Life's more painless
For the brainless.
Big stop just to renew your license to companion. Can I use companion as a verb?
Wash ,'Ariel'
Buffy and Angel 1: BUFFYNANGLE4EVA!!!!!1!
Is it better the second time around? Or the third? Or tenth? This is the place to come when you have a burning desire to talk about an old episode that was just re-run.
ChiKat - May 31, 2005 10:14:50 am PDT #1000 of 10458
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
Vortex - May 31, 2005 10:22:06 am PDT #1001 of 10458
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Ack! Firstly, it's "It's a LOVELY Day for a Murder", and it's not from Assassins, though I always think of it as such. It's actually from and Rodgers and Hart musical called Higher and Higher.
DebetEsse - May 31, 2005 10:23:34 am PDT #1002 of 10458
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Dana, it completely frelled the flow of the end of the show for me, straight from "Hail to the Chief" into "Everybody's Got the Right". It doesn't really work thematically for me, either. The show's not about The People. It's about these people, sitting on the outside, and trying to get a piece of their version of the dream.
(Chi, I've been bouncing between songs from that show all month, but, not Sondheim.)
Dana - May 31, 2005 10:26:17 am PDT #1003 of 10458
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Dana, it completely frelled the flow of the end of the show for me, straight from "Hail to the Chief" into "Everybody's Got the Right".
I do agree with that. I missed the transition. But it seems like such a classic Sondheim song to me. It's "Someone in a Tree". It's any song where Sondheim has ever dealt with multiple viewpoints on an issue.
Gris - May 31, 2005 10:28:53 am PDT #1004 of 10458
Hey. New board.
Dammit, now I have to listen to Wicked when I'm done with George.
Hate you all.
Oh, wait. Meant "Love".
Need to stop reading this thread and write my paper though. If I come back, beat me.
DebetEsse - May 31, 2005 10:43:43 am PDT #1005 of 10458
Woe to the fucking wicked.
That makes sense, I just can't get past the-song-in-context, as the show hangs together so precariously, anyway.
juliana - May 31, 2005 11:41:47 am PDT #1006 of 10458
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Heh. We had an intense discussion Sunday night about Assassins and Tommy. I've not been able to sit through either of them, and Zach adores them. I like the Who's recording of Tommy, but the stage recording has the precise, bright qualities that make me dislike musicals in general (even Wicked).
Kate P. - Jun 01, 2005 6:32:44 am PDT #1007 of 10458
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
This discussions reminds me to ask, Dana, where's your tag from?
Dana - Jun 01, 2005 6:36:48 am PDT #1008 of 10458
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Hee. Sondheim, unsurprisingly. It's a cut song from "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" called "There's Something About A War."
Kate P. - Jun 01, 2005 6:49:46 am PDT #1009 of 10458
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Heh, I figured it was Sondheim. (For posterity: "The rain may rust your armor, your straps may be too tight, but decapitate a farmer and your heart feels light.")
...And now I'm earwormed with "War Is A Science" (from Pippin, which is not Sondheim, but still one of my favorite shows).