My life of RENT! I'm so sad it's going off, but I hope it will be back!
My story starts strangely like this;
One day I walked into my moms room and she was watching a movie on TV I was in sixth, fifth grade, something like that. I see this woman with wavy brown hair (on the TV) singing: "Take me for what I am!" and I go: "Cool a musical!" Then a woman with fluffy hair and dark skin starts singing. Then I realize, oh there lesbians! But I didn't care. I soon leave to go do something else.
I come back to find the movie still on. Some hot dude was singing something about someone's eyes. And there was some girl lying in front of him. She looked pale and sickly. Soon he was done singing and she seemed to have died, I almost cried even though I new nothing about why she was dying or who any of those people were. Then there was a flinch of her hand and she was alive!!! The all started singing. So I saw the end, without knowing anything else.
Soon, seventh grade, my mom bought the movie CD, I listened to it enjoying the music, and I didn't realize it was in some way familiar. 'Today 4 u' was playing, cool beat and awesome drum playing.
"Is that a gay guy, 'cause that's what it sounds like?" I asked by his manly, yet feminine tone. My sister tried to tell me no, but she knew nothing. Turns out I was right!
We soon bought the DVD and I fell in love instantly.
That is the story of me becoming the biggest RENThead ever.
I was in love! I soon lived by it and adapted everything about it and it is part of my lifestyle. I live knowing there is RENT in my world and out in the world, it may not be RENT exactly, but the concepts are there.
Expressing my inner RENThead;
Everyone who loves RENT knows what I'm talking about.
-You sing every song (and know them ALL (including Broadway songs)) by heart, no matter where you are or what you're doing. (DUH!)
-When you hear a buzzer you scream: "AZT"
-You actually want to live as a squatter in a loft. (Kinda)
-You know where they all are today (yeah!)
-On New Years Eve you count to the New Year by going: "Five, four, three, open sesame! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!" and then you keep singing the song, but who cares? (I did)
-Your motto IS no day but today.
-you freak whenever someone is wearing metallic blue nail polish (yea people are like "Sure, what ever you're talking about.")
-when ever someone is talking about a drag queen and they call the person an it, you scream, "Would you call Angel an IT?!" (I do, no seriously)
-you felt sad on Halloween, and also start singing Halloween (I do)
-you always want to jump on a table and scream/sing La Vie Boheme.
-you always find a way to bring RENT into your conversations
-you have lyrics/quotes written all over your binders and things (you can't help it)
-in school in health when you talk about AIDS/HIV and T-Cells you go: "Because reason says I should have died three years ago!" everyone stares, but hey! (I did)
WELL this list could go on forever.
Just remember even though it is going off Broadway (and it WILL (hopefully) come back), it is alive in the world! Live. Love. RENT!!!!!!!!!!!!