No day but today.

No Day But Today. So about 2 months ago my roomate Chase, Luis and I went to go see 'RENT'. At the time I wasn't in the correct mindset and I had no clue that the movie was going to be "AIDS the musical". Even though I had like 3 of the songs stuck in my head after the movie was over I didn't enjoy it at all. I told Chase afterwards, "Some movies should have just stay a play." I was utterly pissed that I had actually spent money on this worthless piece of film. I was so excited when I saw the preview in which they played "Seasons of Love" but this film felt like such a disapointment. I walked away angered, saddened and mad. That was of course until I did some research on what the hell "La Vie Boheme" is, and I learned that Moulin Rouge(a favoriate of mine) was based off the same play as 'RENT'. This got me more interested in the concept of 'RENT' and everything it stood for. This tiny obsession I had growing greatly increased when Jaime let me borrow the original broadway cd, with all of the hits(and none of the filler). I began(and am still continuing to listen to the cd back to back to back to week after week). At first I would just play my favoriates from the film, "Rent", "Light my candle", "Life Support", "Out Tonight", "Another Day", "La Vie Boheme" and "Seasons of Love". As time grew on I just let the song play and "One song Glory" became one of my favoriates on the entire disk, just the line of Roger saying "One song before I go. Glory. One song to leave behind", captivated me. It reminded me of my dream to leave one piece of my writings behind for generations to come(not that I plan on dying soon). So then Emma continued to beg me about going to see the movie, I was actually all for the idea because now I grew to appreciate what the film had to say, and better yet what the play had said over 10 years ago. She had to keep telling me to shut up because I was singing almost all of the songs. I was upset that they didn't include the full "Life Support" song in the film because that was an interesting part of the musical, it's where we as an audience are introduced to the lines, "There's only us, There's only this. Forget regret or life is your's to miss. No other road, no other way. No Day but today." These few lines carry over into Mimi and Roger's second Duet, "Another Day" and the finale. The whole concept of "No day but Today" wasn't fully emphasized in that missing two minutes of the film, and this was the only thing to anger me the second time around. I cried during the "Without you" number, seeing Mimi and Angel suffer so much and I cried even more during "Finale B". I immediately went out and bought the film version of the soundtrack, but I had grown so accustomed to the broadway version, that I felt robbed. Luckily Justin had liked the film as well, so when he came to visit during Christmas I gave it to him. I also remember a road trip that Jaime and I took years ago and he tried to get me to listen to Angel's, "Today 4 U", and I fought against it tooth and nail. And now I'm so appreciative of Johnathon Larson's vision of "La Vie Boheme!". It speaks volumes to my generation and the generations to come. I can't wait to go visit Justin and see the actual Broadway play, I'm sure it will make me more of a RENThead. So I leave you with my favoriate lines from some of the songs in the film... "How do you document real life? when real life getting like fiction each day." ~Rent "One song before I go. Glory. One song to leave behind" ~One Song Glory "There's only us, There's only this. Forget regret or life is your's to miss. No other road, no other way. No Day but today." ~Life Support "Will I lose my dignity? Will someone care?" ~Will I? "To riding your bike mid day past the three suits. To fruits, to no absolutes to absolute. To Choice, to the village voice. To any passing fad. To being an us and not being a Them. La vie Boheme!" ~La Vie Boheme "To sodomy, that's between God and me!" ~La vie Boheme and of course... "525600 minutes, how do you measure a life in a year?" ~Seasons of Love Sadly the movie didn't do to well in the theaters but it comes out on dvd Febuary 21st. So check it out!