You make me want to break my only see things in the dollar theater rule and go see Les Miz right away. :) I saw it on Broadway my senior year, possibly having never heard of broadway before (um, I wasn't a musical person), and loved it so much I had to buy the cassette after the show (if you knew how incredibly cheap I am you'd know that was something). I wish I knew what happened to that tape so I could listen to it now. I listened to it a lot when I came home from the school trip but it wasn't as "good" as the people who sang it in the show since some of them were different. I think the black and red song was my favorite, I can still think of the tune and phrases from it even though I've heard nothing of Les Miz in 15+ years. :) I wonder how familiar the story will seem or if I'll understand things differently when I see the movie. Currently I barely remember anything beyond the basic plot.
I did have the internet back then but not fandoms until the following year, and they were much smaller and more personal back then and people actually connected in RL because it didn't occur to me that I needed a different name so people couldn't stalk me (er, I got some phone calls from strangers and unexpected gifts in the mail, problem of being the only person with your name in the country or possibly the world). I don't know that I was in the right mindset yet to be involved in fandom (half a year of depression over my best friend moving away was just perfect preparation for the clawing evil addiction that is fandom. :) I smile to hide the tears. ;)) because I had a real life friend who loved X-Men comic books with me so why would I need the internet for anything other than attempting to speak Spanish in chat rooms for my IB class? It made me cackle ridiculously to see the juxtaposition of two things I loved back then in your sentence about Wolverine (though I loved Cyclops, Wolverine was my friend's favorite).
Ramble ramble ramble, I'm glad I happened to actually look through twitter for a change and saw this post. Hope you had happy holidays!
Beckiezra from Twitter, it won't even give me the option to sign in, what's your problem LJ?
I did have the internet back then but not fandoms until the following year, and they were much smaller and more personal back then and people actually connected in RL because it didn't occur to me that I needed a different name so people couldn't stalk me (er, I got some phone calls from strangers and unexpected gifts in the mail, problem of being the only person with your name in the country or possibly the world). I don't know that I was in the right mindset yet to be involved in fandom (half a year of depression over my best friend moving away was just perfect preparation for the clawing evil addiction that is fandom. :) I smile to hide the tears. ;)) because I had a real life friend who loved X-Men comic books with me so why would I need the internet for anything other than attempting to speak Spanish in chat rooms for my IB class? It made me cackle ridiculously to see the juxtaposition of two things I loved back then in your sentence about Wolverine (though I loved Cyclops, Wolverine was my friend's favorite).
Ramble ramble ramble, I'm glad I happened to actually look through twitter for a change and saw this post. Hope you had happy holidays!