It seems to me a strange thing, mystifying....

I went to see Jesus Christ Superstar at MIT last night. This is one of my favorite musicals in the world, but unfortunately it was my personal (and debatable) opinion that they slaughtered it. There was a lot of good effort evident, but I couldn't get past certain things, namely a miscast Jesus. I have no problem whatsoever with a woman playing Jesus, but a high soprano? Amy Ray (Indigo Girls) did the role quite well, but she's an alto and kept the score in its original octave. I felt sorry for this pretty soprano Jesus, who was at moments almost squeaking to reach top notes not written to be sung that way. I would have cast that girl as Mary Mag, thrown the much weaker Mary Mag into the chorus, and made everybody turn up the energy about 12 notches. Ah well, nothing can ruin my love for that play.

I Spy

Look at this neat-o toy I nicked from strangeanimal's journal:

Terraserver

It's zoomable arial maps of basically everywhere in America. I saw my house! (and I can see yours too, mwahahaha). The houses in West Somerville look exactly like Pez. Seriously, compare it with a less densely populated region. Pez. And to think we don't even know the majority of our neighbors.

Go look something up. It's fun!