Kirk's Top 5 Musicals (Non-Elvis Movies)

Greetings and salutations, friends,

                I bid thee welcome from the hospital bed of love, and was wondering your thoughts on this month’s work. We had "Symphony for a Sinner" for our tale this month, and for Sonnet Sunday, we featured two romantic poems. “How I Love Thee” and “Lillies in the Field.” Some fun facts about the poem “How I Love Thee”: it started as a song I wrote for the band I was in, The Vamp Tramps. Now, the lead singer and I became friends fast, but didn’t discuss the sound we wanted. I was in the mindset of a power bass, like Ozzy has, where the bass plays the melody and the guitar accentuates it. Well, I told Johnny that I wanted to sing that song in a certain way. I’m imagining piano, cello, and violin playing the music. Well, Johnny wanted to showcase that he could sing it, and I’d be impressed.

                So, being the supportive bandmate, I said I’d let him give it a try. I was serious about our recording; I wrote 12 songs for us, including his one, so we could have 13 songs on the record. I told him about my song vision, and, being our second band practice, he said he could handle it. Nodding my head, I started the riff and showed him when he came in. Remember, the violin, cello, and piano were established as the actual instruments for the song. Johnny proceeded to be death metal. Growling and grunting my lyrics, I stopped playing before he finished the second line. I was insulted. He took a beautiful song and destroyed it. I unplugged my bass, gathered up my effects, and told him I quit. He didn’t want to break up, but it was too late. The damage was done, and from that point on, I turned all 12 of those songs into poems.

                Does it still resemble what it was when it was a song? No. I changed it enough so that it’s now its unique piece. But seriously, who the F#ck thinks “I’ll death metal a piano-driven song and think he’s killed it?”  Besides that, Lillies of the Valley were a flower that grew in my grandmother’s backyard, right where I used to dig, and is my birth flower. Well, we weren’t expecting the deep dive into “How Much.” I even wrote the bass line for his song, which he promised was the only death metal song we’d do, and I kept that, too. Well, for next month, we have “The Case of David Van Holden,” which takes place in my Shadow Dancer’s universe. And Sonnet Sunday has “A Living Angel” and “Till Death Do Us Part.” One song I’ll recommend is Gene Loves Jezebel’s “Don’t Change My Song.” Reminds me of Johnny. Lol. Onto the Top Five

TOP FIVE MUSICALS (NON-ELVIS MOVIES)

1.      The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Yep, I’m one of them. Seeing it in the theater with my mum when I was only 4, it set me up for a lifelong perversion. When I want to make my wife laugh, all I have to do is break out “Sweet Transvestite” and she’s giggling up a storm. Her mum hated the movie so much that she offered to pay me to take the film away from her daughter, who was laughing at it. 

2.      Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street: I love a good revenge story, and this one packs a wallop. I love the aesthetics of the movie, the lyrics to the songs, and the desire to rectify what was done wrongfully to oneself. Plus, Helena Bonham Carter is scrumptious!

3.      Repo! The Genetic Opera: What can I say? I dig this movie. It’s impressive how they've laid out a dystopian future, where selling body parts or getting repo’d is a reality. It’s a great move; the only part I don’t like is when Shiloh is sassing her father. As a father, I wouldn’t have tolerated that.  

4.      Cannibal: The Musical: Of course, I must have the one that started Matt and Trey’s film debut. From “Let’s Build a Snowman” to “Trapper Pride,” you’ll be laughing your ass off. I still quote this film when I’m in extreme pain. I won’t say which, but it’s a nice build-up that pays off in a big way.

5.      Moulin Rouge! What can I say, Nicole Kidman is hot! Starring at a singer at the Moulin Rouge, she holds two dark secrets, one is consumption, the other is… spoilers! It blends old-school with new-school lyrics. I don’t mind them doing that in this fashion, but when the same director did Romeo and Juliet, I UTTERLY HATE!!!!!!!! That version. While I enjoy Moulin Rouge, Romeo and Juliet is a piece of sh*t. There is a massive difference between the two, but the blending of old-world works here doesn’t work for Romeo. What he did, I’ll digress as I’m getting upset about it.

Till next month

K