is on the tv..........haven't ever seen this movie in its entirety before but it does seem absolutely charming to watch a little of it...... but reality is important to me, to quote NWA and reading about Judy Garland's life......she does seem to have been a really crazy bitch.......... i would call a crazy bitch a woman that marries five times, as Judy Garland did........... didn't even realize her daughter was Liza Minelli....... will have to read up on that later some more, and the nation Zambia........... isn't Liza Minelli famous for being that new-age space cadet time actress no-one can actually remember any of her roles?????
anyway, random memory, one time i was in the 6th grade.......my brother and sister were graduating their senior year of high school that year........we were all going to the same school, i went there since pre-school.....and left at the end of grade 9 with three years of high school to go......... i had memories of my sister raquel at that school from when i was just like 6 or 7 years old i guess, one time i remember a hot day and she bought me a drink, i didn't have any money and would have just drank from the tap.... it was an act of kindness........there was some love between her and i, however my other sister, me and her never had much love for eachother ever.......... anyway, i was in grade 6 and watching raquel perform as dorothy in the wizard of oz musical the school was putting on..........actually it was called 'oz' and i think it was a re-write of the musical by michael jackson....... maybe not by michael jackson but it was definitely basically a version of the wizard of oz......... my sister raquel enjoyed performing and felt comfortable of stage........ i performed once as the big bad wolf in a school play like the year before that and generally felt comfortable of stage in debating club or whatever....... although i recently had a bout of stage fright during a stand up comedy routine i ad-libbed on an open night mic, that wouldn't deter me from doing more of the same, i just don't have time for that business........... anyway, raquel was performing very well........ her music teacher at the school was also a close friend of hers and this woman actually visited russia during the 1980s she said, when communism was still on there, and brought a suitcase full of jeans to sell there in russia, she reported that at her first hotel, her jeans dissappeared and a note and some cash was left in the suitcase, the hotel maid had taken care of the sale for her....... i tried explaining this story to my mother in law last year while she was staying here with us but not sure if she grasped it well, my bulgarian isn't 100%....... i never mentioned my sister either........as my sister has suicided, i only ever refer to her as 'a friend of mine' in conversation in mentioning something about her life like her smoking pot in malaysia when she was living there or whatever...........
anyway so Raquel was performing as Dorothy in the wizard of oz, just like Judy Garland..........singing songs and what not.......my 6th grade class was sitting cross-legged on the amphi-theatre floor watching her and i mentioned to the girl sitting next to me, one of my class-mates of many years standing (we were about 11 years old at the time) that the player on the stage was my sister......... she was really surprised and told the teacher who was also very surprised.......... the reason my brother was in the same grade as her was that he'd repeated a year due to having left school the year before to work for a printing company......... i remember the two of them were living at home for at least part of that year and raquel put my brother's head through a sheetrock wall in a headlock after arguing about using the iron......... to this day my heirloom reminders of raquel are her iron, probably she had it in malaysia too and her japanese tea cups............ i generally kept my mouth shut about my family at school as they were highly unusual, coming and going from home frequently to live with foster carers or religious brothers in my brothers case..........
well i daresay i like this wicked witch of the west with her green skin, she seems to be an interesting looking character....... i remember from previous viewings the wizard of oz is actually some guy pulling levers and hoodwinking people into thinking he's big and scary with smoke and mirrors
well i caught up with an old friend today, hadn't seen him in about 2 years so that was a good day
to be fair to my other sister, i do remember she stretched her $1 weekly pocket money to buy a 20cent wagon wheel chocolate biscuit treat every weekday whereas i'd blow my money quickly so she did seem to be a good planner...... i think i just didn't like her much....... anyway when you're a kid you don't think much in terms of not liking someone.... i didn't actively dislike her, she just wasn't warm to me and things go a lot worse after she left home....... i also remember her playing an electric organ we had at home, before she moved out, she had some musical talent and could play piano........ this electric organ had different buttons to overlay beats on the piano notes, like samba music, jazz, etc..... come to think of it, i also recall visiting her in amsterdam when i was 16 and she was living there with her dutch hubby, she was 21 at the time.... i recall she was very proud of her electric organ playing skills on that occasion
well dorothy is back in kansas, that's nice..... hadn't seen this part of the movie until now...... happy to live near missouri........ lucky people - but judy garland had a crazy life anyway
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