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again: still alive! I have been lying fairly low, though. Writing stuff that will never be posted non-anonymously, working much too slowly on an overdue paper, planning a Glee vid that will actually be posted before the end of season 2--at least I hope so, or there's kind of no point to it. (It's a Brittany/Santana vid to Pink's "Glitter in the Air," so I have to get it out while Santana is still suffering and angsty before their relationship gets resolved. Luckily there's a four-week hiatus after this Tuesday's ep, so I will have time.)

I am also listening to musicals, apparently. Currently I've got the Newsies soundtrack on, and I'm wondering why Disney ever allowed Alan Menken to slip free from their grasp, because he makes everything so magical and beautiful and perfect. Like, everything he does. He is my hero. You guys, not that I don't love Glee--and I will freely admit I loved High School Musical--but I really miss the days when children's musical entertainment contained at least the training-wheels version of actual musical sophistication. I mean, of a very basic kind, but Disney songs used to have more structural and stylistic variety than a top 40 station.

GOD, I sound old right now. It's inevitable, soon I'll be thirty and then I'll be forty and then sixty and still obsessing over kids' shows while secretly wishing everything could be Beauty and the Beast forever.

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Oh, God, Newsies. I hit that musical at exactly the right time and have spent a few years as an adult fairly embarrassed about it. Butbutbut BABY CHRISTIAN BALE!

I hit it way too late and I don't even care. I mean, technically I saw it not long after it came out, at JCC day camp (although since the actual movie, unlike the more-radical-in-all-respects original script, removed all clear references to David being Jewish, and we were like...eight years old, I don't think anyone got it), but then I mostly forgot about it until a few years ago when I watched it for a second time and fell in looooove. IT'S GOOD, DAMMIT. Cheesy as hell and far more apolitical then it ought to be, and far more shiny and friendly than it ought to be too, but--it's a Disney movie about how forming unions and going on strike is a heroic, important thing to do, and it's got Alan Menken music, and it's so slashy it kind of breaks my brain. And, of course, baby Christian Bale. THAT'S ALSO IMPORTANT.

But uh basically, I am not even embarrassed, whatever, it's an awesome movie.

I still reserve the right to be embarrassed about my thirteen-year-old self-insert fic, though. ;)