My first CD: it's not as good as you'd think it would be
The first CDs I ever bought was a compilation of the movie theme songs that John Williams wrote and conducted for Steven Spielberg movies, and the original cast recording of The Phantom of the Opera. For some reason both Neal and I were on an odd Phantom kick, odd because we were like 13 and 9 and because we'd never actually seen the show on stage. But I'd just bought my first CD player, one of those combo home stereo bookshelf systems, and I needed some hip tunes and Andrew Llyod Webber was hip.
I guess.
We ended up seeing the play like five or six years later in Edmonton, and now Lydia and I have tickets to see the play on Thursday at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Vancouver. I'm definitly not into the Phantom like I used to, and it's been probably ten years since I've listend to the CD even though I think it's actually on my iPod. I didn't see the feature film version of it that came out a year or two ago either. Still truth be told I'm looking forward to seeing the production that's coming to Vancouver.
