#775
6:51 pm, Saturday, April 14th, 2007I downloaded the Wicked soundtrack a couple days ago. Originally, I only snatched a couple songs (love that μtorrent feature), but I found myself listening to them so much that I decided to go back and grab the others as well. My feelings about the musical have changed a lot since I saw it; I remember not liking it much right after the performance back in February, but now it seems like it was actually pretty enjoyable. After listening to the OST a couple times, the music’s really growing on me. I especially like the song Dancing Through Life. And the storyline seems more… I don’t know what. It was clever of course, but there are some things in there that seem particularly authentic — like how Elphaba kept wearing the black hat she’d gotten from Galinda (who meant it as a form of humiliation), and how it came to symbolize their genuine fondness for each other, then their feud, and finally Elphaba’s simultaneous love for Galinda and the acceptance that she was also someone who couldn’t be trusted.
I really like that theme in books, movies, and so on — where two very close friends become enemies but continue to observe some strange courtesies out of respect for their past friendship. Like, in X-Men, how Magneto and Professor X can still be polite to each other while (basically) trying to destroy one another. Or the camaraderie Laura Roslin and Tom Zarek share just before their execution in Battlestar Galactica. I’m skeptical about whether that sort of nobility really exists, but the mechanic feels especially true-to-life regardless.
TotD:
What is the nerdiest thing about you? What is the least nerdy thing about you?
The nerdiest? That’s hard to say, seeing as how there’s so much to choose from. A brief selection of possible answers: I own all seven seasons of ST:DS9 on DVD, my collection of graphic novels/TPBs takes up more than two shelves, I build my own computers, I’ve played characters in at least four different official D&D campaign settings, and I can recite the OSI layer sequence and T568B wiring standard from memory. The least nerdy thing about me: I frequently wear a Texas Longhorns hoodie. (I’m like 90% sure they’re a football team.)
April 15th, 2007 at 5:25 pm
It’s a university! … that has a football team.
April 17th, 2007 at 8:53 pm
I downloaded that Wicked Sound Track, its pretty cool, whats movie about?
April 18th, 2007 at 12:27 am
Nice! It’s a musical (like, on Broadway), but I’m sure a movie version will be made eventually (if they’re not already working on it). It’s basically The Wizard of Oz as told from the Wicked Witch of the West’s point of view (well, most of it takes place before Dorothy’s arrival, but that’s the simple way of putting it).
So, like, you find out the WWW’s real name was Elphaba, her father was the governor of Munchkinland, and she ended up being roommates with Galinda (whose name was eventually shortened to Glinda, and later became Glinda the Good Witch). All the major Oz characters have cameos and histories that somehow relate to Elphaba’s. It’s neat. There’s a lot of details and twists, but those are the broad highlights.