Rent, Paying It, Not Paying It, Bohemians, Rock Bottom, Other Interesting Things To Hit, And Crumpled Directions To Places We Have Yet To Find

In honor of the death of Bohemia, the J.G. presents "Rent" in a J.G.-ish context, for your personal reading pleasure, dear commentors. . .

Ben will be singing Mark's part, because I can't imagine anything else. For everyone else, it's going to be arbitrary. Ha.

All PotJH Company:
La vie Phantom. . .
La vie Phantom. . .
La vie Phantom. . .
La vie Phantom. . .

Ben:
Our show biz aspirations
High School Fiction, making oddness out of nothing
Quotes in a duress
While the club debates
To causing David much pain
Going insane
Going mad

Kat:
To detention without relention
To Mr. E's dimensions,
To work without retention
Hating convention without relention
Not to mention of course,
Hating dear old mom and dad. . .

Both:
To Talia - physce!
The appearance of phantoms in suits
The roots are not absolute.
Why call Yass cute? No choice.
To destroying your voice –
Small slices of lemonADE!
To Max and Elizabeth and a bottle of rum!

All:
La vie Phantom!
La vie Phantom!

Kat:
And now for something completely -

Ben:
Different.

Kat:
Kind of.

Ben:
Ish.

Gabe:
Ahhemm . . . that's scary, guys.

Ben:
Hey Mister- she's my sister!

Kat:
What?

Ben:
Well, it fit with the rhyme scheme, and. . .well, what are you going to do, contradict me?

Mickey:
(Taking role call.)
So that's our J.G. troupe, for good or for bad
Our sanity getting thinner and our chances fatter
Man, but we’re riding for a fall.

Julian:
Aw, c’mon. . .

David:
I am profane!

Kat:
I’m gonna close my eyes. . .

Ben:
I frustratedly sigh. . .
Are we all here?

All:
Fish served seared!

Mickey and Kat:
To fish that’s served seared made in local breweries
That last line made no sense, but fit the beat with ease
Fan fiction, to muffins, and our homework is due
To Kat flunking Spanish and Gabe and Ben on crew!

Kat:
Stop motion, devotion, in the library – commotion!
Death and taxation -
Our payment to the nation.

Ben and Kat:
To hatred of fractions, mathematics – what can we do?

Spencer:
To jet lag!

Max:
To Diet Coke!

Kat and Mickey:
To anything taboo!

Kat and Ben:
Doug Adams, Wilde, Neil Gaiman and “Blink,”

Max:
Dr Seuss!

Spencer:
Howard Hughes

Kat:
To Ember’s rage!

Mickey:
Menzel, Idina!

Kat:
Alfred Molina -

Kat and Ben:
And then Tim Burton too!

Mickey:
Written on the fridge in letters that glow -
Young Kat liked the word plum!

All:
La vie Phantom. . .

Ben:
And there were how many in-jokes in that?

Kat:
Well, no. . .that, is, I mean. . .

Ben:
No, I get it. . .

Gabe:
Sister?

Kat:
We're close.

(David shoves Max, who falls into Gabe, and it all goes to hell.)

Ben:
Brothers?

Kat, Mickey, and Ben:
Frustrated intellectuals, oh, it might have been,
Carcinogens, yes, they are in Coke, Pee Wee Herman
I’m so sorry, oh no it’s fine, turpentine, Frankenstein,
That accent’s phony, Danny Bonaducci, though we hate him,
To Ford Prefect, to Marvin!

All:
Thoracotomy, to pulling weeds, to Max in ecstasy
A whole new level – Fear us! Oh, we’ll see
You’ll be shamed – it’s a complicated game!

Mickey:
To dancing if we wanna!

All:
To NaNoWri
To squee or not to squee?
To Scout and Jem!

Micheala:
Wait, wait, wait -

All But Mickey:
La vie Phantom!

Kat:
In honor of the death of our sanity an impromptu cabaret will commence immediately following dinner. Mickey Hershey, clad in a dress made of pine tree sap, will exhibit her famous horse riding skills to the sounds of cherryade being stirred. . .

Max:
And David will preview his new college thesis about his inability to hold his attention span for more than five minutes!

Ben:
Kat Kire, back from her spectacular one-night engagement as the witch in Macbeth, will sing Sondheim, backed up by some ants that we found in the basement, while accompanied by Victor and the Corpse Bride, on the electric cello, which they have never studied.

Jacob and Jenny:
(Suddenly appearing out of the blue)
And Ben will attempt to write a catchy, hummable theme song -that doesn't remind us of “She Blinded Me With Science.”

Julian:
Gabriel Lucas the Brilliant will now model the latest swim fashions from Speedo while Bonejangles and the Bone Boys sing “Remains of the Day” and play the xylophone.

Kat:
And we’ll all recount our exploits in all this madness - Including the successful reprogramming of the Junior High library computers to self-destruct, as they broadcast the words:

All:
DDR Score 42 – Act Up – Buy Spam!

Kat:
CUT!

Quote of the Day

“What was the quote of the day supposed to be again? No, mother, of course I’m not blogging. . .what an idea. Before doing my homework? Never.”

- Kat

I remain, gentlemen, your faithful and obedient servant,

J.G.