A Little Warmer
Oct. 6th, 2004 10:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
liptonrm_backupI'm trying to write up a very belated review of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow for ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
entertain_crack but I can't seem to focus. I blame it all on the Phantom of the Opera soundtrack that I have blasting at me from my computer's little baby speakers. I haven't listened to this album in years and it's no wonder I loved it so much in high school, it's so freaking melodramatic that it's practically like an opera itself. I could do without the love story but the parts with the opera stars and managers sniping at each other are just priceless. I would never want to play Christine, but I would love to play Carlotta or Andre or Fermin (the opera company's managers). Those parts are just divine, I would just love to flounce around the stage diva-ing it up as Carlotta or provide the much needed snarky commentary that the managers have. I'm a character actor at heart.
And poor Christine, she has to pick between the 'psycho stalker freak who psychologically manipulates her' Phantom and 'wastrel pretty boy who didn't even believe her at first' Raoul. Right then is when I would have given up on the opera and gotten a job as a florist, or something.
Excuse me, I think I'll go work on some crack!fic now. work, what work?
entertain_crack but I can't seem to focus. I blame it all on the Phantom of the Opera soundtrack that I have blasting at me from my computer's little baby speakers. I haven't listened to this album in years and it's no wonder I loved it so much in high school, it's so freaking melodramatic that it's practically like an opera itself. I could do without the love story but the parts with the opera stars and managers sniping at each other are just priceless. I would never want to play Christine, but I would love to play Carlotta or Andre or Fermin (the opera company's managers). Those parts are just divine, I would just love to flounce around the stage diva-ing it up as Carlotta or provide the much needed snarky commentary that the managers have. I'm a character actor at heart.And poor Christine, she has to pick between the 'psycho stalker freak who psychologically manipulates her' Phantom and 'wastrel pretty boy who didn't even believe her at first' Raoul. Right then is when I would have given up on the opera and gotten a job as a florist, or something.
Excuse me, I think I'll go work on some crack!fic now. work, what work?
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Date: 2004-10-06 09:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-06 10:03 am (UTC)I'd forgotten how great Phantom was. I think it really is the closest any modern musical has come to capturing the essence of classic opera, overdone, overdramatic, flamboyant and marvelous. I'll go out on a limb and say it's the best musical Andrew Lloyd Webber ever created.
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Date: 2004-10-07 01:19 am (UTC)crach!fic ?
What are all these terms, we need a fandom dictionary : - O
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Date: 2004-10-07 10:50 am (UTC)The particular crack!fic that I'm referencing is my Crazy Adventures in the Multiverse (http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=liptonrm&keyword=Crazy+Adventures+in+the+Multiverse&filter=all) where myself and two of my RL friends skip from one fandom universe to another. It is entirely crazy, pointless and illogical and completely self-indulgent;-).
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Date: 2004-10-07 10:55 am (UTC)Do you mind if I add it to the list I'm making
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Date: 2004-10-07 11:09 am (UTC)*scurries over to take a look at your growing list*
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Date: 2004-10-07 11:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-07 12:19 pm (UTC)