I will deeply offend some friends by saying this, but…

…musicals bore the pants off me. As do movie-musicals, and movies that resemble musicals. When I say this, I am mostly referring to (gasp!) Once, but I am also thinking of Across the Universe and The Producers (the film and Broadway versions).

I enjoy music the most when I’m doing something else while I’m hearing it. Some of my favorite things to do while listening to music, in no particular order:

• Driving my car.
• Stalking Facebook.
• Running.
• Writing.
• Dancing around like a maniac. (OK, that’s probably my best one of them all.)

The worst thing to do while listening to music: Sitting in a theater, staring at some people on a screen or on a stage.

The music is sometimes pretty good. I like “Falling Slowly” as much as the next person. But come on. It’s not good enough to entice me to sit through 85 minutes of plotless crap.

~ by mgloftus on July 2, 2008.