One More Dawn...One More Day...Pile...of...Crap...

So, I'm a fairly big fan of "Les Misérables" (me saying that to most people who know me is akin to me saying "Hi, I'm Lela.  Have you met me at all?")

No, I'm not just a fan of the musical.  I first fell for the book, reading an unabridged translation between the ages of 7 and 9 (hey, I was a slower reader than, and to be fair, it WAS almost 1500 pages!)  Of course, I've always been a big fan of musicals (on the Nature-versus-Nurture side of that matter, I'll speak later) so when I found out that there was a musical of "Les Misérables," well hell, I didn't need any encouragement to go and find a copy of the soundtrack.  But then, I've got plans for a series of posts discussing my love for almost all things "Les Misérables" later on.  What I want to talk about right now is the recent performance by the U.S. National Touring Cast of the musical on the TV show "America's Got Talent"

I'm REALLY Back Now...

All of my blogs are about to be back and better than ever...I'm gonna put in so many pictures and junk that any regular readers (all two of you) may just vomit.  Or be really happy.  Or nothing might happen at all.

Okay, to start off...A few years ago, I worked at a large discount/retail/Idon'tknowwhatthatcorporatehellholeisanymore chain store...let's call it Mal-Wart.  Anyhow, I worked the overnight shift, stocking shelves and doing a little floor cleaning at one point.  As anyone who has worked overnight/3rd shift can tell you, it throws off the typical time schedule an average body is used to.  I'd get home in the mornings and maybe have time to eat and catch a smattering of news on TV before passing out in bed.

Self-Indulgence: 30 Day Music Meme: Day 30: A Song You'd Like Played At Your Funeral

And complete...at last.

Day 30: A Song You'd Like Played At Your Funeral

Since I've always thought I'll die before or at the age of 30 (I dunno.  Somewhere around there) I've had my funeral planned for a while.

Self-Indulgence: 30 Day Music Meme: Day 29: One Song That Gives You the Creeps

Almost done!

Day 29: One Song That Gives You the Creeps

And we come back around to Garbage once again.  Something about the song Happy Home just TOTALLY wigs me out.

Self-Indulgence: 30 Day Music Meme: Day 28: One Song That Needs to Never Be Played Again

This was another very simple one...

Day  28: One Song That Needs to Never Be Played Again

Strippers dance to it, Def Leppard fans rock to it.

Self-Indulgence: 30 Day Music Meme: Day 27: One Song in Your MP3 Folder You're Pretty Sure No One Else Has

Pretty sure I've nothing THAT obscure...

Day 27: One Song in Your MP3 Folder You're Pretty Sure No One Else Has

I do have a fair number of songs that I'm pretty sure not many people have.Like

Self-Indulgence: 30 Day Music Meme: Day 26: Your Favorite Movie Video

Another easy one for me!

Day 26: Your Favorite Movie Video

Hands down, the best ever is the video for Queen's Princes of the Universe which intercut footage from the film Highlander with footage of the band (and Highlander star Christopher Lambert).

Self-Indulgence: 30 Day Music Meme: Day 25: Your Favorite Song From 2010 (So Far)

Haven't heard much impressive music so far this year.

Day 25: Your Favorite Song From 2010 (So Far)

Of all the music I've heard so far, I've found one really great new song.  Stone Sour's single Say You'll Haunt Me caught my attention, however, and hasn't let me go.

Self-Indulgence: 30 Day Music Meme: Day 24: Your Favorite Cover Song

Can't believe I've made it this far.

Day 24: Your Favorite Cover Song

You probably think this is gonna be another Garbage one, don't you?  Wrong.  It's Nirvana this time.

Self-Indulgence: 30 Day Music Meme: Day 23: Your Favorite Duet

This one was REALLY easy.

Day 23:  Your Favorite Duet

I love the movie Victor/Victoria, and my favorite number is the Julie Andrews/Robert Preston duet You and Me.

Self-Indulgence: 30 Day Music Meme: Day 22: Your Favorite Song From a Movie

Songs from movies...geez, so many.

Day 22: Your Favorite Song From a Movie

I guess I'd have to go with a song from the great rock opera The Phantom of the Paradise.  This movie has a lot of fantastic songs sung by a lot of great performers, but my favorite is Special to Me as sung by Jessica Harper.

Self-Indulgence: 30 Day Music Meme: Day 21: A Song That Makes You Want to Break Stuff

Usually music calms me down...

Day 21: A Song That Makes You Want to Break Stuff

When in doubt, go for a song about anarchy.  Namely, Anarchy in the UK by the Sex Pistols.

Self-Indulgence: 30 Day Music Meme: Day 20: Your Favorite Breakup Song

This one wasn't so hard as the previous...

Day 20: Your Favorite Breakup Song

Well folks, it's Garbage again, with the song Can't Cry These Tears off their 2001 album Beautiful Garbage.
I know, I know, I'm a Garbage-obsessed freak.

Self-Indulgence: 30 Day Music Meme: Day 19: Your Favorite Love Song

Love songs kinda suck.

Day 19: Your Favorite Love Song

I'm a sucker for love songs with a maudlin side.  We're talking lost love with the hope of a return.  It was a hard choice, but I picked Last Kiss.

Self-Indulgence: 30 Day Music Meme: Day 18: An Instrumental Song You Like

So many great instrumentals...

Day 18: An Instrumental Song You Like

I've always been partial to the guitar piece Classical Gas.

Self-Indulgence: 30 Day Music Meme: Day 17: The Last Song in Your MP3 Folder

 This is a song I don't listen to nearly enough.

Day 17: The Last Song in Your MP3 Folder

I got this song via Spinner's Free MP3 of the Day, and I rather like it, though it's not my topper or anything.  The Pains of Being Pure at Heart has the sort of band name I love, and this song, Young Adult Friction, is just fantastic.

Self-Indulgence: 30 Day Music Meme: Day 16: The First Song in Your MP3 Folder

This one took some juggling since my songs are sequestered into sub-folders...

Day 16: The First Song in Your MP3 Folder

I shifted all of my songs temporarily into a single MP3 set folder, and the first one was...#1 Crush, by Garbage.  Many of you have probably heard the Nellee Hooper remix that featured on the soundtrack to Baz Luhrman's Romeo + Juliet, but this is the version that was a B-side to one of Garbage's first singles, Vow.

Self-Indulgence: 30 Day Music Meme: Day 15: A Song You Liked in High School

Hard to narrow this one down.

Day 15: A Song You Liked in High School

Technically, the song Pink, by Aerosmith, came out a couple of years before I was in high school.  Still, by the time high school rolled around, the song was still getting some play on radio stations I listened to, and it caught me up for some reason.

Self-Indulgence: 30 Day Music Meme: Day 14: A Song From the Year You Were Born

 I'm gonna go with an easy one that EVERYONE remembers...

Day 14: A Song From the Year You Were Born

Possibly one of the best-known songs from 1985 is that multi-celeb charity hit We Are the World.

Self-Indulgence: 30 Day Music Meme: Day 13: A Song You Sing in the Shower

We'll just pretend that this applies to me; as if I would sing in the shower.

Day 13: A Song You Sing in the Shower

 A while back, The Simpsons did yet another episode about Marge and Homer's dating days.  This one was bumped up from the 70s/80s to the early 90s, of course, since the show itself has since progressed (with no aging of characters, this being a cartoon).  The Homer of this ep became a Grunge singer and, with his band Sadgasm performed a little song called Margerine.