It's Too Darn Hot

Last evening I got the chance to play personal shopper to a friend in preparation for a blind date. It's a lot of fun to throw a bunch of clothes at someone and have them like it in the end. And look great too.

Today, I had "Kiss Me Kate" in the background of my morning routine. While I do consider myself a feminist, I still love the old musicals. While I lived in Connecticut, I would walk to the library and take out movies like "South Pacific". These movies classically had a dark or strange back story made playful by people randomly breaking into song. I saw "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" while in college and was horrified/delighted. I have only seen "Oklahoma" once because it was so disturbing. I watch "White Christmas" when I'm in a funk.

New musicals are getting better too. I have loved "Phantom of the Opera" since seeing it on stage in Chicago in high school and the recent movie, though flawed, brought me back to the theater. "Chicago" is good, but "Moulin Rouge" is better. "Rent" also makes life better.

And, yes, people do break out into song in real life. There's just an appalling lack of back-up dancers.

A New Addition: I did forget about "Grease" and "Grease 2". Bec and I grew up on the censored versions of these films, which gave a completely cool and entirely false depiction of high school. At least, for us nerds it was not that cool. And devoid of musical numbers and dance sequences.