Rebecca put a small dent in her Christmas shopping!

[rebecca_in_blue]

2012 might be known in the future as the year Rebecca become obsessed with Les Miserables. (2011 was the year she became a Jew, and 2010 was the year she became obsessed with NCIS. There are worse things for years to be known by.) The other night, I was almost asleep in bed when Sara came in and told me Entertainment Weekly had released five new clips of songs from the Les Miserables movie that's coming out this month. So I stayed up late watching and rewatching them, then listening to all the Les Mis songs I have on my iPod. It's hard to say which song I'm most excited to see in the movie, but when Hugh Jackman sang "He gave me hope when hope was gone / He gave me strength to journey on" and the music started to swell behind him, I just about squee'ed. I hope Sara and I can celebrate December 25th in true Jew fashion and go see the movie (and maybe to a Chinese restaurant that day).

We had another session of our temple's religious school over the weekend. It didn't go very well, which kinda depresses me. I feel like there's nothing left to do except watch the school slowly peter down to nothing. Honestly, I don't think Rabbi W should be allowed to teach. Does he try to as boring as he possibly can? I guess I shouldn't let one awful class get me down, but it's hard.

Last night, I made another dish of nacho casserole and Sara made cupcakes while we watched old NCIS reruns. Good times. I'm off today and looking at the lights of our tree (I only bought one strand, so they're sparse this year, but soon it'll be time to light the menorah!), listening to the rain fall, and watching Criminal Minds reruns that I actually get to see the ending of!

Comments

[kew121]

Ack, I have very mixed feelings about the Les Mis movie. On the one hand very excited, but on the other hand I hated that clip of Hugh Jackman singing Who Am I? Fair enough to make the artistic choice to speak-sing, but for the small part that he is singing he's not even on the melody. That really got my goat. But let's get real, it's a movie musical, my favorite genre, so I'll probably still see within the first few days.

[rebecca-in-blue.livejournal.com]

Hey, Kew, long time no see! I have mixed feelings about the movie too, but the closer it gets, the more excited I am to see it. Specifically, I don't think Anne Hathaway was a good choice for Fantine; I could barely even watch the clip of "At the End of the Day," which is kinda a weak song to begin with, but her whimpering, simpering voice and facial expressions didn't help. I won't even go into her cover of "I Dreamed a Dream." As for Hugh Jackman, my favorite Valjean is by and far Alfie Boe, whose voice is so soaring and operatic. Jackman's much quieter, sing-speak style was a shock to my ears at first, but it's been growing on me. I love the emotion he puts into the words. Amanda Seyfried's voice sounded a bit shaky, but I've always thought Cosette's songs are kinda high-pitched and shaky/shrilly. I honestly haven't decided on Russell Crowe as Javert yet. Sorry, I'm rambling now. I'm counting the days until this comes out!