So it's Monday morning. Very early Monday morning. And in honor of everyone's least favorite day of the week, I am going to give it some little bit of goodness to make it better. Starting now, every Monday will be Music Monday. Well, every Monday that I remember to post something music related at the very least. So here are a few of the songs that have been playing on repeat on my iPod recently...
1. A Comet Appears- The Shins. (This song is pure poetry. Favorite line... "Every post you can hitch your faith on is a pie in the sky, chock full of lies, a tool we devised to make sinking stones fly".)
2. Heartbeats- Jose Gonzoles (Love.Seriously.So good.)
3. Swan Song- A Fine Frenzy (I really love this song. And Alison Sudol's musical talent)
4. Spring Awakening album- Original Broadway Cast (Literally the entire thing.)
5. Dark Blue- Jack's Mannequin (because it is in my top five from my very favorite band)
6. Hey, Soul Sister- Train (This song just makes me happy.)
7. Skinny Love- Bon Iver (A go to song of mine. Along with almost every other song
that comes out of Justin Vernon's mouth)
8. Revelry- Kings of Leon (I'm just in love with KOL right now)
9. Notion- Kings Of Leon (Case in point.)
10.Hammers and Strings (A Lullaby)- Jack's Mannequin (Because I really think Andrew
McMahon wrote it for me.)
Okay, I could go on forever because music is totally my Anti-Drug but I won't because that might border on excessive.
2:25 am
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Monday, April 5, 2010
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Spring time in Dallas, an Awakening.
It's two for one Sunday.
This post is going to be a hodge podge of things I love about this weekend.
Yesterday, I was in Dallas at the brand spanking new Winspear Opera House watching the matinee of Spring Awakening. It was incredible. I fell in love with the show months ago, despite never having seen the OBC on Broadway, simply from watching poorly recorded clips and listening to the soundtrack. On repeat. Every day. Regardless, my roommates and I loved every single minute of it! The cast was really great. The two standouts for me were Steffi D and Taylor Trensch who played Ilse and Moritz, respectively. The whole cast really was awesome, but those two just stole the show for me. In the second number of the second act, they perform a duet, "Don't Do Sadness/Blue Wind", that literally gave me chills. I know I'm gushing, so I'll stop myself before it gets too bad.
The show is definitely not your grandma's musical, but it is fresh and stunning and relevant even though the time period is sometime in the late nineteenth century. Beyond just the content, the talent, and the songs, the whole aspect of the show was new and different. I really loved how they used the stage and the members of the cast who weren't performing. The actors who were designated as u/s or part of the ensemble were sitting in the risers on the stage, dressed in street clothes. During group numbers, they would stand up and join in the number. I kind of loved that!
The music will keep you singing long after you've left the theater and I find myself already wishing I could go back. I don't know how long the tour will last, as of now I think it is set to end sometime this summer in Orlando. I really hope that it makes another go around because I would see it again in a heartbeat.
In short, it was incredible. Okay, I'm done with the gushing, I promise.
In other news, to feed the member's of our house insatiable appetites for all things Broadway, Liz has decided we are going to read one excerpt from her book about the great Theaters of Broadway. Tonight was the Ford Center.
In short, I love my roommates.
Here's a little montage from the Tour's YouTube channel. The song is "Totally F**ked" and it doesn't just consist of the words blah blah blah, I promise.
10:13pm
This post is going to be a hodge podge of things I love about this weekend.
Yesterday, I was in Dallas at the brand spanking new Winspear Opera House watching the matinee of Spring Awakening. It was incredible. I fell in love with the show months ago, despite never having seen the OBC on Broadway, simply from watching poorly recorded clips and listening to the soundtrack. On repeat. Every day. Regardless, my roommates and I loved every single minute of it! The cast was really great. The two standouts for me were Steffi D and Taylor Trensch who played Ilse and Moritz, respectively. The whole cast really was awesome, but those two just stole the show for me. In the second number of the second act, they perform a duet, "Don't Do Sadness/Blue Wind", that literally gave me chills. I know I'm gushing, so I'll stop myself before it gets too bad.
The show is definitely not your grandma's musical, but it is fresh and stunning and relevant even though the time period is sometime in the late nineteenth century. Beyond just the content, the talent, and the songs, the whole aspect of the show was new and different. I really loved how they used the stage and the members of the cast who weren't performing. The actors who were designated as u/s or part of the ensemble were sitting in the risers on the stage, dressed in street clothes. During group numbers, they would stand up and join in the number. I kind of loved that!
The music will keep you singing long after you've left the theater and I find myself already wishing I could go back. I don't know how long the tour will last, as of now I think it is set to end sometime this summer in Orlando. I really hope that it makes another go around because I would see it again in a heartbeat.
In short, it was incredible. Okay, I'm done with the gushing, I promise.
In other news, to feed the member's of our house insatiable appetites for all things Broadway, Liz has decided we are going to read one excerpt from her book about the great Theaters of Broadway. Tonight was the Ford Center.
In short, I love my roommates.
Here's a little montage from the Tour's YouTube channel. The song is "Totally F**ked" and it doesn't just consist of the words blah blah blah, I promise.
10:13pm
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