The idiot what wrote it must be working for the Sun....

No I'm not finished with my Musicals Kick.

Currently, I'm still listening to Phantom, and Newsies has joined in, hence the post title.

I am not creepy, I swear.


Anyway, Candence awarded me with the Best Blogging Buddies award, and since it does not require me to list random facts about myself, I'm going to do it.

Le Rules:

-You must make a post to show your award on your main blog. (yes ma'am)
-You must tag the person who nominated you in your post (also take the cute owl above you).  (What if I don't want the cute owl?)
-You must nominate all of your best buddies, and those whom you want to become best buddies with, who, to your knowledge, have not been nominated for this award. (.....what.)
-You must ask your buddies at least 15 questions in your post. (HAAAAAA that's a lot.)
-You must answer all of the questions your buddies ask you on your post. (This, I can do.)


Le Questions:

1. Last dream you had? 
   I dreamt I dwelt in marble halls.....

   I don't know, I don't actually dream these days. Or, at least I don't remember them, and when I do remember, it's usually a nightmare.

2. What do you normally eat for breakfast?
    I don't eat breakfast.

3. Any songs that you just absolutely love? 
    Right now? In general? Could you be vaguer? At the moment I just absolutely love every song on Stages. JOSH SANG EMPTY CHAIRS AT EMPTY TABLES. Yeah, I basically listen to Josh's music like:

THAT NOTE WAS AMAZING!

HIS VOICE I LIKE CHOCOLATE AND WINE. 

*DEAD*

4. Current favorite post?
    Of mine, I'd have to say.... uhm. All my posts are the same: pictures, and/or boring, so.... You pick, what's your favorite post that I've done recently?

 5. Thought of the day?

 Everyone wants happiness

                    and nobody wants pain, 

                                but you can't have a rainbow

                                                                without a little rain. 

And that's pretty much just because it has been rainy and gray all week, and I'm ready for a rainbow now.

6. Are you ready for summer?
    YES.

7. Something I may not know about you?
    I don't like being passed when I'm driving the speed limit. If there were no cops, I would drag race before letting people pass me.

8. When you hear the word Run, what do you think (of)? 

9. What is the weather like right now?

10. What makes you smile?
      This gif. 

11. If you had the chance to travel through space, for any amount of time, would you?
     I'm not a hug fan of open spaces. Or dark. Or death. So no, not likely. Unless it was with mah Doctor, and then maybe.

12. Describe how you feel right now in one word.
      Blah.

13. Do you have any favorite posts posted this week (by you or by others)? 
      Erm. Kat's post made me snort like an idiot so yeah, I guess so.

 14. Smell of rain or feel of sunlight? 
      When it's hot, I prefer the smell of rain. Right now, since it's been raining forever, I would like to feel rays of sunlight, thank you very much.

15. Can you?

Le questions for le nominees.

1.) What's your dream job?
2.) What would you like your first car to be? (if you already have one, what model was your first car?)
3.) Doctor Who or the Star Trek, the original series?
4.) What is your favorite word to write?
5.) What is your favorite word to say?
6.) Would you prefer your guy to be tall or short?
7.) If you had a choice between being blonde or brunette, which would you choose?
8.) Can you move all your fingers independently of each other?
9.) Are you a Marvel girl or do you like DC?
10.) Did you know 15 questions is a lot to think up? Gosh.
11.) Who said, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”
12.) Do you like fantasy?
13.) Are you a leftie?
14.) How tall are you?
15.) If curiosity kills the cat, does satisfaction bring it back?

Le nominees.

Hannah (HA you get it twice)
Jess (HA so do you)
Vicki
Grace
Mary
.... and if anyone else wants to do it, DO SO, and if you don't have a blog, comment your answers!!!

BOOM.
Treskie out.

Picture Saturday-- Ahem.

Picture Saturday has not reared it's ugly head in a good.... what, three weeks?

I am ashamed.

But I had to go to a wedding, and then it was Mother's Day week, and I was really very busy.

Anyway, there is rather a lot of Phantom stuff again.

My friend asked me how our musical high was going.

I told her it's still going strong.
 

The minion represents me, and the banana represents the
Phantom of the Opera, and other musicals I'm obsessed with.

We listened to POTO again last night, and I've lost count of how many times that is in a month.....

Yeah, when we decide to obsess, we obsess.

I really want to listen to the Scarlet Pimpernel musical again, but that is only at the college library, and for some reason the college library freaks me out. ME! I love libraries! But the college one has this atmosphere like, "IF YOU MAKE A NOISE WE WILL DEMOLISH YOU AND YOUR FAMILY. DON'T BLINK, DON'T EVEN BLINK. BLINK AND YOU'RE DEAD." and as such I still haven't worked up the courage to go in and find the stupid CD.

(Speaking of musicals, I might need to do a post comparing and contrasting the original Newsies movie and the Newsies Broadway musical, because.... because reasons.)

RIGHT! So, shall we get this thing going?

1.) Here, we have the colored versions of the Steampunk girls I drew last time.

 2.) A couple of my sisters informed me that this one is the Steampunk version of Jack, and after some dubious eyeballing of this picture, I have come to agree. So here, Steampunk Jack for you.

3.) The lady inventor, because she's funny and I like her, and I think I've named her Veronica. 

4.) This one is basically me when I get up in the morning. Expression and all.

Yes, I turn into Gollum, got a problem with that?

5.) Amy told me that if I want to illustrate kids books, I should maybe start drawing kids. She had a point, so I drew horribly disproportionate children, and they're adorable.

6.) I did not really like how disproportionate they were, so sad-little-crying-girl came next.  ( Again, I don't know why there are weird splotches, but oh well.)

7.) Random dancing girl with fabulous hair.

8.) DAREDEVIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Because blind Catholic superheroes are the BEST. OHMYGOODNESS.

No, I didn't mess up when I wrote 'purpose' in pen, why would you think that?

9.) Bad, bad sketches. I don't know why I only had blue and pink colored pencils with me, but the girl looks slightly maniacal, and something went horribly wrong with that ballerina.

10.) Sometimes I can't draw.

11.) And then we have another gigantic batch of Phantom fanart because I have no life. (But I do love my musicals.)

I tried a new angle for Think of Me, and I firmly believe that it will look less weird when I color it in.

11.) One of the times I listened to it, I realized that Christine's last word in the musical is 'morning', and the Phantom's last word is 'night.' And for some reason that contrast made me really sad. So....

12.) This one I'm working on right now. When it's done the Erik and Raoul will be standing on stairs, and it will be colored and I plan on making it fabulous....

If you can tell me the lyrics to this part, I will give you cyber brownies. 

13. And finally.... (you guys are probably SO happy...) We have that part where he leads her through the mirror and they do that song with the note that I can't hit.*

*cries all the tears*

And with that, I think I'm going to bid you all a very fond farewell, try to maybe catch up on Supernatural so I can watch the really painful finale when it airs, and pray that the sun comes out, because it's been gray for over a week now, and I'd really like some bright days now, please and thank you.

Which picture is your favorite?
Who do you ship Christine with? (Bearing in mind that I'm planning on doing a post defending my ship sometime soon.)
Do you listen to musicals?
Do you like Steampunk? 

I love you all!

Treskie out.

And then there was one.

One...

One what?

One kumquat?

One ship?

One incredibly handsome criminal genius and master of all villainy?*

*tell me you got that reference.

One..... winner?? 

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!

AAAANNNNDDDD

According to the random number generator.....

OF THE 31 ENTRIES.......

ONE NUMBER WAS PICKED.

THIS NUMBER.....

Waaaaas:

Number twenty-one!

And the twenty-first entry was:

CAIT!!! 

Round of applause for Cait, shall we?

Thank you all for following and joining in with this giveaway, y'all are awesome.

(Cait, I shall be emailing you about what you won.)

WE SHOULD DO THIS AGAIN!!!

In the meantime, ladies and gentleman, we shall be giving you the ballet, from Act III of tonight's opera....

Yeah, that's all I've got.

Treskie out.

*Excited Treskie Screech*

Guys.

Guys. 

GUYS.

GUYS. 

GUYS.

100 followers! 

You know what this means, right?

Giveaway! 

*Treskie throws chocolate cake, and M&Ms, and Snickers, and kisses, and other deliciously unhealthy snacks at you*

I am so excited! 

So, because I am excited, let's do this giveaway!

When I mentioned giving away a custom drawing a few posts ago, everyone seemed to flip out and be very happy about that idea, so I think I shall do that.

SO The prize of this giveaway will be a custom drawing, black and white, or colored,* of whatever you'd like me to draw. Fanart, character sketch, you name it, it's yours. I can be as detailed or vague as you'd like, it is up to YOU.

*whichever you'd rather.

In case you're new here and you don't really know what my drawings look like, here is a really quick sketchy I did the other day during a break in our voice class. (Yes, those are notes at the bottom.)

To enter, I'm going to keep as simple as possible, because I hate it when people are like elitists when they do a giveaway, like, "You must follow me on every social media I have, you must comment on every post I've ever written, you must write an entire post dedicated to how awesome I am, you must be a certain age, you must be from a certain country, sign this contract, sell your soul...."

Like really?

So I'm just going to have a few rules.

*You must follow Occasional Randomness with Google Friend Connect. 

*Comment on this post to enter. 

That is all that is required.

If you'd like to enter more than once (which will increase your chances of winning.)

*Share this on a social media thing, (pinterest, facebook, tumblr, twitter, instagram, your blog) and comment the link to it on this post.
*Every time you share it and comment the link, it will enter you again.
*There is no limit to how many times you can share it. 
*If you can think of another way to enter let me know and I'll add it.

I WILL CHOOSE THE WINNER A WEEK FROM TODAY, ON MAY 12TH

ALRIGHT GO!*

*Go now! Go now and leave meeeeeeee!**

**You get that, you can count it as an entry, just let me know what it's from, and I'll add you twice. 

I love you all!

Treskie out.

So I sing

I HAVE A THING TO SHARE, GUYS.

It's big and exciting, and it makes me nervous, because... nerves.

But whatever!

Amy has posted mah song! Squeeee!

It's very exciting.....

SO! Let me know what you think! And if you liked that, you could subscribe to Pandy's channel and make her freaking day. (Also mine, because it's a group channel)

CHEERIO MEIN FRIENDS.

Treskie out.

PIcture Saturday -- In which I listen to musicals.

A lot.

Like, we have listened or watched a musical almost every single day for the past two weeks.

Sometimes we just re-listened to Phantom of the Opera, and Jekyll and Hyde. (I think in the last week, we've listened to PoTO like five times, and it's been awesome.) Other times, it was Jane Eyre or Oklahoma, or Pirates of Penzance, and HMS Pinafore.

Tonight we listened to Tale of Two Cities. (James Barbour as Sidney Carton makes me feel things.)

Tomorrow we're going to do The Secret Garden.

We might possibly listen to Phantom again after that.

We really love musicals.


So this week's Picture Saturday is mostly fanart for Phantom. Because I am a Phangirl. (I can't remember a time when I haven't known the musical, so I think it's the best one. I love the music, I love the story, I love the characters. It's the bomb diggety.)


1.) So, Christine. Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again is one of my all time favorite Broadway songs. Such the best.

2.) Christine is adorable.

I don't know why there are weird splotches. Is weird.

3.) PHANTOM OF THE OPERA LYRICS ARE THE COOLEST, GUYS. The coolest. 

 

4.) My sister's brother was being a brat.... but he gave me this really cool idea.

Princess Assassins.

5.) NINJAAAAAAAAAAA TRAINING. With tiaras and everything. Skillz.

5.) Musicals are a big thing in my life right now. Will and Ada Annie from Oklahoma.

6.) Hannah requested more Steampunk stuff. So I obliged. She further requested jet packs.

I'm very obliging.

I meant to color these in, but I did not, so next week, you'll get the color versions of them.

7.) Jetpaaaaaaaaaacks.

8.) BECAUSE JOSH GROBAN SANG ALL I ASK OF YOU, AND I MELTED. If he ever played Raoul on stage, I might actually flip out.

9.) There aren't a lot of women inventors in Steampunk so this lady is coming up with an Iron Man like hand.

10.) Yeah, I'm not obsessed with the PoTO at all...

10.) Not. 

At. 

All.

 I really love Raoul and Christine's relationship, they're sweet. And I love how he's the exact opposite of the Phantom, and how protective he is of Christine, it's adorable. *sigh*

 

I think I work best using mixed media. Copics and colored pencils work really well together, and I'm just having a lot of fun combining colors. *Happiness is real.*

So yes, that's it this week...

I see I'm almost to 100 followers. SQUEEEEEE! THANK YOU, THANK YOU FOR FOLLOWING ME!!! It makes me so happy when you do that. Hello.

When I get to 100 I would like to do a giveaway, but I'm not sure what to give... away. Would you guys be interested if for the prize you could ask for any picture and I'd do it for you? Or you could request a print of one I've done.... Or something like that.

Spread the word though, 100 followers means giveaway!! 

Also, I have a tumblr now. Because people's art seems to get noticed a lot on tumblr, and I want to get my art out there, so. Here is the linky: Mah tumblr. It's weird, and I'm not sure if I like it, but hey, if you have one, give me a follow!


Treskie out.