the monkey manifesto: adventure

Wow, do I hate Amazon's Listmania. It gives anyone the chance to be an "expert" on music or books or films or whatever. It even allows you to completely waste digital space with useless information. For example, some person has put together a list of every musical that's on Broadway right now.

yay...

Wow, good job loser. How about you put some thought into what you are doing. The person describes theirself as a musical theater freak... how about we drop the "musical theater" and then we would have a better description.

And by the by, if you were really a "musical theater freak" then you would have spelt theatre correctly.

Some people have put together "definitive" lists. Of course these lists are only opinions, they are by no means definitive. Tick, Tick... Boom! is okay, but it's a padded album because Jonathan Larson didn't finish it before he died. Wicked does not flesh out the full story from the book as well as others have, most notably Ragtime. I could go on and on, but then again, these are my opinions and, by no means, are they definitive either. Perhaps Cats, Side Show, and Bye Bye Birdie are truly life-changing musicals - they just didn't change mine.

And while I'm on a bitch run. These "professors" of theater have put together lists of books that are important for up-and-coming actors. Um, how come none of these lists have The Bedford Introduction to Drama on them. Why am I seeing books in lists from teachers with the titles claiming to be the Ultimate or Be-all-and-end-all or Definitive list of monologues. Why aren't any of these teachers acknowledging the fact that theatre isn't just acting.

If you're going to put together a definitive list, then the information in the list had better be factually definitive.

Michel's Definitive List to Everything:
1. Noble gases are inert.
2. The moon orbits the earth.
3. Humans are Carbon-based.
4. Over 70% of the earth's surface is covered with water.
5. Linen is made from flax.
6. Texas is a state.
7. Australia is a continent and an island.
8. The lever is a simple machine.
9. Plastic bags are not toys for babies.
10. Thomas Kinkaid is a two-bit hack.

And there you have it, a definitive list.