I kept singing from the JCS number "The Last Supper" all day today. You might know that I listen to several musical theater soundtracks over and over. I'm fascinated, non-stop, by Anything Goes, for which I will save my essay on why I love those songs for a ten-part series later this year. The second is the album of brilliant covers from Hedwig And The Angry Inch. The third, of course, is Jesus Christ Superstar. My parents had the original brown-paper LP, and I had the movie soundtrack CD in college.
So I'm twiddling the lines to "The Last Supper" all day, as one does. Then, I remembered that today is Holy Thursday! Whee! Easter weekend was my favorite weekend as a child, growing up Catholic. There was something poetic about the idea of a rebirth. Of dying, so that one could live again, forever. And, that this death and resurrection is celebrated each year.
That, and the 'rock opera' (whatev, but okay) is also a great for Judas's completely rockin' gay love songs:
I don't know how to love him
I don't know why he moves me
He's a man
He's just a man
He is not a king
He's just the same as anyone I know
He scares me so
TowleBack Mountain has his movie, and Littleminx has this one.
Of course, now that I'm really a Buddhist, it's all a fond and distant childhood memory. Except the poetry part.
JCS almost never fails, including last year when I tried to explain Easter to my 4-yo. Enjoy.
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Posted by: Aaron | 2006.04.13 at 05:51 PM