#26
Posted: 10/5/05 at 12:54am
Just got my cd and had to post...
I picked it up cause they FINALLY had it at FYE - I was in there last week adn the guy said all FYE stores had some kinda problem adn wouldn't be getting it in til this week...anyway I digress.
I had 3&1/2 hours to kill at the coffee shop next to the theatre before I was called to rehearsal, so I decided ot listen to it.
I literally cried through most of it, and had weird chills and more excitement and inspiration than I've felt in awhile.
I was sitting there, remembering the first time I'd heard the OBC...10 years ago. I slipped out of school as soon as the bell rang, drove 20 minutes away to pick it up at the one store I knew had it, and had to RUSH back to catch the bus for an away volleyball game. I remember listening to it as the JV team played and just taking it in...the songs that I rewound cause they moved me somehow or made me tap my feet...
It was just so powerful to me that something could connect me so instantly and strongly with the person I was then...the dreams I had...the goals...my feelings on my future and the world and theatre and everything and realizing now, as I listen to it again in a new form, how different I've become and what I like about that, what I don't like...
Keep in mind, I'm someone who teaches theatre and I'm always shaking my head at my high schoolers who are all about Rent, usually saying "you'll grow out of that fad"...but now I'm like, shunning myself that I've become the person who does that - who sees something inspiring people, the same way this OBC inspired me, and knocks it down as "you'll learn more about theatre and your perspective will change" rather than embracing it.
For some reason, that's what listening to this did for me.
There were changes that I love, changes that made me a lil sad, but I can't wait to see the movie cause I have this feeling that it'll all work for that medium and seem like the perfect choice for cuts/adjustments that needed to be made, etc.
It just took me back to not even my childhood but the year I left the nest and set out to accomplish my dream, and it was very powerful - so much that I was all full of chills and tears and inspiration, as I stated previously.
Overall, I'm very happy with my purchase. :)
ps. the original was $35 when I bought it - if it weren't a double disc I'd be peeved, but I paid $25 for mine which I think is a good deal for two full cd's - bway double discs are in the $30's, right?
I picked it up cause they FINALLY had it at FYE - I was in there last week adn the guy said all FYE stores had some kinda problem adn wouldn't be getting it in til this week...anyway I digress.
I had 3&1/2 hours to kill at the coffee shop next to the theatre before I was called to rehearsal, so I decided ot listen to it.
I literally cried through most of it, and had weird chills and more excitement and inspiration than I've felt in awhile.
I was sitting there, remembering the first time I'd heard the OBC...10 years ago. I slipped out of school as soon as the bell rang, drove 20 minutes away to pick it up at the one store I knew had it, and had to RUSH back to catch the bus for an away volleyball game. I remember listening to it as the JV team played and just taking it in...the songs that I rewound cause they moved me somehow or made me tap my feet...
It was just so powerful to me that something could connect me so instantly and strongly with the person I was then...the dreams I had...the goals...my feelings on my future and the world and theatre and everything and realizing now, as I listen to it again in a new form, how different I've become and what I like about that, what I don't like...
Keep in mind, I'm someone who teaches theatre and I'm always shaking my head at my high schoolers who are all about Rent, usually saying "you'll grow out of that fad"...but now I'm like, shunning myself that I've become the person who does that - who sees something inspiring people, the same way this OBC inspired me, and knocks it down as "you'll learn more about theatre and your perspective will change" rather than embracing it.
For some reason, that's what listening to this did for me.
There were changes that I love, changes that made me a lil sad, but I can't wait to see the movie cause I have this feeling that it'll all work for that medium and seem like the perfect choice for cuts/adjustments that needed to be made, etc.
It just took me back to not even my childhood but the year I left the nest and set out to accomplish my dream, and it was very powerful - so much that I was all full of chills and tears and inspiration, as I stated previously.
Overall, I'm very happy with my purchase. :)
ps. the original was $35 when I bought it - if it weren't a double disc I'd be peeved, but I paid $25 for mine which I think is a good deal for two full cd's - bway double discs are in the $30's, right?
If I show you the darkness I hold inside, will you bring me to light?
