Do not, I repeat, DO NOT make jokes about RENT or bootlegging RENT when you are standing in line at a theatre.
You will get cut.
See, my dear friend said that she had free tickets to an early screening of the film version of that hit broadway play.
So, all day yesterday, I was singing the "Everyone has AIDS" song from Team America, because that is RENT in a nutshell.
I obviously was not as moved by the play when I saw it as some people were.
So, Cheryl and I hit the movie theatre about an hour before it starts, play some Tekken 4, and then get in line behind a group of 5 or 6 kids who are obviously in high school and obviously in choir. How I used to hate those choir dorks.
The line is moving slowly and we look up to the front where, I shit you not, bags are being searched and people are being wanded with the hand held metal detectors.
"Is Rent the kind of movie that attracts people with weapons?" I ask. Cheryl replies that they are probably checking to see who may have cameras hidden or something.
And when I say they were checking bags, oh my god were they checking bags, right down to making sure you didn't have a camera phone because we all know that those movie bootleggers love to film movies frame by frame with a shitty nokia.
Security for getting in to see musicals is now tighter than getting on a plane.
So, I joke, "Oh mah god..I'm SO gonna film it and then run home and post in on my 'I <3 Rent' blog ". I had 2 of those kids turn and scowl at me because I think they felt I was personally mocking them because secretly they had blogs about Rent and how great it is and how that one song TTLY made them cry liek ALOT and how one day they want to live in New York and do smack because its SO bohemian.
And if havent been to a movie theatre in a while : handful of popcorn and a dixie cup of sprite : $52.12
So, film, ok.
Entertaining. If you've seen the play, no surprises. If you haven't seen the play and havent heard the soundtrack, just see that opening sequence from Team America like I mentioned before and you'll be all caught up.
You will get cut.
See, my dear friend said that she had free tickets to an early screening of the film version of that hit broadway play.
So, all day yesterday, I was singing the "Everyone has AIDS" song from Team America, because that is RENT in a nutshell.
I obviously was not as moved by the play when I saw it as some people were.
So, Cheryl and I hit the movie theatre about an hour before it starts, play some Tekken 4, and then get in line behind a group of 5 or 6 kids who are obviously in high school and obviously in choir. How I used to hate those choir dorks.
The line is moving slowly and we look up to the front where, I shit you not, bags are being searched and people are being wanded with the hand held metal detectors.
"Is Rent the kind of movie that attracts people with weapons?" I ask. Cheryl replies that they are probably checking to see who may have cameras hidden or something.
And when I say they were checking bags, oh my god were they checking bags, right down to making sure you didn't have a camera phone because we all know that those movie bootleggers love to film movies frame by frame with a shitty nokia.
Security for getting in to see musicals is now tighter than getting on a plane.
So, I joke, "Oh mah god..I'm SO gonna film it and then run home and post in on my 'I <3 Rent' blog ". I had 2 of those kids turn and scowl at me because I think they felt I was personally mocking them because secretly they had blogs about Rent and how great it is and how that one song TTLY made them cry liek ALOT and how one day they want to live in New York and do smack because its SO bohemian.
And if havent been to a movie theatre in a while : handful of popcorn and a dixie cup of sprite : $52.12
So, film, ok.
Entertaining. If you've seen the play, no surprises. If you haven't seen the play and havent heard the soundtrack, just see that opening sequence from Team America like I mentioned before and you'll be all caught up.
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I'll also be home for Christmas. But I'll give you a hollar.