is a nerd, so is Sam. They'd mesh, they'd be the ones telling everyone to chill; they'd figure this out. It be sick.  But not as sick, at least for me as Bellamy and Dean. 

See, I would LOVE to lock Bellamy and Dean in a room and see what they do. You know, if it was just the two of them, how long would they butt heads--because they totally would! Both Bell and Dean have amazing leadership skills, they can get people to listen to them and they have kick-A fighting skills. 

 Also, in this fan's opinion, Bellamy and Dean would be an amazing duo because they are so dang alike! Check this: 

A)Both Dean and Bellamy do things they do(so at least, they say so) too look out for a younger sibling--Octavia, and Sam--and would do anything for them

B) They play tough, but they can get all squishy on the inside in a way that makes you love them more

C) They both have a huge guilt complex. Like all the time. 

(If I was video edit savvy, I would totally to a Bellamy/Dean fan vid, just because. But alas, video editing and me don't get along. So sad.)

Yes. This is why it is called a pipe dream. But it's so fun in my head, and if they're all on the same network, it'd be so cool to see them mesh! Right?!

The Problems of a Bibliophile/Cinephile: Or, Some Books and Why I Don't Read Them

Disclaimer: This post is not to book-bash, or downplay any author or book herein. I don't consider myself Jane Austen, Tolkein, or Agatha Christie;  Alexandre Dumas or Shakespeare. That's out of the way. Good.

All right. So I stopped reading The Hunger Games on page 7, and only saw the movie under duress; I never have nor ever will read the Twilight series; saw Divergent, but never read it. Yet, I'm super excited to see--and have read--The Maze Runner, The Hobbit, and The Giver.

Yes, all of these books would be considered "mainstream", as they sell really well. People love them; are obsessed with them, almost. Which I can understand. But then, a lot of people can't understand why I don't read Hunger Games, but I do read The Giver and several other things that would be considered "darker"(I'll go into that in another post sometime). And I've never been able to explain why verbally, unless I happen to be talking to a fellow writer(thank you Jess, Jill, Aly, Casey, and Robbie). So maybe, if I write it down, it will make some kind of sense.

Movies and books have been part of my life since I can't remember. I do know I was reading on a fifth grade level by the time I was in first grade and had grown up on Disney. I am also a writer, which means that I pick the plots of books and movies apart for enjoyment and can usually tell what makes it "good" or "bad". However, there are some books that I just don't like and will never ever like no matter how hard I try. And I don't think it's just a matter of opinion. I know, I know "don't judge a book by it's cover" and all that stuff, but here's the thing: a book has two covers, front and back. If I don't like the back(which, by the way, is usually the entire plot devoid of spoilers), I'm never going to read the front. I also don't like hype or fads of any kind--it spoils thing, no matter if its a book, or a movie, or whatever. Hype and fads and back covers are what ruins things for me.

I do watch movies for fun; I do read books for fun. Analysis is fun. For me. And you don't have to "dumb yourself down" to enjoy something. Dumbing yourself down is copping yourself out. Even in the most stereotypical plot--the romcom--when you know the guy is going to get the girl in the end, the fun comes from watching this amazing battle of the sexes and character study; because we love watching people get into these situations and the myriad ways they try to get out of it. Cause guess what? There is no original story! Anywhere! Not one! Every story follows a well established plot, and if you are familiar enough with all of them stuff like this blog post happens:

Maybe it's because I watch too many movies or read too many books; or maybe it's my background as a theatre major(thank you John and Katie), but I have become the type of person that if something doesn't interest me, for any reason, I don't mess with it. And it can be the characters, or the plot, or the style or all three. But if I'm not into it by page seven--or ten minutes, if it's a movie and I happen to be watching alone--I don't get into it, not then, not ever. Period. Now if the story has no of these things, or is predicable, a not amusing to read as an analysis exercise or a guessing game, I have no interest in it. Never have, never will.

It happened with Hunger Games. The book got all hyped up and people loved it and said it was one of the best books out there and all that.  So I read the back of the book. It didn't exactly catch my fancy, but being the nice person that I am, I decided to give the thing a chance. BAD. IDEA.

 So I opened the book. And my first thought was "really? really?". We're set in a world that's post-apocalypse and divided into factions and stuff and by page seven(not the page that says "7", the actual page seven pages from the title and dedicatory page) I thinking "seen it, read it, know the plot, not interested."  And I am not alone in this opinion. This article, and this blog post say things I don't say here--probably because they bit the bullet and read the whole awful thing. and they are so right!!!!!

And yes, I know some people will say that the book is good because Katniss has "real problems". Uh-huh. So, what are those "real problems" that she has exactly? Kids killing each other in a game? Maybe I'm an idiot(NOT), but I see no "real problems" anywhere. Nadda. Zilch.
 Here's the thing-- "Hunger Games" was written after "The Giver", "Ender's Game", "The White Mountains", "Gathering Blue", and "Xenocide". And you know, it is my personal opinion that those books were written ten times better than Hunger Games. And something else--they weren't written in a time when everyone else was obsessed with dystopia.  The White Mountains was something I read in third grade, and it had the same dark themes, and plotline that this Hunger Games book tried to do. But you know what? When I was reading The White Mountains and its two sequels, I didn't have this little demon in the back of my head going: "so....did they write this because they knew it would sell? is that it? because it's part of the mainstream?"

Which doesn't mean I don't like "mainstream fiction". I read tons of mainstream authors: Lauren Willig, Alex Flinn, Ann Rinaldi, Orson Scott Card, John Grisham, Dorothy Gilman, Anne Perry, to name a few. I love those authors--but I love them because they have everything that makes a good story: a plot devoid of holes, compelling characters, little to no stereotypes(notice I said "stereotypes", not "archetypes"--there is is difference); and you know, it also helps if there's a couple or three twists at the end, or in the middle, or something.  Even a romance novel needs a couple of surprises(thank you Lauren Willig).

The plot's got be appealing to me, first off. And yes, I know there are only Seven Plot Types and the Hero's Journey, and all that, so your bound to run into the same plot over over and over--but this isn't a "sterotype". This is an "archetype"--basically a story we all know that has been told in a new and compelling way. Key word: compelling. If I've read something that is basically a "fanfic" of some great classic--an example of which I will give later on--and I do read all the way to the end, it's mostly for pure amusement--to see if the calls I made in the beginning are correct in the end. Example:

The Eragon books. Yes. I read them. Except the last one. And you know, I did have the entire plot figured out by page ten(I read the dust jacket, remember), and knew who was going to die, who was good, who was bad, how the trilogy plot would end. etc. But the real reason I read them isn't because it was some great fantasy, or because it was amazingly good--actually, the third book did have a good twist--and belonged on the bestseller list. I read them because at the time the book came out I was sixteen, and the author wrote the thing when he was sixteen. I wanted to see how an author that young could write a five-hundred page book and get a four-star review. Side note: I think I have an idea what that is, but I'm going to be nice and not say anything. Moving on.

My point: if you read the Eragon books with the above in mind--that a fifteen-year-old kid wrote a five-hundred page book and got it published, it's kind of impressive. But if you read it as--I don't know, the next great fantasy novel(?!)...It. Is. Terrible. Rife with stereotypes, predicable plot, bad characterization, I could go on. Amusement, see?

Characters are highly important to me in any novel or film. Yes, the plot can totally suck, but if the characters are well developed I don't care. Example? Ok, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Both the movie and the new(ish) TV series. Yes, all right, I did not get into it until 2007 and was  not obsessed with it til...last year. And  ok, purists, the plot of the 2014 movie did kinda...suck. BUT the personalities of the Turtles? Their relationship with each other and with Splinter? Spot on. Ditto the new TV show. Actually, the plot of the Nickelodeon series is pretty good--and so is the casting of, well, everyone. Another example is the TV show Supernatural, which I love! While it did take a nasty dip in ratings during seasons six and seven, even when the plot sucked I cared. I cared about Sam and Dean, and Cas. I wanted them to survive, even if surviving was just to get to episode 22 of the season.

Style is the other thing. Now, there is a difference between writer's cultural style and writer's style; and sometimes they get meshed together. Writer's style is the way somebody writes anyway; how one person expresses his or her ideas on paper, or on a blog, or something.  Cultural writer's style is influenced by the times--the writer's background, what happens to be popular, etc. Alexendre Dumas is and excellent example of this. He opens both The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers series(yes, it's a series, there are three books after the original novel), with a lesson French history and the time and place that the novel happens to be set. He also gives an extensive background on each of his characters--especially if they are a) integral to the plot and/or b) historical figures. Dumas was historian, and a Frenchman, and it shows in his literature. He gives immense detail to Marseilles, Chateau D'If,  the mind of Edmond Dantes so that his readers can be truly immersed in the story of Dumas' country and culture, not just the plot of his story.

Books and movies should be written with a purpose--yes, even the entertaining ones. Guardians of the Galaxy had a plot that I was not so fond of, but it was a nod to the Marvel Universe, and that was ok. Also, because Groot. And Rocket.

People are entitled to their opinion. You can like a book or film or you can hate it, for whatever reason. The above are mine. And they ain't changin.

A final note: for those interested in The Seven Basic Plots, which I mentioned earlier, here is a link to a delightful little blog post that covers each briefly, and here is an article that discuses the same but applies it to TV and film.

"Equal" is Not "Same"

What with all the issues going on in the world, my family and I have a lot to talk about. Which is cool, because what else are you supposed to do at a family BBQ on the Fourth in blazing temperatures(which I personally LOVE, by the way)?

You talk.

And one of the subjects touched on the Ordain Women movement and things like that.

No, this is not a post about Ordain Women, or any other "current issues." Well, not exactly. This is a post about the words "Equal" and "Same", which was the subject my mom and aunt and I discussed after Ordain Women was mentioned.

It is fascinating to me how words can get interpreted, sometimes twisted, to mean something else. When I was younger, the word "sick" meant "in bed, with a fever, coughing sneezing, not in the best of health". Now, it means "cool, amazing, awesome, delicious", or whatever. It's a generational and cultural thing. Which is sometimes detrimental.

See, a lot of people--and I do mean a lot--have been trying to change the definition of a particular word. And they've been trying since--I don't know, 1912? Probably earlier. Anyway, the word is "equal." For some reason, this word is being interpreted as "same."

Ummmmmmmm. No. Just--no.

"Equal" and "Same" are two different words. They have different meanings, and different outcomes. Look it up. "Equal" means "like or alike in quantity, degree, value, rank, ability, merit."; while "Same" means "identical with what is about to be or has just been mentioned."

Yeah.

Anyone else see the difference? I'll break it down even more:

"Alike"="Similar"="resembling something without being identical."

"Identical"="exactly the same"="clone".

Call me crazy, but I don't want to be a clone.

I want to be a human.

And humanity is equal.

 Because every single one of us eats, breathes, sleeps; has blood and brains, and insides. But our thoughts, beliefs, values?

Totally different.

Because none of us is "the same".

If I was told to build a model of an 1873 .22 out of a rusted pipe,  duct tape and a couple of 2-by-fours, I'd put one of the 2-by-fours through my eye first.

My little brother? Give him a saw, sander, and don't talk to him for two hours, and even though it doesn't shoot, that 1873 .22 replica will look dang good.

 I can't paint; my sister creates watercolor masterpieces with little to no effort(that I can see);

my other brother creates blogs and apps; I write and play around with them.

I can psychoanalyze a movie to within an inch of it's life and tell you exactly why it was good or bad; my family just wants me to shut up and enjoy it.

But we are all humans. See? None of us are the same. We're all equal.

A mother doesn't love her children "the same"; she loves them "equally".

A teacher doesn't teach his or her students "the same"; he or she teaches them "equally".

Plants do not grow "the same"; they grow "equally".

Ok, yes, the plant thing is a stretch.

But an acorn won't grow into a willow tree no matter how hard you try to force it to do so. It won't work.

Just something to think about.

More Development on Modern Shakespeare Mash Front

Yes. That's what I've decided to call this thing even though it has a title(which I will tell you later in this post). It's pretty sick. I've been thinking about this off and on for about a month, and while I still haven't begun writing, I have got to the point where I have a specific playlist on my iPhone that I listen to at least once a day, and tons of ideas in my head every time I listen to it--AND I stayed up til 3 am writing the beginnings of the treatment. And to make it even more entertaining--this is probably turning into a tv series. So that's something. And I figured out the best way to describe it--it's Once Upon A Time meets Star Crossed  meets Firefly.  Which I am totally ok with.

 See, as I said before, I've always had this fascination with bits of Shakespeare stories that aren't told in full, but are essential to the plot. Example: Oberon and Titania's fight over the Changeling Boy. So we know that this kid is the son of one of Titania's close friends, all well and good, and we know that she eventually gives him to Oberon, but what happens after this? So here's a thought--Oberon isn't a proud arrogant something-or-other who wants what he can't have. What if both he and Titania are protecting this kid from the same thing, they just have different ways of doing it. AND what if this quarrel thing also has ties to the great Tempest conjured up by Pospero and Ariel AND what if all the goodies and the badies are not the goodies and the badies we think they are? The answer to this question was AWESOME!

Picture this: instead of  fantasy airy-fairy world, it's set in an Anywhere, USA in 20something(still vague on deets, see?)  post-apocalypse/steampunk kind of world, with dark alleys, and shadows, and lots of potential night shoots(which has very little to do with the fact that I was in a production with the concept fairly recently...ok, I'm a terrible liar, it  totally does! Because, yes. Thank you Cherie and Hailey and Echo for this one.). And what if this changeling kid was the cause of the apocalypse, only he is totally unaware of it(as all heroes inevitably are), and is now being tracked by both the goodies and the badies. And yes, there will be several salutes to the original work--such as names, and the love potion(poison!!!) and stuff.

First tidbit worth sharing--the names. I took a leaf out of BBC's Shakespeare Retold so far as the names went. Below, for your reading pleasure are the main cast, recurring cast(marked with a #) and the guest star cast(so far; marked with *) with the Shakespare name first and the name I've given him/her after that, as follows:

Theseus/Changeling Boy=Ethan
Demetrius=Deacon
Hippolyta=Piper
Puck/Robin Goodfellow=Rob
Caliban=Cal/Caliban
Ariel=Ariel
Oberon/Theseus=Brock#
Titania=Anya#
Helena=Lena#
Lysander=Xander#
Cobweb=Connor#
Peaseblossom= Sola#
Hermia=Mia*
Moth=Moth*
Mustardseed=Moira*
Ceres=Ceres*


Cool, right? So, next tidbit is the actual character and plot bits:

The Hero is the Changeling Boy--Ethan--and the villain is....PUCK!!!! I know, right? Ok, fine, so Caliban from Tempest is there there too, but yeah, Puck is on the dark side. He double crossed Oberon and is after the kid, and Oberon and Titania are back on the same side, and working with Demetrius, Helena, Hermia, Lysander, and Ariel(from Tempest fame) to keep Caliban and Puck away from the kid--who's name is Ethan and who also has a chip thing inside him that is actually a piece of the witch Sycorax's soul(again, a character from Tempest), and the only thing preventing her from rising again. Also, that love potion business? It wasn't just a love potion. It was hallucinogenic poison(aka small doses cause hallucinations--like the love spell in the original story--leading to death; large doses cause death...in like six hours.)--which will be all kinds of juicy since Puck and Caliban can trigger this at will and Lysander was "cured" and Demetrius wasn't. And Demetrius has a-complicated-dark-shadowy-past-Hawkeye/Joss Whedon/Spike-thing going on. And Ariel and Puck have a thing for each other. And the fairies from both plays(Peaseblossom, Cobweb, Moth, Mustardseed, Ceres, Juno, and the other one whatshername) are creepy demon-y things that Puck and Caliban control and can morph from human to demon-y creeps and attack things--and people--and Cobweb/Connor is the lead assassin-thing(and also posing as Ethan's best friend!).

Third tidbit: Visuals--as I have always done and will probably do for the rest of my life, I need visuals to draw my characters out--at least in the early drafts--and to spur myself on in case this gets producer somewhere, sometime, in some place(a girl can dream, right?).

 Here's my thought so far: Caliban and Puck will have the steampunk thing going on vs say, Demetrius and Xander and Ethan(the Changeling Boy), who will have a more post apocalyptic style(see photos below). Oh yes, and there will probably be cameos from Prospero, and Miranda, and Ferdinand and Antonio and other characters from this plays along the way. Yes, still having much to much fun developing the thing. And yes, it's now a tv series. Or just a forty-five minute pilot/short film whatever.

Top Row, Left to Right: Visual Ideas for Xander, Demetrius, Mia/Anya, Oberon(Brock), and Ethan
Bottom Row, Left to Right: Visual Ideas for Connor, Rob, Caliban, Lena, and Ariel/Piper

Finally, the fourth tidbit: like every writing project, you have to have a title, right? Or at least a working one. So here's the WT I have settled on, and I'm rather excited about it.  Obvious, yes. Cliche, possibly. But it certainly coveys the idea of the story I want to tell least for now. And it'll be nice to give rather than explain the whole thing and then say I don't now what to call it, don't you think? So the title I have come up with is this:

Changeling

And if/when it ever gets to the screen, that's how I want the title card to look. Pretty good, right? Can you say possible pipe dream and I don't care? Cause I can! Am I excited about this newest piece of bubble gum writing? Oh yes. A little bit. 

Newest Writing Project

Puck, or Robin Goodfellow; only in my version, he'd be a teenager

As I am in the throes of summer boredom(already) and am in a show, I have been thinking.  Every summer in addition to all of the other things I've got going on, I like to have a writing project--as I am first and foremost, a writer. Also, I read. A lot. And in the course of my reading this past year(or two) I have been reading adaptions of Shakespeare's stories--And it occurred to me that one of the current popular things to do in this day and age is to adapt classic stories with a twist--and I love it. It's been done by authors like Lisa Klien, Shannon Hale, and AJ Hartley.

I have read ALL of these--they're sick! Except Hamlet. I'm waiting on tinderhooks for that one!

BUT, so far as I can see, no one has written a book of the supernatural characters(Titania, Oberon, Sycorax, Caliban, Puck and Ariel)--ok, so maybe there is one about Puck that was written in the late nineteenth century, and there was a book written from Ariel's point of view recently--but what if there was a book, or play, or something where all of these people knew each other. And there's always been little juicy tidbits--like the aftermath of Titania and Oberon's quarrel over the Changeling Boy, and Caliban's backstory, and other things like that--that have always been intriguing to me. And there is so much room for peitc licence, that it's really hard to resist the temptation to tie characters of the same caliber, or in the same area, together.

Lisa Fiedler did that when she wrote Romeo's Ex(see photo above). Since the story is set in Italy, and several of Shakespeare's characters are Italian, the story has Petruchio, Sebastian, Viola, and Katerina as side characters--and very interesting ones.

So I am going to do the same thing.

Oberon--as I see him in my head(thank you Google Search Engine!)

Wouldn't it be amazing if they all knew each other? If Oberon, Titania, Puck, Ariel, Theseus, Hippolyta, Demitrius, Helena, Caliban, Sycorax, Prospero and Antonio all knew each other. How sick would that be?

So that's my latest writing project. I don't know if it'll be a play or a novel or a short story or what, but right now, it's rattling around in my head and wants out. I make no promises as to quality(as this is the place where I put the first drafts of all my work!) but I can assure you that it'll be a bubblegum project(tons of fun!)

First challenge: decide what venue to write it for--book, film or stage--outline, and pick title. Oh, and write the thing nee personal computer. No pressure.

Production Soundtracks: Shakespeare Gone Post-Apocalyptic!!!!

So people who know me know that I do quirky things when I'm in a show, and one of them is to make up soundtracks. I do this because it helps me get into the mood of the show. I have done this show "Midsummer Night's Dream" multiple times--as a director, an actor, a designer--and it's still one of my favorites. This particular production I am ubber excited for cause it's a Post Apocalyptic concept.  The idea opens my mind at least to greater possibilities of "Mood Music".

This is something I started doing about three years ago. (You can see my previous soundtrack here, here, and here--yeah, it's split into three--I had too many songs ^_^) I do it as a director anyway since the kids I work with like having music to tell them what the next scene is(oh look, another thing to post about!). I found this is also helpful as an actor--at least for me. I am a visual person, so whenever I hear music I get images in my head. And if I can get the right images in my head before and after a rehearsal(and possibly during depending on whether we get a break on or not) I do so much better --in my own opinion, at least. Granted, the images I get in my head more than usually resemble something like a promo for the CW, but whatever.

So once again, for your listening pleasure, here it what I have come up with so far(with my commentary included).

Invincible-All Good Things
I first heard this song in a promo for the CW TV show REIGN(which I will post about sometime in the near future). Every time it plays, I get images of post-apocolypticness(I just made a new word!!!!) which them to into a CW-ified Promo for my current production.

Jaded-The Crystal Method

This is a character song, chiefly due to the few lyrics that are in this song: "Remember all the good things I did for you/And all the bad things I didn't do." Helena and Demetrius anyone?

Midnight-Coldplay

Ok, so normally I don't like Coldplay. Like, at all. I don't know why. And then they released this album, and this album had this song, and this song--I don't know, there's something about it. I was listening to it again the other day and it was like "ohmigosh! dark woods and creepy things in my head! it's a Midsummer Song!"--this is Hermia and Lysander. 

Keep Hope Alive-The Crystal Method

Another Crystal Method song(thank you ALMOST HUMAN!). If this production was a movie, this would play during the end credits. This one is also a general mood kind of thing--would make a pretty sipic promo song. Plus, it's Crystal Method BABY!!!!

Jungle-X Ambassadors

Again, another song from a TV promo--this one from SUPERNATURAL(the one show I talk about--A LOT....Ok, All. The. Time!!!). Anyhoo, this song is for Oberon. Even when directing kids productions of this show, I've always felt that he needs a song like this--just for him and Puck. And if the Winchester Bros can have a song like this, there's no reason the Fairy King can't!

Coconut-Fever Ray

I love Fever Ray. With a fiery passion. Possibly due to the fact that I first heard them in one of my favorite movies about two years ago. This group--is BRILLIANT! And this whole entire song screams Fairies! At least the ones in our production.

Aviation High-Semi Precious Weapons

I found this like--an hour ago, because I'm the crazy nut who gets free songs on iTunes if I like the preview. And I liked this preview. So I listened to it, and Hermia/Lysander and Helena/Demetrius got another song. The end.

Behind My Camel-The Police
Throwback to my childhood! My sister and I loved the Police. And Sting. Those two Artists, and Led Zeppelin were our road trip soundtrack. But I digress. This song sounds like something that would be playing when the Players enter the forest to rehearse. Particularly if they happen to the garbed a la military!

Opulence-Brook Candy
I don't know why this is a Titanita song, but it is. Queen of Fairies needs a sipic song, and this is it. "That's all I have to say--about that."

Keep the Streets Empty for Me-Fever Ray
More Fever Ray. Another possible fairy song. Or for the lovers. Or just to calm down--because this comedy is freakin insanely fast and we all need a breather.

So yes. The quirky things I do when I'm in a show. For my own pleasure. Now y'all know what I listen to going to a from rehearsal every day. Just another insight into my crazy head.