epershand | Can has squee

I didn't really interact with the internet except at work this week. It was one of those weeks. But it was also a week full of splee.

I went on a major angry anti-capitalist musicals from the 30s kick. OMG. Marc Blitzstein has my heart this week. ALSO I found out that Casey Biggs (aka Damar from DS9) was in the 1985 Broadway cast of The Cradle Will Rock playing the Cop and Gus Polock. So I actually listened to the Gus Polock scenes repeatedly for the first time ever, not just the Moll and Ella Hammer scenes. I also haven't had a spate of The Cradle Will Rock enthusiasm since before I fell in love with Patti Lupone, so the fact that she played half the female characters was cool too.

Why am I shipping Sister Mister/Junior Mister? Right, because "Croon Spoon" is creepy and oversexualized for siblings to be singing. Also, Patti Lupone = guh. It is impossible for Patti Lupone to do a scene with anyone without me shipping it. Also, to be fair, in Cradle Will Rock (no "The") the actors who played Sister and Junior were married and it was done as a love song between the two of them. See, not my fault!

On a related subject, why are there not recordings of the Blitzstein Sacco-Venzetti opera? Or the Angry Beavers musical?

Also, listening to the original English-language recording of Threepenny Opera, the Blitzstein translation with Lotte Lenya in it? Equals MASSIVE CRUSH ON BEA ARTHUR. Be still my heart.

And then yesterday damned_colonial pimped me into Age of Sail Fandom. For 12 hours. Wee Jamie Bamber and his emo! Horatio and his breathtaking competence! Cello/violin love! Hogan/manipulation=OTP! Now my brain is on fandom overload and is threatening to explode.

Yesterday I was wondering why I have learned basically all of my English history in the last two years, but have a very broad understanding of French history. It occurs to me that my high school "world history" class was pretty much a "French history" class, on top of my having read too much Hugo and Marx at an impressionable age. This means that my entire view of the Revolution and the Republic and the Empire is from the French/Marxian POV, so it's all stored in my head as the Great Dream Gone Tragically Wrong, and the Last Chance For Glory Before The Crush of the Modern Age. As opposed to, say, We Hate the Frogs and Get to Fight Them Woo Look At Our Sweet Uniforms I Mean Napoleon is a Dictator and We Must Free Europe From His Mastery. I thought I'd grown up and gotten over sympathizing with Marius and Enjolras all the time, but apparently not.

Pretty sure I need to re-watch Master and Commander when I am not trying desperately to stay awake.

Oh, THAT is why my mom told me to look at Facebook. This is what happens when I ignore the internets too much.