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I'm just about boneless right now.

I was browsing through LJ's and I noticed people kept mentioning Erik... curious, I bent my hiatus and checked out PPN.

It's amazing how people you don't really know can affect you.

The thing that made Katrina real to me was seeing Chat's post about New Orleans. I don't know her too well, only spoken maybe once, but her fear became my fear, and no one could understand why I was so upset about a place I'd never been to, people I'd never known.

Same with Erik- spoken maybe once or twice, known mostly by reputation, but hearing that he was in the hospital made me feel sick.

I don't know why, I don't know why anything about me is the way it is. None of it works properly, anyways. I have this completely irrational feeling that I'm built out of random parts, an excellent brain and a malfunctioning mind wrapped in a mismatched emotional trainwreck.

But this isn't about me. It's about Erik, who I'm glad to hear is OK.

If I could use a strainer on my brain to sort and make sense of the swirling chaos in there, I would.

And I sincerely hope Jessica Riddle wins the Phantom cover contest, at least out of the pictures displayed so far, because her art blows me away.

I need to friend more people. Give my friendship away freely, like a smile, or a cool breeze in a closed room.

I'm not very good at that.

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wow. OLC soundtrack was worth the twenty bucks I paid for it and then some. It was absolutely gorgeous.

Highlights- uh-oh, thunder is ominous, will finish this tomorrow.

Here we go. My, but that was a downpour. Anyways.

I loved it completely. I loved the slightly eighties-ness of it, a bit more rock and steady rhythm than the modern counterpart. MC's MoTN alone was worth the money. This soundtrack was a lot more complete than my other one- and OLC Carlotta was a lot easier to understand while screeching musically. My only complaint is the tendency to pile three or four voices on top of each other. The end of Primadonna was astoundingly confusing, and I kept wanting Raoul to shut it during Wandering Child so I could hear Crawford better.

Yeah, I joke about Sarah Brightman, but she really has an exquisite voice. It's much less... flowing than Emmy's, she enunciates her words more. And almost everyone on the soundtrack absolutely murders the time at least once. I guess it's their prerogative in the pursuit of Art.