February 25, 2006
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OK- I took a good half-day off from listening to RENT and I’m not Rent-ed out anymore. I’m ready for more!
“Rent Rent Rent Re-ent Rent!!!”
Well-We watched RENT again last night, and listened to it all the way up to Twain Harte. Wow. I certainly caught a WHOLE lot more the second time I watched it. More character stuff, deeper meaning to the lyrics–it’s been incredible. However, I may be a little RENT-ed out. I’m not totally burned out on it, ’cause I still love the music and stuff, but it’s been pretty constant over the past several days. However again, we have deciphered a whole new layer to the meaning of many of the lyrics and the musical overall–a meaning that makes it all the more incredible. I’m not sure how to describe it other than it has been like peeling an onion…layer after layer after layer.
…and Heidi walked out in the first five minutes. I’m so dissapointed…Jubilee was fun, except that Noah was pretty crabby for most of the time. Nathaniel had a great time playing with his cousins in the game room, and he was very excited to buy a little blue velcrow wallet with the tickets he won from playing the games. It’s cool to know now that he’s old enough so we can leave him with his cousins that are like 10 and 12 and 5 and he can have a great time and we don’t have to worry about watching him every second–they are responsible enough to keep an eye on him and make sure he’s OK and not lost or anything…it’s a cool new thing…
I can’t wait for Sunday’s Starbucks crossword puzzle! I have the first one done and I will rock this one too! Free coffee for life is a-comin’! I can feel it!
Also-they have different Starbucks pastries up here, so I had a Lowfat Cranberry-Apple Muffin. Yum!And believe me, I know that I’m a linkin fool. I apologize in advance to Shantelle and whoever else that is extremely stressed out by the over-abundance of links. I just don’t have a job, that’s all. I promise, as soon as I get a job I will stop linking so much. I will reduce my linkage to a reasonable amount. Until then, however, be warned.
Oh yeah-Christy has never seen the original Thriller video from waaaay back when. The only thing she knows of it is the scene from 13 Going on 30 where they reinact it. I downloaded it from iTunes and she’s gonna watch the original…she is compelled to after they danced to it on Dancing with the Stars on Thursday night. So funny…but she just loves cool dancing with lots of people doing it all at once.
Oh yeah- iTunes has now sold one billion songs in just three years. Amazing. It is true what they say–Apple may be taking over the world…and actually, that might be OK with me, as long as I get to keep my G5…and my 23″ Widescreen HD display.
Comments (13)
I’ve been a huge RENT-er myself since highschool when it first opened on Broadway. Good stuff.
Can’t say I have ever seen it, RENT that is!
Nice that Nathaniel gets to play with cousins…that was one of the highlights as I was growing up!!
Christy is in for a treat….
Lowfat muffins…thats a good thing! Wishing I would have bought stock in i-tunes…thats a bad thing.
Tom is at Blockbuster right now renting RENT. Thanks for the input. We were going to try to see it in the theater but never had the time to go. So I’ll let you know what we think. I saw a critique on the TODAY show back several months ago. It totally looked like my kind of movie. Take care. We miss you guys, awful. Never mind that I am an English teacher– I can resort to colloquialism just like the best of folks. Anyway, we’re praying for you four and thinking of you.
all I see is links…someone will let me know when you get a job and then I can look at your blog again, no seriously I’m just kidding and all this talk about RENT is making me want to go rent it right now.
YEs!!! “Rent Rent Rent Re-ent Rent!!!” I love RENT!! What do you mean you are RENT-ed out!? Take that back…you were doing so well with the positive RENT talk! And i think you suck for having it because Im jealous…i dont have it and you suck..but i saw it twice on BROADWAY so HA!…hahahahahahHA!…I think im still jealous…anywho see you and cristy Friday…:)
I want to learn the dance to “Thriller”!
Wow! I remember when the Thriller video came out way back– it was the big thing! They played it on MTV constantly.
Yeh for Starbucks, Yeh for low fat muffins, Boo for one more thing getting a chunk of my money. Take that back, two more things – now it looks like I’m gonna have to rent that RENT thing : 0 )
Starbucks has a cranberry-apple muffin? Our cranberry muffin doesn’t have apple… That’s just weird. Anyhow, my “thriller” post was actually inspired by a mix of “13 Going On 30″ and “Dancing With The Stars,” too! I saw the movie in theaters, and always wanted to see the video, but never got around to it. So when I walked in on my sister watching Nick Lachey’s brother dancing to it, well I had to do something about it!
The dance is cool, but I could do without the whole “werewolf” thing at the beginning…
Is Rent anonymous in your future….I don’t know sounds like addiction to me! lol
I walked out after 25 minutes, thank you very much. Longest 25 minutes of my life.
You misunderstood me, I said that it was the best movie that I saw in the span of this current year thus far, being 2006.