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There was a guy named Jacomo, who wrote an opera long ago...
I've been listening to the Rent soundtrack all day. I was so surprised to realize that the original broadway Mark Cohen was played by Anthony Rapp... how this escaped me for five years is beyond me. Anthony Rapp was not only Daryl in Adventures in Babysitting, where I remember thinking he looked a lot like this kid I had a crush on at the time, but then he was the nice sensitive guy in Dazed and Confused, and I thought he was really cute in that as well. So, wow. Mark is my favorite character in Rent as well... at least, almost all of the lines from the show that I really like are spoken/sung by him (ie, the whole "Halloween" song... "why are entire years strewn on the cutting room floor of memory when single moments from one magic night forever flicker in close-up on the 3-D IMAX of my mind?") and sympathize with him the most ("...why am I the witness, and when I capture it on film, will it mean that it's the end and I'm alone?")
Other weird things are that I finally bothered to look up the summary of the opera La Boheme. I knew that Rent was based on it, but I had no idea how closely until I read this. Marcello and Rodolfo are pretty much Mark and Roger, Mimi is Mimi, Colline becomes Collins, Schaunard becomes Angel Dumott Schunard... etc... Benoit becomes Benny, Musetta becomes Maureen, and so on. Although in the original there certainly weren't any gay or lesbian couples - that's probably the main change. Paris becomes New York and tuberculosis becomes AIDS... this is like as weird as the day I realized the meaning of the TMBG album title "Misc. T". I'm sure any of you familiar with Rent already knew all this, but hey, it's new to me and wacky.
Anyway, in terms of reality, we took 13 people to Tram's (a vietnamese restaurant here in Pittsburgh) for dinner tonight, including much of the normal group and a bunch of extras. David made Charlie the dictator for next week - I guess Charlie has shown up to enough dinners to warrant it now. Elissa and Shafeeq and Charlie and Alex and I were talking about all of these weird social dynamic things, it was sort of weird. I ate a lot of spring rolls and egg rolls and not much else - I didn't even really finish my chicken soup.
Oh, and Carl and I ducked out of work for 45 minutes to walk into Oakland to Dave and Andy's to get ice cream. It was 70 degrees in Pittsburgh today, which is wacky for December, so we had to get ice cream. I got oatmeal raisin and cookies'n'cream ice cream! Whee!
Corey Kosak gave me a copy of the Star Trek episode of Weakest Link at dinner, too, but since I did laundry tonight after dinner and played Para Para inbetween washing/softener/drying, I didn't get to watch it yet. Maybe tomorrow... we'll see what I do after work with no Kiltie rehearsal and all.
Oh, and if anyone knows specifically where I got the title of this entry from, you get a cookie.
Other weird things are that I finally bothered to look up the summary of the opera La Boheme. I knew that Rent was based on it, but I had no idea how closely until I read this. Marcello and Rodolfo are pretty much Mark and Roger, Mimi is Mimi, Colline becomes Collins, Schaunard becomes Angel Dumott Schunard... etc... Benoit becomes Benny, Musetta becomes Maureen, and so on. Although in the original there certainly weren't any gay or lesbian couples - that's probably the main change. Paris becomes New York and tuberculosis becomes AIDS... this is like as weird as the day I realized the meaning of the TMBG album title "Misc. T". I'm sure any of you familiar with Rent already knew all this, but hey, it's new to me and wacky.
Anyway, in terms of reality, we took 13 people to Tram's (a vietnamese restaurant here in Pittsburgh) for dinner tonight, including much of the normal group and a bunch of extras. David made Charlie the dictator for next week - I guess Charlie has shown up to enough dinners to warrant it now. Elissa and Shafeeq and Charlie and Alex and I were talking about all of these weird social dynamic things, it was sort of weird. I ate a lot of spring rolls and egg rolls and not much else - I didn't even really finish my chicken soup.
Oh, and Carl and I ducked out of work for 45 minutes to walk into Oakland to Dave and Andy's to get ice cream. It was 70 degrees in Pittsburgh today, which is wacky for December, so we had to get ice cream. I got oatmeal raisin and cookies'n'cream ice cream! Whee!
Corey Kosak gave me a copy of the Star Trek episode of Weakest Link at dinner, too, but since I did laundry tonight after dinner and played Para Para inbetween washing/softener/drying, I didn't get to watch it yet. Maybe tomorrow... we'll see what I do after work with no Kiltie rehearsal and all.
Oh, and if anyone knows specifically where I got the title of this entry from, you get a cookie.
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Yep. La Boheme was my favorite opera when I was younger (yes, I was an opera fan when I was younger). I was actually kind of disappointed a bit because it followed SO closely until the VERY END. I think I may have actually said in the theater "wait a minute! Mimi is supposed to DIE"
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it's up in bloomfield? basically you go across the bloomfield bridge, up "main street", turn left on penn and it's a block in on your left.
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