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Jan. 19th, 2013 03:12 pmY'know that thing I said about how I was not going to read Phantom of the Opera right now because I'm reading Les Miserables? Yeah, I lied. However! I am doing this ridiculous thing where I'm using Phantom as a reward for reading Les Miz - they are both on my kindle and after I have read a significant chunk of the boring bits of Les Miz, I get to read some Phantom. But slowly, because there is significantly less of it. And now I am done with the battle of Waterloo!
I have kinda spent the week being All Phantom All the Time. (This is made easier by the proliferation of adaptations. I mean, musical soundtrack*, obviously but also so many movies. I watched half of the 1990s made-for-tv-starring-Charles-Dance version yesterday, for the first time. It is pretty adorable.) When the week started, I was a little worried that it was going to turn out to be a story I had grown out of - there's a tiny part of me that maybe thinks that I should have - but no, I still have All The Feelings about Phantom. Listening to the musical still makes me tear up in the appropriate places and everything. So now I'm just sort of going, "Fuck it, I unironically love this, let's just enjoy it."
I'm thinking of making a list of the movie versions I've never seen and then acquiring and watching them all. (Have I really only seen four of them? That number seems low.) That is a ridiculous plan that involves watching Phantom of the Paradise but then, I am a ridiculous person.
*Okay, the hilarious thing about listening to the soundtrack now is that, as I mentioned earlier this week, I've only ever heard it before on cassette tape. And I listened to it a lot on cassette tape. Which means that I've memorized the places where I had to turn the cassette over, as well as the music. The mp3 soundtrack is, for obvious reasons, missing those pauses and it keeps throwing me off. At one point, the pause I'm expecting comes in the middle of what the mp3 version has put together as one track. It's weird.
I have kinda spent the week being All Phantom All the Time. (This is made easier by the proliferation of adaptations. I mean, musical soundtrack*, obviously but also so many movies. I watched half of the 1990s made-for-tv-starring-Charles-Dance version yesterday, for the first time. It is pretty adorable.) When the week started, I was a little worried that it was going to turn out to be a story I had grown out of - there's a tiny part of me that maybe thinks that I should have - but no, I still have All The Feelings about Phantom. Listening to the musical still makes me tear up in the appropriate places and everything. So now I'm just sort of going, "Fuck it, I unironically love this, let's just enjoy it."
I'm thinking of making a list of the movie versions I've never seen and then acquiring and watching them all. (Have I really only seen four of them? That number seems low.) That is a ridiculous plan that involves watching Phantom of the Paradise but then, I am a ridiculous person.
*Okay, the hilarious thing about listening to the soundtrack now is that, as I mentioned earlier this week, I've only ever heard it before on cassette tape. And I listened to it a lot on cassette tape. Which means that I've memorized the places where I had to turn the cassette over, as well as the music. The mp3 soundtrack is, for obvious reasons, missing those pauses and it keeps throwing me off. At one point, the pause I'm expecting comes in the middle of what the mp3 version has put together as one track. It's weird.