Playing with Ivies, Sox Rock, new Phantom

[skreidle]

Gah! Almost 80 new posts on my friends page since I shut down my laptop at work around 1630!

Totally missed lunar eclipsitude! Ah well, I suppose they're not that infrequent.

After work, 1730ish, I headed south a bit, parked at Dunn Loring, Metroed into Foggy Bottom, and walked over to McFadden's. (Outside DL, ran into Kerryites and got a button, sticker, bumper sticker, and a sheaf of papers. All I wanted was the pin, really.) There, I was directed to the appropriate room, and proceeded to make merry with a bevy of Princeton/Yale/Cornell folks, running first into Ed (Cornellian, multiple-time Old Rag hiker and former WVBR DJ), meeting several other Cornellians and other Ivy folks, later encountering Monica and Smruti (recent party hosts), hanging out with assorted people whose names I never caught, and admiring the scenery. Oh, lots of scenery. Mmmm.

When the game came on at 2000, I became a Sox fan--not that I have any ties to the team, nor the sport, but a) they've been kicking ass, b) they continued to kick ass, c) they haven't won the Series since freakin' 1918, and d) at least 95% of the bar was Sox fans. It was a very fun atmosphere, especially as the game ran on to its shutout, Series-winning, 3-0 conclusion. :D (I can only imagine the atmosphere in Boston, given how rowdy it was in DC!)

I then succeeded in catching the last train west to get back to my truck, chatting with a random guy about theatre, robots, and computers, until we reached Dunn Loring and went our separate ways. Then I stopped at Taco Bell, with its 24hr drive-through.

Addendum: Well, only took ~50 minutes to catch up. :P

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Check out the trailer for this Japanese movie adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera.. looks very pretty.

Comments

[typhanie.livejournal.com]

I'm going to have to steal that link from you. My sister will go nuts. ;)

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

Does she like Phantom, Japanese movies, or both? :)

[typhanie.livejournal.com]

Phantom. We went to see it in Baltimore about a month ago. It was great. I'd love to see the Japanese interpretation of it.

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

I saw it at the Kennedy Center several years ago, and was honestly disappointed by most of the first act.. I know there are excellent performances of the show; alas, that just wasn't one of them.

[typhanie.livejournal.com]

I was mostly disappointed by the chandalier and the script changes. Overall, though, I really enjoyed it. I'd definitely go again.

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

I was disappointed by the descent into the catacombs, which didn't use a trapdoor or anything (like I'd heard about one version using.)

[typhanie.livejournal.com]

Which descent, the first with Christine and Phantom during "Music of the Night", or the second, also with them during "the Point of No Return"? Oh, or there was one where all the other characters go in search of them after "Point of No return."

I'd actually been pretty obsessed with it all when I was twelve or so. Read Gaston Leroux's book and a couple other interpretations of it, and had the soundtrack tapes so well memorized that even though I hadn't listened to them in over six years, I still knew all the words. (Insane, I am.) Some of what hadn't quite made sense to me when I'd listen to those tapes suddenly made perfect sense, and some of it disappointed me when I saw the execution. ;)

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

I think it was Point of No Return, but I'm not sure--I just remember he was in a hurry. :)

I'd heard the soundtrack, on tape and CD, many many times. Finally read Leroux's book this year. :)



(I had a similar set of epiphanies with RENT--I'd listened to it countless times, and when I finally saw it, a lot of the songs made a lot more sense. :)