Category: music
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Les Miserables the Movie
I was supposed to write a sympathetic review of Les Miserables the movie, until I realized that they lowered most of the musical numbers by one key. Save your money, watch the anniversary concert tributes instead. No use watching a musical adaptation that has to adjust 80% of its score to suit that one Hollywood…
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[Day 16] A song that makes you cry (or nearly)
Closer the movie was the first film that had me bawling from the middle of the movie. I watched it during a very, very bad time in my life. On a brighter note, it did introduce me to the brilliance of British playwright, Patrick Marber. And well, cue the music. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YXVMCHG-Nk] And so it is…
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5 Songs for the Spirit
The biggest thing to happen to me in 2011 was the decision to take The Walk. I consider myself a progressive Christian: a lot of my views are deemed non-conventional, evidenced by my support for Mideo Cruz’s “Poleteismo”. I believed in Christ, it was difficult to reconcile what I felt was right in conscience to…