Leap!
Went to the dentist today… somehow I always manage to only go once a year, despite my best intentions. No issues save for some sort of trauma to one of my gums that started a few months ago. Aparently, the key is to *not* fuck with it if you want it to heal… who knew ;p
I’ve been watching Quantum Leap recently, and I’m taking the last two seasons with me for the trains (along with all manner of reading/watching material). I never actually watched much of the show before… I mostly had seen the pilot and a few interspersed here and there. I definitely had seen “The Leap Home” before, and even know what was going to happen it was really sad. The only other thing I remember for before was that he eventually meets another leaper who tells him something important that I don’t remember, and then leaps away. But it is really a much better show than I remember. When I started watching it again, I had just finished a re-watch of Enterprise, so it was funny to see him as Archer; lots of lines worked out in a very funny manner that way :D
But there was one episode, season one or two, where he leaped into an actor who was the understudy for the lead role in The Man of La Mancha… and now I’m hooked on the music. I want to see it and find out what the damned play is about, heh. I’m content to learn the lyrics to “I, Don Quixote” for now though.
Then, there is the showtunes channel I have set up on Pandora. It doesn’t have much variety, unfortunately, but its managed to start playing songs from Ragtime. Ragtime. I know I saw it a long long time ago, but I can’t remember. Its just vague flashbacks of really enjoying it. Hell, I think it might have been one of the first musicals, or even plays, that I saw! Just another relic, lost in every other memory from my childhood, perpetually blocked from access by my conscious mind. Its times like this, when something I had completely forgotten comes back a little, that I wonder just what other interesting and important things from my childhood are locked away. Can’t I catch a break and get some of it back now? I’m pretty sure I’m over the divorce and the, um, well you know. Or if you don’t, then I guess you don’t.
But anyway, I just bought the soundtracks for those two plays, along with Wicked, from AmazonMP3. New songs to learn is always fun.
Haircut tomorrow. Then, RENT on Thursday (Thanks Danielle/Dan!). Leaving on the trip on Sunday. Still trying to decide if I should take a cab to the station, or bank on the Commuter Rail being reliable. I’m leaning toward taxi…
-K
imagine said,
July 17, 2009 @ 7:31 pm
Let’s see. The first live play you really fell for was “Jesus Christ Superstar.” You would have been about 6. You were obsessed with Brent (the guy playing Jesus at my summer camp), and then you practically wore out my VHS tape of the production. Really pissed off Ramona with all your singing of that show (she felt like it was really offensive to her, and you didn’t get it as you were only 6).
Prior to that, you practically wore out the tape of a professional production of “The Nutcracker.” You really wanted to be Uncle Drosselmeyer, which is quite interesting as he has maybe 20 minutes of stage time in the whole 3-hour long thing.
To try to wean you of JCS, we took you to go see Donny Osmond in “Joesph and the Amazing Techinicolor Dream Coat” we figured it was still Webber, but at least this one is included in the Torah as well. ;) It didn’t take as well.
But one day, I was playing “Into the Woods” in the living room, and you just got *hooked* by the song “Last Midnight” and from there you finally started branching out from JCS.
I think “Ragtime” was sometime in that year or two.
Kiirel said,
July 17, 2009 @ 7:36 pm
I do totally remember the whole JCSS thing and Brent. I don’t remember the VHS part though (it always seemed strange to me that I learned the songs so well just seeing it once). Don’t really remember the Nutcracker obsession (except just the music, kinda), but it makes perfect sense to me that I’d want a character that’s just there for a few minutes, heh.
The other two I also remember. Still a fan of both :D. Just had no sense of time or the order that seeing all of these things happened.
imagine said,
July 17, 2009 @ 9:21 pm
You did learn them pretty darn fast, and knew them fairly well after one viewing. But you did watch it a lot after that as well.