Moskau!

I love this song! The guy in green as an awesome look (they show a great close up @ 2:14), the guy dressed in black looks a little out of place... a little younger and doesn't look completely wacked out.

also, lol @ 3:16 with the guy in blue

Rent: on stage: on screen

WAY before the movie version of Rent came out, My wife and I pined for them to release the musical filmed live on broadway - as if we were sitting in the audience. I was happy when I heard it was coming to film, but I didn't want to see a movie version of it, I wanted to see what everyone else would see if they saw it on Broadway. They did this with the musical Cats and it turned out phenominally!

Well, I never saw the movie version, but we were fortunate enough to see it live on stage a few months ago at the Toyota Center when it came through Tri-Cities. Happy with that, I then learned they did film the final show on Broadway and turned *that* performance into exactly what we've been wanting for the last 7 years.

It's in select theaters for a small amount of time (only over the weekend). It costed $20 per ticket, but it was Completely worth it to see it again "on stage."

We bought our tickets, had our babysitter (a.k.a., her mom) watch the kids as we sat in an empty theater all to ourselves. Right before it started, some elderly couple came in as well... Like any movie, it started with 20 minutes of previews... which I actually thought was odd since this wasn't like the other "movies" in the theater.

Then, it started. Not Rent, but Death Race. The What?! The eldery couple got up to complain and left! I started walking to where they were, told them what happened as they were aware and said it'd start in about 2 minutes and apologized for the accident.

I can't wait until it comes out on video, but it's one of those situations as well where the lead character, Mark Cohen, looked *exactly* like our good friend Shawn so, unfortunately, I saw Shawn instead of Mark the entire time. (picture below) Eh, it's all good.

It's a comfort to know that if I didn't get the chance to watch it live on stage, at least I would've seen this one. And we had the whole theater to ourselves. ROCK!!

Mommy, would you like some sausage?

We learned a new personality trait from our one year old, Lily. If Mommy gets too close to Lily while she's eating, she thinks she's going to steal her food so she protects it the best she can. Lily doesn't have a problem with Me or Laura so much, just Mom... weird, and funny.

Britain's got talent

America's got talent is one of my favorite shows. Like most shows, it's just an import of something that worked somewhere else so we took it, put our name on it and called it our own. (most countries do this to American products, it's our way of taking it back)

Of course most have seen Paul Potts, the cell phone salesman that won with his Opera performance... this year a kid dancer won which was cool... but I love this one. Something about a Michael Jackson / Bollywood dancing team is surreal.

Chi's Sweet Home

There's a series of 3 minute anime episodes called Chi's Sweet Home. It's about a cat who lost his mom, got found by a little boy and, though enjoying the life of a stay at home cat, still wants to become re-joined with it's family.

Though this kind of show usually isn't my thing, it is my wife's. I promised I'd watch one... then another. Then I promised I'd just watch upto episode 8... which turned to 12 or 13, I don't remmeber, I lost count. Only 3 minutes long each, they go by fast.

enjoy the first episode