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Jul. 4th, 2008 05:30 pmThis is KILLING ME, people. KILLING ME. SO MUCH TEMPTATION. Less than a day to go (I hope) before I can see the Doctor Who finale, and I'm glad for more reasons than one. Trying to avoid even the slightest hint of a possibility of a vague spoiler requires skipping over everything I would normally read. There are THREE DW wank reports up at Fandom Wank. THREE OF THEM. And I don't dare touch them.
I know it'll all be worth it. But damn.
In other, equally geeky news, I've been listening for the last couple of days to the soundtrack of a play called The Fix. I'd only ever heard of this play because the original cast had John Barrowman, but that's not why I bought it. I bought it because it is a political satire musical, which is just one of those combinations you don't expect and the second I read the blurb at Amazon, I had to have it. And I am really, really sad that I hadn't heard of it years ago, because it is awesome and it is something that should have been in my life long before now. What happens is: the front runner Presidential candidate dies in the midst of screwing his mistress, so his wife and brother decide that her drug-addict son will go into politics and eventually become President instead. Naturally, it all turns into a huge mess, and the songs are great, and the performances are wonderful, and why did I only hear of this play because one of the actors in it happened to end up on a couple of shows I like? How many other awesome musicals am I missing out on?
(Mind you, in terms of my Doctor Who fandom, I'm not sure this didn't turn out for the best. Because my first DW eps were the Empty Child two-parter, and the second I figured out who was playing Jack I would have been all, "OMG it's Cal!" and probably have viewed the entire thing rather differently. Casting can be funny that way.)
I know it'll all be worth it. But damn.
In other, equally geeky news, I've been listening for the last couple of days to the soundtrack of a play called The Fix. I'd only ever heard of this play because the original cast had John Barrowman, but that's not why I bought it. I bought it because it is a political satire musical, which is just one of those combinations you don't expect and the second I read the blurb at Amazon, I had to have it. And I am really, really sad that I hadn't heard of it years ago, because it is awesome and it is something that should have been in my life long before now. What happens is: the front runner Presidential candidate dies in the midst of screwing his mistress, so his wife and brother decide that her drug-addict son will go into politics and eventually become President instead. Naturally, it all turns into a huge mess, and the songs are great, and the performances are wonderful, and why did I only hear of this play because one of the actors in it happened to end up on a couple of shows I like? How many other awesome musicals am I missing out on?
(Mind you, in terms of my Doctor Who fandom, I'm not sure this didn't turn out for the best. Because my first DW eps were the Empty Child two-parter, and the second I figured out who was playing Jack I would have been all, "OMG it's Cal!" and probably have viewed the entire thing rather differently. Casting can be funny that way.)