What Cheers One Up

Uncle Ed is a saint.

Hugh Jackman having a grand old time singing Oklahoma!

Blessed three hours' nap!

Waking up to chicken salad, popsicle, grapes, milk and Diet Coke. Kat fud!

Waking up to the best of John Candy's SCTV sketches. So many so funny!

Did I mention taking a nap?

Che sera sera-ism.

Mood: Infinitely more cheerful now that I've been somewhat nice to my body
Music: "The Surry With the Fringe on the Top" - sing it to me, Hugh!
Thought: I'm running out of journal pages. To buy a new journal or to use an old journal, that is the question...!
Edited to add: this fascinating article about the nature of musicals. He makes some interesting points, although I think he's rather like those folks back in the 60's who said the theatre was dead. It's difficult to completely kill an art form. It can be more or less dominant, but it still exists in some form, somewhere. His question of a) what the difference between musicals and operas essentially is and b) whether, therefore, the modern Western world can produce or enjoy musicals at this particular time requires much thought. Thought which he's not going to get at this particular moment. I'm off to finish up those last six scenes of my own musical!
Edited edited to add: Making the Grade a three minute short movie (quicktime format, med res) starring Hugh Jackman. *singing* Hey, jealousy!
Edited to the third degree to add: an interview with Trevor Nunn who directed, among other things, Les Miserables, Sunset Boulevard, and my ubiquitous Oklahoma!. Needless to say, reading his thoughts is rather euphoric and more than a little yearning-inspiring.