He's here, the Phantom of the Opera!

Christine and the Phantom... Look pretty good, don't they?

Hi! Chipper, as you can tell. Class is out early, probably because Soldan was ashamed that she spelled "extravagance" 'extravange' and she is a professor in the faculty of English. Finished Malcom's Katie, and I liked it, and it ended i the way all Victorian Melodrama's should : happiness, and babies! hahahaha. I'm just glad that the narrative poem of death is over with.

Am having this odd feeling today, that I should go around and rid the world of stupidity by bludgeoning the idiots with big big rocks. Sound good? Reminds me of a quote from Bash that went something like:

"Im not saying we should kill all the stupid people [although I am.] all I'm saying is that we should remove all the safety labels and let things run their course!"

As I said earlier, I went and saw the Phantom last night, all on my lonesome, and it was fabulous. Obviously nowhere near the greatness of the musical itself, but they did a fairly good job reproducing it on-screen, probably because Andrew Lloyd Webber was involved in the process. The music was pretty good, despite the fact that they tried to modernize the sound a bit, by letting the vocalists scoop their voices, which made it sound off. They also went through and changed some of the original lyrics (removing the big words like 'purile' that the masses might not understand, from what I saw) which ruined a few of original jokes. ( "Opera Ghost? Who the hell is he? He's a funny sort of spectre to expect a large retainer blah blah blah..." They took out spectre and put ghost or something equally inane. pfft.) Anyway, Minnie Driver was excellent, really showed her ability to act out of her typecast, really fabulous. Raoul's hair was much too girlie, but that's just accuracy, and my personal distaste for long hair on guys. I also disliked the fact that they whispered some of the things they really should have sung, and the letters really needed to be sung as well, because people speaking in verse is just completely ludicrous since the advent of natural speech on-stage. Mostly little stuff that bugged me as only a true devotee of the musical can be bugged. See it!