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Earlier in the day I thought of something to write about, but now that I'm actually sitting here, I can't for the life of me remember what it was. I seem to remember that it was pretty good, an idea that would practically write itself. But after wracking my brain for about a half an hour I can't remember what it was. I guess we'll just have to chalk up one more loss to the literary canon and move on... Having lost my masterpiece, I guess I can talk about the play I saw last night: it was Evita by Andrew Lloyd Webber, and it kind of sucked.

The acting, the direction, the lighting, the set design and the costumes were all great -- it was just the play itself that wasn't that good. Which is surprising; generally if the play/musical is popular enough to be produced (some locally written tripe being an exception to this rule) then generally it's pretty good, but not Evita. The music was often atonal, the singing cacophonous rather than harmonious and dialogue which should have never have been set to music, was, which resulted in laughable delivery. Now this isn't just because I don't like musicals, though I don't. Actually there are quite a few musicals I quite enjoy, Monty Python's Live From the Hollywood Bowl is first rate, it really wasn't that enjoyable.

It's still ticking me off that I can't remember what I was going to write about and am thus forced to write about a musical. It doesn't get much worse than that. I did see an interesting article on the ESPN website where they ranked 60 sports in order of difficulty. I was a little disappointed to see that Cycling was only ranked 20th, but what are you going to do? I think it would be interesting to see what the results would be if they ever ranked sporting events by difficulty. I think at that point the Tour would rank fairly high, but then again there are some idiots out there who solo sail across the Atlantic...

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