Hey, everyone, hope you guys are enjoying vacation. My email has been down for a little while, so I'm only now posting this and a few others...several of them garnered from the posts I put on message boards. Please, PLEASE spread the word! Anyway, this is a lovely one as always, and I feel no shame in saying that my mother has seen my cry countless times...meh.


Now, um, I probably don't remember the first time I heard of RENT. I probably saw a trailer or heard a song, but I don't remember when. But, I do know when I heard about it the second time. It was actually through this site. I was on a Wicked forum and my friends Jelly, Mel, and Sparky all had seen RENT and Sparky had seen it live, I think. She told me there was a tour. I looked it up and saw that it wasn't in LA. So, she told me about the movie, saying it was good, but not as good as the live musical (something that I agree with now). Anyway, she told me to get the movie.

I waited for days and days, until it finally arrived from Netflix. I waited a day, and that night I got my mom to watch it with me. It was September 10th 2007. Yes, I remember the day. So, I went to watch it.

So, we got through most of the movie, up to Out Tonight. Now, Mel had warned me about this scene, so I wasn't so shocked. I think my mom was though. She didn't say anything, though.

When Angel died, I was so sad. Even though Mel had let slip that she died. I think my mom was sad too. I remember having to get up and down to get water so my mom wouldn't see me cry.

Now, after I told my friends about my opinion of RENT, I didn't think about it till November, when I just randomly decided to listen to RENT. Since then, the obsession hasn't worn off.

I didn't watch RENT all the way through until December 22nd with my friends at a sleepover. One of them had already seen it, but two hadn't. So, we got it. The girl and I who'd seen it tried not to give anything away. And, when Angel died, the guy in our group pretty much summed up what we were all thinking: "No! Oh, god no."

Since then, they've become RENTheads too.

I don't think there's a day now where RENT related things don't cross my mind. My friends and I sing RENT a lot, and I've watched RENT with my two other friends who were starting to get confused.

Mark and Angel are my favorite characters. The way the characters live and the words the sing really speaks to me. I've even started making movies/videos of my friends, and have tried, really tried to live No Day But Today.

I hope the RENT tour does come to LA, because I'll never be able to see it on Broadway.

I hope future people get to experience the amazing-ness that is RENT.

Thank you, Jonathan Larson.

By lotrelves aka Elfy/Ally