I Am Large, I Contain Multitudes

Okay, so after almost 5 years of stalling... in anticipation of tomorrow's singthru, and at the prodding of mrmorse... here it is! Based, of course, on the G&S work. Likely not of interest to the uninitiated -- or else could be considered spoilerish, depending on your perspective.

( Don't be disrespecting me, bitch. I'm the tenor. )

msmidge is now MrsMidge! But more on that in a bit.

Before I left for Atlanta, I went out to see Troy with tenore Thursday night. I now have a deeper appreciation for Troy in Fifteen Minutes (which was pretty freaking funny to begin with), because the whole movie is just like that: self-MST3K'ing. Nevertheless, I actually didn't hate it. All I have to add are my Top Ten Impressions of Troy the Movie:

1. Still the Prettiest. -- Paris, not Helen. Duh.
2. But Hector was oh so far and away more appealing. (I didn't even remember that that was Eric Bana. I didn't remember him being that cute.) I suspect this is yet more evidence that I am getting old. Responsible, competent, civic-minded family man. Yum!
3. Okay, Brad Pitt is awfully pretty himself. However,
4. Achaean Greek soldiers != blond surfer dudes.
5. In that opening scene where Achilles is discovered sleeping with two other naked bodies draped around him, is the one in the back Patroclus? Just askin'.
6. Agamemnon was actually really well played. I got a feel immediately for exactly what kind of asshole he was.
7. Giant Flaming Balls of Twine!
8. It is All Wrong to see Boromir attacking Minas Tirith.
9. If they go on to remake the Odyssey, Sean Bean could play Odysseus for that too. Rock on!
10. The whole thing actually made me want to go back and pull out my copy of the Iliad (the one I could only get through, freshman year of college, by taking a highlighter and marking every sentence where Something Actually Happened). If it does that for even a small percentage of the population, it will have been worth making.

With that, it's off to the chiropractor for me. Then food pantry, then a 20s&30s committee meeting, then I crash for the evening. Gee, it's good to be home. :-}